Catch Mr. Fish on DMZ America Podcast—bold cartoonist fired after uproar over provocative Israel-Hamas art & antisemitism claims. www.youtube.com/live/yKVfZn-... Today at 11 am ET LIVE and streaming all day 24-7! DMZ America Podcast hosts tedrall.bsky.social and Scott Stantis

Renee Good Meets Alex Pretti rall.com/comic/renee-...

"Rather than address why their voters are disenchanted with the party, Democrats are doing what they always do—ignoring, blaming and criticizing their base and progressives who elect them, in favor of pandering to fair-weather white moderates and conservatives who won’t." — Olayemi Olurin, in 2022

We encourage you to vote for people who share your values. Unity is the way, Comrades. #unity #values #workingclass #workingpoor #economicmobility #immigrants #greenparty #illinoisgovernor #minimumwage

"The American society now is on the cusp of becoming a police state. It's on the cusp. We're talking maybe months, at most."

HB 499 — Ballot Petition Modernization Act HB 568 — Public Financing for Legislature HB 496 — Open Primary Elections HB 584 — Clean Maryland Democracy Amendment HB 52 — Voting Rights for All Act + 2 more #Maryland

We welcomed 25 women to our shelter last night. A 76-year-old woman shared that Bethanie’s Room is, “by far the best shelter I have ever stayed in. I feel like I have finally slept.” Our most urgent need is L-3X pants and NEW boxer briefs, M-2X. Info at https://blanchethouse.org/donate-clothing.

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

"In one case, the union said, nurses recorded that a high-acuity step-down unit was understaffed between 33 and 70 percent of the time during an eight-month period. A federal judge charged NYP with engaging in 'gamesmanship' to avoid paying fines or resolving the disputes."

Competition is good for consumers and voters. I am grateful to everyone working to fix our broken electoral system, break the duopoly, and give people more choices.

This is a great week to start a union at work.

"A spirited debate about how to act now that liberal incrementalism has led to incremental fascism. Why does it feel like so much left discourse is explaining why we aren't ready to act?"

“John Oliver discusses ICE’s repeated atrocities over the past months and explores the massive entity overseeing it all: the Department of Homeland Security. How it started, who runs it, and how many hats Kristi Noem owns.”

Europe’s growing fight over Israeli goods: Boycott movements mushroom From an Irish supermarket worker’s grassroots act to state-led initiatives, a protest grows. But pro-Israel groups battle back. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/...

We can move beyond the capitalist model and save the climate – here are the first three steps. Capitalism cares about our species’ prospects as much as a wolf cares about a lamb’s. But democratise our economy and a better world is within our grasp. www.theguardian.com/environment/... .

I wonder why voter turnout isnt great with such championing slogans such as "so? Noone cares what you voters want? Do you want worse huh?"

Don't do this.

'Erasing history': British Museum criticised for removing references to ‘Palestine' from exhibits - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/british-museum-removal-term-palestine-displays-part-systematic-attempt-erase-it-history

hoping anyone already plottin on settling for less in an election over two and a half years out comes to grasp that picking 'you can't always get what you want' fights with the base has been a losing message. your opponents know it.

California gubernatorial candidates: 10 Democrats 7 Republicans 1 Green 1 Libertarian 3 Unaffiliated The top two vote-getters in the June primary *regardless of party* will face off in the November general election.

"Dan Cox, the MAGA Republican who lost by 32 points in 2022, just jumped back into the governor's race. Andy and Owen discuss why Cox as the Republican nominee would strengthen the case for multiparty democracy — and open up space for a Green campaign to win over progressive voters." #Maryland

Lesser evilism, big donor cash, and the DNC's very structure make the Democratic Party impervious to reform. Very few Dems are willing to reckon with any of it. Instead, they defend the two-party system as essentially immutable, reeling off the barriers to change as if they were reasons to not try.

Author Arundhati Roy, 'Shocked and Disgusted' by Jury's Gaza Remarks, Pulls Out of Berlinale 2026

"Join us to tell Enterprise Rent-a-Car to stop renting kidnap cars to ICE! In solidarity with Minnesota & in support of Day Without An Immigrant. "This event is sponsored by Sunrise Movement PDX, SEIU 503, PCUN, & Portland For All. "Monday 2/16 at 3pm. Meet at Oregon Park"

here you go

TONIGHT is the last night of Portland, Oregon's Winter Light Festival. I'd seen individual installations before while strolling through the city, but hadn't made a point of seeing any main events. If you're here and you've never been before, go. Free, all ages welcome. pdxwlf.com/experience/f...

Part 1: Senate testimony about the many ways the Trump Administration’s assault on fraud is itself fraudulent. Part 2: A report from Al Jazeera about the MK-84 weapon the IDF is using in Gaza that is designed to generate so much heat it literally vaporizes people.

I went last night, visiting Simon Benson House (which projected previously unseen LAIKA footage on its windows and a nearby building), the World Trade Center (where Portland Samba drummed & danced), and Pioneer Square (do not miss the mechanical squid).

Roger Waters performing at a rally for California Green Party gubernatorial candidate Butch Ware.

"California’s gubernatorial election will take place on Nov. 3, following a 'top-two' primary set for June 2. Under the state’s Proposition 14 system, all candidates for governor will appear on a single ballot regardless of party, with the two highest vote-getters advancing to the general election."

"He joins us from London to discuss the dockworker actions at 21 Mediterranean ports attempting to shut down the shipment of military cargo destined for Israel. He discusses the need for solidarity, including labor union solidarity, with Palestine."

Dems will be *stunned* when many leftists refuse to back an AOC presidential bid.

Saturdays with Renee, 8am Pacific

WE BACK — very proud to partner w the @portlandmercury.com again to put out its first every Black History Month issue EVER‼️ The theme is Innovators & Changemakers and I’m amazed at all the incredible work ppl have put in in this city — go read for yourself. www.portlandmercury.com/collections/...

“The B‑21 program is a vanity project for a service whose useful lifetime passed a long, long time ago.” — Dan Grazier, director of the National Security Reform Program at the Stimson Center

The Federal Government has given the San Francisco Housing Authority 30 days to verify the citizenship status of an unspecified list of tenants who are receiving rental assistance from the agency. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/t... via @sfchronicle

"With the June 2 primary approaching, voters face a long list of candidates competing under California’s top-two system, in which the two highest vote-getters — regardless of party — advance to the November general election." 9 Democrats 2 Republicans 1 Green (not mentioned in the article)

"They’ve made Palestine Action a household name. “They have spread the message and the power that ordinary people have to shut down weapons factories across the country and across the world. So for that, I thank them.”

"Immigration advocates say federal agents are mainly targeting people in their cars, rather than at their homes or job sites." #pdx

Open primaries in Oregon? Yes please! #pdx

Big media has erased third parties for so long that they don't understand how (e.g.) open primaries change the equation. There's a Green running for California governor, but they're unmentioned in this and other stories on the the new primary system. 🤷

Heard Hasan Piker is ready to opt out of team Blue Genocide! Tell my brother in Islam, leftism (and fellow gym bro) that he doesn’t have to wait to vote against Newsom (Bill Clinton 2.0) in ‘28 It’s Butch Ware 4 CA, June 2, ‘26 Make some noise y’all. Get me on that show.

It's STFU Friday. Refresh the script 👇

Help the people of Minneapolis win the Nobel Peace Prize. Sign the petition below: https://bit.ly/4q9datK

The editors of The Nation are formally nominating the city of Minneapolis and its people for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. Sign the petition ⬇️

If you favorite candidate wouldn't be elected if the other guy wasn't worse, get a better candidate.

I love that people are announcing what candidates need to do to earn their votes well in advance of elections. Even if the posts are like pennies pitched into a wishing well, having standards of any sort is infinitely better than lesser evilism.