Want to be crystal clear that when I say "overall filers" I mean the number of households (7%) who pay this tax has grown even if the tippy top of this top 7% did not. The bottom line is that overall we have seen growth in the no. of households earning over 200k/yr! www.portland.gov/council/dist...

We are dealing with extreme heat in Multnomah County. 🥵 The following libraries will have extended hours today:

Grateful and inspired by the @friendsofpfa.bsky.social and all of the partner organizations that organized a massive turnout to protect one of most common sense programs I have seen. Truly inspiring work.

FULL RETREAT.

This right here! P4A taxpayers all about P4A as is!

It’s time! Join @friendsofpfa.bsky.social for a rally TODAY. Then MC listening session about indexing. What’s that? Who cares. It’s not what we voted for, uses false narratives, & won’t improve programs or access. I’m a PfA mom and a certified smart person. I know indexing is the wrong question.

Write your thoughts down!! We can do this y’all!

Great thread and supporting responses sharing great information about preschool for all. I’m testifying 8/28. Join me! If you’re nervous lmk and I will cheer you on! I’m bringing my kiddo. Preschool is closed that week. Bring yours!

lol I did not edit my screen shot. And look - it turned out to be a great opportunity to learn more about Friends of PfA!

Thank you Councillor for your unwavering support!

Some ppl are shouting about how the preschool for all tax is driving ppl out of Multco. Here’s some information data about what ppl pay. The cost of moving would be more than this tax. If you + partner’s taxable income is 270k, you owe $1k. No one is moving for $1000.

Yall! We need help. Pls reach out! Even if, and maybe especially if you don’t have a kid a PfA. Don’t have kids and understand how this matters? Pay the tax and are totally fine with it? Or pay the tax and know that it on its own it’s not going to make you run away from the county? Please share!

Come help defend Preschool for all!!!

Here’s something that’s really great about preschool for all that I don’t see discussed. My son goes to a preschool at a local community center. Multiple community centers have them. The city now funds these programs through PFA. 1/?

Still scratching your head about the OR leg’s cuts to the housing bill? Hear @lkb-pdx.bsky.social talk about how these significant cuts will increase evictions on @opb.org’ think out loud today at 12:30! www.opb.org/article/2025...

Parents at the press conference were talking about how the costs of preschool were more than their mortgage payments. We have to save this program.

Portland, tomorrow if you can please head out to this press conference sponsored by Oregon @workingfamilies.org to say Hands off Preschool for All!!! www.mobilize.us/oregonworkin...

Made it to Salem (making calls on the way) to defend Preschool for All against an unconscionable, undemocratic attempt to kill Preschool for All. As of now, over 23,000 emails have been sent in support of Preschool for All. Thank you to everyone who has spoke out. Please keep it up!

Hearing starts at 1. PfA informational hearing is last.

Also! PfA put a lot of work into recruiting providers or color and bilingual programs. Those schools now depend on that funding. They are recruiting and training more people to provide care. One major hurdle to preschool? A work force. PfA is creating that.

First trip to Powell’s! First book grabbed off shelf and read on their own.

It’s Harry Potter costume time!

HHS set up a snitch line to report trans kids and their providers. You know what to do... www.hhs.gov/protect-kids...

KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN. ☎️: (202) 224-3121 Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid. The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING. Call retiring Senators too!

Only takes 23 Senate Democrats to remove Chuck Schumer from leadership and replace him with someone willing to fight

Schumer is acceding to the GOP’s plan to blow up D.C.’s budget by prohibiting us from spending a billion dollars *of our own money,* forcing devastating cuts to vital services out of pure spite toward our city and its residents. And he doesn’t bother defending his decision to throw us under the bus.

PLEASE SHARE: Six emergency shelters are open and will remain open — through *at least* 12 pm Friday, Feb. 14. W/forecasts again meeting severe weather thresholds, Multnomah County is also adding beds at those sites and opening two more sites, starting at 8 pm tonight: multco.us/news/news-re...

An important first-person account from someone inside OPM:

This is the most important story in the United States right now. www.wired.com/story/treasu...

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

The NYT asked me to write an op-ed on Musk and the Treasury and then took a pass. I hope it will still get read.

Every professor should join the AAUP right now if you haven't. www.aaup.org Also join your local campus workers union, or any other union relevant to your work (they do different things!). If the government won't protect us, and our administrations won't protect us, we need to protect each other.

The key words used to identify “problem” applications are mind boggling enough - this flow chart is…

Folks who have time tomorrow afternoon: @workingfamilies.org is phonebanking folks in key Republican districts to urge them to call their reps about Trump's funding cuts and the tax giveaways to billionaires from 2-4PM Eastern.

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

On a day of reflection & service, & on a day where things also might seem dim, we celebrate my kiddo’s 4th bday. He was born on a day of hope. We gave him the middle name Alejandro - savior of humankind. He & the other littles will keep hope alive. Live your life full of joy & wonder.

The #pdx tri-county point in time count starts next week! We are still recruiting community volunteers to survey ppl living unsheltered. Community volunteers are sent to sites like libraries, meal service programs, and shower trucks. Sign up: airtable.com/appwww8hY7qi...

This quote sums up what our system is setup todo: Do you think the hospital benefits from us being sick? ARC’s the same thing. There are some people who talk to me & say nobody should be profiting…we know in America that it just doesn’t happen that way. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/m...

Trans rights activists -- including Chelsea Manning -- are staging a protest in a women's bathroom in the Cannon building (a House building) next to Speaker Johnson's office. "Trans rights are under attack! What do we do? Act up! Fight back!"