i really hate that Councilors Avalos, Kanal, Koyama-Lane, and Morillo have to see such racist vitriol after last week's appalling comments from their right wing colleagues. But better this ugliness is out in the open. These venal racist ghouls have no place in the halls of power.

Truly an incredible thing to have in writing. “Already, the money is organizing opposition. Check out partnership for progress organization.” what an extraordinary scoop from Portland's own @jeremiahhayden.bsky.social

howling at the fact that someone just took photos of this man's phone from behind him. he was talking shit with his phone font set to large and screen at max brightness

*and on Ryan’s personal device

Oregon DEQ appears to have known that a cyber attack leaked Oregonians’ personal information since June. The agency didn’t notify most people affected by it until six months later. It also didn’t disclose the leak to the public, not until I started asking about it. www.opb.org/article/2026...

Timestamped finance meeting from earlier today to when @counciloravalos.bsky.social discusses the primary importance of rental assistance in our housing emergency at this time. Worth a watch.

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

Late in the Biden administration, the Chair of Senate Judiciary Committee wrote to DOJ requesting that OLC’s 1989 “override” opinion be rescinded. The Biden administration did nothing. And now the Trump administration has reportedly relied upon that 1989 OLC opinion for its attack on Venezuela.

Councilor Sameer Kanal presenting important legislation tomorrow on banning law enforcement from concealing their identities 👇

Cannot convey enough the palpable excitement around the idea that nominating Black cops was the one weird trick that’d answer policing crisis of legitimacy.

bit maudlin I fear but one of the things I do these days is imagine future lines of historical thinking about our benighted era. “Many came to view the failure to defund the police as a strategic error.”

I'm hearing about this in a few states. My big question is whether it is preparation for a crackdown on resistance to ICE operations, or a preemptive crackdown on anti war protesters after the planned invasion of Greenland

Jonathan Ross worked for Border Patrol before ICE

New: “Fears are growing that the number of protesters killed by Iranian security forces now reaches into the thousands…cell phone footage has emerged of truck-mounted machine guns strafing residential streets, hospitals swamped by shooting victims, and a morgue overwhelmed by hundreds of bodies”

This is going to force a lot of investors and powerful finance people to reckon with Trump in a way they have been desperately trying to avoid.

Adding Curtis Robinhold, the Port of Portland's executive director, to her economic growth council makes it even clearer why Tina Kotek is putting pressure on City of Portland staff to not mandate a fuel draw down at the CEI Hub.

WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to: * 8 people shot * 5 of which were U.S. citizens * 2 died * no victims drew a weapon The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

Apparently Exxon won't have the privilege of having their stuff nationalized a third time in Venezuela bc Darren Woods told the truth at what was meant to be a performed loyalty session. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

A bright spot during a hard week. Thank you to the working class people that believe in us. We believe in you too. I’m running through the small donor program - all grassroots, no corporate money. Help me reach campaign financing by throwing a few bucks my way! secure.actblue.com/donate/angel...

Today's quick update [Jan 11]: - RSF drone strikes reported on a market in Habila, South Kordofan (red); civilian deaths and casualties reported. - RSF gain control of Jerjira area of North Darfur (blue). #KeepEyesOnSudan

I had no idea the material conditions in Iran had degraded so badly. As the speaker, Prof Fatemeh Shams explains later, these are explosive, borderline revolutionary conditions, much more serious than previous rounds of mass protest

*whispering* this is the performance of public virtue and should be feted

we also need to recognize that there is no possible world where the economy is not gonna implode. It is hot air. Appeasing fascism in hopes the bubble won’t pop is a fool’s bargain

..if you’re ok with what Israel has done in Palestine forever you gotta be cool with military checkpoints, randomly gated roads, people harassing and shooting your neighbors, migrant detentions in your back yard, random phone searches, drone strikes and no habeas. Not so different, us, after all.

devastating.

I’m old enough to remember the anti-genocide encampments y’all defamed.

I hope more people are thinking about how dangerous cop cities are right now and how they have to be shut down now.

it would be lovely to see more performers with a large platform using their voices like this

US policy on protests in Iran somewhat different from policy on protests in US: “On Friday, the US repeated that killing protesters would be met with a military response.” www.bbc.com/news/article...

The tragic death of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year old mother fatally shot by ICE, shows that ICE can’t be reformed and must be abolished. I’ll be introducing the Abolish ICE Act as a step toward justice, accountability, and humanity in our immigration policy. Time to melt ICE.

important from Councilor Morillo. Media lost interest in CPB shooting two people in Portland after learning they may have a criminal record. If a record means the feds can shoot you without recourse, we are lost. Due process is for all of us or for none of us. www.instagram.com/reel/DTUQO0Q...

This is important.

I have verified that Keith Porter Jr’s father created this GoFundMe and is asking to support his grandchildren

"...the more one relies on vice signaling as a style of action and communication, the less relevant and powerful the in-group’s moral compass is as a practical constraint on anyone’s behavior." latest for @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/emp...

Portland Police Press conference on the shooting of 2 Portlanders: -DHS said the victims had been involved with a shooting. Nope! -But they were def part of Tren de Aragua -actually no -But TdA is real and active in Portland -We can't name single crime TdA has been involved with in this city

Just in case anyone gets confused (common problem), talking back to a police officer or federal agent, even impolitely, is not sufficient grounds for summary execution.

Rolling Stone published that women cant sing in Gaza because, apparently, "its haram (forbidden)" You racist kharyaat (shits) defector.com/rolling-ston...

It should be bigger news that masked agents were filmed hours ago removing potentially inculpatory evidence from the ICE shooter's house, clearly lacking evidence tags or chain of custody stickers. Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing

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I saw this video of a Vietnam vet in the fur coat yelling at ICE and thought to myself, "this is missing something," before I realized, "Ah, of course, the Ether instrumental. It's so obvious."

Vance, who may see himself pitted against @aoc.bsky.social in a general election, will deeply regret -- I hope in his heart, but certainly politically -- trashing Renee Good as "deranged" while valorizing his killer, who called her a "fuckin' bitch" after shooting her through her side window.

Big deal First Amendment decision from Fourth Circuit, which effectively holds that al-Timimi was imprisoned/confined for 20 years based on constitutionally protected speech. www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/144...

not the most serious crimes. not crimes causing the most harm. just crimes allegedly committed by immigrants. ICE is not a law enforcement agency. it's an agent of persecution. and i don't mean persecution in the lay sense. I mean the crime against humanity of persecution.

The sheer number of videos of the shooting is horrific, but in the vein of what @prisonculture.bsky.social has been saying, it proves how many people cared enough to show up where ICE was and record them. It wasn't just one or two legal observers, and when Good was shot, they didn't abandon her.

ICE must be abolished. The work of our time is to tear down the system that built it and remake it into one that embraces and designs systems that include all people from all places. This work will be done, because the alternative is unbearable.

Rest in power to Keith Porter who was murdered by an ICE agent in Los Angeles. It’s terrible that his name is just now being circulated, but now that it is, continue to say his name.

"We are very well aware of the fact that X for Grok is now offering a spicy mode showing explicit sexual content. This is not spicy. This is illegal. This is appalling. This is disgusting. I can confirm we are very seriously looking into this matter." — Spokesperson @thomasregnier.ec.europa.eu

We will outlast them.