In anticipation of the next few days I want to make it clear that the ICE Permit revocation issue is a land use question which means that city councilors will be operating in a quasi judicial manner when it gets to us after the investigation. We can be exempt from voting on it if we r deemed biased.

“We already imprison people at world historic levels and concentrate people in conditions that undermine the promise of rehabilitation for many. The result — alongside other horrific social conditions we’ve engineered — is a completely fractured society. What if we kept doing that, but even harder?”

Here's a video account of the altercation outside of the Central Library in Portland. And again, the police narrative is shit and skews the perception of events. www.opb.org/article/2025...

Anyone with progressive or leftist politics in Beaverton, we're having another discussion night at Loyal Legion. Let's organize. I'm excited to talk about Measure 34-346 and how to strangle it in its crib. Here's the optional RSVP, Wed. 9/10, 6PM to 7:30 PM: actionnetwork.org/events/beave....

Cops are not trustworthy is a lesson that everyone must learn. Media needs to stop being credulous about police lies, and anytime you hear a cop's account of events, your first instinct should be do disbelieve it.

They’re picking jurors for Luigi this week Repost so everyone remembers this: Jury Nullification is when Jurors vote to acquit, not just based on the law. But on wether the application of that law Truly serves justice.

Check out this story about PTU, @portlanddsa.bsky.social, and @councilorgreen.bsky.social speaking out for a @homeforward.bsky.social tenant who was nearly evicted. Quick collective action helped keep him housed. Leeor lays out some of PTU's demands for @homeforward.bsky.social.

Join us for the third Renters' Town Hall in East Portland to support the Renters' Bill of Rights! Be part of the growing movement of Portlanders fighting back against the landlord class! RSVP Today! actionnetwork.org/events/east-...

If police and prisons stopped crime, the United States, which has the largest, most militarized, and most expensive police force and prison system in the history of the world (seriously, our police forces are larger than most militaries), would have no crime. Defund the police.

We cannot achieve housing justice alone. We can only push back against the landlord class if renters stand in solidarity. Join us as we canvass renters in D1 to invite the community to the East Portland Renters’ Town Hall. RSVP today at portlanddsa.org/events #housingforall #rentersbillofrights

Join leaders from @portlanddsa.bsky.social and PTU along with @councilorgreen.bsky.social at a press conference to defend a 68-year-old disabled veteran, nearly evicted due to landlord negligence. Tomorrow, Thursday, 9/4 at 10:30 AM at the Yards, 815 NW Naito Pkwy. Come demand housing justice.

Reality: crime is at historic lows and on the downward trend for decades. Republicans: I *feel* like I’m witnessing crime when poor people exist in public.

Anyone in Beaverton interested in left politics might enjoy this new fortnightly discussion group: actionnetwork.org/events/beave....

I think this is a fantastic article to show people as a soft intro to "maybe cops aren't all they're cracked up to be"

I don't really like "dunking on the libs" leftism, but the constant stream of AI-generated images or videos making the same 3 jokes about Trump are making me feel like a Chapo Trap House listener of whatever.

I wish ill upon transphobes and bigots, JK Rowling included.

Sometimes I wonder if people realize that if Dems are willing to sell out trans rights to "grow the tent" then they're also going to be willing to sell out women's rights, environmental rights, immigrant rights, etc.

OR constitution does still ban it. if obergefell is overturned, new same-sex marriages would be illegal in OR. this ballot measure would fix that (& more) & is something people can get involved with now! equalrightsoregon.com

Keep up the pressure! #SaveSpeech

Kinda wild how this is indistinguishable to the language and policies many “moderate” Democrats have been pushing as well.

fun facts: * fewer than half of crimes that occur in the US are reported * of those reported, fewer than half are solved * about 90% of homicides used to be solved, now it's closer to 50% * crime solving rates overall have declined dramatically * police budgets tripled over the past 40 years

Clark County Deputy Fisk did some get-to-know-you questions. Fisk would rather tackle a suspect than do paperwork. He would rather do a high speed chase than dance at an event. Hurting people and endangering others is just so much more fun than behaving like a responsible caring adult. #honesty

“The Oregon Dept. of Corrections has moved to fire three corrections officers at the state’s largest prison who sent a flurry of racist, antisemitic, homophobic & sexist texts, videos and images on a group text made up of the prison’s tactical team, records show.” www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Miss Rachel and Leen from Gaza have a message for us 🫶🏾🇵🇸✨

Good. Don't stop. We need to make it clear to every single person: being a cop, a prison guard, an ICE Agent; it makes you scum. Only they can choose to take a step to be better: fucking quit.

THIS TUESDAY, July 8, 2:30-4:30pm Hearing on Portland's Sanctuary City Status. Come testify, pack the chambers, submit written testimony ! ICE Out of Portland! www.portland.gov/council-cler...

🚨 BREAKING NEWS! A judge has just ordered the release of Arturo Gamboa. He has been in jail since Saturday's fatal shooting at the Salt Lake City "No Kings" protest despite not firing his gun.

In light of the Utah 50501 stuff, I just think that if your first thought when a cop opens their mouth isn't "they are lying," you might be a racist and a collaborator. Don't trust orgs who are chummy with cops.

Watching some Portland City Councilors close to tears as the Police Bureau budget increase was changed from +3% to +2.5% while maintaining funding for 90 vacant police officer positions and while 180 other city staff are facing layoffs... well, it was really something.

if the democratic party wasn’t a gerontocracy this would have failed. gerry connelly staying in office til he died allowed this to pass. this is echoes of RBG not retiring. when will democrats fucking learn

The new dress code isn't just regressive and unnecessary - it's leading to absolutely ridiculous stories like these. And this isn't an isolated case. What is going on at Starbucks?? /🧵 for more

Stop interviewing Aaron Schmautz, he’s not the chief - he’s the PPA. He’s not in charge… unless he really is and the chief has no say. But whatever weird power dynamic they have internally - police do not stop crime. If that were true, we’d see no crime in cities that have the ratio. This is bs.

Not a big fan of the yasss mass incarceration military/cop queen slay moments from the most recent Doctor Who episode.

SB 238A, the bill to let cops is Oregon do all kinds of warrantless surveillance with drones, is terrifying. My senator voted for it and has basically lost my support forever because of it. Chances are, yours did too. You can write a letter via ACLU: action.aclu.org/send-message....

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It's critical to listen to labor because it's the right thing to do but also because they know how the job works better than management most of the time. CEOs and other bosses start to fail even more than usual when they buy into their own mythos/branding as geniuses.

A *quarter* of Hawaii’s prison population is actually incarcerated in Arizona, thousands of miles from home. Trump’s current prison partnership with El Salvador did not come out of thin air and should be understood as an escalation of practices that already go on every day in this country.

Shedeur Sanders is drawing attention to the NFL Draft. It should be illegal for more reasons than one.

I’m very excited about @portlanddsa.bsky.social latest campaign - The Family Agenda for Portland. Our way out of crisis is going to be through bottoms-up investments in working class families of all kinds. And it taps into the overwhelming demand from Portlanders in the budget listening sessions.

*pssssst* it's not the job of the police to stop crime. No. It's true. Go look. Protect? Property sure. Citizens? Nope. Go look. They do not stop crime. It is LITERALLY not their job.

Good stuff. I bet this would be effective with Portland cops right now since they are begging for special treatment during the budget process.

It doesn't matter how hard I focus on politics, the furry shit still shows up on my dash. The algorithm knows.

Jails have hard labor as punishment as per the constitution. Not to be pedantic, but prisons purposefully containing more minorities is an issue spanning decades and ICE is an extension of that. Cruelty is always the point. Unmarked police vans have always existed, and so have plainclothes cops.

there really is no alternative to tearing up CBP and ICE root and branch

Not only do I think any Pride event that has cops in it is illegitimate, but if I had my way even off-duty cops would be made to feel unwelcomed.

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I really love @means.tv, and they've added one of the best online union media projects I know of. I can't recommend either enough.