The Governor here doesn’t include the fact that the local tax she is pausing is to fund UNIVERSAL PRESCHOOL and was democratically passed via a ballot initiative. This is Austerity politics: cuts to needed services sold as a favor to you, when it will balloon costs for people personally.

Meanwhile, NYC's Mayor-elect understands the need for preschool support...

As someone who respects Gov. Kotek & wants to retain the governorship, this is an important take. Demotivating your campaign's likeliest supporters by opposing a voter-approved initiative saving families $18k/yr in childcare expenses doesn't improve affordability or help your campaign.

New: We obtained thousands of internal chat messages from the ICE team creating viral videos of raids and "EPIC takedowns." A scramble to satisfy the White House and "feed the beast" spawned a new "propaganda" machine, current and former officials told us. "It's a war!" wapo.st/4s6YnC5

Awesome to welcome The Thesis to District 2, to Alberta, and to one of Portland's Black-owned venues (Alberta Street Pub!), beginning earlier this month. January 8 has a great lineup too!

The new edition of our Rose City Resource Guide (Dec 2025 to May 2026) is here! 💚 Booklets can be picked up at no cost from our office located at 281 West Burnside during open hours. For more information, email [email protected] or call (503) 210-5641.

2026 will be the year we deliver universal childcare, defend our immigrant neighbors, and usher in a new era of dignity for the working class of Queens and NYC. Thank you, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, for entrusting me with the great responsibility of representing Assembly District 36.

Living in Portland is a never ending cycle of all your favorite places closing because the rent is too high and then seeing local media blame homeless people

Whelp, I must report that I am rapidly aging. If you’d like to help take the sting off this brutal fact, the best way to do so is to make a campaign contribution today to support my reelection effort. That’s how we party at this late stage in life. secure.actblue.com/donate/m4pdx

It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.

I am unsurprised and appalled simultaneously.

Wrote this the day after Trump won: "Consider running for office (yes, you!). Get engaged in your local policymaking process. Learn more about your local elected officials. Have coffee with them. Again: consider running for office. It's not fun, but we need more people who care." ...still true!

December 2025 energy

We are thankful to DeFlock.me for mapping automated license plate readers nationwide and standing up to bullying by surveillance vendor Flock Safety. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Attacking women's appearances to silence their voices is misogyny.

The Timbers will open the season at home against Columbus and close things out on the road against Austin.

Death, taxes, and progressive-trending late mail

Okay, that's pretty good 😂

I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city. I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.

On October 15, Portland City Council unanimously passed an emergency ordinance proposed by Portland DSA member @councilorkanal.bsky.social that puts our 2017 sanctuary status officially in the city code!

Columbus Crew’s elimination means Darlington Nagbe has played his final game. Salute to a certified legend.

A🧵 on the 2025 elections: Portland had only one thing on the ballot, the Parks Levy. I want to thank the folks I met in Boise while knocking doors for the levy for the thoughtful conversations. I'm glad it passed, & I agree its not the best way to fund Parks. I hope we never need another one. 1/

People who can help out by bike are especially useful because you can help without adding to the congestion around school pick up. Add PIRC (888-622-1510) to your phone. PIRC Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition is doing an in-person training Nov 15 H/t @pdxblake.bsky.social for these ideas!

November PIRC Training in SW PDX 11AM-1PM. Must pre-register.

Cesar Chavez School and George Middle School have implemented the PPS's “secure the perimeter” protocol amid reports of ICE activity in the neighborhood.

Hundreds of people packed the Hillsboro City Council auditorium to decry the escalation in immigration enforcement in the community, following weeks of reports of federal agents in unmarked vehicles detaining residents and dragging people out of cars. www.oregonlive.com/washingtonco...

ICE is active in D2 today. Please support your neighbors in the best way you're individually able to.

Come to Unthank Park in D2 today at 1 to help us get the Parks Levy over the finish line!

NEXT weekend (November 9!):

I'm supporting the Parks Levy, and made a donation yesterday to help support late get-out-the-vote efforts like texts and emails. If you can't make time to knock doors, a donation still helps!

Join us on 3 Thursdays in November for Secrets of a Successful Organizer! Are you beating your head against the wall trying to get other workers involved? This workshop is for you. actionnetwork.org/events/secre...

There’s something for everyone in here, from installing Signal to filing a privacy request from a data broker. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

In two days, NYC has a chance to end Andrew Cuomo's sordid political career.

Like my colleagues on the Portland City Council, I'm supporting the Parks Levy in this November's election. Please join me in voting yes!

It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.

Join a DSA/NDLON ICE watch training on Tuesday! dsausa.us/icewatch

OBVIOUSLY we are the best team in the league and we’re gonna win the cup. I never doubted for a second. 😂 #RCTID

That's more like it! Anxious crowd at first, but a Felipe Mora goal will calm us down (two will get it feeling good again in the North End). #rctid #onwardrosecity

If you haven't signed up for a migra watch or legal observer training yet time to do it comrades

Been a while since we've seen a near-first-choice lineup from the Timbers, so this is welcome after Saturday. I'll be in the Timbers Army - where are you watching from? #rctid

I will be canvassing with DSA for the Parks Levy in D2 the weekend before the election. Looking forward to joining in the good vibes!

One of the most inspiring things about this #nokings is people around the world protesting at American embassies & consulates in solidarity with us. We once were proudly anti-fascist (WWII, anyone?), & countries we supported then remember even if we've forgotten. Thank you, Glasgow, Berlin, & more.

Scholars who study how to defeat fascism pretty much all say that you need the less radical, mushy middle folks to be on your side. You need mass support. The “normies” you look down on who are going to No Kings are those people. If you think it’s not enough, go talk to them. Go organize them.

Decision Day. #RCTID

Newly obtained documents confirm what law enforcement and Flock Safety tried to deny: A Texas sheriff’s office used license plate readers while investigating a woman’s self-managed abortion, not to find a “missing person." www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

I figured out why trump thinks there is so much going on in Portland. They have been showing him episodes of Grimm and he thinks the Wesen are real.

Jay Jones' texts from 3 years ago, which were recently released and in which he muses about killing Todd Gilbert (then-state house speaker) and speculated about the death of his wife and kids too, are repugnant. Political violence is not new, and he should have known better even then.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

The @timbers.com lost in Seattle this time. But I got to reconnect with @tacovertops.bsky.social friends and fellow Portlanders who made the trip up from @timbersarmy.org, and sing Bella Ciao at the top of my lungs, so it was still a good day. Take care of yourselves in dark times, friends.