I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

The most pure example of this is the guy on reddit who thought men were meant to do all bathroom activities with the lid up and has been sitting on the rim his entire life.

Wait was he trying to say the socialist agenda which is national? That is such doofus behavior.

Tina Kotek has been trying to kill preschool for all for the super rich just to watch them keep making historically large contributions to the Republican Party.

But look at this chart, from a CBO letter linked to in the article. People at top end of the income scale is getting a massive windfall, on the backs of people on the lower end. Oregon could and should plug the budget gap by taxing that windfall. Call it the Big Beautiful Surcharge. 3/

TFW your toddler grabbed the business end of a kitchen knife and you're still in flight or flight 30 minutes later. She's fine! The knife is dull I guess!

Only voting for whoever responds "sometimes I enjoy Nova."

I've been thinking a lot about that viral post "I don't know how to explain to you why you should care about other people." Like I get it and I understand why it felt so compelling at the time. But also, like, we should figure out how to explain that. I think it will be really necessary to do so.

We ... are? And if you're not in those networks, you may want to examine your choices and think about why.

"Good thing I don't even use Spotify," I say smugly as I remind myself for the second time today that I can't go to Starbucks because of the boycott.

I know this is objectively funny, but it's making me so mad right now. This is terrible parenting! Please teach your children that experiencing sadness, anger, frustration, etc is not something that needs to be avoided at all costs.

evergreen statement

Sweeps are violence and it really is that simple. If you live in Portland and have a heart in your body please take the time to testify in person/zoom tomorrow or in writing and ask our city council to reroute money away from sweeps, which do not reduce homelessness. www.portland.gov/council-cler...

There are a lot of Portlanders who consider themselves progressive but turn reactionary when they see visible poverty. The urge to just make poverty disappear from sight instead of working toward holistic solutions is why we don’t have nice things in this country. Poverty is a social creation.

Look all I want is for my city councilors to read my email, agree that the idea I have is brilliant, fast-track it, and give me public credit and perhaps naming rights. I feel like that's not too much to ask?

People can't read and everyone is walking around already incredibly overstimulated and distracted by the dozens of screens and sounds we're subjected to moment by moment.

We’re seeing increased and aggressive ICE activity across the Portland metro region — including around sensitive locations like schools. Save the PIRC hotline on your phone and call/text if you witness ICE activity: 888-622-1510

Our hardest battles are fought by our most basic warriors.

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

I might have a good cry

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

Preschool for All will offer free preschool to ALL families in Multnomah County by 2030. We cannot depend on unreliable federal funding or shrinking state programs. That’s why the Multco Board is ensuring PFA implementation is on-time and building a stable tax-base.

Classic Dan Ryan: voting to refer the measure to the voters and then coming out against it, while [not entirely incorrectly] pointing out that the measure is only necessary due to the poor financial management at the Bureau he used to lead www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

A nice thing you can do for kids in your neighborhood is have one candy available on halloween that doesn't have any allergens in it. You can check by seeing if any allergens are listed on the label, if they're not you're good. Usually fruit candies are a good choice.

Oh man, I have been in the "plaintiff's haven't argued it" position so many times. I had to argue for a summary judgment against a party who didn't show up and the amount of times I wanted to whine "but your honor, they're not even heeeeeeere."

It is not acceptable to quote random people in eastern Oregon as if their knowledge on the situation in Portland is in any way comparable to the many, many experts who have spoken out against this deployment. (And there is a Parenti quote for every occasion and I intend to find and use them.)

I also hope we don’t forget all the local folks who’ve spent years spreading the “portland is a hellhole” narrative to gain short-term political power and/or social media clout. They provided ammo to the Trump machine. They fed the false narrative and now the chickens are coming home to roost.

The “stay home” rhetoric from the mayor isn’t ideal, but we can’t give Trump what he wants, a city resembling a war zone. Instead, we’ll make a greater impact by directly assisting our immigrant neighbors. We can make ICE work for their deportations force them to go door-to-door.

It's like we all went through that exercise of remembering Mitch Hedberg's best bits so we could be prepared for today. Escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.

I'm getting the opportunity to help with a pro bono thing and I'm really excited. Just this morning I was trying to figure out how to make more time to do pro bono work and it was like this perfect project just fell from the sky.

I don't know about morality, but I do assume people who never pick up unknown calls are in a privileged position of not having to manage multiple family member's health issues. Doctors offices be calling all the time y'all! If I miss a call it's possible I missed a chance at an appointment.

This is a subtweet of a stranger but if you cannot safely pass a pedestrian with a dog while you ride your bike on the sidewalk then you should dismount IMO. Regardless of the pedestrian and the dog's behavior, you are a guest on the sidewalk.

Bank of America sends me an email that my payment wasn't made and I have to immediately update my autopay information. This makes sense because I closed the payment account. I call and they say the payment was made and they have no idea why I got the email. I ask if I can update my autopay info. 1/2

the main divide in portland politics is if you think we have a “livability” crisis resulting from high levels of unsheltered homelessness or a broader housing and cost of living crisis of which unsheltered homelessness is one symptom

Gifting your child a high-powered rifle is also an ideology. We just refuse to speak of it as such.

I don't give my son more food until he's already eaten the food on his plate. Not sure why we're piling the police's plate high when they seem incapable of eating anything.

I'm watching Gilmore Girls and Lane is complaining that her mom found a place to buy bulk tofu and has purchased an extra fridge in anticipation. It's funny because you always assume as you age you'll find you have more in common with Lorelai. But apparently I'm just becoming Mrs. Kim.

Love to look at an account and there are few to no posts and every reply is complaining about a woman of color you with whom they disagree. Get a hobby, kids! You are poisoning your soul with this behavior.

Best Friends Forever with Jessica St. Clair and Lennon Parham. I also loved Playing House. These two can do no wrong, IMO

Now that I've taken a second to read the news: in my experience you never go wrong with centering in your values a deep and unrelenting commitment to peace and non-violence.

Did you know that if you buy a camper and then never use it and then accidentally get a new car that can't tow campers and then no one on craigslist wants to buy it you can still donate it to the Oregon Humane Society?

meanwhile I now have a flip phone

I rode to NE 122nd from St. Johns yesterday and I have some thoughts. My memory of riding Marine Dr. between the freeways is a lot more bucolic than it felt yesterday. I ended up taking a different route home to avoid sections of it. 1/2

Okay now that we’ve briefly saved PFA (yet again) I’m taking another social media break. See you all probably when my kid is back in (free) school. 😎

My new platform is Make PFA Universal by 2027 So World’s Cutest Baby is Guaranteed a Spot.

✨Team Toddler WINS✨

🚨 This just in from the board meeting: Brim Edwards is moving to table her proposal indefinitely until a later date agreed on by the board, and made a motion to make today a briefing and discussion on her indexing proposal instead of a vote. Full retreat. Organizing gets the goods.

Bike. Two generators. Chair. Table. Bike, wheelchair. Walker. Crutches, cooler, baby stroller. These are a few of the items taken during recent sweeps of homeless encampments in Portland, according to the city’s latest data.

One last thing that was great about the PFA listening session tonight, it offered an opportunity for me to hang out with my neighborhood parent friends without our children for the very first time. Preschool builds communities for whole families, not just children!