matthew always brings the receipts

Hakeem Jeffries needs to go!!!

If you haven’t read @xsalazar.bsky.social post on biking in Portland, it’s a heart-wrenching must read. We must create more bike-only spaces in Portland. Cars are too big, too fast, and too dangerous for a human scale city. blog.xsalazar.com

Today, Congresswoman Stevens had a choice: stand with the majority of Democrats who oppose unconditional military aid to Israel, or stand with the special interests funding her campaign.

AQI in Minneapolis is now 530. It’s over 80 degrees at 11pm. For neighbors without air conditioning, and our neighbors experiencing unsheltered homelessness, these are incredibly dangerous conditions. I’ll be out tomorrow with masks and cold water, checking on neighbors. Please do the same.

I hope the college students who protested the US-funded massacre of Palestinian civilians, while being vilified by their universities and politicians and even the president, understand that they are actually having an impact, just much slower than they hoped

Oh he was *AT* at Jan 6.

California is debating legislation right now that would ban all ICE employees from ever being hired by a public agency for life. This is good and next year's Democratic House needs to provide a full roster of ICE employees to help facilitate state efforts like this one.

ICE’s Camp East Montana is a hellhole. It’s been open less than a year and three people have died there, including the first-ever homicide in ICE detention (allegedly at the hands of guards). Both DHS and Congressional watchdogs have documented extensive problems. Shut it down!

ICE has killed another person, this time by depriving him of life-sustaining medication for a known medical condition. Jesus Manuel Arenas-Silva was detained on Thursday. He was dead by Monday. Per @detentionwatchnetwork.org:

If you’re going to read one thread about the Blazers and the Moda Center it should be this one. (Also, please read more than just this thread)

It’s hard to read any of the stories of the last 3-4 days and not come to the conclusion that the new owner simply has zero desire to negotiate with the city in good faith, and wants to extract every single cent of public subsidy possible or skip town. Kudos to Dunphy for calling it out

One incredibly easy way that the negotiations could get back on track is if the Blazers could respond to some of the basic requests for information we have repeatedly asked for since April but have yet to receive. Maybe Commissioner Silver can help us with that?

I work in Cincinnati. Anyone who suggests public funding for a private stadium should be [long and detailed list of things that are TOS violations]. I've been paying for the facilities used by millionaires that are owned by billionaires for decades. I can't afford bengals tickets for my family.

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Unbelievable.

Any elected representative who votes for this should be recalled, immediately, for dereliction of duty.

Keith Wilson & Tom Dundon hate this account bc every time a thread drops people who have never before thought about stadium funding realize how much we were about to get robbed by a billionaire while we wait for a defunded city bus on the way to a park with a locked bathroom on a school furlough day

1/ Two misconceptions are doing most of the work in the Moda Center debate: "The city owns the arena, so the city pays for it." "The Blazers and the arena operator are the same thing." Both are wrong. The state's own comp report shows why. Let's fix them. 🧵

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

They fucking handcuffed him after shooting him in the head?? Jesus Christ.

No hell too hot. www.sunjournal.com/2026/07/13/i...

“He was talking. He said, ‘I tried to stop,'” said Boucher, who was shaken by what he observed. Other witnesses told the Bangor Daily News that they saw an SUV ram Guerrero’s car before agents surrounding him with weapons drawn. Officers yelled “weapon” several times before firing at the car.“

I ‘went back’ (was table host at last gala) because Dinaw asked. He was trying to chart a new course. Most dissenting writers had always wanted dialogue, even when the outgoing director and some board members tried to smear us. Now I’m following him and hope to be part of something new

anyway i don't like it, as a woman, i feel like the cops are threatening me with sexual assault if i don't give them money, which is disgusting

one might get the impression that by voting against giving PPB climate dollars one is endangering kindly old ladies on hikes and 7 year old tourists walking with their mothers, and exposing them to sexual assault, if one didn't have a lot of other info

i'm not saying this is made up, surely it happened, but it's odd that both this article and the one about the guy attacking women at council crest went out of their way to talk at length about the slow and inadequate police response because nobody was available

From Stephan Zweig's The World of Yesterday.

So grateful to have Democratic Socialists running and winning everywhere! We have another great local candidate folks should know about: Nathan Ong Norris is running for Multnomah County District 2 Commissioner! He's also been endorsed by @oregontammy.bsky.social & @councilorgreen.bsky.social!

Hmmm, is it because of Zibby supports Jewish people or is it because she is wildly, blatantly, unapologetically racist?

Also pressuring her local bookstore to stop stocking a book she had not read. They gave in, apologized, and brought perpetual shame on themselves.

If I had to guess it's in fact because you tried to bully the national book foundation into prohibiting the *national book award nominees* from making statements that might include the phrase "free Palestine" (you wrote a substack about this) & for posting racist & Islamophobic stuff about Mamdani!!

The family of Geraldo Lunas Campos is suing over the 55-year-old Cuban's death at an ICE jail in Texas earlier this year, with a local coroner ruling his death a homicide from asphyxia. The DHS said he had attempted suicide, but witnesses said he died after being restrained by multiple guards.

https://bsky.app/profile/lydiakiesling.bsky.social/post/3mqebgtp36k2j interesting moment for the Oregonian to omit the context that this ballot measure is also engulfed in a scandal because canvassers were trained to lie about it in a way that favored PPB

Echos of the Mike Schmidt era. PPB continuing to slow roll or entirely abdicate their responsibility to blackmail Portlanders. I’ve said this before, but considering how checked out they have been for years should elucidate their true impact on crime rates. Stop falling for their BS.

@oregonian.com is even omitting the context of their own reporting (better late than never) on the scandals surrounding that ballot measure www.oregonlive.com/environment/...

Serious #copaganda from @oregonian.com, which should surprise no one who regularly follows them. If the only possible reason for long response times from the police is that they need more funding, doesn't that give the police an great reason to take longer to respond to calls?

Also noteworthy: most of the city’s top paid employees are always top PPB brass. If they want more boots on the ground officers: maybe use some of that money www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

This is an absolutely horrific story & it's also absolutely journalist malpractice to uncritically craft it as a PPB talking points memo about Portland's police budget. And it's disgusting for the PPB to leverage their performance here into a lobbying opportunity. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/0...

Are city employees normally allowed to lobby ballot measures on the clock? What if this were coming from Parks or Water?

I just find it interesting to contrast the media's expectations how for example preschool for all should function relative to its budget against coverage if PPB 🤔

So the journalist uncritically quoted police (spread their press release without verifying the facts) and then…advertised for the ballot measure to raid the Portland Clean Energy Fund for more police? Journalism is one of the few things holding our democracy together. This isn’t journalism.

Crime happens in early April, police response is slow due to ongoing work stoppage ⬇️ 3 months pass, no article ⬇️ Police funding ballot measure gets negative press for lying about bill text ⬇️ The Oregonian suddenly thinks it’s time to report about the crime from 3 months ago

How many officers were in the vicinity and what were they doing that they couldn't respond sooner? This is really the only question and it seems like the reporter didn't ask.

Did the Oregonian do any research at all on what else was going on that day, or did they just quote Chief Day talking about how high the demand was on July 4? bsky.app/profile/trry...

People love to act like the US is neutral instead of a batshit country that does lawyering for Israel which it doesn't do for literally any other country on the planer

During the Obama administration, immigrant advocacy groups criticized the incredible rate of deportation, as well as the fact that in contradiction of ICE’s claims, the vast majority posed no threat.

feels like a real landmark of impunity that major corporations are making federal crimes part of the interview process

I just find it interesting to contrast the media's expectations how for example preschool for all should function relative to its budget against coverage if PPB 🤔

This is an absolutely horrific story & it's also absolutely journalist malpractice to uncritically craft it as a PPB talking points memo about Portland's police budget. And it's disgusting for the PPB to leverage their performance here into a lobbying opportunity. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/0...