What do you think?

“We estimate that all Starbucks has to do to reach a fair contract is invest the equivalent of an average day’s sales to address the economic issues that remain, including increasing our take-home pay and improving hours and staffing,” Eisen said in a written statement.

#Antifa runs in our blood.

Sun Day is a national day of action celebrating the unstoppable rise of clean energy and the movement to leave fossil fuels behind. In Portland, you'll hear from Sriya Chinnam of @sunrisepdx.bsky.social, OR Senator Khanh Pham, US Senator Jeff Merkley, and me. Sept. 21 at noon at Waterfront Park

Breaking news: Thirty-one journalists were killed in Israeli airstrikes on a newspaper complex in Yemen last week, according to a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists. They say it was “the deadliest strike on journalists in the Middle East.”

All eyes on the Global Sumud Flotilla. Israel is escalating its rhetoric, gearing up for something major. Diplomatic pressure can make a difference. This is the moment to pressure our governments to stand up for the right to deliver humanitarian aid to Palestinians being deliberately starved.

" "And when someone pointed out that killing the citizens of another nation who are civilians, without any due process, is called a war crime, Vance replied, “I don’t give a shit what you call it.” "

Just see it as an unprecedented collaboration between a media corporation and a dictator who has yet to full amass their power.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Unions don’t just improve workers’ paychecks—they shape the social and political fabric of the communities they operate in, lifting standards for union and nonunion workers alike.

The Fed is one of the few remaining agencies Trump doesn’t control. His attack on Fed governor Lisa Cook may change that. From Robert Kuttner: trib.al/BZfHR8p

Hundreds of people took to the streets of Washington on Saturday to protest the Trump administration’s deployment of National Guard troops. nyti.ms/45EfC2W

The vote could affect 400 registered nurses working at the hospital. Among their list of demands, the nurses are asking for increased pay, more affordable health care and protection from shortened shifts.

The pandemic helped lift the fortunes of the new, new right—but not in the way you might think, writes @gregggonsalves.bsky.social.

ESPN drops Spike Lee’s docuseries on Colin Kaepernick, network and filmmaker say

it is incredible to see the extent to which the Sensible Centrists are simply incapable of grasping the very simple and obvious fact that the president's concern with crime is a pretext, and that to deny claims of a sudden epidemic in crime is not to say that crime is nonexistent.

Nicholas Kristof: "For almost two years, Americans have seen what was going on in Gaza, yet our leaders enabled mass killing and starvation. Gaza represents not some distant and inevitable tragedy, but our own moral and practical failing. We have blood on our hands."

This is a woman so extreme and bigoted that even Fox (Fox!) once suspended her for suggesting Ilhan Omar’s Islamic faith made her disloyal to the US and the Constitution. But she’s not too extreme or bigoted for the Trump administration.

"Working Americans are dealing with the consequences of the Trump Administration’s anti-worker agenda – they’re not living in an alternate reality that the President thinks he can create by hiding those consequences." - Matt Biggs, IFPTE International President

BREAKING: Trump fires bathroom scale and ruler

The mass media's eyes are open now, I guess. May action - ceasefire, humanitarian aid, rebuilding - follow.

Privatization of VA care will be a disaster for veterans, for the VA employees (many unionized, and many veterans themselves), and for the robust integrated health care system that is the VA prospect.org/health/2025-...

Portland - Wed., 7/30 at 4:30 downtown Terry Schrunk Plaza, 3rd & SW Madison. Come join us: ICE OUT OF ALL WORKPLACES!

portside.org/2025-07-28/l... "..... We need to both work within the Democratic Party to push the Dems leftward, and build independent political organizations that work inside and outside the Democratic structure and help us build our base. "

www.politico.com/news/2025/07... A sliver of positive news...

"...deliberate, systematic starvation of an entire population".😭

NEA leadership over-rules membership ban on ADL......https://www.axios.com/2025/07/19/gaza-adl-teachers-union-nea-vote-jewish-groups

Damn - www.portlandmercury.com/news/2025/07...

"We're watching the imposition of a global concentration camp network." We're going to need a global network of opposition to this too, from the neighborhood and community level up into governments at the local level through Congress. There are more of us than there are of them.

Once again, this is a massive public jobs program for fascists. This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.

Yeah. This ICE budget is a horror.

We must not throw 16 million low-income and working class Americans off of the health care they have in order to give massive tax breaks to billionaires. That is obscene.

📣 Happening NOW: We’re in D.C. with lawmakers, demanding they stop the Medicaid cuts that put lives at risk. We will not be silenced. We will not back down. Lives are on the line. #ThisBillKills #HandsOffMedicaid

Zohran Mamdani! This is exactly what we want to see from our leaders.

I'm looking at the Congressional Resolution invoking the War Powers Act introduced a couple of days ago- that only Congress can declare war. It's not much - but better than nothing. Yet, from Oregon, only Val Hoyle is listed as a co-sponsor today. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Unnecessary, unhelpful, unhinged, and unconstitutional. This is a disaster all around.

Facts matter, especially when they concern the future of our children and our economic development strategies that support young families. The fact is that the number of high income earners paying into Preschool for All is increasing.

🚨 Heads-up, neighbors: our Preschool for All program (approved by 64 % of MultCo voters) faces a last-minute push in Salem to suspend its funding. Let’s talk facts, not fear. 🧵👇🏾

So proud to be a part of this amazing morning. Location ocean beach San Francisco #nokings