I’ve long thought this would be a good idea for Star Metro renters

the backlighting is so great this time of year

we *really* need to get rid of all downtown surface parking in Portland

"Business owners — who often drive themselves — consistently overestimate the share of their customer base who arrive by car, often by enormous margins." streets.mn/2025/09/24/c...

Destroy car dealerships and you save US democracy

The @newrepublic.com actually does very useful and helpful REPORTING. How about @propublica.org? Excellent. The @51st.news is doing excellent actual reporting. So is @thetriibe.com in Chicago. There are so many other places to get actual useful news.

All the crazy 1984 shit they told us would happen under socialism or communism is happening right now under capitalism.

he is deliberately wasting her time

ICE has reportedly just taken two North Portland residents, one who was on his way to work and another who was with their 13-year-old child outside of a school. The kidnapping of our neighbors is horrific and unacceptable.

content moderation systems (and laws, too, for that matter) are like a spider's web: built to catch flies, not elephants

it is written into the stars that you will possess 153 different types of fasteners, but not whatever it is you need for this project right now

I fully support UBEG!

this is just great advice for anyone with an internet connection. And why we need to bolster local media/journalism in Oregon

I will admit I really didn't think it would look like this

An airplane flying around Soldier Field ahead of the Chicago Bears home opener, is dragging a banner that reads “HEY ICE MASKS ARE FOR CUCKS”

*cries in Measure 110*

I just cannot scroll fast enough to get away from Laura Loomer's face today, ack

That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.

why taxing rich individuals really isn't enough (not that we shouldn't do that anyway)

all of them!

picking berries at a neighbor’s farm. got paid by the flat for strawberries and by the bucket for blueberries. honestly don’t remember the rates but after a couple seasons I had $400

with trump and giuliani edging right up to the border of death, the comedic rule of threes now screams for blood

preach

What is Bonham even talking about here? Is he just shit-talking Democrats? Or am I just not drawing the same line between local policy and receiving federal funding?

the thing I love about Zohran’s campaign is that instead of “this place fucking sucks and I alone can fix it” his message is “being a New Yorker rules, we live in the best city in the world, let’s make it even better together” show some damn pride in the places you want to govern

Business leaders’ efforts to cut preschool for all completely underestimated the importance of early child care to our economy and parents. So does @oregonian’s news coverage. Moms and parents spoke loudly and clearly and stopped Brim Edwards proposed cuts.

as far as explaining gender to kids, "some people switch from boy to girl or boy to girl or whatever" is like a hundred times easier than explaining that we saw their teacher at the grocery store because she does not live at the school

hey everybody with a garden, do a long deep watering today IN ADVANCE of the heat wave, this helps plants and trees much more than watering when it’s hot

the hour I spent listenting to these two was worth 1000 hours. highly recommended. thelefthook.substack.com/p/why-are-po...

"...downtown property owners have been very influential in our local and state governments, they have been less influential in their contributions to the city’s tax base." Eat the landlords! www.streetroots.org/news/2025/07...

beans beans beans

shit continues to unfold at St. Agatha y’all —parents pulling their kids en masse —teachers resigning —lemonade stand over the weekend raised $1500 for LGBTQ rights —protest outside Mass got spicy —cowardly priest flailing, desperate to pass buck to Archbishop Sample —the mood is EXPLOSIVE

*yelling this on repeat until my voice gives out* we have empirical evidence! Rich people swore they'd leave MA if we passed the Fair Share amendment, but we have more millionaires now than before it was enacted!

when I was a kid we had a neighbor with a large property, mostly forested and laced with graveled logging roads and cat tracks. I would call her and ask permission to ride back there, and sometimes in summer she would say "no, your horse's shoes could spark on the gravel and start a fire."

I am so tired of the fucking new york times

Spoonbill Come together with your beak Save me, I'm together with your plan Save me, yeah

As someone who *does* have advanced driver skid and racetrack training, I could not disagree more with this WaPo opinion piece.

I’ll come out and say it, I lost any respect I had left when she came out with this

she did it again 😂

I want the left(s) to move from appreciation of particular institutions to seriously contending for GOVERNANCE. If you can, get on your local library boards. Take up those positions.

I gave her lettuce and she made soup with it

avian assembly instructions unclear, sry

The cops are defunding our municipalities. Their overtime exceeds the deficit: news.wttw.com/2025/06/30/c...

the lovage is like 12 feet tall and many stalks have fallen over. so I made lovage soup with it, from a recipe some kind soul posted on reddit

If you’re an elected Democrat (rightly) complaining about the GOP kicking 17 million people off of Medicaid, now is a good and credible time to critique the entire broken work-based non-universal US healthcare system. Now is the time to call for universal healthcare, for Medicare for All.

#independenceday #Julyfourth “What to the American slave is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. I will not enlarge further on your national inconsistencies. (1/4)

FBI: Do u know Karl Marx Mahmood Mamdani: Haven’t met him FBI: No, he's dead Mamdani: Wow, what happened? FBI: No, no, he died long ago Mamdani: Why are you asking me? FBI: He wrote that poor people should not be poor Mamdani: Sounds wonderful readingfanon.blogspot.com/2013/07/in-c...

somehow a hundred extremely tiny butter-colored micro spiders have arrived in my dining room and they're just flying around on little threads, landing on me and things

I watched them all with the sound muted and got 80%. ugh

after climate scientists’ and environmentalists’ warnings go unheeded for decades, enter our savior, the tick