imagine the Pope personally calling you a fake bitch who's going to hell lol

Zohran Mamdani continues to pose the crazy question “what if the government you paid all those taxes to was actually using that money to improve your life?”

lol of course

Portland Public Schools are now ending June 5 instead of June 9, teachers are going unpaid and taking paycuts, and this is how @tinakotek.bsky.social is prioritizing our public funds. Btw our public school kids get fewer school days than most kids in the US and we just keep cut, cut, cutting away 💫

Oregon ranks as one of the most stressed states in the US, mainly due to high childcare costs and family-related stress.

Serious arguments aside about how bad this is: In a day, my students break pencils, their Chromebooks, and take apart their Nee Doh fidgets. If they think robot teachers can survive students, y’all are deeply unserious.

Well well well

PMC's idea of what specifically is to be done to, you know, help women in the workforce:

”No one has to obey an immoral law. I beg you, I order you in the name of God: stop the repression.” — Archbishop Óscar Romero, El Salvador, in appeal to police and National Guard Next day #tdih 1980 Romero was assassinated 💔 by U.S.-backed death squads. ⬇️ 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ro...

Much of reactionary politics today is best understood as a Confederate restoration project.

Budgets are documents that show what you value and Tina Kotek and the Oregon state legislature have made it abundantly clear that they don’t care about students or educators. But hey, the Trail Blazers will get a remodeled Moda Center and we’ve got tax breaks for data centers!

seeing Chavez’s legacy be swiftly and correctly decimated is a powerful reminder that we as a society could, actually, hold people accountable when credible allegations are made that they are child molesters

Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for... I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences"

I just know The Oregonian was so mad they had to write this, haha.

Today and always, we remember Rachel Corrie and fight for a free Palestine 🇵🇸

Fat cats and big wigs are so mad about Preschool for All. They scream into their pillows and cry themselves to sleep every night because we passed a good policy for once. We cannot let them destroy it

Even after Oregon voters overwhelmingly approved campaign contribution caps, the state Legislature dragged its feet on passing limits — and it’s since loosened them. By @robwdavis.bsky.social

Solidarity with PCC ✊

“Access” is not the same as guaranteed universal preschool. Don’t fall for this.

I’m glad union members in this state are no longer giving unqualified support to the Democrats. Kotek typifies the corporate democrat who stands for nothing and does nothing for working people yet still expects labor to line up to vote for them.

"access" is not enough. "access" doesn't raise wages. "access" means labyrinthine processes to determine eligibility. these processes cost money and shut people out who don't have the time and resources to deal with them! a universal program -or the failed status quo- is the real choice here.

ICYMI, Portland's biggest scam artists and grifters have been intentionally misinterpreting and misrepresenting data to create a false impression that the wealthy are fleeing Portland because of taxes. It would be nice if mainstream media didn't uncritically report their claims.

Today I learned here in Portland teachers are being asked to either take 3 furlough days or cut 170 full time teaching positions. My son is in a blended class of 4/5th graders because they didn’t have enough money for another teacher. Fuck off

Well, well, well

Sharing with my students tomorrow.

will be interesting to see how you credibly campaign as a Dem when you've lost *the teachers union*, Kotek

Members of the Oregon Education Association met Friday and Saturday for our PAC Convention and 75% of participants voted not to endorse a gubernatorial candidate. We are sending a message to our electeds and candidates: no longer will you be able to do the bare minimum and get our support.

It’s not supporting the troops to send them off to kill and die in an illegal war of aggression whose purpose is to make sure that their votes don’t count.

we all have a duty to stop this and everyone seems to know that but nobody knows how

senator taylor is such a good target for a progressive challenger. she fought preschool for all, prefers means-testing, and doesn't believe in voter-initiated ballot measures.

Olivia is an incredible organizer who unionized the preschool she worked at. Let's help her get some new lungs! gofund.me/acc8ab045

Good afternoon to everyone except the US men’s hockey team

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

we need a rom-com that unites the people in revolutionary struggle

if you're thinking "we already won this" or "they can't fuck it up now, it's already law" ...i have unpleasant news

This means the current incoming roster of White House babies, should they all be girls, will have tradwives quaking in their Keds and spineless, pathetic men running for the hills. www.jezebel.com/happy-year-o...

It's like ICE is completely ignoring every lesson that moderately competent police forces are forced to learn, like "don't do high speed chases in densely populated areas with low risk targets"

I talked with my friend @shaneburley.bsky.social about Nick Fuentes' recent rant about putting women in gulags. How seriously should we take Fuentes, culturally and politically? And what does rhetoric like this reveal about the broader trajectory of the movement he’s trying to shape? We get into it.

Friday the 13th never disappoints when working in a school but today being the day before Valentines Day was extra special 😂

ever notice how news coverage of PFA always leaves out what a massive impact this program has on real, live families right now? follow this account which is telling their stories:

CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old. “8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ

You don't know what else someone who's wearing a red knitted cap is doing, and they prob shouldn't announce all the things they are doing — nor do we want the fash to be able to identify who is and isn't doing heavy resistance work by virtue of a hat. Let symbols be popular.

Please don't accuse people in knitted hats of only wearing their supposed politics if all you're doing is posting, which is basically just another way of wearing your politics. It's a silly thing to attack people over in any case. Using fashion to signal support for ongoing acts of rebellion is good

That halftime show is what people mean when they say "joy is an act of resistance."

I know it happens all the time in Gaza and other places and has happened in this country before but my god there is something so messed up about watching kids get tear gassed. They were all so brave yesterday.

If your children got tear gassed today I want to hear from you, even if you don’t live in my district. You can contact my office at [email protected]

A little girl in Portland, OR after being tear gassed by ICE. what the actual fuck.

> dozens of unions show up with their families after hearing rousing militant labor speeches. > the regime gasses their children

“Children were in the crowd screaming.”