After these upsets in Washington County against establishment backed Dems, I nominate these two as next in line. Both have and will continue to be roadblocks for the revenue reform we need to fund working class programs like universal child care and school meals for all.

Get wrecked, Oregonian

#OtD 13 May 1985 Philadelphia police attacked the home of Black liberation and environmental group MOVE, then dropped a bomb on it, killing 5 adults and 6 children, destroying 61 homes in the predominantly Black neighbourhood, and making 250 people homeless.

Happy May Day! Our office is closed today; we’ll see you in the streets!

If the workers take a notion, They can stop all speeding trains; Every ship upon the ocean They can tie with mighty chains; Every wheel in the creation, Every mine and every mill, Fleets and armies of the nation, Will at their command stand still. ~ Joe Hill, who never died says we. Happy May Day

John Roberts has been trying to kill Voting Rights Act since he was young lawyer in Reagan DOJ in early 1980s. That's most important context for today's Callais decision. Roberts Court has now issued 3 major decisions gutting VRA, turning law into dead letter www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

I feel so, so badly for the poor White House Correspondents who had to come face to face with the same threat that your average 5th grader faces when walking to Reading class

this is america. you could find yourself within 100yds of a shooting at any time, in any place. school, the grocery store, a movie theater, a block party, a public park… it happens to regular people every day. but this week we’ll get 50+ weepy op-eds because it happened to the guys who write op-eds

I just read Yesteryear. That was crazy.

Finally, a reasoned article on that shit piece from OJP and Willamette Week. open.substack.com/pub/academic...

Once again: no mention of educator pay, educator working conditions, actual conditions inside of schools right now.

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

one of the single most important bursts of legislative activity in the nation's history happened because the governing party did not hesitate to remove their opponents from congress itself when they had the opportunity. 🤷🏿‍♂️

if there is a path to either national nonpartisan redistricting or proportional representation, it is going to go through one party or another. but the first step toward it actually happening is for that party to win power, and you go to war with the system you have, not the one you want.

the shift to a winner-take-all distribution of electoral votes? a partisan project. the development of the mass political party? a partisan project. antislavery and reconstruction? a partisan project. even direct election of senators comes out of populist agitation in the late 19th century.

but the fact of the matter is that with the notable exception *of* the mid to late 20th century, every major change in our political system and government has been a partisan or ideological political project.

one of the ways the mid to late 20th century political world has distorted the historical memories of even sophisticated observers is in the idea that you can achieve major transformations of american political life through something like bipartisan consensus

My gosh, I don’t even know where to begin with this article, but blaming the union when the decision makers for education policy are the state, superintendents, and school boards certainly ain’t it. If only teachers were actually consulted on our major issues! Let’s go:

Another unfunded mandate from Kotek. In order to prevent layoffs because we have no money, we’re trying furloughing days, but now Kotek says we catch do that. So, we’re just going to…lay off more educators when we’re already struggling with behavior, class sizes and caseloads? Make it make sense!

For more than a week, Amazon has managed to keep a death at its Troutdale, Oregon, facility out of public view. Workers I spoke to are pissed.

posting this shit when you’re owned by a billionaire is basically a recruitment ad for socialism

Let me say this plainly: Iranian children have as much of a right to live and thrive as American children. Their babies MUST be as precious to me as my 6 niblings and my baby grandnib are IF I want them to have a future. If I want a future for my kin AND humanity, I MUST act like it. So must you.

Not Judas coming up on the playlist on Easter 🤣

800,000 people who died because of the lack of lifesaving food and medical aid were unavailable for comment.

🎯🎯

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.