Saying the quiet part out loud

I think the language the police and media use about bike crashes is super important and in this case the choices made are truly shitty. This rider didn't crash into a car door. Someone negligently opened a car door and changed the arc of a rider's life. Big difference. pix11.com/news/local-n...

Not The Onion... 🙃 electrek.co/2026/05/19/t...

This is Sadie. She's a service dog who was honored with her own bone diploma at her human's college graduation. Worked very hard in all her classes and is glad her efforts didn't go unnoticed. 14/10 (IG: texastech)

Mayor Wilson says that it’s dehumanizing to say we need to ‘chop from the top’ when we describe where we look in the org chart to balance a budget. I disagree, but what is dehumanizing is chastising city workers for attending budget town halls as if they are not Portlanders, too.

OPD Group are a private healthcare company, in case you were wondering. I'm sure that they don't want anything in return for the huge wodges of cash they've been throwing at the bloke who is effectively in charge of the NHS. Why would they?

Today's ride:

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

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"An opponent of Israel" is a profoundly dishonest way to describe why people say Marjorie Taylor Greene is an antisemite. She promotes Great Replacement Theory and Soros conspiracies, and compared COVID mask & vaccine mandates to the Holocaust. Oh, and there's also the space lasers and the weather.

And THIS is the part in the scholarly critique where I say...CITE YOUR EVIDENCE! WTF.

Hey you, get out of my tunnel!

RFK Jr. showing his eugenicist beliefs. Here he is today at The City Club in Cleveland: "The average American who died from COVID had 3.8 chronic diseases. So what was really killing them? It was almost impossible for COVID to kill a healthy person. It was killing people who were already sick."

Every day the news bulletin begins "President Trump has said..." Yet we know he'll say something different tomorrow, which is different to what he said yesterday, & that none of these statements is likely to be true. I get the problem for broadcasters, but this model is actively occluding the news

Just heard self-centred hypocrite Nigel Farage on BBC News say that no British politician has been physically attacked more than him. An insult to the memory of Jo Cox and David Amess, both murdered.

One driving behavior that I'll never understand or accept: Drivers inching forward at an intersection or parking lot exit as a pedestrian or bike rider approaches. This is not fucking complicated. Just stop moving until the person has passed you. Get a handle on your impatience you aggressive baby.

The Oregon legislature failed to pass a comprehensive transportation package in 2025, and now TriMet and transit agencies across the state are beginning to face massive cuts to service. It's imperative we restore and expand transit service in the 2027 legislative session. https://loom.ly/RoS4Syk

You're paying $8 for gas but thank god those seven trans athletes can no longer play sports and you can say "r*tard" again!

LBJ on signing the Voting Rights Act into law in August 1965: "Today is a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory won on any battlefield."

Apparently, journals, universities and publishers cannot do it but the Oscars can

A retweet by Zack Polanski is now the main story across every single media outlet. Two days ago, it was revealed that Nigel Farage failed to disclose a £5 million gift from a crypto-billionaire. It gets nowhere near the media attention, for straightforward political reasons.

Preschoolers and pregnant women have been leeching off the hardworking podcasters and supplement salespeople who power our nation for far too long

It's time to cast your votes for the May 19 primary election in Oregon! Need help sorting through the candidates and measures? The Mercury Election Strike Force is back in action with smarty-pants analysis and thoughtful opinions to help you fill out your ballot! DO NOT VOTE WITHOUT IT!

My latest Paris dispatch on how 300 streets outside of schools became some of the coolest places in the city. But even more importantly, these family-centric improvements provide ubiquitous reminders that this society prioritizes children

Israel just abducted activists, journalists & humanitarians from the Global Sumud Flotilla — including our contributor Alex Colston. Zeteo demands that Israel immediately release those kidnapped & calls on the UN, the US & governments across Europe to take urgent action & hold Israel accountable.

The Israeli military attacked 180 civilians, illegally detained and kidnapped several participants, jammed communications, and smashed an engine, leaving civilians stranded on powerless vessels. These are international crimes. The sustained Global silence from world leaders is indefensible. 2/2

The face of someone who’s devoted their life to service, science and space exploration needing to listen to some draft-dodging, out-of-shape bozo brag that he easily could’ve been an astronaut.

That sad subhead sums it up, coddle me and reinforce the entitled place in society I see for myself or I'll get upset.

1. The article is talking about _8_ people, which is genuinely obscene. 2. They didn’t “flee” anywhere, they just changed their “primary” address to another of their estates. 3. They weren’t paying taxes anyway. 4. Literally nothing of value was lost.

Call me when the NYT is ready for a "12 Bitches Who Were Right about Everything" piece.

Socialism for the rich, but never for the poor! Public handouts for billionaires while we cut bus lines. Incredible.

“Why didn’t this hotel have full magnetometers and strip searches of guests a week before the dinner How did this man get a gun so close” is certainly a journalistic take Compared to say “why are we letting any fucking asshole just own all the guns they want at all times“

OR JUST WRITE THE THING YOURSELF FOR FUCK'S SAKE IT WILL TAKE LESS TIME THAN WHATEVER THE FUCK THIS IS mashable.com/article/sinc...

When I say that streetcars built Portland, this is what I mean – here's a "Vernon" streetcar at the end of the line at Alberta and 25th, c. 1903, with no buildings to be seen anywhere. First named for the new addition it served, the line soon changed name to reference the street it traveled along.

I shit you not, Trump is posting about The Apprentice

For the record: The Washington Post is run by partisan hacks who think we won't remember that they took the *exact* opposite stance when it was Republicans pushing their own gerrymandering grab in Texas last year -- *without* putting it up for a vote.

Sigh, terrible that I don't even need sourcing, I know this quote so well. The cite for this is in the alt but you can also learn about it's context here. theintercept.com/2022/08/25/s...

When veterians get arrested protesting an illegal war, but insurectionists get pardoned illustrates how messed up the United States has become under Donald Trump!

Please join me in celebrating the triumphant 125 anniversary of America's Freedom to Drive initiative. This will be the year everything is fixed for sure!

This. Voting for MAGA (in the US context) should be a mark of shame forever. I'm not saying that all Republican voters are racists/misogynists/homophobes/climate deniers/etc, etc. I AM saying that none of those things are deal breakers for them and that is diqualifying in my opinion.

Netanyahu claimed last week that Magyar invited him to Hungary. Today Magyar said that Netanyahu will be arrested if he enters Hungary: “I made it clear to the Israeli PM — we will not back down... If a state is an ICC member and a person who is wanted enters that territory, they must be detained”

Goodnight Earth. Amazing.

"The effort comes in response to longstanding criticism that Harvard’s faculty leans overwhelmingly liberal." Golly, I wonder why faculties tend to be overwhelmingly liberal? Are liberals more drawn to teaching? Have conservatives been engaged in a long war on science and knowledge? WHO KNOWS?

Pete Hegseth Nailed It. No Really. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/pete-...

I was at a dog-friendly bar in NW Portland tonight and a table behind me started singing Happy Birthday and then I realized it wasn’t for a person but a really old dog who was wearing a crown and he was old and fucking adorable and I love this city