Would not have expected the Trump admin to be the thing that finally built (some amount of) common ground between Portland Police and protesters, but here we are.

idk man, if you’re getting to the point where you’re accusing prosecutors, judges, and metro police of being the enemy, i am skeptical you have achieved the kind of consolidation you need for this kind of a project

Not at all surprised that Jimmy Carr performed in Riyadh.

I’ll end this by actually sharing the Mercury article, lol.

People are asking: Why is Trump screwing American farmers so badly when they’re his most loyal voting bloc? Maybe because it’s a cheap land grab. Run farmers out of business, then he and his billionaire buddies buy up millions of acres for pennies on the dollar. Are the farmers catching on yet?

EPSTEIN FILES: @aoc.bsky.social explains why Republicans won’t bring the U.S. House back into session 👇

Kamala Harris warned us that Trump would turn the military against civilians. She warned us that he would pursue Project 2025. The media mocked her, but she was dead right about both.

You know how in Star Wars when the Death Star blows up Alderaan and Ben Kenobi has to sit down because he felt like millions of voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced? Well, when Trump goes, it'll be kind of the EXACT OPPOSITE of that.

I knew Ellison was a conservative and big Trump funder but this level of official corporate support -- "a mission" -- for a non-home country is quite something, and new to me re Oracle

This is absolutely Brownshirt business.

Authoritarian personality cult. Plain as day.

10/3/25

Chicago, Portland, and everywhere else. This is how it's going to work now: ICE raids, National Guard occupation, far-right militias, spree shooters, and constant digital static. It's not a question of if the Trump meat grinder will come to town, it's when. www.garbageday.email/p/the-pressu...

I've been on the internet a long time and I can't do this again.

Even the local police, who usually hate protestors, has determined that those skirmishes are being caused by ICE not the protestors. The local PD is now refusing to help ICE with protest control because they say that ICE is causing the violence that’s putting their officers and civilians in danger.

i have personally despised bari weiss for a long time, her book was incoherent garbage, and to see her rewarded with the plum of the profession while the smartest people i know are scraping for dollars is gross as hell

Is everyone appreciating how utterly sick this is

The government has effectively been shut down for months as Trump has destroyed checks and balances, usurped the power of the purse from Congress, and unleashed an authoritarian nightmare throughout the country. Why would any Democrat vote for any continuing resolution that allows this to continue?

80% (!) of the ACA subsidies that are about to expire go to people in states that Trump won in 2024. Time and time again, Trump and MAGA Republicans will sell out their own voters — all to fund massive tax cuts for the super rich.

A week after her win in Arizona, @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social still has not been sworn in by Speaker Johnson

Robert Morris "served as a faith adviser to President Donald Trump."

"CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss" is the exact same deal as "Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth"

@timmiller.bsky.social: “Nothing’s gotten better for most working people, and a lot of things have started to get worse…The Democrats’ job, right now, is to go out there and make Trump hold the bag for all this stuff.”

“That’s a hell of an act, what do you call yourselves?” “The Meritocracy!”

We looked back on the "backlash" against American Eagle ads featuring Sydney Sweeney and her "great jeans." Right-wing media declared that liberals were outraged and thought the ads were racist -- even the White House joined in. If you thought that story reeked, you'll want to see what we found.

If you know what this is from, we probably had the same nightmares.

Holy SHIT they've identified an actual biomarker!!!

MEMPHIS’ @repcohen.bsky.social on the shutdown…

But also we’re terrified of the subway

"Lutnick, in a notable break with the DOJ, claimed late pedophile Epstein was 'the greatest blackmailer ever' — and may have traded the feds video of his rich and well-connected associates getting massages from young women in exchange for a controversial 2008 plea deal."

Again, the entire DC press is wired for the GOP. Politico's Hill reporters have always been among the most wired. And then you get to Rachel Bade. Entirely different category. Even Jake Sherman says, how can I match that?

me: i want to sleep in a human-sized hotdog bun 911: sir that's.....ok actually that sounds great me: so who do we call 911: [shouting in background] we're checking now

We laugh at this shit -- I mean, how can you not? -- but it's serious: these guys want to infuse reactionary thinking into AI and then infuse AI into every nook & cranny of American life. They can't win the argument so they are trying to blunt-force their views onto us with money & power.

Medicare, as of today, will no longer cover telehealth visits. I can’t imagine a bigger slap in the face to our patients.

Next move from OMB - canceling $8 billion in clean energy funds. You will note, all of the projects are in states led by Democrats

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

Mind you many of these states already give more in federal dollars than they get back.

These claims from the President are simply not true. Absolutely no one has been killed in protests or unrest or any such things this year. There have barely even been any arrests it is has been so quiet.

I sure am glad we have a president who will send a pilot making $80k/yr to kill a Colombian fisherman making $3k/yr in a boat worth $500 with a missile that costs $1,000,000 to keep the public from learning about all the times he sexually assaulted underage human trafficking victims. #Epstein

“Scottie, I need more power.” “I’m givin’ ya all she’s GOT, Captain.” ⚡️ @dkthomp.bsky.social

So if you’re undocumented, Vance wants you to be turned away from the emergency room if you can’t pay? His views on a whole range of issues are directly antithetical to those of the Catholic Church.

We really should stop using the term “conservative,” and replace it with “pro-dictatorship.” I’m not playing the bash-the-New-York-Times game here, just noting that our old political language no longer describes what is happening. Those called “conservatives” are actually radical authoritarians.

Took a little drive today past the ICE building to get a sense of where we Portlanders are on the war-ravaged spectrum, and there was just one guy blowing bubbles and some journalists.

Just gonna keep tapping the sign* *𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people.

Hillary Clinton referred to SOME Trump supporters as”deplorable,” and the political media had a meltdown. Trump refers to all Democrats as anti-American radical communists and “the enemy within,” and it’s no big deal. His reckless and dangerous demonization has been fully normalized.

True - she’d be the 218 vote to release the Epstein files.

This should be a bigger deal.

"Republicans run the entire government but can't keep it open" That's it. That's the whole story.