Attacking women's appearances to silence their voices is misogyny.

What is the argument for voting for Democrats for harm reduction if the harm is not fucking reduced

WE SAID ALL IN 🌹

librarians are awesome but i am sadly not a librarian. please stop sending me email after email demanding i do your research for you, that is not what i am paid to do. i am also not paid to get into a yearlong debate about it with you. this keeps happening!!

Everyone who ranked this guy should be taking a hard look at the reasoning and justifications that led them to do that. Those of us that refused to had smelled this on him the whole time.

Like I said: Kristi Noem is a liar, has no honor, and we are lucky that we have a proud protest tradition that shows this administration we are not backing down. 🫡🐸🐔

those aren't their fucking burgers

Ok, this is just funny. isportlandburning.com

Keep in mind that many people who initially claimed he wanted protests so he could militarily occupy cities quietly adjusted that narrative without admitting he did what he wanted, regardless. No “excuse” was necessary. Fascists don't need a reason or excuse.

These are the people the Oregon Democrats have been making concessions to with their supermajority.

tfw you realize your destiny is intertwined with your neighbors’

nobody should serve any of these goons. not a slice, not a cup of coffee. if they want to eat they can eat MREs. they’re not welcome here. if The Noid knew we were selling them pies he’d be pissed

Hey, look. It's Dan Ryan's old ally on the Council.

Moving forward we need to reaffirm a positive vision for our city that, while recognizing the diversity of views on how to build it, provides no space for the politics of zero-sum thinking and centers on raising our living standards from the bottom up.

I don’t want to hear anymore “Portland is dying” narrative or vague complaints about “ANTIFA” as the clarion call for action in the city. All of that led to Trump targeting us. Groups like People for Portland, associated right-wing media ecosystem, and political opportunists own this.

A united front against fascism is important but folks who sell out immigrants + houseless people and only talk about Trump negatively when they see troops as a threat to the tourism economy are not allies in this fight. They will knife you in the back if they see dollars to be made.

A total about-face by Metro Chamber and allies, trying to repeal the portrait of Portland crime they drew up during the post-COVID years, when it seemed politically advantageous. Now, the crime narratives are “outdated,” because the people who constructed them decided so. Sleight of hand.

Please love the city more than you love having everyone behave at the dinner table. Please love your neighbors more than you hate bad publicity.

Time for Portlanders to unite in the face of a threatened military attack from the President of the United States

Continued escalation from Trump this morning. I need to hear a forceful response to this from Gov. Kotek, assuring Oregonians we will not tolerate this level of illegal intimidation. To service-members: remember you do not have to follow an unlawful order such as implied below.

New first for Portland -- having the President of the United States threatening to kill us

A parent was taken by ice near Cesar Chavez School in North Portland today after dropping their child off There's concern that ice might still be active in North Portland this morning stay alert

"portland wasn't on the list until now" is the biggest lie he's told since probably 15 minutes prior

this is so special, and earnest and i love it. i’m so lucky to represent folks who want to dream big

the enemy of my enemy is, in many cases, my enemy

🚨 This just in from the board meeting: Brim Edwards is moving to table her proposal indefinitely until a later date agreed on by the board, and made a motion to make today a briefing and discussion on her indexing proposal instead of a vote. Full retreat. Organizing gets the goods.

Live shot of Andrew Hoan from Portland Metro Chamber as the Multnomah County Board begins debating cuts to Preschool for All

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

anyway, if you hate portland so much and think it's gone down the shitter, you are in fact welcome to move away. but when you do, please get a life in your new home instead of continuing to spend all your time arguing about how much portland sucks on social media as so many do

New Gender Neutral Bathroom just dropped

some guy from the east coast was talking about how portland/oregon/the west coast generally is soooo slow, we go to bed early, no hustle and drive, etc. and i literally did not understand he was insulting instead of praising us until he clarified this twice and said he couldn't wait to move away

my friend and yours, mitch green, is running for reelection. join me in helping mitch get matching funds & teach portland metro chamber that 2024 wasnt a fluke and they can't buy the whole city council anymore - not even in district 4

I thought public universities were not supposed to endorse specific religions

If you are like "well people sure seem upset about the tax," have a look at what people are paying & ask yourself if we can take a break from centering the budgetary concerns of people who earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year yet want to crush a program that is an economic boon to *everyone*

every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing

You'd think our queer governor might do something about this instead of attacking a pre-K municipal program and you could think that but you'd be wrong

Democrats fucking hate to do things -- including really easy things like "fix the state constitution regarding marriage when there's a supermajority"

so glad oregon (and california) have been controlled by democrats for years and years, and gay marriage is still explicitly illegal in both state constitutions, meaning it will stop being legal if the supreme court overturns it federally. in portland and in san francisco.

i don't understand how "go jump in a lake" is meant to be rude. just seems like good advice

Spotify is now instituting face scans and ID checks ... to listen to music. Porn was only ever the excuse. The only thing that surprises me is how quickly the government surveillance mandate has spread to absolutely every service we use. www.404media.co/spotify-uk-a...

LeGuin wrote about the desire for 'unassailable safety' as one of the deep roots of evil, and I think about that a lot.

I do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop that’s been set up inside of a butcher’s delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years.

if your comrades aren't holding you accountable, are they actually your comrades?

“banning pornography” is bad on its own but it is imperative that everyone understand that these people consider the very existence of queer people to be pornographic they consider the most chaste depiction of a queer relationship, or an openly trans person, to be porn and they want it banned

this sucks so bad & did not need to happen. really pathetic showing from salem

had to explain this morning the direct path between a bad self-insert harry potter fanfic in the 2000s and the apocalyptic cults now gripping silicon valley. we live in a very special timeline!

means-testing alert 🚨🚨🚨

im fascinated by the oregonian describing the pride parade as "largely peaceful". any theories on what they mean by that? the chants were too scary? the participants too gay?

that's so interesting how challenging they found it because i was able to answer that question quite easily. perhaps because im not ashamed of my answer?

ICE has been clear they intend to go after people at work and home. it can't be "all eyes on the inner west side" while they are invading the neighborhoods