Nothing tests my faith in humanity more than when I talk about how fucked up the eviction industrial complex is in the United States and the response is largely BuT wHaT aBoUt ThE lAnDlOrD's PrOfItS

Because with Covid, public officials introduced a model of “if they don’t want to hear it, pretend it doesn’t exist” and here we are.

PSU laying off 52 faculty, University of Oregon announces $65 million in cuts on the way, and yet the state has money to remodel a sports stadium. I just want Tina Kotek to come out and admit she doesn't give a fuck about public higher education. Just own it at this point, your actions make it clear

Controversial take, but a) Musk is a racist full stop and b) if you claim to be a tough heterosexual man like Musk claims to be and you question Lupita Nyong'o's beauty, fire ants should crawl into your urethra while you sleep.

he did a nazi salute twice on live television

With all the (very justified) talk of what a wanker the new owner of the Blazers is, I want us all to remember what a truly exciting team we have in the Portland Fire. This season is going to be fun!

These data center companies, like all major polluters, lie constantly and only morons + people on the take believe them

the auto dealers and police unions funding the "give PCEF money to cops" ballot measure sure have made some branding choices on their campaign website to try and seem hip and cool. giving major "hello fellow kids" vibes

dibs on the cover band name

Sure Jan

Suddenly everyone that wants City Council to unquestioningly capitulate to Tom Dundon’s demands on the Moda Center is a tenant rights advocate

Dear motherfuckers, nobody should have two homes until everyone has at least one.

They should sell.

“For the good of society, your son will work in the trades. Oh, my son? My son will be a titan of politics and industry. For the good of society, your daughter will be a tradwife. Oh, my daughter? My daughter will host a lucrative rightwing podcast.”

Mind you the paroxysms of rage the progressive left drives conservatives into are triggered by such phenomena as Sinners receiving critical and financial success.

Obviously left and right borrow from one another tactically. It’s good to think of both dialectically. But “X is the left’s Y” ain’t it.

What if the left and right are totally different political formations that require their own discrete terms and concepts?

Punditry’s fixation on parallelism between right and left creates the same conceptual error as does the balance imperative. It imposes symmetry onto real-existing asymmetry.

Centrists are the intellectual descendants of the people who felt it was important to avoid angering and pressuring Confederates

Important point from Dr. Ray. James Baldwin said the Civil Rights Movement was really a slave rebellion that was violently crushed and that what many call the law and order response is what he labeled “the Fourth Reich.”

Oh now THAT’S a pull quote

Roe V. Wade

“.. most months it’s the No. 1 consumer of water in the county.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

I will buy any of their homes for one thousand dollars and rid them of this terrible burden.

Lmao, it's clear where Bill Oram's bread is buttered, but this is over-the-top. You'd think a hard-nosed Business Understander would want the city to make a good deal and not immediately give Dundon everything he could wish for with zero negotiation. Embarrassing.

"Just leave" is simply too facile and immature to be taken as serious political analysis. It's victim blaming. It centers privileged people, because only the most privileged people can uproot their lives. And it's cowardice to assume no one wants to fight for their home.

when u tax the rich

the pundits wanna rehabilitate the ideologues so bad it's a real show of how much they need each other

Look, if Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to fight against Trump, great. Do that. Absolutely. Good luck. Cause chaos. Whatever. But absolutely no one on the left should be teaming up with her for anything.

JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.

You don't "earn credibility" when you disavow one of your deranged views but keep all the rest.

“All 173” might be the funniest part here

Our current Acting CDC Director said his entire plan for pandemic preparedness is to fire everyone responsible for it.

The rest of the world is watching and harassing Americans on social media instead of like, lobbying their governments to take action about any of the human rights crises, of which this is only one But it *is* a human rights crisis and an early stage of genocide

2016: Black students complaining that dehumanizing language on campus and in the media is dangerous 2016-2026: cancel culture hysteria, these students are whining about nothing 2026: Black people losing the right to vote on a state-by-state basis ANYONE WANT TO REVISE THEIR ASSESSMENT?

Discourse about finding "the Rogan of the Left" or "the liberal answer to Fox News" rarely accounts for the reality that the entire conservative media universe is the enormously unprofitable vanity project of a few rich sociopaths. It "succeeds" because they don't care how much it costs.

All these "We Need a Greater Diversity of Viewpoints at Universities" ass clowns suddenly get real quiet when: Rutgers cancels graduation speech over speaker’s pro-Palestinian posts | US universities | The Guardian

Whole WNBA is gonna find out about Serah Williams this year.

I'm so embarrassed for literally everyone involved in developing these products

I’m aware this is news to CBS and this dude but we were literally shouting about this a year ago, it’s not unearthed, and it’s even stupider than you think: the cruise ships paid their salaries. It literally paid more than it cost. We gave money back rather than control disease because RFK

Seems bad.

Fascism seeks to destroy all care work.

So sick of this anti-intellectual bullshit from Democrats and it’s WILDLY irresponsible in the middle of a full-on GOP war against colleges and universities But also so typical for Democrats to actually help the GOP with their stupid ass wars

Literal Nazi cop Mark Krueger retired as the highest paid detective in the history of the PPB if you want further insights into the City government's spending priorities. Always money for the worst people, no money for working people.

yup

This statement is meant to be left-punching, but notice that the most popular left-wing candidates (Bernie, Mamdani, AOC) are superb at plain-spokenness, and it is the moderate wing that usually offers language that has been optimized and focus-grouped to death

Obama speaks like a college professor by the way. It didn't seem to stop him from becoming President. There's a weird condescension re: regular people in this country.

Oh man, if only someone had just shown how to campaign and win around issues like rent and affordability in a major city. Boy, it would be embarrassing if someone did that and the Democratic party fought them tooth and nail while refusing to learn any lessons.

Yes, let's shit on college in a time of increasing anti-intellectualism. Good call. Big words bad, bipartisan support for war crimes good.

I don't only think that college should be FREE but I think young people should also receive living stipends while in school. Finally, I do not care what they major in because education needs to actually BE DECOUPLED from a future job. You are welcome. You should have 4 years to study anything.