Every single one of these clips was taken today in downtown Portland. Portland doesn’t want or need a federal takeover. If Trump insists on sending federal “resources” he can start with funding health care, bridges, affordable housing, and wildfire protection to name a few.

the president is lying about portland

I also hope we don’t forget all the local folks who’ve spent years spreading the “portland is a hellhole” narrative to gain short-term political power and/or social media clout. They provided ammo to the Trump machine. They fed the false narrative and now the chickens are coming home to roost.

/2 Anyway the carceral state did its very best to jail those wrong guys forever and, until they got this DNA hit, the carceral state and its supporters would have said you were a terrible un-American person for doubting their guilt or questioning the prosecution.

I know I'm a broken record about this, but they answer to loneliness is to join a subculture. It's an instant set of potential friends, they have meatspace social events, there's always something to talk about, it's just all upsides

The circumstances of Mr. Escobar's arrest are even worse than the brief summary above. He repeatedly tried to tell the immigration officials that he had papers while they were arresting him. In response, a federal agent said "No you don't. You are illegal," and "Shut up, bitch! You're illegal."

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

being unable to grasp that one of these things is *significantly* worse than the other, in every possible way, is completely disqualifying for anyone who even wants to post about politics, let alone be involved in them

kimmel coming back on the same day the rapture doesn’t happen are two great thumbs jabbed in two deserving eyes

if I were a member of the current Trump administration I would not be excited about the concept of “illegal pardons”

Iraq and gay marriage, the two issues that set my politics for life in high school and early college

i know it’s kind of a pedantic, meaningless point, but the freeze peach enthusiasts who are now crowing about getting people fired and worse are not hypocrites, they are liars, they never believed any of it to begin with, and it’s a little embarrassing to admit to having believed them

wait is he doing a radio interview? not showing up on camera? he's fucking dead dude.

Maybe this makes me an old. Don’t give a shit. It sucks. And if all of the issues could be ironed out this would be a place I could accept targeted use of AI, in condensing and summarizing the content of a video to text.

i think we deserve to know which cabinet members JD Vance would fire and which he would retain

it's very hard to balance how utterly fucked up this is as a matter of the structure of state and liberty in a democracy, and how *at least right now* it's just reality tv shit for the reality tv president

so, to understand this story there are a few things you need to know - my cat, Gus, believes he is a trained support animal - he is not (he has relatives who are, but he is not) - he believes he is a seizure-detecting dog - he is not a dog - I do not get seizures

If you think about the Magnificent 7, there are 5 companies on there that you probably rely on every day (Apple, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Google, Amazon) and 2 that you can pretty easily get out of your life (Tesla, Meta).

This is a masterpiece. Simply excellent www.instagram.com/reel/DMVGMIC...

We need to move away from college = job training altogether.

Last week I participated in a town wide evacuation drill in Stinson Beach. I walked down the hill with my go bag. I was told twice that I should have brought my car, and that if I get stuck in a traffic jam, I should just sit there in my car. I beat the entire line of traffic to the staging area.

150,000 portlanders voted for keith wilson to build shelters to keep our neighbors off the streets. that’s a bigger number than 500 NIMBYs in northwest portland, as far as I can tell

Publish it again. Every journalist who has published Epstein stuff before should just publish it again.

It is *different* than understanding what's going on and approving, but yeah moral defect is right

yes

Maybe its just Portland sports having a rough few years but it really seems like there has been an increase in online fans only able to be mad about their team and man are those guys obnoxious.

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absofuckinglutely. he's the nominee. he's your guy now even if he wasn't this morning.

The United States should not wage war against Iran. Donald Trump’s bombing of Iran is unconstitutional. Only Congress can declare war — and the Senate must vote immediately to prevent an another endless war. This is a horrific war of choice.

we were quite literally a single senate vote away from using the nuclear option to add DC and peurto rico as states and codify abortion and my rights. one more senator who's a carbon copy of a dem chosen at random would have a 98% of voting yes. some of y'all see the 2% and give up. it's pathetic

I'm sure someone has already made this observation, but this brand of "leftist" only defines itself as being on the left of whatever issue at any given moment rather than having a model of how they want the world to look.

what people seem to believe is that there is a large number of criminal, layabout immigrants who can be easily found and deported. they support doing so snd are dismayed by the deportation of otherwise law abiding people. the problem is that the criminal group is imaginary!

Really hope Musk doesn't create a right-wing third party that competes against Republican candidates in close districts. What if, against all odds they actually get 80 percent of the electorate? I'd be extremely owned if Musk tries.

Markets may or may not be a force for good for the causes you care about, but they do exist and public policymakers should concern ourselves with figuring out how to organize them to get the results we want.

Seriously, FUCK Boundless. Writers, do not publish with them. Agents, do not submit to them. Bookstores, do not carry their books. Any company that thinks torching this many authors will result in being able to “continue publishing and rebuild trust” is delusional and deserves to die.

Can confirm as a regular bus rider for the last decade plus that the bus is not a scary place. That’s not to say there are not real security incidents and concerns, but they often seem exaggerated by people who are not regular transit users.

this is why it's so insane to me that people have become fervent partisans for or against these choices: they were panicked calls made in weeks by people operating on very limited information! no shit a lot of them don't look great in retrospect with five years of hindsight, that's to be expected.

You can seize a homeless person's belongings into the garbage an unlimited amount of times and this will generate a bunch of stuff for cops to do and overtime to pay them so everyone wins even tho it does not eliminate the homeless person bsky.app/profile/benj...

1. Pay off credit card debt, if any. 2. Save up 3 months' worth of expenses. 3. Contribute to your 401k up to your employer's match, if any. 4. Max out your contribution to a Roth IRA. 5. Save up 6 months' worth of expenses. 6. Max out your 401k contribution. 7. Save up 12 months' worth of expenses.

nobody who thinks the soviet union should be a model for any future society has anything of value to say on any subject

A Brief History of Kids Today Need More Discipline 🧵

the football association is banning people from playing grassroots recreational football within their association

sorry to use this person again as an example, but: if taken seriously, this is a call for mass death. this is a call for everyone who requires something that cannot exist without industrial society, like an MRI machine, to fucking die. Woo (yeah ik this branch of it isn't RFK's) is not harmless!

richard hanania represents no significant constituency and brings no one with him to the party. the idea that it is "shrinking the tent" to try to render him verboten is very silly

"The US economy of 2021-2024 was historically bad and shitty" was a huge coordinated right-wing propaganda campaign. Propaganda works. Many who shouldve known better helped the campaign instead of fighting against it

my grandpa would get confused about what he was signing too near the end

Great plan: if a weirdo accosts you while you're trying to use a bathroom, just show them your driver's license, so that they'll also have your full legal name & home address

The NYC council voting for this downgrade was just such an own goal.

i’ve kinda become a little elitist about this, because it’s an example of a thing you see a lot where stupid people take a pretty nuanced/detailed critique of the conventional Sunday school version of history, & flatten it until they have something *way* more wrong than the default narrative