Whelp, I must report that I am rapidly aging. If you’d like to help take the sting off this brutal fact, the best way to do so is to make a campaign contribution today to support my reelection effort. That’s how we party at this late stage in life. secure.actblue.com/donate/m4pdx

Meanwhile, two NYC city councilors so far have signed Portland DSA’s national pledge for city councilors to pledge to investigate the manufacturing and transport of weapons and equipment for Israel within their city limits, and other forms of complicity in Israel’s genocide

It passed! We made a couple wording changes that'll be posted online (at www.portland.gov/council/docu...) shortly, and I'm grateful to Councilors for collaborating on wording and making it happen.

Thank you Councilor Kanal for bringing an amendment to develop a human rights screen for Portland's investment policy!!! Thank you to the 8 councilors who voted yes 🙏😭 IT PASSES

This gift season buy books! For example! Mobility is about oil & human frailty! It has scenic locations & a polarizing protagonist loved ones can argue about! bookshop.org/p/books/mobi.... The Golden State has scenic rural CA & a frazzled mom they can also argue about! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

I think it’s honestly disgusting and deeply unserious that the Revoke the Permit people have clipped videos of my women colleagues eating pizza at the dais as some kind of shaming tool, which is now being used by right-wing media to harass them in misogynistic ways. Congrats everyone.

“Far from being "performative" as the Metro Chamber suggested, this pledge from the Peacock councilors is a bright light from their north star. It shows their dedication to universal justice and human rights, not to slicing and dicing morality in the name of political expediency.“

Next Portland DSA ballot measure campaign should be to put fluoride in the water

It’s a great night to be a socialist! It’s a great night if you believe in the power of the working class! It’s a great night to commit yourself to the project of building a city that works for the many and not the few! Join us: portlanddsa.org/join-us/

A packed house at the launch party for Dr. Tammy Carpenter' campaign: it's time to send Socialism to the Statehouse! tammyfororegon.com

In Hillsboro, which has seen a surge of ICE arrests in the past week, elementary school staff are spending early mornings on neighborhood watch to ensure families/students feel safe coming to school. By @hbarth.bsky.social: www.opb.org/article/2025...

Just to be clear, socialism is *not* when the Republican Party and their corrupt billionaire president cut your food stamps to punish you for being poor while they enrich themselves and their buddies. That’s actually happening right now in the center of global capitalism.

My Detention Facility Fee policy will have a first hearing at the morning Council Session on 11/5. It will be posted tomorrow on the website, and I will repost a link for people to submit written testimony. I also recommend emailing your district Councilors if this is an issue that matters to you.

This framing is largely correct. Palestine is the dividing line. Palestine has always been a litmus test for DSA, for good reason. If a politician is unwilling to speak against a genocide being committed with our tax dollars, why should you trust them to speak up for you on anything else?

Watch what is happening in NYC right now with the moderate Democrats, Trump, and billionaires all attacking Mamdani. That is what is going to happen here. Y'all are going to align yourselves directly with Donald Trump and we're going to make you own it.

It's funny to me when business class and center-to-right wing political actors think they're going to be able to isolate the DSA in their political attacks in next year's elections. The "DSA Councilors" are supported by wide swaths of the progressive left. Red baiting will backfire spectacularly

Nothing stops the DSA! A rainy morning canvassing neighbors with @councilormorillo.bsky.social for the Parks Levy. Sign up for our next canvass with @councilorkanal.bsky.social on November 2nd! actionnetwork.org/events/canva...

The headline of this article makes a serious and incendiary claim that is not backed up by the facts presented in the story.

Hell yeah

strong showing today for the parks levy canvass. building a family agenda for portland one door at a time

Boots on the ground at our first canvass for the Parks Levy campaign today!

“By joining this pledge, Councilor Green and his colleagues aim to leverage municipal power to disrupt the flow of weapons and funding [to Israel], laying the groundwork for concrete policy actions to end Portland's complicity.” Love to see BDS happening at Portland City Hall.

This is a national effort! Do you have city council members who don't suck shit? Ask them to sign this pledge and use the power of their office to disrupt the economy and infrastructure of genocide where they can!! (cc: @demsocialists.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/citycouncilp...

“Athletes for the Palestinian national teams in multiple sports have been killed by Israel, yet most of the sporting world appears to be totally fine entering into competition with Israeli teams as if everything were normal.” - Jesse Joseph, US Olympic trial runner

That’s my husband

Portland DSA supports a total restriction on any new liquid fuel infrastructure at the CEI Hub along with a managed decline of existing fuel storage capacity. We must do everything we can to make Portlanders and our environment safe from a world-historic petrochemical disaster in our city.

Portlanders will not be cowed by this administration. When undignitaries like Kristi Noem visit for their photo ops and get mocked by people in animal costumes it’s because that’s the level of respect they deserve. Doing the work of mass deportation is the least honorable thing a person can do.

Portland City Council member Angelita Morillo humorously criticizes Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, leading to laughter from CNN's Boris Sanchez.

Extremely powerful rally happening at City Hall right now. @councilorgreen.bsky.social and dozens of US military veterans are denouncing illegal actions of the Trump Administration and encouraging National Guardsmen to refuse to follow illegal orders.

When I refused to be interviewed for this story, it was due to NYT’s role as a main mouthpiece for Israel’s genocide. But I also knew that they would write a lazy and dishonest story that would do more harm than good, a narrative that they had already cooked up before interviewing anyone

interesting how the much-hyped "tax flight" phenomena is always reported as two sides having a subjective debate, and not as something that either actually exists in observable reality or not. even in the fancy paper! (maybe especially there?)

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

More importantly, it was highly irresponsible of the @nytimes.com to publish this article (which I know they’ve been working on for months) right now. It sends a message to an unaware public that the socialists in City Hall are somehow responsible for current national attacks on Portland.

This article has a lot more important problems so I feel stupid saying this…but umm…the Mercury wrote and published the first major article about the DSA councilors back in June. Of course it isn’t the local reporting linked or mentioned here.

Read this thread from a great Portland reporter! The New York Times running this story today is absolutely calculated. It has been positioning Portland for years as a progressive villain. Also: why send a reporter from the Bay when the NYT has at least two reporters who actually live in Portland.

Waking up to some careless parachute journalism from the NYT. Really frustrating that @kellen.bsky.social chooses to write that "some top filers" have left Portland due to the Preschool for All tax but neglects to mention that the number of overall filers went up by many thousands in that period.+

Trump has sent the military to occupy portland in a horrifying authoritarian escalation and thankfully willamette week knows the real priority right now is to juice one more story out of the fact that public records laws haven’t updated to reflect our electeds text each other on Microsoft teams

Portland City Councilor/Army vet urges military members to refuse to comply with deployment orders to Portland. "You have not only the right, but the duty to disobey an unlawful order."

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.

Trump has escalated his attack on Portland by deploying more Feds to Portland for the purpose of intimidating and silencing our community, so that we comply in advance with his fascist regime. Don’t acquiesce. Join an org, talk to your neighbors and build solidarity networks to keep each other safe.

Coverage of Labor Against Genocide Rally: “All over the world, we are seeing organized workers, unions, dockworkers refusing to handle weapons that are going to Israel, divesting their pension funds from complicit companies,” Katbi said. “And so we really wanted to bring together unions locally.”

SUNDAY IN PORTLAND! Join CODEPINK Portland, DSA Portland, Portland Jobs With Justice, and our community partners in the Labor Movement to say no to genocide! 📍 Berkeley Park 🕕 6PM 🗓️ SUN 9/21 www.codepink.org/pdx4gaza

SUNDAY AT 6PM! No Arms to Israel! Let Gaza Live! Join Portland DSA, Portland Jobs with Justice and unionists from across the Portland area for a rally and march starting at 6pm at Berkeley Park on Sunday Sept 21st. Dress for a mournful procession. actionnetwork.org/events/labor...

On our blog: read about how a campaign of solidarity and people power defeated trumped-up allegations against DSA member Tammy Carpenter of the Beaverton School Board portlanddsa.org/that-trick-d...

you could even do more than this. Call them. Chalk the sidewalk outside the county building. Sky writing

I love the idea of Portland DSA chair Olivia Katbi being framed as anti-family when the family agenda (found or otherwise) was her brainchild /she literally brings her adorable baby to events & is passionate about childcare & affordability bc of her own direct experiences trying to raise a family

This event is for women including trans women and gender expansive individuals who find home in women’s space. Kids are welcome too! Please RSVP at the link: actionnetwork.org/events/girls...

Lots of talk about Portland DSA lately 😎 Come learn more at our upcoming Girls Night picnic! For all who are interested in socializing and meeting others - not limited to DSA members. Bring your girl dinner to girls night - BYOB at Laurelhurst Park July 27th 3-6 PM, Picnic Area A.

Olivia Katbi’s baby fist bumped me at a Palestine event today so my heart is full and we will keep fighting ❤️💚🖤 @oliviakatbi.bsky.social