Very good week for socialists

Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

¡Viva Mexico!

The people saying we don’t have money and need to raid the 82% voter-approved community board for police accountability are same people who want to throw $120 million of our money at a Texas billionaire for MODA center with no discussion or vote by the public. Absolutely shameful.

the people who are doing the police oversight know that this move is meant to make it less effective. The mod-squad (mid-squad) is trying to damage police accountability on the orders of the police union.

Portland's Community Board for Police Accountability is speaking out amid a supplemental budget ordinance, proposed by a moderate block of city councilors, that could pull from the police oversight budget next year to pay back money borrowed now.

Amerikanischer Reichsadler Sind wir großartig?

anyone paying attention would have known this was coming, yet it lands like a punch to the gut. my god.

Reflecting on Portland's deadly heat wave of 2021. Also: Monica digs into how PCEF has paid for nearly 25,000 AC unit installs since then. An illustrative peek at ways this fund has historically been used in Portland, as electeds consider tapping the fund to pay for Moda renovations.

JFC this penalty shootout

innumerate lawyers are a plague on american society

Omg what a save

Oh ok so Van Dijk can still dominate when he feels like it?

Best World Cup moment for Germany was when a German woman was dancing all out to “Wipe Me Down” in the club in full team garb

Honestly disappointed that Councilor Morillo isn’t posting in all caps about how Paraguay will win the World Cup

The weirdo right wingers in our city think that tweeting pictures of Mitch Green depicted as a cockroach is going to inspire voters to vote against him rather than get a response like “oh, Mitch’s detractors are unhinged freaks and fascists”

Yeah the right wing has never called anyone a communist lol

Shannon Singleton will lose the county chair race if she allows Julia Brim Edwards to be seen as more critical of the Moda Center deal

If you want to know why both corporate Democrats and Republicans are freaking out about DSA on the TV, this is why. We’ve been living under a 50 year lie that good things are not possible in our politics and it only took six months in a major American city to show that it was a bipartisan scam.

Nothing is more embarrassing than when someone says they used AI to answer a question and is proud of it

The three branches of the United States government, as delineated in the Constitution, are the God Emperor, The High Council of the Six Ayatollahs, and the Federal Reserve

There are political barriers in Portland and Oregon that can be overcome if enough voters want change and government that actually works for them. If you leave it to the centrists you’ll get more of the same: a declining quality of life and collapsing infrastructure while the rich get richer.

They made him the poster boy for the democrats but he made himself the standard by which they are now judged, and every one of them is failing.

Sometimes people ask why DSA councilors in Portland can’t do what Mamdani is doing and part of that is that he has executive power as the Mayor. You need a progressive Mayor with a progressive legislative body (the city council) to make big change. Let’s use the rent freeze as an example ⬇️

If you want to know why both corporate Democrats and Republicans are freaking out about DSA on the TV, this is why. We’ve been living under a 50 year lie that good things are not possible in our politics and it only took six months in a major American city to show that it was a bipartisan scam.

KARL: Rs are gonna make you the poster child for the D Party MAMDANI: Let them. We don't have to ask ourselves what life looks like if a socialist wins. I won last year & over the course of the last 6 months what we've delivered for working people are the very things we were told were impossible.

Pan con queso is top tier pizza

I remember when Van Jones was considered a radical lmao

Iran got cheated

denying a visa to the man who imitates a statue of a man we assassinated

The other funny thing about this dynamic is that Tina Kotek (already massively unpopular) and Keith Wilson (rapidly becoming unpopular) attached their reputations to a world class asshole for literally nothing

It takes a special kind of creep to stand out for sleaziness among NBA owners.

There are now two competing ordinances to restore services after Portland's budget. One of them once again proposes taking money from police accountability. Ours doesn't. That isn't the only option. It's a choice. Watch the video to hear why I think Portlanders should be paying close attention.

What a match!

I’m at World Cup!

Sir, may I tell you the story of Icarus?

Hoooooooooly shit. So many people staked their careers on this deal and did not read the previous contracts first.

Local media sniffing around into details more and this is not gonna be good for Tina, Keith, Tom, & Co.

Janelle Bynum (D-OR) signed on to this reactionary pledge.

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Finally got to read @jeremiahhayden.bsky.social’s story on the PMC meeting and he nailed it. I was the one chanting “PCEF is for people not billionaires” and now I’m glad I got thrown out of the meeting before facing the gauntlet of those canapés

My favorite paragraph was the one about how Loretta Smith and Olivia Clark's attendance might be a government ethics violation. So well written. Gift link: www.oregon.gov/ogec/public-...

omg read every word of this. Give @jeremiahhayden.bsky.social a Pulitzer Prize.

It’s unclear if anyone who purchased a $350 ticket to this year’s chamber of commerce meeting is feeling buyer’s remorse, but if they expected anything more than a pep rally, sans pep, they certainly could be.

Just got approached by a canvasser for the PCEF theft initiative that asked me I wanted to get police reform on the ballot

One funny thing about this that I almost forgot is that apparently the Blazers org came in hot making all sort of electoral threats and timing things so it would happen around election time so city electeds would feel pressure to fold. lol whoops!

Senyo ramen 5⭐️ spicy level black garlic ramen is appropriately spicy and unbelievably delicious. 10/10. Contender for top ramen in Portland.

Gonna start doing food reviews of all level 5⭐️ spicy food in Portland

Many different flavors of cronyism to choose from!