With all of these elected officials finally coming around to support Block the Bombs legislation, I still vividly remember the folks in Oregon politics and the media who tried to silence people from speaking out about genocide in 2023.

Star local investigative journalist gets his work republished in the Guardian 👇

I wrote for @theguardian.com this week (also in print in this week’s @streetroots.bsky.social) on Portland’s investigation into permit violations at the local ICE facility. It’s one tool for a long process that could ultimately provide some accountability, with eviction unlikely, but in the toolbox.

yuck

Join us + our allies on Oct 10 for Portland’s Future: It’s in Our Hands! 📍First Unitarian Church of Portland 🕖5:30pm reception | 7pm program We'll gather with leaders from across the PNW + beyond to talk about what’s possible when we invest in public goods, from social housing to public power.

Well said, @marniemix.bsky.social “This is a complete walk-back of a promise made to Portlanders,” said Marnie Glickman, Braided River Campaign’s executive director. “The city sold this policy on the promise of a rapid decline in carbon pollution.“

it’s awesome we have a vice president and administration that live tweets shootings and then gets key details wrong, like how it was detainees who were getting shot and killed, not law enforcement

"Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Wednesday he will join Italy in sending a military warship to protect an international flotilla seeking to deliver aid to Gaza after it was attacked by drones off Greece." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Grateful to Rep. Dexter for co-sponsoring Block the Bombs, at last. Even more grateful to the many many community members who made this shift happen. 💕

“We’re not Nazis” says the vice president in response to a shooting at a concentration camp.

Portlanders: got my COVID and flu shots at LeCare pharmacy this morning. No appointment, in and out in 10 minutes, zero questions, billed my insurance

➡️20,000 Oregonians could lose health insurance ➡️607,000 health care workers could lose their jobs nationwide These health care price hikes must be stopped. act.aflcio.org/call_campaig...

It is fully irresponsible to argue for an American return to global leadership. This country is deeply unwell and has no business leading anything until that's no longer the case. There's a whole world out there capable of tending to the world's problems. We must tend to ours.

Every time a shooting in gun-nut USA happens the administration is going to try to use it as a reason to do pogroms against people they dislike regardless of what actually happened and why.

what the fuck is fucking happening How do you target ICE and only hit detainees

Unbeatable coalition

One thing that triggered me about the O’s editorial about alleged council dysfunction is that the progressive side of the building is constantly advancing legislation & the other side of the aisle is constantly delaying it with critiques that look like they haven’t even bothered to read it.

Public Safety Committee to discuss Councilor Kanal’s Sanctuary City ordinance:

Learning that Max Steele is actually planning to run for council is the hilarity I needed today.

multiple group chats blowing up to notify me that a furry is testifying at a city council committee meeting right now in support of councilor green's hot dog ordinance

Everything this man says just sounds to me like "I like being a high-paid media figure and I am adapting to the environment around me" He just doesn't have principles.

a humble hot dog sighting at city council is a sure sign that Portland is back baby

Yes, someone in a hot dog costume just hand-delivered Councilor Green a hot dog before starting today's council chat on sidewalk vending.

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

Unbeatable coalition

Excited to watch the PBA publicly come out against free market capitalism today

Gee I wonder which political party and media ecosystem these people belong to

Hurry up and get raptured

Nearly twenty years after his hot dog vending dreams were stifled by city policies, Councilor Mitch Green wants to lift restrictions on street vending in Portland. It's a divisive idea.

I have six back to back zoom meetings tomorrow 🤮

It’s kind of jarring how this administration went from an event yesterday where they bloviated about manning the barricades defending western civilization and now they’re holding press conferences gravely announcing that they’ve discovered that pee is stored in the balls or something equally stupid.

Make them ride circuit. Cancel a Supreme Court term. No more clerks. And strip jurisdiction.

ANTIFA EO coming out five years too late, boss

What this shabby little crook means is that a corrupt administration has made a choice to ignore his crimes. So he’ll continue to show up on propaganda TV and lecture us about “law and order.”

PBA: these socialists are anti-business Green: here's a ready-to-go pro-biz policy PBA: no not like that

Councilor Mitch Green’s hot dog vendor origin story 👇

good article. i think it's important to ask whether the electricity markets have delivered on any of their promises and if you think so too then stay tuned for this paper we'll put out near the first of November

I’m so fucking thankful to be living in the state of Oregon right now lol

As @dandrezner.bsky.social notes, we must highlight where Trump's authoritarianism is failing, too. "Civil resistance works. Combined with the inevitable economic downturn, it is what will bring his regime crashing down to Earth." (cites my piece on this) danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-weakne...

Really annoying to see Democrats wilt in the face of an attempt to use a killing unrelated to left-wing political violence as a reason to crack down on left-wing funders and organizations. You weak willed losers really can’t do anything for us. Organize with your comrades because no help is coming

Just 2 gun rights advocates sitting behind a wall of bulletproof glass while enjoying a memorial for a gun rights advocate who got murdered by a gun.

The essay neglects to say who brought the “heat” on councilors who traveled to Vienna (it’s them, the O), then chastises them for failing to do their homework on the housing market (which it just attacked them for doing), then weeps for our poor commercial real estate owner class. Spaghetti sports

What a great fucking metaphor they didn't mean to employ

I think the Portland Business Alliance is seriously miscalculating how popular the street food ordinance is going to be.

It's very funny to blame the council broadly for a failure to adopt policy when there are actual people on the council who are preventing items from coming up for a vote or voting them down. Lazy and slanted editorial board commentary per usual from the O editorial board.

Notice how this article lists accomplishments from the progressives (Zenith investigation) and no accomplishments from the moderate bloc, yet no one asks what they’re doing. They have as many swing votes as we do!

Live your life such that Stephen Fucking Miller isn’t invited to speak at your memorial

They’re literally trying to do 9/11 from a conservative talk show host’s death

Doing a hate rally at someone’s funeral is weird AF

they don't want you to joke about a man's death but then they're out there saying things like this