🔥 “To me, when we're talking about what justice looks like, it's ultimately getting to a place where every single fascist agent and the leaders that directed them to do what they did are held accountable to the highest degree of the law. And that means prosecution.”

This was such a special interview to conduct: the first in two episodes with historian Peter Linebaugh on the long histories of commons and commoning, connections between enclosures in Europe and imperial conquest abroad, and writing history from below. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/the-...

Oral arguments are beginning for the challenge against the initiative petition to divert 25% of Portland Clean Energy Fund income to public safety/police hiring. Challengers argue the petition, which is supported by the Portland Police Association, violates the state constitution.

Noah Halal = 👍👍👍

AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."

Politicians who are massively unpopular but desperately cling to power are really causing us some problems

A Democratic governor running for re-election with a majority of voters holding an unfavorable opinion and saying Oregon is on the wrong track holding only a 5 point lead over Republican challengers while Donald Trump is president is a BAD SIGN

Tenants who live in the affordable housing complex Gray’s Landing, which sits across the street from the Portland ICE facility, are going before a federal judge Friday to talk about how federal agents’ use of tear gas has impacted them. This and more top headlines in the Good Morning, News roundup.

Rosa says my job today is dog heater

I, for one, am glad that we have a socialist economist in office when these ghouls come back around to try and loot the public coffers

we’re going to see a full court press to just shovel piles of public money into into private hands under conditions of duress. we’re already there and today’s state of the economy report is a key marker for entering a new stage, i think.

Ryan Haas: unleashed

The Oregonian (probably through its parent company) seems really bent on using AI to produce more and more of its product in recent years. Looks like AI is now narrating some stories for them.

When it comes to making our streets work better, political leadership is the key ingredient. This is great news.

anybody currently raging about Newsom needs to be stopped better get on board or I might think your outrage is a tad performative

Sollman getting primaried for her data center bill is so well-deserved.

It’s just a term that divides up the working class along differences in experience rather than fundamental class positionality

I will go to war for this. I will die for this

every day tbh

this is class war

“the luxury travel market — defined as appealing to ‘affluent travelers seeking exclusive, personalized and immersive experiences that blend comfort, culture and customization’ — was valued at $1.77 trillion in 2025.” The global value of the solar industry is <$300B www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/t...

Apparently there's a discussion on wage theft at the Labor and Workforce Development Committee today

ICE may have lost the battle for public opinion, and its operation may be hampered by local pushback, but it has succeeded in one respect: It has instilled terror in Minnesota’s immigrant communities, forcing them into the shadows. Read more from @gabydvj.bsky.social: buff.ly/eSAhblK

CWA strong 💪

It’s hard to overstate how many social and environmental problems could basically be solved by creating a world class public transportation network in this city/state/country and fully subsidizing it as a necessary public good.

When it’s actually all connected

Former Israel prime minister Ehud Barak helped the convicted sex trafficker quietly invest $1 million in a police tech startup in 2015. Its founder said the company, which is set to be acquired by Axon for $625 million, wasn’t aware of Epstein’s involvement.

Every left-ish person who isn’t really following “this whole transit thing” and says “fast frequent free” before scrolling on: they are trying to use fare evasion as a pretext for cutting funding. Plz help

This is beautiful. Thank you, @laurajedeed.bsky.social , and thank you to everyone who was interviewed.

Republicans are pushing the SAVE Act not to stop voter fraud, but to disenfranchise millions of women & minorities. Since 1992, women have voted blue by 4 to 13 points. Rather than change policy to earn women's votes, they're changing rules to prevent women's votes. That's dictatorship. That's MAGA.

Every time I see "Republican OR House Rep. Shelly Boshart Davis" something terrible and/or stupid follows.

Not fair that dogs age and become ill. Such little miracles.

this is fucking obscene! this is obscene! this is fucking obscene! it obscene to spend TWICE THE TRIMET BUDGET GAP ON A FUCKING BALL STADIUM.

This gave me psychic damage and all I’ve been thinking about is how we’ll be using the Moda Center for concentrated climate disaster response (a la the Superdome in Hurricane Katrina) since we refuse to take threats seriously enough to invest in community resilience. Ball above all, I guess.

This post got me interested to go and watch the council discussion about the police accountability board which had a ton of discussion around posts, police union endorsements, and insinuations that certain pro-police candidates didn’t have “the juice” to get the PPA endorsement lol

This is the mayor and DCA Donnie Oliveira doing political favors for their buddies at the Portland Business Alliance who are always trying get their grubby hands on the climate justice fund.

If we can’t put PCEF money towards saving the bus that people already ride, we sure as fuck aren’t doing this.

She really just said why are you talking about the mass coverup of child rape when you should be talking about money

If the top marginal tax rate was 90% it would be easy and morally defensible to throw tax dollars at Rose Garden renovations, put people in affordable homes, and raze the Banfield to make space for a high speed rail system while rewilding downtown but I don’t get to set the terms of the discourse. ☹️

As someone who works on a machine learning team, the fact that the hype isn’t true is not a left position, it’s an industry position. And as a historian, I know that whatever you are confidently told is inevitable IS NOT. That’s not how time works.

guys, have you considered that we might need to just ignore all the outrageous and false claims, manipulation, financial fraud, and panoptic abuse on display because these tech evangelists might actually be creating a new god?! tfw you are ideologically programmed to believe the hype

This morning's newsletter is all about that $106MM in unspent housing dollars. Sharing that here as well in case you haven't signed up yet (you should)

When Border Patrol shot two immigrants in Portland, they claimed they had ties to gangs. The Guardian later wrote a story exposing those claims as a smear campaign, but the narrative was regurgitated by city leadership that took DHS at their word. Now we see the true agitators in Eugene were DHS.

These men are a threat to the long term survival of all life on earth

This is El Paso, where the airspace has been shut down without explanation for ten days btw

The Governor and a bunch of electeds did a press conference after this telling Eugenians to calm down

New York City: The time has arrived. Finally, a chance to tell the city EXACTLY what your landlord’s been getting away with. NYC’s first Rental Ripoff Hearings are happening in all five boroughs, and we want to hear from you. Real New Yorkers. Real stories. Real policy changes. 

🚨🚨🚨Video captures a DHS employee break the window at the Eugene Oregon Fed Building. They declared a riot and tear gassed everyone over it.

Got a big pop from an audience tonight from a Baldur’s Gate reference

Steve Novick is being rewarded after acting outrageously during the council president discussion