🎥 Israel says it will ban 37 humanitarian organizations operating in Gaza starting Jan. 1. “Is someone seriously claiming a Quaker organization is an Islamic militant front?” California-based American surgeon Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, who has volunteered multiple times in Gaza, said to Drop Site News...

THE NUMBER OF EMPLOYED AMERICANS AGED 65 AND OVER ROSE BY MORE THAN 33% BETWEEN 2015 AND 2024, PER NEWSWEEK.

Our current local political struggle is over whether we have a city where $ gets you privileged access & exceptions to the rules (Mayor Wilson + council allies) or whether we get rules + infrastructure/services that help the majority of Portlanders thrive in an increasingly chaotic world (P-Cauc).

This is so fucking stupid. In Wilson’s Portland, the city is just handing out zoning exceptions to everyone from fossil fuel companies down to property owners who insist on building drive throughs in places where it causes traffic jams on a neighborhood street.

Bill Barr had the reporter who broke the Epstein story surveilled. Nothing to see here, folks.

Public transit may not be flashy and exciting but it is essential and it does what it is supposed to do. MOVING PEOPLE AROUND EFFICIENTLY. Stop getting razzle-dazzled by tech bros, self driving cars in a tunnel will never be able to do with a freaking SUBWAY has and will always be able to do.

Impossible to watch Fallout and not make the connection between the fictional dystopian corporate overlords and our real life dystopian tech billionaires who are accelerating climate change and promoting technologies of exclusion and violence while they build their escape compounds

I think it’s a bad precedent to not cycle another councilor in this position just a year into new form of government — I’d think that regardless of who was in the seat. My concern that is more specific to EPG is that I don’t think she wants to hold the mayor/admin accountable & we need it bad.

My dogs will never die but hypothetically if they did I would build enormous tombs for them and entomb myself alive alongside them

We know how you feel about it because the only time you ever mention Palestinians is in the context of the election.

Ghassan Zeineddine has a beautiful linked story collection titled Dearborn, which might offer you a better sense of the people in that place after so much destructive discourse. Plus it is wonderful. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/825467...

I imagine Brad is aware that a small group of voters in one city with a total population of 100K isn’t the reason that the Harris campaign and its $1B+ budget lost every single swing state it needed to win, but he’s also a bigot in need of a scapegoat, so here we are.

The absolute disconnect of a class of rich political commentators from the reality of America should be studied. Ezra Klein who has been famously wrong about nearly everything over the last 5 years does not deserve a years salary for a talk.

Liverpool will win the Premier League

hearing from an insider that one reason for the failed Epstein redactions was that DOGE made a bunch of agencies cancel their Adobe Acrobat subscriptions. lol. lmao even.

There’s a funny Politico story showing that the latest polling on AI shows 80-20 in favor of heavy regulations, an absolute slam dunk platform, but Dems are worried about not winning back mask-off tech CEO donors www.politico.com/news/magazin...

if you haven't already, go throw a couple bucks to the reelection campaigns of Mitch Green, Angelita Morillo and Tiffany Koyama-Lane. If you're a portland resident the public match program means even donating $25 to each is a huge boost; we need all three of them to stay on council this next fall

Reflecting on my first year as a city councilor, and I’m so proud of what my team and I have accomplished, and we’re just getting started. I banned rental price fixing, created fees for landlords who want to profit off detention facilities (like ICE) secure.actblue.com/donate/angel...

Even though he’s been gone almost 11 years, it’s wild how with the passing of time I get insight and greater understanding into my father’s quirks. It will just randomly occur to me and make perfect sense why he did certain things.

Because here's the thing: besides the messianic religious fanatics wanting to build the Third Temple and the tech oligarchs wanting to circle the planet in data centres, EVERYONE - across the political spectrum - hates where they are taking us.

The problem with “Portland nice” is officials think accountability, which sometimes necessarily means being adversarial, is uncouth.

The year started with DCA Donnie Oliveira outright misleading the city council about Zenith’s plans and half the city council saying it was Trumpian to point out facts lol.

The new city council system was advertised as a counter balance and remove a lot of power the mayor has. This first year was just Wilson and Michael Jordan running circles around the council. Fuck they even hid $21 million from the council!!! She is obviously not the right person for the job.

"We should acknowledge that AI does not care about Ethics, because it is dependent on political authority that can easily shift any ethical responsibility evading legal repercussions." This is why the field of AI ethics is a scam. (Fig from umaine.edu/learnwithai/ which I'm not familiar with)

Bernie Sanders: "We need to be thinking seriously about a moratorium on data centers. You gotta slow this process down. It's not good enough for the oligarchs to tell us 'you adapt.' Are they gonna guarantee healthcare to all people? What are they gonna do when there are no jobs? Make housing free?"

It’s so funny when rich people are like ‘if you do this minor socialism we will move away!’ buddy we are telling you we would live in a utopia if you simply died

I think it’s a bad precedent to not cycle another councilor in this position just a year into new form of government — I’d think that regardless of who was in the seat. My concern that is more specific to EPG is that I don’t think she wants to hold the mayor/admin accountable & we need it bad.

More people should know that the Portland Metro Chamber / Portland Business Alliance hosts these brunches and conferences where a bunch of industrialists and lobbyists sit around whining in a group about how shitty Portland is. They really hate everything that makes the city different and good.

Instantly mesmerized by Gary Numan’s synthesizer every time the sound waves hit me

Clark County Sheriff's Office has a contract with ICE to imprison people they arrest in Portland.

Who called it, first, that this unnecessarily risky Prosper loan to the Old Town shoe incubator was flat footed? Councilor Mitch Green and economist Dr. Mary King.

If I made $2 million per year I’d be paying my taxes, feeding + housing a bunch of people, and not complaining to the press about my plight. Somewhere, we took a wrong turn where folks got the idea that they deserve to be wealthy while others are desperately poor rather than they are allowed.

someone in this willy week article about P4A claims to have gotten a $50,000 tax bill for just this one tax. i'm not a mathematician but how high does one's income have to be if they owe 50k at 1.5% on income over 150k or 3% over 250k. like a billion dollars?

Every time you see an unhinged media attack on Mitch Green, get five of your friends to donate to him.

My fourth grade niece was crushing me in horse so I had to resort to dunking

Oh hey it’s this @soseaemerald.bsky.social strip! lol

The corporate lobbyist guy who makes like $400,000 per year (subsidized by the public) to do the bidding of corporations and downtown property owners has an opinion so it’s the duty of Willamette Week to print it. Spoiler: leftists are destroying the city by not giving his clients what they want.

While we are out here piling on the Governor for her Christmas Eve pledge to attack preschool students and their families, send a few bucks to Mitch Green, who has used his office to debunk tax flight myths and stand in the way of Kotek’s plans.

Honestly maybe she knows she’s going to lose and is auditioning for a high paying corporate gig right now. That makes more sense than whatever this is.

Good morning from the Christmas cuddle pile

By my count, 21 of the 50 highest paid City of Portland employees are from the Police Bureau, which include police officers who were paid $104k, $157k, $160k, and 178k... JUST in overtime. And those aren't even the highest examples. projects.oregonlive.com/data-points/...

I’m still so mad hours later. “Merry Christmas — I pledge to take away free preschool from kids & families so rich people can keep more in the bank. Most grinch-like thing to post on Christmas Eve.

this post has everyone at christmas eve dinner crashing out. everyone is yelling / has bluesky open / is finding opponents to donate to. literally has ruined christmas lmao

I would knock a million doors, fundraise, cartwheel down the middle of my street for a candidate who promised to tax the rich and fully fund schools. I am not even sure I can muster energy to fill in the bubble on my ballot for whatever this is.

Whatever the nominal party identification, here we see the conservative right-wing alignment of car centrism (opposing highway tolls) and anti-urbanism (subsidizing rural landowners, opposing autonomy of city governments)

Any moderately serious candidate running for Governor in the Democratic primary with a tax the rich & big corporations message would have a wide open lane

Tina Kotek alienating progressives to campaign for votes from people who will never vote for her

District 4 has the most rental units out of all the districts, by about 15,000 units over the next highest district. Imagine making "fuck the renters" your campaign strategy.

The most telling fact about Eli Arnold’s political orientation is that he became a police officer *after* Ferguson. I guess seeing a militarized police force repressing a black community really got him excited for some reason. This is from his bio from last election 👇