“The city had confirmed that a contractor called Team Housing Solutions “has called multiple hotels up and down the coast, as recently as this morning.” According to Kaplan, the organization was “looking for as many as 200 hotel rooms for a year.”

Zohran Mamdani looked like he is in a principle’s office hoping to be reprimanded, but was instead complimented. 😂

High profile scientists and their ties to Epstein.

An all-female transition team led by Elana Leopold as executive director, co-chairs Maria Torres-Springer, the former first deputy mayor; Lina Khan, the former federal trade commission chair; the United Way’s CEO, Grace Bonilla; & the former deputy mayor for health & human services Melanie Hartzog.

As our universities are hell bent on cutting the liberal arts, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is proof of the power of a liberal arts education.

1. Dick Cheney has died. #Nov 3, 2025. 2. Zohran Mamdani will be elected as mayor of NYC. #Nov 4, 2025. 3. Two historic moments marking the passing of “old order” and the birth of “new order.”

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The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker. And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows. No more.

“The deal means the justice department will end its investigation into the school, while the school agreed “not engage in unlawful racial discrimination in its university programming, admissions, hiring or other activities.”

Among the list of donors are “Apple, Amazon, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Google, Coinbase, Comcast and Meta who have made donations to build President Donald Trump’s proposed 90,000-square-foot ballroom, according to the White House.”

While the national U.S. debt has surpassed 38 trillion dollars, we have a President who wants to build the world’s finest ballroom. #MaryAntoinetteMoment

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” —Antonio Gramsci This “No Kings” protest is about protesting the monsters that are destroying the fabric of democracy and a civil society that is governed by law and the constitution.

In #NYC #NoKings

Know your protest rights today!

“In true Portland fashion, a group of knitters and crocheters gathered outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in South Portland on Thursday to protest the best way they knew how – with yarn.”

From journalists walking out of the Pentagon to universities rejecting the “Compact” deal - resistance to authoritarianism is building. #NoKings

How the “war ravaged Portland” is responding to the “Dept of War.”

“The immigration law enforcement agency has bought access to an “all-in-one” surveillance tool that gives it updated location data from hundreds of millions of phones, according to ICE documents obtained by 404 Media.”

Tomorrow will be a memorable day. 😀

I urge everyone to read this memo on countering domestic terrorism.

“On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart.”

Judge Karin Immergut’s statement ruling against Trump’s order of sending the National Guards.

Elizabeth Warren on our wannabe king who is taking hostage of ordinary citizens.

This!

Insurrection Act to be invoked in Portland.

In response to 300 California National Guard by Donald Trump, our Governor Tina Kotek has illuminated a new White Stag signage!

Emergency motion to stop the CA National Guard from coming to Portland.

Obviously the court order didn’t make any sense to Trump.

Judge orders restraining order against Trump to send his troops to Portland!!!

Sounds familiar?

Chilling, unprecedented and illegal. Beyond all the funny memes and naked bike rides and everything, this matter is quite serious and a real threat to our democracy.

Over 21 pages of taut dissent against Casa, Jackson decried the 6-3 ruling as “an existential threat to the rule of law” and a “sad day for America”. . . because it gives Trump permission “to wield the kind of unchecked, arbitrary power the Founders crafted our Constitution to eradicate”.

Please read @frankyfrancescannon.com on being an adjunct labor in higher ed. “These unequal labor practices and protections threaten not only the livelihoods of faculty, but also reduce each academic institution’s ability to deliver on their educational promises to students and society.”

And the instigations and plots to send militarized forces to war ravaged Portland continues.

UT-Austin!!! “In a statement to the Tribune, UT System Board of Regents Chair Kevin Eltife said the system was honored UT-Austin was selected to be part of the Trump administration’s proposal.”

Gavin Newsom has a counter strategy for this fascist!

“When the president talks about cracking down on Portland, what he really means is cracking down on perceived white resistance to white supremacy. In the white supremacist worldview, Portlanders committed the cardinal sin: they rejected the culture.”

Portland is a test case for the entire nation in terms of how our GovernorTina Kotek will handle this threat and stand up against fascism and authoritarianism.

“The compact would require colleges to freeze tuition for five years, cap the enrollment of international students and commit to strict definitions of gender.”

This is how Portland - the “war zone” responds to Trump administration’s plan to send 200 federalized National Guard troops to Portland.

It will cost the federal government about $3.8 million to pay the troops, not including the cost of logistics such as food, lodging and transportation.

“Russell Gibson, governmental and legislative affairs director for the Oregon Military Department told state lawmakers Tuesday that it will cost the federal government about $3.8 million to pay the troops, not including the cost of logistics such as food, lodging and transportation.”

If you have not already read Timothy Snyder short book “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the 20th Century” then it is time to read it!

The situation is without precedent, as Trump’s order marks the first time Oregon’s National Guard has been deployed within the state over the objections of its governor, Bomar said.

McSweeneys has a message for how the issue of “war ravaged Portland” can be addressed. 😂😂😂 “Help reshelve the books with pics of naked women in them that middle school boys have left strewn around Powell’s. Institute a ban on wimps who use umbrellas.”

“I spoke to the governor, she was very nice," Trump said. "But I said, 'Well wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening? My people tell me different.' They are literally attacking and there are fires all over the place...it looks like terrible."