There is zero reason for troops to come to Portland. As someone who lives here, things are perfectly calm and we are having a beautiful fall.

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” ― Jane Goodall 💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

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Apparently creeping fascism is going to keep creeping. No end in sight.

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

Things are so dire here in PDX that my children were forced to go apple picking with me today. Please send help before we’re forced to head into a corn maze next weekend or ride around in a trailer full of hay pulled by a tractor. These are desperate times for the war weary people of Oregon.

Yup! PDX has an effect on people. They’ll form a band, or take up skiing or camping or hiking, etc., etc..

Every single one of these clips was taken today in downtown Portland. Portland doesn’t want or need a federal takeover. If Trump insists on sending federal “resources” he can start with funding health care, bridges, affordable housing, and wildfire protection to name a few.

Oregon AG Rayfield: I know for a fact, from talking to cities across Oregon, that if you pick up the phone and ask, “What could be helpful?” the answer would not be the United States military.

Scoop: Trump lost the legal battle over halting the offshore Revolution Wind project after Orsted, its developer, brought reams of evidence to court alleging the government was lying about military security concerns. It’s a sign truth can empower companies Trump targets. Via @heatmap.news

She knew how dangerous and compromised he was and she warned us.

If despair is a luxury, then I must be Jeff Bezos.

Obi-Wan Kenobi: “ strike me down, and I will become more powerful than you could possibly imagine”

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

People want everything to be a binary between dooming and “we’re so back” but I’ll just say this is both a really troubling attack on press freedom and an open admission that your regime is fragile enough to feel threatened by Jimmy fucking Kimmel

Benny Johnson = Tenet Media = Kremlin funded Carr = fascist prick

🧵For those who missed it, Larry Ellison is on the verge of becoming one of the most powerful media & entertainment moguls America has ever seen If you fear Brendan Carr, fear Ellison more He's already a major stakeholder in CBS & Paramount. Now CNN, HBO & major share of TikTok are in his sights

I cannot emphasize enough how true & real this is. In almost anywhere on the political spectrum you ID with or major issue, there’s probably a bot/troll operation to encourage your rage and vitriol. And how/where that rage gets directed, esp understandable rage, is what they are out to influence.

I went to Twitter just to check that this creepy Brendan Carr tweet is real, and of course it is. Like in Russia, far-right trolls have taken over

Does cancer itself have a DC lobbying group? Like, Big Cancer? Because if so, it’s doing a bang-up job

Didn’t realize this was an Onion headline right away and the satire didn’t immediately jump off the screen because I live in the United States.

Whether it's Barack Obama asking for dijon mustard or RFK Jr. asking for a vaccine ban that will kill hundreds of thousands of Americans, there have been unusual requests on both sides of the aisle.

Did you know Facebook secretly ran an experiment on 693,000 people? In 2012, they altered users’ feeds: some more negative, some more positive. The roots of digital manipulation run deeper than most realize! Watch the full interview with Dr. Rebecca Lemov here: youtu.be/MudTcmYH5lk

Curious what the reasoning for this could possibly be. My first thought it that it was a Putin request

The top three individual actions that help the climate, including avoiding plane flights, choosing not to get a dog and using renewable electricity, were also the three that participants underestimated the most. Why are dogs a climate factor? Because they are carnivores & meat is carbon intensive.

I can’t imagine why the regime would want less national security officials with expertise on Russian influence and interference in US elections, etc. Could it be because they’re on the same team?

It seems to me that if you need to assign 1000 FBI agents to comb thru the Epstein files 24/7 in order to redacted your name from the records, you probably have a whole lot to hide.

Our parks are in survival mode and they need more staff!

So much misinformation out there. I hadn’t heard anything about this particular slander, but read up on it when I saw the AP headline. There are a lot of malignant forces gunning for Oprah. FACT FOCUS: No, Oprah Winfrey didn't block access to a private road amid tsunami warning evacuations

Ozzy going out after raising $190 million for sick kids and a Parkinson’s cure is metal AF.

Russia was never a hoax The 2020 election wasn’t stolen Tariffs are a tax on you Haitians didn’t eat pets The Epstein files exist

I know you feel that Trump in the first six months of his second term has made life worse. Here are the deets: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

He survived Pinochet, and now has to contend with the Trump regime in his eighties.

I mean…

Pre-EPA in 1969 a torch dropped into the Rouge River in Detroit by a worker ignited oil pollution. Flames shot up 50 feet into the air. It took 65 men and 10 pieces of equipment to put out a fire ON THE RIVER. Unimaginable now. But hey let's gut the EPA, right? 🤦 www.fox2detroit.com/news/in-1969...

When loyalty to a leader becomes more important than loyalty to the Constitution or the truth, you’re not running a republic, you’re running a regime.

“This place feels to me, today, like a crime scene,” Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D/RI) said on the floor of the Senate. “Get some of that yellow tape and put it around this chamber. This piece of legislation is corrupt. This piece of legislation is crooked.” 1/2

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This ⬇️, all day, every day. Boring is the gold standard for government. Unfortunately, the media has decided we’re all a bunch of children and need a constant circus with a 🤡 at the helm of our great 250 year old experiment.

This is why is great to see #TeslaTakedown protests mutating into campaigns against Palantir. This week, folks are rallying in Palo Alto in the bay area: actionnetwork.org/events/palan...

he's selling our national parks and other public lands, allowing companies to ruin the environment, driving our wages down, trying to get rid of all the well-paying jobs, & making all our hobbies prohibitively expensive... why not get rid of holidays? this is what people voted (or didnt vote) for.

Oh my word, you are right!

Trump Russia Timeline: Paul Manafort's Griftapalooza Wonder how Trump's nonstop grifting will end? It helps to remember that Viktor Yanukovych, Paul Manafort's pro-Putin candidate in Ukraine, was ousted by the Orange Revolution and EuroMaidan protests. open.substack.com/pub/craigung...

You can either cut out the billionaire tax cuts or gut Social Security and Medicare but you have to do one or the other to get a deficit neutral bill. Why isn’t MAGA demanding the GOP prioritize their new working class base over their real masters, the billionaires??

“The fossil fuel companies have known about this since the 70s and they have covered up the evidence. This is an actual f^^^ing conspiracy.”

Trump & the Republicans talk about the US beating China economically, but as my grandfather used to say, “talk is cheap.” Energy drives the economy & renewable energy with battery storage is the future. Clearly China has its eyes on the future while Republicans clear the way for China to dominate.

Wow! South Dakota generated enough renewable energy to meet all of its energy demand and then an additional 21% on top. I assume that excess energy was exported to other states. The vast majority of the renewable energy generation was wind. And Montana met almost 94% with renewables. Amazing.