ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

Also the jokes are fun because of how patently absurd this Portland stuff is, but also, eyes on Chicago. Don’t look away from the siege of terror across the city

Greetings from the front lines of Portland, where we continue to wage war on Kentucky Bluegrass. Block by block instituting xeriscaping, micro farms, and pollinator habitats. Our weapons of choice = rototillers and native seeds

Anyone else smelling foul/sulfur air in N Portland?? Are the skunks just running wild or something else weird?

Obviously, this is loser shit, but I think AI has really cemented itself as the visual language of fascism. It's anti-human, flattened, uninteresting, and cheap. It's like looking at a Potemkin Village and thinking that's the same as architecture.

I learned something new: Medicaid is called Dr. Dynasaur in Vermont. Maybe you didn't know that either — or maybe you don't know you're even on Medicaid because it's called something else. Either way, Republicans cut your care, and Democrats are fighting to restore it.

I think John Dickerson needs to quit on air at the start of the show and walk off the set. He won’t. But he should.

Hello to all my fellow moms of young swifties prepping for the ride to school knowing your small child will almost certainly become obsessed with a song about Travis Kelces dick

It’s Michelle & Barack’s wedding anniversary, me & my husbands pre-marriage anniversary, Taytay release day, and most importantly!!! Everyone in the family gets flu & COVID vaccines day. We’ve only gotten COVID 1x (August 2022) and only one of us has gotten flu in a decade. Love these shots!

Journalists should never have to fear government retaliation for reporting on government activity, and showing up to work shouldn't result in your family being torn apart.

Mario had the right to work and report in the U.S. at the time he was arrested for livestreaming a protest in June. He was held for over 100 days in ICE detention, and he did not have the chance to say goodbye to his family in person before being deported.

IF ANY CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY SIGNS THIS RADICAL AGREEMENT, THEY'LL LOSE BILLIONS IN STATE FUNDING — INCLUDING CAL GRANTS — INSTANTLY. CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS, PROFESSORS, RESEARCHERS, AND SURRENDER ACADEMIC FREEDOM.

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion. Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

Photo evidence of my commute. Kids in the urban arrow rain cover , big kid singing to high school musical (current obsession), 1 year old dancing along. The protected lane make this possible (thanks @pbotinfo.bsky.social ) No car seat tantrums or drop off lines. #cargobike #bikesky #urbanarrow

"We have no choice but to be the solutions to our own problems....We have to use our creative energy to create the world we want; not just to critique the world as it is." @ari-shapiro.bsky.social on this his last day at @npr.org arishapiro.substack.com/p/books-clos...

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

Seriously—in any other administration the President telling the SecDef (sorry, "SecWar") that American cities should be used as "training grounds" for the military would kick of impeachment proceedings that same day.

Republicans keep saying, "WAIT" we can talk about health care premiums later. WHEN is later? Health care rates for next year are being finalized RIGHT NOW. Rate hikes will be in the mail any day. Open enrollment is weeks away. Don't tell us to wait. We need action NOW.

The lol what hatch act which I mentioned in previous post

Study in JAMA Pediatrics estimates that vaccinating pregnant women against COVID-19 prevented 7,000 hospitalizations in infants and 3,000 in pregnant women from January 2024 to May 2025.  #Medsky www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cov...

It feels so quaint to talk about the hatch act when the entire government is a hatch act violation & also illegal in hundreds of other ways. But damn that ethics training was really a joke !

I’ve been a safe streets, bike infrastructure girly for a decade, but in July we moved and now the commute is almost entirely in a bollard protected bike lane. We take the cargo bike 90% of the time now. Safety >> all. Also ! Loading & unloading, parking, packing up bike is easier than the car!

One dark thing about this is that he probably genuinely believes that the type of aggression that leads men to rape and batter indicates they have the kind of aggression he values in his so-called “department of war”. He is so steeped in a culture of toxic aggro “Christian” masculinity

perhaps instead of cowering under a blanket labeled "health care," democrats should respond and advance on the issues that move people. this, of course, would require a foundation of conviction and principle, which may be asking too much of the party's leadership and strategists.

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I tend to reply with "if you think extraction is bad have you heard of fossil fuel?" and statistics about how much less material is required, super-common/available new battery ingredients, and the fact that we don't burn up these materials unlike coal, gas, and oil, requiring ever more of them.

BREAKING NEWS: Oregon sues Trump administration over unlawful federalization of National Guard. Read more.

Like Hakeem Jeffries either truly believes that we are just gonna ride this era out as a nation and it will be business as usual in 2028 OR he is being paid to behave this way. Either way, he needs to be primaried and voted out

LOL when was Rand Paul last IN Chicago. If my boss went on TV and said something disparaging about Kentucky in this vein, oh the pearl clutching from the pundits. We should treat GOP disdain for large blue cities with the same breathlessness with which the deplorable comment was covered.

I also hope we don’t forget all the local folks who’ve spent years spreading the “portland is a hellhole” narrative to gain short-term political power and/or social media clout. They provided ammo to the Trump machine. They fed the false narrative and now the chickens are coming home to roost.

I’m so thankful for Councilor Morillo. She’s a rare Oregon leader that doesn’t patronize us. The feds will instigate and terrorize. Nothing will placate them but subservience. The answer is not to hide. Let’s protect our vulnerable neighbors first, and then mock these goons… Tubas needed.

I think the Portland/Oregon electeds saying we should “ignore this it’s a distraction” are being cowardly and giving us all too little credit.

One more time

Trump is launching an authoritarian takeover of Portland hoping to provoke conflict in my hometown. I urge Oregonians to reject Trump’s attempt to incite violence in what we know is a vibrant and peaceful city. I will do everything in my power to protect the people in our state.

This is illegal. It is immoral. It is insane. The president, sending soldiers to use "full force" against a civilian population based on made-up charges of terrorism by political opponents should be the kind of presidential crisis that provokes an impeachment. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

As a resident of #Portland it is impossible to capture how unhinged this is. We are a low crime city and the ICE protest "siege" consists of one auxiliary ICE office that normally has at most a dozen weirdos debating what performance art they should use to block a single driveway

I would gladly welcome dems from across the country to visit & stand against this deeply unconstitutional incursion, come do hits on our bike infrastructure, our public lands, agribusiness, 97% health insurance coverage rates, thriving local food scene. Counter the narrative!

Can we surge downtown with families today? Let’s all make sure our favorite local businesses get a ton of revenue in case the MILITARY intimidates customers away & makes our city unsafe. Cargo bikes deploy, only laughter and weirdness and joy in the face of this Authoritarian threat #Portland

There are credible reports that federal agents may be replaying the 2020 playbook and surging into Portland with the goal of provoking conflict and violence in my hometown. I am in close contact with state and local officials to monitor this activity.

Only those victimized by clinical research will understand

Health care chaos. Reckless cuts. Rising costs. Michiganders and families across the country are paying the price for RFK Jr.’s agenda. Enough is enough, which is why I’m drafting articles of impeachment.

Worth nothing that the mayor / executive branch has known about this $11M shortfall since June. They said they only shared with councilors after councilors asked about it.

calling autism a “tragedy” and saying that there should be fewer autistic people are eugenicist talking points. Everyone who opposes such views also needs to recognize the ways in which everyday ableism left the door wide open for a person like RFK Jr.

Doomerism is so rampant and every loss seems to reinforce the attitude. We are going to take a lot more losses, that doesn’t mean we stop. That doesn’t mean the next time we fight will be another loss. We don’t lose til we all give the fuck up on a free society:

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

Farewell to Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce, the Pocket Rocket who blazed a trail through athletics that few could even dream of! Olympics: 3 Gold, 4 Silver, 1 Bronze World Championships: 10 Gold, 6 Silver, 1 Bronze Total: 25 global medals One of the greatest! 📸: REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez

Trump promised to lower costs “on day one.” He failed. So now he wants to hide the data from you.

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