Update as of 4:30pm Temporary Restraining Order against the feds has been granted. The judge did not find evidence that the military or the guard need to be brought in because the protests in Portland have been relatively calm. Aggression is coming from federal agents and right wing provocateurs

we need picture evidence of the sort of deprivation a marginal tax of 3% on incomes over 400k can cause! i bet his house looks war ravaged

rene gonzalez embracing Trumpism to satisfy his brand of grievance politics is disgraceful. he’s directly embracing NSPM-7 which essentially labels anything in opposition to Trumpism as terrorism. completely mask off.

Trump’s deployment of troops to Portland is a dangerous escalation of authoritarianism. Now is the time to find our own ways of standing up and fighting back to preserve our democracy. Fellow vets: we need you to muster. And those serving: you can refuse an unlawful order as you may receive it.

jfc

Never forget Portland Biz Alliance/Portland Metro Chamber's role in handing Trump's Dept of Homeland Security the false narrative they craved in 2020. PBA blamed biz losses on protestors calling for justice - when their own data showed the real cause was COVID. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

I don’t want to hear anymore “Portland is dying” narrative or vague complaints about “ANTIFA” as the clarion call for action in the city. All of that led to Trump targeting us. Groups like People for Portland, associated right-wing media ecosystem, and political opportunists own this.

A total about-face by Metro Chamber and allies, trying to repeal the portrait of Portland crime they drew up during the post-COVID years, when it seemed politically advantageous. Now, the crime narratives are “outdated,” because the people who constructed them decided so. Sleight of hand.

Continued escalation from Trump this morning. I need to hear a forceful response to this from Gov. Kotek, assuring Oregonians we will not tolerate this level of illegal intimidation. To service-members: remember you do not have to follow an unlawful order such as implied below.

Trump has escalated his attack on Portland by deploying more Feds to Portland for the purpose of intimidating and silencing our community, so that we comply in advance with his fascist regime. Don’t acquiesce. Join an org, talk to your neighbors and build solidarity networks to keep each other safe.

Support federal recognition for @everydaychinook.bsky.social #ChinookJustice actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...

If you see ICE (or think you do!) anywhere in Oregon call PIRC 1-888-622-1510 - Comment on social media posts and reply to texts claiming ICE presence to have an eye witness call PIRC as soon as possible. -please post PIRC fliers and create more translations: tinyurl.com/PIRC25

Street Roots does important work, including reporting like this. Donate to their campaign if you can (click through to the article for a link)

This learning experience is an opportunity to open the scope of our vision for urban planning in Portland. It can be better. I’m already in Vienna and it IS better. Socialized housing and healthcare = less homelessness and mental health crises.

Portland residents: Donate $25 to Mitch Green! It will be matched 10:1! Mitch stands up for working people. We need him on the Portland City Council.

Wow, this is a concise list of all of the politics that I oppose, that I ran to oppose and will continue to oppose. Absolutely disgraceful to continue trafficking in the tax flight myth without sufficient evidence and with Trump’s tax cuts for the rich as wind in their sails.

Standing shoulder to shoulder with my fellow immigrants. We will not turn our backs on you.

I will support no action to comply with Trump’s hateful terror campaign against our immigrant community. Will never happen with this council. Portland will not tolerate it.

if i heard someone say they're "moving because of the preschool tax" i would immediately assume that they're skipping town for other deeply immoral and dark reasons that will be uncovered soon

Multnomah County: Tell the county commissioners to vote NO on indexing. This will bankrupt the program. We voted for this program because families deserve preschool friendsofpfa.org/take-action/

The way people talk about this tax you'd think it is crushing the middle class but the people who in the true "just over the threshold so it looks like a lot but shit is expensive so they still feel a pinch" class are paying very, very small amounts toward PFA. If you are earning 700k/yr...congrats!

Happy 99th birthday to basketball legend, Fidel Castro!

Remote work emptied Portland's downtown—not high taxes and not racial justice protests, even though the business lobby has tried to blame both. "Killing our national model of a universal preschool program will not revive our old downtown-centric economic model." www.streetroots.org/news/2025/07...

Congratulations to 21CS' Luisa on her reelection to the DSA National Political Committee! Luisa and the other members of the @sor4dsa.bsky.social slate will ensure DSA is anti-Zionist in principle and practice and is the fighting, internationalist org members voted for!

21CS's statement on the 2025 DSA National Convention. We explain why the Springs of Revolution @sor4dsa.bsky.social slate & platform offer a vision for the organization based on dignity, respect, and true international solidarity with Palestine & the global south www.21csocialism.org/statement-on...

...and guess who presented to the Multnomah County Board today? 👀 That's right, Cornell Sociologist Cristobal Young! But first, we have a thing for everyone to click right now: actionnetwork.org/letters/vote...

clicked!! took 10 seconds. who's with me, put in your ten seconds for Team Toddler ✨

some of y’all need to stop taking your frustrations with ICE out on angelita, the only immigrant on council, who is also the one who has done the most in this space and generally goes the hardest against fascists of any kind. why aren’t you lashing out at me or literally anyone else?

Not only was City budget season hectic. It overlapped with the first quarter (Q2) lobbyists were allowed to merge multiple lobbying interactions into a single entry. Q2 is online, with a teensy bundle of technical changes that couldn't have shipped before today. Numbers are down, but that's fine:

21CS' Luisa and comrade Ahmed, both members of the Springs of Revolution slate, were on Rev Left Radio to talk about their platform and the ongoing struggle for anti-imperialist politics in DSA. www.21csocialism.org/springs-of-r...

adding insult to injury, those $333k come from a tax on everyone downtown unlucky enough to live in the ESD, ie the privately run shake-down scheme called clean& safe

Luisa Martínez is a formerly undocumented immigrant, and full-time union organizer who has been a member of Portland DSA since 2018, previously serving as its International Organizing Committee and Chapter co-chair. She also served on Steering for the DSA International Committee!

@councilormorillo.bsky.social Thank you for showing us real leadership & what integrity, grit & community care looks like. Thank you for centering impacted community — you are literally defending our immigrant and refugee neighbors with yourself as a shield.

The Willamette Week interview was interesting because I think the undercurrent of the whole thing is a fundamental misunderstanding or willfully narrow view of DSA as a left wing policy/lobbying organization, not a member driven socialist organization

WW tries so hard to imply that there’s something nefarious about 4/12 city councilors being members of DSA. But when 4/5 (minimum) were in the pocket of the business alliance for decades that was normal to them www.wweek.com/news/2025/07...

Printing this out and sticking it on my fridge: "I’m kind of surprised this house of cards has stayed upright this long." I got to talk to a Street Roots reporter about the efforts to bring social housing to Portland (and the rest of Oregon). Read it here: www.streetroots.org/news/2025/07...

As of now, between the two action network letter campaigns @friendsofpfa sent out this week, 69,385 emails have been sent to the governor, legislature, and local government to defend Preschool for All. Anyone who wants to come for universal preschool in Multnomah County is on notice.

If the state fucks with Preschool for All, young people—especially those who have chosen artistic fields over corporate jobs—will leave Portland. That will make our city less vibrant and interesting. That’s a doom loop right there!

Preschool for All supporters are holding a press conference outside a Portland preschool to “send a clear message to the Oregon legislature and Governor…hands off Preschool for All.”

This is disinformation. I have on reliable authority that the proximate cause of this is actually that Tom Homan is a bitch.

whatever else they do, the prime directive of the democrats is to prevent the election of anyone who threatens the interests of the ultra-rich. that comes before everything else

No war on Iran! They lied about WMD in Iraq. Don’t believe the lies this time

🚨 Heads-up, neighbors: our Preschool for All program (approved by 64 % of MultCo voters) faces a last-minute push in Salem to suspend its funding. Let’s talk facts, not fear. 🧵👇🏾

Seems to me that the worst possible time to shy away from building a strong social safety net based upon local progressive taxation is when the federal government is doing fascism.

It's frankly absurd that the consensus view has just decided to accept uncritically this idea that the P4A tax is driving people away, because you're hearing grumblings from a few very rich people who pay the small marginal tax. Share this report with your reps and senators.

The business lobby has been pushing this myth since the moment universal preschool was proposed. I’m grateful we finally have a city councilor (and staff) willing and able to refute it. ✨💛