Could we counter this era of cruelty in the form of a deeply caring politics? It is tempting to think so watching Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration today.

“These policies are not simply about the costs we make free, but the lives we fill with freedom.” — Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

Hello, world! 7 thought-provoking books I read in 2025 that I highly recommend: "Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune 2052-2072." A bracing futuristic look that somehow ripples w/ hope. By @genderhorizon.com & @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social via @commonnotions.bsky.social 1/1

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...

fully off the hinges

These are people trying to help others with food. This era can fuck right off.

"We go quieter, then we get louder. We despair for a while, then we find our channel of action. We do what we can with these lives of ours." Read @mkaiasand.bsky.social's powerful end-of-year note of tenderness, urging us all to gird for the fight. unwantedpersons.substack.com/p/a-note-of-...

1/3 I am honored to be voted onto the Portland Street Response advisory commitment. I also need to voice my disappointment city council voted to exclude someone from the committee because her address changed to outside Portland — which was the result of securing housing to move out of homelessness

Apartments For Rent in Portland OR - 5802 Rentals For all those "it's econ 101" - tell me how many have to be empty to lower the rent... like really... cuz this is bullshit www.zillow.com/portland-or/...

are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson

ICE arrested a 17-year-old Oregonian during school lunch today, according to the superintendent.

If I had the Epstein Files I'd leak it to Marisa Kabas

Hope to see you at the D1 PSR Town Hall tonight!

This coming Tue, Nov. 18th from 6:00pm - 7:30pm, the City of Portland will be hosting an in person Portland Street Response Town Hall at the East Portland Community Center (740 SE 106th Ave) We encourage PSR supporters to show up - learn more about PSR's status, ask questions, and express concerns.

In case it's not clear, there is sooooo much organizing happening right now against this regime. It's really amazing.

'Yes, you can/should just do stuff' is absolutely one of my most enduring and long-standing beliefs [because I also happen to be right, lolololol].

A number of local Chicago reporters/journalists have truly distinguished themselves over the past few weeks and I am so very grateful. It also shows that reporting is a public service when done well. Thank you all.

This is far worse than anyone expected. Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps. All as mass internment camps are being built.

In the week since Mayor Wilson began enforcing the public camping ban, we are seeing MORE tents in East Portland. Those folks are just being swept into my district. I told the mayor that this is what would happen and asked him to bring extra resources to East PDX to meet the displaced. He did not.

Hey Casey, I can share at least one example - the program GLITTER is a peer-led trash removal service by people with lived experience of homelessness for people currently on the streets. That is a program that funds trash removal without displacement. Please advocate for GLITTER funding!

Our amendment doesn’t cut those things. Mayor Wilson could’ve called me to clarify and ask questions before blasting us in a newsletter, but of course he has to find a scapegoat when he doesn’t magically end homelessness on 12/1 by warehousing people. Looking forward to clarifying this tomorrow.

"We don't want people to go hungry or miss another paycheck. But we *are* okay with them dying a little more slowly, without healthcare." This is so bleak.

That is why we need to move aggressively towards a Social Housing model— high quality, permanently affordable housing that will serve the vast majority of Portlanders, from the unhoused to the middle class.

But at the end of the day, the only real, lasting solution to homelessness is to provide deeply affordable housing for all. Unless we stop the flow of folks onto the streets, we’re never going to make real progress.

I oppose the resumption of sweeps beginning tomorrow. They are costly, ineffective and cruel. At a time when our Federal government is literally starving our most vulnerable neighbors, we add to that by violently taking from them what little they have? My statement attached.

Wole Soyinka lost his US visa after criticizing the Trump administration kidnapping and arresting immigrants. He pointed out he doesn’t want to come to the US, anyway, unless circumstances change: “I wouldn’t take the initiative myself because there’s nothing I’m looking for there. Nothing.”

The sheer chaos that Trump unleashes daily is an underdiscussed method of his presidency imo. Exhibit A: on 22 June—only 3 months ago today—Trump bombed Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility & Fordow enrichment plant. It was in the news for a day or 3. It feels like an eternity ago. Chaos assists impunity.

“Walmart was the top employer of SNAP recipients in five states and one of the top four employers in the remaining four states. McDonald’s was among the top five employers of Medicaid enrollees in five of six states and SNAP recipients in eight of nine states.” www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/w...

People are literally going hungry and struggling to pay rent on every level and this is the move?? God these people are villainous

Federal agents raided the WRONG HOME in Portland—no warrant, guns drawn on a family with a baby. ICE still arrested 2 people after realizing the mistake. ICE official on the aggressive tactics: "If people interpret that as aggressive, so be it."

I think what would help folks feel safe is the following: 1) Turn off KATU 2) Log Off NextDoor 3) Go Outside

Portland City Council issued the following statement in response to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling on the potential deployment of National Guard troops in Portland:

"The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit today overturned a temporary restraining order put in place by a federal judge in Portland – removing the legal impediment that was preventing the Trump Administration from sending National Guard troops to Portland."

Hey Portland, I want to clear up any confusion or questions about the recent ruling in the 9th Circuit. Today, on October 20th, 2025, a panel of judges ruled 2-1 to put a stay on the temporary restraining order (TRO) that blocked federalization of the Oregon National Guard. 🧵

9th Circuit in a divided decision lets Trump send National Guard troops into Portland reasoning the lower court judge that blocked the deployment “accorded no deference to the President’s determination that he could not execute federal laws with regular forces" 🎁 wapo.st/4o2e0Is

New developments in my 3 year Epstein investigation, this time regarding JP Morgan Chase and its CEO, Jamie Dimon. This is a long thread, but worth sticking around for.

1. ICE has sharply increased its spending on weapons in 2025, according to an analysis of federal gov't data by Popular Information. Records reveal ICE has increased spending on “small arms" — a category that includes guns, armor, chemical weapons, and explosives — by 700% compared to 2024 levels

No Kings protests, mapped by @theguardian.com

Inequality is a deep wound

❤️ Portland

🦄🦄🐸🐸🦖🦖🦕🦕 Portland Rocks! #NoKings #Portland

Folks, we have *Frogtifa* here in Portland at the #NoKings rally & march

A gaggle of beautiful beasts dancing at the drum circle here in Portland, Oregon at the #NoKings rally

We face authoritarian fear-mongering and lies with creativity and truth

Local resistance to federal authoritarianism

veterans set up encampment in memphis to protest national guard deployment to their city www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRxQ...

Oriana Korol, a clarinetist with the Unpresidented Brass Band, was arrested after a man and federal agents barreled into band members who were standing across the street from the ICE office and playing the theme from “Ghostbusters.” Read more: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

In this authoritarian order, brute force blots out the importance of first response for human health: Federal agents blocked an ambulance and threatened the driver.

Suggestions on ways to take action from @thenation.com