📣 UPDATED: Two new polls confirm: Out of the gate, Americans STRONGLY support extending the #ACA tax credits. 🚨 Meanwhile, 58% of enrollees barely knew about the looming danger as of a week ago. acasignups.net/25/10/03/two...

Someone wake me up when Congress authorizes the use of military force against Chicago or Portland. *sleeps forever*

The story of 2024 is this: Trump had a plan to destroy American government called Project 2025, which had, literally, not a typo, a 4% approval rating. He lied constantly and said he wouldn't do it. Then he entered office and immediately implemented AN EVEN MORE EXTREME VERSION OF IT.

Last year, CNN ran a “fact check” of Kamala HQ that claimed we were lying for saying Trump’s plan is Project 2025. Now Trump is outright admitting it’s his plan. Legacy media failed the country.

Heatmap's @emilypont.bsky.social obtained the latest list of grants canceled by the Department of Energy — which, contrary to initial impressions, will hit a fair handful of projects in red states. Read the full story:

BINGO! What's the point of doing a bipartisan budget if Trump and Russ Vought will just slash spending and lay off employees?Also, Republicans can just pass a party-line rescissions bill without any input from Democrats.

Workers at the Department of Education tell me their out of office messages were changed without their consent or knowledge to blame Democrats for the shutdown.

New theory of Inflation Reduction Act clean energy investment durability just dropped.

I preordered mine a while back on Bookshop.org! Cars cost an average of $12,000 a year to operate and I want a better life for us all than being dependent on a car for daily transportation!

The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries. He said this out loud.

The U.S. president just ordered all the military generals to an unprecedented gathering in Washington, then told them that they should plan to participate in a war on American cities.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

It really does not get more explicit than Trump telling top active-duty military generals that they will need to participate in occupations of large cities run by his political opponents as part of his "war from within"

The current homepage of HUD.gov. This is unhinged. This should not be legal.

Such desperation in this quote. America chose the worst possible psyche for the office.

“We’re glad ODOT workers’ jobs were saved... but let’s be clear: if Oregon continues on this trajectory, we will see rising deaths on our roads, worsening inequality and communities left behind in ways that will be hard to come back from.” oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/09/29/o...

“Don’t call it a package — this deal kicks the transportation funding can down the road while leaving the most vulnerable Oregonians behind," said @thestreettrust.org, agreeing with Oregon counties that this is budget stopgap, not a long-term funding solution. www.opb.org/article/2025...

This is video of a patrol in front of a Smashburger and three very nice hotels next to the Riverwalk (I stayed in one two weeks ago.) I cannot stress how useless and performative this is.

In the event of a shutdown, the Office of Management and Budget is recommending reductions in force (layoffs) for “all employees” in all “programs, projects, or activities” that are “not consistent with the President’s priorities.” What does that mean for US Earth and climate science?

Good lord, this is not okay to just accost anyone they think maybe, possibly, might be an immigrant.

I love us, Portland.

What would the reaction be if Democratic politicians went on TV every week to talk about how scary and dangerous Louisiana was, or how bleak and depressing life in rural Mississippi is, or how Oklahoma ranks last in education and “God, can you imagine being from there?”

I blame The Real World as the root cause of my future death, which will likely be from being run over trying to cross the street.

Things Portland is currently ravaged by: Pizza Temperate, sunny weather Coffee Middling soccer Sunsets Farmer’s markets Apples Hiking trails Thai food Fresh hops Harvest-ready vineyards Things Portland is not ravaged by: War Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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.

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.

War ravaged Portland.

I have a friend who lost a close family member to domestic violence recently. Nobody else should have to suffer the terror and grief of losing loved ones to this violence.Help offer shelter, programs, advocacy: www.bradleyangle.org/support-us

BREAKING: The Supreme Court greenlights Trump's "pocket rescission" of $4 billion in foreign aid appropriated by Congress. Kagan, joined by Sotomayor and Jackson, has a sharp dissent. She says this "result conflicts with the separation of powers." www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

This executive order is a precursor to a major crackdown on the regime’s opposition. They’re absolutely using the Kirk assassination as their Reichstag fire moment. Full executive order:

Trump just signed a terrifying order classifying anyone challenging his regime or espousing anti-MAGA worldviews as “domestic terrorists.” It directs National Joint Terrorism Task Force, DOJ & Treasury to investigate & prosecute individuals/nonprofits/funders & freeze assets.🧵

The National Archives under the Trump administration released @mikiesherrill.bsky.social full, unredacted Navy personnel file to Jack Ciattarelli's campaign. This is an unprecedented and illegal weaponization of the National Archives and private, personal records to attack a political opponent.

Let’s spell this out. Trump fired a qualified U.S. attorney who refused to do his bidding and installed his own personal lawyer to punish a perceived opponent. Justice needs to follow the law, not politics. This is an attack on the rule of law. Full stop.

We’ve been stymied for months trying to trace what’s happening to taxpayer dollars. No matter how hard we tried, we kept hitting dead ends. I’m not alone. Even members of Congress are in the dark. Even the nerdiest budget wonks. So we wrote about why.

This is what we mean when we say the right wing will deliberately break vital government functions so they can try to justify privatizing them. This is self-inflicted dysfunction: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/b...

I see this popping up over and over again. People just do not think America is safe anymore. Partly it's the endless mass shootings. But of course these days it's just as much that simply coming here as a tourist -- much less trying to work here -- is an invitation to detention.

My old home state of Missouri is an anti-democratic nightmare place now. Gerrymandered to death, any safeguards for the people’s will about to be outlawed.

They’re going to use this shutdown to get rid of more key people— and hope in the chaos nobody fights back.

Was over at PCC Southeast tonight, and for a campus that suffers from big car parking problems, and is also served by multiple bus lines, I DON’T LOVE the fact that their “welcome to campus” messaging is all about driving a car. It also has good bike parking there — maybe not so car-centric?

Took the Hulu/Disney monthly subscription amount we axed, and used it to almost double my OPB pledge. You can too, when public media is under attack: www.opb.org/give/?

How's a net zero home perform 13 years on? Dig deep with this NPR article; it's giving me the itch to finally quit the gas stove I've been limping along with for 20+ years: www.npr.org/2025/09/20/n...

This is unhinged ranting from an unstable person — an hour of petty grievance when you have 15 minutes at the UN General Assembly? Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/c...

This isn't about antifa, this is about the NGO's. The goal here is to eliminate philanthropic support to major liberal groups through intimidation. They're going to starve liberal groups of funding while hitting them with millions in legal fees from investigations. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

-cutting 10s of millions of $s for more than 50 autism-related studies -rolling back protections from air pollution, which studies link to autism -reversing bans on chemicals, including TCE, also linked to autism -Ending her autism research & gov career 👇 www.propublica.org/article/rfk-...

In December 2023, Special Counsel Jack Smith asked SCOTUS to grant cert before judgement to hear Trump’s immunity appeal. The court rejected that request and didn’t issue its immunity decision until July 2024. Trump’s federal cases never made it to trial before the November 2024 election.

Oh, another thing they found a way to blame on women / moms, of course, without decent evidence: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/h...

More than that. "The FBI ***recorded*** Tom Homan taking the money "after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration."

Strong @thedollop.bsky.social vibes in this story about Oregon & Oregon State #hats www.oregonlive.com/collegefootb...

Correcting myself since I didn't read carefully enough in my haste; this doesn't go into effect immediately, it goes into effect in 29 hours, at 12:01 AM on Sunday morning.

Cancelled my Hulu / Disney subscription tonight. ABC needs to stand up to FCC/administration intimidation and: