Phil Knight is almost single handedly funding the OR GOP, one of the more extreme state GOPs in the country. Keep that in mind next time you’re in the market for sportswear or sneakers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Marjorie Taylor Greene quit Congress because all her racist fascist friends are racist and fascist for clout and she is, mistakenly, a true believer.

If only our society took major crimes by rich people as seriously as minor crimes by poor people. Ideally more seriously. But as seriously would be a big improvement.

in retrospect the metoo movement did not go too far and in fact should have been given spanish inquisition levels of power and authority

In light of current reminders about how powerful rich men exploit and assault young women under the safety and guise of various forms of “employment,“ just wanna give a shout out to NYT for this gem last week where we learned about how #metoo *actually* ended harming the workplace. 🙄

I can't go to anti-ICE meetings or trainings, but I'm printing out fliers and distributing them with whistles solo and I've been so heartened by how enthusiastic everyone I've talked to has been. Feel free to use this Portland Oregon flier to distribute whistles in your neighborhood.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

If I was a GOP strategist, I’d be pretty worried about diluting my safe +15 districts into a bunch of +5 gerrymandered districts after tonight.

Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.

Un-presidented brass band at city hall in Portland tonight celebrating the release of their clarinet player from federal custody

I would happily pay a few bucks to read that New Yorker article on the condition that I do NOT have to subscribe and I bet they'd get more money out of me each year than if I did.

Solidarity is the only way

People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

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.

We keep each other safe. If you see ICE or if you know someone who’s been detained, call the PIRC hotline: 1-888-622-1510. Make sure you’re using the CLEAR model (Count, Location, Equipment, Activity, and Report Time) when you call.

If your Klein be Naomi, then listen, homie; But if your Klein be Ezra, disregard what he sezra

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

ICE has reportedly just taken two North Portland residents, one who was on his way to work and another who was with their 13-year-old child outside of a school. The kidnapping of our neighbors is horrific and unacceptable.

Hey @tinakotek.bsky.social check out how a real leader acts

@tinakotek.bsky.social between lowering the flag for Kirk and upholding the federal vaccine restrictions what even is your play here? Are you switching parties?

I didn’t realize this was real but it is newrepublic.com/post/200403/...

Wapo article does a good job covering two realities: How deeply watching a parents‘ immigration arrest affects kids, and how DC residents are organizing “walking buses” and neighborhood lookouts to help kids with immigrant parents get safely to school. wapo.st/3VNYZ08

@tinakotek.bsky.social why aren’t you issuing a standing order to make the Covid vaccine readily available? Delaying creates confusion, reduces uptake and furthers an anti-vaccine agenda.

Highest level of support since Gallup started asking this question a quarter century ago

Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing

Anti-ICE/Gestapo protest - Chicago, IL Right now!

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

RFK Jr.'s #2 is stepping in as acting CDC director. You need to call your Congress people now and demand hearings until RFK is forced out. They're politically weak for another 48-72 hours, then they'll do unbelievable damage in the next month. Show me that you called and I will give you a reward 👇

REMINDER: in this moment, the thing you want your Congressperson to do is (1) demand resignations and (2) threaten endless hearings. Impeachment isn't going to work. Read the article if you don't want to take my word for it - Larry is the most respected health law expert in America.

Too bad that our legal and institutional safeguards only work to prevent good policies. It would be cool if they also stopped the evil stuff

i'm the guy who invented the spike traps that pop out of temple walls. i hate my job. every day my boss says "why haven't we killed any archeologists" and i say "they haven't invented that yet." they pay me in tomb juice. i hate tomb juice. honestly i might just start working on my big boulder idea

75+ Nobel Prize winners have signed a letter urging senators not to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as head of the Department of Health and Human Services. The letter marks the first time in recent memory that Nobel laureates have banded together against a Cabinet choice.

12 people at dinner yesterday and everyone took a PCR grade Metrix test and we had CO2 under 800 all evening. Feeling good about balancing risk and fun.

New: Portland mayoral candidate Rene Gonzalez, who finished in a distant third, was just fined an additional $9,000 for new set of campaign finance violations. City auditor says RG repeatedly failed to return excessive contributions in a timely manner. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Portland voters had embraced law-and-order centrists in recent high-profile local races. This week, they largely rejected a crop of city and county candidates running on similar platforms. My latest (while still wretchedly ill): www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Whoever convinced Tim Walz to repeatedly agree with Vance and normalize him instead of calling him weird, retire bitch

This goes hard.

Straight to hell

From “technically it isn’t fascism” to “technically it wasn’t an insurrection” to “technically it’s not a genocide,” our intellectuals are really making a bold show of their commitment to sophistry and semantics above any meaningful confrontation with the realities of their time.

Just catching up? Our one-stop guide at Bolts captures a lot of what happens. 1. Weed & abortion win in OH 2. Dems win in KY, VA, NJ 3. GOP keeps MS 4. Strong night for PA Dems: sweep judges, & more 5. Plenty of losses for M4L 6. Aff housing wins in Seattle. And much else:

Really love watching Republicans find out after so much fucking around

we should let this dude organize one expedition per year just to keep morale up

just spoke with the mods... they said theyre adding DMs on this web site as soon as they get one user who people actually want to talk to

i still shudder at logan roy's line "you are not serious people." absolute harshest insult