Every day there are multiple instances of blatant corruption. Our government policy is for sale to the highest bidder and every bad actor in the world knows it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/w...

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If you don’t know the rules of the game - or worse, don’t know what game you’re playing - you’re either gonna lose or get lucky. Stop putting the media on a pedestal. The leaders are mediocre people who delude themselves with stories about their exceptionalism. You don’t have to believe them.

Single smartest thing I think blue states could do is go on a MASSIVE home-building spree, bring down rents, and precipitate a massive multi-racial Second Great Migration. Provide shelter for the sane and strip the lunatic states of their power in the House.

Portland’s Mayor, much of City Council, and many Portlanders spent recent days aligning themselves directly with Trump’s policies towards our precariously housed and homeless neighbors, while rabidly promoting a local extension of it. It’s been utterly disgraceful and profoundly disappointing.

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

Hell yes! So pumped for Seattle

This is why Dems should run on creating mechanisms of accountability especially on corruption.

Wild how every single member of the political and business elite went into full drooling fascism the second the prospect of consequences for abhorrent behavior started to seem possible

The rot is everywhere. The clean-up needs to happen everywhere too.

Here's another piece about how Portland's methods, ie sweeps without bountiful supportive housing and services for people to be "swept" into, do not work, and kill people www.propublica.org/article/port...

if you haven't yet weighed in on the fall budget amendment to redirect money away from sweeps and towards rent and food assistance, here's a link to make it easy: www.portlandneighborswelcome.org/supportnotsweeps

Mayor Wilson's sweeps and shelters aren't working. "Wilson’s overnight shelters have remarkably high vacancy rates. Data collected by the city and shared with Multnomah County show some shelters up to 80% vacant on average night over a recent two-month period." www.opb.org/article/2025...

When we build enough supply of homes so that landlords must compete, renters win. "The more properties there are, it drives all of us to lower rents and offer concessions" says the property manager pictured here. bendbulletin.com/2025/11/11/b...

Americans are still experiencing sticker-shock when it comes to housing, with mortgage payments about double pre-covid levels. My @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social Chart

Since 2019, real personal spending has only increased for the top fifth of earners — that’s one reason why Americans don’t think their finances are improving. My @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social Chart

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I went back and watched this exchange today, and the response to Smith’s questions (from her colleagues and the O) encapsulates something that holds Portland back. It is absolutely insane that the City Administrator, who makes $300K+/yr, couldn’t answer this question. youtu.be/MoMbQ4PMRA4

Republicans are for “state’s rights” when that means promoting segregation and tormenting LGBTQ folks. When state’s rights means feeding your state’s residents, they are all in for the federal government ensuring starvation.

Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

“we find that papers involving basic scientists are 38% more likely to become top-1% cited works, an effect that doubles in applied domains…. Basic scientists appear to enhance projects by reframing problems in generalizable terms & connecting disparate literatures”🧪

While US venture capitalists were buying monkey jpegs, and DOGE coins, and figuring out how to get Black women fired, and tweeting about white birthrates, and trying to mandate which bathroom trans kids should use, China was making progress on climate change and taking the lead in a real industry.

Read this thread. This is what @katmabu.bsky.social was protesting, and why she repeatedly says getting beaten up by ICE outside is nothing compared to the torture and crimes being committed inside Broadview. These thugs must be held to account.

There needs to be trials and there needs to be people sent to die in a prison cell. Consequences must fall on the people who issued the orders and those who carried them out. We must make the punishment of these people a national spectacle that will be remembered for generations.

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

Man, Seattle - what the hell happened with the mayoral race? Terrible turnout and a bummer result

Across the country, a pattern is emerging. Donald Shoup (RIP) is ascendant: Parking reform won big everywhere -- the car industry is losing its lock on our urban land, and voters are ending its driving mandates. And transit is getting $$$. *This is the affordability agenda.*

Today in the Supreme Court, the president’s own lawyers said that the American people will pay 30-80% of the $4 trillion in tariffs. Meanwhile, we’re experiencing an affordability crisis: rising costs of groceries, cuts to food benefits, and more. This is a betrayal of trust.

Obviously not the biggest news of the night but all the pro-housing charter amendments are cruising despite the Council Speaker running a scorched earth campaign against them

They gutted the Washington Post. CBS. NYT. Now Teen Vogue. The point isn't to bring in more conservatives. They've reached that saturation point. They are killing the fourth estate and buying up the social media to control the messages we see. These were all targeted to disarm the left of truth.

The welfare state is about dignity, equality, and making people not poor, but as @itsafronomics.bsky.social says/cites here, it’s often also an investment that more than pays for itself

Bugonia… man

Tear gas induces miscarriages. The forced birth, “pro-natalist” crowd is cheering as this chemical weapon blankets American neighborhoods. Anyone who loses their pregnancy because of these goons should press charges. Make them admit to being a white supremacist death cult.

Dallas Fed services comments are LIT this month "generally antibusiness policies being championed by Republican lawmakers and the Trump administration" www.dallasfed.org/research/sur...

Really sucks we spent the 2010s zero interest rate decade debating "Housing for Whom?" with the dumbest people on Earth and now that we've finally begun to change some important laws, interest rates are high, there's a tariff on every building material and construction labor is getting deported.

Allow small apartment buildings everywhere. Yes, everywhere. www.sightline.org/2025/10/28/t...

Strange tags on raided apartments, a slumlord speculator under water with the bank & eviction drives in a gentrifying neighborhood. @rebeccaburns.bsky.social investigates how tenants were systematically targeted during September's military-style raid of a Chicago apartment building @inthesetimes.com

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.

Anyone who (1) takes someone against their will while (2) failing to provide a warrant and (3) obscuring their badge and/or their face should be arrested, regardless of who they work for. If local LEOs allow that to happen at all, it destroys the local rule of law and leaves everyone vulnerable.

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT "A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

hell yes, my time is now

white house has joined bluesky click here to block all official us government accounts instantly bsky.app/profile/did:...

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social