It’s galling how little humanity Democrats even pretend to have. Congresswoman Andrea Salinas sent me a newsletter about Iran. She mentioned gas prices and the dozen or so US service members killed. No mention of the thousands of Iranians and Lebanese people the US and Israel have killed.

Senator Elissa Slotkin: “Hasan calls me stupid every two weeks. Who would go on a show that calls you stupid all the time?” (paraphrased) Also Senator Elissa Slotkin: Been on Fox News multiple times.

Really happy with how these photos from LA turned out. A quick read with some cool shots of the protest after No Kings on my Substack!

About two years ago I reported on a protest aimed at passing a Gaza ceasefire resolution in Multnomah County. Spearheaded by Jewish Voice for Peace, the action was relatively successful, but some county commissioners felt calling for a “permanent” ceasefire was too far, so they watered it down.

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one of the big problems with people calling for the 25th amendment is that it seems entirely disconnected from *who would have to take steps to implement the 25th*. like, nobody says, "J.D. Vance and Hegseth must implement the 25th amendment" bec everyone knows that sounds ridiculous.

It’s funny that people dump on Portland progressives for making things complicated, then Loretta Smith can talk for ten minutes to make social housing 10x more complicated than it needs to be and add a bunch of restrictions that would hamstring it from the outset. Amendment got 4/12 votes btw.

Closing the Strait of Hormuz, maybe the smartest business move of all time.

Huh. Sounds like the “ceasefire” isn’t going too well.

Linktree banned my article URL for “hate speech,” presumably because it has the word “genocide” in the title. Congrats guys. Didn’t even know they could just block your links. What a site.

In one breath Trump threatens to commit genocide in Iran. In the next he says “God bless the people of Iran!” This is the language of an abusive imperialist power. It’s “look what you’re making me do” when in reality he could end this whenever he wants.

Los Angeles Bluesky, I need your help. I just learned that on Saturday at the protest at the downtown Metropolitan Detention Center, a friend’s 18-year-old son was shot in the eye with a pepper ball by DHS, permanently blinding him. He needs justice. If you were there and saw anything, please… 1/5

Colorado Aves fans wondering when the April Fools joke is gonna end as they are losing to the worst team in the NHL at home.

Look how Subaru has massacred their cars into GMC-like humvees that are better at rolling over pedestrians than being a functional vehicle that can fit in a regular parking space.

A feature, not a bug, of the Ellison purchase. Destroy a newsroom and there’s no one to report on your depravity.

I’m gonna say it, PDX should get a PWHL (women’s hockey) team instead of a baseball team. Need someone to root for who doesn’t let me down.

Can the San Jose Sharks please go back to scoring three goals in the first five minutes, then playing like garbage for the rest of the game but somehow pulling through? I’m not enjoying this playing like crap the whole time with a few good moments thing.

Western imperialists are psychopaths. Robin J Brooks, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute, argues America should give Iran a “taste of their own medicine” with an oil embargo. Truly some of the most unhinged framing I’ve seen. Read my thoughts: open.substack.com/pub/lastweek...

A bit of a silly survey considering that most Americans can’t even comprehend what it’s like having a fkn subway. Also, as others pointed out, based on >75% of the population living in rural/suburban areas, this actually indicates that people would generally prefer an urban shift.

Love to see the Ducks upset the “hottest team” in the NHL. Icing on the cake was Rasmus Dahlin getting laid tf out a minute before the game winning goal.

Tom Dundon’s (new Blazer’s owner) net worth is ~$1.5-2B. About a third of his wealth could cover the entirety of the Moda Center renovations. In 2025, 48% of Oregonians said they would be unable to cover a $500 emergency. The state/city/county have offered $870M in public funds for renovations.

With just three days left, we’re leaving it all on the field with canvass launches all across the district!

Portland Mayor Keith Wilson claimed to have intel on the January 31 “Labor Says ICE Out” protest that drew thousands to the Portland ICE building. He said a group “infiltrated” the event to cause “civil unrest,” but his account does not appear to line up with footage from the event.

I’m pretty frustrated that I’ve learned about the details of this process by reading the news. Gotta say that I am concerned that a junket hosted by our counterparty in the deal is shaping our approach to the deal.

Seeing a lot of headlines, but finding no credible indication that Iran has drones with the range to conduct an attack on California. Unless they have a new drone, it appears they’d need to launch from a ship in the middle of the Pacific, likely East of Hawaii. Obviously a suicide mission.

Truly nothing quite like Western media. It takes talent to craft these combinations of passive and active voice.

Protesters and tenants near the Portland ICE building have each pulled off legal wins restricting federal agents’ use of chemical munitions. While ICE activity in Oregon has remained low compared to the fall, Migra Watch trainings continue as a way for community members to get involved.

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In honor of international women’s day (yesterday), I encourage everyone to listen to The Women’s War. It’s a truly fantastic podcast about the autonomous region of Rojava in North and East Syria where women took up arms and fought ISIS—and are continuing to fight for true liberation.

Remember when Bibi spent 30 years saying Iran was weeks away from a nuclear bomb?

NYT can’t resist paying columnists to encourage wars. I can’t resist shitting on them for their moronic orientalist opinions. Thomas “Israel had me at hello” Friedman has some thoughts on the war, including that this is to “bring democracy” to Iran. At least he’s not Bret Stephens I guess.

"[E]nvironmental disaster in Tehran." "[C]hoking-levels of smoke, and black raindrops full of toxic oil falling." "[P]oisoning civilians, devastating the environment, and endangering lives on a massive scale." #Iran #USA #Israel #Military #Water #Air #Genocide #FossilFuels #Climate

Listening to Chicago Blackhawks fans try to start a “USA” chant as they’re losing to the Vancouver Canucks, the worst team in the entire league, smh.

The UN Charter is a publicly available, easily accessible document. A simple search makes it abundantly clear that the US-Israeli strikes on Iran are an illegal act of aggression. Yet the word “illegal” does not show up in the headlines or even in the body text of most articles.

Israel, immediately after vaporizing a bunch of little girls:

I just want to sleep, but our deranged leaders are dead set on launching us into a global conflict that will likely kill thousands, if not orders of magnitude more. This attack is a violation of international law. There is no justification. The US and Israel are lawless, genocidal terror states.

In a leaked video, Portland City Administrator Raymond Lee says city officials are committed to the ICE facility staying open. Activists have pushed to close the facility for months, but multiple extensions have been given to the building’s owner to challenge the land use violation. Read more:

The US men’s hockey fiasco revealed a schism between the players and the reality of their fans. Nowhere is it more stark than Minnesota. The three Wild players on the team all went to the SOTU not even two months after two of their communities members were executed.

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News outlets "likely hesitated to publish important leaks after seeing what happened" to Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson, whose home the government raided, FPF's Seth Stern said. Read more from @brianstelter.bsky.social:

I question what the point of the State of the Union even is, especially if this guy is just gonna lie for 90mins straight.

Let’s do some masochistic State of the Union coverage right here. I’m just gonna start posting in this thread, but feel free to add your comments as we go. Suffering together! #SOTU2026

Breaking MS NOW: Agents with the FBI's elite evidence response team were delayed in reaching the scene of a mass shooting at Brown U. in December because there was no FBI plane available. Kash Patel was in south Florida at the time with one of the FBI's two available jets.

Some thoughts on the US men’s hockey drama because this is a strange intersection of things I pay attention to (hockey/politics): Being drunk isn’t an excuse (who even knows if they were). In fact, I’m more likely to tell Trump he can fuck right off if I’m drunk, not laugh at his sexist comments.

Wild to see the US men’s hockey team laughing with Trump about having to invite the women to the state of the union when the boys got out shot 42-28 and barely scraped out a win thanks largely to Connor Hellebuyck making 41 saves.

Ya know, if Kash Patel’s FBI wasn’t assisting immigration enforcement, compiling lists of dissidents and labeling them terrorists, firing veteran officers for criticizing Trump, allowing Epstein list predators to run free, and his Olympic trip wasn’t paid for by our tax dollars, I’d say go off king.

So the DNC did an autopsy of why they lost in 2024, said they would release it, then didn’t release it, and now Axios is reporting the DNC found Gaza was one of the reasons they lost votes. They’ve been accused of withholding the report because of this. What do you think?

The ghosts have told Quinn Hughes to smile after his brother scored the game winning goal. 3v3 is a stupid way to end an Olympic hockey game, but was a decent game overall. Hellebuyck was insane this round.

I remember reading the story allegedly connecting two immigrants shot by Border Patrol to Tren de Aragua. The details didn’t seem to add up to anything substantial. But Portland Police Chief Bob Day alluded to a connection, “a nexus to involvement,” at a press conference the day after the shooting.