spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

S&P downgrades PacifiCorp to lowest investment-grade rating - Portland Business Journal PacifiCorp last week described a cascade of financial and operational challenges it could face if its credit were to fall below investment grade. It's now a step closer to that happening.

It’s increasingly clear Berkshire’s strategy to keep PacifiCorp solvent in face of wildfire lawsuits is to have its lobbyists pressure state lawmakers into providing liability limits (at ratepayer expense) rather than dipping into Berkshire’s extraordinary profits
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Khanna: And then it’s awfully convenient that those eight senators happen to be the ones who aren’t up in 2026—and they’re all consulting Schumer. People are sick of this. That’s why I called on Schumer to step down.

The original Dem demands were:
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)

They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.

The Senate Democrats!

Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.

Pablo’s been on a roll lately.

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

A t-shirt reading "DICK CHENEY DIED ON THE DAY THAT ZOHRAN MAMDANI WAS ELECTED MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY, NOVEMBER 4, 2025"

Mamdani wins New York City mayoral race, in a historic victory for progressives Mamdani, a democratic socialist and state assemblymember, will make history as the first Muslim and South Asian person — as well as the youngest in over a century — to serve as New York City mayor.

JUST IN: Mamdani, a democratic socialist and state assemblymember, will make history as the first Muslim and South Asian person — as well as the youngest in over a century — to serve as New York City mayor.

I just wish Dick Cheney could have lived to see this.

THEY'RE PLAYING NOT LIKE US AT THE MAMDANI CAMPAIGN RALLY

A picture of a black SUV with text saying: A U.S. citizen was detained by ICE for hours after taking pictures of agents’ unmarked cars in Oregon

Berenice Garcia-Hernandez snapped into action after seeing a Facebook post alerting people to the agents’ presence near a Gresham Chick-fil-A. The person who sounded the social-media alarm said he had been too scared to get pictures of the agents’ license plates.

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His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.

All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:

As a NYer, ”real” “small town” America now looks like a sexual freak zoo run by genital-obsessive xenophobes who make women into living dolls and shoot each other. Mamdani’s NYC (and mine) is a safe, wholesome place where neighbors help each other, do scavenger hunts, ride bikes, and birdwatch.

We've got you 👍

Whoever did this wheat paste of Chara kicking mussolini in the head: I love you

أنا اسمي زهران ممدان وعم رشّح حالي لأكون العمدة الجديد في مدينة نيويورك

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Anderson Cooper, normalizing an authoritarian: "Shouldn't voters obey in advance? Isn't not obeying in advance a hassle? Aren't I, as an extremely wealthy scion, the wrong person for this job? But isn't my gotcha question sparkly?"

I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.

Hey Portland! A column by Councilor Avalos

According to Portland Councilor Avalos, she received an email days before her house caught fire reading “hope the entire state burns and your house is the first one to go."

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These heavily-armed goons in Halloween masks who are terrorizing our children are *federal* agents, thank you, and you will show them the level of respect they deserve

the video being projected behind all the performers on stage

lmao david byrne showed the video of the ice agents tripping over themselves while trying to run after a biker on wacker drive during the “life during wartime” segment of his chicago show tonight

"MEXICO POR LA LIBERTAD" wwii poster

Mexico Versus Nazis is a theme that’s really resonating with me of late

Why hasn't Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva been sworn in yet? Democrats cry foul over delays. Arizona's attorney general filed a lawsuit to get the state's newest representative seated as Democrats continue to point to an effort to release the Epstein files as a reason for the delay.

Today, 36 days after Adelita Grijalva’s election, marks the longest delay in 12 years between a House member winning a special election and being sworn in.

In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape

Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.

Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:

it's a population graph (filled area type) where year is the x axis and population in millions is the Y axis. It shows a steep decline from 1520 to 1545m and by 1576, the population has bottomed out. "Collapse of population in Mexico during the 16th century, attributed in part to repeated cocoliztli epidemics" "Figure 1. The 16th-century population collapse in Mexico, based on estimates of Cook and Simpson (1). The 1545 and 1576 cocoliztli epidemics appear to have been hemorrhagic fevers caused by an indigenous viral agent and aggravated by unusual climatic conditions. The Mexican population did not recover to pre-Hispanic levels until the 20th century."

In 1519, the year Spaniards arrived in Mexico, the population there was between 15 - 30 million.

By 1600, that dwindled to 2 million.

For lots of reasons, but as much as 70% of those deaths were the result of an UNKNOWN hemorrhagic fever.

Let's talk about the mystery of the COCOLIZTLI epidemics.

An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ Patrick Gelsinger, executive chairman of Gloo, has made it his mission to advance Christian principles in Silicon Valley

At a fundamental level, we have to accept much of silicon valley has gone insane.

Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness

honestly the only piece worth reading on the platner situation. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is absolutely cooking here. (gift link)