Matt Chorpenning, MSW

billionaires have invested in media not because they support journalism but because they want to control it. there is only downside to a free press for people with that level of wealth. journalism is a great equalizer and they don’t want us to be equal.

100%

for the record I was wrong. fuck schumer, impossible to read this as anything but pathetic boomer racism.

It’s truly scary how few mainstream publications are willing to publish working class voices and perspectives (let alone leftist ones), and every one we lose is yet another blow to the fragile hope for a better world

Which maybe is why Dems accomplish so little while in power and are so bad at communicating about what little good they do. It may be part of why mainstream Dems are so resistant to candidates like Mamdani who make an affirmative case for progressive policies that wins over more conservative voters

I feel like Ezra Klein is doing a great job of illustrating that, for far too many Democrats, winning isn't about making a strong case for the things you believe in so much as it's about contorting your beliefs to fit polls or what you think is in polls for the sake of winning.

Dayanne Figueroa was on her way to get coffee before heading to work when she encountered a chaotic scene in West Town: heavily armed, masked federal agents making arrests on a residential street. People yelled as vehicles honked their horn — a sign now used to alert neighbors that immigration federal agents are in the area — and witnesses said federal agents had arrested several landscaper workers presumed to be in the country without authorization. As Figuero tried to drive through the 1600 block of West Hubbard Street on Friday, Oct. 10, an unmarked vehicle driven by federal agents collided with Figueroa’s as it tried to speed away from a hostile crowd, multiple videos reviewed by the Tribune show. Seconds after the crash, agents abruptly stopped their vehicle and exited with weapons in hand pointing at Figueroa, a U.S citizen. Agents then forcibly opened her door and pulled her out of the vehicle by her legs without identifying themselves, presenting a warrant or informing her that she was under arrest. As bystanders yelled, “You hit her! We have it on video!” agents ignored the crowd and forced Figueroa into a red minivan and drove away. Her car was left behind in the middle of the road, her coffee still in the cup holder, and her keys in plain view.

In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.

Time for a Renters Bill of Rights, not mass arrests and further criminalization of those in poverty.

A SSRS/CNN poll showing 61% people think Trump has gone too far using the power of the presidency and 57% think he's gone too far deporting immigrants.

People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.

Please reach out to your city council members and the mayor’s office and tell them WE DO NOT WANT THIS. Homeless people are our neighbors. We can’t sit by while our mayor is enacting this cruelty.

People are losing their jobs, losing access to food assistance and health care. More people are going to be at risk of homelessness and instead of investing in housing people can afford he’s warehousing people in overnight shelters and jails.

Meanwhile, legal experts in the city are saying that those arrested are likely to spend MONTHS in jail waiting for trial. And for what? Who benefits from criminalizing homelessness? Our city will not be improved through mass incarceration.

Wilson is in fact trying to “arrest our way out of homelessness.” His overnight shelters are not the housing our homeless neighbors want or need. They are just an excuse to conduct “sweeps” which make it harder for people to access housing bc their meds, IDs, and belongings get stolen and destroyed.

they're saying zohran mamdani is too handsome to be mayor of new york. they're saying the mayor has to be a weird little freak. it's in the bylaws

Between the erosion of NSF GRFP and the pause or suspension of various postdocs that actually benefit those who receive them, there sure are a lot of closing doors these days

Gray-Lipped RFK Jr. Touts Body’s Natural Ability To Transmute Lead Into Gold WASHINGTON—Praising the process as yet another miracle of biology that modern medicine chooses to ignore, a gray-lipped Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke at a press conference Wednesday during which he tout...

Gray-Lipped RFK Jr. Touts Body’s Natural Ability To Transmute Lead Into Gold

An ideology of rugged individualism only exists, and has only ever existed, in societies whose existence belies it

Or to put it a different way:

Earlier this year, a landlord in open court whilst on the stand said there was no way the discrimination they did was illegal because if it was, they wouldn't have been able to do it.

If you’re looking at this list and thinking “Wow! So many names that have been put forward as rising stars with presidential potential,” you now understand why people are disillusioned with the party.

Without SNAP: Finding Assistance in Uncertain Times Without SNAP: Finding Assistance in Uncertain Times Due to the completely preventable shutdown, the USDA says “the well has run dry” in regards to SNAP benefits. Beginning November 1st, SNAP benefits...

Thread 🧵: Food Assistance By State/Territory

The document below lists previously established food assistance programs, searchable by state.

Each state and territory is also listed alphabetically in the thread comments.

Help will come and go, so pls use this thread to update info for your state:

Food Resource List - PDX Food Resources PDX Share this sheet to amplify these existing resources to support individuals & families in accessing food during this government shutdown. A delay in SNAP means over 750,000 families...

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Portland, Oregon updated list of local food pantries, shelters, and mutual aid during this government shutdown. Even if you don’t need these resources, someone in your community will! #PDX

bit.ly/FoodPDX2025

Can comfirm

“They were careless people, … they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made"

- F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

It’s basically Deep Space Nine.

YouTube video by Welcome Home Coalition Finding Home: Portland's Homelessness Crisis from the People Who've Lived It

youtu.be/PZP5YvAOnXs

Watch this. And then go and sign the petition and share it.

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3 billionaires together own twice as much wealth as half of Oregonians combined - Oregon Center for Public Policy In what may be the first ever estimate of wealth inequality in Oregon, a new report by the Oregon Center for Public Policy (OCPP) finds that three

Some people see Oregon’s government as a deep blue democracy, but it’s actually the evolution from a whites only resource colony into an oligarchy (watch who Tina Kotek & state leg jump for) & is now on its way to becoming a resource colony again (land and cheap power playing host to data centers).

People don’t wanna pay for subscriptions but are also mad about pop-up ads but also want high quality journalism

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Just completely vile

I’m not going to take the turkey out of the freezer until it’s defrosted.

jd vance's partner is so mad about the erika kirk thing, he's no longer allowed to sleep on the couch