Kotek is the “Plunder Oregon” Governor

No Immunity for Big Oil: Protect Oregon’s Right to Hold Polluters Accountable Big Oil is lobbying Congress for total legal immunity from any laws or lawsuits that could hold them accountable for their role in the climate crisis. If successful, a legal shield for polluters would...

🚨 Big Oil is lobbying Congress for total legal immunity from any climate laws or lawsuits.

In Oregon, federal immunity for Big Oil would stop critical accountability efforts like MultCo v. Exxon + the Climate Superfund in their tracks.

Urge Oregon's members of Congress to say #NoImmunity! 👇

PGE, Pac and NW Natural rates are all up 50% or more since 2020

If you read local papers you'd have *no* idea Portland is spending less on government per capita than it was six years ago.

The Swiss commentator is telling viewers about Israel’s war crimes that the team’s pilot has openly supported while the Israeli bobsleigh team is racing.

Looking at what's on the table with funds that were found at the PHB... I think it's a good time to remember some of the players in the city.

Street full of people at Pike place

Street full of people at Pike place

Idk if this whole pedestrianization pilot is working out. There's too many people now. Can we scare some of them away with cars?

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese defended the decision to invite Israel's President Isaac Herzog to Australia, saying, "When the Jewish community asked for their head of state to visit, I think it is appropriate that people be allowed to mourn."

Look I am not a fan of this arrangement but isn't their head of state King Charles www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

This should be less understood as "white immigrants are in equal danger" and more "a machine that eats misery will eat everything in its path"

Actually, no economist will make such a statement. The strong consensus of economic opinion is it will make zero difference to the long term economic health of the region. Here is a summary of 130 studies by three of the leading scholars on the subject: scholar.google.com/citations?vi...

Reminder:

We don't *have* to give all the urban space to motorists. It's a choice.

Puerto Rico hasn't had reliable power in a decade.

The grid sends occasional surges through the wires that fry appliances.

Electricity rates are among the highest in the entire U.S.

Heat waves are getting intense in the summer, and outages mean A/C is no guarantee for an aging population.

Shannon Airport used for refuelling Ice deportation flights 10 times in past year The controversial agency chartered small private aircraft for the removal operations

Irish Times: US aircraft carrying out secretive deportations to Africa and the Middle East have landed in Shannon Airport on 10 occasions in the last year. Deportees are kept in chains on the aircraft.
Our Govt does not want to know.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026... @gbrockell.bsky.social

Backup dancers pretend to fall from electrical poles

Next is "El Apagón" (the blackout) which I could write a whole thread about on its own

The song and its video (a mini documentary) are about a lot of things, including the problems with Puerto Rico's electrical grid, which have gotten worse since Hurricane Maria

The NSW Supreme Court just upheld the protest ban in the Sydney CBD during Herzog’s visit on the basis that it’s a declared ‘major event’.

It’s a bad precedent, and could mean the NSW Government can push almost protest of a visiting leader - including Donald Trump - out of the CBD.

The end of DOE’s grid work in Puerto Rico The Trump administration has canceled all eight of the remaining awards devoted to distributed energy on the island.

Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

(b) Portland councilors were seemingly caught completely off-guard by the proposal.

Glad I spent weeks fretting about whether $15m of PCEF funding would be better spent on housing or transport, while Donnie Olievera was quietly cooking up an idea so destructive as to make that issue seem trivial.

Two key indicators of business interests' continued influence Portland media and institutions is present here: (a) the O's "straight" coverage of this story implies that throwing $100s of millions of public money at a stadium to benefit a pro sports team *owned by billionaires* is reasonable, and–

Contrary to The Oregonian, giving $75m in PCEF funds to renovate the Moda Center would not "stretch the limit of what the fund is intended to do;" it would be a complete perversion of the what the fund is meant to do.

Wild that accountability at the City of Portland is being posed as a punitive measure and a threat to job security when the biggest threat to job security is likely Mayor Wilson. How may department directors have been ousted by him again?

U.S. citizen injured by federal agents in Salem who demanded to see “papers,” union says - Salem Reporter A home care worker and union worker was pulled from her car and injured by federal agents Thursday according to a statement by SEIU 503. To comment on this story, use the form at the end of the repor...

4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...

that little girl has every right to be on the sidewalk of her own damn city. she lives here. i don't want to hear any shit about how she shouldn't have been down there. she is a citizen of portland oregon and she is entitled to use of our public sidewalks at all times

the Eugene Police Department narrative that protesters broke a window and attempted to enter the federal building is a lie. The entire basis on which they declared a riot and CBP justified its later escalation was a lie.

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

I join my City Councilors in calling for prosecution of ICE for this flagrant violation of city and state law. This is illegal, and if ICE does this to families and children on a sunny peaceful daytime protest, I shudder to think what they do without that kind of daylight and public scrutiny.

A mother and their 15 year old describe getting gassed and seeing young children in pain. #Portland #ICEOut #Pretti

This cycle protest is massive #Portland