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the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles

Thank you for your leadership, Governor Pritzker. It’s important to name what Trump is doing directly and reassure our communities that we categorically reject this intimidation.

"My name is Michael Liu and I am the current chair of the Portland Metro Chamber and also the owner and operator of Fubonn shopping center out in Southeast Portland. I came here mostly, and I want to say thank you for everyone for showing up, but our main reasons for coming together was to strongly back the mayor's request for calm and to what all the other electives said, and let's not take the bait. When the Trump administration deployed the National Guard in DC, restaurants and small business retail fell by over 30% that's not what Portland needs right now. The chamber is made up of over 2200 members, most of them small businesses, and they're all throughout our city. Downtown has seen a big increase in the amount of foot traffic that it has seen. These are all positive signs of the recovery Portland is making right now. So basically, this is bad for business, and it will set back the progress our city has been making over the last few years. I guess on a personal appeal and everything, I think what we should do to combat this is go out and support our neighborhoods. Go out and support downtown. Go and visit all the small businesses in the neighborhood. We have a great weather this weekend, and it's a great time to go out and support local businesses. Fubonn has been supported. We're coming up on 20 years right now, and it's because of everyone in the community coming together to to be a part of it. So it's time for us to go back, love our city, love our neighbors, and just be Portland."

The Portland Metro Chamber, which over the past five years has constructed the narrative that Portland is a crime-infested city where you can't go anywhere to feel safe, said in a press conference that Portlanders should fight against Trump's deployment of federal agents by purchasing more things.

So sad I missed it! Could anyone let me know how to make a donation to the defense fund? I’m remembering some mention of Venmo

Gavin Newsom is a genuinely bad person and any admiration you have for him needs to be directed toward actually good people like JB Pritzker or Andy Beshear.

Another approach: Shortly after Wilson's news dropped today, Seattle announced it's suing Trump over his anti-DEI orders.

The weirdest reality is that if ANY other POTUS suggested this, it would be an immediate 25th Amendment/impeachment crisis.

Everything with Trump has been unbelievably surreal because extremely wealthy white men see him as an opportunity to reshape America into their authoritarian capitalist schema

Man on life support from injury during immigration raid in Ventura County, family says A man is on life support after he was injured during an immigration raid at an agricultural area of Camarillo on Thursday, according to a family member.

Hearing from UFW spokesperson just now that this man has died.

I'm OK with Democrats going on Fox News to counter misinformation and debate the conservative hosts or moderators. Going on Fox News to slam another Democrat should get you stripped of your committee assignments and DCCC funding.

Come on. Look at the transcript. What Mamdani "has said about the Jewish people" is that "antisemitism is a real issue in our city" & he wants to increase "funding for anti-hate crime programming by 800%" & "what we need to do is focus on keeping Jewish New Yorkers safe." bsky.app/profile/kenk...

A secret, never-mentioned fact is that the people who voted for Zohran are also taxpayers.

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Historically speaking, what's abnormal isn't 30-somethings entering leadership positions, it's 88 year olds running for re-election to Congress.

Democrats: why won't young people get involved if they want something different

Young people: okay we'll run for stuff and make positive change 😁

Democrats: *horrified shrieking*

34,000 already employed by NYPD. Before overtime, $11 billion in taxpayer funds. Largest police force in world.

Cuomo calling for 5000 more. Base starting salary alone: $300 million more.

Could instead fund violence interruption & summer youth employment in every NYC neighborhood for 5 years.

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:

1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long

All lies.

entire block of crowd control barricades arranged to accommodate a long line of people at security, empty

One block over from the White House: the aspirational security line setup

just please remember, whatever the news says about LA after this, that this is *always* how it goes. Everything is extremely calm until the police actively escalate for no reason. It was true during all the BLM protests and it’s true now.

With the tragic assassination of a Minnesota Democratic leader, I’m going to underline this point again.

The main issue that bothers me about immigrants working in this country is that we continue to support a two-tier system of wages that creates an underpaid foreign underclass because we don’t force corporations and billionaires to pay their fair share into our economy

A sign of how fundamentally broken and inadequate to the moment our information and media ecosystem is when the president is deploying the military to crush protests against his mass kidnapping scheme, and the question is whether those who oppose it are being nice enough.

It’s so plainly and obviously righteous to resist mass deportations with force that I think the people who want to convince us to be more afraid of the protestors than of ICE must imagine their audiences to be very stupid.

Today RFK and co. removed the COVID vaccine from the CDC's recommended immunization schedule for children and pregnant people.

This is junk science. COVID puts children and pregnant people at higher risk for ER visits and hospitalizations, and Long COVID can cause chronic health issues for anyone.

Aside from the fact that anyone can get seriously ill from COVID, a key point they are deliberately hiding when removing access is that COVID vaccines reduce transmission. People choose to get vaccinated to protect other people. It is wrong and harmful to take that choice away.

Disarray at Department of Veterans Affairs imperils patient care, internal documents reveal Unit closures, reduced hours of operation and exam backlogs reported after Trump administration reductions

Trump chaos at the VA: at Danville VA “so many nurses resigned that closed the acute care unit to new patients;”
“a backlog of 2,298 unread radiology exams in Orlando, Florida;” “more than 14,000 VA employees in healthcare positions had applied to leave their jobs”

people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future

Dems in Congress's fun reward for not expelling all the disqualified insurrectionists who voted to overturn the 2020 election (as the United States Constitution requires) is that Republicans in Congress are now demanding their arrest.

People’s Depot aims to change the narrative on canners Oregonians use thousands of single-use beverage containers every day. Recycling them is a low-barrier job for Portlanders known as ‘canners.’

Oregonians use thousands of single-use beverage containers every day. Recycling them is a low-barrier job for Portlanders known as ‘canners.’ The People’s Depot aims to change the narrative on canners’ work.

What y'all aren't gonna do is elect a white supremacist and ask the Black woman who warned y'all what would happen if he were elected to be humble about being right.

Sen. Tillis (R-N.C.) says he’s inclined to support the Grassley-Cantwell bill.

Says he’s heard from constituents worried about the tariffs, esp farmers & restaurant/lodging sectors.

Everyone in red states :: call your reps!!

They are all so evil.