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This isn’t true, but it is true that slaveowners routinely enslaved and sold their children.

If federal workers have to go without a paycheck and Americans are having SNAP benefits cut off, members of Congress who can’t keep the government open should not be paid, either.

Right-wing agitators at the Portland ICE facility appear to have committed multiple illegal acts on Saturday night.

Not included in this video is the crowd going to a resident’s apartment across from the ICE facility and live-streaming their harassment.

This dark time should wake us up to the bankruptcy of the corporate Democratic Party. It should mark the birth of the people’s Democratic Party. Zohran Mamdani and others like him are its future. Some thoughts...

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-mamdani-moment

I'm Just A Bill cartoon from the Schoolhouse Rocks series.

"Sorry, kid. I'm just a fiction of American democracy."

I could just stop doing interviews and send this

The rapid response trucks and soon the police are his version of spending a bunch of money to round people up. It’s disgusting and I hope our council finds ways to make him stop.

This should not surprise anyone who listened to him on the campaign trail.

The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year.

In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.

Meanwhile, ODOT and regional policymakers and the Oregon Legislature continue to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars towards proposed freeway expansions that are also getting defunded instead of filling budget holes to replace bridges that’ll otherwise fall in the river when The Big One comes

imagine if getting across town was just a totally inconsequential thing you could do without any drama or anything. nobody asks if you paid, nobody needs to see your pass, nobody bothers you at all. you get on, you go someplace, you get off.

doctor, park, work, food truck you saw online, whatever.

Key quote from the great Lewis Mumford in 1955 — “Adding car lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.”

It's a goal of mine to help make this the most famous, well-known and UNDERSTOOD quote about cities in history. Please share it as much as you can.

#portland
#fuckfascism
#epstein

When the nightmare is behind us, the old one will return. The blocs that existed before this crisis will exist, reemerging from those now making up the resistance. The center-right bloc responsible for ’16, ’20, and ’24 will be there again, fighting for “common sense” and against leftist “fantasy”

The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom

Remember this one? “Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom.” Via Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social #CityMakingMath

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

The key is not to expand the space available to cars—that produces sprawl and unwalkable, unlivable cities.

When you restrict the car space, and prioritize space for more efficient modes—that’s when you discover you have space left over for living.

It’s never about healthcare. It’s about insurance plans.

It's wild how quickly we bounced from "is it wrong to call conservatives fascist?" to "we're officially labeling liberals as a terrorist organization."

It's extra wild because we don't have any official policy for dealing with fascists, but we have crystal clear, official policy to kill terrorists.

No. Under vought’s interpretation, federal employees working during the shutdown will get paid once government reopens. ie: military, air traffic controllers, TSA, ICE, etc.

Its employees who are not working that he does not want to pay.

Two things felt different to the ppl I spoke with who’d been protesting at the ICE building for months.

1st was the sheer volume of tear gas, pepper balls and flash-bangs used, seemingly unprovoked.

2nd was seeing so many videographers/live-streamers embedded with the feds as they marched out.

Here's what BikeLoud wrote to PBOT about removing our safe street infrastructure.

As your non-profit bike group we can be LOUD.
Together we can be LOUDER.

Find addresses for
@mayorkwilson.bsky.social & @portlandcouncil.bsky.social here: www.portland.gov/help/contact...

Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile | Clinton Street Theater Encore screening of The Onion’s mockumentary Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile. One night only.

Alright, whatever. We added a 10:00 PM show since you all wouldn't shut the fuck up about it. cstpdx.com/event/jeffre...

To call what 47 is doing in PDX "bad for business" is peak PBA. It's bad for our civil liberties, our democracy, our lives. And y'all are worried about your profits?! You think "coming together as a community" when the regime sends troops here means shopping at your stores? Fuck all the way off.

It would be much more productive if NPR ran a story about how the rise in pedestrian deaths is actually a policy and infrastructure failure unique to the US.

Charlie Kirk was a hateful man who spewed vile, hateful vitriol for money. That so many Dems have voted to memorialize him out of fear of elite backlash is a moral crime that has endangered us all by giving even more ground to fascists. Klein is part of that and should be ignored on political advice

Complaining about a cyclists/pedestrians dark clothes that you saw them wearing is poetry.

Highway filled with cars

Wide urban arterial filled with cars

Wide one-way street in a downtown filled with cars

Highway filled with cars

Bike-lanes don’t cause traffic congestion.

Car dependency, foolish land-use sprawl, too many (& bigger) cars driving too much taking up too much space, highly subsidized driving costs, and not enough choices in how to get around, ALL cause traffic congestion.

Think about it. THAT’S common sense.

The Speaker Emerita of the Minnesota House was gunned down in her home and slaughtered along with her husband and dog, and Trump didn't say a thing.

Half-mast, my ass.