What is Patel's deal? He always looks like a terrified rodent.

I have no problem with people using their religious values to make personal decisions. I have a huge problem with politicians using their religious values to create policy.

Who is pocketing this money, I wonder. Just another grift.

If the Messiah is coming, I imagine you can manage without my tax dollars.

Oregon’s governor made a deal with Nvidia to get AI education in Oregon schools. What does it mean? • Oregon Capital Chronicle Oregon is one of several states making deals with the trillion-dollar chip maker to get artificial intelligence into K-12, college classes.

Great job @tinakotek.bsky.social .When you disrespect Oregon teachers (again), you lose your job and Oregon ends up with a GOP governor.

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Under no circumstances do we need another dirty development site in East Portland, so please do not roll over for Prologis like your predecessors.

Affordable housing, preschool/child care, a new branch library, tool library, makerspace, depaving for green spaces, farmers market, community gardens, a park, and why not a municipally run grocery store?

What to know about this obscene display of wealth and poor taste? It was made possible on the backs of my students and thousands of workers like them. And I have to beg rich fucks like him for funding to run my small, community ESL program that gets these students job ready. FOR HIM
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Kotek Says Preschool for All Tax Imperiling Oregon Tax Base Kotek wrote to the Multnomah County chair this month to warn about taxpayers leaving to avoid the tax.

Well, thank goodness @tinakotek.bsky.social is prioritizing the feelings of the wealthiest Oregonians
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Kotek Says Preschool for All Tax Imperiling Oregon Tax Base share.google/bgNUM1XdICjG...

Pretty sure I heard 40k in Portland, OR

Thanks for clarifying and having the vision (along with @councilordunphy.bsky.social) to make the proposal. If Prosper Portland actually cared about small businesses in this city, they'd use that slush fund now when times are tight. Instead they are using those small businesses for scaremongering.

Bernie Sanders Has an Idea for the Left: Don’t Run as Democrats The Vermont senator, who has long had a tense relationship with the Democratic Party, suggested in an interview that more progressives should join him in running as independents.

I love Bernard, but I don't love this. Independent voters are looking for whoever is offering them the best deal at the time. There's no coherent strategy, no common values, and no solidarity. I'd much rather see us building a strong and principled Labor party to fight for the working class.

Yes. It's despicable how the US military used these people and then abandoned them.

What we need is a Labor/Workers' party. "Independent" means voting for whoever offers the best deal. A Labor party is about class solidarity. Let's go!

U.S. Is Added to Human Rights Watchlist The United States was added Sunday to the CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist, due to declining civil liberties.

Who's the shithole country now?

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Timing is everything.

Wait til you give Bookfinder a visit 😄

Slightly baffled by the absolute
disdain with which some (non MAGA) types are treating today’s boycott. This moment is an opportunity. Why waste it because you were here first? Why the insistence that anything short of revolution by Monday is failure? What happened to Always Be Organizing?

How’s that going for you? Normies lining up to sign on? Everyone starts somewhere and shitting on what may be people’s first steps toward collective action seems counterproductive to me. But please do carry on.

What? We haven't toppled the kleptocracy in under 12 hours?

"DOA" might be a premature assessment. Marathon, not sprint.

I try not to watch him or listen to his voice, but I (a language teacher) was intrigued when I saw Zelensky going up against these goons with no translator. He was astonishingly composed but my jaw dropped at Trump and Vance’s behavior which was appropriate for a locker room, not the White House.

Listening to this audiobook right now and it’s a horrifying eye opener about the misogyny, abuse, and violence baked into the so called Christian communities who are increasingly controlling this country. Not an easy read, but a very important one. Highly recommended.

To you? Maybe. To people maybe taking their first steps toward collective action, today might be huge.

When new people decide to try something new, ask questions, and take maybe their first ever action, the only appropriate response is welcome and support. This smug, leftier-than-thou bs is the worst. This is an enormous organizing opportunity and should not be squandered on egos.

Listening to the audiobook. Almost finished. I feel like it pretty well explains much of the cruelty and violence of this administration. What a bunch of batshit crazy but also very dangerous people.

Would love to hear that!

ESSAY: Home of the brave? Really? Who will stand up for democracy?

"It’s time to take back our country. Not only from this authoritarian nightmare, but also from the collaborators too insipid and weak and chickenshit — too skinless and boneless — to stand up for us."

Great interview. Thanks making it happen.