Alida Cantor

Oregon Democrats push plan to renovate Moda Center, woo new Blazers owner The state could become a part-owner of the arena in a bid to ensure the state’s NBA franchise remains in Oregon for decades to come.

Question from @councilortkl.bsky.social : should we really be investing $600 million public dollars into Moda Center renovations while we're also talking about cutting Portland's public education, including higher ed and k-12? www.opb.org/article/2026...

Some points of conversation:
*Oregon ranks 47th in the nation for funding higher ed.
*PSU is an anchor for downtown, and cuts to PSU hurt downtown vitality.
*PSU is a driver for economic mobility.
*PSU is a place that welcomes immigrants as students and employees.

Thank you @councilortkl.bsky.social @councilorgreen.bsky.social @councilorkanal.bsky.social for coming to Portland State University to talk with AAUP faculty and staff about the need for a bright and robust future for higher ed in downtown Portland! @psuaaup.bsky.social #portlandstate

If USAID can be dismantled with this level of awful consequences, surely we can dismantle ICE.

It’s obvious that eating less meat and dairy has multiple benefits for people and the planet, we don’t do it because the power of the ag lobby is extraordinary and deeply intertwined with settler colonial beliefs and power structures (just look at land grant university research!).

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

This is torture. The US is torturing children. Children whose words and whose art contain infinitely more humanity than the people keeping them detained.

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

I will eventually shut up about this but Bad Bunny’s use of the power lines is an outstanding example of how to communicate about climate and energy issues. Not about who is the smartest nerd in the room and spewing numbers but about people’s actual lives. Genius.

Elmo @elmo · 1h That Bunny was AMAZING. Elmo thinks he should be called Good Bunny! Elmo loves you, Mr. Good Bunny! ❤️🎶🐰 Based Yankee @thebasedyankee You and Bad Bunny should be deported

It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

One of the most striking snd powerful parts of the halftime show

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

Good morning! Taxing the wealth of the richest 1% of Americans down to the median wealth of the next-richest 9% ($5.2 million per household) would free up $48 trillion. Redistributing that to the poorest 50% of Americans would give *68 million households* an average of *$700k per household*.

Q&A would be lit

PSA: please take a few minutes this weekend to watch the new Muppet Show reboot so that they make more Muppet Show, THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

A Trump ‘Blockade’ Is Stalling Hundreds of Wind and Solar Projects Nationwide

Once again: the Trump administration isn't opposed to clean energy. They're opposed to cheap energy. Because it threatens the livelihood of their mediocre friends who can't compete against cheaper sources. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/c...

How failing negotiations could spiral into a bitter fight over the Colorado River Negotiators for seven states remain deeply divided over how to cut water use along the Colorado River. The chances of a court battle appear to be growing.

How failing negotiations could spiral into a bitter fight over the Colorado River

As the deadlock persists, the chances of a court battle are growing. Arizona's negotiator says without a deal, a lawsuit is likely.

I spoke with Colorado's governor about the impasse:
www.latimes.com/environment/...

“Imagine if we had to follow the law”

Buried lede: he realizes that it is absolutely impossible to achieve mass deportation if that process is required, which it constitutionally is.

Nine More Higher Ed Names in the Epstein Files Through coffees, phone calls and private flights, at least nine more academics are linked to Jeffrey Epstein in the latest disclosure of documents from the Justice Department.

This is a harrowing look at Epstein's connections to academia. It shows how Epstein was able to woo high-profile scholars with witty banter, promises of research funding, and help from a well-connected literary agent, despite not having a degree himself.

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

ICE is afraid of children protesting “Next time, I’ll be back with a gas mask.”

ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...

Mayor Wilson has now indicated he will expedite the rule making process for the Detention Facility Impact Fee. I am grateful for that.

We also need District Attorney Nathan Vasquez to outline how he plans to hold ICE agents accountable for the unlawful use of tear gas against a group of families.

A spot of good news. This baby should absolutely never have gone through what he did. Prosecute ICE.

If your children got tear gassed today I want to hear from you, even if you don’t live in my district. You can contact my office at councilor.green@portlandoregon.gov

Congrats to ICE for dropping a metric ton of tear gas on a bunch of nurses, teamsters and children just now

Saw a child coughing on tear gas today Honestly wasn't for abolishing ICE before, was more on the side of heavy reform for immigration policy Now fully in the camp of abolish this shit yesterday Fucking thugs

From Portland Reddit. I don't think the fed goons realize how badly this is going to go for them.

I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.

Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps

Fuck.