Beth Deitchman

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My sister is also a grandmother. Clearly I am the younger sister now.

Ah well. Eventually!

I took a break from the socials for my mental health. I wish I'd come back yesterday! Apparently I missed a lot.

this is so wonderfully weird, give her all the golds 🥇

Preparation doesn’t mean stockpiling. It means knowing your neighbors. Learning your rights. Showing up. Helping folks eat, stay housed, stay safe. It means organizing, not just reacting. Culture, care, joy—these aren’t soft. They’re infrastructure. That’s how we get ready.

We're going to need Nuremberg trials when this is over, yes, and to send a significant number of people currently in the federal government to prison. But we're going to need an unwavering commitment to ostracizing the supporters of it, as well. Never accept them again in polite society.

@MZanona on X: Van Orden, who’s a yes on mega bill, pushes back on notion that Rs do watever Trump says: “The president of the United States didn't give us an assignment. We're not a bunch of little bitches around here okay? I'm a member of Congress. I represent almost 800,000 Wisconsinnites.”

Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) is indeed a little bitch

same guy who tweets out bible verses seems to have forgotten about this one

Lovely!

“We’re the good guys,” I tell myself as a 6-year-old leukemia patient pees his pants in fear. I adjust my black mask and sunglasses in the mirror, making sure to hide my identity. “I am not evil,” I whisper.

Every additional home we build in Portland is one more home for a family who needs to access gender-affirming care.

If Oregon wants to be a sanctuary for LGTBQ+ Americans, we simply must build more housing for everyone who wants (and needs) to call Oregon home.

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Want to push back against the bigoted attacks targeting trans and gender-nonconforming people? Here are specific ways you can help—with your time, money, and everyday actions.

Every city needs infrastructure like parks, roads, and pipes. SDCs aren't the only way to raise infrastructure money — Portland managed without them for many years, just as peer cities like Seattle do today. Portland and other cities have turned to them in recent decades because other revenue options are so limited. Unfortunately, SDCs are a cost burden on housing, especially on the least expensive homes. This makes them regressive. Anything that drives up the cost of creating new homes gives more market power to landlords of existing homes, and less power to tenants. Tenants in both new and old buildings ultimately pay these costs in the form of the higher rents landowners can then extract. Sometimes such costs are necessary, but each should be weighed carefully. Very few homes are being built in Portland right now. This should concern all tenants. Portland has been growing again, and many vacancy rates have dipped below 5 percent; if trends continue, rent hikes will follow. The lack of construction is also bad fiscal and economic news for the city. Because SDC revenue is almost zero, the city has little to lose from a temporary waiver. Temporarily waiving SDCs will not singlehandledly revive homebuilding in Portland, but it will help and it is within the city's control. An SDC holiday also offers Portland an opportunity to rethink SDCs before they or some other source of infrastructure revenue would return in a few years. Our members would be happy to participate in this policy work.

"Anything that drives up the cost of creating new homes gives
more market power to landlords of existing homes, and less power to tenants...Temporarily waiving SDCs will not singlehandledly revive homebuilding in Portland, but it will
help and it is within the city's control."

YouTube video by eGov PDX Portland City Council Finance Committee 06/16/25

Portland: Neighbors Welcome supports the temporary System Development Charge exemption proposed by @mayorkwilson.bsky.social to spur more housing growth.

You can listen in to today's City Council Finance Committee (and subsequent public testimony) at the link below:

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Maybe drop a line to @nbcla.com and let them know you appreciate David Noriega's reporting. We are going to need journalists like this who aren't afraid to tell the truth and a lot of them are getting fired.

📞 818-684-4444
💻 Email: www.nbclosangeles.com/send-feedback

It’s not hyperbole to say that the deaths in Minnesota are on the GOP’s hands. They’ve built this political environment and they’ve allowed a demagogue to spread hate. This is entirely on them.

Portland, Oregon SHOWED UP to say #NoKings in America! 💪

PDX showed up today!

photo of a small apartment buildings next to another home on a tree-lined street

Inner Eastside for All would re-legalize "four floors and corner stores" everywhere from 12th to 60th and Fremont to Powell, preserving inner NE and SE as walkable, mixed-income places anyone can call home.

Part of the city we love. Join our campaign!

pie chart showing majority support for Inner Eastside for All

Great news: In a new "priorities survey" of 1,893 District 3 residents, our Inner Eastside for All proposal came out +28 points overall, +22 among homeowners and wow +58 among home renters

cc @councilormorillo.bsky.social & her D3 colleagues

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Eyes on the prize…

If this sounds dope as hell to you, @pnwelcome.bsky.social is pushing to legalize 4 floors and corner stores throughout the inner eastside!!

American Spring? How nonviolent protest in the US is accelerating Contrary to conventional wisdom, anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed 2017 in size, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful.

This one is important. Share it widely. "Contrary to conventional wisdom, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed those in 2017, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful." wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer...

At this point, I'm honestly shocked that Trump didn't attempt to have the FBI arrest the French Revolutionaries in last night's performance of Le Mis.

Senator Padilla gets thrown out of a press conference, pushed to the floor, and handcuffed. Senator Rand Paul gets uninvited and then re-invited to a picnic. Spot the difference.

Together, they’re 51 practical, political, and spiritual ideas together in one place.

We wanted to create a place to put — well, if not everything, then a lot of things, so that you could come back to one (ok, two) document(s) again and again and find it relatively easy to figure out what next.

THE GOOD TROUBLE CHECKLIST keep all your shenanigans in one place

Part One

Care for yourself and others! Checklist 2.0

A couple of months ago, I posted a checklist of things one could do to be useful in these days of rising fascism.

Here’s Part Two of that list—more focused on ways to protect you and those in your tightest circles of care.

Part One is embedded and also skeeted below.