Saturn

Demon core experiment

roses are red
cherenkov is blue
just use a screwdriver
what's the worst it could do

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Ban cars

GFVOAT

No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.

Hot take: it needs to be even more difficult and less convenient to drive a car through the fabric of a city. Make me go slower. Make me drive around stuff. Basically make it an obstacle course for cars, but silky smooth for busses, bikes, and people.

The reason why cyclists and pedestrians push back against these types of campaigns is not because we think visibility is bad (I wear hig-viz!), but because it's victim blaming that diverts attention from the real issues: dangerous drivers and poor infrastructure

Just recently realized that's actually Mike Judge.

MAN. FUCK turbotax. There are free sites that don't lobby to keep making taxes hard and skimming $50 of your tax return

And if the free sites do end up charging you. At least it's not fucking turbo tax. Fuck I'm so mad
Fuck turbo tax
apps.irs.gov/app/freeFile...

This is gonna be such a great episode!

PEACEFUL INTERFAITH PROTEST Silent Solidarity March to the Portland ICE Facility MEET AT ELIZABETH CARUTHERS PARK ON SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28 AT 4 PM RAIN OR SHINE! Bring Flowers Protest Injustice and Remember the Taken This is a family-friendly oction. Participants ogree to be non-violent. The Portland Peace Team will manage safety & de-escalation for the event. Please contact the Interfaith Silent Solidarity March planning team with any questions: pdxinterfaithmarch@gmail.com

join us if you are in Portland OR

HEY, LEFTISTS AND PROGRESSIVES

REPEAT AFTER ME

ANARCHY DOES NOT MEAN CHAOS
ANARCHY MEANS ANTI-HIERARCHY

WE LIVE IN CHAOS RIGHT NOW UNDER FASCISM

FASCISTS CREATE CHAOS, THEY CREATE DIVISION, THEY CREATE INTENTIONAL CONFLICT AND COMPETITION

STOP MAKING UP THE DEFINITIONS OF WORDS

Safer streets means slower commutes in your private car.

If we want to save lives we’re going to need to accept slower speeds, more obstacles, probably a more attentive and stressful drive.

driving is a privilege and we don’t treat it as such.

The written testimony submissions are 79% opposed, so I'm hoping that's why.

Repeal the Homeland Security Act of 2002

a wise man (zohran) once said
"The City’s budget is our future. And you deserve to know how it works."

he's right, and you also deserve to know that there's still *plenty* of room to tax the rich more!

Lugers have to be the weirdest.

Oh just in case the full context and parallels aren't clear, which can often be the case when I'm On One, he's building a bunker under that ballroom monstrosity

C-5s only draw out a dragon's foot lookin thing when they're really distressed.

Congressman Tom Malinowski Congratulates Analilia Mejia, Warns of Dark Money's Impact on NJ-11 Race I congratulate Analilia Mejia on her hard won victory in the NJ-11 special primary. I look forward to supporting her in the April general election. It is essential that we send a Democrat to Washington to fill this seat, not a rubber stamp for Trump. Analilia deserves unequivocal praise and credit for running a positive campaign and for inspiring so many voters on Election Day. But the outcome of this race cannot be understood without also taking into account the massive flood of dark money that AIPAC spent on dishonest ads during the last three weeks. I wish I could say today that this effort, which was meant to intimidate Democrats across the country, failed in NJ-11. But it did not. I met several voters in the final days of the campaign who had seen the ads and asked me, sincerely: "Are you MAGA? Are you for ICE?"

My convictions - including my support for Israel as a democratic and Jewish state - don't change because of who supports or opposes me. But our Democratic Party should have nothing to do with a pro-Trump-billionaire-funded organization that demands absolute fealty to positions that are outside the mainstream of the American pro-Israel community, and then smears those who don't fall into line. If AIPAC backs a candidate - openly or surreptitiously - in the June NJ-11 Congressional primary, I will oppose that candidate and urge my supporters to do so as well. The threat unlimited dark money poses to our democracy is far more significant than the views of a single member of Congress on Middle East policy. I am proud of the joyful and substantive campaign my team and I ran, and am immensely grateful to the volunteers and staff who made it possible. Their mission, and mine, will continue. -Tom Malinowski

BIG NEWS FROM NJ-11: former Rep. Tom Malinowski concedes, congratulates Analilia Mejia on a positive and well-run campaign, blames AIPAC for his loss, and promises to vigorously oppose anyone AIPAC backs against Mejia in June

Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Sure this can happen in the bisexual socialist paradise of Iberville Parish Louisiana but what about Real America?

What I will say is that this never should have happened to begin with. End family detention. Defund and dismantle ICE.

Ooh, that's good!

Portlanders: this thread has info on making this request if you are part of the wider public who would benefit from knowing if a city councilor has been trying to circumvent lobbying laws

Starting to think these weren’t really applied with the consideration required by law

Thank you for being there last night and saying all the really good and strong things you did!
Glad I could contribute to the claps and hand raises. It's heartening to see these ideas finally getting traction among a crowd like that.

"Two officers fired at the suspect as he came out of the apartment, and he was killed."

It sounds like they went there to tear gas an apartment building and execute a person?!
You should consider doing some journalism about this one. Even for your usual PPB statement copy-paste this one's bad.

Ummm what the fuck?!

Of all posts, how do you not have alt text on this image?