Portlander lost in Washington County, Oregon

When Dick Cheney shoots you in the face, Dick Cheney doesn't apologize to you. You apologize to Dick Cheney. Yes, that actually happened.

'Not what we signed up to do': National Guard officers vow to refuse Trump’s orders Even though President Donald Trump wants to deploy the National Guard to patrol the streets of Chicago, Illinois, two officers are now directly disobeying those orders.CBS News reported Monday that St...

this is the way www.alternet.org/national-gua...

North Carolina effort wipes out $6.5B in medical debt for 2.5M people Officials say a North Carolina government initiative is eliminating over $6.5 billion in medical debt for more than 2.5 million residents.

serious question. Is North Carolina essentially transferring state resident's debt onto the federal government? apnews.com/article/nort...

I say let the Rs remake the rules to figure this all out, let them own it. And if it really gets bad enough, enough people might care enough to try and fix it. I don't see a good way out of this shutdown. Dems bailing out the ACA is a bandaid on a bullet hole

The average US citizen apparently doesn't believe that the Rs would allow their health care plan to become unaffordable. A lot of people don't care about or believe in something like that until it happens to them personally, or it happens to someone close to them.

At this point, when Rs from the top down are refusing to acknowledge basic facts and 47 seems to be doing everything in his power to start a civil war, this kind of propaganda can't be negotiated with.

The Supreme Court’s newest decision could make it impossible to end the shutdown How do you negotiate with a man who can break his promises at any time?

There is no guarantee that any agreement to fund ACA subsidies will be honored, so Dems need to demand certain things before negotiating www.vox.com/politics/463...

It's not the hill that I want Dems to die on. There are a lot of things they could be demanding right now. I feel like they need to demand some other things first. Like: swear in Adelita. Make Rs display a basic level of parity between the parties before negotiation occurs.

So I am conflicted about the shutdown. If the ACA is so bad that it needs to he subsidized, maybe we just let it fail? We still have a basic level of care in this country. It is called going to the ER. It sucks, I know. But like I said, so does the ACA

I have always voted Dem but I am not a fan of the ACA, I feel like fining people who don't purchase a crappy health care plan is financially backward and also unconstitutional. If you want everyone to have health care, just give them health care. Cut out the insurance middle man

Who is Adelita Grijalva and why hasn't she been sworn in to Congress yet? Democrats are ramping up the pressure on House Speaker Mike Johnson to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, an Arizona Democrat who won a special election last month to succeed her late father.

Swear in Adelita! www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...

Apple pulls US immigration official tracking apps The creator of ICEBlock accuses the tech giant of "capitulating to an authoritarian regime" by removing his app.

we really need an open source mobile os alternative to android and apple to circumvent stuff like this. Is AI programming making progress on this? Seems like if AI is any good this should be doable. Making Ubuntu touch more robust, for example www.bbc.com/news/article...

i know a lot of people that complain about democracy being threatened but most of them are making holiday plans, not stockpiling canned goods. At least so far. How much has your lifestyle really changed? or your friends lifestyles?

The Supreme Court’s newest decision could make it impossible to end the shutdown How do you negotiate with a man who can break his promises at any time?

so he can just promise funding Dems want to end the shutdown and then cancel it after. Like he did the foreign aid funding. www.vox.com/politics/463...

a person dressed as boss nass, alien from star wars

thinking of dressing up as an illegal alien and trick or treating ice for halloween

root canal wasn't nearly as bad as I feared. The music changed and wasn't barely audible from the chair anyways.

It's bad enough getting a root canal, but playing what passes for country music these days during the procedure is adding insult to injury

2000 corolla with hubcaps from a honda fit

put some honda wheels and hubcaps on my toyota so technically now it's a hybrid

when the national guard or army shows up to whatever city they are deployed to, put them to work on building some affordable housing

Man accused of throwing sandwich at US border agent charged with assault Sean Dunn charged with assaulting federal officer over incident in Washington, which could result in a year in jail

who wants to do a peaceful protest? we all get sub sandwiches and find some federal agents and just eat the sandwiches right in front of them! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

picture of a 5 by 7 area rug with multicolored brick pattern

new rug it was a good deal I got it for free.99 at the DumpStore

I think there's still so many out there that see all of this as 'just politics' and won't wake up unless there is a mass extermination happening literally TO THEM or their loved ones right in front of their eyes. It just has to keep getting worse before it can ever get better. 😭

Law enforcement,National Guard,Armed forces. This is a test of who we are as people. All I see is a racist attack on immigrants and blacks. Are you okay with this? He will be asking you to attack your own people. When asked to kill your own citizens to clear out a homeless camp, PLEASE DON'T DO IT

Is this how the stock market keeps climbing? On the future of these big companies? Seems like something has to give at some point. We haven't seen a crash since George W. Has it been almost 20 years?

Tarriffs would always tend to affect small businesses the most. Big business can absorb the setback, and even profit long term, eliminate competition by buying out smaller companies.

baffled again, as I was during in 2016, how the economy hasn't collapsed. A lot of people might complain, But don't actually do anything differently. Their spending habits don't change. Still, I think a crash is coming.

Hoping he is just too lazy to start a new war.

picture cut from Usa today report on new budget the house just passed, explaining how 7.6 million would lose medicaid over the next 10 years, using work requirements and disincentives to cover migrant children, among other provisions.

cutting 7.6 million people's Medicaid is going to increase costs for everyone, insured and non insured alike, and overwhelm the already stressed Emergency Rooms, making any trip there even more of a nightmare for everyone.

Why Kristi Noem’s shocking 'habeas corpus' Senate answer matters The former governor is overseeing a vast machine dedicated to encroaching on rights that she may not even know Americans have.

when asked to define habeus corpus, you describe the plot of the movie 'invasion of the body snatchers' www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rc...

Hegseth says staffers found leaking ‘will be prosecuted’ amid Pentagon chaos The Defense secretary has faced increased scrutiny as reports of disorder engulf the Pentagon.

will one of the leaking staffers Hegseth punishes be himself? www.politico.com/news/2025/04...