Lori Witzel

Please @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social team - use alt text on photos! It matters!

I hope my Senator @merkley.senate.gov brings the fight club energy to this. cc @wyden.senate.gov @repdexteror.bsky.social

To my reps in Congress:

Are these Hegseth-ordered murders violations of U.S. criminal statute?

@wyden.senate.gov @merkley.senate.gov

Writing about my wife’s naked political corruption like a Dan Brown novel

A Tribute to an Oracle, Alice Wong Alice had the ability to look to the future and a world where laws and attitudes did not keep disabled people poor, pitied, and isolated.

If you're interested, this tribute to Alice Wong was written by one of the people who knew her best

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.

When Is It Time to Flee? Trans people and their families are facing hard questions and choices as threats to their safety and rights proliferate.

For at least a year, I've been returning to the question, how would you know when it's time to leave the US? For this piece, I asked trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer Americans who, with their families and partners, have recently fled the country, about how they made this decision and how they left.

NYC’s Lander Recommends Dropping $42 Billion BlackRock Mandate New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is urging three of the city’s pension funds to drop BlackRock Inc. because of “inadequate” climate plans, the latest move to penalize investment firms for failing...

Today I’m recommending that NYC’s pension fund boards drop BlackRock and 2 other (out of 49) public markets asset managers due to inadequate decarbonization plans.

Climate risk is financial risk – we need asset managers who will invest responsibly.🧵
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I closed social media for like three hours and the Pope threw a rave, MTG resigned, and Trump endorsed Mamdani before Chuck Schumer did? Now accepting bribes to close social media for all of next week

If you had told me Mamdani and MTG would both be in the news today, and gave me eleventy thousand guesses as to why, I’d … still be guessing.

An impossibly brilliant, slightly beat-up white rose blossom glowing in the sunlight among other blossoms-to-be. One petal has a hole in it in the shape of a heart. The photo is close up and mostly in focus on the rose; in the background, out of focus, are red salvia blossoms popping against a weathered wooden fence upon which some chicken wire had been a trellis for snow peas.

What I saw in my backyard this past Wednesday. #bloomscrolling #rose #flowers

After my office’s first Youth Advisory Council meeting, the message was crystal clear: our youth are done waiting for change. I’m proud to set the table for their ongoing input and counsel to bring true change to our community.

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

Tagging my friend @floregonian.com into this small bit of delight!

The crime is not what we were doing protesting in the 10th floor elevator lobby of 26 Federal Plaza.

The crime is what ICE agents are doing on the other side of the door.

Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.

He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

The faint sweet scent of copal amber beads on my mala, as my fingers warm them while counting meditation repetitions.

You can think it’s good that Massie and MTG are stirring up shit within the GOP caucus without thinking their politics in general is good. It’s not hard at all in fact?

Epstein’s War

Two almost-grown silver tabby kittens tangled up and wriggling together in a turquoise blue chenille dog bed as seen overhead in close up. The dog bed is atop an Oriental patterned rug with a turquoise and brown color scheme.

This morning’s Wootz and Merle, all wriggly together in a dog bed. #cats #CatsOfBluesky #tabbies #PDX

A reminder that what we think of as “domestication” is co-evolution of with humans, which is a bidirectional and responsive process.

I’m silly - and I can bench press 135 lbs. (Please exhale!!!)

The awesome strength of the forces that shape our planet is also the wavering reflection of tree branches and a gathering of autumn leaves in a pool of water in a mountain stream.

You are enough. Keep walking.

when your example of 'barely legal' is just literally illegal

You can disagree and argue as much as you like but the point of evaluating something scientifically is that not every statement should be given equal credence because evidence matters

Merkley, Wyden Call on Starbucks CEO to Stop Union-Busting and Negotiate a Fair Contract for Workers - Merkley Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden joined colleagues in a letter to Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol demanding that the multibillion-dollar corporation stop its illegal uni...

Solidarity with Starbucks workers! Starbucks makes BILLIONS every year.

The very least the company owes its workers is good faith negotiations for a fair contract and to END their illegal union-busting.

Everyone should be able to organize at work!

It’s so great at twilight, the ribbon of lights all glittering.

For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:

splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

A view of downtown Portland from atop Mount Tabor.

This, about an hour ago.