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Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows

The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

Your Cheat Sheet to the 2025 General Elections - Bolts Four contests have come to largely define the 2025 elections: the elections to lead New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City, plus California’s redistricting measure. But there’s so much else... Read M...

NEW: November general elections are around the corner, so it’s time to launch my cheat sheet of what’s on the ballot this fall!

I guide you thru the *185* elections I'm watching, & why: lawmakers, governors, judges, DAs, mayors, school boards, & dozens of ballot measures.

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Emergency World Naked Bike Ride planned in Portland, with blurred photi of naked bicyclists.

Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.

As a resident of #Portland it is impossible to capture how unhinged this is. We are a low crime city and the ICE protest "siege" consists of one auxiliary ICE office that normally has at most a dozen weirdos debating what performance art they should use to block a single driveway

ah, well

we need young earth creationists in every biology department, antivax cranks in every medical school program, and climate deniers in every chemistry department

I'm irrelevant, so it doesn't matter, but nonetheless I will keep saying that Ds should demand RFK resign in exchange for a budget deal. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/demand-the...

Sorry we stormed your place of work, threw you in a dingy pit, tied you up, made you lick water out of dog bowls, and forced you to sleep on a concrete floor. On the plus side, you can come back any time!

1000% tariffs

A sunset photo with like 3 crows in the sky. There were lots more (100s?) but I’m a bad photographer with an old iphone

Spent sunset on the rooftop of my daughter’s apartment in Sellwood watching the crows return to their downtown #pdx roost.
A very good hour.

so much joy

Snubbing Kennedy, States Announce Plans to Coordinate on Vaccines

Snubbing Kennedy, States Announce Plans to Coordinate on Vaccines www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

as long as you explain what mitochondrial challenges are

Ewwww. She was my rep until we threw her out last election.

My city could use some road repairs. Do they do that?

did a republican write this

Thanks for sharing this podcast! Always interested in what you have to say but somehow missed this.

these are so much funnier than they seem like they should be

Listening to Echoes by Pink Floyd and thinking about how I used to play it on a crappy little cassette player on the beach in SoCal and how I can never hear it without feeling the sand and the waves and how that was 50 years ago.
Life really does fly by, kids.

what speed

Not great!

if you can set up a recurring donation of any amount to your local food bank, it's a really great time to do so:

Yeah Twitter ruined so many people for me 🙃

Adam Baldwin is a horror but I still think he’s hilarious in Firefly

Nothing— and I mean nothing— about this decision is more than the bare desire to harm.

AI wearables are quietly listening to everyone in Silicon Valley Discreet devices and software are recording everything. Is it legal? And do you consent?

i was out to drinks with one of the reporters of this story, just catching up and shit-talking, when suddenly she remembered to tell me she was recording everything sfstandard.com/2025/08/05/a...

oh that decor is going to be so tacky

“the $31 billion cost of the car interest deduction is more than the federal government spends annually on public transportation”

RIP #Ozzy.
I haven’t paid much attention to you for almost 50 years, but when I was a young teen in the 70s, Changes and Paranoid were my anthems.