I have many many concerns about this Gaza plan. But for the moment, just overcome to witness Gazan joy. Gazan relief.

May this only be the beginning.

Alhamdillilah 🥹

Ep. 18: September to Remember October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min Also, we proposed a idea how to do a end run on vote by mail. Concept is based on what Trump proposed. When you vote, you check everyone's citizenship as well as voter ID. In a vote by mail state, you might be able to check citizenship during voter registration. You can send copies of your passport and your birth certificate in. How in the world are you going to check our voters? Voter ID, right? Vote by mail. So that creates a problem for Oregon. But if federal government new requirement is to check both, and if Oregon can comply with the requirements, what would happen to our election result? I'm talking about the entire federal delegation. For federal elections, we're talking about only federal elections. COMMON SENSE Vascluar

Ep. 18: September to Remember October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min So entire federal delegation, congressmen and senators could be challenged, could be unseated because you didn't follow federal requirements to elect them. So I said the trade-off is worth it. You know why? Democrats control two Senate seats out of six congressional seats. We only control one. They control five. You talk about trade-off, right? COMMON SENSE Sanctuany

Two big GOP activists from Oregon were in DC last month for meetings with Trump admin officials. On their podcast they talk about a plan they discussed to nullify the results of Oregon's 2026 federal elections. Pass federal voter ID law, then refuse to seat OR delegation because OR didn't comply.

i’ve wondered whether the traditional tactic of peaceful resistance to shock the conscience of observers who see nonviolence met with force is still possible in a media environment where only novelty can get the attention of the people you need to be shocked, and portland seems to have an answer

The image is an X post by Acyn (@Acyn ) from 13 hours ago, quoting Pritzker: "He's saying that Chicago is a war zone. None of that is true. They're just making this up. And then what do they do? They fire tear gas and smoke grenades, and they make it look like it's a war zone." The post includes a screenshot from CNN's "State of the Union" showing two individuals discussing, with a chyron indicating DHS officers fired at a driver who rammed their vehicle, later determined to be someone trying to storm the Presidential Palace, as the South Caucasus Coalition.

This is like planting evidence and then making an arrest.

What the actual fuck?

The Oregonian editorial board is a mouthpiece for Portland’s wealthiest and most powerful institutional and political actors.

Their goal since 2020 has been to weaponize and exaggerate deteriorating social conditions as a way to advance a right wing political project.

They are running from it now.

The opinions of Judge Young (a Reagan appointee) and Judge Immergut (a George W. Bush U.S. attorney) are a reminder of a Republican Party that believed in the rule of law.

But the fact that so far as I know no current elected Republican has praised those opinions suggests that old GOP is long gone.

A preliminary injunction hearing may follow later this month and the facts on the ground matter.

If a right wing influencer with a camera is trying to goad you into a fight, there is a reason for that, and the reason is we could lose our legal standing to stop the feds from coming in.

ACLU Statement on Court Blocking Trump’s Unwarranted National Guard Deployment to Portland | American Civil Liberties Union PORTLAND, OR — A federal district court today granted Oregon Governor Tina Kotek’s and the City of Portland’s request for a temporary restraining...

The ACLU of Oregon applauds today’s court order stopping troops from deployment to Portland.

The ruling is consistent with the law and the facts - Portlanders have been overwhelmingly peaceful in their protest.

In America, peaceful protest is constitutionally protected & dissent is patriotic.

Will literally never forgive the displacement of the food cart pods where all the high schoolers, businesspeople, rich, poor, young, and old used to congregate. Downtown died after that. For a stupid hotel that no one stays in, that promised to add affordable units and then did not.

What Happens When Socialists Are in Charge? Portland Offers a Glimpse.

Not only does this story get a number of basic facts wrong, it doesn’t take time to actually explore why Portlanders elected these folks. Coming in with a pre-baked PDX story to fit a NYT narrative about NYC is harmful, especially at this moment.

Breaking on MSNBC:

An FBI agent in the Washington field office has been fired for refusing to arrest and perp walk James Comey.

This news was first reported by Reuters.

Taking a shot at a better future - East Oregonian PENDLETON — The men scribbled down orders amid the background din of a coffee grinder, timers and an espresso machine.

Coffee Shop Opens Inside Oregon Prison. Story via East Oregon.

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

Trump’s deployment of troops to Portland is a dangerous escalation of authoritarianism. Now is the time to find our own ways of standing up and fighting back to preserve our democracy. Fellow vets: we need you to muster. And those serving: you can refuse an unlawful order as you may receive it.

As of 2pm today - less than 6 hours after receiving formal notice that the President had federalized Oregon’s National Guard in Portland - we filed a lawsuit.

The president has overstepped his authority.

#portland #nationalguard #orpol

“The president should be removed from office because he is plainly insane.”

I mean, there is no war in Portland. There just isn’t. You can’t & won’t avoid reporting this story. But you’ll still find a way to try to report it in a way that gives him the benefit of the doubt.

And that’s wrong.

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

More from the Suffolk University poll: www.suffolk.edu/-/media/suff...

Do you support or oppose "defund the police"?
Support - 21%
Oppose - 74%

Would you support or oppose cutting some of the police budget and using the money for social services?
Support - 54%
Oppose - 41%

Fevers can be dangerous during pregnancy. Listen to your doctor, not a wannabe dictator and his crony who swims in sewage water.

This idea that you need to run culture war conservatives to win a Dem seat is absurd and it’s part of how we’ve arrived at a state where you have a political consensus emerge around lionizing edgelords like Charlie Kirk, who was an objectively terrible person.

Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.

We’re going to see articles of impeachment for doing these crimes, right? Or is Congress just going to tolerate a president that conducts extrajudicial murders?

Wow.

Not at all surprising, but wow.

Blatant corruption is perfectly fine (encouraged, even) in this administration.

I'm biased, but I thought Leah was on fire here.

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

Opinion | Kathy Hochul: Why I Am Endorsing Zohran Mamdani

NY Gov. Kathy Hochul endorses NYC Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...

Though it’s traumatic for me to bring this up, I was targeted by a group allied with Turning Point USA in 2018, with the help of Tucker Carlson on Fox. My home address circulated online and I got death threats. 1/

Van Hollen Criticizes Democratic Leaders for Delay in Endorsing Mamdani

The Senator from Maryland gets it:

“That kind of spineless politics is what people are sick of"
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u...

Deadly Memes: Tyler Robinson's Far-Right 'Groyper' Ties Despite initial reports and President Trump's claim that the suspect in the murder of Charlie Kirk was a 'leftist', two pieces of evidence point the other way

bylinetimes.com/2025/09/13/d...