Dissent

Stay Weird Portland! 🔥 Today Portland had an emergency naked bike ride to the ICE facility. IN THE RAIN.

It was around 50°. Thousands were fully nude, half nude, or wearing costumes.

Portland is VERY dedicated to exposing the absurdities of injustice.

Here are some photos & videos. 🧵👇🏼

But mostly Texas, ya know, for the oil

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

Weekly Wednesday Protest!
OCTOBER 15th
11:30 am to 1 pm
15th and L Streets, near the Capitol Rose Garden.

Well, Trump rallies were Nuremberg Rallies 2 or it makes sense that eventually there will be Nuremberg Trials 2

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Translation: “we, the GOP Supreme Court Justices, reserve the right to change the rules again whenever we feel like it.” A mockery of the rule of law. Judicial Calvinball.

Impeach them.

#supremecourt #politics #usa #democracy #justice

The MAGA Regime wants a one party system, has for a long time, as evidenced by every time a non-Republican wins they cry foul. This list really summarizes the ramping up that’s led us here, but now the question is, what will they do next and how do we prepare for their final phase?

This is an excellent read. It really gets at the heart of everything motivating the powers behind the Trump Regime. It also highlights MAGA’s greatest miscalculation: that the “radical woke left” is as rigidly hierarchical and top down as they are. I find hope in their mistake.

The Daily’s credulous/willfully ignorant/deliberately misleading portrait of Vought matters because it is indicative of a much broader tendency to normalize the assault on the constitutional order - to sanitize those who are responsible for it and the extremist ideas that are animating them.

Vought is at war with large swaths of the population, with the very idea of a society defined by democratic pluralism. If you have correctly identified that this guy is now in a really powerful position, that people like him are in control of the government, how is that not the main story?

Vought is not interested in “normal” democratic politics: He seeks to “traumatize” civil servants, use the military to suppress protests, and sees Trump as an agent of God’s will. He is convinced to be fighting a noble war to defend his “real America” of white Christian patriarchal rule.

Russell Vought embodies the radicalization of the conservative movement; his example captures how far removed from democratic politics the Trumpist Right is. Vought is convinced to be fighting a noble war against a vast leftist conspiracy that has supposedly taken over the country.

The Daily is committed to sanitizing Vought and ignoring what they regard as unsavory ideology. Because engaging with what is actually animating Vought would make it very hard to uphold the “normal politics” framework that defines much of mainstream political journalism.

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Remember, the Office of Management and Budget is a key part of how Project 2025 holds power and is run by Russ Vought. They are blatantly breaking the law because they know no one can stop them right now and they believe the Supreme Court will side with them.

"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

“CDC is over. It was killed. This administration only knows how to break things. They have made America at risk for outbreaks and attacks by nefarious players. People should be scared,” said Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the CDC’s National Center on Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

“We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close.”

Informational flyer about Rogers Park Whistle Protocols, explaining how to use whistles to alert neighbors of emergencies, with color-coded alerts, steps for use, and encouragement to form a crowd and stay loud for safety.

I'm so proud of everyone from my old neighborhood of Rogers Park in Chicago. I see what you have been and are doing. I am so proud of how organized the community is and how much more so everyone is becoming. It is inspiring. Just one example... And this is something EVERYONE can do. Everyone.

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training. FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

Stuff like this reminds me of the end of the Earth war in Babylon 5 when Sheridan invades Earth to overthrow the president who had done lots of evil stuff. The new president gets all self righteous and tells Sheridan he did the right thing in the “wrong way”. I think about that line a lot lately

People are really asking me why the mainstream news is barely reporting the closing of special ed dept at DoEd like all our big media companies aren't owned and run by absolute psychopaths.

The revolution will not be posted, tweeted or skeeted

It’s the Feds making Portland look like a war zone— not the protesters.

And honestly, these protesters are brilliant. They’re flipping the whole authoritarian cosplay on its ass!

It’s pronounced cyclist.

I’m voting YES on Prop 50 because we need leaders who aren’t afraid to tell Trump no, and who will stand up for all of us, not just their party.

#Prop50 #CaliforniaVotes #FairMaps #NevaParker #Democracy #VotingRights #StandUpToPower #Accountability

a russ vought special

Caltrain’s Brakes Feed Power Back to the Grid. And Now They’ll Reduce Its Cost | KQED Caltrain’s regenerative braking is performing better than anticipated, returning 23% of the power used by its new electric trains. Policy changes will allow it to be compensated.

Electrifying our #trains not only increases speed and reliability while decreasing noise, it also brings down the cost! It’s time to bring this technology to the Capitol Corridor, all the way from San Jose to Reno!

#california #infrastructure #transit

www.kqed.org/science/1998...

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage