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“There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”

— Warren Buffett

“In Class Warfare, Guess Which Class is Winning”, Ben Stein, N.Y. Times, Nov. 26, 2006
Democrats caving to Republicans??? It must be a day that ends in y.
November 10, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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“Angelita Morillo proposed an amendment reallocating money from a city sweeps program, instead funding housing and food assistance, support for immigrants.”
Portland City Council will consider an amendment next week to redirect $4.3 million from the city program that sweeps homeless encampments. If passed, the budget adjustment will instead invest $2 million in rent and food assistance, and support for immigrants and refugees.
City Council Mulling $4.3 Million Cut From Homeless Sweeps Budget
“We’re in a position right now, where people are going to end up being unhoused for the long-term, and we have to take action,” City Councilor Angelita Morillo said, explaining a proposal to divert fu...
www.portlandmercury.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
It's Mamdami's country, and Trump is just living in it.
Trump softens tone in reaction to Mamdani's win in NYC mayoral race
YouTube video by Eyewitness News ABC7NY
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Actually they are all criminals.
This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week.

@wired.com #ICE
www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...
November 6, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
November 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Fun Fact: They are all criminals.
Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings and sexual assaults in several states, warns an FBI bulletin to law enforcement agencies issued last month.

The bulletin urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
www.wired.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Today is the beginning of the end for the Democratic Party as we know it.

So long, good riddance. 🫡
November 4, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Reposted by Chris Olson 🐸
Correction: Wednesday’s council meeting is a morning session starting at 9:30 am!

h/t @koriander.bsky.social
✍️ Submit written testimony in support of the Detention Facility Impact Fee at the link below.

There will be a public hearing at Portland City Council on the evening of Nov. 5.

Link👇

www.portland.gov/council-cler...
November 1, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Here it is folks. The truth is out.
Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’
November 4, 2025 at 12:12 AM
1/2 “Mayor Wilson’s decision to unleash the police on our most vulnerable neighbors on the very day they lose their food assistance is an act of stunning inhumanity,” said Chris Olson, Co-Secretary of the Housing Working Group in Portland DSA (@portlanddsa.bsky.social)
Portland DSA Condemns Mayor Wilson's Cruel Camping Ban, Calls for Investigation into Misuse of Public Funds - Portland DSA
November 3, 2025 (PORTLAND, OR) – Portland Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) condemns in the strongest possible terms Mayor Keith Wilson’s decision to begin enforcement of the city’s “public camp...
portlanddsa.org
November 3, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Fuck this guy for thinking he can skip the line because he knows Trump.
Trump Pledges to Intervene in Cartoonist Scott Adams’ Cancer Treatment
The Dilbert creator, who is battling prostate cancer, is a prominent—sometimes controversial—supporter of the President.
time.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
A movie you’ve seen more than 7 times with a gif #startrek #startrekiv #theonewiththewhales
November 1, 2025 at 8:19 AM
If government won’t take care of us then we will take care of us. We will then turn around more united than ever and take the power back! #FDT
Heretic Coffee is a volunteer-run, nonprofit coffee shop that trains people to become baristas and coffee roasters.

The coffee shop has been soliciting donations for less than a week to pay for breakfast for people losing SNAP benefits from the federal government

www.oregonlive.com/food/2025/10...
October 29, 2025 at 4:15 AM
I had no idea we had safe houses or money???
Senator Eric Schmitt says Antifa "is a well-coordinated organization with safe houses and money that is laundered internationally."
October 29, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Starving children in America is the same as starving children in Gaza. It's a part of the war this administration continues to wage on the American people.
October 28, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.

Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:

* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled

* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
October 27, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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I try to avoid "real organizers vs. fake/keyboard organizers" framings for the most part but one thing you learn quickly from organizing is how difficult it is to get people to do anything at all, how much you're competing against sociologically. people are overworked and tired
October 26, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I have little to no patience for people stuck in the hypernormalization of our time.
October 27, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Portland *is* a war zone in that we are under sustained assault from an unaccountable federal paramilitary force working in concert with right wing extremists
October 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
What in the actual FUCK!!!!
Portland Fire & Rescue officials say they responded to reports of the fire in Southeast Portland at around 2:40 a.m Sunday.

https://www.koin.com/news/portland/portland-city-councilor-candace-avalos-car-home-damaged-in-fire-investigation-underway/?cid=bluesky_ 
October 26, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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October 26, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?
October 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
We send elected officials to Congress to do the work of the people (Republican or Democrat).

If this government doesn’t open back up soon. What’s the point of even having a federal government? Or being a part of it?
Mike Johnson has dissolved Congress. Why?
October 26, 2025 at 8:27 AM