Casimir Covert-Keefe
@casimirck.bsky.social
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📣 Here’s how to push back:
✉️ Email DA Vasquez: da@mcda.us
📞 Call: 503-988-3162
🗣️ Tell him: Use of force cases demand public process. The people deserve more than a press release. We deserve accountability!!!
✉️ Email DA Vasquez: da@mcda.us
📞 Call: 503-988-3162
🗣️ Tell him: Use of force cases demand public process. The people deserve more than a press release. We deserve accountability!!!
June 29, 2025 at 2:30 AM
📣 Here’s how to push back:
✉️ Email DA Vasquez: da@mcda.us
📞 Call: 503-988-3162
🗣️ Tell him: Use of force cases demand public process. The people deserve more than a press release. We deserve accountability!!!
✉️ Email DA Vasquez: da@mcda.us
📞 Call: 503-988-3162
🗣️ Tell him: Use of force cases demand public process. The people deserve more than a press release. We deserve accountability!!!
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🚨 ALERT 🚨
Multnomah County DA Nathan Vasquez bypassed the grand jury and cleared a deputy in a fatal police shooting—with no public testimony, no transcript, and no accountability. Just a memo, a video, and a statement. That’s not justice. That's not transparency. And we won't be silent about it! 🧵
Multnomah County DA Nathan Vasquez bypassed the grand jury and cleared a deputy in a fatal police shooting—with no public testimony, no transcript, and no accountability. Just a memo, a video, and a statement. That’s not justice. That's not transparency. And we won't be silent about it! 🧵
Fatal shooting by Multnomah County deputy in Gresham justified, DA Vasquez says
Multnomah County District Attorney Nathan Vasquez’s decision-making process differed from his recent predecessors: He did not present the case to a grand jury, which typically decides whether an offic...
www.opb.org
June 29, 2025 at 2:30 AM
🚨 ALERT 🚨
Multnomah County DA Nathan Vasquez bypassed the grand jury and cleared a deputy in a fatal police shooting—with no public testimony, no transcript, and no accountability. Just a memo, a video, and a statement. That’s not justice. That's not transparency. And we won't be silent about it! 🧵
Multnomah County DA Nathan Vasquez bypassed the grand jury and cleared a deputy in a fatal police shooting—with no public testimony, no transcript, and no accountability. Just a memo, a video, and a statement. That’s not justice. That's not transparency. And we won't be silent about it! 🧵
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What the actual hell!!!
Imagine worrying more about the less than 10% of people paying this very small tax compared to the THOUSANDS OF FAMILIES benefiting from high quality, no cost childcare!!!
ABSURD!!! Why are they doing this!!?? Ugh!!!
Imagine worrying more about the less than 10% of people paying this very small tax compared to the THOUSANDS OF FAMILIES benefiting from high quality, no cost childcare!!!
ABSURD!!! Why are they doing this!!?? Ugh!!!
Eleventh-Hour Amendment to Senate Bill Seeks to End Preschool for All Tax
An amendment posted late Monday night to an Oregon Senate bill seeks to end Multnomah County’s Preschool for All program.
www.wweek.com
June 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
What the actual hell!!!
Imagine worrying more about the less than 10% of people paying this very small tax compared to the THOUSANDS OF FAMILIES benefiting from high quality, no cost childcare!!!
ABSURD!!! Why are they doing this!!?? Ugh!!!
Imagine worrying more about the less than 10% of people paying this very small tax compared to the THOUSANDS OF FAMILIES benefiting from high quality, no cost childcare!!!
ABSURD!!! Why are they doing this!!?? Ugh!!!
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My god can these clowns ever stop clowning??
Like yes the top priority during the rise of fascism is to *checks notes* rip a wildly popular program that helps families away from them 🤗
We get it! You’re obedient dogs to the business class! Lick their boots more, I think you missed a spot!
Like yes the top priority during the rise of fascism is to *checks notes* rip a wildly popular program that helps families away from them 🤗
We get it! You’re obedient dogs to the business class! Lick their boots more, I think you missed a spot!
An amendment to a placeholder Senate Bill in the Oregon legislature, posted late Monday night, seeks to phase out Multnomah County’s Preschool for All program by June 2027.
Eleventh-Hour Amendment to Senate Bill Seeks to End Preschool for All Tax
Joanna Hou
www.wweek.com
June 24, 2025 at 7:16 AM
My god can these clowns ever stop clowning??
Like yes the top priority during the rise of fascism is to *checks notes* rip a wildly popular program that helps families away from them 🤗
We get it! You’re obedient dogs to the business class! Lick their boots more, I think you missed a spot!
Like yes the top priority during the rise of fascism is to *checks notes* rip a wildly popular program that helps families away from them 🤗
We get it! You’re obedient dogs to the business class! Lick their boots more, I think you missed a spot!
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Despite concerns over privacy and civil rights, Oregon lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle are backing a bill that would make it easier for police to use drones for surveillance without a warrant.
Oregon Bill Expanding Police Use of Drones Without Warrants Alarms Civil Rights Advocates
A new bill moving through the Oregon Legislature would make it easier for law enforcement agencies to use drones without a warrant—and it has civil rights advocates alarmed. “This is just another exam...
www.portlandmercury.com
June 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Despite concerns over privacy and civil rights, Oregon lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle are backing a bill that would make it easier for police to use drones for surveillance without a warrant.
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🚨 Heads-up, neighbors: our Preschool for All program (approved by 64 % of MultCo voters) faces a last-minute push in Salem to suspend its funding. Let’s talk facts, not fear. 🧵👇🏾
June 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
🚨 Heads-up, neighbors: our Preschool for All program (approved by 64 % of MultCo voters) faces a last-minute push in Salem to suspend its funding. Let’s talk facts, not fear. 🧵👇🏾
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Glad that with Donald Trump terrorizing immigrants & asylum seekers and selling off all our public lands that Tina Kotek is spending her energy undermining popular democracy and trying to cut taxes for the rich.
Honestly despicable behavior.
Honestly despicable behavior.
June 21, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Glad that with Donald Trump terrorizing immigrants & asylum seekers and selling off all our public lands that Tina Kotek is spending her energy undermining popular democracy and trying to cut taxes for the rich.
Honestly despicable behavior.
Honestly despicable behavior.
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This Op-Ed is less than a year old. Timely, as there is an effort underway to dismantle Preschool for All fueled by tax myths. Must read.
Opinion: County should not let anti-tax rhetoric throw Preschool for All off track
Preschool for All has just begun to make desperately needed investments in teacher compensation, professional development and facilities, writes Mary C. King, professor emerita of economics at Portlan...
www.oregonlive.com
June 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
This Op-Ed is less than a year old. Timely, as there is an effort underway to dismantle Preschool for All fueled by tax myths. Must read.
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Why are we being chided for knowing Robert’s rules and effectively organizing for our communities? lol I don’t get it. I honestly do not.
June 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Why are we being chided for knowing Robert’s rules and effectively organizing for our communities? lol I don’t get it. I honestly do not.
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I was a student government leader/advisor for 15+ years and I watched constantly how the people who wanted to silence those of us challenging the status quo would manipulate Roberts Rules to do so...
Sorry not sorry that we can use those same rules to win for our communities. We're organizers, so 🤷🏾♀️
Sorry not sorry that we can use those same rules to win for our communities. We're organizers, so 🤷🏾♀️
From City Council President Elana Pirtle-Guiney’s newsletter, echoing concerns from more conservative councilors and others that the progressive set is using procedural tricks to “undercut a collaborative spirit.”
June 14, 2025 at 7:29 AM
I was a student government leader/advisor for 15+ years and I watched constantly how the people who wanted to silence those of us challenging the status quo would manipulate Roberts Rules to do so...
Sorry not sorry that we can use those same rules to win for our communities. We're organizers, so 🤷🏾♀️
Sorry not sorry that we can use those same rules to win for our communities. We're organizers, so 🤷🏾♀️
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PDX polite means that knowing Robert’s Rules and organizing to achieve political wins for your communities is being mean or something?
Last I checked those tools are available to everyone, so it sounds like a skills issue to me!
The old ways are dead. Passive aggressive emails don’t change that.
Last I checked those tools are available to everyone, so it sounds like a skills issue to me!
The old ways are dead. Passive aggressive emails don’t change that.
From City Council President Elana Pirtle-Guiney’s newsletter, echoing concerns from more conservative councilors and others that the progressive set is using procedural tricks to “undercut a collaborative spirit.”
June 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM
PDX polite means that knowing Robert’s Rules and organizing to achieve political wins for your communities is being mean or something?
Last I checked those tools are available to everyone, so it sounds like a skills issue to me!
The old ways are dead. Passive aggressive emails don’t change that.
Last I checked those tools are available to everyone, so it sounds like a skills issue to me!
The old ways are dead. Passive aggressive emails don’t change that.
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Fascism sucks. 🤬 The entire globe is under attack—rights rolled back, dissent punished, and state violence on the rise.
It’s okay to be outraged. We should be. But don’t lose your grounding. Stick together. Take care of each other. Solidarity is our strength.
Love y'all 🫶🏾
It’s okay to be outraged. We should be. But don’t lose your grounding. Stick together. Take care of each other. Solidarity is our strength.
Love y'all 🫶🏾
June 9, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Fascism sucks. 🤬 The entire globe is under attack—rights rolled back, dissent punished, and state violence on the rise.
It’s okay to be outraged. We should be. But don’t lose your grounding. Stick together. Take care of each other. Solidarity is our strength.
Love y'all 🫶🏾
It’s okay to be outraged. We should be. But don’t lose your grounding. Stick together. Take care of each other. Solidarity is our strength.
Love y'all 🫶🏾
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There is no bigger story right now than the White House asserting that California residents are in a state "of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States."
Department of Defense Security for the Protection of Department of Homeland Security Functions
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
www.whitehouse.gov
June 8, 2025 at 2:59 AM
There is no bigger story right now than the White House asserting that California residents are in a state "of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States."
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Wow. ✊🏾 Sending LA so much love and protection. 🫶🏾
June 8, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Wow. ✊🏾 Sending LA so much love and protection. 🫶🏾
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“We needed to create a stir to get some change, to get them [city council] to fund us back up. And I mean, that’s the honest truth. I know, that could make things more dangerous. I don’t know. But at the same time, we needed some change.”
Incredible reporting from @bikeportland.org
Incredible reporting from @bikeportland.org
June 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
“We needed to create a stir to get some change, to get them [city council] to fund us back up. And I mean, that’s the honest truth. I know, that could make things more dangerous. I don’t know. But at the same time, we needed some change.”
Incredible reporting from @bikeportland.org
Incredible reporting from @bikeportland.org
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Is it the newspaper’s job to take police at their word or to verify the claim? Is it not interesting that this always happens during budget season? Isn’t it interesting that they were staffed up enough to send a 3rd of the force they had for NE Portland to monitor Councilor Kanal instead of patrol?
Portland police say they lacked the staff to try to break up a series of illegal street takeover events Sunday night.
N. Portland street takeovers went unchecked Sunday because cops were busy on another call
Portland police say they lacked the staff to try to break up a series of illegal street takeover events Sunday night.
www.oregonlive.com
June 3, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Is it the newspaper’s job to take police at their word or to verify the claim? Is it not interesting that this always happens during budget season? Isn’t it interesting that they were staffed up enough to send a 3rd of the force they had for NE Portland to monitor Councilor Kanal instead of patrol?
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The increase is $1.35 per trip. Using 300% on the trip fee misleads the effective cost and makes it seem like the whole cost is tripling. Meanwhile, our roads are in shambles and we are facing down another record heat summer.
When Lyft or Uber asks you to contact elected officials to "keep rideshare affordable" remember that they profit from undermining public transit and increasing congestion. Use them where necessary, but don't let them use you.
June 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The increase is $1.35 per trip. Using 300% on the trip fee misleads the effective cost and makes it seem like the whole cost is tripling. Meanwhile, our roads are in shambles and we are facing down another record heat summer.
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Donate to Kat!!!
I wasn’t kidding about the goal by the way. We don’t want to raise endless money. We want to raise what we need.
When we hit $600k, we’ll ask people to NOT donate til next quarter, and send every cent we do get before then to local charities.
Help us hit it here: secure.actblue.com/donate/abu-b...
When we hit $600k, we’ll ask people to NOT donate til next quarter, and send every cent we do get before then to local charities.
Help us hit it here: secure.actblue.com/donate/abu-b...
Chip in to support Kat Abughazaleh!
Show your support with a contribution.
secure.actblue.com
June 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Donate to Kat!!!
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I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.
March 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.
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This is really unfortunate news from @pbotinfo.bsky.social. The city is removing most of the public plaza space on NW 13th Ave because three businesses wouldn’t comply with requirements.
www.portland.gov/transportati...
www.portland.gov/transportati...
June 2, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This is really unfortunate news from @pbotinfo.bsky.social. The city is removing most of the public plaza space on NW 13th Ave because three businesses wouldn’t comply with requirements.
www.portland.gov/transportati...
www.portland.gov/transportati...
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The Oregonian says Portland “can’t afford” to shift $1.9M from the $300M+ police budget to maintain parks.
What we really can’t afford? Another year of rotting restrooms, trash-filled playgrounds, and fear-based spins on public safety. 🧵
www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2025...
What we really can’t afford? Another year of rotting restrooms, trash-filled playgrounds, and fear-based spins on public safety. 🧵
www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2025...
Editorial: A $1.9 million budget shift that Portland can’t afford
The Portland City Council should restore a $1.9 million shift of funds from police in the coming budget year, the editorial board writes. Portland's revitalization depends on ensuring the safety and s...
www.oregonlive.com
June 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The Oregonian says Portland “can’t afford” to shift $1.9M from the $300M+ police budget to maintain parks.
What we really can’t afford? Another year of rotting restrooms, trash-filled playgrounds, and fear-based spins on public safety. 🧵
www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2025...
What we really can’t afford? Another year of rotting restrooms, trash-filled playgrounds, and fear-based spins on public safety. 🧵
www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2025...
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The thing that irritates me most about the "we have slow response times so we need more police" line is that yes, people need help quicker, but do they need an ARMED OFFICER? Most of these calls are medical in nature, physical or mental, so what we need is MORE PSR & MORE CHAT actually!
May 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The thing that irritates me most about the "we have slow response times so we need more police" line is that yes, people need help quicker, but do they need an ARMED OFFICER? Most of these calls are medical in nature, physical or mental, so what we need is MORE PSR & MORE CHAT actually!
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Took some risks this week talking about the need to transform our ideas of public safety and also reconsider how sweeps impact houseless people and while not everyone is happy, I’ve been met with so much love in D3. Everytime I go out someone says something kind.
I feel so lucky, I love Portland.
I feel so lucky, I love Portland.
May 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Took some risks this week talking about the need to transform our ideas of public safety and also reconsider how sweeps impact houseless people and while not everyone is happy, I’ve been met with so much love in D3. Everytime I go out someone says something kind.
I feel so lucky, I love Portland.
I feel so lucky, I love Portland.