@sandychungpdx.bsky.social
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The city’s detention fee ordinance + sanctuary city rules look even smarter in combination with Attorney General Rayfield’s cease-and-desist letter to the Feds.
Our legal power to resist is at its height when different levels of state and local government maximize their respective powers.
Our legal power to resist is at its height when different levels of state and local government maximize their respective powers.
Here is a FAQ sheet that will clarify what Portland City Council does and doesn't have power to do in relation to revoking the Macadam ICE permit.
TL;DR:
(1) CC cannot unilaterally revoke the ICE permit;
(2) CC cannot lean on PP&D to do it;
(3) the CC is exercising its authority in other ways.
TL;DR:
(1) CC cannot unilaterally revoke the ICE permit;
(2) CC cannot lean on PP&D to do it;
(3) the CC is exercising its authority in other ways.
November 30, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The city’s detention fee ordinance + sanctuary city rules look even smarter in combination with Attorney General Rayfield’s cease-and-desist letter to the Feds.
Our legal power to resist is at its height when different levels of state and local government maximize their respective powers.
Our legal power to resist is at its height when different levels of state and local government maximize their respective powers.
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The connection between Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the USA’s murder of Venezuelans is the desire on the part of both states and their fascist leaders to exercise unchecked power, including the power to kill at will without justification or consequence. We should all be frightened.
November 30, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The connection between Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the USA’s murder of Venezuelans is the desire on the part of both states and their fascist leaders to exercise unchecked power, including the power to kill at will without justification or consequence. We should all be frightened.
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The White House’s new anti-media website includes denunciations of:
-ABC, which bribed the president
-CBS, which bribed the president and moved away from fact-based journalism trying to appeal to him and his fans
-WaPo, which spiked a Harris endorsement and tilts coverage in Trump’s favor
Fools.
-ABC, which bribed the president
-CBS, which bribed the president and moved away from fact-based journalism trying to appeal to him and his fans
-WaPo, which spiked a Harris endorsement and tilts coverage in Trump’s favor
Fools.
November 30, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The White House’s new anti-media website includes denunciations of:
-ABC, which bribed the president
-CBS, which bribed the president and moved away from fact-based journalism trying to appeal to him and his fans
-WaPo, which spiked a Harris endorsement and tilts coverage in Trump’s favor
Fools.
-ABC, which bribed the president
-CBS, which bribed the president and moved away from fact-based journalism trying to appeal to him and his fans
-WaPo, which spiked a Harris endorsement and tilts coverage in Trump’s favor
Fools.
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No more pretense or excuses. Trump and his team have made the white supremacist foundations of this project explicit and clear.
If you enable this you need to face who and what you are. But you can always choose another way.
Choose humanity. Decency. Equality. Democracy.
If you enable this you need to face who and what you are. But you can always choose another way.
Choose humanity. Decency. Equality. Democracy.
To make common cause with this Administration is to support an affirmatively white supremacist vision of this country. Period.
Every corporation.
Every Republican.
Every influencer.
Every Governor.
Every evangelical leader.
Every voter. Yes. Every voter.
Every corporation.
Every Republican.
Every influencer.
Every Governor.
Every evangelical leader.
Every voter. Yes. Every voter.
Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
November 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
No more pretense or excuses. Trump and his team have made the white supremacist foundations of this project explicit and clear.
If you enable this you need to face who and what you are. But you can always choose another way.
Choose humanity. Decency. Equality. Democracy.
If you enable this you need to face who and what you are. But you can always choose another way.
Choose humanity. Decency. Equality. Democracy.
Opportunity cost is a huge consideration - always. Especially when the tactic one is choosing may be more performative than substantive.
Here is a FAQ sheet that will clarify what Portland City Council does and doesn't have power to do in relation to revoking the Macadam ICE permit.
TL;DR:
(1) CC cannot unilaterally revoke the ICE permit;
(2) CC cannot lean on PP&D to do it;
(3) the CC is exercising its authority in other ways.
TL;DR:
(1) CC cannot unilaterally revoke the ICE permit;
(2) CC cannot lean on PP&D to do it;
(3) the CC is exercising its authority in other ways.
November 30, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Opportunity cost is a huge consideration - always. Especially when the tactic one is choosing may be more performative than substantive.
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me before the second Trump admin: Chris Van Hollen seems pretty good, I guess
me at this point: I will run through a brick wall for Chris Van Hollen
me at this point: I will run through a brick wall for Chris Van Hollen
Van Hollen is being personally credited as the chief pressure point that made Israel release a Palestinian teenager with American citizenship from their dungeons, where he was held for 9 months without even a criminal charge.
⭕️ Sen. Chris Van Hollen (@vanhollen.senate.gov) credited for key role in release of US teen from Israeli detention
Palestinian-American child Mohammed Ibrahim, 16, was freed today after 9 months of Israeli imprisonment w/o charge. Journalist Jasper Nathaniel, who has been a major advocate for...
Palestinian-American child Mohammed Ibrahim, 16, was freed today after 9 months of Israeli imprisonment w/o charge. Journalist Jasper Nathaniel, who has been a major advocate for...
November 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
me before the second Trump admin: Chris Van Hollen seems pretty good, I guess
me at this point: I will run through a brick wall for Chris Van Hollen
me at this point: I will run through a brick wall for Chris Van Hollen
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I hadn’t really thought about it until today but the fact that transit police have their own special branding and separate force probably contributes to the narrative of transit being disproportionately unsafe, which is frustrating given that it’s drivers who are killing people.
November 30, 2025 at 4:52 AM
I hadn’t really thought about it until today but the fact that transit police have their own special branding and separate force probably contributes to the narrative of transit being disproportionately unsafe, which is frustrating given that it’s drivers who are killing people.
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What does this essay from 1943 tell us about Donald Trump’s regime?
November 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
What does this essay from 1943 tell us about Donald Trump’s regime?
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In Rhode Island, ICE arrested an intern who worked for a court, and then a judge intervened to say they had the wrong person.
All leading to a scene where ICE agents surrounded the judge's car and "threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply." www.wfla.com/news/judge-i...
All leading to a scene where ICE agents surrounded the judge's car and "threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply." www.wfla.com/news/judge-i...
November 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
In Rhode Island, ICE arrested an intern who worked for a court, and then a judge intervened to say they had the wrong person.
All leading to a scene where ICE agents surrounded the judge's car and "threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply." www.wfla.com/news/judge-i...
All leading to a scene where ICE agents surrounded the judge's car and "threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply." www.wfla.com/news/judge-i...
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a PSA: most nonprofit newsrooms right now are probably participating in the NewsMatch program RIGHT NOW. That’s a program funded by a few foundations that “matches” your end-of-year donation.
If you set up $10 monthly, that literally unlocks $120 from NewsMatch.
So who could you support?
If you set up $10 monthly, that literally unlocks $120 from NewsMatch.
So who could you support?
i promise i don’t mean to high horse this but if you’re thinking about giving lizza ten bucks there are a lot of good independent journalists whose work you could subscribe to for a month instead
November 22, 2025 at 11:00 PM
a PSA: most nonprofit newsrooms right now are probably participating in the NewsMatch program RIGHT NOW. That’s a program funded by a few foundations that “matches” your end-of-year donation.
If you set up $10 monthly, that literally unlocks $120 from NewsMatch.
So who could you support?
If you set up $10 monthly, that literally unlocks $120 from NewsMatch.
So who could you support?
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Bless @sophiegilbert.bsky.social @theatlantic.com: "The past decade has been a gloomy lesson in how limited a proportion of men actually see women as equal human beings...The fish rots from the head. The pig is in the Oval Office." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
The Pig Is in the White House
This is what consequence-free misogyny looks like.
www.theatlantic.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Bless @sophiegilbert.bsky.social @theatlantic.com: "The past decade has been a gloomy lesson in how limited a proportion of men actually see women as equal human beings...The fish rots from the head. The pig is in the Oval Office." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
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EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.
Wyden Presses for Investigation Into JPMorgan Chase and Epstein
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.
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Thank you, student journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
Lawrence Summers to Stop Teaching at Harvard While It Investigates His Epstein Ties
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Thank you, student journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
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This is a Fox poll. WOW.
Yeah, Trump is sinking. Watch how many MAGA rats try to jump ship and become economic populists in about 1 week.
www.foxnews.com/politics/fox...
Yeah, Trump is sinking. Watch how many MAGA rats try to jump ship and become economic populists in about 1 week.
www.foxnews.com/politics/fox...
Fox News Poll: Voters say White House is doing more harm than good on economy
Trump's approval hits new lows as 76% view economy negatively in the latest Fox News poll. Rising costs for groceries, utilities spark voter dissatisfaction nationwide.
www.foxnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:13 AM
This is a Fox poll. WOW.
Yeah, Trump is sinking. Watch how many MAGA rats try to jump ship and become economic populists in about 1 week.
www.foxnews.com/politics/fox...
Yeah, Trump is sinking. Watch how many MAGA rats try to jump ship and become economic populists in about 1 week.
www.foxnews.com/politics/fox...
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Epstein survivors have been fighting since 1996. THEY are the reason anything has come to light.
November 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Epstein survivors have been fighting since 1996. THEY are the reason anything has come to light.
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Came out 2 weeks ago and I still dont understand why it isn't bigger news.
www.dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey-ep...
www.dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey-ep...
Jeffrey Epstein Helped Israel Sell a Surveillance State to Côte d’Ivoire
Leaked emails show the details behind talks between Cote d’Ivoire and Israel shepherded by Ehud Barak and Jeffrey Epstein
www.dropsitenews.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Came out 2 weeks ago and I still dont understand why it isn't bigger news.
www.dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey-ep...
www.dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey-ep...
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So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.
Got it.
Got it.
Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 5:10 AM
So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.
Got it.
Got it.
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In April 2009, the Washington Post asked 10 writers to make the case for something that deserves to be tossed out as part of "spring cleaning."
I chose Larry Summers.
Better late than never.
Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
I chose Larry Summers.
Better late than never.
Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
November 18, 2025 at 6:20 AM
In April 2009, the Washington Post asked 10 writers to make the case for something that deserves to be tossed out as part of "spring cleaning."
I chose Larry Summers.
Better late than never.
Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
I chose Larry Summers.
Better late than never.
Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
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New York Times killed Weinstein and Epstein stories but just asked Ms Rachel if she was funded by Hamas.
November 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
New York Times killed Weinstein and Epstein stories but just asked Ms Rachel if she was funded by Hamas.
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Remember when Ruben Gallego preened around over his support for the Laken Riley Act, and pundits treated him as having the magic key to Dems' working class woes?
Well, Spanberger voted against it and erased GOP gains with working class, including among Latinos:
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
Well, Spanberger voted against it and erased GOP gains with working class, including among Latinos:
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
November 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Remember when Ruben Gallego preened around over his support for the Laken Riley Act, and pundits treated him as having the magic key to Dems' working class woes?
Well, Spanberger voted against it and erased GOP gains with working class, including among Latinos:
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
Well, Spanberger voted against it and erased GOP gains with working class, including among Latinos:
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
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The Democratic Establishment loves this man, who, along with others, urged people to vote for Cuomo against Mamdani.
They all suck.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
They all suck.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Epstein Bantered Regularly With Larry Summers
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:40 AM
The Democratic Establishment loves this man, who, along with others, urged people to vote for Cuomo against Mamdani.
They all suck.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
They all suck.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
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trump was president then!
jeffrey epstein spent thanksgiving *2017* with President Donald Trump at Mar a Lago and we only know this now i'm going to go insane
November 13, 2025 at 4:21 AM
trump was president then!
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This is far worse than anyone expected.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
Trump Administration to Drastically Cut Housing Grants
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:21 AM
😐
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Marie Glusenkamp Perez is Washington state's version of Fetterman.
November 13, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Marie Glusenkamp Perez is Washington state's version of Fetterman.
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David Axelrod stating on election night that Wilson had lost wasn't just premature and worthy of a "gotcha." It demonstrated a shocking lack of awareness of how Washington state elections work (esp. with all mail-in ballots).
Local media is calling it: Katie Wilson will be the next mayor of Seattle.
Wilson ousts Mayor Bruce Harrell after running as a progressive challenger.
Her win is a west coast companion to Mamdani’s as a statement victory for the left.
Wilson ousts Mayor Bruce Harrell after running as a progressive challenger.
Her win is a west coast companion to Mamdani’s as a statement victory for the left.
November 13, 2025 at 3:49 AM
David Axelrod stating on election night that Wilson had lost wasn't just premature and worthy of a "gotcha." It demonstrated a shocking lack of awareness of how Washington state elections work (esp. with all mail-in ballots).