Portland's mayor actually said we'd be a "flyover city" if we don't use taxpayer money to renovate the Moda Center. Pretty gross!

Every AI commercial gaslights you into thinking you're an idiot. Before you had access to AI you were too stupid to find your girlfriend's makeup, or boil an egg, or pick a shirt. Every commercial starts from the premise of "Hey, so you know how you're the dumbest fucking fuck to ever do it?"

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

the purpose of the democratic party is to redirect revolutionary energy into stupid bullshit that doesn't work

personally I agree that we should indeed reject the hollow pluralism of pretending that we shouldn't judge Klan, Nazi, and sparkling eugenicist subcultures according to what they have historically produced, and would enthusiastically endorse rejecting inclusion of them in public life

The stakes of this complaint are basically "That sounds a bit cringe."

But yeah, I mean, criminalized people is easy enough, doesn't sound too tortured of a phrase at all.

(1) It's true that I would prefer substantive justice for criminalized people over prettier language. (2) This guy doesn't deliver it, anyway. (3) I do think there is a way for language tweaks to "go too far." (4) I think the dangers of "going too far" are quite minimal.

They're just such fucking losers

Among the many should-immediately-end-this-presidency daily scandals is the fact that the current administration is dismantling research on the most incredible new scientific advance in the last several decades. Literally killing people.

It is a path to regaining trust.

And it makes it clear whose trust they value (that of white supremacists)

The FBI guy is on a paranoid bender and won’t leave his room.

The War guy quotes bible passages from Pulp Fiction.

The Health guy collects raccoon dicks.

It’s an Idiocracy on steroids.

i think folks might be unfamiliar with "the pharisees", so let's make it clear: he's saying the jews run the press, and that they are conspiring to undermine the military. it's not just antisemitism, it's indistinguishable from nazism.

But come on, Matt, it's not like there are mayors out there in these United States fearlessly taxing the rich and getting shit done for working people.... oh wait.

Resurgence: handing millions of dollars to cops and billionaires. Really gives you a sense of who he thinks Portland is for, ya know?

Portland Mayor Keith Wilson talks up Rose City resurgence at State of City speech Portland Mayor Keith Wilson is delivering his second State of the City address Friday evening, 14 months into his first term in office.

There's always money for cops because that's the local version of "there's always money for war."
www.opb.org/article/2026...

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Capitalism is incompatible with democracy etc etc

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Industry lobbyists inspiring debilitating fear in public servants is how we know the product is necessary and beneficial

Democrats planning to run in November’s midterm elections have been advised not to antagonise pro-AI campaign groups that have amassed more than $300mn to fight for the industry’s priorities. The warnings by top party consultants, corroborated by people close to four different campaigns and party strategists speaking on the condition of anonymity, come despite internal polling for Democrats showing widespread public support for tougher AI rules.

They're calling it the best democracy ever.

www.ft.com/content/7529...

We all deserve more ease. That's really it.

A permanent stain in Oregon history will be that the city of Grants Pass took its desire to punish homeless people all the way to the Supreme Court. The small town was used by cities and states in the West to set the precedent that homeless people can be punished for being homeless—anywhere, anyhow.

See how dumb this sounds

Sometimes I feel like I am playing the new Ratboys album too loud and other times I feel like I am playing it not too loud enough.

We all have days like this

I'm getting really sick of "this isn't about exclusion" from the guy who wants a fucking bathroom bill like every other Trumper.

I don't want to have to leave Oregon. Don't fucking elect this fucking Frankenstein's monster.

When we create a state that is so focused on cruelty, we are always going to empower people like this. The cruelty is not a byproduct, it is an inevitable consequence.

This summer we're going to say "Heavens to Murgatroyd" when we're aghast and we're going to say "buns" instead of "butt" or "ass" and we're going to say "pork" instead of "fuck" and that's just the way it's going to be.

I'm just sayin' it's gonna get weird ordering pork buns is all

To add nuance, Dernoncourt et al. (2024) show that taxing the 1% will not make a meaningful difference in closing the racial wealth gap. THAT SAID, there is evidence that the tax revenue could help improve many other parts of society.