For more than a week, Amazon has managed to keep a death at its Troutdale, Oregon, facility out of public view.
Workers I spoke to are pissed.
Posts by Jake Weigler
The Secretary of State attending a UFC fight while wartime diplomatic negotiations fail would generate an explosive, front-page, above-the-fold headline for any previous administration
If there is a state with greater scenic beauty than Oregon, I haven’t seen it. Mountains, high desert, Pacific, Hood, Columbia, Portland — it’s just spectacular. I don’t want to spoil anything for residents, but it’s a truly underrated state. I’m lucky to have married into it.
Finally doing something about the affordability crisis.
IF YOUR TRUCK WAS MADE WITHOUT NUTS AND YOU PUT NUTS ON IT THAT TRUCK IS TRANS I DON'T MAKE THE RULES SNOWFLAKE IF YOU GOT A PROBLEM TAKE IT UP WITH GOD
it also has this one
There’s Abigail Scott Duniway, a vocal advocate for women’s suffrage and the first woman to register to vote in Oregon; Mercedes Deiz, the first Black female lawyer and judge in Oregon; and Kathryn Harrison, who helped gain federal recognition for the Grand Ronde Tribe. (2/3)
The only thing they could do that would be more cruel than disrupting his dinner at the Spaghetti Factory is not disrupting his dinner at the Spaghetti Factory.
K9 Tracker • @smg857•2h Replying to @nicksortor The owner of the spaghetti factory has ties to Antifa via @ChiefBobDay They're all in on the chaos and terrorist actions. • 12 ill 170 贝 企
Ah, i think this Twitter sleuth is on to something! Portland Antifa is actually being run by conservative restaurant owners and the Police Chief! Mind blown.
Sinclair never disappoints
Love this interview with our board member & OMN Policy Lead Cameron Bennett… listen in for a rundown on the new law on e-bikes & micromobility devices, HB 4007!
⚡️ BREAKING: Zelenskyy warns a U.S. decision to ease sanctions hands Russia a $10B for its war effort.
Moscow is funneling energy profits directly into weapons like the mass-produced drones targeting Ukraine and beyond.
HOLY SHIT.
A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election.
Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?
Photo w caption: A person flees after throwing a homemade explosive device during a protest organized by far-right influencer Jake Lang in front of Mayor Zohran Mamdani's official residence on Saturday. Charly Triballeau / AFP - Getty Images
NBC - Two arrested and two IEDs seized as right wingers hold an anti-Islam demo outside Gracie Mansion today during Ramadan. Not immediately known if Mayor Mamdani was home.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Pre-war Reuters poll showing 55% GOP support with 42% less likely to support if troops are killed or injured.
NBC poll after start of war showing 77% of GOP and 90% of MAGA support it.
Not enough is said about how GOP voters will immediately change their views to show loyalty to Trump. Their support for Iran war jumps 22% as soon as he does it, despite them saying they don’t want to see troops dying.
so far i think in the last 48 hours trump has called
- michael scherer at the atlantic
- jonathan karl, abc
- jake tapper, cnn
- axios
- bret baier, fox news
- the new york times
- the washington post
just noting that when he wants to sell a war, suddenly theyre not "fake news" anymore
“Good food is not expensive,” the HHS Secretary said on Thursday, before saying Americans should eat more liver because it's cheaper than steak.
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Chicken Nuggies handed through my car window or DEATH!
Much credit to @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social sollenbergerrc.substack.com/p/doj-remove...
NEW: South Carolina, which doesn’t require hospitals to disclose measles-related admissions, has reported only 20 such hospitalizations since Oct. 2.
That leaves doctors with an incomplete picture of how the outbreak is affecting the community.
By @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social
Important thread from @davetroy.com:
"We have a real problem brewing with the “Board of Peace” and it needs much more attention.
1) There is no legal entity for “Board of Peace” organized under the laws of any country, meaning it is subject to NO country’s laws.
Oregon lost a great one today.
One of my favorite pandemic memories was participating in outdoor “drive by celebration” in her honor. There would be no Representative Nelson if Senator Avel Louise Gordly hadn’t paved the way.
Rest In Power Senator Gordly. 🙏🏾
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Jeff, democracy over data!
Bezos:
V.I.N.CENT from The Black Hole
If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from “Star Wars,” “Star Trek,” “Doctor Who?” or “Transformers.”
🚨 Documents leaked to me reveal a federal watchlist of American protesters suspected of being Antifa - including its supposed leader.
One Department of Homeland Security document says a 29-year-old resident of Portland "is the leader of Antifa":
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-ident...
A white man in Dillard, Oregon was arrested for stopping people on the freeway to demand at gunpoint that they tell him if they were citizens. He shot and missed one + attempted to get another in his truck to bring to police. Before his spree, he called local PD to complain about "foreign" people.
I found the first investigative file from the first complainant against Epstein in 2005.
There are descriptions from the officer, over several interviews of the girl, of her pulling her knees up on the chair, drawing doodles, & the officer high-fiving her to keep her calm as she speaks of horror.