Portland residents, @portlanddsa.bsky.social learned that a local company called Sightline Intelligence is shipping lethal drone tech to Israel. Take 2 mins to click & ask electeds to look into Sightline, which uses PDX area footage in its chilling promo materials: actionnetwork.org/letters/sigh...
Not doing just a bit here: my office will be moving forward with some oversight on this.
Here’s why: fundamentally, we changed our form of government to move away from backroom dealing on matters of public interest. Using code names for recurring meetings like this runs counter to transparency.
when we go to 2-k in multnomah, we're doing it by first raising the wages. just like we did with preschool. no program should be built by exploiting the workforce, ever, and voters agree with this!
Ppl who don’t want local politicians to talk about international politics crack me up because U.S. imperialism means we’ll ALWAYS be taking in refugees. You can’t destabilize someone’s homeland, then be surprised when they have to come to the core of global power to be safe.
An abusive relationship
Fat cats and big wigs are so mad about Preschool for All. They scream into their pillows and cry themselves to sleep every night because we passed a good policy for once.
We cannot let them destroy it
"Now, here are some proposals that have been made regarding the Preschool for All program. For each one, please indicate if you find each one acceptable or unacceptable to you. Implementing an income cap so the Preschool for All funds go only to lower income and working-class families who need the most financial help and support. Acceptable Unacceptable And, would you say it is DEFINITELY UNACCEPTABLE or just PROBABLY UNACCEPTABLE? Definitely unacceptable Probably unacceptable Next >
Did anyone else get a truly ridiculous push-poll testing anti-Preschool For All messaging? 🎩💰
Let's take a look at what our opposition is cooking! 👀
First up: means-testing. A classic method to minimize public support for programs to then under-fund them more easily!
Q: “So, hundreds of millions of dollars in grants were terminated from the NEH. The deficit didn’t change much. And you were paid $150,000 to do that job of reducing the deficit. Do you feel like the $150,000 paid to you was wasteful spending?”
A: *Laughs, frowns….long pause*
Great reporting and a good opportunity to reup for the public that my office has produced a series of reports, documents and letters that makes the economic case for why it's such a crucial program, while debunking claims or intimations that the tax was driving people out of the county.
His concerns get renewed each month when he gets the check for his concern-maintenance gig
It is very hard to stop lying about the rich moving away because of a tiny tax when your job depends on people believing that bs
"The governor said on Tuesday afternoon that it was too early to determine if a universal preschool program at the state level would be means-tested"
@tinakotek.bsky.social "universal" means "free" FYI
Hey Portland! The richest few people in the state (some of them don't even go here) are still itching to evade taxation by destroying Preschool for All. Our electeds KNOW that P4A is good public policy, but politicians still need reminders to be brave. Sign here!! actionnetwork.org/petitions/fu...
On a playful yellow background in black text: "“When my family moved from Bend to the Portland area in 2021, we had a choice of counties. We chose Multnomah—because of Preschool for All. My youngest was one month old, my oldest was three, and we were deep in the trenches of childcare struggles. We were planning our future, and Preschool for All was part of that vision."- Laura C, Portland parent
✨Story Time!✨
Families are already moving to Multnomah County because of Preschool For All. They see how the program which is helping them set down roots now, will also help put them in a position to pay into it to help future families, creating a virtuous cycle and a healthy, thriving community.💛
I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.
Aside from the tone-deafness of these priorities, the "business taxes have increased by an astonishing 81%" is a textbook case of lying with statistics. Let's look at the likely source for this claim: an EY report commisioned by Oregon Business & Industry: oregonbusinessindustry.com/wp-content/u...
We live in one of the least-taxed, most unequal countries on Earth. It's unsurprising, but utterly shameless, for the Portland Metro Chamber to continue to pedal the fiction that Portland's businesses are especially tax burdened.
Abolish ICE, prosecute and imprison its leaders, impeach and remove the President from office. This is the only sane reaction to a group of armed men kidnapping and gunning down our neighbors in the street.
Reminder: the GOP DIDN'T HAVE the votes to fund DHS yesterday.
The only reason they got the funding was because these seven Democrats handed it to them on a silver platter.
This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.
“I also believe in the power of a people’s movement to effectively push back against authoritarian power, and I believe it’s important to put that belief into action. That is where I choose to put my energy when fascism is at our doorstep.”
- @councilormorillo.bsky.social
These people need to be opposed unequivocally. The era of these PBA-aligned “power players” is over
Four candidates holding a"socialism in our time" scarf
Congratulations to our endorsees: Mitch Green, Angelita Morillo and Tiffany Koyama-Lane for City Council, and Farrah Chaichi for the Oregon Statehouse!
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ICE out of our cities!
I feel like i should be praying for the other people
Waking up to the news that the US has bombed Venezuela, kidnapped its president, and will now seek to decide its fate (i.e. “liberate” its natural resources). We don’t have money for basic infrastructure in our local communities, but we can always start new wars? Absolutely sickening.
vayanse al carajo yanquis de mierda
Solidarity with the people of Venezuela
No war! 🇻🇪
Very weird feeling waiting for the president to announce an illegal war based on total bullshit that they made up right in front of our faces on TV, almost like I've lived through this moment before
ICYMI: Preschool for All might end up creating universal preschool ahead of schedule despite ongoing attacks from local business interests and politicians who argue every which way that the big struggle families face in President Trump's America is wealthy people paying too many income taxes✨
