Let's not be ageist. Let's discuss their net worth and donor bases.

Screenshot of an Aaron Rupar tweet quoting Rep. Robert Garcia announcing that Democratic members would not participate in a congressional roundtable, calling it a fake hearing "set up to appear like one," and noting that Attorney General Pam Bondi had skipped a legally required deposition the prior week. The embedded video shows Garcia speaking at a hearing table with a nameplate reading "Mr. Garcia, Ranking Member."

Pam Bondi must appear under oath to testify. If they made Hillary Clinton show up, who has nothing to do with Epstein, then Bondi must testify given all she's done to cover up the crimes.

Update on the Moda Center process: I was recently asked to join a small group of councilors to stay close to the talks as the admin enters negotiation. It was conveyed to me that a condition of being in this group would be a commitment to honor an NDA between the city and the team. I refused. 🧵

What are your priorities for the City's budget? Take Councilor Green's Budget Survey by April 20th. Whether you live, work, play, pray, or study in District 4, we want to hear about your priorities for our city.

Our office has launched a budget survey as another tool to gauge your priorities as Council considers how to respond to the budget the Mayor will propose in April. There will be some tough choices ahead of us this year, so please take a moment to let us know what you think by 4/20

If there are folks who would like to design a couple of "FUND OUR LOCAL PUBLIC LIBRARIES" posters, holler at me at niapoetry@gmail.com and please tell me your rate for this. Poster size would be 11 by 17 landscape size.

I need to print some posters for a forthcoming event.

What 'cleaning up the risk pool' means www.patreon.com/posts/eugeni...

So many data centers (103 in Oregon) www.datacenters.com/locations

Hard to believe for two-thirds of us inside the US as well.

McClatchy no longer a reliable source

AKA passive eugenics: you remove all resources from vulnerable people and then let them die.
HHS under RFKjr should be renamed Unhealthy and inhumane services.
RFKjr is very much into eugenics and fascist ideas, if we look at the string of declarations he made regarding vulnerable people.

www.ala.org/news/2026/04...

Be alarmed. And fight back on data centers.

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sign on a pole: Wipe your feet! Are you giving ghosts a free ride? When you walk over their graves, the ghosts who reside there can cling to your shoes, then come off later and haunt where they are unwanted. Help protect this fragile boundary between the land of the living and the spirits of the dead--don't accidentally introduce invasive ghosts. Please use ghost brush before leaving cemetery. (close up of boot brush at base of sign)

To escape authoritarianism, somebody's going to have to come up with an inspiring vision of what the country could be and motivate people to help make it happen. I'm guessing a bitter indictment of people whose support you're asking for may not help with that.

Lenin saying no: "Trump is a fascist dictator" Lenin saying yes: Like every president Trump is a figurehead for the dictatorship of capital and it's using fascism to protect itself from us.

Being against Trump is not enough.

We very likely were about to cure all cancer and we are going to push it back by like two decades because RFK Jr is an evil moron

Page 1 of a legal Judgment document from the United States District Court, District of Oregon for Case No. 6:25-cv-02409-MTK, filed on 04/18/26. The plaintiffs are listed as "STATE OF OREGON, et al.," and the defendants are "ROBERT F. KENNEDY, JR., in his official capacity as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, et al." The document is from United States District Judge Kasubhai. It outlines that final judgment is entered in favor of the Plaintiffs on Counts I, II, III, and IV. Item 3 states the Court holds unlawful, sets aside, and vacates the "Declaration of the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services RE: Safety, Effectiveness and Professional Standards of Care for Sex-Rejecting Procedures on Children and Adolescents".

Page 2 of a legal judgment document for Case 6:25-cv-02409-MTK, filed on April 18, 2026. The text outlines a court order declaring that defendants lack the authority to unilaterally establish standards of care that supersede professionally recognized standards for gender-affirming care in the Plaintiff States. It permanently enjoins defendants and their agents, including the HHS-OIG, from enforcing the "Kennedy Declaration" against providers in those states. The document is dated April 18, 2026, and is signed by United States District Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai.

Huge news: the court has entered final judgement in Oregon v Kennedy (HHS trans youth care ban) and has vacated the Kennedy declaration and permanently enjoined its enforcement to target gender clinics.

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Hey seriously, literally in the bills it says they'll also use identifying information, such as your age data for "other purposes". That means your data goes into a government surveillance database. This would be for ANY *OS*, which is the thing your fucking PC runs off of.

Call your reps NOW.

“Medical institutions must educate staff that Long COVID is a disabling condition affecting up to 40% of healthcare workers who contracted and continue to contract COVID-19 while working in hospitals that have failed to control the spread of the virus and other pathogens.”

Make that IMPROVED M4A, or actual universal healthcare. Single payer. Automatic enrollment. Everyone in. Complete coverage. PCP, preventive, vision, dental, all the bells and whistles.

#MedicareForAllNOW

also, "confirmed": "if we don't test, we'll have fewer cases"

This one's good too www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Instead of "order from Amazon" now we just say "kill someone in Troutdale."

'Did you want to get that by killing someone in Troutdale?'

'I have a Troutdale death on the way'

'My Troutdale death hasn't arrived yet.'

This will be good for the environment, like the massive turn to solar this war is prompting in much of the world that no longer wants to depend on dangerous fossil fuels and the militaristic USA.

Palantir Paid $0 in Federal Income Tax in 2025 While Raking in Taxpayer Funds to Surveil Americans Its $0 tax bill comes despite the company raking in $1.6 billion and landing a $10 billion military contract last year.

Palantir Paid No Federal Income Tax in 2025 as It Partnered With ICE, Pentagon truthout.org/articles/pal...

Graph of world's top 10 data center locations Share of worldwide operational capacity North Virginia 14% Beijing 6% Oregon 4% Iowa 4% Dublin 4% Dallas 3% Shanghai 2% Arizona 2% Nebraska 2% Illinois 2% Source: Synergy Research Group BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93dnnxewdvo

Given the problems in Northern Virginia, no one should be under the misapprehension that data centers are good for a local economy, any more than they are good for health, environment, or anything but lining billionaire pockets.
Speak up Oregon! 4/17
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