Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time.

This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.

“enhanced interrogation” instead of torture walked so “detention centers” instead of concentration camps could run.

Pirtle-Guiney: "Our choices are to raise taxes on working families in our city or to lay off working people with families in our city."

THERE IS SOMEONE ELSE YOU CAN TAX. JUST SAYING.

We sell Hike Insurance so you can be compensated when you misidentify a type of rock, or think a leaf is frog

I’m not proud of it but if Forrest Gump started talking to me on a bench I’d have left

Again: the gun you keep in the home for “protection” increases your risk of homicide by 3-fold, of suicide by 5-fold, and for men, risk of suicide more than 10-fold

The second you bring a gun into the home you’ve dramatically increased the risk of death for your family 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

Portland DSA has been a unique source of beauty and hope in my life, and there's literally something for everybody. If you think you have the wrong age or personality or aren't woke enough, you are wrong. So listen to the bus guy on this one!!!

Headline from The Guardian: Traders placed over $1 billion in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on?

Yeah geez weird impossible to know I guess

trans women have a biological advantage at being hot now

if I could pass a law, I’d require companies which were profitable but did large layoffs to pay at least a year of severance for laid off employees

the big “innovation” of the tech boom of the 2010s was misclassifying employees

the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system

Comic. [Person and person with white hat facing two boxes stacked with $80 price tag and sale tag on each box.] PERSON 1: They want $80 for this? I could make one myself for $10 in parts, an hour of work, a trip to the hardware store, another $30 in parts, another few hours of work, two more trips to the store for $20 more in parts, another hour of work to redo the first hour of work because I messed up, and $80 to buy this when the one I made breaks.

Make It Myself

xkcd.com/3233/

Some wonderful news

Once hunted to near extinction, humpback whales are rebounding

"We've stopped killing them," said wildlife photographer Chris Fallows. "Since the late 1960s,the population that was reduced to just a couple of thousand animals has come back to several hundred thousand animals"

Use your legs, you’ll be fine!!

Dilley is evil and must be closed. It's a goddamn concentration camp. A moral abomination. People are going to Hell over this.

DOGE turbocharged the deficit.

budgetlab.yale.edu/research/wea...

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-co...

RATING EVERY OREGON CITY (FROM LARGEST TO SMALLEST) AS A NAME FOR A TRANS GIRL:
1. Portland - 4/5. On the nose but solid.
2. Eugene - 4/5. You literally don't have to change your name.
3. Salem - 5/5. Definitely like 100 dolls with this one.
4. Gresham - 3/5.
5. Hillsboro - 2/5. Kind of out there.

a happy 20th neil banging out the tunes day to all

Everyone please welcome CBS News Immigration Analyst Viktor Orban.

if they’re allowed to say that workers destroying product is unforgivable violence, then we’re allowed to say that unlivable wages are murderous

worth fighting for

People have been shocked that an AI company is offering chats with an AI Jesus for $1.99/minute but it's important to remember and respect the fact that a core part of American evangelicalism is being financially defrauded by people who claim to speak for god

Were not meant to toil for the profit of billionaires. Were meant to take care of each other to advance the species high enough to go meet our star gods at the edge of the observable universe.

Anyway, set fire to the exploitative warehouses and the concentration camps and the fucking data centers and shoot for the fucking stars my dudes

Seeing shit like what we've just collectively watched and experienced for the last 9 days and truly, honestly, believing that humanity can do so, so much better. Hell, man, we just sent four people to the moon. THE MOON. We are capable of taking care of each other and rooting out the worst of us

Lina Khan helped Joe Biden set this up, but he never pushed it hard to take credit for it.

Now, with Khan working for Mamdani, he's doing it for NYC residents. And actually telling them he's doing it.

Good policies aren't good politics unless you take credit constantly for them.

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.