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perival.bsky.social
Portland, Oregon, USA. Trail runs, book reading & browsing, yoga, live & recorded music, biking errands. Not a fan of dictatorships!
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Impeachable. And never responsible.

Deerhoof brings it to Portland

Beneath the dignity of the White House doesn’t even begin to describe the @WhiteHouse accounts

So now cars are too expensive and still mandatory. Almost like redesigning an entire country around one mode of transport was a catastrophically stupid idea.

Funny guy, why is he even there?

Here's a nice flower for you.

"The idea that a passport ... will save you from Trump and the ... Republican Party’s wrath—as they take aim at due process, the rule of law, freedom of speech, basic civil and human rights, and so much else we claim to value...—was always a fanciful delusion." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

When the paranoid style becomes a governing style. Every crime and fiasco seized upon by the opposition is reinterpreted as a triumph of owning the libs.

Coming soon, courtesy of 47's demented trade war.

You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.

The President said of the U.S. economy: "We are a department store, and we set the price. I meet with the companies, and then I set a fair price, what I consider to be a fair price, and they can pay it, or they don't have to pay it." And then... I lost it.

47 is bad enough on his own, but the worst part is that he enables and empowers some truly vile people.

Please read. Seth provided more details in the comments.

I'm raising tariffs, I'm cutting tariffs. I'm firing Powell, I'm keeping Powell. So many opportunities for insider trading fueled by whispered phone calls in the night.

The #SummerOfScarcity is gonna be lit. 🔥 @cnbc.com @loriannlarocco.bsky.social www.cnbc.com/2025/04/22/b...

Whatever the captains of dirty industries want!

Stephen Miller is just wrong.

It's all an outsourcing grift.

Going to my first Phish show here in Portland, tomorrow, 4/20.

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

Van Hollen: "This case is not only about one man, as important as that is. It is about protecting fundamental freedoms and the fundamental principle in the Constitution for due process that protects everyone who resides in America."

High-dollar partnerships!

A victory for scammers. The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau has been gutted by @makenakelly.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/cfpb-h...

The soul? More like the cold dead heart. Hope they both lose.

They are saying that the person they are trying to deport from her local community is a flight risk. It's always been obvious that this is about punishment and criminalization of dissent but this...makes it even more obvious.

We've reached the point where Republicans are flying to El Salvador to visit one of the most vicious prisons in the world to have photo ops so they can prove their loyalty to the President of the United States.

This country is becoming unrecognizable. What we’re seeing is state-funded fear. We’ve warned people: keep filming, go live on social media so these moments are documented and shared. This wasn’t a case involving masked ICE agents—but that’s happening too.

There’s just no plausible way you can describe the U.S. as a free country anymore.