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the thing about “democrats should take popular cultural positions” is that what constitutes popular is a function of an interaction between the public and elites. if a faction of elites start screaming about a vulnerable minority and another faction says they have a point, this shapes the public.

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he looks like a state fair butter sculpture

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People need to understand that we are in an entirely new paradigm. It is now Russia the US against Ukraine and Europe. This is not a shift in US policy, it is a transformation of what kind of country the United States is in the world

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You: They did the math. Me: ᵀʰᵉʸ ᵈⁱᵈ ᵗʰᵉ ᵐᵒⁿˢᵗᵉʳ ᵐᵃᵗʰ You: What was that? Me: Nothing. Me three hours later in a whisper: ᴵᵗ ʷᵃˢ ᵃ ᵍʳᵃᵛᵉʸᵃʳᵈ ᵍʳᵃᵖʰ

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📰 | Today we've announced that forward Morgan Weaver, defender Nicole Payne, and defender Marie Müller have been placed on the Season-Ending Injury (SEI) list. Wishing Weavs, Nicole, and Marie a speedy recovery ♥️ More here: www.thorns.com/news/portlan...

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Last night, I was elected to serve as Chair of Portland's Planning Commission. I am very excited (!!) to work with colleagues, staff, City Councilors, and community members to build pathways within our new form of government that ensure our policies are informed by meaningful, equitable engagement.

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For those who haven’t seen this MASTERPIECE in person yet, it is meant to be viewed from 3 angles: From below: map of CTA network From side: picture of bus From front: picture of train

submitted 6 days ago • 29 comments

Transportation for America's @bethosborne.bsky.social really comes out swingin', calling it like it is on the @thewaroncars.bsky.social podcast today: thewaroncars.org/2025/02/25/e...

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This week’s This American Life hit hard and really close to home. Don’t know how we come back from this world we live in where arguments and facts don’t matter.

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the reason YIMBYs are so incessant about YIMBYism is that there is literally One Simple Trick to fix the housing crisis that actually raises government revenue and is environmentally friendly. we just need to legalize housing

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Authoritarianism relies on elite consent which is why after the fall of Nazism collaborators were dealt with the way they were. A lot of elites are collaborating right now

submitted 16 days ago • 18 comments

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

submitted 17 days ago • 541 comments

The position I'd like to see House and Senate Democrats take is pretty simple: We refuse to cooperate with Republicans on anything until they stop breaking the law and trashing the Constitution. We want Musk out, DOGE dissolved, and the Trump administration complying with federal court orders.

submitted 18 days ago • 94 comments

The legislation to protect Oregon residential electric customers from data center power costs has a bill number now -- it's HB 3546. olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/M...

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Whatever happened here probably elected Donald Trump, and it doesn’t make a single lick of sense to say “Oh it’s just that Democrats didn’t listen hard enough.”

submitted 19 days ago • 39 comments

me showing up to the community consultation meeting about turning an arterial road into a complete street

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Hey NYTimes — now you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.

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While many of you are likely yelling "GO CHIEFS" or "GO EAGLES!" I'm yelling "GO TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT and affordable low-VMT neighborhoods!"

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Hey guess what I have some good news! This is from data I got this afternoon. year 1 after Portland's fourplex legalization: 1% of new housing citywide year 2: 7% year 3: 26% Some things take some time to pay off. These delightful 20-somethings bought one of them; told me they love it.

submitted 24 days ago • 13 comments

and yet I keep saying "yes" to things #sadfunnytrue #EmilyKomics

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

In 2020 & 2021, Portland legalized up to 4 homes on every residential lot. Results through 2024 are in & amazing! 😍 Of these newly-legal homes: 1️⃣ 1,400 permitted 2️⃣ Avg selling for $250,000 LESS than a new single-detached house 3️⃣ Acct for 80% of builds in formerly single-detached-only neighborhoods

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FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

submitted 26 days ago • 1104 comments

Yes thehill.com/homenews/sen...

submitted 27 days ago • 374 comments

probably Musk's greatest asset at this time is the total refusal at almost all levels of media and society to face squarely what is happening. it's just bouncing right off everyone

submitted 26 days ago • 53 comments

Hey Elon👋🏽 Every single person in this country deserves to know their rights. That's legal. Maybe you should brush up on our laws given the fact you're breaking them to steal American's sensitive data. PS. This video is manipulated, and I wasn't even at the event shown.

submitted 27 days ago • 352 comments

Depressed about fascism coming to America? This one pot cassoulet will make you feel like you’re living in Vichy France.

submitted 30 days ago • 67 comments

Americans will go on vacation to a place that isn’t a car sewer, walk and take public transit for 8-12 hrs. a day, notice a change in their health, and attribute it to “they must not have the Illuminati chemicals here”

submitted 33 days ago • 144 comments

particularly maddening coming from the DC political press. "we didn't remotely communicate the stakes of this election, but Trump has a mandate to do the things we didn't tell you about, hands tied"

submitted 34 days ago • 22 comments

Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last. Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.

submitted 34 days ago • 1028 comments

We’re living through Deconstruction. I don’t know what else to call it — it’s an assault on the New Deal, Great Society, Reconstruction, and every other rights movement I can think of.

submitted 35 days ago • 77 comments

increasingly convinced that they're going to Liz Truss the economy, but in a system that is incapable of removing the Truss.

submitted 35 days ago • 49 comments

Democrats: what you need to all be saying, with a single voice, is "The United States government is in crisis, and our political and economic system may collapse, because Donald Trump is trying to throw out the Constitution and make himself a dictator."

submitted 35 days ago • 91 comments

because they have trained themselves to think of politics as a social game in which they are participants, and not as something that determines whether people live or die

submitted 35 days ago • 91 comments

Something is broken in our media environment. A dead squirrel gets more national attention than the systemic destruction of all scientific research in this country, jeopardizing the jobs of millions of Americans and the livelihoods of millions-more students. That's not natural. That's not organic.

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There’s a dark humor to this, but I’ll also say, I was one river rafting through a recent burn area and there was a surprise storm and it was wild, so please be careful out there.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Yup. Microsoft automatically switched me to the $99.99/year version with Spicy Autocomplete. You have to go all the way through "cancel subscription" to be presented these options and get the $69.99/year one you actually chose.

submitted 39 days ago • 199 comments

Fyi for folks in Portland, OR - if you think you see ICE and/or anyone you know is detained, call the Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition hotline: 1-888-622-1510. It’s answered every day until about 8pm!

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment