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• Post #4387462

  #PDX The proposed measure that would have redirected 25% of the money in the Portland Clean Energy Fund to hiring more police has failed to obtain enough valid signatures to make it onto the ballot. The policemen’s union just wasted a lot of cash. link to a PDF of the full statement: https://www.portland.gov/sites/default/files/2026/FAQ-re1PDX2026.pdf

• Post #4101076

  RE: https://social.linux.pizza/@CubitOom/116981132258140576 #PDX

• Post #3978469

  #Oregon #PDX Governor Kotek's Oregon Prosperity Council has come out with a report that decries the State's tax "burden on middle-income households". But then, for the "next Oregon legislative session, the prosperity council proposes: * reinstating a tax cut for wealthy investors which delivers 94% of all tax benefits to people making over $1 million in income a year; * weakening Oregon’s only tax on the wealthy, the estate tax, which only the richest 5% of Oregon estat...

• Post #3744090

  #PDX Local lawyer has video of signature gatherers for the ballot measure to redirect 25% of the Portland Clean Energy Fund to the cops — and they are busted! 'Four of the videos reviewed by The Oregonian/OregonLive show signature gatherers describing the measure as funding “911 dispatchers,” “mental health officers, not police officers” and “Portland Street Response” — even though the actual measure would only fund police officers, not dispatchers, mental health responders or other unarmed...

• Post #3698154

  #PDX If you own a home in an insufficiently tree'd neighborhood in Portland. The city will give you a tree from a list of forrester-approved species. https://www.oregonlive.com/environment/2026/07/portland-offers-free-trees-to-grow-shade-cut-heat.html

• Post #3663050

  “Morris has made the strongest course correction towards revolutionary solidarity that is possible in her position. Her refusal to cooperate further landed her a fifty-year sentence. If we believe that remorse, redemption, and renewal are possible, then Morris has committed herself to seeking them. If we do not, then we must ask ourselves what we can offer defendants who have erred but have yet to decide whether to continue to assist the state.” https://crimethinc.com/2026/07/07/manufactured-bet...

• Post #3598728

  “… a new disruptive transport technology is rapidly changing cities across the rich world. It is highly energy-efficient, costs almost nothing, reduces congestion and pollution, and obviates the need for huge car parks. Yet it is not the self-driving electric car, as tech moguls and car industry executives imagined. Rather, it is the humble bicycle.” #BikeTooter https://archive.ph/86DpV

• Post #3446962

  I've been a subscriber to Mullvad's VPN service for a few years now. Today I learned that one of Mullvad's two co-owners, Daniel Berntsson, has given the equivalent of ≈$500,000 to the Swedish Örebro Party — a party with a founder-leader of the red-brown type who is on the familiar journey from authoritarian Marxist to authoritarian nationalist. Lately he's been inveighing against "parasites" and advocating "remigration" of immigrants. https://nyadagbladet.se...

• Post #1794370

  RE: https://pdx.social/@portlandmercury/116489945216798309 #PDX

• Post #1683419

  Tapping the sign, again.

• Post #1595420

  #PDX Thread from Portland District 4 City Councilor Mitch Green (@councilorgreen.bsky.social) on Bluesky about secret negotiations between the City and Trail Blazers new owner, billionaire Tom Dundon, on terms of the Moda Center lease: 🧵 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...

• Post #1595417

  RE: https://pdx.social/@portlandmercury/116454968697050643 #PDX

• Post #1502982

  ‘"As long as we depend on oil and gas, we will continue to pay the price for other people's wars," the PM stated.’ ‘The government also reiterated its aim to install one million heat pumps "made in France" each year by 2030, which would allow heating costs to be "halved."’ https://www.lemonde.fr/en/environment/article/2026/04/10/france-announces-ban-on-gas-boilers-in-new-buildings-starting-in-2027_6752297_114.html

• Post #1502973

  RE: https://fosstodon.org/@pauleveritt/116421357148173608 :blackcat:

• Post #1464585

  Nationalism recognizes nationalism as a mirror image and a comrade. Israeli newspaper Haaretz with an article about recently declassified Israeli intelligence files on contacts between some pre-state Zionist militias and Nazi Germany. "Natan Friedman, later known as Natan Yellin-Mor and a future member of the Knesset, wrote in 1943: 'Germany has not yet been defeated and may still become our ally.'" https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/2026-04-14/ty-article-magazin...

• Post #1436764

  If Zarah Sultana MP had not entered this into the public record by saying it in the House of Commons on 14 April 2026, today it would be illegal to print this in any UK media. https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2026-04-14 #UK #Palestine

• Post #1389567

  RE: https://kolektiva.social/@anarchademic/116416508797441852 #PDX #Oregon

• Post #1389565

  Fire at building of the arms merchants Raytheon in Georgia under investigation. https://wgxa.tv/news/local/investigation-underway-after-early-morning-fire-at-raytheon-building-in-warner-robins-engineering-company-specializing-in-us-defense-systems-aerospace-rtx-corporation

• Post #1306413

  Calvin's Dad on the US economy 2026:

• Post #1243135

  Shakespeare on ethnic cleansing. Ian McKellen performs "The Strangers' Case" speech from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on 4 February 2026.

• Post #984925

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/116359768738118656 #Oregon

• Post #984923

  This threat would be more believable if Obama had prosecuted the Bushites for their war crimes, or if Trump had prosecuted Obama administration for his, or Biden had prosecuted any Trumpists for insurrection, … Impunity for crimes in office is one thing they all agree on.

• Post #984922

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@nowaynews/116363735967942248 @mwl

• Post #824719

  This is outrageous! This crook became a billionaire defrauding Oregonians with unfair lending practices *and* now the Oregon legislature is going subsidize his purchase of the Trail Blazers? "Lawmakers recently approved $365 million in public funding to renovate Portland’s 30-year-old Moda Center, home to the Blazers, one of Oregon’s most prominent businesses. The bill awaits Kotek’s signature. Combined with city and county money, the total proposed public backing has reached $870 mill...

• Post #566618

  Meanwhile, in England: ‘A Labour source said: “A slow handclap for those self-appointed strategic geniuses who ridicule Labour values and think we can afford to sacrifice our core vote by mimicking the performative cruelty of Suella Braverman. The dead end of McSweeneyism must be abandoned before it’s too late. …”’ Motherfucker, it’s already way too late. www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/06/labour-urged-listen-progressive-voters-or-face-political-earthquake-london

• Post #566617

  "If I have one message to give to the secular American people, it’s that the world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And o...

• Post #204964

  The image below is of Rep Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D, WA3) US Congresswoman from SW Washington. In between the murder of Renee Good on 7 January and the murder of Alex Pretti on 24 January, Gluesenkamp was one of 7 democrats who voted to fund ICE. The bill would not have passed without them. She and her husband own Dean's Car Care on NE Lombard in Portland. #Washington #PDX #DHS #ICE