John E Bartley, III K7AAY (D) NSSAR📎▼🐸

The quincy institute doing multiple events with noted far right lunatic joe kent is wildly irresponsible

I've been brewing up a guide to Portland government for total newbies. Will share a link once it's finished!!

I don't typically yap about who you should vote for, but: Portlanders who live in DISTRICT 2 of Multnomah County: ⭐️ Nathan Ong Norris ⭐️ is your guy for County Commissioner. Rank him #1. He is rad. www.nathanongnorris.com

You have to be 21 to shop in a dispensary. Oregon opened dispensaries to non-medical customers in 2015. There are potheads today who never bought weed from Some Dude.

VOTE! 💙 Assume the democrats are 10 points down. Don’t count on the polls. VOTE!🗳️ 💙 Polls don’t win elections. VOTES DO!!!

Which Kellie Torres was that?

lmfao a nice palate cleanse from all the go portland go ads i’ve been subjected to

My 23yo moved to PDX for work 1 month ago & -changed her voter address before the deadline -read up on all the city/county/district candidates & measures -made informed choices -turned in her ballot Her generation has suffered a lot of political bs they didn’t vote for. They’re motivated voters now

This is who Portland Police have always been. Except nowadays they don’t need possums, because they have weapons of war to abuse citizens with.

Abdul El-Sayed is a Rhodes Scholar, with degrees from the University of Michigan, Oxford, and Columbia. 84% of Rhodes Scholars are Democrats or Independents, compared with just 14% Republicans. It’ll be great having Abdul in the Senate.

The FRENCH don’t play when it comes to a REVOLUTION

✉️ Contact your councilors: send this one click email to tell your councilors you support the Right to Breathe. actionnetwork.org/letters/ban-...

This Thursday, October 29, Portland City Councilors @councilorkanal.bsky.social and @counciloravalos.bsky.social are proposing an ordinance to limit the use of chemical weapons, like tear gas, in Portland. Check out this thread to learn more and take action. ⬇️

PPB should not be using weapons of war against Portlanders.

If you don’t let us use chemical weapons on Portlanders, we’ll be forced to use batons, tasers, and guns. Also, let us police ourselves… trrruuust uuusss.

Portland, OR is where the bird landed and gave Bernie the nickname Birdie Sanders. I saw him at a rally here on the Washington side of the Columbia River. The venue was so packed that he spoke about 30 minutes, unscheduled & unplanned to all US folkes that couldn't get inside the high school gym ✌️❣️

Portland Police are basically arguing that if City Council doesn’t let them use chemical weapons against Portlanders, they’ll be forced to quell our constitutional rights using batons, tasers, and guns.

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16th isn't among the best but not the worst either. Many states should do better for their schools but most money ends up in salaries without much left over to help kids. OR has a shit Edu program because of terrible leadership in the Portland public school system.

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It is wild to me that pro data center ads are being run on TV here in the Portland area. Nothing political just a 'set the record straight' type ads.

We need to pause this process – not one school should close before we fully explore our options to fully fund education. My office will do everything in its power to help. We need to retain and attract young families to Portland, and we can start by saving our schools. (1/2)

Hell yeah! Translating into terms creepy old men will understand: school closures will sabotage Portland’s ✨renaissance✨. Every gear of our local government should be aimed at growing Portland and making our governance structure support that growth - from schools to tax systems. Go, Mitch, go!

Jesse Ventura: “If Donald Trump would have gone in the military, he would have been the guy that wet his bed, cried for his mom, went hysterical, and would be carted out in the middle of the night. The man’s a coward. He’s a bully. All bullies are cowards. That’s why they’re bullies”

That's why I pushed for Keep Portland Housed and why our Unified Housing Strategy prioritizes preserving homes as we build more. Stagnant wages, healthcare costs and frayed safety nets affect mental health. Those pressures show up in our buildings, where residents need more support, not less.

It's complicated. But these aren't just Home Forward problems. Our affordable housing system is under enormous pressure from federal funding changes, skyrocketing construction costs and the simple reality that everyday Portlanders cannot afford the rent. We cannot afford to lose the housing we have.

I used to comment whenever KOIN would use Randy Blazak as the resident expert commenting on Joey Gibson rallies or 2020 stuff. It sounded like he studied history of NW white supremacy, but there were other local reporters with better, up to date information www.oregonlive.com/education/20...

Portland could be piloting community schools programs and utilizing these buildings for preschool for all, health clinics, etc, in addition to keeping these schools open. www.nea.org/student-succ...

Over the last several days I've heard directly from parents who are scared and outraged about the PPS proposals for closure of their schools. They are calling for action from their elected officials at all levels. Today I have filed an emergency that responds to the urgency of these calls. 🧵

Having a realization in late October that probably could have been made in January 🫠

So-called “inclusionary zoning” is an attempt to outsource a key state responsibility—providing subsidized housing to poor people—to private for-profit actors so the state does not have to raise and spend tax money. It is profoundly neoliberal policy.

Greater consumption of #caffeinated #coffee and #tea was associated with lower risk of #dementia and modestly better #cognitive function, with the most pronounced association at moderate intake levels. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Louder please for Dems in neighboring states like Iowa who will abandon trans kids at the drop of a hat

Yes. The conservative scheme for education is a three-way split: high-priced academies for the children of the wealthy, religious instruction to brainwash the middle class, and a rump of prison-like public schools to discipline the lower class into obedience.

like vance, ramaswamy is a hateful, resentful orc of a human being, and the reason i think this will hurt him politically — where this stuff didn’t hurt trump — is that ramaswamy, like vance, is also profoundly unlikeable. he has no charm or charisma or anything. just a dipshit.

If you live in Oregon, VOTE for Governor Tina Kotek!

Sure, he can say this sort of thing as a candidate in a safe, blue, hippy state like Kansas...

Nailed it.