Adam Ross 🌈⚖️🇺🇸

In 1996, I ran for office as a gay Republican. It did not go as expected. I just posted a story that I told at The Moth about what I discovered in that race here: youtu.be/NXpO0Pfh3to

Sorry about your riots, Europe. But Russia needed agitators to burn it all down in an “October Surprise” in order to help Republicans win our midterms—or to justify whatever Trump does to interfere with the results if they lose them. www.axios.com/2026/10/20/f...

I’m almost ready to share what I’ve been working on. Stay tuned.

Live streaming a firing squad? The devolution will be televised.

How convenient that an American president who has long expressed interest in withdrawing U.S. forces from Europe now has an excuse to do exactly that.

“Execution survivor.” Words you never want to see together in a headline.

There’s a lot going on in the world, but right now it’s a perfect fall evening in the PNW—courtesy of “Eternité” by Croquet Club and Mother Nature.

Yes, we have no cookies.

Mountain’s out, as we’re required to say in the PNW. (But really, why wouldn’t you?)

Not to brag—but I knew there was some fascist shit coming when Ronald Reagan started testing our physical fitness in elementary school.

Happy Pride, Portland! 🌈

My husband knows I’ve been feeling a little down thanks to our Pacific Northwest winter—not to mention the steady rise of fascism in America. So he made this chicken pot pie and it’s just what the seasonal-affective-disorder doctor ordered. That said, I remain very concerned about the fascism. 🥺

Since the average American won’t live 50 more years after 25, who exactly are these mortgages for? P.S. Even if 50-year mortgages become “conforming,” the monthly payment on a $500k loan at 6.75% is only about $200 lower than a 30-year at 6.5%—but you’d pay roughly double the interest over time.

And Johnson didn’t even need a Reichstag fire to clear the building.

Undeclared martial law in three screenshots. P.S. We’ve already gotten used to it. 🥺

What the f’ is seeing a movie in 4D? You mean they aren’t going to play every frame simultaneously?!

As I’d worried, Republicans let Democrats filibuster their own budget bill on purpose… setting them up to take the blame for everything that followed, including the layoffs Republicans already had planned. Not everyone will believe the GOP’s narrative here. But the optics are clear.

Hey, if it feels good… right?

MAGA Brownshirts showing up at Portland’s ICE protest last night chanting about Kirk’s death marks a significant but predictable turn in the scripted Project 2025 meta-narrative—one that I’m afraid will play out in Blue cities across America in the weeks and months ahead.

Trump didn’t even need to appeal yesterday’s order blocking his federalization of the Oregon National Guard. He just grabbed them from California. He’s got 50 states to freely choose from, but he picked California to rub it in.

As NPR found in Memphis, many well-meaning Americans wouldn’t mind “a touch” of fascism to clean up their streets. An NPR/PBS News/Marist poll earlier this week found 52% support Trump deploying the National Guard in cities to fight crime. But fascism never stops at just “a touch.”

Could there be a more fitting image of religion in America today than a man carry the burden of the cross on wheels? At least I now understand why they’re called “holy rollers”.

The moment in the group message thread when you forgot “The Rapture” is playing at the music festival. Anyways, everyone meet up at the chicken tomorrow! 🐓

Me: “How’s the battery life?” Apple: “Oh, it’s the same.”

Of all people, you’d think farmers would understand that we reap what we sow. 🤷🏼‍♀️

I have a feeling Vance won’t be telling Kirk’s viewers to “stand back and stand by.”

I have a feeling Vance won’t be telling Kirk’s viewers to “stand back and stand by.”

Here it comes for the Blue cities in Red states.

The tragic irony of Kent State in 1970 is that the Vietnam War might’ve ended years earlier if Nixon had not been reelected in 1968. But he won after the far Left sat out the election or voted third-party in protest, insisting the Democrat wasn’t anti-war enough. Sound familiar?

The fishermen’s families are probably still unaware of their fates. Meanwhile, the soldiers who did this have been back home, sitting at IHOPs and at Chili’s beside diners unaware of their crimes. www.facebook.com/share/p/1Ewi...

Toy soldiers, in more ways than one.

A literal cracker barrel.

With Trump deploying Project 2025 troops to Blue cities across America, today’s a good day to remember Iran before the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Overnight, a modern middle-class society fell under the thumb (and gun) of a militant theocracy. Almost fifty years later, they’re still under it.

The thing about the bully pulpit is you should never elect a bully to the pulpit.

It’s sad to think America’s final contribution to world history might be our Confederate Nazis.

You can see how executive power becomes limitless when discretion is vested by voters in authoritarian hands. With courts most often deferring under “rational basis,” nearly any pretext will do. Nothing is more dangerous to a democracy than a bully at the bully pulpit.

On the heels of whatever was said in private between Trump and Putin about the future of the free world, I hope everybody’s ready for how weird this timeline is about to get. And I mean even weirder than it’s already gotten since Bush was inaugurated in 2001.

We have many Ukrainian refugees here in Vancouver, WA. I often see their big families on evening walks by the river. I can’t imagine how crushing this must be—knowing they’ll be ICE targets the moment their legal status expires. Where can they even go? 🇺🇦

Bought a set of great microfiber towels off Amazon in 2022 to wipe my dog’s paws, so I bought the exact same ones as a replacement. An old towel (left) is 30g. A new one (right) is 23g. The worst part is 20k 4-star reviews hide tons of 1-star reviews about how thin they’ve become. #Enshittification

“The Supreme Court… affirmed a Mississippi law requiring users to verify their ages before using social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat.”

Fun fact: The grandfather of Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, the 19-year-old DOGE computer wiz kid who sells AI Discord bots to Russia on the side, was a KGB spy stationed in DC who defected to the U.S. but then went back to Russia (and was later executed). DOGE is up to way more than saving money. 🇷🇺