Lisa Ferguson

The elections are on next Tuesday, and so much is at stake, including the soul of the Democratic Party when it comes to transgender people. I am asking you to leave a very small number of races blank in which a Democrat has embraced extreme anti-trans hate. I make my case here.

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We dont have enough drug treatment, mental health treatment, or supportive services to help people get into housing. We DO have money to violently displace people, which has resulted in the deaths of many unhoused people. I know they’re just an afterthought for everyone because they don’t have power

Deplorable.

Palestinian skateboarder in Gaza doing a kickflip over an unexploded US-made (in Garland, Texas) Mk. 84 2000lb aerial bomb, provided to Israel as one of many tens of thousands of aerial bombs in the 1,000 and 2,000lb class included in US military assistance.

WSJ: 'The Trump administration’s investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar is aimed at building a case to strip her of her U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her, according to U.S. officials and other people familiar with the probe'

Anyway I'm not giving up my em-dashes. Fuck off.

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Great stuff from the Telegraph. archive.ph/r2nTA

In my first meeting with the Mayor he said I must be intimidating for boys to date. These people are inappropriate all the time!!! They’re just sometimes? More soft spoken? And they’re better and presenting different faces. I just unfortunately am the same in every room lmao

Sherrod Brown's new response to an anti-trans ad is remarkably different from many other dems. Instead of accepting bigotry towards trans people, he pivots and links his Republican opponent to the Epstein files. It is notably different from his earlier ads. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

Question: would you be open to changing what PCEF funds are used for? Sollitt: Yes Morillo: No (use existing Climate Investment Plan as process) Torres: Yes Koyama Lane: No Leon: No Novick: No (use existing Climate Investment Plan as process)

I’m less than 100 Portland donors from reaching the final tier of Small Donor Elections, and we have to get there before October 13th to qualify! If you or a member of your household support us but haven’t donated yet, now is the time, even $5 goes a long way 💙 secure.actblue.com/donate/angel...

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

It’s not super. And it’s not intelligence. There. That was easy.

I hope the community can focus on the fact that a trans person was murdered, that his identity may very well have contributed to why he was targeted, and that he deserves justice and to have his side of the story fully told, rather than slotting it into the well worn groove of an NYT is bad story.

As a survivor reading between the lines of this very carefully written story it sounds like Jonathan McKinsey was a trans man in an abusive and controlling marriage who was targeted for violence repeatedly by his ex-wife and her parents and eventually murdered. But as a reporter? I can't be sure.

i see this is a Spiralling Due To Rape Trauma Triggered By The News kind of day

shutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight.

Last week the Portland Police made a huge deal about a K9 killed in the line of duty apprehending a dangerous suspect. Turns out that K9 was shot and killed by...the Portland Police www.kgw.com/article/news...

A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system

“Ever since we’ve posted the secondary coverage as well as the editorial, there’s been an absolute outpour of similar stories hitting my inbox and the sexual-misconduct tip line.”

great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...

So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...

If NFL owners want to censor who performs in stadiums, they shouldn't ask taxpayers to help build them. You can't take public subsidies for stadiums then use them as your personal editorial board. Pay for it all out of your own pocket and hold as many Kid Rock concerts as you want to.

JUST IN: A federal judge concludes that DHS leaders arbitrarily decided to cut FEMA staff by 50% even though it damaged the agency's ability to fulfill its mission — and leaders hid their comms about it on auto-delete Signal chains. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

We need every candidate for Portland City Council to be asked about this and give their opinion on it. Full stop. There are a few candidates who have gotten by without revealing their opinions on PCEF and police funding yet. That needs to end so folks know who they're voting for.

“Then a hero came along”

How do we track terminations of federal data? Since the 2025 admin change, disappearing federal datasets have sparked widespread concern and confusion. Today, dataindex.us published the Federal Data Terminations Tracker—the most policy-relevant, verified source of terminated federal datasets.

Apparently communism will be prevented in USA by a president who does what he's told by a North Korean Stalinist.

unfathomable that the city is being asked to hand over four hundred million bucks with virtually no information on what the blazers are planning to spend it on - and that the loudest proponents of the deal are the councilors and business leaders who otherwise complain the city is poorly managed

Prophetic, from six years ago. Ain’t nothin’ gonna happen. youtu.be/xiKrWUoTq4s?...

RFK Jr.: “You probably don’t understand this as you’re not a scientist.” Dana Bash: “You’re not a scientist either.”

Cocchiarella: You've heard a lot of people say that if you're not going to fit in nicely with the Democratic establishment, you shouldn't be a Democrat. Sanders: Well, maybe the converse is true. Maybe the establishment should understand that they are out of touch with where the American people are

Lemme tell you about the angel of history being blown backwards into the future: The shackles these people have been put in are Hiatt brand, same company founded in 1780 to mass produce shackles for slaver ships.

Some media outlets are reporting on the Moda term sheet with some framing that is suggesting that Council sent it terms. Not the case. Let me clarify what happened yesterday 🧵