Large Langhoulage Model

"The rich are only defeated when running for their lives." - CLR James, The Black Jacobins

It turns out punishing coup plotters actually is an effective deterrent!

every fawning profile of an AI innovator in the NYT is just a future essay in The Cut about why kids no longer talk to their parents

every time i eat lentils i think of them

Let's do it. Legislators need to hear from you if you support this!

The only Woodward I’ve read is The Brethren, about the Supreme Court. Great reporting! And hilarious that everybody was like “how’d they get all this” when the writers had scored anonymous interviews with more than half the sitting justices www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/u...

Some people are calling this “the day Mitch Green became Mayor.” Others are saying “Governor,” which is a few years premature.

Specifically on revenue reform, we are calling for: 1. Adoption of the kicker methodology bill that Rep. Gamba has carried 2. Taking on Measures 5 and 50 directly 3. Fully decouple from HR 1 We're also calling for action on local revenue measures under consideration by Council (i.e., Fair Share).

Council expresses its will as a body by passage of resolutions. If we adopt this resolution, we send a strong message to the Governor and the Legislature that we stand united and show Portlanders that we can meet the moment. A PPS pause needs Salem for a generational investment in our children.

I'm worried that the scale of these proposed closures will be another huge headwind for our economic recovery as families choose to leave for the suburbs, which will make the ed funding problem even worse. Families want to be part of the solution and recognize we need help from Salem.

We filed the Save Public Schools resolution as a Nine-Twelfths agenda item for the Wednesday Council meeting. The resolution calls for: 1. Gov. Kotek to release emergency 🎓 funds 2. City lobbies for rev reform and ed spending in next session as top priority 3. PPS to pause proposed plans

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. 🧵

I am old enough to remember when politicians felt the need to hide behind euphemism and obfuscation. As frustrating as these obfuscations were I hope it is becoming clear to all that they were an advance, historically speaking

Men: I wanna have a fascism. Women: No. You can't. You had fascism before and look how that turned out. Men: That one wasn't my fault. Women: [stares] Men: OK. Fine. But this is different. Women: [stares] Men: I just want to have one fascism. Last time. I promise! Women: No. Men: You're so mean!

I mean I pretty much believe this as a matter of socialization rather than biology. Men are unbelievably poorly socialized for a complex society, we badly need feminism to liberate us from the shackles of being idiot brutes.

Look, I'm an evolutionary physiologist, ok? I believe in biology, not this sentimental feminist claptrap. Women are biologically optimized to be nurturers. They run households, they don't fight lions. That's why they're the only ones we can trust to govern our complex, industrialized civilization.

They're sending the VP to campaign in *Montana*??

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

Another big endorsement for Your 2 Cents! 🪙💛 We’re proud to have the support of the Multnomah County Democrats as we work to give Portlanders a real say in how our city invests in its communities. Let’s make sure Portlanders have a voice in where our public dollars go. Every cent counts! 📣

We have unfortunately seen many cases of posting yourself to the presidency

this is brilliant stuff

Me, seconds before I get kicked out of the fantasy football group chat

boy it sure seems like the main threat to democracy everywhere across the globe is right wing media and certain social media companies

“If your children commit the same crime as you did, the punishment should get worse for both of you.” - Plato, probably. Maybe Foucault?

This drives me CRAZY. I grew up playing sports w/ boys. I played on a U12 boys select soccer team, b4 switching to a U12 girls team that kept beating us. Nobody had any issue with any of it. Youth sports have never had the strict sex/gender boundaries that “XX-XY” activists are now trying to defend.

Americans can celebrate Lula news by ensuring the US boomer junta doesn’t overthrow Lula again, because Bolsonaro is a puppet of ours.

Lula won in part by banning online gambling

the movies are BACK BABY

USIANS PAY ATTENTION!! WE BEAT META, WE BEAT YOUR BIG TECHS!! IT IS POSSIBLE!!

As Portland considers a building decarbonization policy, the Climate and Health Standards , its worth noting that NYC has been implementing a similar law for over 5 years now and it’s not only decreasing emissions, and energy use, it’s also saving people tons of money 💰, creating jobs, and more

pretty clear evidence that republicans in the US losing any election going forward are going to always beg for a coup if they lose. lots of people will have to go to jail

So Lula not only won, he basically doubled his margin of victory from 2022. I'm guessing he won thanks to voters who didn't love him, but were terrified to see Flavio given near-dictatorial power. It's going to be a messy next chapter for Brazil, but at least it'll be a fight, not a curb-stomping.

Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who spared a thought for my country today, who amplified information about the coup d’état attempt, and worried about Brazil’s democratic future—the world’s democratic future. We won! Women won! The Amazon won! Young people won! Democracy won! Hope won!

Thank you, ladies.

serbia ✅ brazil ✅ israel usa

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

Basically, the deal is that Obama is: 1.) smarter than the average American 2.) black and therefore the only way for him not to come across like this to the plebs and rabble rousers is to literally get brain damage.

Voted! Early! At a drop box!