In Portland, a ballot initiative for hiring more cops looks more like bullying by police supporters. www.wweek.com/news/city/20...
As Signatures Are Disqualified, Campaign to Hire More Police Cries Foul
With early numbers indicating that a Portland ballot initiative to hire additional police officers is falling shy of the valid signatures needed to place it on the November ballot, its backers on Mond...
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I’ve just seen updates about the dry headwaters of the Colorado River and the criminal intent of Pete Hegseth when he ordered the Iran invasion. Just another summer night.
Mountainhead (2025), directed and written by Jesse Adams, who created Succession. It’s uncomfortable and real enough, similar to Succession. Satire is tough to pull off. Mountainhead gets pretty close. 🎥 #filmsky
I support this. It does not mean no data centers forever. It means let’s put real thought into the balance that protects people and the environment first.
WIRED@wired.com · 3w agoNew York has become the first US state to enforce a data center moratorium, as governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order today to pause construction for one year.
Midwinter Break (2026), directed by Polly Findlay. She also directed Trial by Fire (1999), which I am adding to my list. 🎥
The Damned United (2009), directors by Tom Hooper, who sadly also directed Cats (2019). 🎥
I panned Disclosure Day. I called it really bad. The New York Times calls it a film that defines America. One of us is really off. 🎥 #filmsky
The drought season is upon us. Low snowpack makes for extreme Fire danger. Funding is low for firefighting. What’s the Trump administration’s intent?
Hurray for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. What a parade of genocide monsters and supporters. Staggering. open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
First Draft: Why Did Top Democrats Just Attend a Genocide Parade?
Zohran Mamdani was attacked for not attending a New York event with Israelis accused of war crimes. Plus, the UK banned Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker, while Donald Trump had a full weekend brain fade.
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There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)
Mass transit (35) to the Portland Trailblazers game — naturally.
The portmanteau of the day is “slopaganda.” Iranian social accounts have a GenZ hook. Using AI to parody Trump. It’s AI slop and propaganda, all rolled into one. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Iran’s Meme War Against Trump Ushers In a Future of ‘Slopaganda’
The country’s propaganda apparatus has harnessed artificial intelligence tools to reach a global online audience primed for irony, irreverence and trolling.
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I love pizza week in Portland. The city comes out to support pizza parlors. It’s like not an option to let it pass by. Scottie’s is a local fave.
There’s always money in the banana stand or as Trump would say, in his banana republic.
Dems just can’t be anything but tired moderates.Milquetoast, a term Jacobin uses, which pretty much nails it. They are all trying to to hold on to their Obama era power and ignore the idea that they can’t control young men the way they want. jacobin.com/2026/04/demo...
Dems Claim to Want a Hasan Piker — Then Try to Cancel Him
Democrats spent the last year asking where their Joe Rogan was. Hasan Piker is one of the few left-wing figures with the audience they covet — but the party is deeply hostile to the spontaneity and in...
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“Hey, that question was not authorized — arrest him!” theintercept.com/2026/03/26/p...
Pentagon Wants It to Be Illegal for Reporters to Ask “Unauthorized” Questions
The Trump admin wants to make it illegal for reporters to ask "unauthorized" questions of the government — a broadside attack on free speech.
theintercept.com
Paying for a bball team’s new stadium so they stay in town is not a legit way to spend our climate tax dollars. Portland councilman Steve Novak is right. www.wweek.com/news/2026/03...
It Will Be a Cold Day in Hell Before Steve Novick Sends Climate Dollars to Moda Center
“In a representative democracy, sometimes you elect people who are easily cowed and scared.”
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Hi. I ask a favor. Can you please write to the Bureau of Land Management to oppose the proposed 2 million-acre cut of old-growth forest in western Oregon? Oregon Wild makes it pretty easy to send a letter. oregonwild.org
Home - Oregon Wild
Oregon’s oldest environmental nonprofit working to protect wildlands, wildlife, and waters for generations to come.
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New York’s governor supports crypto and data centers while seeking to push back a deadline for greenhouse gas emissions. hellgatenyc.com/morning-spew...
Hochul's Plan to Save the Planet (Later)
And other links to start your gray Monday.
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The Ellison buying Warner Bros. is like something out of Succession. 🎥
