Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2
For more than a week, Amazon has managed to keep a death at its Troutdale, Oregon, facility out of public view. Workers I spoke to are pissed.
‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility
A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.
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This should honestly be disqualifying. Portland-area US Rep. Maxine Dexter cheerfully smiling and joking while talking with members of Trump's thug team at the PDX ICE Building yesterday. Shame on her for normalizing these killer cops. She has a primary challenger, @jsalfororegon.bsky.social.
finish the lyric... Ring! Ring! It's 7 a.m. Move yourself to go again Cold water in the face
Coulda missed it but this is the first reference we've seen from Platner or Mills to the fact that Susan Collins is married to a (now former) lobbyist who ran a lobbying firm. Seems like it merits more attn -- especially in the context of Collins wild 78% stock portfolio return in 2024. #MEpolitics
Graham Platner for Senate@grahamformaine.bsky.social · 6mo agoSusan Collins's husband's lobbying firm received over $50 million in federal contracts, with tens of millions of dollars from agencies Susan Collins oversees. It's got to be one of the great coincidences of American history.
After Border Patrol shot two people in Portland, DHS claimed they were "vicious gang members" tied to a past shooting. But records I obtained reveal a US prosecutor has since directly contradicted DHS, saying, "We're not suggesting he is a gang member." My dive into how DHS' claims have collapsed:
DHS’s account of two Venezuelans shot by border patrol falls apart in court: ‘A smear campaign’
Immigration officials said agent shot two ‘vicious gang members’ in Portland, but records obtained by the Guardian reveal US prosecutor contradicted claims
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Two requests for help! -One of my constitutional observers had 3 guns pulled on her today. We need dashcams and body cams. www.amazon.com/registries/g... -If you want to contribute to groceries and rents for impacted families please contribute on venmo account.venmo.com/u/ptabrynmaw...
Neighborhood Support | Amazon Gift List
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Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.
Just a reminder that George Conway is not fundraising right now to run against a MAGA republican. He is fundraising to run against progressive Democrats.
If you haven’t read Ezra Jack Keat’s ‘The Snowy Day’ yet this year. Now might be the day to do it. www.ejkf.org/ezras-books-...
Ezra’s Books: The Snowy Day
In 1963 The Snowy Day won the Caldecott, and helped bring greater diversity into mainstream children’s book publishing by being embraced across social and ethnic boundaries
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
“On Halloween morning, FBI Director Kash Patel had a big announcement to make: "The FBI thwarted a potential terrorist attack," he said in a 7:32 a.m. social-media post that referenced arrests in Michigan. There was one problem…” @wsj.com We probably won’t ever know the extent of the incompetence…
Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray”@ryanjreilly.com · 9mo ago“Patel visited a Texas hunting resort called the Boondoggle Ranch…” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
NEW: The US has deported a longtime Oregon firefighter who was arrested by Border Patrol while deployed at a major wildfire in Washington state. José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time: “I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"
US firefighter detained on the job speaks out after deportation: ‘I feel betrayed’
Exclusive: Border patrol arrested José Bertin Cruz-Estrada while he was battling a wildfire in Washington. He is now in Mexico, separated from his family in Oregon
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.
The people yearn for (democratic) socialism (this one will make you cry)
this is not a great image and it will be in one thousand campaign ads
Three years after my husband died, I’m still trying to prove our life together was worth losing his family. What I live with isn’t forgetting — it’s the blurring of memory. On the third anniversary, I wrote about grief, memory, and continuing without answers. www.dataandpolitics.net/the-blurring/
The Blurring
What I live with isn't forgetting, it's the blurring. A meditation on grief, memory, and continuing without answers three years after loss.
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Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?
How delusional will Trump have to get before our media start questioning his health?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10mo agoTrump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."
surprisingly, KATU-TV, a Sinclair station, is live-broadcasting from the "war torn" ICE facility in Portland. It's very peaceful--the only thing scary are the snipers on the ICE roof Trump is looking to instigate a riot there. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuWL...
24 Hours Outside ICE | 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. - Live look at Portland, Oregon ICE Facility for full day
YouTube video by KATU News
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@joshtpm.bsky.social i live in PDX. It’s so calm these days. My sister was just visiting from NYC. She said it was the best it’s looked in years. Just agreeing with reader TB.
CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?
