Alex Williams @alexwilliams.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Portland is a sweet, sentimental town. And it mourns the loss of its past. The people give this city such character. www.reddit.com/r/Portland/s...reddit.comThe last skateExplore this post and more from the Portland community 000
Alex Williams @alexwilliams.bsky.social · 28/07/2026In Portland, a ballot initiative for hiring more cops looks more like bullying by police supporters. www.wweek.com/news/city/20...wweek.comAs Signatures Are Disqualified, Campaign to Hire More Police Cries FoulWith 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... 000
Alex Williams @alexwilliams.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I’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. 011
Alex Williams @alexwilliams.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Mountainhead (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 010
Alex Williams @alexwilliams.bsky.social · 19/07/2026No Sudden Move (2021), Steven Soderbergh at his best. 🎥 #filmsky 000
Alex Williams @alexwilliams.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Hurrah for the brave. Hurrah for E. Jean Carroll! 010
Alex Williams @alexwilliams.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I 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. 000
Alex Williams @alexwilliams.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Midwinter Break (2026), directed by Polly Findlay. She also directed Trial by Fire (1999), which I am adding to my list. 🎥 000
Alex Williams @alexwilliams.bsky.social · 12/07/2026The Damned United (2009), directors by Tom Hooper, who sadly also directed Cats (2019). 🎥 000
Alex Williams @alexwilliams.bsky.social · 05/07/2026I 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 110
Alex Williams @alexwilliams.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Chungking Express (1994), directed by Wong Kar-wai. #filmsky 000
Alex Williams @alexwilliams.bsky.social · 28/06/2026What a score. www.wweek.com/culture/2026...wweek.comA Portland Teenager Found a $3 Lakers Jacket at Goodwill. He’s About to Make a Quarter of a Million Dollars.Worn by NBA star Wilt Chamberlain, the jacket is going to auction at Sotheby’s. 010
Alex Williams @alexwilliams.bsky.social · 01/06/2026The drought season is upon us. Low snowpack makes for extreme Fire danger. Funding is low for firefighting. What’s the Trump administration’s intent? 010
Alex Williams @alexwilliams.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Hurray for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. What a parade of genocide monsters and supporters. Staggering. open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...open.substack.comFirst 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. 000
Reposted by Alex WilliamsPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/05/2026There'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) 169125624711
Alex Williams @alexwilliams.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Mass transit (35) to the Portland Trailblazers game — naturally. 010
Alex Williams @alexwilliams.bsky.social · 25/04/2026The 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/...nytimes.comIran’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. 000
Alex Williams @alexwilliams.bsky.social · 24/04/2026I 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. 010
Alex Williams @alexwilliams.bsky.social · 16/04/2026There’s always money in the banana stand or as Trump would say, in his banana republic. 000
Alex Williams @alexwilliams.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Sweet pea? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comMelania Trump’s surprise Epstein statement prompts bafflementReporters search for answers to why first lady chose to make speech – and whether president knew it was coming 000
Alex Williams @alexwilliams.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Dems 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...jacobin.comDems Claim to Want a Hasan Piker — Then Try to Cancel HimDemocrats 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... 010
Alex Williams @alexwilliams.bsky.social · 30/03/2026“Hey, that question was not authorized — arrest him!” theintercept.com/2026/03/26/p...theintercept.comPentagon Wants It to Be Illegal for Reporters to Ask “Unauthorized” QuestionsThe Trump admin wants to make it illegal for reporters to ask "unauthorized" questions of the government — a broadside attack on free speech. 000
Alex Williams @alexwilliams.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Paying 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...wweek.comIt 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.” 020
Alex Williams @alexwilliams.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Hi. 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.orgoregonwild.orgHome - Oregon WildOregon’s oldest environmental nonprofit working to protect wildlands, wildlife, and waters for generations to come. 021
Alex Williams @alexwilliams.bsky.social · 23/03/2026New York’s governor supports crypto and data centers while seeking to push back a deadline for greenhouse gas emissions. hellgatenyc.com/morning-spew...hellgatenyc.comHochul's Plan to Save the Planet (Later)And other links to start your gray Monday. 010
Alex Williams @alexwilliams.bsky.social · 08/03/2026The Ellison buying Warner Bros. is like something out of Succession. 🎥 020
Alex Williams @alexwilliams.bsky.social · 07/03/2026It’s like a country club scene at the White House with young white staffers drinking at the bar on Daddy’s tab, laughing at each other’s Fascist memes. open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...open.substack.comTrump’s White House Posts Fascist Memes As It Wrecks the EconomyThe president’s extremely online staff is posting ‘Grand Theft Auto’ memes and cracking jokes about his Iran war as energy prices explode. 000
Alex Williams @alexwilliams.bsky.social · 06/03/2026We saw Sirat last night. Wow. The scenes of the Moroccan desert, the sun, the knife edge road through the mountains. And the raves. #fllmfeed 🎥 000
Alex Williams @alexwilliams.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Cheers for Oregon cheese. www.koin.com/news/oregon/...koin.com 000
Alex Williams @alexwilliams.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Trump’s judges give the green light for sending troops to Portland. 010
Alex Williams @alexwilliams.bsky.social · 06/10/2025@jamellebouie.net sums it up. The Dems put the focus on an issue. Instead, they could have said that the Republicans and the president refuse to respect the rule of law and we are not going to let them do that. Make the shutdown about their cowardness and lies. 010
Alex Williams @alexwilliams.bsky.social · 29/09/2025UAW President Shaw again in @jacobinmag.bsky.social: The crisis at the border is a humanitarian crisis. It’s caused by corporate greed and finger pointing politicians. it’s caused by corporate greed. My view; Its also the moderates, who want pragmatism in the face of authoritarians.politicians.xn--its-so0a 010
Alex Williams @alexwilliams.bsky.social · 22/09/2025@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and @aoc.bsky.social — now there’s a combo for our future 040
Alex Williams @alexwilliams.bsky.social · 22/09/2025A landslide is coming in 2026. A full repudiation of the Trump administration will happen. Just believe it. Trump is running up a muddy hill. The rains are coming. The people around will lose any future they might have had. Many will lose their personal freedom. Which side are you on? 040
Alex Williams @alexwilliams.bsky.social · 14/09/2025How financial assets have given the rich more and everyone else far less. The promise was a lie. The wealthy have not innovated but instead collected rents on the 90 percent of the public who can’t play the game the top 10% enjoy. Via @jacobinmag.bsky.social 010
Alex Williams @alexwilliams.bsky.social · 14/09/2025@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social provides some light to a dark political landscape. I just wish moderate Dems would stop fearing their shadows and support Mamdani, the Democrat’s choice for mayor of New York. 040
Alex Williams @alexwilliams.bsky.social · 05/09/2025I love how Mamdani has frightened both Democrats and Republicans to the point that they are working together. Mamdani will win. And his influence will spread. There is no stopping this movement. 020
Reposted by Alex WilliamsNewsweek @newsweek.com · 05/09/2025The Democratic mayoral candidate from New York City calls for a debate with the president.newsweek.comDonald Trump receives new challenge from Zohran Mamdani 23512
