Reposted by @radowtizky.bsky.socialBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 12/10/2026There’s some quote, I think from Seth Rogan, that says that it’s fine to cross lines in comedy but people want to understand that you’re aware a line exists and have an awareness and deliberateness to it, and I think that’s the reason people like Mel Brooks are so funny and dipshit stand ups aren’t 422693260
Reposted by @radowtizky.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Can you imagine being a Northerner at the start of the civil war. All the fancy lad West Point military guys are Southerners. Your president is a backwoods yokel one term congressman and your generals are some guys we found at a 7-Eleven. It's over for our ass...unless all those guys are geniuses 572947244
Reposted by @radowtizky.bsky.socialPortland Streetcar History @pdx-streetcars.bsky.social · 02/10/2026A fantastic photograph of interurban car No. 4002 crossing over McLoughlin Blvd. on the Bellrose line, probably in early 1956 as the car was totalled in May of that year in a collision with a logging truck. This location is where the red arched bridge on the Springwater Corridor is now. 2569
Reposted by @radowtizky.bsky.socialKevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The negative responses to police abolition often seem to represent a general lack of imagination and education. I’m not saying you must believe in it, but the knee-jerk reaction is more often than not indicative of a misunderstanding of the relationship between poverty, racism, and crime. 4406
Reposted by @radowtizky.bsky.socialPortland DSA @portlanddsa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Last week, the Portland Police Bureau killed Kylo (their own dog) and a human person. Instead of just telling us that, PPB chose to execute a media blitz to try and convince the public they were sad that the dog was killed (passive voice) & that we should feel bad for them. 310426
Reposted by @radowtizky.bsky.socialLe Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 25/09/2026Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolishedlemonde.frAmnesty International calls for ICE to be abolishedIn a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States. 391198486371
Reposted by @radowtizky.bsky.socialDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending. 8460681070
Reposted by @radowtizky.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I know it goes without saying but as the right wing media-political complex runs from Trump we should remember that they played a leading role in--and gleefully profited from--enabling and promoting him. Accomplices trying to get off a sinking ship, trying to salvage what's left of their reputation 202264376
Reposted by @radowtizky.bsky.socialJ.C. Bradbury @jcbradbury.com · 21/09/2026RFK Jr., medical researcher disagree over whether vaccines cause autism.katu.comMayor, sports economist disagree on public value of Moda Center renovationDebate grows over Portland's $600M Moda Center renovation; city touts economic benefits, but experts question taxpayer returns and net community gain. 27721
Reposted by @radowtizky.bsky.socialalec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 21/09/2026THREAD. Did you know that Minneapolis police deployed 101 personnel to a 7-person vigil held one morning at Renee Good's memorial? The cops generated $1.92 million in overtime cash for themselves. 101424520
radowtizky.bsky.social @radowtizky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comDemocrats’ Gaza reckoning: how failing to give Palestinians a voice came back to bite the partyVoters rejected many establishment choices this year in favor of candidates pushing accountability for Gaza, writes Akbar Shahid Ahmed 000
Reposted by @radowtizky.bsky.socialceej @ceej.online · 21/09/2026See here how The Stance has entered his body and his mind. The Stance infests him. The metamorphosis is complete 782482231
Reposted by @radowtizky.bsky.socialPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Migration is humanity's oldest, most reliable, and most effective tool when dealing with climate change, full stop. Can't find food here? Don't like the weather? Babies dying of diseases? Move somewhere else. There are always intermediate steps and causal factors, but it's almost that simple. 328333
Reposted by @radowtizky.bsky.socialEd BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Autumn is when refineries typically shut down for maintenance because demand usually tails off at the end of summer. This year, instead, they’re running at full tilt and will skip the maintenance. I wonder what happens next! 714135
Reposted by @radowtizky.bsky.socialPortland DSA @portlanddsa.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The right wing media and police union have now made “what were you doing in 2020?” an election question. We want to know what other candidates were doing. We know that Mitch, Tiffany, & Angelita were fighting for racial justice. We think there’s a pretty strong chance many of them were not. 46210
Reposted by @radowtizky.bsky.socialPortland Mercury @portlandmercury.com · 18/09/2026EDITORIAL OPINION: In 2020, Portland protesters exercising their First Amendment rights faced rubber bullets, batons, and tear gas from the Portland Police Bureau.portlandmercury.comKnee-Jerk Reactions to Councilor Green’s Tweets Are Hypocritical and Dangerous - Portland MercuryThe police are supposed to keep protesters safe as they exercise their rights to free speech—not retaliate by shooting them with rubber bullets, striking them with batons, or spraying tear gas at more... 1321582
radowtizky.bsky.social @radowtizky.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Not good at following this advice myself but 💯 000
Reposted by @radowtizky.bsky.socialvictoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 12/09/2026As I was standing by this gas pump filling up my truck with six dollar gas I couldn’t help but think that this was a small price to pay so that every child wanting to play sports in elementary school has to submit to mandatory genital inspections 555442945
Reposted by @radowtizky.bsky.socialalix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026sorry, but torturing the omelas kid is just a smart move, polling-wise. i personally wish there wasn't a kid in the omelas hole--of course i do!--but let's not get distracted by purity tests, here. 5949461459
Reposted by @radowtizky.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026no amnesty 211414227
Reposted by @radowtizky.bsky.socialPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Realizing the extent to which this is true wildly changed my opinions about how to deal with Trumpism, since they're never going to be satisfied unless they're actively dominating everyone else. You can't give them some concessions and go back to the status quo: they're reactionary revolutionaries. 5151691313
Reposted by @radowtizky.bsky.socialKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026Possibly the most American news of all timelocal12.comPrison inmates donate more than $4,000 to pay children's school lunch debtResidents at the prison contributed $3,810 of their own money, while Kansas Department of Corrections employees added another $457. 279173784947
Reposted by @radowtizky.bsky.socialSridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026"Bayesian" means "from the Bay Area". 492112299
Reposted by @radowtizky.bsky.socialmolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 04/09/2026an open restaurant kitchen is a symptom of the surveillance state. let those boys cook in peace. what happens back there is between them & god. 832220252
Reposted by @radowtizky.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026 433446713
Reposted by @radowtizky.bsky.socialOPB @opb.org · 05/09/2026Advocacy group Portland for Palestine plans to hold a rally at the Japanese American Historical Plaza at the Portland Waterfront on Saturday Sept. 5 at 1 p.m. to bring attention to Tareq Zakarneh’s case.opb.orgPalestinian Portland-area resident faces deportation to West Bank amid escalating settler violenceA Saturday protest amplifies fears Portland resident Tareq Zakarneh will be persecuted by the Israeli military if deported to the occupied Palestinian territory. 24122
Reposted by @radowtizky.bsky.socialceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on 193218864410
Reposted by @radowtizky.bsky.socialLeft Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The slamming death metal band Truck Stop Dick Pill has a much better stance on Palestine than 99% of American politicians. 012
Reposted by @radowtizky.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21/08/2026They didn't like Aaron Swartz's goals (making scientific knowledge more accessible to the public) and they do like the LLM companies' goals (permanently crushing the labor market for knowledge workers) 61919560
Reposted by @radowtizky.bsky.socialScreamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Abolish ICE and salt the earth where it was allowed to growchron.comDHS taunts detained Padres coach in fiery social media post"NOBODY is above the law, and he will remain in ICE custody pending removal." 22376051734
Reposted by @radowtizky.bsky.socialdr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 19/08/2026everyone is missing the boat on this harp thing fwiw. it's not an affair and she is not a nurse. it's way worse: she's elder abusing him. tale as old as time a psychotic weirdo striver has attached herself to an elderly dotard and is wormtonguing him. our american rasputin 1083427360
Reposted by @radowtizky.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/08/2026I know you're not allowed to say this during the current debate, but the reason the left dominates academics, art, comedy, and music is that the right has stupid, discredited ideas, they're not funny, and dull resentment does not make for good art. No grand conspiracy required. 205101632136
radowtizky.bsky.social @radowtizky.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Am I weird or just a million years old for wondering when people stopped saying hi to each other? I’m quite introverted but I believed it common courtesy to at least say hello to the other people in my building when we saw each other, but apparently I’m the only one? 000
Reposted by @radowtizky.bsky.socialInfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Time to floatmog. 583989625
Reposted by @radowtizky.bsky.socialbort @crushbort.bsky.social · 10/08/2026hillary clinton might be the most disastrous democratic politician of our lifetimes. but the one thing they’ll never be able to take away from her is that she had slaves 561967
Reposted by @radowtizky.bsky.socialJason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 08/08/2026Insisting that “when you end up with a private-equity guy, your life gets far more interesting" than being a literal movie or music star is a new wing in the Sniffing Your Own Farts Hall of Fame 852160
Reposted by @radowtizky.bsky.socialKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 08/08/2026I blame the culture. Lack of respect for authority, pants too pulled up, getting hyped up on all that country music. 663177568
Reposted by @radowtizky.bsky.socialrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 01/08/2026i wonder if maybe tech guys should’ve maybe had a better pitch for AI than ‘fuck you you have no choice’ 1446350
radowtizky.bsky.social @radowtizky.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Is there a more demonic sequence of words than “optimize our production network”. Translation: we want to operate somewhere we can pay people less and poison the environment easier www.opb.org/article/2026...opb.orgDaimler to move truck manufacturing from Portland to CarolinasThe company said about 375 of 3,000 Portland area employees will be affected. 000
Reposted by @radowtizky.bsky.socialPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 23/07/2026If you spend your whole life trying to cheat other people, you can only imagine a world in which they too are trying to screw you over 312617