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Jon Walker@jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social |
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Candidate Portland City Council 3rd district. Former Journalist. Now government regulator. Author: After Legalization: Understanding the Future of Marijuana Policy.
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Daniel Malmer
@malmer.com
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NC's GOP candidate for governor is speaking at a "controversial" church. It's somehow worse than I imagined.
"[the church] has been publicly accused of…engaging in criminal behavior including slave labor, financial fraud and the sexual and physical abuse of children."
www.wral.com/story/robins...
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Joe Katz
@joekatz45.bsky.social
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Full quote from ex-ICE director Tom Homan: "Trump comes back in January... I will run the biggest deportation force this country has ever seen. They ain’t seen shit yet. Wait until 2025.” Tonight in Florida Trump pledged to bring Homan back. Homan, BTW, is a listed Project 2025 contributor.
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ryan cooper
@ryanlcooper.com
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every evening I take the boy for a walk around the block. local older, working class Black dude that I often run into on the route brought up Project 2025 on his own, seems like this thing really has legs messaging-wise
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Jorge Caballero
@datadrivenmd.social
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Project 2025, page 592: make it harder for employees to be paid at overtime rates by allowing employers to average the number of hours worked over 2-4 weeks
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Kevin Elliott
@kjephd.bsky.social
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Didn't a certain court recently make crystal clear that the Department of Justice is the President's to use as he sees fit? Wouldn't Biden be doing some most excellent malicious compliance by ordering this investigation to go forward?
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Jon Walker
@jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social
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Great resource if you care about transit and live in Portland for this election bikeportland.org/2024/07/09/4...
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Doug Gordon
@brooklynspoke.bsky.social
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I am 100% sure that if Hochul had started congestion pricing on June 30th as scheduled the "controversy" would have been over by now and she could have begun bragging about cleaner air and all the other benefits of fewer cars. Instead she created a mess that is going to dog her forever.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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The press using the white house visitor logs to write up (apparently false) attacks on Biden after Biden published visitor logs and Trump didn't: good illustration of the reward for upstanding and ethical behavior in the current media environment.
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Seth Cotlar
@sethcotlar.bsky.social
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It’s amazing the extent to which our billionaire tech bro overlords are just telling us out loud that they are rooting for fascism. Makes me slightly nostalgic for the days when American plutocrats plotted against democracy in secret.
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jesse
@jesseltaylor.bsky.social
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Our entire national political media is just a guy in a hot dog suit asking questions in a menswear store
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Jon Walker
@jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social
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Got my campaign suggestion box up. If you want to ask questions about my run for city council in #portlandoregon you can fill out a card or go to www.walkerforportland.com/live
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Rolf Straubhaar
@rolfstraubhaar.bsky.social
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According to research from @jjacobkirksey.bsky.social, in TX "Students with new uncertified teachers lost the equivalent of about four months of learning in reading and three months in math."
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Joe Katz
@joekatz45.bsky.social
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"They're just fearmongering about Project 2025," brought to you by the people behind "They're just fearmongering about a coup" and "they're just fearmongering about abortion bans"
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Jon Walker
@jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social
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So the New York Times is literally involved in an actual right wing ratf*ck operation to trick their Dem leaning readers into not voting. Truly wild.
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Technology Connections
@techconnectify.bsky.social
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Happy independence day to all who remember why we declared independence and a very fuck off to those who think kings are good actually.
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cats_hell_yeah
@sukatra.bsky.social
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My son at his, July 29, 2023. I made him wear a suit. Everybody else his age was in shorts. Before it started there were league of women voters ladies helping register folks to vote. He came back to where I was sitting and said mom, should I fill this out? I said Yes! And then I cried like a baby.
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Gregory Hays
@aristofontes.bsky.social
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Wow, real banana republic stuff. I'm glad our presidents can launder money and associate criminally without worrying about this kind of thing.
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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also "if/when you lose, there's no lame duck season, the next guy arrives tomorrow at 10am" is a big UK W vs the US system, we should totes get rid of that
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Jon Walker
@jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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Why I Don't Vote (OK, I Do Vote, but I Would Like to Discourage You, NY Times Reader, For Doing So For Some Reason)
Via @bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us
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Grudgie the Whale
@grudgie.bsky.social
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An exquisite irony of the current moment is Trump’s tariff plan combined with SCOTUS lawlessness would yield a moment where we have a functionally unremovable king and a huge tax on tea.
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Jon Walker
@jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social
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Just saying Biden could do the funniest thing ever right now to put an end to this nonsense.
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Jon Walker
@jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social
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Biden could remove all the judges from SCOTUS with open corruption complaints for not being in good behaviour... SCOTUS already said it was legal. Which would create a fun paradox where the only way to be restored to the court was if remaining justices overturn immunity.
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Vikram Bath
@vikrambath.bsky.social
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NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW NO, ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW!
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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constitutional lawyers use your fucking brain challenge www.politico.com/news/2024/07...
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Brendan Nyhan
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
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Reminder that POTUS can direct the DOJ not to prosecute the trigger puller and, failing that, pardon anyone who carries out his order and still faces federal charges. Utterly lawless.
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David Noll
@david.noll.org
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"Don't worry, if the president imprisons his political enemies, you can still get a writ of habeas corpus." "But to prove that's why you've been imprisoned requires proof of..." "Presidential motive!" "And under Trump v US, presidential motive is..." "Inadmissible!"
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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occurs to me that bribing the president is now /always/ legal, since in every case the only way to distinguish gratuity from bribe is via evidence that could never be admissible
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Jon Walker
@jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social
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The right wingers on SCOTUS in their misguided joy do seem to forget a rule of authoritarianism. When a government body grants a strongman new powers, the strongman often moves to end that body so they can never try to take the power back.
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Micah
@rincewind.run
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when we say a second Trump term will be the end of meaningful elections in America, we mean it
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Asawin Suebsaeng
@swin24.bsky.social
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“you hysterical lib do you REALLY think — LIB (communist) — that Trump would order the shooting of a domestic political enemy? Cmon” He did already! I happened, he tried to! Sure an unarmed Black Lives Matter protester in front of the White House is a different kind of political enemy than Hillary…
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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these people do not intend to ever lose power again
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Jon Walker
@jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social
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Good time to think about Roman history. Rome rebelled against their kings so had a Republic structure and an anti-king culture. BUT eventually dictators technically left a powerless senate in place and chose a new different official name that put them above the law...
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Media Matters for America
@mmfa.bsky.social
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Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...
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L O L G O P
@lolgop.bsky.social
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One big sign that Trump will behave like a mad king if he ever gets into the White House is he keeps saying and acting like he will, and the Republicans on the Supreme Court are like, "Do it!" Could be nothing.
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Jon Walker
@jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social
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The 6 fascist judges on SCOTUS honestly want us to believe that the founders intended the Constitution to give the president immunity if he ordered the military arrest/kill members of Congress that oppose him. Seriously. That is their argument.
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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As a reminder, Trump was convicted for actions before he was President. He is seeking to use newly created *Presidential* immunity powers to have the conviction quashed even though he is not now President. What do you think he will do if he is actually President?
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Jon Walker
@jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social
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It shouldn't take 5 years to put back up a statue. If you want a Portland City Council that focuses on have the things it votes for actually happen please donate to my campaign secure.actblue.com/donate/walke...
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Jon Walker
@jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social
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When I say Portland has a massive implementation problem. This is what I mean. It should not take 5 years to put back up an Elk statue, city originally voted to do it in 2022 but endless committees and nonsense and money wasted. www.kgw.com/article/news...
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Jon Walker
@jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social
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We have 6 SCOTUS judges who have explicitly embraced fascism replacing check and balance democracy. Yet the official Dem response is "this is bad and our solution is... hopefully maybe 2 of them die in the next decade?!?"
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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Supreme Court rules 6-3 American Revolutionary War was incorrectly decided
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Jon Walker
@jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social
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This is why I'm running for Portland city council. A lot of the work of the new council is going to be untangling the complete mess our old commission system created. It is boring work you want the most boring man in Portland for. www.portland.gov/ppd/news/202...
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Jon Walker
@jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social
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So what stops Biden (or any other president) in his "official" capacity order the FBI not to let any elector votes for Trump come to Congress if Biden declares it is because Trump is disqualified under the 14th amendment?
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Grudgie the Whale
@grudgie.bsky.social
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Biden should submit forgeries of resignation letters by the MAGA Justices.
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Grudgie the Whale
@grudgie.bsky.social
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The Court has ruled Trump is not above the law but he is immune from any prosecution at all if it gets attempted. But he’s not above some theoretical law. That would be dangerous!
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Stacey Burns
@wentrogue.bsky.social
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By the time the doctors in Boise put her on a plane for Salt Lake City, she’d already lost a liter of blood New standard of care just dropped:
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Jon Walker
@jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social
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Biden campaign should really repeatedly bait the media by announcing "big last minute press conferences with VP Harris" and instead it being like an hour of her laying out how dangerously Trump compromised national security"
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Jon Walker
@jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social
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We are less than two weeks away from Trump possibly being sentenced to jail and somehow that is not the top political news story.
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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There's nothing particularly savvy and wise and profound in the observation that Trump is a monster, and his election would have republic-endingly bad consequences to everyone living in the US, but it is still true, and it is still the most useful thing newspapers could write about the race
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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So many who think of themselves as politically savvy geniuses are really showing they don’t know much about politics at all.
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