@fvehafric
Retired union rep, at home in Oregon, which I love. I travel when I can afford it, interests in human origins, photography, fly fishing and restoring our US public lands. Blazer fan, because it's still ok to have fun.
it is wild, to watch a glass ceiling busting figure, someone who's started a major civil rights organization, elected to work in all 3 branches of government, who's won elections with number few pols in the state can manage
getting reduced to a "corporate Dem" by internet gadflies 🤮
I don't support the SAVE but countering with made up "facts" is not the way to win an argument.
This is simply not true, I live in Oregon and I need ID every time I buy a firearm as well as fill out and submit a background check and thumbprints and wait for the background check to clear.
Again.
The older I get the more I suspect this is the case.
Those gotta have lifts in them. I mean, look at those things.
A popular MAGA Instagram influencer with nearly 1 million followers, known as Jessica Foster, has been revealed to be entirely Al-generated. The account, which posted staged photos portraying her as an "American army girl" and even interacting with world leaders, has no real identity or military background behind it. Creators appear to have monetized the persona. Popular MAGA Instagram influencer with nearly 1 million followers is unveilled as completely Al generated. The "we can always tell" crowd cannot, in fact, always tell.
Trump was asked whether oil tankers are now safe to use the strait of Hormuz.
Trump: I think they should. I think they should. I think they should use the Strait. Look, we took out just about all of their mine ships…
A few hours later…
2 oil tankers set on fire in the strait.
I am kind of mad that you will call out "congress" and neglect to name the actual responsible party, though. That's fucked up.
So, the way it seems, Trump started the Iran war for one reason. To open up Russia for selling their oil, so they can destroy Ukraine, and now Putin will let Trump pat him on the back.
relevance of this comment to current primaries in certain northeastern states left as an exercise to the astute reOH MY FUCKING GOD WOULD YOU FUCKING PEOPLE STOP GOBBLING PLATNER'S FUCKING KNOB ALREADY. FUCKader and should not be considered to be implied in any way by my commentary thereon
That's fair. I'm not a PA voter but Fetterman's social media team was freaking great.
Yeah those fuckers absolutely voted of this.
To the "I didn't vote for this" folks. You voted for a convicted felon. A twice-impeached president. A man found liable for sexual abuse, who tried to overthrow an election. And now gas prices are surging, we're at war, and soldiers are coming home in coffins. This is what you voted for. All of it.
The problem is that the American people, many of whom have the morals of shithouse rats, already know this and it's not a deal breaker for 40% of them.
West coast, best coast. Now Oregon has to play catch-up.
A State of Wealthy Entrepreneurs Passes a ‘Millionaires’ Tax’ www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...
GROUNDHOG PUTIN SAYS: SIX MORE WEEKS OF WAR, WE NEED THE OIL REVENUE.
This is a thing that is within their control and they absolutely should make their negotiating position
It is interesting to me* how this total military, geopolitical, & economic omnishambles is not being covered in the press with remotely the same fierce EPIC DISASTROUS FAILURE urgency that Joe Biden’s not 100% surgically clean withdrawal from 🇦🇫 was covered 🤔
[*It is not remotely interesting to me]
You can go back and compare how 🇦🇫 was covered, & it’s simply not remotely the same right now, even though the failure & incompetence is orders of magnitude beyond even the worst caricature of Biden’s policies:
Great rant. But even if she's not a progressive (hypothetically) if all she does is keep a seat warm and vote reliably with the Ds, that's great. That's all we need at the moment. We don't need Collins, we don't need some sketchy loose cannon who has the occasional good slogan.
There is something deeply broken in your brains that make it so that you are incapable of seeing a woman you don't want to fuck and believing that she has progressive politics, and for the love of god get therapy for it before you drive us all off a cliff.
She is not a centrist. She's endorsed universal healthcare and she's one of the most ardently pro-trans rights politicians in America. If you think she's a centrist you're direly misinformed and you have got to educate yourself before you keep posting stupid shit about there being no good choices.
Every time I see people describe Janet Mills as a centrist I realize there is an imaginary Janet Mills that exists in people's brains that they've invented out of whole cloth in order to justify supporting Platner, and then when Platner was exposed as a Nazi they just refused to update their priors.
Kim: The vast majority of what I hear in these classified briefings can be said publicly, but they intentionally do this to as a tactic to be able to prevent the American people from hearing and questioning what it is that they're doing.
They know that the American people do not want a war
We have to get over the idea that farmers are struggling members of the working class. They literally sit on multiple millions of dollars worth of assets and vote like rich people. Racist rich people.
Iowa farmer: We've had this huge jump in fertilizer prices because of this conflict. With 30% of fertilizer coming through the Strait or Hormuz, we've only been in conflict for 12 days here, and our fertilizer costs have jumped 77%.
And also, how is the water used. If it's just for cooling and then either recycled through the system or cooled and released downstream, it may not be that big a problem. If we are draining aquifers that's a problem. If it's one use only and contaminated, then it's a different story.
