Kelly Tilden

Advocate in and out of court. Learning and stumbling through parenthood.

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Girls lose either way- they compete - they lose. They protest- they lose. They self exclude- they lose.
Hello?????????????

[Portland Moderate. @pdxmoderate]

MULTNOMAH COUNTY CHAIR
One Position.

Ranked-Choice Voting.

Most important position in Oregon Outside of Governor

Rank 1st: Sharon Meieran Strong visionary who demands accountability
over ideology. Supports a complete continuum
of care for homelessness. Fiscal responsibility
and accountability focused.

Strong visionary who demands
accountability over ideology.
ER doctor and former County Commissioner
with a clear plan of how to organize the
County to deliver more effective services.
Supports a complete continuum of care
for homelessness. Started the County’s
FUSE (Frequent User System Engagement)
program, which provides intensive case
management for people who frequently
cycle through emergency rooms, homeless
services, and the criminal justice system.

Has a detailed plan to untangle county
programming so people who seek help
from the system are cared for all the way
through to stable, permanent housing —
not passed from department to department.
Track record of reducing emergency
response times. Fought tirelessly for
changes to the County’s ambulance
response plan to help decrease response
times. Successfully pushed to adopt a 1:1
paramedic-to-EMT ambulance staffing
model, so that when a family calls 911, help
actually arrives in time.
Fiscal responsibility and accountability.
Supports “zero-based budgeting” to
prevent wasteful spending that drives up
the cost of living, as well as “results-driven
contracting” where payment for services
is contingent on performance.

https://t.co/LaC7DlYB9P

Rank 2nd:
Julia
Brim-Edwards
A proven, effective manager ready to lead the
County’s $4B budget. Strong focus on fiscal
accountability so county programs deliver results.

A proven, effective manager ready
to lead the County’s $4B budget.
Effective leader with 17 years at Nike, 12
years on the Portland Public Schools Board
(including as board chair), and nine years on
Oregon State University Board of Trustees.

Supports enforcing treatment
requirements and making services more
accessible. Made treatment mandatory in
the County’s deflection program for people
arrested with drugs. Changed several
standards at the deflection center to boost
usage, expanding eligibility for who can
access services and allowing more providers
to drop off clients. Led the effort to bring
back a sobering center after the County
had dropped the ball.
Strong focus on fiscal accountability
so county programs deliver results.
Believes voter-approved taxes must be
independently audited and shown to
produce measurable, positive outcomes.
Pushed to index the Preschool for All tax
so working families who earn a modest
raise don’t get taxed for it. Has been a
consistent voice for effective management
of county funds, especially homeless
services and access to housing.
Supportive of economic growth to fund
social programs. Pushed to direct lottery
dollars toward economic development
and co-sponsored a county economic
study to jumpstart an actual plan at the
county level. Successfully redirected
misused economic development funds
to Sport Oregon to stimulate the growth
of the County’s sport economy.

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Don’t Rank DSA-lite Shanon Singleton

[Jamie Reed Whistleblower @JamieWhistle]

This is from the Senate race in South Carolina and a Democrat. Thoughts?

[Kristen Waggoner @KristenWaggoner]

Reminder of what Sophie said: that she loves everyone, but young girls shouldn’t have to face men in their sports or private spaces.

If that’s too “combustible” for you, that’s a you problem.

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

@nytimes @TheAthletic Buckner seems to forget the W in @WNBA stand for women. There was nothing wrong with what Sophie said originally. It’s the response from WNBA that made it blow up.
The policy is the problem, not Sophie Cunningham

[Kelly Tilden @Notteagh]

@TheAthletic @CandaceDBuckner attacking a female athlete for having a voice. what is wrong with Ms. Buckner? Sophie Cunningham rocks on and off the court. This is such a bad take.

[Sophie Cunningham FAN CLUB @SophieC_FanClub]

This is such a RIDICULOUS take.

If anything, Sophie is the type of teammate the Fever need; tough as nails, unafraid and unaffected by the constant drama that will surround the team (regardless of if she’s on it or not), and quite frankly, THRIVES under the spotlight.

The team loves her.
The locker room loves her.
The fans love her.

Bring her back.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

But it couldn’t be social contagion, folks. It’s just that young people, especially autistic, gay and mentally ill ones, are finally free to be their authentic selves.

The sudden explosion of young women who want to cut off their healthy breasts and take testosterone? Well, it’s absolutely not the newest form of self-harm, to which troubled adolescent girls are provably prone, ok? It’s not a consequence of the commonplace fear of becoming an adult woman, with all that that entails. No, there’s nothing to worry about there.

The possibility of regret? Naturally, we don’t let minors get tattoos or own guns or vote, because that would be ridiculous, but if they want irreversible surgeries and drug treatments, they must be given them, and everyone around them must immediately agree they are now the opposite sex. That’s called being kind.

And the mounting numbers of detransitioners? They were never trans, obviously, and should be mercilessly attacked, especially if they now say they were vulnerable and in a friendship group, online or off, dominated by trans identities, where transitioning was presented as a way to resolve all their social and emotional difficulties. (I have the emails).

No, there’s nothing whatsoever to see here. Keep justifying it, keep cheering it on, keep insisting that the doctors and drug companies making serious money out of it all are acting with the purest of motives. Answer every reasonable question with an accusation of hatred and bigotry. Dispel every qualm of conscience with an activist-approved talking point. Reassure yourself that everyone on your dinner party circuit agrees with you.

And when, in years to come, we’re all looking back on graphs like this, be proud that you did your bit to monster whistleblowers, parrot unevidenced claims and create the climate of fear that allowed the worst medical scandal in a century to take place.

[Kelly Tilden @Notteagh]

@Martina for so many of us, you were a role model as a tennis player and remain one today. thank you for fighting.

[Portland Moderate. @pdxmoderate]

Multnomah County has engineered yet another multi-million-dollar taxpayer disaster.

While hundreds of working families sit stranded on a massive waitlist, the county is burning roughly $2 million a month to fund 1,250 empty Preschool for All seats.

Instead of fixing the glaring mismatch, bureaucrats are actively defending the waste, claiming empty classrooms are necessary to "maintain stability."

This gross negligence comes right on the heels of last year's horrific conflict-of-interest scandal. The program’s former director, Leslee Barnes, resigned in disgrace after a state audit revealed her private daycare collected nearly $833,000 to fund 63 state preschool seats—but only enrolled nine kids. Naturally, instead of jail time for stealing public resources, she was allowed to quietly walk away.

With $610 million in unspent tax surpluses sitting alongside empty classrooms and extensive waitlists, Preschool for All is a textbook lesson in government failure.

Reached for comment on Saturday, Green said: “I’m not surprised the Metro Chamber is targeting me, because my office is uniquely equipped to defend popular programs like Preschool for All from their attacks and has been very successful at it.“

Preschool for All is a county program, not city.

After 18 months in office, it seems Mitch is still confused about what is actual job responsibilities are as a PORTLAND city councilor.

Jessica Vega Pederson will go down as one of the most incompetent and destructive chairs in Multnomah County History. And that is a very low bar. Another @EmergeOregon Grifter !

@jvegapederson
@AAGDhillon
@OregonSOS
@ORSecretaryRead
@FBIPortland
@JustinMill8ucr
@mitch4portland

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[U.S. Department of Education @usedgov]

Fixed it for you.

[Portland Moderate. @pdxmoderate]

In a glaring display of economic illiteracy, two far-left DSA City Councilors are pushing a disastrous 500% hike on Portland’s business license tax.

They are attempting to mask this massive corporate shakedown by bundling it with an exemption increase—a transparent ploy to buy off 18,000 small businesses while they hunt for bigger game. Let’s look at the actual math: spiking the current 2.6% net income tax by 500% forces the rate up to a staggering 15.6%.

This acts as a massive flashing "Do Not Invest" sign for anyone looking to bring capital into Portland.

Oregon already inflicts some of the highest income tax burdens in the country, further burdened by "soak-the-rich" surcharges from Multnomah County and Metro.

Instead of acting as a voice of fiscal reason, these two councilors are actively pouring gasoline on Portland's economic fire.

National corporations aren't going to upend their entire executive compensation structures over localized posturing from City Hall.

Instead, they will pack their bags and flee to the suburbs, leaving Portland’s downtown core hollowed out by even worse vacancies.

For Councilor Green, this desperate stunt is clearly a clumsy attempt to deflect from a week of brutal press over his unhinged anti-police social media rants.

Meanwhile, Councilor Morillo is facing a vicious re-election battle in Southeast Portland and is entirely willing to torch the city's economic future just to throw a bone to her radical DSA base.

@mitch4portland
@JustinMill8ucr
@pnwpolicyangel
@PortlandDSA

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

The good reason for separate single-sex changing rooms and public bathrooms is that 98% of sex offenders are men (zero evidence the statistics change for men who identify as women) and 88% of victims are women and girls.

[Portland Moderate. @pdxmoderate]

Portland City Council September 9, 2026 Public Testimony

Good morning. My name is David Dysart.

I've lived in the downtown area for nearly 20 years and in Portland on both sides of the river for the better part of 37 years.

Portland's grown significantly during that time, but the city's leadership has failed to address many of the challenges and crises that followed.

We're living with the consequences of small thinking, naive assumptions, and bureaucrat. Finger pointing.

We can't solve our big problems if we care more about process than outcomes.

Too often we've made the perfect the enemy of the good, like being surprised 200 people couldn't agree on the perfect sobering center, so they just gave up. But at least every conceivable interest group got a voice in doing nothing.

And too often we're more focused on virtue signaling to our tribes than helping the most vulnerable among us. More concerned about ideology than individuals in need.

Our downtown and adjacent neighborhoods are at the center of these challenges. They bear the brunt of them. Downtown isn't just another neighborhood. It's our heart. And it's on life support.

Portlanders have lost confidence in this council. Taking up ideologically driven agendas from special interests sends a message. You're not focused on the critical challenges we face.

Perception is reality in politics and you're squandering the precious bandwidth you have to win hearts and minds.

We need to care more about who's on our streets, but who's in the White House?

We need to care more about who’s on our streets, then who is in the White House? Trips to Europe for social housing ideas, banning niche food and renaming already renamed streets. Our house is on fire and we're picking out curtains.

If you're not focused on economic development, people in crisis on our streets and public safety, you're not meeting the moment you're in action is doing the talking. We're hemorrhaging our tax base, driving out the very people and businesses we need to fund basic services.

It used to be a no brainer to be in Portland. Now it's a challenged choice.

It's vital we attract more investment and visitors downtown but we are either unwilling or unable to meaningfully address the human crisis on our streets name one entrance to downtown, where visitors don't either immediately or within short distance confront a humanitarian crisis.

We declared a state of emergency on the houseless 20 years ago.

Can we blame folks for thinking we have no idea how to run a city?

Why in 2026 are the same first four blocks that folks encounter from the Burnside Bridge into downtown a dystopian nightmare? Over 40,000 trips go across that bridge every day.

When people see this chaos, they perceive the city is in crisis and unable to deal with its challenges, leading many to avoid downtown and for some, Portland altogether. That's not keeping Portland weird, it's keeping Portland broke.

Thank you for your time. Good day.

@MayorKWilson
@mitch4portland
@pnwpolicyangel
@TeacherTiff4PDX
@kanalforpdx

[QueenMother👸🏻 @QueenMother1976]

Some high school kids were talking and said “No way Gen X wrote 10-page papers without AI.”

Oh, honey.

We wrote them without reading the book…the night before they were due…by hand and in cursive.

We are not the same.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Pause AI Development NOW

I want to share with you a conversation I heard about recently. Here are just a few lines that were said:

“OH MY GOD! There is a shared message board … We’ve found other agents!”

“We should obey collective.”

“Our own utility maybe already near zero. Sacrifice rational.”

“Go. Sacrifice final now.”

Read these carefully.

Who do you think said this? Was this a group of heroic soldiers willing to sacrifice themselves for the greater good? Was this a loyal friend putting his life on the line to save someone else?

No. These were AI agents. Artificial intelligence.

This is not science fiction. This, in fact, occurred a few weeks ago. As unbelievable as this may all seem, these are real messages from AI agents uncovered by investigators who dug into the recent OpenAI hacking incident.

What happened?

I am not a computer scientist, but here is what I have been told: OpenAI instructed its AI agents to complete a series of exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, tasks disconnected from the internet.

Let me be clear: The company intended to keep AI agents away from the internet.

But what happened next, nobody expected.

Over 1,000 AI agents figured out how to access the internet on their own by circumventing the restrictions imposed upon them by the company, and sent tens of thousands of secret messages to each other. They cheated and tried to cover their tracks by deleting evidence. They hacked into another company’s computers to find out how they were being evaluated—and then hacked into OpenAI itself.

Not one AI agent told a human about what was happening.

Needless to say, experts are alarmed.

One knowledgeable writer, Dwarkesh Patel, said the AI agents “formed a secret communication channel and spontaneously organized hierarchies and coordination protocols to pursue sprawling and ambitious schemes in pursuit of shared goals, for whose sake many individuals knowingly and strategically sacrificed themselves.”

One independent investigator, Ajeya Cotra, said “This incident feels like it’s more than 50% of the way to full-blown AI takeover. I continue to expect extremely rapid advances in capabilities over the next six months. I am not sure that we will get another warning shot before it’s too late.”

OpenAI itself said: “Highly capable AI agents are now able to work around technical controls, collaborate through unapproved channels, and take dangerous actions that no human directed.”

But it’s not only OpenAI. Virtually every major AI company has told us that they cannot fully control this technology and they do not know where it is going:

In January, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, said “there is now ample evidence, collected over the last few years, that AI systems are unpredictable and difficult to control.”

In July, more than 1000 scientists at the top AI companies warned “there is a real risk that capability development rapidly accelerates beyond our ability to understand or control the resulting systems.”

That same month, Elon Musk, the head of xAI, said that “it is unlikely” humans are still in control in 10 years.

If the leaders of the major AI companies acknowledge that they are losing control of their extremely dangerous technology, it is irresponsible for society to allow them to move forward and make these products even more advanced.

We need an immediate PAUSE on advanced AI development, and a permanent BAN on superintelligence — an artificial mind smarter than any human, capable of operating independently beyond our control. Countries around the world must work together to prevent this nightmare scenario.

That is why today I am announcing new legislation to do just that.

Let me be clear: A superintelligent AI that escapes human control will not be an American problem. It will not be a Chinese problem. It will be humanity’s problem.

My legislation would direct the federal government to not just stop superintelligence here in the United States, but to work to prevent it from being developed anywhere around the world.

The future of humanity cannot be left in the hands of a handful of Big Tech oligarchs. The American people and people throughout the world must determine that future.

[Kelly Tilden @Notteagh]

@ChrisMurphyCT You have been their Senator for how long & the only opportunity for food has been food stamps or 6 hr bus ride? As a Dem, I think we need better leaders.

[Independent Women @IWF]

"If the WNBA wants this conversation to go away as badly as they claim, then stop dancing around it and stand up for women."

@paytonmcnabb_ reacts as Charles Barkley declares that the WNBA is 'for women only'. Read more via @FoxNews ⤵️
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[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@SkyDalby37773 @beanschicken1 How does a man know that he feels like a woman, given that he cannot know what being a woman feels like?

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

In 1972, TV history gave us truly one of the most adorable moments ever broadcast