Madison Moskowitz

Oregonian, Democrat, lover of cities, housing, hiking, gardening, transit, cats & dogs. @uoregon alum 🌱🏗🪩 Pro-growth, antifascist #yimby

[Madison Moskowitz @moskwtz]

I’m on the 🦋other site🦋 with the same username!

[john @0bungler]

Media: why are you invading Venezuela? It must be due to a complex confluence of geopolitical turmoil

Trump: I'm doing it to steal their oil. I'm calling it Operation Oil Theft

Media: we'll never know what goes on in the head of this wily genius

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month.

It’s about oil and regime change.

And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from Epstein + skyrocketing healthcare costs.

[Madison Moskowitz @moskwtz]

An auspicious and eventful end to 2025 at the Grand Canyon! 🥰❤️💍 (I said yes, duh)

[Madison Moskowitz @moskwtz]

Building good will, one good deed at a time. Rebuilding trust and access in public service.

[Jeff Coltin @JCColtin]

Mamdani is back at City Hall, serving hot chocolate to the city events staff who are braking down the inauguration set-up in the cold. (Real feel 12!)

[Madison Moskowitz @moskwtz]

@PenguinSix Thank you!

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

The Constitution literally bans religious tests for holding office!

[Randy Clarke @wmataGM]

Not making a political comment but as a transit professional it’s really cool to see an elected leader at this level be a transit user and then make transit the backdrop of their swearing in.

[Timmy Facciola @TimmyFacciola_]

John McCain targeted Latino voters with a Spanish-subtitled video and listed his campaign promises on the screen in Spanish, not English.

“Estamos Unido McCain” the ad says at the end.

[S.V. Dáte @svdate]

Epstein docs.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

Fraud is bad whether it was committed by Somali immigrants who were prosecuted by Biden’s DOJ in 2022 or private equity and crypto execs who were pardoned by Trump’s DOJ

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

They murdered multiple people over *marijuana.*

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

The thing about Confederates and Nazis is that defeating the Confederates and the Nazis is a core part of the history of America, and two of our greatest achievements, and something every American should celebrate.

I guess MAGA feels differently.

[Liam Fennessy @LiamFennessy_]

Dawg you are going to hell

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

there are now no longer federal crimes, only just crimes committed by the federal government.

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

Sharing this remarkable image, José y Maria, by Everett Patterson, seems even more urgent this year. In the past, I’ve delighted over the clever visual puns (Dave’s City Hotel, Weisman cigarettes and Mary’s “Nazareth High School” sweatshirt) and in the reminder that Mary and Joseph were, like this couple, desperate young people looking for lodgings, when there was “no room at the inn,” as one translation of Luke’s Gospel has it.

In the past few years, there has been an intense debate (mainly online) over whether Mary and Joseph were refugees. To me, it seems clear that they were, at least during the “Flight into Egypt” where they flee a murderous king, leave Galilee and travel to Egypt to take refuge. That fits the classic description of a refugee: someone who leaves their homeland out a “well founded fear of persecution.” Some people say, well, they were still in the Roman Empire, which is beside the point. Do we really think that a poor couple from Galilee would have considered Egypt their homeland? Popes since at least Pope Pius XII have agreed. He called the Holy Family the “archetype of every refugee family.”

But before that, as a couple looking for lodging, they mirror thousands of couples and families today who have been denied “room at the inn.” In the United States, couples and families (and children) looking for “room” have been harassed, rejected, arrested, beaten, imprisoned and tortured. “No room at the inn.”

I will never understand how people can treat other human beings like this—even if they are, or are assumed to be, somehow breaking the law. Christ is present in every person, and every person has infinite dignity--whether you are Joseph and Mary, José y Maria, or an unknown person looking for room for their family.

If we delight in making room in our homes for our Nativity scenes, and delight in making room for Baby Jesus in the creche’s manger, can we make room for Christ, who is present in every migrant and the refugee? José y Maria, pray for us.

(Image: "José y Maria," Everett Patterson https://t.co/74UW24kf6Y)

[Madison Moskowitz @moskwtz]

God bless Rick Steves!!!

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Travel writer Rick Steves was at his home in Edmonds, Washington, when he learned a local community center for homeless residents was set to close. Within a few weeks, Steves bought it.

“I really take ‘love your neighbor’ seriously,” he said. https://t.co/iHeoyCa6Lm

[Madison Moskowitz @moskwtz]

un-American and utterly un-Christlike

[AILA @AILANational]

"Her family has now been told she has been deported, despite US District Judge Brendan Hurson ruling Thursday that she could not be deported pending a hearing...attorneys said Monday that they have...confirm[ed] with the hospital she was born in Maryland." https://t.co/MQQyeghDZV

[Michael Carpenter @mikercarpenter]

Perfectly Orwellian. The US is now sanctioning those who monitor — not censor, mind you, just monitor — hate speech and disinformation, all in the name of “free speech.”