Rocks, Bears

I‘m here to defend you from the government and talk about dorky nonsense. Antiracism, antifascism, prolabor. He/him/y’all #pdx Getting over to bsky

[Rocks, Bears @rocksandbears]

That’s it. I’m going to Bluesky.

Come find me or shoot a DM.

[Elizabeth! @InstantSunrise]

Removing slavery was on the ballot in California. It literally had no opposition campaign at all, and it still lost.

[Chris O @ChristopOConnor]

Portlanders: please retweet this thread and get it to newly elected city council commissioners. They need to repeal Chapter 14 on the first day. Start from scratch!
https://t.co/r1OoQFINCP

[The Debt Collective 🟥 @StrikeDebt]

The Biden administration should cancel all federal student debt tomorrow. Ignore the courts. Use immunity powers. Get it done.

[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

BBC News right now.

[Rocks, Bears @rocksandbears]

Tonight is a really hard night to be an American lawyer, I gotta tell ya.

[gianmarco @GianmarcoSoresi]

If you don’t have sisters (yet), just trust me on this one #voterepro

[Rocks, Bears @rocksandbears]

@DannyMarang 🏓

[Rocks, Bears @rocksandbears]

@jesawyer Now imagining the alternate timeline where Obsidian got a ridiculous turnaround to make an off-the-main-line Elder Scrolls game using the Skyrim tools 🤤

[Mitch Green for Portland City Council, District 4 @mitch4portland]

Council is voting to extend for *10* years the Downtown Clean & Safe contract ahead of the election. This ensures a decade of public money flows into the Portland Business Alliance’s coffers to fund their ongoing lobbying with the city. It’s a huge conflict of interest 🚩

[Rocks, Bears @rocksandbears]

We got the #1 pick in the draft, and used both that and the 25th pick in the 2nd round to draft… undersized point and combo guards. RIP CITYYYYYY

[Rocks, Bears @rocksandbears]

I don’t know what’s going on in 2k.

I finally think I got my Bill Walton build right. My rookie season we traded Delano Benton (and some guys they waived?) to Utah to bring back Drew Eubanks, because what we needed was a 5th center, then we traded Jerami Grant for Fred VanVleet?

[Rocks, Bears @rocksandbears]

My rookie year we went 20-62, I got ROY. In the offseason? VanVleet’s off to Utah, but Jabari re-signed. We traded Sharpe for Cam Whitmore, and signed Nickeil Alexander-Walker.

[Rocks, Bears @rocksandbears]

We’re now starting Scoot, NAW, Whitmore, my Bill Walton type, and Rob Williams. Off the bench are Ayton, Simons, Avdija, Walker, Clinton, and Murray.

[Steve Vladeck @steve_vladeck]

Over public dissents from the three Democratic appointees, and with no explanation, #SCOTUS clears the way for Virginia to remove more than 1600 registered voters from the rolls because of questions as to their citizenship status—even though we’re in the NVRA’s “quiet period”:

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians.

I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor.

My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California.

That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people.

Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime.

It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand.

I want to tune out.

But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious.

And I will always be an American before I am a Republican.

That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious.

For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing.

The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better.

It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed!

But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems.

It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful.

We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger.

That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz.

Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us.

And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. https://t.co/eHFZ723I4H

[Rocks, Bears @rocksandbears]

@evvywevvy Jesus the mask is slipping

[Shane Dixon Kavanaugh @shanedkavanaugh]

Oregon leaders urge calm in Portland ahead of next week’s election

"The signatories also included all Oregon members of Congress who represent portions of the Portland metro region with the exception of one: Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer."

https://t.co/5XtuKWPQQ3

[Rocks, Bears @rocksandbears]

@RetroManPDX @bondy_bradley @MCPLynnPeterson The principle of this seemed so sound - plenty of commuter demand and lousy and threadbare existing infrastructure…

What about it was troubling? Curious if you can share examples.

[Rocks, Bears @rocksandbears]

@evvywevvy I’m shocked that nobody had a squirt bottle