Jon Walker

Evidence "shows that Trump lied about kicking Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago club," according to a new report from the House Judiciary Dem staff. The report also reveals for the first time Beatrice Keul's account of allegedly having been raped by Trump. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

There was a time when a speech like this would get you fired by any admin.

i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

"Percent of income spent on housing" continues to be a sort of silly metric. 1.) It's almost always ~33% 2.) When it's not ~33% it's generally because of a subset of the population is not working (ie, the Florida numbers are because there are retirees without "income")

This is, without question, an Inclusionary Zoning Moment™

Really enjoy watching my son speak Spanish with his immigrant grandma. Really depressing that #Portland public school wants to end his deeply popular immersion program

I remain bearish on Anthropic even if they're printing money right now. There are competitors and open-weight models right on their heels and I struggle to see how you keep a moat when you and everyone else is selling bridge-building machines

If Dems win the House they could literally spend years trying to untangle the question of how many women and children Trump raped/help rape. Anyone Trump pardons is someone who loses the right to plead the 5th.

Basically the rise of the "new" fascist leaning right was funded mainly by Orban government (which for dumb EU reasons was propped up by the money from the EU)

The supplement/quack industry is an underrated nexus of evil

I feel like "the projects people propose will need to fit the requirements of those funds" stuff should maybe be in the proposed charter language. It isn't there though, is it? Did the PCEF board sign off on this? The Parks Levy Oversight Committee? Water ratepayers? Did petition-signers know this?

In case facts still matter

House Democrats looked into it and it really feels like they were just tripping over allegations against Trump - including allegations no one had heard before! - everywhere they looked. It's bizarre that this remains such a low-burn scandal. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

Trump wasn’t “empowered” after his first impeachment. He lost re-election the same year! After the second impeachment, Dems simply stopped talking about him, assuming if they ignored him, he’d go away. That was obviously a mistake.

Saving up for years? Not what the 990s say.

Doubt? Absolutely. Misinformation? No. Implementation? At the WW interview, the proponents for the life of them couldn't explain how it is supposed to work so they talked about the Metro program instead. yt-clip.cc/watch/a6no-E...

Trump: "While oil prices are temporarily high ... the United States oil and gas business is making hundreds of billions of dollars"

How is this "in-kind" nonsense legal in Oregon? From last week, here's a nice round number of $25k of "in-kind" support for "campaign consulting" for "General Operational Expenses" purposes. Even in old-school Baltimore campaigns, "walking-around money" had more documentation than this.

WHO is throwing over $1 Million in dark money at this 2¢ campaign and WHY? Apart from the *many* other issues with this ill-conceived ballot measure, that amount of secret cash alone is reason enough to Vote NO on BM 26-267. (BM is right.)

The Ramaswamy campaign not only tried to capitalize on a child rape victim, they did it by using an old homeless woman who—while vile—is in no mental shape to adequately understand the stakes. And did they pay her? Either answer is bad.

Quick update on this. According to a filing yesterday, East County Rising dropped another quarter of a million of dark money into the Dumb Two Cents Thing™. Dark money is now 95% of the $1.1M Yes campaign. Anyway, thoughts and prayers for your YouTube watching over the next week.

Yes and also this sort of 'uniparty' nonsense feels so hollow deployed in the midst of a national stove-touching. It turns out the difference between a 'milquetoast corporate Democrat' and Trump was really big! President Harris would not be driving trans soldiers out of the military!

Why it is important to impeach Trump again. Dem need to argue that pardons used as part of a criminal conspiracy are not valid.

and people still try to argue that the pardon power is a good idea

What this did is make firms less likely to hire "risky" workers, which often translates to "entry level male workers".

I am talking about a law passed in 1982! One of the things TEFRA did is mandate that all states use "experience rating" to finance unemployment insurance. ie, firms are charged higher taxes as a function of their layoff rate.

Portland basically killed new condo construction with our inclusionary zone. Time to admit the mistake and fix it.

Inclusionary zoning cuts housing construction by as much as a third, argues a PRI commentary citing a July UC Irvine study. Builders must set aside homes or pay a fee, which raises project costs and makes fewer projects pencil out. www.pacificresearch.org/inclusionary...

Most corrupt admin ever. Time for use to eliminate the Pardon power from the constitution.

“Palantir cofounder and CEO Alex Karp states ‘AI will undermine the influence of highly educated, often female voters and give it to working class men. We have feminine energy running our cities and our courts,’ he complained.”

“Toxic Empathy” author Allie Beth Stuckey is now asking for folks to understand that ICE has separated a good man from his family over a paperwork issue.

This will definitely put to rest questions about Trump's clearly failing health.

"Building 10,000 in apartments downtown Sacramento next to jobs, Amtrak, light rail, and every possible amenity will be great for affordability, walkability, and climate goals" vs. No it won't.

😳 WOMAN REPORTER: Do sexual abuse allegations mean nothing to you, sir? TRUMP: Wait. Wait! Wait wait wait. Slow down. Who are you with? REPORTER: NBC, sir. But they are very serious sex abuse allegations TRUMP: Quiet! Isn't she a fresh person? You're a horrible little reporter, aren't you?

Man it is almost as if Trump has a very personal reason to want to make sure people never believe women's claims about sexual assault.

Maddest of mad kings. We are like 2 months away from the army being ordered to whip the sea.

literally illegal

genuinely i think this is about half of what's going on in my town. the seniors are alone in their houses getting radicalized by AI slop

Again it is wild that #Portland public schools is pushing the largest school closure led by a Superintendent facing both serious civil and criminal issues. Given that PPS ignored the outside audit I suspect her case here is solid. www.wweek.com/news/schools...

Just been such a revolution in my worldview to realise that people like Musk actually believe this, this isn't just the nonsense they feed the rubes so they can do coldly rational mercantile calculations in smokey rooms among themselves. No. It's rubes all the way down, they're that stupid.

‼️‼️ Outgoing Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller endorses Democrat Clayton Tucker over Nate Sheets, who he accuses of being a "snake" with a porn addiction. Miller was once a close Trump ally + among Texas's most rightwing GOPers but has been critical of Abbott, data centers and the hemp ban.

Elon Musk threatens Congress.

“It’s real, even if it doesn’t show up in charts.” How do you know it’s real, then? How do you know that you’re not simply insisting on a reality you prefer, in the face of evidence? How would you support your view? Is it falsifiable, at all? How are you any different from MAGA in this respect?

the routine, pay for play pardons are all by themselves one of the worst corruption scandals in american history!

The argument for Dems even over performing the already good polling is that pollsters are basically trying to catch a falling knife with Trump's job approval right now. The more people pay attention the worse it has been getting for months thehill.com/homenews/adm...

Remarkable how much more logical this plan from a single #Portland School board member (Splitt) is than the proposal the Superintendent Admin team spent a year developing. www.oregonlive.com/education/20...

I’ve fallen into anti-bike lane NYC TikTok and you can see how they’re all gonna go MAGA. The demonization of immigrant delivery workers as being beneath consideration, the attacks on Americans who’ve moved to NYC as being overly elitist…it’s all very MAGA-coded.