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LewFrederick retweeted
Our kids learn best when they’re focused and in the classroom for a full school year.
I got cell phones out of Oregon classrooms and stopped cuts to instructional time. I’ll keep fighting for the resources our schools need, and I’ll keep holding districts accountable for putting students first.
LewFrederick retweeted
State Representative Dacia Grayber has worked with Christine Drazan, so she knows first-hand why Drazan is the wrong choice for Oregon workers.
LewFrederick retweeted
We’re demanding Meta provide answers after the No Kings Coalition’s Instagram account was temporarily suspended in the middle of a nationwide day of action. The company must explain what went wrong and make sure this doesn’t happen again.
Read more: ow.ly/8U3o5101aNh
ALT AG Rayfield calls on Meta to protect legitimate political activity after “No Kings” account was taken down
ALT Today, AG Rayfield pressed Meta for answers after the social media company mistakenly shut down the No Kings Coalition’s Instagram account in the middle of a nationwide day of action. According to the No Kings Coalition, its Instagram account was suspended on the morning of October 17, during the group’s nationwide day of action to support early voting. Administrators say they heard nothing from Meta for about 90min., and full access wasn’t restored for 4+ hours.
ALT “Meta’s actions have raised a significant number of questions and red flags about the policies, procedures, and protections they have in place for legitimate political speech. The company owes the public a clear explanation of what went wrong and what it’s doing to make sure it doesn’t happen again.”
LewFrederick retweeted
More than a million Oregonians rely on the Oregon Health Plan, our state’s Medicaid program. Christine Drazan voted against legislation to help fund it.
I’ll keep fighting to protect OHP coverage for every family who needs it.
LewFrederick retweeted
BREAKING: LOL! Trump totally MELTS DOWN after Obama said that he made the White House look like "Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory" in a hilarious jab.
This is the freakout we were waiting for...
"And you have to remember the White House, we have to explain that to Obama, because he doesn't understand it, because he's not a smart guy," a furious Trump told reporters.
"Let me tell you, in my opinion, he's not smart at all, because the way he ran the country, only a stupid person would run the country like that," he continued. "But we have to explain to Obama that the White House is a symbol of America, and it has to be maintained properly."
Of course, if Obama were actually stupid he would have "maintained" the White House by, say, demolishing our nation's beloved East Wing to build a hideous, unnecessary ballroom. Now THAT would have been stupid...
Or maybe he could have started a disastrous war with Iran on Israel's behalf, driven up gas prices, tanked the economy, and engaged in a widespread coverup of Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking network. But no President could possibly be that stupid, right?
"It has to be painted, and the exterior plaster can't be falling off the walls," Trump went on. "And the decorations and ornaments around the windows that are magnificent can't be on one side of the window and falling off on the other side. So we took molds of the one side and we put it on the other side, and we did a beautiful job."
Anyone who has seen pictures of the Oval Office under Trump knows just how perfectly Obama hit the bullseye with his Cheesecake Factory joke. It's atrocious, decked out in cheap fake gold and ugly trim. It's a monument to bad taste and now every foreign leader that visits is immediately reminded that our country is being run by a failed casino operator.
"Very little money spent. It's not about money. It's about seeing," Trump went on. "Guys like Obama don't see it. You don't see dirt. He doesn't see filth. He doesn't see broken ornaments on a building. The White House, to President Obama: Is a symbol of America. It has to be clean."
"The columns can't be broken," Trump huffed on. The bricks can't be falling off from under the plaster. And for you to say it's a Cheesecake Factory, that just shows why you're a lousy president."
The fact that Trump can get so worked up talking about his taste in aesthetics, but admits that he doesn't care about rising gas prices, just demonstrates what an abject failure he is. Obama baited him, and he took it hook, line, and sinker. Pathetic.
Please ❤️ and share if you think that Obama is a thousand times smarter than Trump!
LewFrederick retweeted
D.C. is making cuts that put Oregon’s schools, health care, and community safety at risk. This year I signed a law to protect Oregon from some of those cuts. Christine Drazan voted against the bill and voted against a tax break for low- and moderate-income families.
LewFrederick retweeted
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LewFrederick retweeted
It’s not the drag queens, it’s not the imaginary sex changes in school, it’s not the litter box bathrooms that don’t exist, and it’s not the books with two mommies who are endangering our children.
It’s the Epstein class.
It’s Republicans.
It’s Donald Trump.
Those are the real threats to our kids.
LewFrederick retweeted
Before Jesse Owens became a household name, there was William DeHart Hubbard, a Cincinnati athlete who had already learned what it meant to compete while being told he did not belong. At Walnut Hills High School, Hubbard excelled in both academics and football. When opponents objected to a Black player taking the field and the school board suspended him, his teammates refused to continue without him. They forfeited the season rather than accept a team that excluded Hubbard because of his race.
Track and field eventually gave him a larger stage. Hubbard earned a scholarship to the University of Michigan through a newspaper subscription contest and became the only Black athlete on Michigan’s track team. He won NCAA and Big Ten titles and six consecutive AAU long jump championships. In 1924, he traveled to Paris as one of only four Black athletes on the 299-member U.S. Olympic team.
Before the ship sailed, Hubbard wrote to his mother that he would do his best to become the “first colored Olympic champion.” On July 8, 1924, despite bruising his heel during the competition, he used his final attempt to leap 24 feet 5½ inches and win the long jump. He became the first Black athlete to win an individual Olympic gold medal.
Hubbard's career did not end with that medal. He later set a world long jump record, tied the world record in the 100-yard dash, founded the Cincinnati Tigers of the Negro American League, and worked in recreation and housing. His achievements helped establish a path later followed by athletes such as Jesse Owens. Hubbard died in 1976, but the significance of what he accomplished in Paris remains enormous. He was not simply the first Black American to win an individual Olympic gold medal. He was one of the athletes who helped make it harder for the country to argue that Black excellence belonged anywhere less than the biggest stage. #BlackHistory
LewFrederick retweeted
When Donald Trump refused to pay SNAP benefits during the shutdown, 750,000 Oregonians were put at risk. Oregon took him to court, and my team was ready to get benefits back to families the night the court ruled in our favor.
LewFrederick retweeted
8 days until Election Day! We talked with some of our amazing partners and volunteers and got 8 great reasons to support re-electing Governor Kotek.
LewFrederick retweeted
We have 8 days to go until Election Day, and improving education is one of my top priorities.
My vision for Oregon’s future includes improving the use of real-time assessments to monitor student learning instead of relying on standardized testing, and insisting that school districts follow their plans to meet new performance standards.
It also includes increasing the time students spend in the classroom learning with teachers, aiming to meet the national average instructional time over the next four years.
Read about my vision for Oregon’s future at tinafororegon.com/oregons-fu….
LewFrederick retweeted
Nothing beats door knocking and talking with Oregonians.
Just 9 days until Election Day – let's finish strong.
LewFrederick retweeted
Recovery is possible, and when someone is ready to seek help, that support needs to be there. Since taking office, I've overseen an increase of more than 1,700 beds in Oregon's behavioral health system. We've made progress, but there's more work ahead.
LewFrederick retweeted
OSSOFF: If you’re late with your rent, the machinery of late fees and eviction is very efficient. But when you tell your landlord about the black mold in your daughter’s bedroom, nobody comes for four months. And then, when you’ve got to take her to the hospital for her asthma attack, you get a $3,000 bill for the ambulance.
Life was already hard enough before Donald Trump lied us into war, before his tariffs made everything more expensive, and before he doubled your health insurance premiums and slashed Medicaid.
It costs more today than ever before in American history to fill up your truck, to stock your fridge, to power your home, to go to the doctor.
Meanwhile, and you’ve seen it, the president and the first family line their pockets to the tune of billions of dollars.
The time has come to wield the power granted to us by our Constitution and rebuke this obscenity.
