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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 8h

Teens doing dumb and dangerous stuff on what are essential electric motorcycles is real and a problem in some places but I'd remind everyone that teens doing dangerous stuff on actual gas-powered motorcyles is the cornerstone of the 50's greaser culture everyone worships now.

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amb @amb.fyi · 8h

gonna be a stressful month, and if we're not careful, a wretched four years

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amb @amb.fyi · 29/09/2026

i think getting my name on a bench of a bus stop could be a flattering way to be remembered, but i'm personally less interested in my name on the bench itself than the bench existing and serving a bunch of frequent service bus lines i helped fight for

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 10h

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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amb @amb.fyi · 8h

"NBA media days are strange events even in normal circumstances, marrying the vibe of the first day of school with Halloween. Players wear full uniforms to pose for pictures, but they also walk around and talk to people wearing slacks...the NBA is a very sophisticated television show"

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pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Updated information shows PPB killed the man and the dog. Absolutely shameful how some media talked about this man’s life like it was an afterthought, and unquestioningly put out copaganda.

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 29/09/2026

The moderate option 👇

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amb @amb.fyi · 29/09/2026

Student newspapers forever

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

keith wilson litmus tests - fund shelters with temporary funding that will close a year from now - loot $600 million from public budgets to give to a billionaire - cut PS3s to fund vacant PPB headcount - set northwest portland on fire and blow up the steel bridge

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PDXToddDiskin @pdxtoddiskin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It works. The only thing holding it back are cops.

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amb @amb.fyi · 29/09/2026

Needs to be a long German word for the feeling of FOMO/jealousy of being stuck in car traffic while watching bicyclists enjoy the objectively perfect weather and zip by with the biggest smiles on their faces and wishing i had had my shit together in the morning to ride into town instead

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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

God I love Angie Nixon. I hope she wins

Now @AshleyMoodyFL. Why would I want to abolish the police when I want you arrested and in jail for stealing $10 million from sick kids? BFFR

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amb @amb.fyi · 28/09/2026

1) i cannot fathom how cool it would be if Angie Nixon somehow pulled it off in November, rooting for her completely 2) fascinating to see her campaign attempt to merge an unabashedly populist rhetoric with two points for “homeowners rights” against insurance companies and “big corporations”

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amb @amb.fyi · 27/09/2026

feels like there’s multiple compounding mammoth economic financial disasters that are all are about to explode right as the dems take charge, the big ugly federal bill chief along them. It’s gonna suck and also new dem leadership needs to be willing to go big and not shirk from meeting the moment

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amb @amb.fyi · 26/09/2026

no better affirmation in local government than a bustling library teeming with adorable children

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amb @amb.fyi · 25/09/2026

grim but ultimately helpful friday afternoon thread

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Madison Moskowitz @moskwtz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think this article is spot on about the lack of deeply affordable (30% AMI) homes in Portland but should have delved deeper into the regulatory & bureaucratic barriers that prevent people from getting into regulated affordable homes. www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

wsj.com

Portland Real Estate Is Such a Mess That All Housing Is Affordable Housing

Rarely has the Oregon city seen such a narrow price gap between market-rate and affordable units.

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amb @amb.fyi · 25/09/2026

i'm sure others have made the connection but since i haven't yet seen anyone make this point, it seems depressingly fitting a big storm is cancelling a bunch of events around new york at the end of climate week

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amb @amb.fyi · 25/09/2026

yeah this is a remarkably cynical framing for an article touting that a combination of circumstances and policy changes have led to Portland having more housing affordability for everybody

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amb @amb.fyi · 25/09/2026

for all the handwringing about city council drama i don’t think this gets emphasized nearly enough

“Our City Council now, for better or worse, is more representative of Portland,” Valdini said. “It doesn’t always make things easier when a lot of different voices are heard in government.”

“But now you have a City Council that is divided and represents the divisions in Portland. I see this as a success story.”

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David Welton @davidwelton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thread on housing and aging:

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noah @sheapforwheet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The US Marshals 100% killed this dog.

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amb @amb.fyi · 25/09/2026

Listening to the rain fall on my rooftop while sitting in my basement and watching 1989 hit The Wizard, starring Fred Savage and Jenny Lewis on VHS

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amb @amb.fyi · 24/09/2026

if you think my takes were bad today, rest assured, you have no idea how many hot takes about your bad posts went into the group chats or just my own handwritten notebook. they were atrocious, you'd hate them. in the words of @alexbaca.bsky.social, never tweet

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

it really needs to be more openly discussed that all the people advocating for “we should be fine with losing basic skills if we get more systems thinking” are men, meaning socialized to expect to be able to offload basic tasks of daily living onto a wife as part of their compensation for existing

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amb @amb.fyi · 24/09/2026

portland's pro-build-more-homes group endorsed three open socialists, a fourth woman who has decades of involvement in tenant organizing and policy, and a fifth moderate. the entity didn't endorse other incumbents who demonstrated insufficient commitment to the totality of PNW's housing platform.

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amb @amb.fyi · 24/09/2026

coolest event at nyc climate week?

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 24/09/2026

You know how people go to Cuba and marvel at the classic cars people still maintain and drive there because they can't get American cars anymore? In 2050, the rest of the world will come here and marvel at the smoke-belching junkers we still drive around, and we'll have done it to ourselves.

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pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This made me L O L My answer: talks about structures of power and influence in politics, the values we have, the communities we’re trying to serve Their answer: these youngins and their Tikie Toks refuse to compromise on core values! So naive! www.wweek.com/news/2026/09...

wweek.com

What Divides the Portland City Council?

We asked the six incumbent city councilors what fuels the bitter feuds between the two factions.

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Jamey Evenstar @jameyevenstar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If there was a word better than "honored" to express how I feel about earning earn Portland Neighbors Welcome's endorsement, I would use it here. They're fighting for a Portland that my kids (and all of us!) can actually afford to live in. I am honored to be in that fight with them.

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amb @amb.fyi · 23/09/2026

the "missing middle" of city mobility is publicly run subsidized e-bikeshare, if anything

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amb @amb.fyi · 23/09/2026

well when you put it that way www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Labbe said much of the criticism was “fear mongering” and described the $16 million set-aside as a tiny share of the city’s overall budget.

“We had $100 million last year of housing money that we realized wasn’t being spent, we had another $10 million in arts tax money that wasn’t used,” Labbe added. “At a time when the mayor is proposing to spend millions to do luxury improvements on the Moda Center, to say that we can’t afford to give people more voice over our existing funds just makes no sense.”

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amb @amb.fyi · 23/09/2026

@portlandneighborswelcome.org endorses Morillo, Koyama-Lane, Green, Evanstar, and Clark as pro-homes champions to vote for in the upcoming 2026 municipal elections - you can read the candidates' full answers on the PNW website.

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Logan @logiebarr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s also here if you don’t want to use the link/don’t have IG

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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

later on me and my friends are gonna stand around the haunted k mart parking lot and hate conformity

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amb @amb.fyi · 23/09/2026

certainly has some relevancy to today's politics that older generations grew up experiencing cities as profoundly dangerous places, and even if cities are much safer now people would never find out thanks to endless bludgeoning of URBAN CRIME WAVE on Fox News activating the collective lizard brain

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Portland: Neighbors Welcome @portlandneighborswelcome.org · 22/09/2026

Who else is excited for the 2027 legislative session?

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amb @amb.fyi · 22/09/2026

man, this is a heartbreaking/infuriating/exhausting read. a perfect microcosm for all the structural tensions within the larger democratic party nymag.com/intelligence...

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Troy Jackson, the Accidental Candidate

How the Democratic Party is seizing control of his Senate campaign.

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amb @amb.fyi · 22/09/2026

building family-sized homes in social housing on the oversized blacktop pavement next to any campus that PPS is forced to close is a great way to ensure that neighborhood school eventually reopens

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weird lil goblin @ginamarina.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is a really shitty way to describe a bunch of people armed with bear mace harassing people literally just minding their own business

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Jennifer @jenwith1n.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Trans community members are just trying to friggin watch sports, and they keep getting harassed by people whose express purpose is to make them feel unwelcome. Community members show up to tell these goons to back off, and now we have "protestors clash over trans rights."

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Anyone who wants to understand how policing works in the U.S. needs to read this incredible local investigation about what Minneapolis police did after feds killed Renee Good.

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amb @amb.fyi · 21/09/2026

injera induced food coma >>>

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