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amb @amb.fyi · 06/10/2026

comment section really comin' thru, might need to print this out and tack it on my wall at the office

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 · 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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amb @amb.fyi · 24/09/2026

portlandneighborswelcome.org/2026-portlan...

Councilor Eric Zimmerman ( District 4 candidate) has a proven record of clearing barriers to housing production, including cosponsoring a package of reforms to the City’s design review process with Councilor Angelita Morillo. We appreciate his vision for mixed-income communities and housing abundance, and we look forward to future collaboration to advance it together. However, our endorsement committee found his responses and record on policy approaches to homelessness were not well aligned with our values around housing justice.

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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 · 21/09/2026

anyway, all of this is required reading, especially as PPS gears up for a redistricting conversation that is going to involve some very difficult and thorny decisions about closing schools. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...

Most New York City public elementary students attend a school zoned to their neighborhood — children in wealthy white neighborhoods attend wealthy white schools, and poor Black children attend poor Black schools. But if affluent parents move to a gentrifying neighborhood, they can exercise “school choice” and send their children elsewhere. There are schools in neighborhoods like Harlem, Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant, where I live, where about a quarter of the kindergarten students zoned for those attend them, according to a 2018 report by the Center for New York City Affairs. By middle school and high school, a majority of students take part in the school-choice attendance system, but most kids cannot get into selective schools and instead find themselves in schools that have no enrollment criteria.

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amb @amb.fyi · 20/09/2026

hard to blame Americans for adopting less trust in society when we live in a hideously predatory, scam-based economy

Several gamblers told The Times that promotions fueled their addictions. Bryan Biehl lost nearly $70,000 gambling online, more than half of it at DraftKings. Mr. Biehl recalled how in late 2024, when he started therapy for his addiction, his email inbox began to feel like a relapse risk.

“I would get flooded with bonuses and deposits,” Mr. Biehl said. “If you are in addiction, you are not going to say no.”

In the first two weeks of December 2024, Mr. Biehl received 40 promotions from DraftKings, emails show. He succumbed to temptation one last time on Christmas Day before putting himself on self-exclusion lists, which blocked him from gambling apps.

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amb @amb.fyi · 20/09/2026

the Ages Wages and Stages slogan continues to spread cc @keblerformayor.bsky.social

Bend Mayor Melanie Kebler’s re-election sticker includes the “homes for all ages stages and wages” slogan

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amb @amb.fyi · 18/09/2026

Perhaps more evident in this video

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amb @amb.fyi · 18/09/2026

in round 26 of the RCV in D4 in 2024: 25% for Clark ~41% combined for a slew of progressives (Green, Lykins, Silkie, Freeman) ~29% for Zimmerman + Arnold Mitch isn't going anywhere, and it'd ultimately only take a couple hundred votes shifting for Green/Evanstar to get 50% and win two seats

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amb @amb.fyi · 18/09/2026

new protected bike lanes on willamette boulevard are decadent and luxurious, kudos @pbotinfo.bsky.social

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amb @amb.fyi · 15/09/2026

this place is such a gem and today i learned that Portland’s streetcar real estate mogul Risk Gustavson is apparently a prolific skater and benefactor to the rink

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amb @amb.fyi · 15/09/2026

pray for me that following my beloved jazz radio station to the skate park doesn’t lead to any broken bones this evening

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amb @amb.fyi · 12/09/2026

bounced around s few other venues this evening but marie’s has a closer band called the quick and dirty boys? The lead is shirtless? The guitarist rips? This little musical festival is free? What is happening

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amb @amb.fyi · 12/09/2026

muddy roots is playing the st johns square and inian moon is playing villain crepes, vibes are immaculate

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amb @amb.fyi · 12/09/2026

kicking off the st johns music festival with The Resolectrics, playing at Marie’s

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amb @amb.fyi · 07/09/2026

he’s figured out the perfect “no comment” response

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amb @amb.fyi · 07/09/2026

chef’s kiss. I’m obsessed

Coyote holding a sign saying “it’s a limited number of signs”

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amb @amb.fyi · 17/08/2026

Today is @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social’s 30th birthday (!) and if you haven’t already donated a couple bucks to ensure she’s reelected for another four years of kicking butt on city council, now is quite a lovely time to do so. secure.actblue.com/donate/angel...

film photo of Angelita Morillo speaking at her campaign kickoff

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amb @amb.fyi · 12/08/2026

it'd be like the 100% inverse

screenshot of viral darren rovell tweet from 2016 "i feel bad for our country. but this is tremendous content."

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amb @amb.fyi · 05/08/2026

seems the biggest takeaway is “be wary of internal polls”

I also want to note the El-Sayed campaign and their allies have deployed a tactic in this race that’s been used by Republicans in recent years, and not by us - flooding the zone with favorable polls to shape the narrative of the race. In the past month 5 of the 12 primary polls released in Michigan have come from the El-Sayed campaign or their ideological allies - almost half. In those polls he leads by an average of 15 points. In June they released three additional general election polls. So if I counted correctly El-Sayed’s world released 8 of the 18 polls we’ve seen in Michigan these past two months - 44%, again almost half. This was a major effort to shape the understanding of the race. I'm not sure there has been anything like this on our side of the game in recent years.

As we’ve discussed here the decline of legacy media means that our understanding of elections will be, unfortunately, increasingly shaped by partisan or ideological actors using polls, prediction markets, and on-line manipulation to ferociously manufacture “consent” or as Renee DiResta called it recently a “majority illusion

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amb @amb.fyi · 03/08/2026

Good time to close your windows, get your air purifier running and dig out those masks.

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amb @amb.fyi · 30/07/2026

Vision Zero FC had a barn burner tonight; ultimately lost by a single goal to a much better squad but the lauded "brown sibling connection" did deliver this highlight reel goal thanks to some assist wizardry from my sister

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amb @amb.fyi · 27/07/2026

“I kinda like it here.” Gets me every time

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amb @amb.fyi · 27/07/2026

hell yeah, @portlandneighborswelcome.org has officially made it: we have a zine

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amb @amb.fyi · 25/07/2026

missed Mitch’s reelection campaign kickoff tonight but i ate a hot dog in his honor. I also donated again and if you haven’t already you should too

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amb @amb.fyi · 18/07/2026

Lineup tonight: bands named Alley-Oop, Dadweed, and Swamp Thang, who apparently plays zydeco. Perfection

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amb @amb.fyi · 14/07/2026

have seen a few posts on TikTok lately that are hopefully too stupid to actually be secretly astro-turfed pro-blazers billionaire bailout content, but honestly who even knows at this point

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amb @amb.fyi · 13/07/2026

"VAR is, there is little doubt, the generative AI of the football world."

In a poll of 7,000 football fans published just a few months ago, in March 2026, 91% of respondents said the sport is better off without VAR and 81% said they preferred watching matches without the technology. 92% said VAR killed the “spontaneous joy” of celebrating a goal. Just 2% agreed with the statement that “VAR makes football more enjoyable.” Since its implementation in the UK’s Premier League, YouGov polls have consistently found that large majorities of viewers believe VAR “works poorly.”

In other words: It’s a ubiquitous automation and surveillance system, adopted and maintained by those in positions of power with promises of progress and improvement, despite inspiring widespread disdain among those it is promoted it as serving (football players and fans). Its public poll numbers are in the gutter. It even has its own instantly identifiable acronym. VAR is, there is little doubt, the generative AI of the football world.

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amb @amb.fyi · 13/07/2026

guns vs butter, highway boondoggle edition

That tension was most clearly articulated by Senator Khan Pham, who has been one of the primary negotiators tasked with trying to get a transportation package across the finish line in Oregon, with the most recent proposal to shore up transportation revenue statewide recently repealed by Oregon voters.

"Having been in the trenches of the transportation package struggle in Salem last year, I am here this morning to say that it will be challenging to pass a package that meets our state's basic needs if I am also expected to raise additional billions of dollars for current and future cost overruns of an oversized highway bridge project," Senator Khan Pham told the Oregon Transportation Commission in May. "Every additional billion committed to this project is funding unavailable for preservation, maintenance, safety, and transit needs across Oregon."

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amb @amb.fyi · 11/07/2026

Years ago Oregon Walks led a “#workzonewtf” campaign that got the city to pass regulations that developers would be forced to make a temporary protected sidewalk during construction. Does that law still exist? Is it just not enforced anymore? Stumbled onto this on Alberta today

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amb @amb.fyi · 07/07/2026

shoutout to the civic stadium crowd for booing when they showed Infantino on the screen

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