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Marc Poris @marcporis.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

As of August 23, 2026, Dan "Nay" Ryan and Eric "Nay" Zimmerman have each voted "Nay" more than twice as often as anyone else on Portland City Council. Councilor Green has been absent for the fewest votes; Zimmerman the most. Mayor Wilson with a 100% negative voting record.

Pivot table from a LibreOffice spreadsheet showing the number of votes by each current Portland City Council member.

Absent, Abstain, Nay, Yes, and Total Result are the column headers.

Voting members are listed, in order:

Angelita Morillo
Candace Avalos
Dan Ryan
Elana Pirtle-Guiney
Eric Zimmerman
Jamie Dunphy
Keith Wilson
Loretta Smith
Mitch Green
Olivia Clark
Sameer Kanal
Steve Novick
Tiffany Koyama Lane

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The legacy media sat there while Trump lied about the past elections and "joked" about running again in 2028. They did not boo. They did not walk out. They just sat there and ate their dinner. The journalists in that room will be remembered as the journalists in that room.

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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Nothing speeds up Trump’s eviction from the White House like Rule IX. He can and MUST be removed from office. Not after the midterms. NOW. Pressure Congress to invoke #RuleIX DAILY. Visit removetheregime.com. This #CupOfJoe is full of patriotic urgency.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

As I said the other day - this story is very much revealing how little folks understand the massive reach and influence of agribusiness and how the food chain works. Framing the story around taco bell is a good ex of news coverage failing to give us the info we need about our corporate food system.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I try not to overdo this bit but ... my man is begging for it. Let's go.

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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Okay, nvm - I'm deleting my original post (about China), because this swerved into a different direction, which honestly, I should have expected. Things to do right now: 1. Check your voter registration at iwillvote.com. 2. Text five friends/family to do the same tonight.

iwillvote.com

I Will Vote

Be a voter. Find everything you need to vote in your state’s next election.

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

i cannot implore you enough to use respiratory protection that *really works* for what you’re facing. yes, the best mask is the mask you’ll wear, but when conditions are this bad, know that not all tools are created equal. if you can access something better and are able to wear it, it’s worth it.

4.9 - The Masks Explained
Underneath the title it says:
Below is a visual side-by-side comparison of each mask.
Efficacy is always dependent on a good fit and seal.
The results of the chart are as follows:
KN95: filters 95% of particulate matter, filters exhalation, easier to breathe in.
N95: filters 95% of particulate matter, filters exhalation, easier to breathe in.
Disposable P100: N95: filters 99.97% of particulate matter.
Reusable P100s with 60926 filters: filters 99.97% of particulate matter, filters gases and vapors.
Reusable P100s with 60926 filters and 604 exhalation filters: filters 99.97% of particulate matter, filters gases and vapors, filters exhalation.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The men who were with Lorenzo Salgado Araujo say the govt is lying: Araujo never tried to run over agents. Agents weren't even in front of or behind the van. After shooting Araujo, officers threw him to the ground and one said, “You wanted to escape, right?” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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Migrants who saw man killed by ICE in Houston say he did not ram officers

Three men who were in the vehicle alongside Lorenzo Salgado Araujo are contesting the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the fatal shooting.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Guaranteed: 1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are. 2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 30/06/2026

Thankful that birthright citizenship has survived this assault. But it's repugnant that four bigots ruled against birthright citizenship on the constitutional question. Spitting in the face of Wong Kim Ark and millions of US citizens. Eternal shame.

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 24/06/2026

A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.

A photo of Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada, who looks like a cuddly and rad dude, smiling while holding a sketchbook full of drawings of baby hippos.

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

HOW TO LOOK AT ART by Lynda Barry

In the first panel, a dog-headed woman, a mother, looks at a painting in the "Madonna with Baby Jesus" vein. A small blobby child is standing next to her.

Mother: IM NOT SURE HOW TO LOOK AT ART.
Child: WHATS SPOSTA HAPPEN?

In the second panel the dog-headed mother holds up her hands (paws?) trying to explain to the child.

Mother: SOMETHING BIG. A REVELATION.
SUDDENLY YOU JUST UNDERSTAND.

In the third panel dog-headed mother goes back to looking at the painting. The child holds up their arms to be lifted.

Mother: NOT SURE HOW TO MAKE IT HAPPEN
Child: HOW BOUT LIFT ME UP SO I CAN SEE BETTER

In the last panel, the dog-headed mother is holding the child, their position mirrored by the Madonna and baby Jesus in the painting.

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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 16/06/2026

Federal prosecutors in Minnesota unsealed a 94-page indictment against 15 individuals they alleged to be affiliated with Antifa, but the evidence shared at the podium — including standard anti-establishment social media memes — is being widely slammed as a total embarrassment.

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Trump prosecutor's 'embarrassing' antifa evidence ignites instant backlash

Federal prosecutors revealed details Tuesday of a 94-page indictment against 15 individuals they alleged to be affiliated with Antifa – the loosely organized anti-fascist movement that the Trump administration has designated as a terrorist organization – though mockery soon ensued after prosecutors ...

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Andrew Durkin @andrewdurkin.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

All this, plus the chances are high he'll fall asleep during the game.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 05/06/2026

Did another political thing where 80 percent of the volunteers were femme presenting. Dudes, gotta step up. If you're not volunteering for anything, pick one (1) thing and start this week.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 02/06/2026

"Writers can’t sell their second book. Writers can’t sell their first book. Writers quit jobs to concentrate on writing. Writers quit social media. Writers reactivate, announce new novel. Writers get mad at sexism, tell men to stop writing. Male writers ignore."

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Writers

“Writers don’t like to write. Writers are decent writers. Writers read interviews with themselves. Writers turn off Wi-Fi. Writers are under thirty-five. Wri...

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 01/06/2026

ICE says it needs Delaney Hall to lock up "murderers, rapists, and pedophiles." I looked at the data. That's not who's inside.

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Andrew Durkin @andrewdurkin.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

To put this another way: Trump will have done about as much damage to the White House as the 9/11 hijackers did to the Pentagon.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13/05/2026

In a historic moment, I was interviewed by fellow Black woman particle physicist Dr. Katrina Miller. Few people can understand my journey the way she does. We talked about my new book, why poetry matters, and yes, how the *fact* of non-trinary neutrinos challenges anti-trans rhetoric. #GiftLink

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A Physicist Who Thinks in Poetry From the Cosmic Edge

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister. Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.

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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

1/ Tear gas was created to incapacitate grown men. So when I started seeing reports of kids hurt by tear gas deployed by federal immigration agents, I wondered how often it was happening. My colleagues and I started to count:

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

This insightful thread made me reflect on how I, a Gen Xer, was socialized to think about the political agency of ordinary citizens...and how those historical "lessons" that I'd imbibed, drawn from the history of the 1960s and 70s, just don't ring so true to today's young adults.

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Andrew Durkin @andrewdurkin.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

"I wish you would be a better Christian." This is a rhetorical tour de force. Bravo!

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Andrew Durkin @andrewdurkin.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

"How does an investor process [the threat to destroy a civilization]?" Answer: it processes them.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Two brilliant civil rights lawyers - one Asian American; one Black American. Both women. @aclu.org’s Cecellia Wang & @legaldefensefund.bsky.social’s @janainelson.bsky.social. They argued two of the most consequential cases in SCOTUS this year. This embrace is one of my favorite moments of the day.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 02/04/2026

I cannot overstate how much of our current situation is directly attributable to this evil woman’s work demonizing trans people with the money she gets from the people who buy her products or keep them in the public eye by continuing to interact with the franchise even if not buying.

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Andrew Durkin @andrewdurkin.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Grateful I make art with “no commercial potential”: who’s gonna want to use AI to ape it?

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Andrew Durkin @andrewdurkin.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

RFK Jr. carries knowledge of the troop strength of every Middle East country in his head, to check the president's work in the moment? Or was he just blindly accepting that bullshit claim by Trump, just as this audience is accepting this bullshit claim by RFK Jr.?

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Andrew Durkin @andrewdurkin.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I think I’m ready. See you there?

No Kings sign: Imagine him in prison, it’s easy if you try.

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Andrew Durkin @andrewdurkin.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

A key characteristic of the malignant narcissist: self-loathing.

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Andrew Durkin @andrewdurkin.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

The first poll: I thought it was a joke, but no, tautological polling is being treated as news. How many Trump supporters support Trump? Duh. There's no point in polling a cult.

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Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I agree with Paul. Make art. Post art. But also... Share what you love. Share silly stuff. Share those rabbit holes you fell down. Don't worry about how useful it is, if it appeals to you it's going to appeal to others. If it makes you happy, it's going to make others happy.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

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Reagan Fitzke @reaganfitzke.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I miss the days where the most ridiculous thing a president has said was “Fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me… you can't get fooled again.”

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Andrew Durkin @andrewdurkin.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Name a TV show you feel like no one remembers but you: 321 Contact (Great theme song, too.)

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Andrew Durkin @andrewdurkin.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Johnson: "We're not at war right now." Hegseth: "This is not a regime-change war, but the regime sure did change." Rubio: "We went proactively in a defensive way." (Sorry, I just needed a place to store some of the regime's dipshit bangers for later ridicule.)

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Andrew Durkin @andrewdurkin.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

This is why the State of the Union was so full of militarist ritual.

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

As democrats, as progressives, as people who love democracy and rule of law and fairness and justice and respect for humanity, we have to hold the line on protecting *everyone*. No one gets left behind. Everyone has a right to thrive. When Newsom threw trans folk under the bus, he lost my vote.

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Andrew Durkin @andrewdurkin.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I'm living by this motto, so calmly expressed by Heather Cox Richardson, as they continue to "flood the zone with shit."

From HCR today: "you're trying to exhaust me. By God, I'm not going to let you do it." (screenshot of HCR in a hotel room, from her YouTube channel)

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Andrew Durkin @andrewdurkin.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Someone needs to remind this unctuous prick that the state of Minnesota IS the American people.

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Andrew Durkin @andrewdurkin.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I'd quibble with this framing. I was more angry than heartsick a year ago, and I'm more angry than heartsick today. Anger is active, heartsickness much less so. We all have a right to be heartsick, and should feel it when we need to. But we should protect our anger. Our anger is fuel.

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Cooper River Indivisible @crindivisible.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

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Andrew Durkin @andrewdurkin.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Trump Derangement Syndrome is the lie told by those suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome Derangement Syndrome.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Ill be clear about why I am so angry and critical about it: Im seeing a good portion of my students who have imbibed the notion that they dont have to read, think or write for themselves because ChatGPT/CoPilot will do their thinking for them, and its terrifying. It should scare all of us.

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