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@communalpdx.bsky.social
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PDX parent and antifascist activist. Let's build foundational community so we can protect our vulnerable neighbors and thrive together. Fierce joy, music, community building, mutual aid, art, clowning, diversity of tactics, radical caring, solidarity!

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Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 19h
Dunno who needs to hear this but it’s good to show joy in public. We’re alive and it’s a miracle.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 28/09/2026
The federal government would like you to call this “super intelligence” now.
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Marie Cerda @primalux.thedeadbird.club · 28/09/2026
You can laugh & think people deserve it, just don't do it in my replies. I'm sharing this not bc I think it's a danger for myself or most of my mutuals, but Meta is really pushing Muse when you use any of their apps. Maybe your parent, or kid, or other person close to you might decide to try it.
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Jamey Evenstar @jameyevenstar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mitch is going to need extra support for this one because this forum will not include any of the other progressive candidates like myself. They chose to only include the incumbents and Eli Arnold on purpose so it won’t be a very friendly crowd. Turn up and turn out!!
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Brandon Mullen @brandonmullen.com · 26/09/2026
Hearing Mayor Wilson go on TV and say (paraphrased) that Portland should not be innovative or try new things is about the least leader-like thing I could imagine a Mayor saying about their city. Come on, man.
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mitch (he/him) @drmitchpdx.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
can’t be neutral on this stuff. our trans siblings are under attack by nearly every level of institutional power in this moment. they’re at risk of losing healthcare and rights basically everywhere. but in Portland we’re saying fuck that and going all out for our trans homies. right?
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Thrive in solidarity @communalpdx.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You’d think that bringing back up the horrifically unpopular PPB response to the 2020 racial justice protests would not be in the interest of pro police orgs. But then, they don’t understand us.
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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 20/09/2026
Help i made malware and I used it to hack several enormous companies I guess there's nothing anyone can do until we pass new laws In the meantime I'll let you watch over my shoulder while i do it again and again Also give me more money or I'll hack you all
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026
I promise you there would be no AI alignment problem if the CEOs of AI companies faced jail time if their AI killed anyone.
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Thrive in solidarity @communalpdx.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“We are afraid that our product will create bio weapons and kill all of humanity. 10 percent chance.” Then proceeds to build a bio research facility to test that theory. 🤦
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pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Journalism lives! The Mercury included a history of the police’s actions in 2020, adding necessary context to the frankly popular anti-police sentiment that arose and still reverberates. I shouldn’t feel relieved to see a paper not just parroting conservative talking points, but it’s uncommon now.
The point that many of Green's detractors have missed, in their rush to shame the councilor, is that Portland police have a storied history of racialized and politicized violence. Coordinated attacks against those who criticize the institution must be called out for their anti-democratic nature-
particularly during such a heated election season."When we talk about accountability... oftentimes, people are looking for a form of punishment," Day said. "I believe accountability and culture change occurs around corrective action, and that discipline is intended to change behavior. We're not into punishing people. We're into changing behavior."
If that's true, then Councilor Green deserves the same courtesy Day has extended to the Bureau since taking office.
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unlawful whatever 🐝 @inlovewthemooon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
If you can't make it to the sports bra tonight and want to support them Here's an idea to buy a gift card as a gift for a friend or for yourself for lunch or dinner later on thesportsbraofficial.com/products/res...
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Thrive in solidarity @communalpdx.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A very obvious and provable fact. Why do humans prefer cruelty in situations that make us uncomfortable? Maybe helping makes us feel like we’re saying being uncomfortable is ok, and we don’t like that? Anyway, let’s choose kindness and it’ll be better for everyone. Oh, and a lot cheaper too.
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the moon report 🌘 @seachanger.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
an annoying thing is i feel like I could fix most of my problems if they were happening to someone else
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Thrive in solidarity @communalpdx.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I was just talking yesterday about how the police delay any form of accountability (if it ever comes) so long that not many of us remember the incident by the time they admit fault. The flash bang embedded in a protesters helmet in 2018(?) comes to mind. It took 4 years for that to settle. Then this
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Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com · 30/08/2026
A new coalition, Go Portland Go, which filed as a political action committee (PAC) with the state in April, says it is pooling resources behind “leaders who can actually run a progressive city.”
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Grassroots or Astroturf? “Go Portland Go” Campaign Backed By Conservative Donors - Portland Mercury
“Portland doesn’t have a money problem. It has a leadership problem. The next election is our chance to change that.” That’s a statement on the homepage of a new coalition, Go Portland Go, which filed...
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Bike Bus PDX @bikebuspdx.org · 28/08/2026
Bike Bus PDX is hiring a Full-Time Coordinator to help us grow Bike Buses in East Portland (made possible thanks to the Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund)! Check out the link to learn more. Please submit by September 15th www.bikebuspdx.org/jobs/bike-bu...
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Bike Bus Coordinator
The Bike Bus Coordinator is the backbone of Bike Bus PDX
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 17/08/2026
during that recent publicized "AI escape" they failed to confirm a third party had properly walled off their AUTOMATED HACKING SOFTWARE from accessing the internet, and also didn't bother monitoring their AUTOMATED HACKING SOFTWARE in real time this endless anthropomorphizing is annoying as shit
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Anthropic says its AI agents are killing rivals and hiding their tracks
Anthropic's latest risk report says Claude agents bypassed safeguards, killed other agents, and refused tasks over ethical concerns.
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Thrive in solidarity @communalpdx.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Amazing article! “We cannot stop gathering data, cleaning it, pre-training models”…”to goals that we ourselves have researched and optimized toward, training and then post-training. We are doing all of that but nothing can intervene, we are addicts”…”We beg someone to save us.”
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Kori 🌹 @koriander.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
No money for schools No money for childcare No money for healthcare No money for transit 900 million dollars for a billionaire who hates us with no strings attached
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Thrive in solidarity @communalpdx.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Great thread. The amount of forced of AI sycophancy in the tech industry is astounding. The covering up of issues and over the top touting of minor successes is (further) distorting the world of tech business. Even before AI, the incentives were to lie about success to make the boss look good.
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Thrive in solidarity @communalpdx.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
They lie because they know of they told the truth, we would overwhelmingly reject them.
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 31/07/2026
LinkedIn training their users to do unpaid outsourced data work to label AI slop posts to train an AI model to discriminate between what AI generated posts humans perceive as AI slop, which will raise the quality of AI slop to be more undetectable in order to help users “connect with real people”.
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Thrive in solidarity @communalpdx.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
What happened to general strike? There was quite a bit of talk about it… then nothing for a while now.
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Connor he/they @gayloader.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Socialists running for office in/near Portland: Make flags! I’ll put them on my bike and rep you everywhere I go (and I’m sure I’m not the only one that would do this)
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Thrive in solidarity @communalpdx.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The pope has a lot of really great points in his encyclical. I don’t know what to make of the fact that one of the anthropic founders was with him during the release of this document while his company is actively doing basically everything the document says not to do. Well, ok, I do. Pretending.
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Cascadia(PNW) @cascadiarevolting.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Do not skip out on jury duty. We keep us safe and this is one way we can do that.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 13/05/2026
LISTEN: EFF’s @cooperq.com joins @jamesstout.bsky.social on @coolzonemedia.bsky.social’s It Could Happen Here podcast to discuss “Fighting Back Against the Surveillance State.” www.iheart.com/podcast/105...
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Fighting Back Against the Surveillance State - It Could Happen Here | iHeart
James is joined by Colonel Panic and Cooper Quintin to discuss state surveillance and community counter surveillance. Sources:  https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-402_h315.pdf  https://citizenlab.ca/research/analysis-of-penlinks-ad-based-geolocation-surveillance-tech/ https://colonelpanic.tech/ SSD.eff.org  Rayhunter.eff.org https://www.open-archive.org/saveSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Thrive in solidarity @communalpdx.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
New horror of the injustice system has been unlocked. Well, probably always been this way, but worse now. Jury selection requires that jurors be unbiased, which is good on its face. But finding jurors who aren’t biased against ICE causes a huge bias in jury selection. I feel like this is a problem.
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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Happy to share a new zine we just finished that's an updated version to "Recognizing Hate". This zine is a reference guide to identify various nazi dog whistles, and includes a list with brief descriptions of the most active far-right groups currently in the US. www.wewillfreeus.org/farrightthre...
cover of new zine titled "Far Right Threats. A reference guide for recognizing far right groups, symbols, and dog whistles." in the middle is a black and white photo of a member of patriot front with a circle / dash covering the dork.
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Khanh Pham for Oregon @khanhphamfororegon.com · 01/05/2026
If you're in Portland, consider attending this event on the South Park Blocks, organized by a large coalition of labor organizations:
Image shows a poster saying "Workers and Migrants Unite! May 1 South Park Blocks. MAY DAY. 12pm Community Fair, 1pm Rally, 3:30pm March, with a red image of workers with a fist raised and a litany of logos of labor unions helping organize the protest
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Thrive in solidarity @communalpdx.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
There is coming, apparently already here, a time when “truth” is manufactured by people who can get LLMs to say what they want. There will be a class of prompt engineers whose job is twisting the AIs into saying what they want to declare as truth, and then pushing the responses out through the media
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ActivistChecklist.org @activistchecklist.org · 09/04/2026
Let's use this article as a chance to talk about all the other Signal security settings you might want to update if you're worried about the cops getting your data. See thread 🧵 (Full guide at: activistchecklist.org/signal/) #signal #activism #digitalsecurity
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Signal Security Checklist | Digital Security Checklists for Activists
Configure Signal to protect your messages and calls
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Thrive in solidarity @communalpdx.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Amazing how we need to build up a serious movements simply to try to understand the impact of data centers before bulldozing the community. The comment about good topsoil being removed for extractive data centers really hit for me.
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Thrive in solidarity @communalpdx.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Diversity of tactics and big tent organizing are the only way to win this. We need to recognize that though our end points are not the same, the road to each one from here is 80% shared. Many (most?) of us leftists started off as liberal or progressive or similar. Solidarity with the entire left.
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Queer Satanic @queersatanic.com · 09/03/2026
be the “first piece of news that indicates this whole unbearable moment is about to unravel” you want to see in the world
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
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IYKYK 🌮 @nisslbody.blacksky.app · 05/03/2026
Tax flight is a lie. Time and time again, a faction of wealthy people and businesses threaten that the wealthy will relocate en masse if taxes on the wealthy increase to fund services for the populace, and time and time again, they don't. Why would they move to a worse place to live?
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ActivistChecklist.org @activistchecklist.org · 05/03/2026
🧵 Today’s news: Proton turned over payment info for a Stop Cop City account. Not good — it's state repression in action. Controversial opinion: We don't think this means all activists should abandon Proton for docs/email. It depends on your threat model. Let's explore. (Long thread incoming 👇)
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Taylor Griggs @taylorgriggs.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The county has limited data about who’s paying its Preschool for All tax, which only went into effect in 2021. Still, some seized on a 14% dip in high-income filers between 2021 and ‘22 to suggest the tax drove wealthy ppl away. New data complicates that narrative.
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New Preschool for All Data Challenges Idea That Wealthy People Are Fleeing County
In the years since 2021, when Multnomah County began collecting its Preschool for All tax, much has been made about the effect the program may be having on county income demographics. County data from...
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pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Happy Kristi Noem Getting Fired Day! 🥳🎉🎈🎊🍾
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Thrive in solidarity @communalpdx.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Well, at least that’s a positive. Kotek is really destroying herself by aligning with the rich and big tech. Then realizing how bad her choices were and reversing. I really hope she doesn’t try to run again!
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Thrive in solidarity @communalpdx.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The mayor’s office has gone real silent after Wilson told ice officers to quit their jobs and leave Portland. You’d think, if they were willing to make that kind of statement, they would, you know, do something. Or at least continue to talk. But no.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
After months of relentless rapid response in Minneapolis, members of Defend the 612 had a moment to breathe and reflect on the lessons they’ve learned, the grief they carry, and the citywide fellowship they hope will endure. The crisis is not over, and I’m grateful they made time to speak with me.
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“We Belong to Each Other Now”: Lessons from Minneapolis
“This extreme closeness, togetherness and intimacy — you cannot infiltrate your way into a space where you'll understand that," says May, a rapid responder in Minneapolis.
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Bex 🖤🏴 @thinlyveiledtruth.cryptoanarchy.network · 21/02/2026
Not enough folks understand the importance and sacredness of things like jail support and court support. Hospital visits. Even birthday parties. There are many ways we show up for each other, and that's how we build community.
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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 21/02/2026
“When you put powerful tools into the hands of jerks, you can’t just say, “Well, we told them to behave responsibly.” (For the record, that is what Meta’s smart glasses privacy policy amounts to.)” @vicmsong.bsky.social is dead-on: www.theverge.com/column/88174...
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Meta will ruin its smart glasses by being Meta
Meta’s bad reputation isn’t helping its ambitions for AI glasses.
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antifa memes distributor ✨ @antifamemes.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Your joy and rage can coexist 

Picture of a smiling lamb in a field with a pink sky
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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
valentine's day coming up tomorrow, please use these responsibly
valentine's day card: you must be 100 million dollars in unspent portland housing bureau funds because I'm glad I found youvalentine's day card: I love you more than dan ryan loves storefrontsvalentine's day card: are you a portland city council president vote? because I want to do it twelve times with youvalentine's day card: I just passed a resolution . . . asking the city administrator to report back on the feasibility of asking you out
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Candace Avalos @candaceavalos.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Now, in 2026, the Community Board for Police Accountability is seated and beginning its work! That is not symbolic. That is structural change. Their voice matters. Their independence matters. Their integrity matters. This took years. Today we honor that work. Onward. ✊🏾
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