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Damon Motz-Storey

@damonmotzstorey.bsky.social
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Director of the Oregon Chapter of the Sierra Club. Artist & advocate dedicated to environmental, climate, and racial justice. Views here are my own.

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Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
We spent the past month (months?) talking w/ protesters detained at Portland's ICE bldg about their experiences. We heard everything from being questioned about antifa, to not being read Miranda rights, to photos w/ arresting officers. Their stories point to a slapdash, chaotic federal operation:
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Those arrested at Portland ICE protests recount disparate, confusing treatment by federal officers
OPB interviewed more than a dozen people who were arrested at the ICE protests between June and October. What they described was an apparent lack of standard operating procedures as various federal la...
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Kori 🌹 @koriander.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Flyer for rally in defense of BAT lanes on 82nd avenue
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BikePortland @bikeportland.org · 18/09/2025
City Councilor Tiffany Koyama Lane succeeded on many fronts last night: she made good on a campaign promise, she strengthened the city’s commitment to road safety, and she earned unanimous support from all of her colleagues in passing her Vision Zero resolution. bikeportland.org/2025/09/18/w...
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With unanimous support, Portland reaffirms commitment to Vision Zero
Portland City Councilor Tiffany Koyama Lane succeeded on many fronts last night.
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Steph Routh (she/they) @stephrouth.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Have you taken a moment to comment in support of the Roadless Rule? Now is a good time (due Sept. 19)! Learn more, get sample language, and share your thoughts. Thanks to @orsierraclub.bsky.social, the Oregon Trails Coalition, and many other groups. www.oregontrailscoalition.org/post/roadles...
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Protect Roadless Areas: Submit Comments and Contact Congress!
Last week the Trump Administration formally announced its intention to roll back longstanding protections for Inventoried Roadless Areas in National Forests.The U.S. Department of Agriculture will acc...
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Damon Motz-Storey @damonmotzstorey.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
there's something so special and precious about September rain in Portland 😊
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amb @amb.fyi · 15/07/2025
water's getting more and more scarce, and it seems an awful lot of politicians are going to prioritize giving the water to these thirsty machines instead of to people www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/t...
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Their Water Taps Ran Dry When Meta Built Next Door
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OPB @opb.org · 16/07/2025
After two weeks in custody, four Portland children have been released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Their parents are still being held.
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Immigration officials release Portland children detained near border
The children had new passports and were presumably preparing for a flight out of the U.S., according to a family friend.
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Damon Motz-Storey @damonmotzstorey.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
East Portland stays winning because tonight I found a taco truck in a parking lot that isn't on Google and the wonderful folks there sold me four tacos for $4 and they were SO GOOD
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Councilor Candace Avalos @counciloravalos.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
To my LGBTQ+ neighbors in District 1: you make our community stronger, more vibrant, and more beautiful every single day. 🏳️‍🌈 Pride month reminds us that celebration and action go hand in hand. Keep shining! ✨🌈 #Pride2025 #LoveWins
Councilor Avalos in front of the Progress Pride Flag, wishing everyone a fantastic and fabulous Pride Month.
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Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
ICE has brought its new tactic of moving to dismiss cases & detaining people to PDX. One person was taken yesterday but others were not because they were informed of their options in time. Please spread this updated KYR training from PIRC & allied groups far and wide. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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ECO, CLEAR, PIRC KYR when going to court.docx
KYR when going to Immigration Court ICE has been moving to terminate cases, then arresting people who have their cases terminated. This is not legal advice but it is useful information to help you ma...
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pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
“We needed to create a stir to get some change, to get them [city council] to fund us back up. And I mean, that’s the honest truth. I know, that could make things more dangerous. I don’t know. But at the same time, we needed some change.” Incredible reporting from @bikeportland.org
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Asylum Seeker Solidarity Collective PDX @solidaridadpdx.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
After ICE showed up at PDX immigration court yesterday, many families missed court today- terrified of family separation, months of imprisonment in inhumane conditions, &deportation. Sadly missing court often = deportation order. Damned if you do comply with your legal process, damned if you don't.
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Councilor Sameer Kanal @councilorkanal.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Deciding not to increase the police budget isn’t the same thing as cutting the police budget, and characterizing it as such is disingenuous. In a year of shared sacrifice, let’s also work to save the things that are the difference between surviving and thriving. #PDXBudget #Uncrease
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Councilor Sameer Kanal @councilorkanal.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Portlanders care deeply about their parks. They don’t want rotting picnic tables, dirty restrooms and overgrown weeds. Parks maintenance, however, will be severely cut unless we can find ways to stop the bleeding.
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pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
The reviews are in ✨
Screenshot of a message that says “when you got Novick to move his vote on parks not police o think I fell head over heels just saying”
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Candace Avalos @candaceavalos.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
The hysteria around uncreasing a budget over $300m by a measley $2m to literally save our parks from deteriorating is very cringe. Police staffing literally doesn't change and they received their base budget plus their COLA. They will be fine for one year while we protect our parks from closing! 🫠
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Taylor Griggs @taylorgriggs.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Regardless of how people feel about the decision to reallocate a proposed $2 million police budget increase to parks, can’t we just agree on what “defunding” means? The police budget will remain static. If language has meaning, that’s not what “defund” means.
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Jenn Chávez @jennchavez.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
This is a sad loss. I interviewed Dan for many stories abt local police issues when I was reporting for community radio (I think he was on the 1st episode of my XRAY show). His knowledge of the topic was truly encyclopedic, unmatched. His newsletter The People’s Police Report dates back to ‘93! RIP
oregonlive.com
Portland’s toughest police critic, Dan Handelman, dies at 60
The “brave steward of police reform” had nudged mayors from Vera Katz to Keith Wilson.
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
This isn't The Art of the Deal. It's insider trading with a bad comb-over. Step 1: Tank the Market, Scare the Non-Millionaires Step 2: Let the Aristocrats Feast Step 3: Flip, but say ‘Winning’ Step 4: Pretend None of This Ever Happened & Get Your Media Dregs To Do The Same Rinse, Enrich, Repeat.
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Damon Motz-Storey @damonmotzstorey.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
OK but hear me out, Rebecca Black's new album is unironically fantastic
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Whoaaaaa
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Senator Khanh Pham @senkhanhpham.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Freezing temperatures pose a critical threat to people living outside throughout the state. I hope you & your families are staying safe and warm, and I'm looking forward to our hearing on severe weather emergency sheltering at the Senate Housing Committee: olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/C...
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Housing and Development Senate 2025 Regular Session - Oregon Legislative Information System
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Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I have just submitted into E-Council a draft resolution co-sponsored with @councilormorillo.bsky.social that directs the Mayor to investigate violations of Zenith's franchise agreement, initiates council oversight of staff, and pauses open permits pending these investigations.
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Damon Motz-Storey @damonmotzstorey.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Let's save the trees together! Come by on Wednesday, and/or send in a comment to the City of Portland about it. 🌲🌲⬇️⬇️ We can route the wires another way that won't kill Oregon white oak stands that are hundreds of years old.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” -Angela Davis Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis. "If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory." --Angela Davis
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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
By Phoebe Wahl: powertotheposter.com/posters/abol...
No more detention. No more deportations. Abolish ice
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Damon Motz-Storey @damonmotzstorey.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
don't use generative AI. Just don't do it. Don't use it to mock up a quick lil' logo for your meeting presentation. Don't use it to write your emails for you. It's not good quality, it's regurgitated slop, and it has horrible real-world consequences on energy and water use. Using it is reprehensible
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 28/01/2025
Many Alaskans say they’ll never stop calling the mountain Denali. That name respects the Indigenous people who’ve lived in its shadows for thousands of years.
oregonlive.com
Alaskans scoff at President Trump’s order renaming Denali
Many Alaskans say they’ll never stop calling the mountain Denali. That name respects the Indigenous people who’ve lived in its shadows for thousands of years. But Ohioans think McKinley “was a great president.”
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
PEPFAR funding has been suspended as part of Trump’s pause on foreign aid. It’s a terrible and much-feared scenario and happened even before RFK is confirmed. I wrote a bit in November about what that will mean. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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RFK Jr. has made false and dangerous claims about AIDS. That could become a global problem.
Will the United States abandon lifesaving efforts to research and fight the virus?
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Matt Boswell @mattboswellpnw.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
A lawsuit around “religious liberty” I can feel good about…
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Quaker groups file suit over the end of policy restricting ICE arrests in houses of worship
The suit appears to be the first from a faith-based organization challenging the change in court.
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Damon Motz-Storey @damonmotzstorey.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I have always been very proud of being a Quaker because our congregations and institutions regularly do things like this:
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Damon Motz-Storey @damonmotzstorey.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Elon Musk inherited money from African blood emeralds. Newspapers have described his style as "autocratic". He has had 12 kids and three wives and three divorces. He boosts far-right candidates with campaign funds and publicity - and was the #1 donor to Trump campaign. He is a fascist, full stop.
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Damon Motz-Storey @damonmotzstorey.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
New Orleans just got the most snow they've ever had since 1889. We are deep into the era of climate change.
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Sierra Club @sierraclub.org · 11/01/2025
It is not looking good for DOGE that its leader and Shadow President Elon Musk does not understand the simple fact that the Sierra Club does not receive any government funding… but we do appreciate his past support!
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Damon Motz-Storey @damonmotzstorey.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Portland should reject PGE's proposal to cut 370+ trees, most over 150 years old, to build a transmission line when there are alternative route options. You cannot mitigate the damage of killing a 500-year-old tree. Save the ancient trees. Find another way. www.oregonlive.com/environment/...
oregonlive.com
Forest Park would lose more than 370 trees in PGE transmission upgrade
The tree loss has spurred opposition from conservation groups, while PGE says the upgrade will address a transmission bottleneck in Portland.
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Nat @gnatalie.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Got interviewed on my post-election Portland organizing thoughts - an honor to be quoted alongside movement icons like @damonmotzstorey.bsky.social & @ecosozialismus.bsky.social. Powerful that across issues, Portlanders are preparing to defend our communities www.portlandmercury.com/news/2024/12...
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Disillusioned, But Determined: Portland Activists Plot a Path Forward As Second Trump Term Looms
“I’m regularly asked two questions, almost daily, since I started a year ago,” said Portland Police Chief Bob Day at a press conference on November 1. “What’s gonna happen on election day? What’s gonn...
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Erik Schlenker-Goodrich @riogranderift.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
A key cost of "all-of-the-above energy abundance" is human health. sourcenm.com/2022/06/30/i...
Screenshot of text from linked article stating: "In New Mexico, the second-largest oil-producing state in the U.S., residents’ proximity to oil and gas facilities has become a growing public health concern.

According to the Oil and Gas Threat Map by the nonprofits FracTracker Alliance and Earthworks, over 144,000 people in New Mexico live within a half-mile of an oil and gas facility. That number includes 20% of the state’s Indigenous residents.

This “threat radius” is correlated with adverse health outcomes, including cancer, respiratory illness, fetal defects, blood disorders, and neurological problems stemming from chemicals associated with oil and gas production. 

“There are billowing clouds of methane and toxics like benzene from pretty much every oil and gas facility,” said Earthwork’s Information Systems Director Alan Septoff during a presentation of the updated map. 

Pollutants from more than 62,000 oil and gas facilities in New Mexico include the carcinogen benzene, hydrogen sulfide (similar in toxicity to carbon monoxide), and “volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that can contribute to the formation of ground-level ozone (smog),” according to the EPA. 

A spokesperson from the New Mexico Environment Department confirmed oil and gas activities impact the health of people living nearby. “The most widespread reported symptoms include respiratory problems like asthma and coughing, eye, nose, and throat irritation, headaches, nausea, dizziness, trouble sleeping, and fatigue,” spokesperson Mathew Maez wrote in an email.

According to the American Lung Association, the four major oil- and gas-producing counties in New Mexico received failing grades for high ozone days."
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Damon Motz-Storey @damonmotzstorey.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
it's my birthday today! Just turned 31 (a cool prime number 🤓) I like hearing from friends and family on my bday. Send me a note via direct message if you'd like to share a story or memory, I love reading them! ❤️🎉
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
America: a country where white men can still kill unarmed Black people and walk away without accountability. apnews.com/article/dani...
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Veteran Daniel Penny is acquitted in NYC subway chokehold case over Jordan Neely's death
A Marine veteran who put Jordan Neely in a chokehold on a New York subway has been acquitted in the man’s death.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Don't assume maximalist outcomes for the Trump administration. That's a form of psychological surrender. We should attempt to exploit every stumble, failure, and misstep, and there will be stumbles, failures, and missteps.
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Ryan Haas @ryanjhaas.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Last month, I fell down an absolutely bizarre rabbit hole trying to figure out who was ripping off articles from Oregon journalists. What I found was identity theft, plagiarism and an absolutely terrifying future for local journalism led by AI scammers. My latest:
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AI slop is already invading Oregon’s local journalism
The Ashland Daily Tidings — established as a newspaper in 1876 — ceased operations in 2023, but if you were a local reader, you may not have known because of an elaborate scam using artificial intelli...
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Damon Motz-Storey @damonmotzstorey.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Essential reporting from real human reporter @ryanjhaas.bsky.social about how important real human reporters are in the rapidly accelerating age of unregulated AI slop. Thanks and feeling good about being an @opb.bsky.social member today! www.opb.org/article/2024...
opb.org
AI slop is already invading Oregon’s local journalism
The Ashland Daily Tidings — established as a newspaper in 1876 — ceased operations in 2023, but if you were a local reader, you may not have known because of an elaborate scam using artificial intelli...
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Disney Prime Video + ᵖᵃʳᵒᵈʸ @disneyprimevideo.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Rural Juror #2 (2024)
Justin Kemp (Nicolas Hoult) and Constance Justice (Jenna Maroney) are plural jurors who endure unsure furor in one of those courtroom movies where they figure it out at the last second through a series of audio flashbacks that they didnt need to do for you to get it.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
This is one of the slides from my marine CO₂ removal (mCDR) talk. People think the ocean has the capacity for additional CO₂ removal because there's a lot of surface area for air-sea gas exchange. This view also shows the location of my home. 🌊
A view of the Earth centered on a location south of Hawaiʻi in the Pacific Ocean, highlighting the vast blue ocean. The text above states, "The ocean is a big contactor."
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Damon Motz-Storey @damonmotzstorey.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Zenith has for years been trying to sneak around state environmental regulators and Portland's ban on new or expanded bulk fossil fuel terminals. There is no benefit to the public from this Texas oil transfer station. It's time for Portland City Council to deny Zenith's land use application.
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