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Councilor Sameer Kanal @councilorkanal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Today is the 20th anniversary of the death of James Chasse. Chasse was beaten to death by Portland Police in the Pearl District despite not posing a threat. Having broken 16 of his ribs, they took him to jail instead of a hospital at first, and only after the jail declined to admit him due to ...

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Babka @dibabka.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the State of Oregon continues to endorse an official policy that incarcerated trans women should be subject to sexual abuse, which was upheld by 3 Trump-appointed judges

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pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Perhaps Mr. Schmautz is talking about another bureau where people get fired for bad behavior? I recall Mark Kruger, known Nazi, working at PPB for decades before retiring happily. More recently an officer told a protestor he would’ve also shot Renee Good. He got some training, is back on the force.

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Babka @dibabka.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

lmaoo at the idea that PPB officers would be punished for saying anything. bruh they put this in an official training

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Babka @dibabka.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

brb filing a discrimination complaint that the i5 closure is starting on erev rosh hashanah

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Babka @dibabka.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

so i filed a complaint with MultCo Animal Services and they did ‘education’ with the owner since it was a 1st complaint for that dog. i asked how many complaints to go beyond ‘education’ and the MCAS officer said THEY HAVE NO POLICY and a dog has to bite someone before they do anything. importantly-

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Babka @dibabka.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

ok i admit i do not go to pools often but is this a common sign???

notice: persons having currently active diarrhea or who have had it in the past 14 days shall not be allowed to enter the pool water

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Babka @dibabka.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

i have been SLEEPING on the fact that Oregon dropped new network adequacy rules that went into effect at the end of June. i’m about to send so many complaints to DFR about insurance carriers because not a single one is in compliance

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Babka @dibabka.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

trimet driver: sorry i got distracted doing sidequests

line 14 bus (supposed to arrive ~every 15 mins) that was delayed 213 minutes but promises it will be here in just 6 minutes bro

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Pabst Boo Ronin @pabstblueronin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

After seeing @spindlypete.bsky.social make the connection, I am fully locked in and on the hunt for more parallel images

Trump and Natalie making the same face. sadly they are perpendicular

bluth sr. and kitty laughing the same way

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Babka @dibabka.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

today me and my partner got attacked by an off leash dog in sunnyside, and when i looked up the owner it turns out she’s the executive director of Portland’5 Centers for the Arts anyways, if you walk around se 38th and taylor, watch out for this woman and her large, aggressive, uncontrolled dog

picture of a woman with dark curly hair in an empty theater, captioned:

Rachael Lembo
she/her
Executive Director

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No More Freeways @nomorefreewayspdx.com · 14/08/2026

please please please please take this survey and tell the legislature/odot that you want to see public transit, street safety and road maintenance prioritized over needless billions towards freeway expansion. www.cognitoforms.com/ODOT2/ROTVSu...

cognitoforms.com

Rebuilding Our Transportation Vision Survey

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Babka @dibabka.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

and then there’s graydon saunders, who just stuck a railgun-based military into a hard fantasy world lol

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Babka @dibabka.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

i accidentally got my insurance to approve paying for a BBL that i’m not sure i want, and to be honest that’s not something i realized was possible to happen lmao

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Juan C Chavez @inafutureage.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The second you’re in Prison Blues any platitude you heard from Oregon politicians about trans rights goes out the window.

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Babka @dibabka.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

all Oregonians should demand that @tinakotek.bsky.social and @agdanrayfield.bsky.social stake out public positions on this (though it seems that Rayfield already has taken the pro-rape position)

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Babka @dibabka.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

this is an outrageously corrupt decision by Vega Pederson and in a functional political system would result in an immediate recall

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amb @amb.fyi · 06/08/2026

unfathomable that the city is being asked to hand over four hundred million bucks with virtually no information on what the blazers are planning to spend it on - and that the loudest proponents of the deal are the councilors and business leaders who otherwise complain the city is poorly managed

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Babka @dibabka.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

if Dunphy said this as a board member of a corporation (either nonprofit or for profit) it would be grounds for dismissal AND criminal charges for gross negligence and as a breach of fiduciary responsibility

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the spicy curry from super smash bros brawl @adultspiceman.northsky.social · 05/08/2026

My neighbor told me progressives keep eating centrist candidates in primaries and so I asked how much his centrist PACs are spending and he said oh just a couple dozen mil every primary so I said it sounds like he's just feeding billions to broadcast TV networks and then his daughter started crying.

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Babka @dibabka.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

hell yeah. don’t mess with pcef

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Babka @dibabka.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

just remembered the time a bunch of oregon public officials asked the PNWYLF to cancel a protest. that might’ve been peak 2020 for me lol

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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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Babka @dibabka.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

random twitter user after reading the book of exodus: pharaoh actually did have some good ideas

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Babka @dibabka.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

these are the people asking for $600 million of public dollars? maybe we need to put an actionable values clause in the term sheet

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Babka @dibabka.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

this is horseshit. deny the raise. they just adjusted their rates last month!! PGE is only trying to absolutely maximize their price gouging before the extremely mild restrictions of the POWER act go into effect next year

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Babka @dibabka.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

a tale of two newspapers

oregonian with super vague wording on what happened

willamette week accurately stating what happened

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Babka @dibabka.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

imagine how bad a businessman has to be to get the Oregonian editorial board, of all people, to castigate him for treating our city with contempt

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Babka @dibabka.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

if bluesky had polls i would make one to decide how big my BA implants should be within the range of 300-425cc but alas

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Babka @dibabka.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

seems about right for oregon. i remember talking to someone from the poor benighted state where you can’t even buy body armor (conn) and he was astounded at how armed the West is

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Babka @dibabka.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

people about whom my girlfriend has said “oh, yeah, she could step on me”: -Rose Villain -Councilor Morillo

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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾‍♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 24/07/2026

We deserved another season of Scavengers Reign

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Babka @dibabka.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

for once in my life i’m not the cuntiest patient in the ohsu waiting room

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Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

A simple proposal curtesy of @dibabka.bsky.social: the police may get up to 25% of the general fund and no more. I think that’s entirely enough! A dept that *wanted* to do an exemplary job with those resources could.

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Cam Schlittler Enthusiast (NYY 2-0) @njstopwonk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

“more muscular military options”

Judith Butler Apology Form
Date:
Reason for behavior:

The media convinced me that feminism was solved in the 1980s

I never actually read their work

I miss not thinking about gender

I didn't realize how much of society is built on gender

I was jealous of their nonbinary swag

Mercury was in retrograde

I will hereby respect Judith Butler
and I will NOT talk down on the best feminist thinker of our lifetimes

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Babka @dibabka.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

we need to call it what it is: PPB has been on an illegal wildcat strike for 6 years. the City Auditor’s office must compel PPB to make an accounting of their time (and the ~600 hours of police overtime that Portland residents pay for EVERY DAY)

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Candace Avalos @candaceavalos.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Just want to remind everyone that the Mayor cut 200 critical jobs which will result in significant service cuts at a time when Portlanders need govt the most, meanwhile he kept 70 vacancies in the police bureau even though per PPB's own staffing report they will NOT fill most of those positions. 🙃

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Babka @dibabka.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

if this is an accurate depiction of Councilor Novick’s statement then his Chief of Staff has been baldly lying to D3 constituents (me). here are the receipts

Thank you for reaching out to share your thoughts. The Councilor wants to be clear that despite what some are saying, the proposal does not defund or delay the work of the OCPA.

What it does is say that if at the end of the fiscal year (spring 2027) OCPA has underspending then that underspending can be used to pay for the proposed restorations. If it does not, other resources could be used, such as PCEF interest as other councilors have suggested. The full $16 million would remain budgeted and available for OCPA this fiscal year, inline with the required 5% of PPB’s budget. Additionally, OCPA will be funded at $16 million (or whatever 5% of PPB is) in next year’s budget. Like other offices and bureaus, they do not bank one year’s budget and then receive an additional $16 million on top of that next year.

In the simplest terms the proposal says to pay for the restorations first through surplus (underspend) before looking at future unallocated funds.

The reason we expect there to be underspend in OCPA is because the office is only now ramping up. They have not yet hired a director or staff. In comparison, the office of Independent Police Review which served a similar role the past few years never spent more than $3 million despite having a staff of 14. Should they need $16 million this year it will still be available to them.

This proposal will not delay or defund the OCPA in anyway. Portlander’s voted for police accountability and we will deliver it to them. As Chair of the Community and Public Safety Committee, Councilor Novick is committed to making that happen.

Best,

Spencer Knowles
Chief of Staff
Councilor Novick (D3)

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 15/07/2026

Speaking as a guy who became an accidental lobbying watchdog, who looks at city lobbying data on the regular, and who has read up on the history of ESDs in Portland, this just looks like a way to fund more business lobbying. My advice is don’t do it. Don’t make another Enhanced Services District

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Authorize agreement with Historic Parkrose for management services of the Parkrose Forward Enhanced Services District for an estimated amount of $3,876,970 over five years

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Babka @dibabka.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

PPB continues to be an actively racist organization, exhibit ♾️

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Babka @dibabka.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

“oh this? it’s for personal use”

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amb @amb.fyi · 13/07/2026

100 years ago Oregon Electric ran 33 trains a day between Portland and Salem

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Kori 🌹 @koriander.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

They are straight up refusing to work because they are still mad about 2020 Response times are completely decoupled from call volume or hire rate www.portlandforall.org/publicsafety

Portland for all graphic showing an explosive increase in call response time from police despite call to officer ratio staying flat, and call volume shrinking

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

NOW PRESENTING ON THE OCCASION OF IT’S 250th ANNIVERSARY: THE HISTORY OF AMERICA (as told in Japan in 1851):

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