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Donovan Scribes @donovanscribes.bsky.social · 59m

I’ve learned a lot since becoming a columnist…here are 3 of them 🚨SPOILER ALERT: One is that some of yall don’t really be reading like you pretend 😂 #blackwriters #portland #news

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Jessica Vega Pederson @jvegapederson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is an incredible opportunity to help improve and modernize Multnomah County for the future by shaping our local constitution, known as our charter. Applications to join the Charter Review Committee close soon on October 8th. Learn more and apply today!

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Be the change! Help improve Multnomah County! Apply by Oct. 8 to serve on the next Charter Review Committee

Every six years, Multnomah County residents have an opportunity to change the County’s governing charter. The County is recruiting members now for the 2028 Charter Review Committee.

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Donovan Scribes @donovanscribes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The more access I get, the greater appreciation I have for “fame” or accolades without heirs. The less appreciation I have for delusions of grandeur or foul behavior, simply becaz pedestals folks happened to find themselves put on along the way

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Donovan Scribes @donovanscribes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Journalism is taking a hit right now. But storytelling will FOREVER matter. We gotta invest in the stories we want to be told. Clicks, follows, comments subscriptions are investments today. What we invest in today, will determine the stories of tomorrow.

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Donovan Scribes @donovanscribes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A week of extraordinary confirmations.

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Donovan Scribes @donovanscribes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Read before commenting” - A Writers’ Proverb

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Donovan Scribes @donovanscribes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Vancouver waterfront’s not bad..

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Donovan Scribes @donovanscribes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Thanks for watching / sharing 🙏🏾

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Donovan Scribes @donovanscribes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Spoke to Bruce Poinsette about my thoughts on the Mitch Green tweet “fallout” the Macklemore backlash and the Governor’s race. Tap in youtu.be/1dhXs3AoAWs?...

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Macklemore and Mitch Green's White Guy Blowback + Latest Gov. Race Poll Reaction w/Donovan Scribes

YouTube video by Black Oregon POV

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Donovan Scribes @donovanscribes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Being a writer, and being a parent, with little time and little brain space means every time you hit publish in a mini miracle

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Donovan Scribes @donovanscribes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I love these lyric breakdowns different creators have been doing with hip-hop. Stripping the beat, and just focusing on the words shows the ways some rappers’ poetry could be in a museum

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Donovan Scribes @donovanscribes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This “Alphabet Boys“ podcast by Trevor Aaronson is 🧑🏾‍🍳🤌🏾

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Donovan Scribes @donovanscribes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Popular Black figures’ leftist thoughts are treated as an AFTERTHOUGHT in the mainstream, as if the center of Black political thought has been somewhere between “can’t we all just get along” and ”maybe one day you can be President”

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Donovan Scribes @donovanscribes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I had avoided the details of the Nolan Wells case until I was at NABJ and heard his family speak first hand. The way this went down was corrupt. My heart goes out to that family.

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Donovan Scribes @donovanscribes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ron Desantis is joining Christine Drazan to help push her over the line for Governor in Oregon. This is supposed to be the “moderate” Republican mind you. She’s been distancing her self from Trump. The whole time, DeSantis’ whole bit was just being Trump in a different suit.

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Donovan Scribes @donovanscribes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I genuinely am curious how many folks in media have read The New Jim Crow By Michelle Alexander. The opening of it, it’s a huge piece of why it’s so compelling. She, believed like so many others that the criminal legal system was fundamentally working on some level. Research showed a diff reality.

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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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Donovan Scribes @donovanscribes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

How famous someone is not an indication of the quality of their art nor their political acumen. At all.

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Donovan Scribes @donovanscribes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Endless funding for police despite low clearance rates, high disparity rates, regular infractions and a pattern of rejection to oversight is hardly ever treated as controversial by mainstream press. The “compromise” line is set at training, body cameras, and rubbing elbows with the community.

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Donovan Scribes @donovanscribes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Vince Staples “Cry Baby” is easily getting the most replay in my house this year. Even got the babies dancing to it

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Donovan Scribes @donovanscribes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I didn’t always vote. Bet I do now. Not filling out that little piece a paper called a ballot being treated as “resistance” is one of the greatest tricks that’s ever been pushed on us. Voting isn’t revolutionary, but it’s definitely consequential. sos.oregon.gov/elections/pa...

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Oregon Secretary of State : My Vote : State of Oregon

Find your elected officials, your ballot status, ballot drop sites, voting instructions and update your personal information such as address or political party.

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Donovan Scribes @donovanscribes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

i just found out it was the Emmys yesterday, not the Oscar’s. yet still, the same point 😂

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Donovan Scribes @donovanscribes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I never know when the Oscars are happening. It just materializes on my timeline

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Donovan Scribes @donovanscribes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Every Oregonian should know the work of Beatrice Cannady. Co-founder of Portland NAACP. First Black woman to graduate from law school, run for office & so much more. Helmed a paper called The Advocate, stood 10 toes against the Klan and hosted interracial teas in her home. She was a boss.

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Donovan Scribes @donovanscribes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Are there any Black vintage stores. Not stores with a buncha old racist memorabilia, but just cool / weird shit people have collected over the years?

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Donovan Scribes @donovanscribes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The rose that grew from the concrete is still one of the most poignant poetic and forever relevant metaphors that I’ve ever heard. RIP 2pac

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Donovan Scribes @donovanscribes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Saw a dude repping a Charlie Kirk shirt, with a whole quote and his wife in a full star spangled banner shirt and knew it was my cue to go

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Donovan Scribes @donovanscribes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Black people have been in every corner of Oregon. From the beginning. Doing everything from praiseworthy to the not so praiseworthy, and the degree that it all gets obscured as part of the larger story of the state is wild. yeah, Oregon banned Black ppl from being here. But the story is so much more

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Donovan Scribes @donovanscribes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

What a world it would be if mainstream media started grilling establishment candidates about their commitment to late stage capitalism with the same controversial tenor given to progressive candidates about pivoting from decades of reinforcing policies that built the world we are living in today

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OPB @opb.org · 09/09/2026

Gov. Tina Kotek appeared at an anti-data center rally outside the Capitol building in Salem, supporting calls for lawmakers to pass a temporary data center ban when they convene next year.

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Gov. Tina Kotek says she now supports a data center moratorium

The governor is escalating her stance on the facilities as they emerge as a political hot potato.

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Donovan Scribes @donovanscribes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Newest latest w Chris Smalls. We talk renters’ rights, Amazon, connecting struggles in Palestine, and if we should use climate money for hiring more cops 👀 - read below ⬇️

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Donovan Scribes @donovanscribes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“Police say,” being treated as gospel in media in 2026 is wild.

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Donovan Scribes @donovanscribes.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

That moment when it all clicks into place 🧱🧱🧱

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Donovan Scribes @donovanscribes.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

AI companies getting us to adopt the language “hallucination” rather than ”glitch” or “malfunction” or simply that the “product is still being tested out on y’all” only serves to pretend that AI is conscious rather than a highly consequential product being pushed on the masses right now

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Donovan Scribes @donovanscribes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The National Association of Black Journalists conference poured into me more than I ever could have imagined. Thank you ATL.

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