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Will Thorne @wbthorne.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If you like this work, it and two other working papers on rent control are on my website and a re-post would be helpful for my job market search!

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I reviewed Chuck Klosterman’s book on American football and couldn’t get past the dishonesty about the nature of the game to even accept his premise of its future www.thenation.com/article/cult...

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Brandon Mullen @brandonmullen.com · 24/09/2026

Councilor Clark saying progressives "don’t know what it means to compromise" when we saw literal HOURS of debate over compromises made by progressives before and during budget discussions that the moderates whole cloth rejected because they didn't want to give an inch 🥴🥴🥴

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

we should charge the C-suite with fraud and theft if they take a tax credit meant to keep people employed and then cut staff anyway.

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Brandon Mullen @brandonmullen.com · 25/07/2026

The operational excellence of Tom Dundon, ladies and gentlemen.

Screenshot of a social media post: "When Neil Everett lost his hosting job with the Trail Blazers this week, he didn’t get an email or phone call.

He tells FOS he "read about it in Forbes.""

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J.C. Bradbury @jcbradbury.com · 24/07/2026

Some context regarding Moda Center renovations. The Trail Blazers $600 million request is larger than any recent/planned public contribution to an NBA/NHL arena renovation. It's not "market rate" or even reasonable. What Dundon is demanding is an outlier.

Dot plot showing the median public contribution to NBA renovations from 2025 and beyond is $338 million.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

“Culture of impunity” is right. The demand is to never hold public figures accountable for wrongdoing, not even verbally when they’re already beyond the reach of human accountability and won’t hear the criticisms and jokes. The legacy must be sanitized, or current elites might feel less impunity.

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Playing on their turf never ever wins, not morally, not politically. Here's a response: "this is a wedge issue targeting kids, getting into their doctors' decisions. Next, they'll come for your hysterectomy, your vasectomy. And it's because they can't talk about the economy." Say Fuck You back

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

A failed op-ed writer bankrolled by billionaires purging a universally liked and credible straight news journalist from 60 Minutes really has to be the height of the complete slide of American news media into a complete death spiral.

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burn it all down @russbengtson.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

well if you put it like THAT, sure

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amb @amb.fyi · 26/05/2026

helluva time for the oregon legislature to decide to defund trimet and force the agency to cut transit service

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

from the moment it was founded activists and human rights watchdogs have warned that DHS was constructed to be an almost unaccountable private paramilitary force at the president's sole disposal.

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Computer𝔍𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰 @computerjames.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

the only video worth rescuing from my deleted twtter

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ceej @ceej.online · 12/03/2025

Once these Let Billions Suffer voters see how gruesome letting billions suffer gets they will surely come crawling back to the Let Millions Suffer party and we’ll finally be able to win elections without catering to those troublesome Nobody Should Suffer radicals

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Nemo. 🎃 @sirnemo.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Remember: the point of this Portland Fire season is to be new and fun and about the enjoyment of having a team again. We may not win very much, but that's not the point. Then we get a sick No. 1 draft pick, then some killers, and then we unleash hell upon the WNBA. Go Fire. 🌹🔥🏀

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Guys, I'm sure this is an isolated incident and that these kinds of pay-for-play schemes are in no way warping our collective view of politics.

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Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported. He finally died. I am so angry. www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...

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‘No one deserves this’: Beaverton father dies after deportation to Mexico

A Beaverton family is grieving after the father, who was detained and deported by ICE, has now died.

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rowan kaiser @rowan.monster · 07/02/2026

hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this

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Vera Drew @veradrew22.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

TUBI or not TUBI? lolzzzzzz that's right THE PEOPLE'S JOKER is now available to watch for FREE on TUBI! We also just dropped a bunch of new merch at the yeyostore (check it below). It's the best day of your life!

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Ben Rosen @benrosen.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I can't express enough what it means to be living in this time and place where half of our city council shows up for the community and swears at the appropriate times. The other half? The other half were endorsed by powerful regressive business associations and the police union.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.

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mitch (he/him) @drmitchpdx.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

the real doom loop is service cuts to our transit system. if you cut frequency on an already infrequent system, it’s going to hurt ridership, which will lead to more cuts and fare hikes, which further hurt ridership. all of that of course adds future liabilities to the rest of the transport system

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Proposed 2026 Transit Service Changes

Weigh in on proposed service efficiencies and cuts for Aug. 23, 2026, as TriMet reduces spending.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years. Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

really tired of seeing claims that our illegal kidnapping of the Venezuelan president is to "distract" us from the Epstein files. Trump and the men around him have wanted this for a long time. this is a bad thing in its own right, not some attempt to hide from accountability

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Matt McNally @mattmcnally.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

70% of Americans oppose war with Venezuela. When you see local “Democrats” working with Future Portland, Parternship for Progress, etc, or when WW & Oregonian present these groups as “moderate” remember this is who they are. Here is Owendoff prominently featured at recent events from both groups.

Future Portland members, including the controversial right wing Brian Owendoff, standing outside City Hall with banners.

A recent Partnership for Progress event with DA Nathan Vazquez, including controversial right wing figure Brian Owendoff

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 28/12/2025

Ok. Found a video with a better breakdown.

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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Historians say "murdered by zoomer with incomprehensible politics" was one of the leading causes of death in the mid 21st century- to be exceeded only by "Climate, Miscellaneous"

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

Does anyone know of any other examples of where a video synchs perfectly to other audio, like the This Is America video clip set to Call Me Maybe?

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 30/11/2025

NEW: Americans want AI regulation & yet the opposite may happen. Same thing happened on Wall Street regs, crypto & health care. It's an axiom: legalized bribery enshittifies politics so organized money defeats disorganized people, even when people want something better.

sirota.substack.com

Why Organized Money Beats Disorganized People

How the master plan created the central axiom that has enshittified American politics.

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AAAAHH-lex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 28/11/2025

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

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EricL @eleibbra.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

@stefanheck.bsky.social it was not long ago that I thanked you for inspiring me to be a Canucks fan. After that short handed Calgary goal I’ve decided to unsubscribe from IHTT, GOK, BP

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Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Massie was crucial to forging the Epstein bill coalition. What he's saying here -- that Epstein had CIA and Mossad ties -- is supported by reporting, notably the excellent series at Drop Site on Epstein's as an international power broker. The mainstream media has almost entirely ignored this topic.

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ThemBOO! @thembo.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Capitalism is incredible. Sorry, former teacher, your retirement fund is gone because 5 guys who've collectively never worked a full hour told the banks to put all the money in the country into virtual girlfriend futures

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treb @treblaw.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I'd run on that

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

you can convincingly portray this whole financialized AI edifice as a mortgage crisis-style house of cards without even mentioning that the fundamental product is unreliable, based on outright theft, and people don’t like it.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Blake Treinen in the bullpen watching a six-hour YouTube video about chemtrails and who REALLY profits from weather modification on his phone. This is part of his process. He can't give up three straight doubles unless he's in the right mindset.

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Dave DuFour 🐉 @davedufour.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

There are too many of us to be gaslit like this constantly. They can’t shoot all of us.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

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pdx law grrrl @pdxlawgrrrl.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Private prison executives casually discussed the "3,000 arrests per day" quota in earnings calls—despite the Department of Justice previously denying any quota exists. This is fueling immigration raids nationwide while companies rake in record profits.

truthout.org

In Earnings Calls, Private Prison Executives Revel in Profiting Off ICE Arrests

“Our business is perfectly aligned with the demands of this moment,” CoreCivic CEO Damon Hininger said on the call.

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

it’s beyond comprehension that scenes like this have become routine in chicago. masked soldiers are carelessly lobbing chemical weapons—that are banned from use during warfare—on random residential streets. this is the third time feds have tear-gassed residents in chicago *this week!*

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

It’s just interesting!

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Oh wait that wasn’t even an embellishment huh they’re really wylin out

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In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the
ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear
how he was injured). But when the patient was
loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the
ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the
ambulance driver:

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

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Brosephine so scary 🎃 @joparkerbear.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Got really high and realized this is actually about the Democratic Party

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