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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Great story, with possibly the greatest author's disclosure of all time: "Disclosure: Prior to his election, the author was Councilor Green’s DM in a Dungeons & Dragons campaign."

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Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

If your children got tear gassed today I want to hear from you, even if you don’t live in my district. You can contact my office at councilor.green@portlandoregon.gov

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

she is a brave little girl and her parents are brave too but she shouldn't have to be brave to stand on the sidewalk anywhere in our town

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

that little girl has every right to be on the sidewalk of her own damn city. she lives here. i don't want to hear any shit about how she shouldn't have been down there. she is a citizen of portland oregon and she is entitled to use of our public sidewalks at all times

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Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.

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The Clinton Street Theater @cstpdx.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

It's weird to be planning anything, let alone something that'll stretch into 2027. Persisting through the horrors and all that.

A poster showing a slice of cherry pie and a cup of coffee that reads twin peaks see the entire mystery beginning this April.

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elthie.bsky.social @elthie.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Yesterday ICE attacked a home care worker and SEIU member in Oregon. She was going to pay rent and get a cake for her grandson’s birthday. ICE smashed her car window before finding her passport. They left her with a concussion, torn rotator cuff, and bruised ribs. www.gofundme.com/f/standing-w...

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Donate to Standing with Maria and Her Family, organized by Florence Hurita

My name is Florence and I am reaching out for your help to support a Union Member i… Florence Hurita needs your support for Standing with Maria and Her Family

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

As of now, four Black people have been arrested, two journalists - Don Lemon and Georgia Fort - and two activists - Trahern Jeen Crew and Jamael Lvdell Lundy. It would be unwise to overlook the racial motivation to focus only on the political one. In fact, they are related to one another.

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Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com · 29/01/2026

Despite a host of compromises over what to prioritize, Portland City Council has yet to decide how to allocate $21 million in funding generated by the city’s Rental Services Office.

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Proposed Renter Support Bill May Divert Some Funds to Developers

A proposal to use $21M in unspent funds for rent assistance could be marred by efforts to reappropriate funds toward a cash-strapped housing project.

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elthie.bsky.social @elthie.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

📣TODAY! Tell PDX City Council to fund rent assistance, emergency housing vouchers, and a right to counsel pilot—NOT last-minute amendments from Councilor Zimmerman/Novick ☎️✉️ Talking points and sample email: actionbutton.nationbuilder.com/share/SPK-QE... Eviction prevention is community safety!

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 25/01/2026

The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.

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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed.

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.

7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.

13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear

witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi. He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael. At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk. Wael died on Friday at age 30. ICE caused his death. They didn’t get to say goodbye.

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Disabled son of ICE detainee dies after 30 days of hospitalization

It had been months since Wael Tarabishi seen his father. The family is calling on ICE to release Maher Tarabishi so he may attend his son's funeral.

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elthie.bsky.social @elthie.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

It’s freezing temps here in Portland. Today I went in to work around 9AM. I saw a person in a sleeping bag on the sidewalk. When I left in the evening, that person was still there—in the same spot. I called Portland Street Response for a wellness check. I don’t know if the person made it.

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emily-vwg.bsky.social @emily-vwg.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

you could even do more than this. Call them. Chalk the sidewalk outside the county building. Sky writing

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elthie.bsky.social @elthie.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

My letter carrier complimented my Ozzy Osbourne porch goose yesterday. Told me he loved it so much he had taken pictures to share with his friends. Riding high off the compliment all weekend!!!!

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Friends of Preschool for All @friendsofpfa.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

✨Our own Leslie, parent and former preschool teacher, did not mince her words 👀 Do you also have an opinion you think the Commissioners should hear? Read on!

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elthie.bsky.social @elthie.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

If there’s one thing guaranteed to absolutely destroy my morning, it’s seeing that horrible robot security guard rolling down the public sidewalks of downtown Portland. An indignity, an eyesore, a big old piece of trash. Really gets my blood boiling!!!

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Friends of Preschool for All @friendsofpfa.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

🚨✨Action alert!✨🚨 Please take a couple of minutes to fill out this survey about what you like about Preschool for All! laramediaservices.questionpro.com/a/TakeSurvey...

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PFA Community Survey - Online Surveys

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BikePortland @bikeportland.org · 17/07/2025

"If you’re going to drive a car across town to go to a Timbers game or a venue, you have the means to do so, right? Generally speaking. And you should have to pay some of the cost of the congestion that creates." - Councilor Mitch Green bikeportland.org/2025/07/17/c...

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Councilor Mitch Green is Portland's socialist transportation champion

Socialists are having a moment in Portland. But how might that translate into transportation policy?

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Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

The complaint isn’t really about whether council has the authority to raise a tax, indeed the chamber lobbied for the tax increase that council authorized last year for Clean and Safe. It’s about control and income and wealth distribution, and the worry we may tax the rich to fund the many.

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Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

This is a weird flex and I think it should be obvious by now that this council doesn’t respond well to vague threats to its authority. This is the People’s Council and we know our home rule charter well. Does this extend also to council’s authority to raise rates for the Clean & Safe ESD?

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Portland Metro Chamber to City Council: You Don’t Have Authority to Raise Taxes

The Portland Metro Chamber on Thursday morning added pressure to a volatile budget season by sending a research paper it funded to the Portland City Council and Mayor Keith Wilson, claiming that the c...

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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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bus enjoyer @intersections.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Predictable that Portland Metro Chamber will bully the city in this manner. I'm not excited to say I agree with Novick that you can't go nuclear against them b/c they do have the resources to tank the parks measure, and b/c they are soulless enough to attempt to do so. www.wweek.com/news/city/20...

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Novick Seeks to Strike a Deal With the Portland Metro Chamber to Fund Both Parks and Police

The Metro Chamber wants to strike a deal to avoid the diversion. One city councilor has positioned himself as the likely mediator.

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elthie.bsky.social @elthie.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Made in Old Town is a grift! Already got $9M in PUBLIC money to subsidize this private startup, and now asking the state for $5M more when we are in a budget crisis (The $9M includes $7M from Prosper Portland in an incredibly irresponsible loan…) www.wweek.com/news/busines...

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State Senator’s Office Gets Stern With Made in Old Town, Calling Project’s Request “Inappropriate”

The shoe campus project is seeking more money from the Legislature.

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elthie.bsky.social @elthie.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Sometimes when I feel sad I queue up that video of the children’s choir homage to Serge Gainsbourg

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 09/05/2025

Yes, you should be asking why Portland is getting a $2 billion freeway expansion when it hasn’t expanded its light rail system in years, when federal assistance is drying up, when climate change is worsening, & when 60% of Oregon counties are facing budget cuts www.opb.org/article/2025...

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

🖤 May Day means solidarity with ALL workers, including sex workers, incarcerated workers, undocumented workers, criminalized workers, and disabled workers. When we say “an injury to one is an injury to all,” we’d better fucking mean it. 🖤

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elthie.bsky.social @elthie.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Because it’s International Workers Day and because Andor s2 is streaming… it’s a perfect day to revisit @antianhedonia.bsky.social’s essay on the Andor prison break episode, union organizing, and what makes a leader www.redfuturesmag.com/publications...

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It Has to be You

Brian Howard “Tell them what to do. It HAS to be you Kino. Tell them what to do.”, Cassian Andor, Season 1, Episode 10 Throughout Season One of Andor, the protagonist Cassian Andor develops from a wom...

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elthie.bsky.social @elthie.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Proud of my friend and comrade @councilorgreen.bsky.social ❤️ could not have a more principled person on Portland City Council!

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Councilor Sameer Kanal @councilorkanal.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I'll be introducing a resolution at the Community and Public Safety Committee TOMORROW (4/22, 2:30-4:30 PM) supporting Portland Street Response as a co-equal branch of Portland's first responder system. Show your support for PSR and submit (ideally written) testimony! @friendsofpsr.bsky.social

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Support and expand Portland Street Response as a co-equal branch of the first responder system and establish the Portland Street Response Committee

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Multnomah County, OR @multco.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

"Preschool for All did make it so I was able to return to work and really go back to pursuing my passion of oncology nursing," Patricia says. Patricia is one of thousands of parents in Multnomah County whose family is thriving with support from Preschool for All. www.youtube.com/watch?v=foTS...

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Preschool for All - Patricia's Story

YouTube video by Multnomah County Communications

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elthie.bsky.social @elthie.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

When the rich and business interests attack Preschool For All, THIS IS WHY 👇👇👇 Workers wages are being reappropriated from the rich

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elthie.bsky.social @elthie.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

A material win for workers from Preschool for All: The City of Portland is joining the program and preparing to pay Parks Dept. preschool aides $2.28 MORE than the typical entry rate to meet the minimum wage mandated by Preschool for All. Living wages paid DIRECTLY by a tax on high income earners

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Labor and Workforce Development Committee | Portland.gov

Subject matter:Internal and external investments in internships, apprenticeship, and job training programs.Apprenticeship and workforce utilization goals.Workforce and workplace policies and worker pr...

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elthie.bsky.social @elthie.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

“19 months ago, we admitted the other 3 unions. No one ever said anything … it wasn’t until police, whom they’ve decided to, as a class, dislike, that they then started making it about process.“ You’re a LABOR leader and don’t “get” why people don’t want police around😵‍💫 www.wweek.com/news/city/20...

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Portland Police Union Tries to Join the Northwest Oregon Labor Council, Stirring a Quarrel

The police union’s admittance is now in question after labor critics took issue with it.

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elthie.bsky.social @elthie.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Listening to @rentstrike.bsky.social band’s Lord of the Rings concept album this rainy Sunday morn rentstrike.bandcamp.com/album/ix

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IX, by RENT STRIKE

9 track album

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elthie.bsky.social @elthie.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

BTW it’s wild to argue we don’t need Preschool For All b/c of Head Start 1. Head Start was NEVER accessible to as many people as needed it 2. Preschool For All will be available to EVERYONE, with a tax on a few 3. Have you SEEN what’s happening to federal programs? Head Start will be cut any day

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elthie.bsky.social @elthie.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Btw to illustrate the LLCs, a few screenshots from OreStar (Oregon’s campaign finance tracking system, which is publicly available!!) Not everything circled is owned by the Goodmans but it certainly is “odd” some of these same LLCs make donations to the same PACs on the same days…

A screenshot of the ORESTAR tracking of donations to the Vote (Nathan) Vasquez PAC with a circle around donations from Downtown Development Group, Uptown Developers LLC, Downtown Developers LLC, Pegg Investment Co, and Gremar Properties

A screenshot of the ORESTAR tracking of donations to the Friends of Rene (Gonzalez) PAC with a circle around donations from Downtown Development Group, Uptown Developers LLC, Downtown Developers LLC, Pegg Investment Co, Gremar Properties, and others

A screenshot of the ORESTAR tracking of donations to the Coalition to Fix and Improve Measure 110 PAC with a circle around donations from Gregory Goodman, Downtown Development Group, Uptown Developers LLC, Downtown Developers LLC, Pegg Investment Co, Gremar Properties, and others

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elthie.bsky.social @elthie.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Greg Goodman is a nepo baby whose family wealth comes from owning tons of land downtown (including Block 216, where the Ritz is). Goodman was a People for Portland funder. He owns lots of LLCs that make “inconspicuous” donations to local PACs. More history: www.wweek.com/portland/art...

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elthie.bsky.social @elthie.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I’m biased but I love the new @thetaxpayers.bsky.social album Circle Breaker. In the face of unspeakable grief, loss, anger, and pain, we can and must find hope in love and care and community. This album is exactly what we need right now ❤️ great story by @mprnews.org !

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