Reposted by emeritrixMartha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 15hIf you are still wondering what rape culture is think of what it would be like if rape was so explicitly endorsed by institutions and systems that a known rapist was the president. 012338
emeritrix @emeritrix.bsky.social · 19hStop the Sweeps! #Portland #PDX news.mpaq.org/stop-the-swe... 000
Reposted by emeritrixPeople's CDC @peoplescdc.org · 28/09/2026COVID levels continue to rise across the country, the health impacts of 9/11 25 years later, and the ongoing spread of Ebola in the DRC. 22114
Reposted by emeritrixPortland Advocates for Lead-free Drinking Water @thepplswater.bsky.social · 28/09/2026😵💫By 2016, Portland Water Bureau was the largest U.S. water system with over 10% of households repeatedly exceeding EPA's water lead limit (15 ppb, not health-based) 111
emeritrix @emeritrix.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Oregon's Data Center Advisory Committee's preliminary findings had major gaps, from reductive accounts of environmental impacts, to omitting grid stability issues, to treating economic impacts as a straightforward question of data center jobs. Here's an alternative! www.ordcd.org/pbdcreportordcd.orgPBDC Report — Oregon Data Center DefianceLearn about Oregon Data Center Defiance's stance on data center growth, local moratorium efforts, and calls for statewide policy action to protect Oregon communities and resources. 021
Reposted by emeritrixDerek gendvil @derekbshelby.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Trump's Medicaid cuts would leave millions without health care www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comTrump's Medicaid cuts would leave millions without health careThe human cost will be brutal—unless a few Republicans develop spines. 154
Reposted by emeritrixthe babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026rip annie dillard 1134151135
Reposted by emeritrixBrandon Mullen @brandonmullen.com · 27/09/2026Not at all surprising. Be mindful who you vote for! 78221
Reposted by emeritrixNick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This is why Society Hotel lady fled to NYCoregonlive.comOregon attorney general subpoenas records related to Made in Old TownThe effort to bring sneaker manufacturing to Portland collapsed after receiving millions of dollars in public funds. 46215
Reposted by emeritrixHumanity Must Win @humanitymustwin.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Its the infrastructure for the police surveillance state. Resist this crap everywhere. 814174
emeritrix @emeritrix.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"The majority bloc of councilors that are the moderates or conservatives, they’re all endorsed by the Metro Chamber." Thank you, @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social for so clarifying what's at the root of the differences. www.wweek.com/news/2026/09...wweek.comWhat Divides the Portland City Council?We asked the six incumbent city councilors what fuels the bitter feuds between the two factions. 122
Reposted by emeritrixZamafir @zamafir.bsky.social · 25/09/2026@wweek.com reporting on cost overruns at Portland public schools, who previously managed bond projects expeditiously but is now understaffed and overpaying after outsourcing that work to a Texas company instead. Wild. 042
Reposted by emeritrixRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary. 8141881737
Reposted by emeritrixMike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026COVlD-associated hospitalizations are exploding in NYC. This is quite serious. Due to vaccinations and prior mortality, the acute effects of infection are often less obviously apparent in 2026. It's a testament to the high transmission. Screenshot from @datareport.bsky.social via the devil app. 017395
Reposted by emeritrixJ.C. Bradbury @jcbradbury.com · 21/09/2026RFK Jr., medical researcher disagree over whether vaccines cause autism.katu.comMayor, sports economist disagree on public value of Moda Center renovationDebate grows over Portland's $600M Moda Center renovation; city touts economic benefits, but experts question taxpayer returns and net community gain. 27721
Reposted by emeritrixCouncilor Angelita Morillo @councilormorillo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Introducing the Fair Share Tax, Portland’s small businesses shouldn’t shoulder the burden while corporations reward CEOs hundreds of times more than their workers and enjoy generous tax breaks. Today, @councilorgreen.bsky.social and I will introduce the Fair Share Tax plan to change that. 616329
Reposted by emeritrixNick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026just fyi if there are any folks out there with *a lot* of extra time and energy, the charter says that a franchise transfer is subject to the referendum, which means you have "30 calendar days after date ordinance passed by City Council" to get 28,335 signatures. Just saying' 1226
Reposted by emeritrixRazzle dazzle @rozzledozzle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026A 7th progressive vote is vital for the health and safety of all Portlanders. Please donate to and sign up to canvas for Jamey and Jeremy, two great candidates running in D4: www.evenstarforportland.com jeremy4pdx.com There's a canvassing for Jamey this Sunday (9/27)! 13212
Reposted by emeritrix🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 121121825169
emeritrix @emeritrix.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Join Portland for All 9/28 for more on how the politics of fear is manipulated for elections actionnetwork.org/events/the-p... 000
emeritrix @emeritrix.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Ask her why she opposes human rights screening for city investments. Ask her why she thinks genocide is a good investment. 000
Reposted by emeritrixenemy of robots @hereticalshrew.bsky.social · 19/09/2026it's a great week to support mitch green's re-election campaign. if you haven't already donated this month, join me in doing it today? we need this guy!mitch4portland.comMitch Green for Portland City CouncilCampaign website for District 4 Portland City Councilor Mitch Green 042
Reposted by emeritrixGive Me An Axe @givemeanaxe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Thanks to all the right wing corporate chuds of portland for reminding me to drop my september donations to @drmitchpdx.bsky.social , @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social and, @councilortkl.bsky.social Is it a lot of money? No. But thankfully, we have the Portland small donors program. 0133
emeritrix @emeritrix.bsky.social · 19/09/2026damn, now I have to find different shoes Is this like for tesla buyers, is there some sticker I can add until I figure out something else to wear/drive to show I don't mean to be a fascist? 000
emeritrix @emeritrix.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The "middle ground" is quicksand buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch... 020
Reposted by emeritrixAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026if you are reviewing an unpublished manuscript and you have the sheer unmitigated audacity, cheek, gall and laziness to upload it into an LLM to generate a review, let me tell you, you should be shunned and tarred and feathered 231782315
Reposted by emeritrixEC Hamilton (Siobhan O'Leary) @siobhanftb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026One part post-acute COVID sequelae one part fascism one part 45-year uninterrupted streak of neo-liberal austerity makes for a potent Shit Lasagne 084
emeritrix @emeritrix.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Portland Police have killed 18 people since 2020, which would be pretty monstrous if you or I did it. www.portland.gov/police/open-...portland.govDeadly Force Incidents and In-Custody Deaths Summaries 1217
Reposted by emeritrixDavid Sirota @davidsirota.com · 16/09/2026🚨NEWS: House Democratic Leader @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social has stacked his party's U.S. House commission on AI with lawmakers bankrolled by big tech donors. Read the @levernews.com story here - and pass it on👇levernews.comBig AI’s Favorite Democrats Are Writing The Party’s AI PlanHakeem Jeffries’ five-member AI commission is stacked with lawmakers backed by industry super PACs seeking to shape federal policy. 188152
Reposted by emeritrixChantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Really wish our leaders wouldn't normalize working while actively sick with COVID. 15518135
Reposted by emeritrix19thnews @19thnews.org · 16/09/2026“It’s horrible that she’s gone and she was taken from us this way. It’s horrible that she’s not here anymore,” said LaTanya Walker, Tierra Walker’s aunt and the lead plaintiff in the case, in a press conference. "I want justice for her. I want it to not happen to anyone else. It needs to stop.”19thnews.orgTierra Walker died after she couldn’t get an abortion. Her family is suing Ken Paxton.The case argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. constitutions. It is the first lawsuit over a death linked to an abortion ban. 19148
emeritrix @emeritrix.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Other things that make you more vulnerable to severe covid include being unvaccinated or not recently vaccinated, or over 50, or depressed or anxious, or ever having been a smoker, or having had covid before, or... you get the idea. Get the shot. Wear a mask. teamshuman.substack.com/p/new-covid-...teamshuman.substack.comNew covid vaccines for people 65+ (and for people 50+).And people with other underlying conditions that put them at higher risk. Like being unvaccinated for example. 141
emeritrix @emeritrix.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The Enshittification of the American Hamburger www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r... 000
Reposted by emeritrixTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026This man objected to my warning that apocalyptic "AI extinction" talk is corporate ploy for regulatory capture, marketing, and side stepping accountability. He said he left DeepMind, like the Anthropic "whistleblower." So lets have a brief history lesson about DeepMind's origins in doomer cults🧵 6350138
Reposted by emeritrixAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 11/09/2026So rather than increase faculty payroll and lower student:teacher ratios, UMass would rather spend it on Claude. I would argue that a better investment would be hiring 100-200 tenure-line faculty. 10550152
Reposted by emeritrixThe Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social · 11/09/2026@timnitgebru.blacksky.app explains how doomers and their "machine-god narrative" are feeding the hype machine and distracting us from the real harms of AI: www.wired.com/story/one-of...wired.comOne of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons. 4222105
Reposted by emeritrixPublic Health Action Network @publichealthaction.bsky.social · 11/09/2026A surge of COVID-19 infections is happening in multiple states in the U.S. and has been building for the past month, according to the Pandemic Mitigation Collaborative, led by @michael-hoerger.bsky.social. The PMC produces weekly COVID-19 heatmaps of the U.S. based on wastewater data. 33318
Reposted by emeritrixTrevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Millennium math problem solved by OpenAI may have "regurgitated" competitors unpublished work... also they spent more than $22 million in computing power in one week to scoop them. techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/o...techcrunch.comOpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician | TechCrunchThere is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem. 391331459
Reposted by emeritrixMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 08/09/2026For years, New Yorkers have demanded access to City records about the lasting health impacts of the horrific September 11th attacks. For years, they have been denied and ignored. That ends today. nyc.gov/sept11docsnyc.govSeptember 11 Docs 403265116437
Reposted by emeritrixPM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide @tkovach.bsky.social · 09/09/2026"More than a third, or 40%, of U.S. data-center capacity is located in tornado-prone areas, and over a quarter in areas subject to large hailstorms, according to Swiss Re. Flash floods are another significant—and hard to predict—threat."wsj.comThe Next Big Opportunity in Data Centers: Insuring ThemFrom tornadoes to power cuts, artificial-intelligence hyperscale data centers are exposed to a dizzying array of potential threats during their construction and operation. 111
Reposted by emeritrixPeter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit has ruled there is no constitutional right to clean #water. The UN has declared a human right to water, but that has no sway here. If there's no "constitutional" right, federal & state laws must provide that protection. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comUS federal court says no constitutional right to clean water in Mississippi caseAppeals court dismisses lawsuit from Jackson residents claiming that tainted drinking water violated their rights 66030
Reposted by emeritrixC.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Beautiful example of accessibility enriching everyone’s experience. 0176
Reposted by emeritrixDerek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 06/09/2026A perfect example of what AI is really for: removing consent, removing the social safeguards that used to keep the worst ideas at bay, and doing racism at scale. theplaylist.net/paul-schrade...theplaylist.netPaul Schrader Says He Turned To AI Because “No Black Actors Wanted To Play In A Movie Where There Are No Good Black People”Paul Schrader explains why he turned to AI actors for ‘Three Guns At Dawn’ after Black actors rejected the original roles. 351662669
Reposted by emeritrixMax Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 05/09/2026(A short thread about my story:) bsky.app/profile/did:... 216068
Reposted by emeritrixPatton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this. 15233965916077
Reposted by emeritrixOz Doe @ozdragoon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Y'all. Council is pretty important. Let's not elect more conservatives in disguise and make Portland actually left 095
Reposted by emeritrixLiL'Silver @officiallilsilver.bsky.social · 05/09/2026We know what’s possible when people have a voice. Now, we just need to make it happen here. — Your 2 Cents PDX 🪙 022
Reposted by emeritrixPortland DSA @portlanddsa.bsky.social · 31/08/2026"Like with most corporate corruption in Portland, the Portland Metro Chamber is right at the center of this effort to grease the wheels for a fossil fuel company." portlanddsa.org/stop-the-ste... 14114
Reposted by emeritrixBraided River Campaign @braidedriverpdx.bsky.social · 01/09/2026For too long Portland’s elected leaders have neglected the lifeblood of Portland. Braided River Campaign aims to change that. Subscribe to our newsletter and donate $5 if you can! www.braidedrivercampaign.org/donate 143