Emory Like Memory @emorymemory.bsky.social · 23h5 weeks until Election Day! Wishing your campaigns Happy Beagle Energy! 000
Emory Like Memory @emorymemory.bsky.social · 29/09/2026California’s No Kings Act, SB 747, is now state law 010
Reposted by Emory Like MemoryAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The validity of laws like this have been debated for decades. Now, we’re going to finally see whether they withstand federal court challenges. 7613129
Emory Like Memory @emorymemory.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Washington state Public sector union accepts 2-year contract with no wage increases (in order to maintain healthcare and other benefits) Republican big beautiful bill is intentionally blowing big beautiful holes in state and local government budgets www.opb.org/article/2026...opb.orgWashington state worker union OKs new contract with no pay hikeThe agreement approved by the Washington Federation of State Employees allows for more wage talks next summer. It is ‘the best we could get,’ the union president said. 110
Emory Like Memory @emorymemory.bsky.social · 29/09/20265 weeks, 35 days, until Election Day GOP voters are +25 on the idea of ICE being at US polling places (62/38) Among sane people, Independents are 30/70 (-40) Democrats are 10/90 (-80) from @gelliottmorris.com 000
Emory Like Memory @emorymemory.bsky.social · 29/09/20265 weeks until Election Day, consecutive outlier polls show Democrats up +16 and +15 000
Emory Like Memory @emorymemory.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Federal and local agents in Texas have been collaborating to arrest 300 immigrants per day for many months on end, *using our taxpayer dollars* for billions of dollars in racist infrastructure 000
Emory Like Memory @emorymemory.bsky.social · 29/09/2026In the US, DHS and ICE are trying to crush brown and black people and drive them out of the country. They say it openly. They boast. They revel in it. “Self deport”. “Re-migrate”. “Leave”. The U.S.’ “closest” “allies” are trying to do the same thing to the indigenous people in their region 001
Emory Like Memory @emorymemory.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I literally could not explain this with hardly any confidence Maintaining semi accurate historical narratives about even basic things is hard Random stat - 6% of US people 25 and older in 1950 had 4-year degrees 020
Emory Like Memory @emorymemory.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Every other commercial on rightwing radio is for erectile anxiety and testosterone, or if a man needs a lawyer because his wife is divorcing him and taking the kids 010
Emory Like Memory @emorymemory.bsky.social · 29/09/2026PIRC: “We don’t know exactly why big-box store detentions are increasing. We encourage these stores to do all they can to get ICE off their property and protect Oregonians who are working, shopping, going to the gym, and otherwise going about their lives.” 021
Emory Like Memory @emorymemory.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Shock: An agency of lunatic, racist men given $200+ billion is wasting money 000
Emory Like Memory @emorymemory.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Spain rising in massive protest against corrupt elites preventing affordable housing 000
Reposted by Emory Like MemoryG Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 28/09/2026I have built a novel dataset of news headlines that get shared by the press that updates daily and stretches back to 2016. Looking at data over the last month, Trump's first-ever midterm convention failed to change the news agenda. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-09-28...gelliottmorris.comIran, prices, ICE, and Epstein are the biggest stories of 2026In a new database of news headlines stretching back to 2016, I show Trump's midterm convention failed to change news agendas 421764
Reposted by Emory Like MemoryJeremy Beausoleil Smith @jeremy4pdx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Allan Classen, the editor of the NW Examiner, has chosen to exclude us and @jameyevenstar.bsky.social from their Candidate Debate by saying we haven’t raised enough money. Our campaign has raised over $130k and we’ve remained steadily ahead of Eric Zimmerman in contributions. This is a bad look. 55918
Reposted by Emory Like MemoryScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026A mass surrender of Russian forces in Ukraine near Lyman as Russian defensive positions collapse. 381017329
Emory Like Memory @emorymemory.bsky.social · 29/09/2026In Oregon they can barely get any arrests from jail/prison, and have no 287g’s… So they park in big box store parking lots and run license plates 020
Emory Like Memory @emorymemory.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Canada is almost as evil as US cities and states like Minneapolis, North Carolina and Portland This man is totally insane 000
Emory Like Memory @emorymemory.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Years of endemic corruption, delusion (built by a habit of telling and believing rampant lies), and dishonesty eating MAGA GOP alive 110
Emory Like Memory @emorymemory.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Trump and DHS have major miscommunication Fascist outlet DailyWire reports that ICE agents across the country were told to stop arresting ‘non-criminals’ DHS and Trump allow this rumor to spread then rush to assure their mouthpieces that ICE is still fully virile 000
Reposted by Emory Like MemoryMore Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 27/09/2026@aoc.bsky.social calls out Cornell University and shares her message to sexual assault survivors: “The fact that Jane Doe, that survivor, lost her education… and those men were protected by an institution and granted an Ivy League Education — never again.” 131567
Emory Like Memory @emorymemory.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In the USA our most liberal, educated, and enlightened socioeconomic elite has perpetrated many a mass killing, over hundreds of years In observing, criticizing, and funding other mass killings conducted by faraway societies, we have the opportunity to address patterns in our own society 010
Emory Like Memory @emorymemory.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Drudge Report alert Just when you thought there were too many US Senate races constantly in the news New GOP panic has dropped over Lindsey Graham’s sister in South Carolina 000
Reposted by Emory Like MemoryNick @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
Emory Like Memory @emorymemory.bsky.social · 27/09/2026NFL playing a game in Rio, Brazil Cowboys and Ravens First thing the television shows: Lady singing USA national anthem to a stadium of Brazilians!! Unfurling a giant USA flag over the field with a bunch of US military members on the field w Dallas Cheerleaders 000
Emory Like Memory @emorymemory.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Things that do crazy numbers on Twitter but get no attention on 👻BooSky - NFL is too popular and of interest to the masses of regular US people to get any play on BlueSky 000
Reposted by Emory Like MemoryRoger Peet @toosphexy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Designed a new T-shirt for @demsocialists.bsky.social ! Get one here: store.dsausa.org/products/dsa... 1265
Reposted by Emory Like Memory🌈 Queer Comes Trouble 🌈 @queercomestrouble.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Its easy to talk to people about @mitchgreen.bsky.social love a sunny day getting a @portlanddsa.bsky.social endorsed person reelected 0102
Reposted by Emory Like MemoryPortland: Neighbors Welcome @portlandneighborswelcome.org · 23/09/2026A democratic socialist and longtime public school teacher, Councilor Tiffany Koyama Lane has been a reliable vote for housing abundance and tenant protection this term, backing the Inner Eastside Zoning Project, the algorithmic rent-fixing ban, and the city's first social housing investment. 171
Reposted by Emory Like MemoryMarnie Glickman @marniemix.bsky.social · 25/09/2026What a day with dozens of climate and community advocates! Together we persuaded Portland City Councilors Green, Pirtle-Guiney, Clark, Kanal, and Koyama-Lane to come together for safety and climate justice. Thank you everyone! 1151
Emory Like Memory @emorymemory.bsky.social · 27/09/2026“Paid for by the government” Yeah, we noticed 000
Reposted by Emory Like MemorySeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026A Walla Walla, WA newspaper editor in 1951 advocated rooting out the Marxists and Communists, claiming that the Democratic president had been too attentive to the rights of minorities and insufficiently respectful of the rights of White Christians. That editor was Syd Pierce, an antisemitic fascist. 541264336
Emory Like Memory @emorymemory.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I’ve been reading for a decade - the MAGA and Bernie era - about how an Oregon Democrat Woman Governor is “the least popular governor in America” They win every time regardless Why am I buying hype about a threat in a Dem+10 Wave environ not seen since the Nixon Watergate era 010
Reposted by Emory Like MemoryHamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026There should 100% be an office in the next administration's Justice Department to prosecute this ever growing list of stuff that does not even have any plausible veneer of legality. Just a big fuck you to rule of law. 531347
Emory Like Memory @emorymemory.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Lying is a big deal Deliberate, unaccountable lying is a very very big deal Language, used to situate us in time, is our most powerful technology on which all our other astonishing technologies and capabilities are built 010
Reposted by Emory Like Memorymitch (he/him) @drmitchpdx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026yeah, i never asked for an endorsement. was not something i was seeking nor was it something i was excited about. it’s true i do have litmus tests. one of those is police accountability with teeth 717822
Reposted by Emory Like MemoryCongresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 27/09/2026Instead of spending nearly $270 BILLION on mass deportations ($2,358 PER taxpayer), we could fund: Medicaid for 12 million people. Healthcare for 5 million veterans. Free early education for 6.7 million children. Money for cruelty vs. money for community. 5549157
Reposted by Emory Like MemoryQuinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 27/09/2026As Slobodian put it, “the tech barons may not care about democracy, but democracy cares about them.” I'll take that final word, thx @eduardoelreportero.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/technology/n...theguardian.comDemocracy blindsides Silicon Valley’s power players looking to transform the world with AI‘The push against datacenters speaks to the frustration of people who don’t feel they are making the choices in their lives’ 213546
Reposted by Emory Like MemoryEvelyn 💗 @evieevolving.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Her path to victory is clear: pull disaffected Kotek voters who haven’t paid enough attention to her actual policies. 1141
Reposted by Emory Like MemoryTaylor Griggs @taylorgriggs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Eugene’s clean energy fund proposal has received lots of support, but also some pointed pushback. Much of the opposition has been derisive about PCEF, the proposed Eugene program’s counterpart in Portland. Opponents say voters should reject ECEF because “Portland has already tried it.” 22810
Reposted by Emory Like MemoryDoug O'Loughlin - Comic Cave PDX @comiccavepdx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Watching this after it popped up on the Linked In. Good stuff 342
Emory Like Memory @emorymemory.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Starbucks’ multi-year union-busting campaign continues 062
Reposted by Emory Like Memorydemi 🪄 @deminlawrence.bsky.social · 27/09/2026worth noting that Drazan got *significantly* more applause the entire event versus Kotek. Drazan says fuck all and biz losers love it. remember that, they want to keep the status quo so they can continue making profits off of our backs. 1183
Emory Like Memory @emorymemory.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I just dapped up Dave Chappelle in my dream after we were talking at a table with another person (who was condescending and interested in Switzerland?). I managed to make the dapping up awkward; the beginning, middle, and end. Awkward daps with Dave Chappelle - what else are dreams for? 000
Emory Like Memory @emorymemory.bsky.social · 26/09/20261 year ago Sep 28 anti-ICE mobilization and march in Portland Oregon Signs called out Trump, Noem, ICE, Military Occupation, Gestapo Speakers included then-PAT President Angela Bonilla and SEIU leader Melissa Unger 000
Emory Like Memory @emorymemory.bsky.social · 26/09/2026In my anecdotal experience, the Kotek Drazan polls have been very effective at mobilizing Dem voter anxiety - a big win for Kotek Well done with those models folks (Any poll result can be turned into any headline based on the model the pollster uses to scale up the results) Kotek by 8? 10? 020