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Check out my latest piece in @streetroots.bsky.social in which I make an award-winning investigative newspaper print the phrase “lethal autistic rizz.” It’s good fun. www.streetroots.org/opinion/2026...

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In defense of a little Halloween nostalgia

Street Roots' art director encourages you to dive into some of the deeper-buried Halloween media along with the classics

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OPB @opb.org · 10/07/2026

An investigation by the city auditor's office into Portland Mayor Keith Wilson's mayoral campaign coffers found that Wilson accepted donations above the city’s campaign finance cap of $579 per donor three times.

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Portland Mayor Wilson violated campaign finance rules in 2024, auditor finds

Portland Mayor Keith Wilson was fined $526 for accepting donations larger than allowed under city rules.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

ICE does not deny that it's pressuring key eyewitnesses to the shooting of Lorenzo Araujo to agree to deportation without a court hearing, and instead offers no responsive comment at all.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Agree. We’ve been reporting lately on ICE ramping back up to 11, but the trump administration is trying to do it without Minnesota type headlines. The secret police are trying to be more… secret

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Clayton @claytonwk.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I am BEGGING the state of Oregon to realize that funding TriMet helps downtown recovery. It’s not just transit bringing folks to downtown, it’s also the fact that union TriMet employees make decent wages and those dollars get directly put back into small businesses in our city.

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Street Roots @streetroots.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

🗞️ A new issue of Street Roots is out now. What's inside? A story on the significance of Pacific lamprey and those fighting to protect them, the Portland Pride Play Festival returns for its second year, July's Arts for All calendar and more. Purchase this week's issue: streetroots.org/vendors#locate

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

happy may day! every right you have as a worker was written in blood ❤️

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Sarah Barsness @sarahbarsness.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Dispatches from MN: it's getting really hard, guys. The media has left, the donations are drying up, and ICE is still here kidnapping people. It's hard not to be resentful that other people have the option of setting this aside for.other things.

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Etta @ettamadeit.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Every issue of @streetroots.bsky.social is excellent, but I am particularly excited about this next issue. Pick one up from your local vendor this Wednesday and check it out!

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

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Atlas Shvitzed @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Need to stress that, like the Pretti killing, this terrorism is happening in extremely mixed use residential neighborhoods. Cafes and restaurants just down the street. The St. Paul Curling Club that's put out so many Olympians competing *this week* is like two blocks away.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

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CWA Local 7901 @cwa7901.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Today, 31 unions & labor organizations representing over 130,000 workers in Portland and OR sent a letter to @mayorkwilson.bsky.social & District Attorney Vasquez demanding that they enforce the law and get justice for the children, elderly, & working people tear gassed by ICE on 1/31.

union logos for 30 Oregon unions and labor organizations

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CWA Local 7901 @cwa7901.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

We got gassed but we are not backing down. ABOLISH AND PROSECUTE ICE.

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 24/01/2026

Doesn’t it make you crazy? Doesn’t it turn your blood to fucking gasoline?

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CWA Local 7901 @cwa7901.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Jan. 23, 2026 will be remembered as the beginning of the end for the ICE regime grasping the throat of the US working class. A coalition of unions - including our sister local CWA 7250 - in collaboration with community groups, has called for a general strike of no working, no shopping, & no school.

CWA 7901 Stands With Minnesota General Strikers!
January 23, 2026 will be a day that will be remembered as the beginning of the end for the ICE regime grasping the throat of the nation's working class. A coalition of unions - including our sister local CWA 7250 - in collaboration with community groups, has called for a general strike of no working, no shopping, and no school.

CWA 7901
welcomes this as a
necessary precondition for nationwide labor and community action against
ICE terror. Our union siblings in Minnesota are leading the way for the entire labor movement, and our union pledges to support fully in every possible way.
LOCAL 7901

CWA 7901 Co-signs the demands of the Ice
Out Of Minnesota
Day Of Truth & Freedom Coalition
1. ICE must leave Minnesota now.
2. The officer who killed Renee Good must be held legally accountable.
3. No additional federal funding for ICE in the upcoming Congressional budget and ICE should be investigated for human and Constitutional violations of Americans and our neighbors.
4. We call upon Minnesota and National Companies to become 4th Amendment businesses, cease economic relations with ICE and refuse ICE entry or using their property for staging grounds.
LOCAL 7901

CWA 7901 has endorsed the January 31st Portland event: Labor Says ICE Out! We'll join our siblings in the Oregon labor movement to stand together against ICE terror.
Oregon has seen terror recently with the shooting of two community members and we must act to prevent further bloodshed in our streets from unaccountable federal goons.
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LOCAL 7902

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Etta @ettamadeit.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

The trimet system implemented in the 70’s (that lasted into the early 2000’s) is a great example of local systems adopting international design principles like image based transit navigation, which was created in Mexico City for the 1968 Olympics! Which is to say, I just think it’s neat.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

ICE has murdered THIRTY TWO PEOPLE in detention centers. Four in the last week. www.msn.com/en-us/news/c...

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Councilor Sameer Kanal @councilorkanal.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

ICE needs to be taken apart, brick by brick, and we need to salt the earth.

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Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

ICE must be abolished. The work of our time is to tear down the system that built it and remake it into one that embraces and designs systems that include all people from all places. This work will be done, because the alternative is unbearable.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

The no-angeling is already in full swing.

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Street Roots @streetroots.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

🗞 In the new issue of Street Roots: Six months of data showing every instance between January and June 2025 in which workers through the city’s Impact Reduction Program took the homes or belongings of people living outdoors. Purchase this week's issue: streetroots.org/vendors#locate

Cover of Street Roots December 31, 2025 issue. Large black text says, "This is six months of sweeps in Portland." Red text surrounding this lists dates and notes of items "swept" from those living outside.

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Street Roots @streetroots.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

The new edition of our Rose City Resource Guide (Dec 2025 to May 2026) is here! 💚 Booklets can be picked up at no cost from our office located at 281 West Burnside during open hours. For more information, email guide@streetroots.org or call (503) 210-5641.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things. There’s no third option.

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Etta @ettamadeit.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Hey, do you value local, independent, investigative nonprofit journalism that provides low-barrier income opportunities? Do you like letting me create illustrations and data visualizations for the best damn newspaper in the city? Maximize your impact and donate to @streetroots.bsky.social today!

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.

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Etta @ettamadeit.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Large format data entry is wild like what do you mean “11:23 sounds familiar”

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Street Roots @streetroots.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

The 2025 Vendor Holiday Zine is here! This zine, from beginning to end, is a vendor-led publication, and holds a variety of creative work from the vendors at Street Roots. Support our vendors with earning extra income this holiday season by purchasing a zine for $4!

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BJ Colangelo @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

On this Trans Day of Remembrance, I think about the countless trans people whose names won't be plastered on infographics because the world was so hostile and violent to them that they felt the need to opt out on their own terms. Mourn the dead. Fight like hell for the living.

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James “Vamp” Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Saw a site yesterday that curated old Geocities webpages, and it was like briefly glimpsing an alternate, better dimension.

a deeply crappy and wonderful site dedicated to richard m. nixon, "the greatest president," light-blue rectangular buttons on the left, and a repeating image of a smiling nixon as the background. the text on the page is black and difficult to read because it's not contrasted / outline / dropshadowed, or otherwise separated from the wallpaper

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Kori 🌹 @koriander.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Stadium hood ⚠️ is trying to whip testimony against @councilormorillo.bsky.social ‘s Wednesday budget amendment, to redirect sweeps $$$ into rental assistance! This is your sign to write/show up

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

ICE shot an American citizen and food bank worker who tried to block them arresting an immigrant by pulling his car in front of them. After being released from hospital: "He is now facing charges for assault on a federal officer." www.calonews.com/featured-top...

Carlos Jimenez, a 24-year-old U.S. citizen, was on his way to work at a food bank when he was shot by ICE officers in what a DHS spokesperson calls “defensive shots.”

On Thursday morning at approximately 6:30 a.m., ICE officers were at Vineyard Avenue in Ontario when Jimenez, who was not in the target vehicle, attempted to pull in front of the officers.

According to Javier Hernandez, executive director of the Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice, Jimenez was trying to assist and provide aid to the person who was being stopped by ICE officers.

After Jimenez was shot in the shoulder, the LA Times and LA Taco reported that he drove to his brother’s house so he could take him to the hospital.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/11/2025

their plainly stated goal is to starve forty million people until they get what they want, which is to rip health care away from millions more that this is too monstrous for most news organizations to tell the truth about does not change the facts

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Alex H. Nagler @nagler.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

If you see someone stealing groceries, no you didn’t

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Evelyn 💗 @evieevolving.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Just to reiterate: you are more likely to die in a car crash in the Portland metro area than you are to have died in any TriMet-related way--on a bus or train, at a stop, or even being hit by a bus or train--in any given year dating back to when the MAX was built.

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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Daily reminder that what they did to us on the flotilla was the red carpet, VIP lounge version of what they do to Palestinians

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Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

There are two Portland, Oregons. I live in the real one. open.substack.com/pub/leahsott...

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64. The Absurdity

There are two Portland, Oregons. I live in the real one.

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

no kings but drag kings 💝

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Etta @ettamadeit.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Uncontrollably sobbing omg. But seriously, collaborating with Jeremiah at @streetroots.bsky.social has been such a joy. Very proud to have contributed visuals to his amazing reporting. Such sad and such wonderful news! The Mercury is lucky to have you!

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Street Roots @streetroots.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Letter from the editor: To tell protesters, ‘don’t take the bait,’ in the face of Trump’s attacks on Portland, both misses the point and ignores the reality many Oregonians face. “This regime isn’t fishing with bait. It’s fishing with dynamite,” writes @k-rambo.bsky.social

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Letter from the editor | Portland and Oregon electeds took the bait

By acting as though the Trump regime cares about truth or reasonability, some leaders fell for the con

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