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Former Journalist. Now government regulator. Author: After Legalization: Understanding the Future of Marijuana Policy.

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Jon Walker @jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social · 46m
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Ron Swanson's Permit: I Can Do What I Want
ALT: Ron Swanson's Permit: I Can Do What I Want
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 1h
Superintendent: SO YOU'RE TELLING ME THERE'S
A MEMO THAT MAKES CLEAR IT IS LAWFUL FOR YOU TO JUST KILL PEOPLE IF YOU THINK THERE ARE DRUGS ON THE SAME BOAT?

Principal Skinner: yes

superintendent: May I see it?

Principal: no
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 5h
A top Mike Johnson aide was planning an official trip for Hill staffers to Europe two weeks before the election, with stops at Ferrari factory in Maranello, luxury brand companies in “Milan or Florence” & Champagne region of France. Scoop from colleague Scott Wong: www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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Congressional staff planned official trip with luxury stops in Italy and France weeks before election
The weeklong staff trip, including stops at a Ferrari factory and Champagne, was to be led by an aide to House Speaker Mike Johnson and was canceled after NBC News asked about the itinerary.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 2h
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First Draft: 📺 Trump’s White House Agrees His ‘Midterm Ads’ Are Illegal. They’re Doing It Anyway
Donald Trump is demanding the propagandistic TV ads, even as some of his aides fret they ‘obviously’ break federal law. Missouri MAGA Senator Eric Schmitt, meanwhile, makes a fool of himself.
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Effy, Demon of Corn, Wheat, Spelt, and Rice @mseffy.myatproto.social · 8h
Now when I skinned a dozen people alive to make a 100% authentic Leatherface outfit prior to going on a rampage at a summer camp, that may have been an atrocity. But! Have you considered that I was watching a genocide in progress? So frankly, obvious-final-girl, you should really put that gun down.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 5h
Dems now leading GOP on every issue Quinnipiac polled, including the economy, national security, and immigration:
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 6h
remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.
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Marco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 7h
The idea that planning should mandate, through regulations, an urban form that mimics market forces (higher demand induced by better accessibility along high-capacity rail, which translates into higher densities) is one of the silliest yet most persistent tropes our profession has produced.
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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 9h
This is a stereotype about myself in which I was completely unaware.
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Jon Walker @jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social · 9h
I know it is not the main point at all, but since when have beards been unmanny. They are like the ultimate "man" thing. Does Hegseth have some real facial hair envy?
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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 21h
a few years ago, references to Simon of Trent or Leo Frank trutherism were a sign that someone was an intensely Christian and/or Neo-Nazi right-wing antisemite but now formerly-normal lefty politics influencers who stayed on Twitter casually reply to Mamdani with 15th century blood libel posts
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Jon Walker @jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social · 12h
I have three young sons and it is amazing I live during the only 80 year period in all of human history where I'm not expecting to have to bury one of them. I hate with a burning passion the idiots trying to turn back the clock on that.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 14h
"Dual-class shares should be banned outright, or even better, heavily taxed in proportion to their control over the company." prospect.org/2026/09/30/h...
prospect.org
Here’s a Way to Stop Silicon Valley Megalomania - The American Prospect
‘Dual class’ shares are a fraud on the public market.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
its worth asking why posts like this — a purported leftist warning others not to trust elected left-wing politicians — consistently do so well on the site where racist Trump ally Elon Musk controls the algorithm that chooses what posts people see
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Nied [5'7"] @nied.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Biden literally did the mythical One Phone Call that would stop Israel in it's tracks, &... it didn't stop Israel in it's tracks.
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David W (aka Flex NP) @rnflex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Full Retatrutide phase 3 obesity data published today. It's gonna take a minute to fill dissect this. The appendix alone has 70 pages of data. Long story short we created a drug that's almost too good. Huge chunks of people stopped or reduced doses from excess weight reductions.
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Retatrutide, a Triple Hormone Receptor Agonist, for Treatment of Obesity | NEJM
Retatrutide is a triple-receptor agonist of glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide, glucagon-like peptide-1, and glucagon receptors. In this phase 3, randomized, double-blind trial, we assign...
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Jon Walker @jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I drove past a Cybertruck in my Orange ID Buzz and there has probably never been such an opposite driver signal vibe. Buzz is happily married dad energy Cybertruck is angry divorced man energy People love to wave at my Buzz People flip off Cybertrucks constantly.
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Jon Walker @jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Don't rank" is classic Portland passive aggressiveness messaging. You are likely to have a much big impact just saying "X Candidate is bad!"
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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
But what happens when you extend this graph to the present?
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Jon Walker @jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I actually agree AI is weirdly fascinated with some actual use cases but looking at the financials I have no idea how any of these companies will ever earn back their capital expenses. The demand is not big enough and they already established it is ok to steal all IP from them as well.
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 29/09/2026
person talking to computer, saying "will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?"
computer replies ">you got it, boss"
person replies "oh my god."
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026
Norway has solution to this actually, stay at home parents can get their share of the public daycare subsidy as cash, that way parents are not pushed one way or the other. the problem of course is virtually no one on the center or right actually gives a shit about parents
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Fuck that." "I'm Sherrod Brown and I approve of this message."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every person who tries to disprove "it's the phones" ends up providing strong evidence for "it's the phones".
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
it is quite confusing that “inclusionary zoning” is not the opposite of “exclusionary zoning”, but actually functions as a tool of exclusionary zoning
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Jon Walker @jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Unironically, why abolish the police is stupid. Crime is not caused by a lack of basic necessities, lots of rich people commit crimes. Crime will not be solved by a social safety net.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
On some level it just drives me crazy that there are now years of empirical evidence that the US is somehow in the grips of a society-spanning delusion of perpetual crisis, a major contributor to its political implosion, but no one will talk about it because then you'd have to challenge the delusion
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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 28/09/2026
One ADA suit in NYC has undone another: in installing the audible ped signal for blind people as part of the latest judgement, they ripped up the street and created more unevenness in the roadbed for people in wheelchairs than the curb ramp deficiency that the prior $1.5bn ADA settlement “corrected”
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ken Paxton: The criticism has been that I let a child predator out after one day. Well guess what? They served 60 days.
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Lillian Hochwender (a.k.a. Lillie) @ligerlillie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I continue to hate that the “computer-illiterate elderly people falling prey to computer-oriented scams” demographic seems to include every American politician.
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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Looks like we're going to get a speedrun demonstration of why gambling has been considered a vice since the the beginning of the historical record
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Willamette Week @wweek.com · 27/09/2026
Measure 98 diverted funding to more rigorous instruction, but state officials aren’t tracking results.
wweek.com
Audit: Oregon Department of Education Has Failed to Oversee $338 Million Program for Boosting High School Graduation Rates
James Neff
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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026
I know quite a lot about the colorado river situation and all of its associated problems for personal reasons and I can state with confidence that data centers are not a meaningful contributor to the issue
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.
Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.
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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
Q: Some folks in the administration have floated the idea of having federal troops at polling places. Do you have thoughts on that? MIKE COLLINS: The last thing we want is for people to not have confidence in the elections, so if that's something they decide they have to look at, that's fine w/ me
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Terry J. Harris @trryjhrrs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pretty strong editorial from @oregonianopinion.bsky.social to kick off endorsement season: "Reject this new unfunded, unaccountable grant program that siphons money from public services by voting “no” on Measure 26-267." Here's a (🎁) link
oregonlive.com
Editorial endorsement November 2026: Vote ‘no’ on Portland’s pricey participatory budgeting measure
Voters should reject a measure that would divert the equivalent of 2% of the city’s general fund for projects selected by Portlanders, the editorial board writes. The proposed “participatory budgeting...
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Byron Donalds' attempts to distance himself from the anchor of Donald Trump are Going Great
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/09/2026
This is an entirely new phenomenon because before the vaccine, most women who survived measles were immune because they had it when they were young. But now, idiots who refuse to get vaccinated are giving birth to babies with measles. Two babies have died. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026
amazing -- Karl Rove lists Paxton's scandals: "The corrupt business guy gives him a fake Uber account and the records of that are now in his impeachment proceedings, so we know how often he went to have sex with Laura Olsen. I mean, can you make this shit up?"
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Jon Walker @jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Buddy this is literally my day job (actuarial and financial analytics) for public health care. Young healthy people with high deductible plans not going to the doctor is not only exactly what happens but what we spend millions predicting the exact number that will.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
President Trump opposes deal that would open the Strait of Hormuz immediately. Holding out for diesel at $10 a gallon.
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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Appeared in the print edition as 'Portland Rents Finally Are Affordable.’” It’s fine for journalists to dwell on the bad news, but I hope Portlanders & their leaders understand there’s an alternative PDX where this doughnut shop worker & her kids *didn’t* find a $1600 market-rate 3-bedroom.
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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A Nursing Home Owner Stole Workers' Social Security and Medicare Money He was sentenced to 18 months and $4.4M restitution. His mother bought a Pardon at Mar-a-Lago. Trump is selling pardons for $1 Million. Congress won't stop him. VOTE Out All Republicans #TrumpsCorruptCongress
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Jon Walker @jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
One of the most interesting and under discussed aspects of housing policy is how much the experts/government rules insist people "should" spend no more than 30% on housing Yet on the other hand the revealed preference tens of millions is they choose to spend much more even if they don't need to
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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is a success story of vulgar YIMBYism and an indictment of places that are spending profligately on "affordable housing" for people who could, in the long run, easily be served by the market.
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Portland Real Estate Is Such a Mess That All Housing Is Affordable Housing
Rarely has the Oregon city seen such a narrow price gap between market-rate and affordable units.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026
Why is the U.S. public so much more negative on AI than almost anyone else? Well, I think the fact that the U.S. AI industry is being lead by a bunch of very visible, crazy weirdos who talk about how AI will take everyone’s job and maybe kill us all the time is a pretty key factor.
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Jon Walker @jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Really sad how local government here just can't implement programs. Paying $2 million a month for empty seats is just a huge design flaw.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Price of gasoline vs. UMich consumer confidence: (via Schwab) ⛽️
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