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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 2h

BOOK REVIEW: After war and climate change devastate Earth, the remnants of humanity set out for a new planet. This story takes place on a ship called the Safina. The journey will take 400 years. And they're bringing precious cargo: Tens of thousands of ancestors kept in a state of cryosleep. #scifi

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Oregon Justice Resource Center @ojrcenter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The horrific failed and botched execution attempt in Tennessee last night lays bare the cruelty of the death penalty. Christa Pike's attorneys challenged the state's ability to safely execute her, to no avail. She remains hospitalized. We must end the death penalty. #christapike #deathpenalty

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 15h

Sometimes your political opponents make the point more eloquently than you ever could.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Los Angeles Times is running a full webpage advertisement promoting tourism to Israel. The ad is backed by the Israeli Ministry of Tourism. The ad also includes a map of Israel that erases Palestine.

LA Times page promoting tourism to Israel
"Israel:

You'll Find It Here

Israel is a country shaped by ancient traditions and diverse cultures, where every region offers a distinctly different atmosphere. You can spend the morning walking ancient pilgrimage sites, the afternoon floating in serene waters or relaxing on the coast, and the evening eating your way through vibrant market stalls before heading out for a night that ends when the sun rises.

From sacred sites to desert adventures, these guides offer different ways to explore the country. There’s no single right way to experience it, so follow what interests you, mix and match along the way, and leave some room to wander."

Also includes a disclaimer from LATimes:
"This Paid Program is either (i) produced by the advertising department of the Los Angeles Times on behalf of the Advertiser or (ii) supplied by the Advertiser. The newsrooms or editorial departments of the Los Angeles Times are not involved. For those with questions, please email paidpost@latimes.com."

LATimes ad for Israel continued. Includes map of Israel that erases Palestine.

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Look at this photo from a local animal shelter. This is Smudge with her kittens 😭

A grumpy looking tabby cat with 4 kittens. Several of them are leaning against her in a big cat pile.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Official monthly data is in, and US solar power generation hit a new record high, up 21% compared to this time last year!

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I wasn’t born in fear.... But from when I could hear, I heard the hereditary; the poison of misogyny. An amateur wavering thus traversing The tripwire of masculinity. Dance, hummingbird! Can you dance? I had learned the steps before I could walk. I had learned silence before I could talk.

youtu.be

Béton Brut

YouTube video by Ashenspire - Topic

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

TIL about the Polybius urban legend. Portland friends, have you heard of this? The myth is that a mysterious game appeared in Portland arcades. It disoriented users or gave them seizures. Men in suits would periodically check the game cabinets. And then it disappeared. I love Portland lore.

en.wikipedia.org

Polybius (urban legend) - Wikipedia

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

BOOK REVIEW: Vulgar Marxism has been used as a pejorative expressing a variety of different viewpoints within the broader workers' movement. The Latin root of the word ("vulgaris") means "common." These days it evokes crude language or inappropriate behavior, but... #booksky

The cover of the book which is offwhite with black polygons. It has red and yellow writing with a stylized yellow hammer.

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Jeremy Beausoleil Smith @jeremy4pdx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Allan 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.

A screenshot from an article from the Northwest Examiner stating that the “top four” candidates for the 2026 District 4 Portland City Council race had been chosen for a local debate.

A screenshot from the Northwest Examiner article about the upcoming debate.

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing—Raymond Williams

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The sprawl in the Denver suburbs is outrageous. We are locking in decades of car dependency with soul-sucking suburbia. Anyone on Bluesky have the inside baseball on Colorado land use?

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Since bluesky is talking about land use today here's a useful map. An enormous amount of land/water/emissions are associated with animal agriculture (mostly beef).

A map of the contiguous US with areas grouped by land use based on total acreage. Cow pasture/range is the largest. Livestock feed also uses more area than all the food we actually eat.

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The lady beside me is watching Candace Owens on her phone. I'm reading a book about worker education in the socialist movement. This flight contains multitudes.

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Pretty sure I saw @edgeofsports.bsky.social on my flight. Didn't wanna bug you but keep up the good work Dave!

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There's someone at my gate at PDX who looks exactly like Marie Gluesenkamp Perez.

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I like dogs that look like they have a beard.

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Cam @cambp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is what I'm terrified of. Democrats deciding that since they'll win by default, they can avoid the difficult but necessary tasks required to save what's left of American democracy.

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Megan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

For @lpeblog.bsky.social I wrote about why "bring your own power" is a false solution to the problem of datacenter energy demand and why municipalization (public ownership and control) of regional transmission organizations is necessary to protect ratepayers and accelerate decarbonization.

lpeproject.org

The Neoliberal Grid is in Crisis

To protect customers from rising electricity prices, public officials are urging data center developers to supply their own power. But this approach risks privatizing the power grid…

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Making progress! Transport lagging way behind other sectors. Look at the massive improvement in China. In 25 years they went from one of the lowest to one of the highest (11% to 32%).

Charts showing electricity consumption as a share of total final energy by sector and by region. Upward trend in electrification in all sectors but transport is far below the others..asia is leading in total electrification with more than 30% of total final energy consumption. China shows the biggest increase in % from 2000-2025 going from about 11% to about 32%.

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Making progress! Transport lagging way behind other sectors. Look at the massive improvement in China. In 25 years they went from one of the lowest to one of the highest (11% to 32%).

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/09/2026

DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We’re making them pay $131.5 million — the largest worker settlement in City history. This is New York, where hard work pays and greed will cost you.

DoorDash messed up.
They repeatedly left more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers underpaid or paid late, causing them immense stress and financial difficulty.
That's unacceptable.
We've secured a $131.5M settlement from
DoorDash - the largest worker settlement in NYC history and largest delivery worker settlement in
American municipal history.
Every worker will be paid what they are owed, and every company will be forced to abide by the laws of this city.

LOGOS:
The OFFICE of the MAYOR of NYC
NYC Consumer and Worker Protection

Mayor Mamdani and Deliveristas representatives stand behind a podium.

Three delivery workers holding a giant fake check for $131.5M.

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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Person from Portland: Yeah the street is spelled "Couch" but it's pronounced like "Cooch" JD Vance: I don't really see the difference

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I don't want to work. I want to sit under fall foliage and read Marxist literature.

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

At a work conference this week and I'm getting Vietnam-style flashbacks to grad school

Page of formulas from a topic presented at the conference. Excerpt from journal of fluid mechanics with text overlay about Vietnam flash acks and the meme of a Chihuahua and helicopters

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

100% When you expect an electoral tidal wave, it gives you more room to push for what you really want. So it's revealing that many Dems are doing anti-trans stuff instead of, idk, universal healthcare? Or maybe something considered "riskier" electorally like prison reform (e.g. abolish solitary).

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mitch (he/him) @drmitchpdx.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

hi, corporate lobby expert here. it’s not funny. corporate lobbies only do this when they’re in extreme distress.

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is crazy. The report predicts that by 2030 datacenters will use 40% of Oregon's electricity.

The report predicts that by 2030 datacenters will use 40% of Oregon's electricity. Line chart showing a steady increase

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Chelsea just brought on a player born in 2010 and I have never felt so old.

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Terminally Frogline @2frogline69.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

All we are is bust in the wind

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Did y'all see this letter opposing the zoning changes to the inner east side? Well I did a little Googling. And the previous sale price is a matter of public record. Dennis did in fact buy his house in 1985...for $62k. Adjusting for inflation, that's $193k today. Current Zestimate? $960k.

oregonlive.com

Readers respond: Prevent inner eastside rezoning

Letters to the Editor can be submitted to letters@oregonian.com with full name and place of residence.

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Councilor Sameer Kanal @councilorkanal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Today is the 20th anniversary of the death of James Chasse. Chasse was beaten to death by Portland Police in the Pearl District despite not posing a threat. Having broken 16 of his ribs, they took him to jail instead of a hospital at first, and only after the jail declined to admit him due to ...

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Councilor Eric Zimmerman went on a local podcast and blatantly lied about his colleagues and the policies they support. He said, "We have 6 councilors who said they want to investigate Oregon businesses who do business with Jewish companies." This is a lie and is downright slanderous.

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Remember when the Browns had an exciting team and a QB who actually cared? And then they decided to destroy that and alienate their fans by signing a guy facing numerous sexual assault allegations who had just sat out an entire season to the biggest guaranteed contract in league history?

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Agree 100%. Also just want to note that while the solar resource in the America Southwest is exceptional, it's not bad in other parts of the country either. Compare the US with Europe and China. We should be building solar practically everywhere.

A map of global horizontal irradiation in kWh/m^2 daily and annually using a scale that goes from <2.2 kWh/m^2/day to >7.4kWh/m^2/day. Africa has very high values as well as the middle east and australia. The Tibetan plateau, parts of South America and the SW US and Mexico have high values as well. Almost all of the lower 48 of the US has higher irradiance than Europe

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Incredible that our political leaders are making cuts to Trimet at the same time that we're seeing all time high gas prices and I-5 shut down. Just a failure of biblical proportions.

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Unas de las últimas palabras de Presidente Allende. "No se detienen los procesos sociales ni con el crimen ni con la fuerza. La historia es nuestra y la hacen los pueblos."

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

52 years ago, the military of Chile staged a coup against President Salvador Allende, medical doctor and leader of a Socialist coalition government, the region's first elected socialist leader.

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Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com · 10/09/2026

More than 20 candidates are vying for three seats in Portland's City Council District 3 this November. We tracked each candidate in the race to find out who they are, why they're running, and who's backing them.

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Meet the Candidates For City Council District 3 - Portland Mercury

Portland City Council District 3 encompasses most of inner Southeast Portland from the east side of the Willamette River up to I-84 to the north, as well as a swath of Northeast and outer Southeast to...

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

One of my favorite (least favorite?) facts: From 2005 to 2024, about 69% of survey respondents on average said crime was higher than the year before, despite overall crime rates falling in most of those years, according to the report.

Line graphs of % of Americans who say crime is higher in the US than the previous year and total crime rate. The crime rate has been steadily declining but a majority thinka it went up each year.

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