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Portland DSA @portlanddsa.bsky.social · 17h

The Portland DSA voter guide is out! portlanddsa.org/our-voter-gu...

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isaac @sevier.io · 13/10/2026

I have been saying that folks fighting for municipal socialism should begin studying how the incumbent electeds will use every tool at their disposal to block democratic reforms, and have often lifted up the folks fighting hard in Portland, OR. Here's an example from Ann Arbor, MI:

annarborpublicpower.org

Debunk: Council Resolution — Ann Arbor for Public Power

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Just to be clear, this is JUST IN PORTLAND. The total for the state in that same time period is actually 10 times that number.

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Some of this stuff is preaching to the choir since I know a lot of urbanist folks are in my followers. But seeing it visually is helpful. And maybe one of these will break containment and reach some new people.

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Here's a map of all traffic injuries from the Portland Vision Zero Dashboard. Some of these roads have dozens of serious injuries EVERY YEAR.

Map of Portland, OR with orange circles scaled to represent the number of serious accidents

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It's pretty weird how we've normalized the number of injuries and deaths that occur in our transportation system. Here's ODOT's map of traffic fatalities 2015-2024. 512 deaths.

Map of Portland, OR showing red dots for each death. They are mostly found along high traffic, high speed roads

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I've seen more than one accident at the intersection near my apartment due to this issue. Hypothetically (of course) what would PBOT do if some planters showed up in a couple of these street parking spots?

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amb @amb.fyi · 12/10/2026

It feels noteworthy how much the O's endorsements (and rationale for them) reflect the perspective of a specific class of civic leaders profoundly disinterested in any reflection of why the DSA's leaders are ascendant or what possible benefits they could be bringing to our city

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 13/10/2026

New tracker: Examine the status of all transit projects funded by—or planned to be funded by—the federal gov's capital investment grant program since the 90s: www.thetransportpolitic.com/openlines/fe... Tracker shows dates for each project, how costs have changed, & status during the Trump admin.

Map from the tracker showing grants that have been awarded, with construction underway.

Panel that shows how estimated costs have changed for the BART Silicon Valley Phase II project.

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

200+ units on a vacant lot near a MAX station seems like a win to me!

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Me with a bluesky post saved in my drafts waiting for someone to say some dumb shit:

A black and white photo of a soldier. He is standing behind a makeshift parapet of some sort. His rifle is wedged between several sandbags, sticking out but ready to be used. He is holding a metal container in the other hand with a spoon full of food. He is eating but ready to shoot when called upon.

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

With media consolidation being supercharged by Trump-aligned billionaires, the battle to create our own media and communication institutions will become even more important.

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The more closely I follow local politics, the more obvious it becomes that media coverage is unbelievably biased, even in a city like Portland. When you see this stuff up close it really drives home what we're up against and why change has been so difficult in this country.

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Las mañanas de otoño. Leo un poco antes de la reunión mensual de DSA.

Un libro con El título Madrid Rojo y Negro. Y un gata negra

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Ruin a book by adding a word: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Thatcher

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Nobody combines the wholesome and the absurd like @beetlemoses.bsky.social Hope my guests like Big Binky and the Banana Boys.

A pink book with a cartoon of monkey in a runaway banana truck with the title Beetle Moses A Comics Menagerie

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Especially if they are already choosing to live in high tax areas! Clearly a small change isn't enough if they are already voluntarily paying taxes in, say, Massachusetts.

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J. Wychodeski @deserteyelid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

PBA/Metro Chamber PACs. You get digging on it and it’s just a handful of real estate developers/investors and a few assorted regular complainers. 147 entities, 570 transactions, $8,320,892.51. Trans Date 5 Oct 2020 through 25 Sept. Data current as of post date.

Relationship network with transaction for PACs where Jon Isaacs hold positions:
Portland Alliance PAC – Director
United for Portland Action Fund/United for Portland – Treasurer
Coalition for Portland’s Future – Treasurer
Oregon Prosperity Action Fund – Director
Portland United PAC – Director

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

You Smoke Too Tough. Your Policy Too Progressive. Your Solidarity Is Too Strong. They’ll Put Up Billboards About You.

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A few recommendations. Def not exhaustive. Event Horizon The Witch Hereditary The Thing Alien Aliens It Comes at Night IT The Descent The Conjuring

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Seems like candidates can benefit a lot in this sort of system by getting as many people as possible to rank you highly. That might sound obvious but having broad appeal really matters unless you can get a huge chunk of first place votes like Novick did.

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

One quirk of the way our RCV works is that the second place votes that TKL voters would redistribute to AM and vice versa actually never came into play because both of them crossed the vote threshold by picking up the votes of other eliminated candidates before that point.

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is really interesting too: "Koyama Lane was the second choice for 45% of Morillo’s voters, and Morillo for 43% of Koyama Lane’s. The next most popular second choice for both was Novick, at 28% and 13%, respectively." Campaigning as a slate seemed to get a lot of people to rank TKL and AM 1 & 2

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It'll be interesting to see if these three, especially Novick, still get so many first place votes this time around. Novick got the mayor's endorsement, but it's not clear to me how much that means in the current environment.

Bars showing the sources or votes for Novick, TKL, and Morrillo. All three get >70% of the way to the required number of votes from their first place votes. Novick 97%.

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⚔️🎀 𝔉𝔦𝔞𝔡𝔥 🎀⚔️ @fiadh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

🎨 upcycled_vintage_art

me & the girls on our way to destroy the data center (last march of the ents)

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

With large numbers of Cedar Waxwings moving through Portland, I just want to remind y'all to appreciate the beauty around us. Look how cunty this makeup is:

A Cesar waxwing sitting in a tree with green leaves. It has a brown to yellow sort of ombre with a striking black and white strip around its eye which resembles some makeup techniques

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

HUGE: Spain’s biggest unions have announced a nationwide general strike over housing issues on November 11, just two weeks before a newly called snap election. /1

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Pretty tough to pick just nine books! Are any of these your favorites too?

A grid of 9 book covers saying the 9 books I'll never forget. It has the dispossessed, the anatomy of fascism, the communist manifesto, the conquest of bread,, the origin of capitalism, the new Jim crow, mute compulsion, women the state and revolution, the black jacobins.

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Gramsci's ideas can help us think through present day political struggles. I find his work very interesting. Unfortunately, this book was not. It spent more time criticizing "mechanical" versions of Marxism than actually explaining Gramsci.

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A political movement must build up its own moral framework, its own institutions, which link a particular philosophical outlook with more concrete political choices.

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hegemony is the water that we swim in. It's society's moral and cultural scaffolding. It's the "common sense" that sets the terms of the debate. It allows a class to govern without extreme violence because its ideas are accepted by the majority, even if they don't realize it.

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In Italy, where non-state institutions like the church inculcated a certain worldview among their followers, a "war of position" was required to painstakingly build support for the cause.

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Where the institutions of civil society were weak, the ruling class would struggle to create buy-in for their worldview and politics. They'd be forced to rely on violence. In these circumstances, like in Russia, political struggle could be waged as a "war of maneuver." Power could be seized.

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A social bloc would have to be constituted under the political, moral, and philosophical leadership of the working class. Allies would be absolutely necessary in a society where the proletariat didn't constitute a majority. How to bring the peasants along? What about students and intellectuals?

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

How could a political movement build sufficient power and influence to fight fascism and transform the Italian economy?

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Gramsci was working during a tumultuous era of revolutions and war. He was grappling with difficult questions about political strategy. The situation in Italy was complex, since the southern part of the country was far less industrialized than the north, and could even be described as precapitalist.

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

BOOK REVIEW: This work by Robert Bocock explores the concept of hegemony popularized by the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci. Bocock emphasizes that Gramsci's interpretation of Marxism broke with earlier "deterministic" versions in its emphasis on cultural and intellectual factors in social change.

A book with abstract art on the cover sits on a backdrop of yellow and brown autumn leaves. The title is Hegemony. It says key ideas series

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The NFL could save a lot of money if they just simulate all the games.

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