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in case you missed it, @stephrouth.bsky.social is running to be our fearless leader and queen of East Multnomah County's Soil and Water, if you haven't already chipped in a few bucks for her election campaign you probably should, steph absolutely fucking rules

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Steph Routh for East Multnomah Soil & Water, At-Large 2

Clean water and healthy soil for East County. Steph Routh is running for East Multnomah Soil & Water Conservation District, At-Large Director Position 2. Vote by November 3.

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Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 20h

Yo @tinakotek.bsky.social what are you gonna do to stop these school closures? You want people to vote for you? Get the district to cancel their school closure plans and show working class people you’ll fight for them.

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Jamey Evenstar @jameyevenstar.bsky.social · 19h

So Kotek will go out of her way to find hundreds of millions for a fucking stadium and call it an “emergency” but can’t find the same energy to keep schools open? Or transit? Or rent assistance?

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pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My Fair Share Tax proposal alleviates tax burden for 18,000 small businesses that make less than 500k a year and they don’t have to apply or go through any convoluted government process to get it. It’s automatic.

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Michelle DuBarry @dubarrypie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

PPS is proposing to close 6 Title 1 schools while leaving disproportionately white/wealthy focus options mostly untouched. Calling this equity is shameful and insulting

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These 14 Portland schools could close under district's consolidation plan

The school district is also proposing a host of attendance boundary changes and program shifts.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A 24 year old farm worker was killed by heat in Mississippi. No worker should be killed on the job, but we still have no enforceable federal heat protection rules. 1/

A screenshot of the Mississippi today headline: Farm worker, 24, dies of heat exposure in North Mississippi

Obed Azahel Hernandez Perez from Mexico died while harvesting sweet potatoes, according to the Chickasaw County coroner

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Tisha Rajendra @tisharajendra.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This recent ICE killing of Mario David Coronado Juarez in Grand Rapids is not getting a lot of attention. Please share.

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mitch (he/him) @drmitchpdx.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

its wild that christine drazan is now campaigning on my name. thanks for elevating my name into state level politics i guess? lmao

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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Fascinating new study of New Mexico's universal childcare program, first of its kind, finds the program dramatically increased work for lower-income moms www.the74million.org/zero2eight/n...

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Nearly a Year In, Universal Childcare Is Reshaping Work for Moms in New Mexico

A new study highlights some early impacts of universal childcare on labor supply for mothers in New Mexico.

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

fun teaching a novel about an English major working in the oil industry-- @lydiakiesling.bsky.social amazing Mobility-- in a class for English majors that is mainly about oil.

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Portland Jobs with Justice @jwjpdx.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Wow, buyer beware! JWJ was a chief petitioner on Preschool for All, and we have supported it's full implementation ever since! Preschool for All has since enrolled thousands of this county's children in quality, culturally responsive preschool! A key investment in the economic future of Portland!

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That's Real Butter @mollsmonos.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Need a study on why these women are literally salivating over the idea of killing a popular initiative that benefits so many families.

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yesterday, community groups and immigrant advocates started a 96-mile pilgrimage from the Adelanto ICE Processing Center to the Metropolitan Detention Center in DTLA to call for an end to all detention centers and an end to cruel immigration policy. 🎥: Erwin Recinos and Aisha Wallace-Palomares

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Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This becomes much funnier when you learn this person graduated from Dartmouth in 2022

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

States can and have banned 287 agreements within their borders. There’s a template for this, and any state that hasn’t done so is choosing not to do so.

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Saturn @saturnvf1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And for @nathanongnorris.bsky.social too! Canvassing is fun, good fresh air, and a good chance to tell people why they should care about this critical stuff!

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is every bit as fragile, judgmental, and hostile as anything anyone said in the Globe piece!

Screenshot of text:

Patrons were required to wear KN95 or better masks, the face coverings ubiquitous during the heights of Covid-19, and which most of the country had left long ago to dental hygienists and [Highlighting begins] people who don’t want anyone to sit next to them on the train. [Highlighting ends]

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Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Portland have you signed up to knock doors for our 3 amazing @portlanddsa.bsky.social councilors yet?? We've got 6ish more weeks of the metro chamber's bullshit, time to lock in. portlanddsa.org/electoral/

Lydia a white brunette age 42 wears a kind of vintage red Portland DSA sweatshirt with a yellow Friends of Preschool for All pin, a yellow Tiffany Koyama Lane pin, and a blue Angelita Morillo pin and a blue baseball hat. She's standing in Brentwood city park under a tree

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Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

PDX don't forget to support your @portlanddsa.bsky.social candidates extra hard now that those Metro Chamber consultant claws are coming out secure.actblue.com/donate/pdxds...

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mitch (he/him) @drmitchpdx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

yeah, 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

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Reason # a million I'm glad I opted to just build my own outlet years ago, where I can say whatever the fuck I want. And will ;) Meanwhile, receipts are in the book and keep an eye out for a new & improved @drilledmedia.bsky.social soon! geni.us/broughttoyouby

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Amy Westervelt, investigative reporter and host of Drilled, shows how the tentacles of corporate propaganda infiltrated our media ecosystem, undermined democracy, and now threaten the very nature of t...

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trappercreek.bsky.social @trappercreek.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What strikes me is the irony of his statements against experimentation & unorthodoxy when his entire single issue campaign to end unsheltered homelessness were based on both. He goes on to describe desirable attributes he, himself, ignored w the Blazers’ subsidy negotiations. His handlers failed.

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pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Mayor Wilson should probably concern himself more with fulfilling his campaign promise to end unsheltered homelessness in a year (guess we’re getting close to the 2 year mark, imagine if I’d made such a promise!) than disparaging councilors who are undoubtedly returning to office. Just a thought!

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Portland DSA @portlanddsa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Taking bets on how long until he starts talking about California livestreamers

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Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

PDX don't forget to support your @portlanddsa.bsky.social candidates extra hard now that those Metro Chamber consultant claws are coming out secure.actblue.com/donate/pdxds...

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Re-elect our DSA Councilors!

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Paul Taylor @pablowapsi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yesterday was the surgery. I ended up having to put the remaining money on credit. If you're financially able to help out it's greatly appreciated. Please take a moment to share. Thanks much in advance.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We can’t allow this man to get within striking distance of a viable presidential candidacy.

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pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Only 1️⃣8️⃣0️⃣✨ donations away from reaching the final tier and unlocking more matching funds! The first $25 of your donation are matched 10-1. $5= $55 $10 = $110 $25 = $275 secure.actblue.com/donate/angel...

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pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Maybe I just haven’t had my coffee but this entire article is a series of “the law says this is not illegal, but *I* don’t like it” There are rules for political engagement for public employees and it seems she’s walked that line fine?

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We’ve got an Ivy League provost over here who can’t use his own brain to write an OpEd, he needs ChatGPT to help him with his sentences and thoughts. He needs the bot to write emails clearly. I’m so disgusted and also laughing so hard somehow

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Periplus, a mentorship collective serving US-based early-career writers of color, is now accepting applications for our 2027 class of fellows! Apply by Oct. 11: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... You can learn more about Periplus (including fellowship eligibility requirements) at bit.ly/periplusfaq

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Are you a member of NYC-DSA? Please consider supporting a resolution to allocate 1% to parks and 0.5% to public libraries in the city expense budget. The proposal needs 28 more co-sponsors to move to the next stage: convention.socialists.nyc/proposals/08...

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Member Login | 2026 NYC-DSA Convention

Convention 2026 planning tools.

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Brandon Mullen @brandonmullen.com · 21/09/2026

If you haven't followed / donated to Jamey, please do it now! District 4 deserves to be represented by more than one person who puts community over business interests.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

my husband just looked up from his phone and said, the daily mail is mad about some portland city councilor who tweeted about hating cops. and i said, that rocks, how can i support him? luckily mitch’s haters put up a billboard with a link where you can do just that!

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

www.mitch4portland.com

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Portland Jobs with Justice @jwjpdx.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Corporate $$ alert. The Portland Metro Chamber's related PACs have financed 5 billboards around town. What we say to that.. is that if the biz lobby can afford 5 billboards to yell at us through election season, they can afford to pay their fair share of the public safety net. #TaxtheRich

billboards attacking Mitch Green erected around town

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mitch (he/him) @drmitchpdx.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Here’s the full quote I provided on Friday, not Saturday, which is falsely reported in the article for some reason. Not sure why they omitted to print the second part.

"I'm not surprised the Metro Chamber is targeting me, because my office is uniquely equipped to defend popular programs like Preschool for All from their attacks and has been very successful at it. I was wondering if this PAC would ever come into campaign finance compliance or properly register the websites they post on their billboards"

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Schumer and Jeffries HAVE said a few things: 1. No Impeachment proceedings against Trump. 2. No Medicare 4 All 3. Continued "support" for Israel Feel free to add the other things you've heard them say on TV etc... over the past 6 months. THAT is the agenda.

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Chalk Girl @chalkgirl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Re-elect the women who fight for working class Portlanders, immigrant Portlanders, houseless Portlanders, small business owning Portlanders, renter Portlanders, bicyclist Portlanders. Let the Mayor and PPB never forget the energizing effect their attempt at election interference caused. #portland

Chalk on sidewalk reading “don’t let PPB and Mayor Wilson buy this election. Reelect Morillo and Koyama Lane.”

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

i'm traveling and can't sit down to write out the portland police's history of using town halls, press conferences, and leaks to campaign against elected officials but they are repeat offenders and we should call it what it is: election interference by a cartel of armed washington state residents

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Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I will never stop laughing about this

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The Big Bopper @thebigbopper.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Somebody forgot to check whether they owned the domain name ditchmitchgreen.com before they put it on a billboard 😈

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