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Marisa Zapata

@marisazapata.bsky.social
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Educator, researcher, administrator @ Portland State University.

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Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I know this man’s daughther - Cristina Castaño. He has lost his housing and business they are only trying to a few thousand dollars maybe you can help them reach their goal. ❤️ www.gofundme.com/f/help-my-fa...
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Donate to Help My Family After Colombia Earthquake, organized by Jorge CastanoMartinez
Dear Friends and Community, Our family is facing an unprecedented cr… Jorge CastanoMartinez needs your support for Help My Family After Colombia Earthquake
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Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Becky was a gentle person with a beautiful spirit. I’m grateful I got to spend time with her, and that she chose to be a part of the Pathways project. Thank you @alexzee.bsky.social for this story.
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Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Go spurs go!!
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Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Oh hey! That’s a good quote that I don’t remember saying (interview was awhile ago). Thanks for sharing @emily-vwg.bsky.social!
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Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Sign up for PFA. An amazing and game changing resource. ❤️
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Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Mayor of San Diego bringing it at @naehomelessness.bsky.social leadership conference - our biggest issue to end and prevent homelessness is not enough housing!
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Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I am sick to my stomach
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Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Here’s something! I was POLLED about this case. They changed some details but def had to be this case. I took it in the last week!The poll was focused on the hospitals responsibility. I’ve Never seen a poll about a legal case!
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Leading up to that.. Eric Lee Atty Kids screaming "Let us out! Let us out!"
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
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Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Be still my heart @councilordunphy.bsky.social. The city that plans not the city that works. My research in a nutshell. ❤️
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Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Almost exactly 18k saved in this household thanks to PfA. ❤️
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Friends of Preschool for All @friendsofpfa.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
📣She’s at it again! The governor is selling out toddlers for tax cuts for top earners. Join our rally Monday from 11:30-1 at the Convention Center, 777 NE MLK, to demand Preschool for All be rolled out as approved 2:1 by voters! RSVP and bring friends! actionnetwork.org/events/prote...
actionnetwork.org
Protest: Tell Kotek Hands of Preschool for All!
Governor Kotek is cozying up to big business yet again. Bring your friends and PFA supporters to tell her to save PFA!
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Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
First Santa sighting of the year! Oregon rail heritage foundation for the win!
Child waving up to Santa. Santa is standing in an open car of a steam train.
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Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Want to be crystal clear that when I say "overall filers" I mean the number of households (7%) who pay this tax has grown even if the tippy top of this top 7% did not. The bottom line is that overall we have seen growth in the no. of households earning over 200k/yr! www.portland.gov/council/dist...
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Portland Jobs with Justice @jwjpdx.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
We are dealing with extreme heat in Multnomah County. 🥵 The following libraries will have extended hours today:
Extended Library Hours
Central Library - 8pm
Gresham Library - 8pm
Midland Library - 8pm
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Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Grateful and inspired by the @friendsofpfa.bsky.social and all of the partner organizations that organized a massive turnout to protect one of most common sense programs I have seen. Truly inspiring work.
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Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
FULL RETREAT.
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Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
This right here! P4A taxpayers all about P4A as is!
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Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
It’s time! Join @friendsofpfa.bsky.social for a rally TODAY. Then MC listening session about indexing. What’s that? Who cares. It’s not what we voted for, uses false narratives, & won’t improve programs or access. I’m a PfA mom and a certified smart person. I know indexing is the wrong question.
Preschool for All Public Hearing
Wednesday August 20th
501 SE HAWTHORNE
FAMILY FRIENDLY

Rally at 5:30 
Gather outside Multnomah Building

6-8 
Show our power at public hearing
Bring your kids and signs!
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Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Write your thoughts down!! We can do this y’all!
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Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Great thread and supporting responses sharing great information about preschool for all. I’m testifying 8/28. Join me! If you’re nervous lmk and I will cheer you on! I’m bringing my kiddo. Preschool is closed that week. Bring yours!
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Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
lol I did not edit my screen shot. And look - it turned out to be a great opportunity to learn more about Friends of PfA!
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Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Thank you Councillor for your unwavering support!
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Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Some ppl are shouting about how the preschool for all tax is driving ppl out of Multco. Here’s some information data about what ppl pay. The cost of moving would be more than this tax. If you + partner’s taxable income is 270k, you owe $1k. No one is moving for $1000.
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Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Yall! We need help. Pls reach out! Even if, and maybe especially if you don’t have a kid a PfA. Don’t have kids and understand how this matters? Pay the tax and are totally fine with it? Or pay the tax and know that it on its own it’s not going to make you run away from the county? Please share!
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Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Come help defend Preschool for all!!!
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emily @emicue.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Here’s something that’s really great about preschool for all that I don’t see discussed. My son goes to a preschool at a local community center. Multiple community centers have them. The city now funds these programs through PFA. 1/?
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Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Still scratching your head about the OR leg’s cuts to the housing bill? Hear @lkb-pdx.bsky.social talk about how these significant cuts will increase evictions on @opb.org’ think out loud today at 12:30! www.opb.org/article/2025...
opb.org
Housing advocates warn Oregon legislative cuts to housing and eviction prevention program will add to homeless population
We talk with Portland State University Professor Lisa Bates about the funding for homelessness and housing programs and what’s needed in her view to address the ongoing homeless and housing crisis.
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Taylor Unswift @10tgibs.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Parents at the press conference were talking about how the costs of preschool were more than their mortgage payments. We have to save this program.
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Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Portland, tomorrow if you can please head out to this press conference sponsored by Oregon @workingfamilies.org to say Hands off Preschool for All!!! www.mobilize.us/oregonworkin...
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📣 Defend Preschool for All – Stop SB 106 · Oregon Working Families Party
## Join parents, educators, and working families for an urgent press conference to defend Multnomah County’s Preschool for All program. The program we voted for by 64% of voters is under direct attac...
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Jessica Vega Pederson @jvegapederson.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Made it to Salem (making calls on the way) to defend Preschool for All against an unconscionable, undemocratic attempt to kill Preschool for All. As of now, over 23,000 emails have been sent in support of Preschool for All. Thank you to everyone who has spoke out. Please keep it up!
Multnomah County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson is in the backseat of a car in route to Salem to defend preschool for all while making a phone call.
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Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Hearing starts at 1. PfA informational hearing is last.
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Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Also! PfA put a lot of work into recruiting providers or color and bilingual programs. Those schools now depend on that funding. They are recruiting and training more people to provide care. One major hurdle to preschool? A work force. PfA is creating that.
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Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
First trip to Powell’s! First book grabbed off shelf and read on their own.
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Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
It’s Harry Potter costume time!
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/04/2025
HHS set up a snitch line to report trans kids and their providers. You know what to do... www.hhs.gov/protect-kids...
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN. ☎️: (202) 224-3121 Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid. The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING. Call retiring Senators too!
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Only takes 23 Senate Democrats to remove Chuck Schumer from leadership and replace him with someone willing to fight
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Schumer is acceding to the GOP’s plan to blow up D.C.’s budget by prohibiting us from spending a billion dollars *of our own money,* forcing devastating cuts to vital services out of pure spite toward our city and its residents. And he doesn’t bother defending his decision to throw us under the bus.
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Multnomah County, OR @multco.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
PLEASE SHARE: Six emergency shelters are open and will remain open — through *at least* 12 pm Friday, Feb. 14. W/forecasts again meeting severe weather thresholds, Multnomah County is also adding beds at those sites and opening two more sites, starting at 8 pm tonight: multco.us/news/news-re...
Call 2-1-1 or check multco.us/cold for the latest. Information may change.

Severe weather shelters open Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025, until conditions improve. All sites ADA accessible. Pets welcome.

No one will be turned away. Call 2-1-1 for transportation help. TriMet (trimet.org/planner) allows free rides to spaces.

- Cook Plaza: 19421 S.E. Stark St., Gresham
- Hollywood Shelter: 1815 N.E. 43rd Ave., Portland
- NW 14th Ave. Shelter: 600 N.W. 14th Ave., Portland
- Ascension Church Tony Rinella Hall: 823 S.E. 76th Ave., Portland
- Grand Oak Shelter: 324 S.E. Grand Ave., Portland
- Charles Jordan Community Center: 9009 N. Foss Ave., Portland

Opening at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 13:
- Friendly House: 1737 N.W. 26th Ave.
- Bud Clark Commons: 650 N.W. Irving St.Refugios disponible en caso de clima invernal:

Llama al 2-1-1 o vista multco.us/cold para obtener la información más reciente. Esta información puede cambiar.
Los refugios para el clima invernal abren el jueves 13 de febrero del 2025, hasta que las condiciones mejoren. Todos los sitios son accesibles para todas las personas. Las mascotas son bienvenidas.

Toda persona es bienvenida. Llama al 2-1-1 para ayuda con el transporte a un refugio. TriMet (trimet.org/planner) ofrece transporte gratis a los refugios.

- Cook Plaza: 19421 S.E. Stark St., Gresham
- Refugio Hollywood: 1815 N.E. 43rd Ave., Portland
- Refugio NW 14 Ave.: 600 N.W. 14th Ave., Portland
- Iglesia Ascensión Salon Tony Rinella: 743 SE 76th Ave., Portland
- Refugio Grand Oak: 324 S.E. Grand Ave., Portland
-️ Centro Comunitario Charles Jordan: 9009 N. Foss Ave., Portland

Abrirán a las 8 p.m. jueves, 13 de feb.:
- Friendly House: 1737 N.W. 26th Ave.
- Bud Clark Commons: 650 N.W. Irving St
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
An important first-person account from someone inside OPM:
slate.com
I Work in the Office Carrying Out the Government Purge. Here’s What I Want You to Know.
We’re as freaked out and angry as everyone else.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
This is the most important story in the United States right now. www.wired.com/story/treasu...
wired.com
The US Treasury Claimed DOGE Technologist Didn’t Have ‘Write Access’ When He Actually Did
Sources tell WIRED that the ability of DOGE’s Marko Elez to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded days after US Treasury and White House officials said it didn’t exist.
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Ellen L. Weintraub @ellenlweintraub.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The NYT asked me to write an op-ed on Musk and the Treasury and then took a pass. I hope it will still get read.
liberalcurrents.com
Personal Discretion Over the Treasury's Payments System Means the End of Democracy
If the Court and federal workers fail to stop Elon Musk, we are heading for authoritarianism.
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Joshua Earle, Ph.D. @cyborgapologist.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Every professor should join the AAUP right now if you haven't. www.aaup.org Also join your local campus workers union, or any other union relevant to your work (they do different things!). If the government won't protect us, and our administrations won't protect us, we need to protect each other.
aaup.org
AAUP
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Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The key words used to identify “problem” applications are mind boggling enough - this flow chart is…
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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Folks who have time tomorrow afternoon: @workingfamilies.org is phonebanking folks in key Republican districts to urge them to call their reps about Trump's funding cuts and the tax giveaways to billionaires from 2-4PM Eastern.
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Tell Congress: Don't Cut Off Working Families · Working Families Party
This week, the Trump administration issued a directive that could cut off federal funding for programs like Medicaid, SNAP, school lunches, and others that working families rely on. All so they can pa...
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 01/02/2025
The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...
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