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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/08/2026
Despite all the state’s spending on low-income housing, Oregon’s homeless population continues to grow. “For all the public money, we seem to be digging a deeper hole,” one former official said.
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Oregon Is Spending More Than Ever on Low-Income Housing. A State Law Keeps the Details Secret.
The state has given developers an unprecedented $1.4 billion, and the cost of developing each subsidized apartment has nearly doubled. But, thanks to a carve-out in its public records law, Oregon does...
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
It’s crystal clear now that Trump has lost control of this war. He badly misjudged Iran’s ability to retaliate. The region is on fire. 1/ I’m going to explain to you in this🧵what I’ve learned - in part from closed door briefings - about the four biggest current crises.
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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Dems. Please. Stop proposing and running on tax cuts. I have no idea where this cursed trend came from, although I can guess. But your hypothesis on why to do this is wrong and you are badly missing where most Americans are at. Short thread with sources, focus group sound, and data.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/02/2026
Portland OR is low key the best food city in the country. The amount of delicious food available here on a per capita basis is unmatched anywhere else I've ever been.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 05/02/2025
Our Midwestern values are under siege. At such a critical time for civil and labor rights in this country, Illinois is doubling down on our commitment to protecting all Illinoisans. In doing so, we're solidifying our status as a place of welcome and opportunity for all.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 05/02/2025
It’s no surprise that Scott Bessent and Donald Trump want to save face and downplay the risks as Elon Musk seizes power, but the American people know better. Trump and Bessent are asking you not to believe what’s playing out right in front of your eyes.
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Treasury defends DOGE's ‘read-only access’ to payments system
The department told lawmakers its efficiency review “is not resulting” in any suspensions of or delays to disbursements.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
This whole effort was brazenly illegal. From the big picture down to innumerable individual acts. But even if course was shifted now, which is basically unimaginable, Musk likely has already essentially destroyed the organization. Under the best circs will take years or decades to rebuild.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
"I just want to be clear about what's going on here." - @warren.senate.gov www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHN...
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 03/02/2025
I suspect USAID is first because it's "foreign aid" and fewer Americans will object. But once the precedent is established, expect unilateral dismantling of domestic institutions too
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 03/02/2025
Elon Musk is a terrible president.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 03/02/2025
Anyways, here's the name of DOGE employees and the article confirming it. Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran. We still have a constitution and I intend to use it. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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Breach Collective @breachcollectiv.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
🚨BREAKING: In a betrayal to Portland residents, the City grants a Land Use Compatibility Statement (LUCS) to Zenith Energy, giving the Texas-based fossil fuel company a green light to expand its operations in PDX. Wednesday we protest. www.breachcollective.org/highlights/p... #StopZenithOil
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
People are getting up off the mat.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
"This is a... harmful, dangerous, killer bluff. But they don't have the law on their side. If we are going to push back on this kind of autocratic behavior, it's not just members of Congress who have to stand up, & we will, it is all of us together" -@schatz.bsky.social in front of USAID just now
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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Here's the speech if you haven't heard it. 13 minutes of your time. Share it with your American friends and neighbours, because they won't see it otherwise. Circulate it in Mexico and Denmark, France and the UK, Panama and Germany, Poland and Estonia, and especially -- especially -- Ukraine.
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Trudeau: Canada will retaliate with 25% tariffs on $155B of U.S. goods
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Several conversations today w people in the key executive departments. And while the particulars are hard to pin down my impression is that the Musk take over stuff is considerably worse than is being presented in the press. By this I don’t necessarily things they *done* yet but the level of …
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
No one's blaming Democrats for causing this crisis, but yes, many of them are failing to meet this moment. One Democratic senator could bring the chamber to a halt. House Dems can go to fed agencies being gutted by Musk with cameras in tow. Governors can push back. State AGs can bring lawsuits.
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I don't get the sense that U.S. journalists have a good sense of who to talk to when basic government functions are being ripped out. Gutting the administrative state is not a standard beat. A short thread with some starter suggestions for who to read/talk to. Please - people add more in replies!
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
National call this Sunday to strategize with Indivisible, MoveOn, WFP, and a ton of other groups. We choose to fight. www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
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We Choose To Fight: Action Call · Indivisible
This Sunday night, February 2 at 8pm ET/5pm PT, you’re invited to join Indivisible, MoveOn, Working Families Party, and a coalition of other organizations for an action call. During the call, you will...
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
i try not to complain about joke thieves but i’ve spent years cultivating a shtick of posting dispensable bullshit that’s of use to nobody and it sucks to see people stealing it
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 31/01/2025
I know these are challenging times — and the Trump administration is trying to confuse the American people. That’s why it’s so important we speak plainly: Donald Trump is incompetent.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 29/01/2025
This fight is far from over; the Trump admin is still illegally withholding funding across government. Republicans are still intent on confirming Russ Vought as this country’s budget director—someone who has REFUSED to say he will follow the law. Don't let up.
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 29/01/2025
I spent four years investigating these sorts of claims. Children aren’t being taught they’re inherently victims or oppressors. Teachers aren’t leading kids to change genders. Instead these claims are used as a pretext to sanitize history curricula and impose conservative Christian ideas in schools
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
It's a revolt of the bosses I don't know what to tell you except that everyone who said this was about the populist working class is a mark for the wallet inspector
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 28/01/2025
The US Constitution does not grant the President this unilateral authority. In Illinois, we will stand against unlawful actions that would harm millions of working families, children, and seniors.
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White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
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350PDX! @350pdx.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Please join 350PDX and over 100 organizations in the Divest Oregon coalition for an advocacy day in Salem on February 4! We're supporting the Pause Act, legislation aimed at “pausing” new private investments in fossil fuels. To register, visit the Divest Oregon website and click the banner link!
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I'm fine with the Senate Dems posting whatever if even a single one was hammering about the illegal impoundment going on right now.
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Rory Johnston @roryjohnston.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Dear lord. Ramping, universal tariffs.
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 27/01/2025
The people now in charge of the Office of Personnel Management apparently don’t know how to scrub PDF metadata, and have exposed the original authors of the guidance they’re publishing. Two, Noah Peters and James Sherk, have links to the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025.
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Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
President Donald Trump held a rally in Las Vegas on Saturday. Look who joined him onstage: Cliven Bundy, his eldest son Ryan Bundy and, of course, the newly-freed Oath Keepers leader, Stewart Rhodes.
Donald Trump onstage at a rally in Las Vegas on Saturday Jan 25. On the stage behind him, Cliven Bundy and Ryan Bundy hold their cowboy hats aloft. Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes holds up his phone. Many people smile.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/01/2025
we have a president with a tenuous grip on small legislative majorities who is out of the gate with a flurry of dramatically unpopular orders and who has just demonstrated his weakness on the international stage. if i were an elected member of his domestic opposition, i might try to draw real blood.
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Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
If you can't say with your full chest that the Greenland thing is an evil idea then you need to get out of the politics talking business.
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Brian Schatz @schatz.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
The story of this first week is corruption. Billionaires seated on the inaugural stage in front of the cabinet, crypto pump and dump, and the illegal firing of IGs. The media is acting like this is too chaotic and bewildering to interpret, but they are just afraid of sounding shrill. It’s corrupt.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Feel deep in my bones that the backlash to all of this is going to be enormous. Not sure how it will manifest and when it will explode into view, but confident it’s coming.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Four examples of Democratic messaging since yesterday. I know which one I'm supporting. And voting for.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Democrats need to start talking about what Trump’s doing as a radical assault on the foundations of the country. A revolution to shred American law, institutions, and alliances for the advancement of billionaires and neo-Nazis. An attempt to destroy normal America
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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 21/01/2025
The "he's not gonna listen to her" reactions are missing many points. Lots of other people are also hearing it. Lots of people can see him hearing it, then weigh what she's said with what he'll do. Lots of people can see her refusal to surrender these ancient teachings to the latest face of empire
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
"Nothing matters" is the motto of those willing to give up in the face of dictatorship and fascism. *Everything* matters. Each step towards freedom and resistance means something.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 21/01/2025
I’m the son of Jewish refugees that fled the Nazis. I know exactly what I’m looking at.
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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
One thing that I would like democrats to learn is that, until we can somehow reform it, the media should be treated as this big gaping hole in your back yard that *needs* to be filled. If you don't fill it, someone else will, and you may not like what they put in there.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I will note once again (probably not for the last time) that the purpose of pardons like this is not merely to excuse past behavior but to encourage future behavior.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Trump apparently has released former Proud Boy leader Enrique Tarrio, top level leader of the insurrection. (unclear whether it's a pardon or commutation.)
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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
also maintain the best strategy for dems is to get mcconnellpilled. "no" to everything and run on how much he sucks in the midterms
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
If the argument is that Dems need to win the attention economy, and be attention-getters, then that means Rep @aoc.bsky.social should be the 2028 Democratic presidential candidate regardless of whether you agree with her politics or not (and I happen to agree with them, conveniently).
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
I would like to buy the entire state of Michigan one beer
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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Call me crazy but I actually think one of the most popular apps in the United States, especially with disengaged voters, suddenly shutting down with a message that says "We got banned but we have good reason to think President Trump will save us (and you)." is really bad for us.
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