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matt tuckerbaum

@mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social
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Portland | housing | urbanism | climate | liberalism that builds | liberation & justice for all | anti-fascist

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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 18h
Implementation & diffusion of general purpose technologies always takes longer than boosters expect because taking full advantage of the new affordances requires transforming institutions, skillsets & protocols—& those things are hard/slow to change. Consider electricity: www.bbc.com/news/busines...
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Why didn't electricity immediately change manufacturing?
The internet shows, as with electricity, that real technological change takes time and imagination.
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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 21h
Portland’s law enforcement organization is what we might euphemistically call truth-challenged
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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The owner of Flying Fish says the City of Portland is forcing him to take down a tent for covered seating that’s on the parking lot on the property. He says a replacement permanent structure would cost $100K. Anyone know on what grounds the City is doing this? www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/...
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Flying Fish Patio Project by Flying Fish Company LLC Portland, Oregon - Indiegogo
Flying Fish Company in Portland Oregon is being forced to build a permanent patio structure. We need your help to cover the $100,000 cost.
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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We need more elected officials to be distrustful of the police, not fewer
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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
why doesn’t Peacock Lane turn into a block-sized haunted house for all of October?
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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This is not funny, Terry only speaks like this when he’s very distressed
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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
it speaks volumes that Oliveira is the DCA who’s surviving the Wilson administration, especially given how things have gone with his portfolio: PHB, Prosper, Moda, Zenith, Arts Tax, and the collapse of housing production
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Kori 🌹 @koriander.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This is why we can’t have transit
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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
How about this: every CRE guy that wants Portland to pay for the Moda renovation is forever required to support full costs of commercial buildouts in their own spaces, and they’re forbidden from offering NNN leases? @councilorgreen.bsky.social
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Candace Avalos @candaceavalos.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This piece raises a bigger question than one viral City Council moment: What happens when race, age and culture are used to shield a public official from accountability, while the Blackness and legitimacy of other elected leaders are treated as negotiable? 🧵 www.portlandmercury.com/opinion/the-...
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THE BLACK BYLINE: Viral “Daddy” Rift Highlights a Bigger Culture War Within and Beyond Portland City Council - Portland Mercury
“I read all the revolutionary shit you read. But I am alive because of what my Grandmama did with her understanding of Christ.”—Kiese Laymon, 2026 “As a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed peop...
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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
some folks would just be lost without a boot to live under
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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Folks, I'm closing up shop here for a while. My focus is going to be hyperlocal while we expect to welcome two new kiddos earthside in the coming days. Take care of each other, and leave your spaces better than you found them. ✌️
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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
that is gorgeous… every home has light on two sides
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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
🤩🤩 my goodness he is so good at this
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olive consumer @machete.gay · 23/04/2026
I've spent a lot of time in countries where graft and grifting are the norm and I assure you it is worth a truly immense cost to prevent that from taking hold in our society. You do not want to live in that kind of society.
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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Oregonians need to be prepared for secession, and Oregon's leaders need to be recruiting other blue states to leave with us. The Heritage Foundation, which published Project 2025, says Oregon should be denied federal representation, based on bad-faith arguments about our mail-based voting system.
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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The Left-NIMBYs have infiltrated the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies and it's a real shame
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
A group of Ecuadorian fishermen survived a US drone strike, were detained at gunpoint, phones wiped, ship blown up, disappeared to El Salvador, then released without charge. “They knew we were fishermen. Even the Salvadorian authorities said things had been handled very badly.”
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‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out
An Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’
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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Sooo… who’s gonna go nuclear on Mayor Wilson? This guy is getting so much leeway despite one terrible decision after another
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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
narrative violation alert!
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 21/04/2026
Yet again I remind everyone (as Elizabeth does in her very next tweet) that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness & disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo -- the thing itself.
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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
My THREE year-old just looked at me and said, "Okay, old man," with a mischievous grin on his face. THREE. Interesting move for someone who's getting not one but two competitors for title of favorite child next week.
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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
New study: Families who leave California are much more likely to have financial problems than those who stay. But seven years later, those who leave are much more likely to be homeowners than those who stay. Revive the California Dream: build more housing! www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...
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People leaving California are often less rich than their neighbors. New research shows what happens after they move
A new report revealed that people who leave California tend to be financially worse off than their neighbors. It also found what happens after they leave.
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
this is why we're building passivhaus social housing in seatle. as i wrote in my book Building For People, no other building standard comes close to protecting residents from effects of wildfire smoke which are going to get increasingly worse due to climate change
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kasey klimes @kasey.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
I have a hard time imagining what it would feel like to lose sight of earth
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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
This is my Roman Empire
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Portland: Neighbors Welcome @portlandneighborswelcome.org · 19/04/2026
The @oregonian.com covered our rally and the unanimous IE4A resolution: www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
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‘Stop jerking us around’: Portland approves $56M housing plan after months of talk
Councilors also ordered city staff to accelerate plans for a potential rezone of part of Portland’s east side that could boost the supply of apartments and other mixed-use dwellings in neighborhoods w...
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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
A lot of posts today re-re-rediscovering things that have been obvious for a decade: National political media won’t think critically. They’re stunted by access. Republicans invented “originalism” to give them the power to remake the country. When will we stop discovering and start countering?
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
walkable cities strongly encourage a feeling of imagined community that helps make you a good citizen. if you experience the city only in slices it's easier to see large swathes of it as fundamentally alien or hostile.
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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
It's important for Portlanders to see what @counciloravalos.bsky.social said during the Council meeting on Wednesday night about taking a system-based approach to equity. It was truly an extraordinary statement (complimentary): www.youtube.com/live/4J-Kh2h...
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Portland City Council PM Session 04/15/26
YouTube video by eGov PDX
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Jennifer @jenwith1n.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
And! Let’s do it in conjunction with social housing, elevator reform, accessibility requirements, single stair, and social housing to make sure that the Inner Eastside is truly for ALL!
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Jennifer @jenwith1n.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
As Inner Eastside for All moves forward we have to fight hard to make sure we don’t allow neighborhood carve outs, apartments restricted only to corridors, or building heights that make real density impossible. Upzoning works but you have to go big!
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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
A Lean Six Sigma black belt that can’t think in systems to save his life. Cool cool cool.
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 16/04/2026
CHECK OUT THE BIG BRAIN ON PETE!
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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
big tent big tent big tent www.kgw.com/article/news...
The Portland Metro Chamber, Habitat for Humanity Portland Region, Portland DSA, Oregon Walks, 1000 Friends of Oregon and Multifamily Northwest — also submitted testimony in support of the resolution.
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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Chicago has introduced building code reform to allow scissor stairs in multifamily by right up to 15 floors/150 feet: chicityclerkelms.chicago.gov/Matter/?matt...
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Matter - Office of the City Clerk
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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Routle - TriMet 04/16/2026 🟥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ www.routle.city/trimet
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Routle - TriMet
Test your knowledge of TriMet routes with this daily quiz game.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Some MAGA acolytes can't imagine people of different creeds, backgrounds, and cultures living peacefully side-by-side. The project to create a cosmopolitan society must be a dark conspiracy. IMO, the central issue of our time is this regressive idea of ethnic absolutism.
Megan Basham on Twitter writes: "Given that I have been critical of the pope in the last few days, including on his self-described communion with Muslims, I do want to take a minute to remind Southern Baptists that our leadership has taken similar stances.

The former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, JD Greear, wrote in his book Breaking the Islam code that Muslims and Christians worship the same God.

And the former head of our lobbying arm, Russell Moore, argued that we must advocate for the building of mosques in the United States.

So this strange promotion of Islam within Christianity is happening all over.

Both Catholics and Protestants should be asking why their leadership is doing this."

She has attached some screenshots showing that some Christians are OK with finding common ground with Muslims.
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Councilor Angelita Morillo @councilormorillo.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
My Inner Eastside For All resolution passes 12-1, this was a huge day for housing in Portland. I am so grateful for the efforts and research from advocates, and for my team, who worked tirelessly to get both passed. Big things are possible!
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Councilor Angelita Morillo @councilormorillo.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
The Keep Portland Housed amendment to the TAO (technical adjustment ordinance) passed!! Portland has a historic social housing and revolving loan fund!! Thank you to my cosponsors @councilorgreen.bsky.social @counciloravalos.bsky.social and @councilordunphy.bsky.social 💓
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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
City Council was spicy tonight. Despite the interpersonal fireworks, this night will ultimately be remembered as a turning point in Portland’s housing crisis: 12-0 passage of Inner Eastside for All resolution and creation of the Social Housing fund.
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Portland: Neighbors Welcome @portlandneighborswelcome.org · 16/04/2026
Huge news: Portland City Council Unanimously Advances Resolution to Build More Homes in Inner Eastside. Thanks so, so much to everyone who testified, to all who showed up at our rally, and our champions on the city council. portlandneighborswelcome.org/ie4a-resolut...
Portland City Council Unanimously Advances Resolution to Build More Homes in Inner Eastside
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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
It feels so damn good to be at Portland City Hall tonight for the Inner Eastside for All Resolution rally and Council hearing. The first @pnwelcome.bsky.social annual gathering that I attended was the 2022 event where we voted to pursue Inner Eastside for All as our next big housing campaign.
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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
life in angelita morillo’s district 3 after we combine broad upzoning with fiscally efficient public housing construction funding
image of a futuristic city
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Councilor Angelita Morillo @councilormorillo.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Today we have two big housing policies coming before Council! The first is a Technical Adjustment Ordinance with an amendment that creates a historic Social Housing fund (brought to you by yours truly, along with Councilors Green, Dunphy, and Avalos) and my Inner East Side For All Resolution.
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Portland: Neighbors Welcome @portlandneighborswelcome.org · 15/04/2026
Today’s the day! See you at 5pm for a rally at city hall. Wear green! 💚🏘️‼️ portlandneighborswelcome.org/ie4a-resolut...
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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Every time I see that smug juiceless dweeb JD speaking, I get so mad at how the Dem consultants ruined Walz to the point that he lost the VP debate to someone so unlikable
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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Montana and Idaho are now ahead of us on single-stair. C’mon Oregon, let’s get it together.
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