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Rob Harris

@orobharris.bsky.social
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Voting is your superpower: Small business owner | Lawyer (r) | Chair, Oregon Public Defense Commission Experienced Husband and Dad to daughters

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
ha!! www.ms.now/news/a-gop-p...
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Rob Harris @orobharris.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Any stats on anti data center or MAGA chatter?
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Rob Harris @orobharris.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands, "the law is an ass — an idiot. If that's the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is, that his eye may be opened by experience — by experience.” Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Among the first to appear before the judge was Angel, a 13-year-old. He had no attorney. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” the judge asked “I don’t know,” Angel said, bursting into tears: “I have no one. I have nothing.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
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Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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Rob Harris @orobharris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What’s the opposite of a Ted talk? Cuz thats his specialty
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Rob Harris @orobharris.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If you’re concerned about AI listen to this and you’ll be horrified. Huang’s naivette or ignorance about human behavior, his libertarian view of regulation wrapped in a billionaires confidence in himself and his friends. It’s strangelovian
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Rob Harris @orobharris.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Can America file for guardianship of this poor man?
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Rob Harris @orobharris.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Does he even realize what he's saying here? Is he so clever that he can claim he was misunderstood or he knows that allies will sane wash it? Or is he just rambling incoherently, stringing sentences together that he thinks make sense but together create an inference that Dems plotted to kill him?
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Rob Harris @orobharris.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
One of the best summaries of the problem I’ve read. I live in one of the largest data center clusters in the country and our city council just voted for a data center moratorium- the first in our state. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/o...
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Opinion | Big Tech Fooled America Once. The Second Time’s Not Going So Well.
We won’t get fooled again.
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Rob Harris @orobharris.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
His ego is more important than the welfare of the country. GOP legislators can stop this. If they wanted to. But their political careers are also more important than the welfare of the country
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Rob Harris @orobharris.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Local elected officials used to be the most trusted. They are your neighbors, dentists, and fellow parishioners. But the nationalism of all things political has seeped down to the local level. And it isn't good. orobharris.substack.com/p/contempt-i...
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Contempt is a real threat to grass roots government
How angst over national issues has impacted local politics
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Rob Harris @orobharris.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Democrats Have a Damning Answer for Republican Gotchas. While the Dem reversals move them towards sanity, the Rep. reversals move them towards crazy www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/o...
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Opinion | Democrats Have a Trump Card for Attacks On Wokeness (Gift Article)
The party that capitulated to Trump has the most to answer for
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Rob Harris @orobharris.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Not sure American beef farmers will want to see their pricing undercut by 25% by foreign beef. But whatever- most of them voted for this genius so I guess they’ll support it regardless
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Rob Harris @orobharris.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Thanks for that chart. I’m going to ask staff about our ratio. I’ve been raising the issue of planning more for e-bikes as well. Increased range, cost of fuel, means more usage. And we’re seeing more injury accidents with e-bikes and scooters.
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Rob Harris @orobharris.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Liberals believes these things can be done through government regulations, good government reforms mand tax policy without government owning the means of Production. Not sure anymore what progressive means to people. Is it DSA or just very liberal, or something else? apple.news/A3qlLwxFtQNW...
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Opinion | Why are progressives winning across the United States? It’s not complicated — Guardian US
Poll after poll shows the same thing. The American people know that the current economic system is rigged
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Rob Harris @orobharris.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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Rob Harris @orobharris.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
When local communities lose their local newspaper, what fills the void? (link in comments)
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Rob Harris @orobharris.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
If you don’t have capitalism that works for everyone you’ll end up with socialism that works for no one.
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Rob Harris @orobharris.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
A rugby player refused to associate with Zhou after doing some due diligence. Maybe that rugby player should be our Director of National Intelligence
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Rob Harris @orobharris.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Good luck! And thanks for your service to the community
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/08/2026
Starting to think Republican governance isn't a good idea.
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Rob Harris @orobharris.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Our city has one of the largest clusters of data centers in the country. Our Council passed a moratorium last week. Here's why #datacenters #orpol orobharris.substack.com/p/data-cente...
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Data center moratorium as a strategy for building a values based local industrial policy
The Following is a reprint from the Opinion Page of the Oregonian from August 2nd, 2026
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Rob Harris @orobharris.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The American 2 party system provides the tool (26% of the voters can capture one of the parties and win 51% of the vote) that a multi-party system, where a party in the ruling coalition isn't always in lockstep with the coalition leader, can't.
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Rob Harris @orobharris.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
It’s just a little excursion
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Rob Harris @orobharris.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Until the Dems have a large replacement of current leadership and reduction in the number of elderly backbenchers, it will never be the party of reform.
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Rob Harris @orobharris.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Anything to distract from Iran, gas prices, Epstein, Trump family financial corruption and grift. They’re reviving a past hit- Covid
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Patriotic Millionaires @patrioticmillionaires.org · 10/07/2026
"It is embarrassing not to pay employees well." We could not agree more, @mcuban.bsky.social. Even wealthy business owners like us know that paying poverty wages isn't a sustainable business model. Let's team up to #PayThePeople, Mark! fortune.com/2026/07/06/b...
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Billionaire Mark Cuban says it’s ‘embarrassing’ to not pay employees well—and a $20 minimum wage should be standard | Fortune
Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban says he’s helped mint ‘at least a thousand millionaires’, and that more employers should share success with staffers.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 10/07/2026
ICE agents are claiming Lorenzo Salgado Araujo attacked them. That’s not what the latest video footage shows. trib.al/4FnUp3U
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New Footage of Fatal ICE Shooting in Texas Sparks Fresh Outrage
ICE agents are claiming Lorenzo Salgado Araujo attacked them. That’s not what the latest video footage shows.
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Rob Harris @orobharris.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
When the history is written of this anti democratic era of America McConnell will be a top 3 villain
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Rob Harris @orobharris.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Many people are saying his ad lib joke about the 107 y/o war hero probably dying pretty soon wasn’t very funny. (No one laughed with him thank G@d)
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Rob Harris @orobharris.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
It’s all jingoism so far
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Rob Harris @orobharris.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
And he misquoted the declaration
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Rob Harris @orobharris.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Degette took office January 1997. Kiros was born the following May. In the 16th most Democratic district in the US and at a time of economic convulsion voters chose the 29 year old DSA candidate over the 29 year incumbent
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Rob Harris @orobharris.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
In the 16th most democratic district in the country and in a time of economic convulsion the voters had a choice between a 29 year incumbent and a young DSA challenger.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
RFK Jr. says that HPV vaccine is “dangerous and defective”. A new study from England shows that HPV vaccines have reduced deaths from cervical cancer to ZERO for women aged 20-24. Significant reductions in older age groups were observed as well, though the latter have lower vaccination coverage.
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Cervical cancer mortality trends following HPV vaccination in England, 2001–24: an analysis of population-based mortality data
Our findings provide the first robust national-level evidence, albeit observational, that high HPV vaccination coverage is associated with a substantial reduction in cervical cancer deaths. This is sh...
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Rob Harris @orobharris.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Intel Corp was struggling and so on August 22, the US negotiated to convert an $8.9 billion federal loan to Intel into 433 million shares of it's stock. That's 9.9% of total shares of the company. Today Intel is worth $610 Billion and the federal interest is worth $60.4 billion
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Rob Harris @orobharris.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
On Kalshi they heavy bet is the tarp remains up for the next three years.
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Rob Harris @orobharris.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
The court never ordered that the name couldn’t be covered for “renovation” for the next 3 years
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Rob Harris @orobharris.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
He can’t face daytime reality. Being on truth social in the dead of night is his Matrix
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Rob Harris @orobharris.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Using the bravery and sacrifices of D Day to scold those who don't embrace Aryan national militarism. Ignorant, arrogant and powerful never turns out well
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Rob Harris @orobharris.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
As the the council president of the first city in Oregon to address the data center controversy and also the home to the seventh largest concentration of data centers in the US I’ll vouch for the political potency of the issue. Local races will be won or lost on data centers
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Rob Harris @orobharris.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
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Opinion | Bernie Sanders: The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies
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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
59 straight and 125 of 149 (84%) days in 2026 with WindWaterSolar meeting >100% of demand on the California ISO grid for an avg of 4.9 h/d among all 149 days. CAISO had the lowest U.S. wholesale electricity prices 2025-26, indicating most stable grid. No blackout since 2020 eia.gov/electricity/...
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Rob Harris @orobharris.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
“….so we’re delighted that consumers are carrying high interest balances for a few more months to pay for high gas prices. It’s great for the corporate bottom line and the stock market prices”
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Rob Harris @orobharris.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Obvious cliff at the housing crisis. So did the financing for these units dry up? Did small developers exit the field? There wasn’t such a sudden shift in land or building costs or regs or taxes.
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Rob Harris @orobharris.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
My theory is that 50 years from now someone invented a Time Machine
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Rob Harris @orobharris.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Kirk may have said it often but so have others (Lincoln) and its origins seem to be from ancient Persian poets of the Sufi religion. Ironically
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Rob Harris @orobharris.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I think that’s Dudley. And he polled far behind Drazen a few weeks ago.
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Rob Harris @orobharris.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Cornyn for the remainder of his term- “I am your retribution”
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