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pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Remember earlier this year when the progressive councilors tried to address the MIRL Middle Income Revolving Loan that gave Prosper housing dollars that Council would have no oversight powers over and the mods voted it down? They didn’t even want to see pro formas! www.wweek.com/news/city/20...
wweek.com
Prosper Portland Executive Director Awarded Three No-Bid Contracts to His College Friends
The contracts have a combined value of $456,000, but the scope of work for two of them is a secret.
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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
It's pretty weird how we've normalized the number of injuries and deaths that occur in our transportation system. Here's ODOT's map of traffic fatalities 2015-2024. 512 deaths.
Map of Portland, OR showing red dots for each death. They are mostly found along high traffic, high speed roads
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Travis Nelson @travisnelson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We can’t let Christine Drazan rewrite history. I found the statement she issued when Trump announced that he was sending troops to Portland. Despite what she now implies, she didn’t oppose Trump sending troops to Portland. Thankfully, Tina Kotek & Dan Rayfield successfully fought off Trump!
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Brandon Mullen @brandonmullen.com · 19/09/2026
Be vigilant, friends.
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Oregon has a long history as a datacenter state. But a new study details a wild imbalance that comes with the industry. Data centers consume ~23% of the state's electricity, but provide jobs for just 0.2% of the state's workforce
opb.org
Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com · 18/09/2026
EDITORIAL OPINION: In 2020, Portland protesters exercising their First Amendment rights faced rubber bullets, batons, and tear gas from the Portland Police Bureau.
portlandmercury.com
Knee-Jerk Reactions to Councilor Green’s Tweets Are Hypocritical and Dangerous - Portland Mercury
The police are supposed to keep protesters safe as they exercise their rights to free speech—not retaliate by shooting them with rubber bullets, striking them with batons, or spraying tear gas at more...
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Councilor Sameer Kanal @councilorkanal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Today is the 20th anniversary of the death of James Chasse. Chasse was beaten to death by Portland Police in the Pearl District despite not posing a threat. Having broken 16 of his ribs, they took him to jail instead of a hospital at first, and only after the jail declined to admit him due to ...
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Councilor Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Here is my full statement on the tweets I made in 2020 regarding the police. The PPA, PPB, Mayor and several of my colleagues have all made statements following that Oregonian piece. The public deserves to know what I think about that and stand for - then and now.
portland.gov
Press Release: Councilor Green Police Tweets
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Martin Degrell @martindegrell.com · 05/08/2026
@jadomian.bsky.social is an international treasure!
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
CHAFETZ PLANS TO LOSE WEIGHT ON ALL-FRENCH-FRY-AND-GIN DIET
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The phrase “felony camping” just really shouldn’t exist www.npr.org/2026/07/21/n...
npr.org
A homeless man was charged with a felony for camping. He's one of the first
When Joseph Lamont Williams refused to leave the public park where he has lived for years, he was charged with a felony. Camping bans are on the rise as states seek to crack down on homelessness.
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The Minnesota 15 case is about conversations, thousands of pages of it, harvested from encrypted group chats on Signal and loaded into an Everlaw database for prosecutors to build conspiracy charges against Trump's political opponents.
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Government Says Terabytes of Signal Chats are Central to the Case Against Minnesota 15 - UNICORN RIOT
The Minnesota 15 case is about conversations, thousands of pages of it, harvested from encrypted group chats on Signal and loaded into an Everlaw database for prosecutors to build conspiracy charges a...
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Justin (seasonal) @justinskolnick.com · 09/07/2026
Sit a minute with the astounding contempt the cops are showing for civilian leadership and voters — dumping almost a million dollars into a campaign to drain a popular program that they clearly don’t think they can pull off honestly
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Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Reflecting on Portland's deadly heat wave of 2021. Also: Monica digs into how PCEF has paid for nearly 25,000 AC unit installs since then. An illustrative peek at ways this fund has historically been used in Portland, as electeds consider tapping the fund to pay for Moda renovations.
opb.org
It’s been 5 years since deadly heat gripped Oregon. Here’s what’s changed
Funding gaps remain the biggest obstacle to helping vulnerable Oregonians survive extreme temperatures.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/06/2026
The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit is delivering market-rate housing, rather than housing for the poorest households. In one Portland suburb, a subsidized two-bedroom can cost up to $1,675, while the equivalent market-rate apartment is $1,525. w/ @opb.org
propublica.org
A Low-Income Housing Program Is Pouring Billions Into Housing Many People Can’t Afford
The federal tax credit provides up to $15 billion in subsidies a year to help developers build apartments. It’s created housing that’s often no more affordable than the market rate.
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Jessica Madison Pískatá @lambinawoolsweater.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Guns, Germs, and Steel:
Real housewives of rhode island talking about the origin of baby dolls
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Candace Avalos @candaceavalos.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
It's so cringe that the police union is out here advocating for cutting the police accountability budget to give the police more money. MORE MONEY! They have a budget over $300M! Their budget is a third of the entire general fund! And 5 councilors think it's politically wise to support this!? 🤯
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amb @amb.fyi · 28/04/2026
so if i get this straight, Waymo hired lobbyists to legalize self-driving cars in the legislature this spring, the bill failed, and today Waymo puts out a press release breathlessly repeated by all the local media saying they are planing to eventually do it anyway, and the mayor cheered it on?
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Councilor Angelita Morillo @councilormorillo.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Councilor Smith has brought last minute amendments to the Keep Portland Housed Amendment and it cuts into the social housing fund to give money to organizations of her choosing, whose proposals have not gone through any vetting. This is pork barrel politics and that's not a compliment.
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Matt Royer 🤘🏼 @mattroyer.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
You know I knew that Door Dash woman looked familiar
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Ryan Haas @ryanjhaas.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
For more than a week, Amazon has managed to keep a death at its Troutdale, Oregon, facility out of public view. Workers I spoke to are pissed.
thewesternedge.media
‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility
A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.
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Oregon Justice Resource Center @ojrcenter.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
NEW from us + @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social Policy Advocacy Clinic + CLEAR Clinic: Our deep dive into the data shows tens of thousands of Oregonians are dealing with a billion-dollar burden of court fines and fees debt. Read our report, out today: shorturl.at/Bee5i
The Price of Justice in Oregon: Rethinking Court-Ordered Monetary Sanctions.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Inside the Whipple Concentration Camp Credit: 50501 Minnesota
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Sure, I spent the '80s watching action movies that were mostly military revenge fantasies about the Middle East. But then I went to college and spent the '90s watching movies mostly about Tehran schoolgirls trying to accomplish various simple tasks. The Iranian New Wave would fix a lot of people.
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Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
A new threat to Portlanders' housing stability: federal rent cuts to immigrant households. This change, which will impact roughly 300 households, could be difference between $1,500 and $750 in monthly financial help.
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Councilor Candace Avalos @counciloravalos.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
PCEF funds are not a slush fund. PCEF funds are for climate action. They are for environmental justice – for helping the communities I represent in East Portland. We should not be bending the rules to fund projects that were never part of that promise, or we risk losing the public’s trust.
oregonlive.com
Portland officials want climate cash for the Blazers arena. They’re eyeing it for the mayor’s homeless shelters, too
First the Moda Center, now Keith Wison’s signature initiative: internal budget scenarios show officials seeking the city’s clean energy fund for millions in programs unrelated to its core climate miss...
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Councilor Angelita Morillo @councilormorillo.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
As a top official, I was not invited to these meetings hmmm 😂 “Top city officials have held a weekly “Project Mt. Hood” meeting since at least early November focused on a taxpayer funded renovation of the Moda Center, currently estimated at $600 million, according to a review of public calendars.”
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OPB @opb.org · 01/04/2026
Amazon is one of 17 total defendants, including 10 previously unnamed ones, in Pearson v. Port of Morrow, a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in February 2024 by several Morrow County residents who cannot drink their nitrate-contaminated water.
opb.org
Amazon to pay $20.5 million settlement over northeast Oregon nitrate pollution
The tech giant has denied allegations that it contributed to contaminated groundwater in Morrow County impacting well users.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 31/03/2026
The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today. Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere. Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
A staggering new finding from Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies: since 2001, the money left over each month for lower-income renters—after paying rent and utilities—has fallen 60 percent to a record low of $210. $210 left over for food, healthcare, childcare, and everything else.
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pdxwhinemom.bsky.social @pdxwhinemom.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
I love you Astoria!
Picture of a small town highway with a line of cars slowing down to honk in support of a no kings protest where hundreds of people are holding up signs.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/03/2026
“I wish I would have known that I could speak up.” “I wish I knew that I could ask for a nurse to be present.” As we’ve reported on sexual misconduct by OB-GYNs, many women told us they didn’t know what was normal. We created this guide with the help of providers, patients and experts.
propublica.org
Concerned About Your OB-GYN Visit? A Guide to What Should Happen — and What Shouldn’t.
As we’ve reported on sexual misconduct by OB-GYNs, many women told us they didn’t know what was normal. With the help of providers, patients and experts, we created this guide.
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Portland DSA @portlanddsa.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Tina Kotek created a “prosperity council” full of conservatives and corporate types who very predictably told her to cut taxes and do more corporate giveaways. We’re just doing repackaged Reaganism over and over again. These people — and Gov. Kotek — are very unserious and ill equipped to lead.
oregonlive.com
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Justin (seasonal) @justinskolnick.com · 25/03/2026
In 2020, the Portland City Auditor’s office found that the City’s oversight of its own Enhanced Services Districts (ESDs) was virtually nonexistent. That meant the City was basically facilitating a de facto property tax on residents for the benefit of private corporations with no evident ROI
portland.gov
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We're Skroob @pseudonymble.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
"Homelessness is not just people living on the streets and in shelters, Goldstone says. It’s a “spectrum of insecurity” that includes people living in their cars or in filthy, extended-stay motels, or sleeping on the floors of relatives’ overcrowded apartments."
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The Amazing World of Tomorrow
A comic strip titled The Amazing World of Tomorrow.
A food delivery robot cooler drives down a sidewalk.
It crashes into a rental scooter. 
It backs up.
It crashes into the rental scooter again. The scooter wobbles.
The scooter falls to the ground as the food delivery robot backs up again.
A driverless taxi crashes into both the scooter and the food delivery robot sending them flying.
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pdxwhinemom.bsky.social @pdxwhinemom.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
What was the actual song Scheana choreographed her first post nuptial appearance to during her first wedding? #vanderpumpRules
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Ms Rachel talking to Deiver Henao, a 9yo in an immigration detention center www.instagram.com/reel/DVzUzoz... What a world
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/03/2026
Our analysis, which shows that more women nearly bled to death during miscarriage after Texas banned abortion, adds to a growing body of reporting revealing that maternal outcomes have gotten worse under bans. (Published July 2025)
propublica.org
Miscarriage Is Increasingly Dangerous for Women in Texas, Our Analysis Shows. Here’s How We Did It.
Using seven years of hospital discharge data, we found that the number of blood transfusions during emergency room visits for first-trimester miscarriage shot up by 54% since Texas banned abortion.
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pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Well it makes sense now that we know both Brian Owendoff and Laurie Wimmer were brain washing my colleagues into thinking “the race card” move was a tactic. We’re all the same style of progressive though, no real difference among people politically lol www.portlandmercury.com/news/2026/03...
portlandmercury.com
In the Shadows: Records Show Labor Leader’s Campaign to Influence City Councilors
Labor Council Secretary Laurie Wimmer privately suggested councilors sue the city to stop “MAGA of the left” from choosing council president.
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Amy Wheeler @amynew.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Today I learned here in Portland teachers are being asked to either take 3 furlough days or cut 170 full time teaching positions. My son is in a blended class of 4/5th graders because they didn’t have enough money for another teacher. Fuck off
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 05/03/2026
Republicans are using kids as a smokescreen for what Big Tech lobbyists want: a national surveillance program to harvest our data with zero protections for people and their privacy. We must fight this dangerous expansion of surveillance technology.
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 06/03/2026
WaPo opinion piece that ran today:

Evangelicals are missing from the halls of power. That's a problem.
The lack of evangelical Christians at America's most prestigious institutions fuels mistrust.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
nashvillebanner.com
ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner
Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.
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Steph Routh (she/they) @stephrouth.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Just in time for tomorrow's Oregon Joint Subcomm on Capital Construction, let's oppose the transfer of bicycle tax revenue et al. from the Multimodal Active Transportation Fund to highway maintenance! @ortrailscoalition.bsky.social makes your testimony easy: mailchi.mp/oregontrails... 1/4
mailchi.mp
Urgent Action Alerts to Protect Oregon Community Paths and Recreation Waivers!
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
If you're curious to learn more, check out the incredible @immdefenseproject.bsky.social resource on ICE ruses, which they've been updating for more than a decade. I remember being so grateful it existed when the situation above happened to my client, because it validated my "WTF" to the situation.
immigrantdefenseproject.org
ICE Ruses - Immigrant Defense Project
Learn more about ICE's use of ruses in investigating and arresting non-citizens.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 26/02/2026
1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses. Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked. Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...
Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses
"The legislature did not include a grace period."
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
This is very good reporting that sheds light on just how small the extremely pro-Trump online right really is. The online right is totally astroturfed. The White House's own staffers are running meme accounts to make them look more popular than they are. www.wired.com/story/a-whit...
But this isn’t just a regular account. Johnny MAGA appears to actually be a White House staffer named Garrett Wade who works for the Trump administration as a rapid response manager, helping to run the very same White House account his anonymous MAGA account amplifies. A phone number associated with Wade is linked to Johnny MAGA, according to a WIRED review of publicly available records, and the connection was confirmed by a source close to the White House.
Wade and the White House did not respond to requests for comment.The Johnny MAGA account was created in September 2021, according to its X profile. (It originally used a different handle, which referenced Wade’s birth year, according to records reviewed by WIRED.) While the account’s earliest available posts focused on NFTs, it has been a consistent pro-Trump presence since at least 2022.
The operator of the Johnny MAGA account has not disclosed an official relationship with the White House while operating the Johnny MAGA X account. Multiple media outlets, including Mother Jones, TownHall, and the New York Post, have all linked out to posts on the Johnny MAGA account seemingly as organic reflections of public sentiment on political issues.
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