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Plant good seeds. Water regularly. Watch mother work her magic.

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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 21m
You may have heard that PPS superintendent is planning to close 14 schools what you may not know is that she is funded by a right wing group wanting to close public schools and privatize education. So are many other superintendents around the country. Rally tonight 5pm 501 N Dixon.
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Portland Public Schools proposes closing up to 14 schools amid declining enrollment
Portland Public Schools unveils 2 consolidation plans to tackle declining enrollment, with up to 14 school closures on the table. Community feedback starts now, board vote in December, changes begin f...
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Seth Caddy 🎃👻 @gingercaddy.bsky.social · 46m
🚨 Christine Drazan would compromise Oregon’s court system. Installing judges that are against human rights (workers) but will grant corporations and billionaires anything they desire. Oregon can’t afford a Republican in charge.
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Burns4PA @tmarie458.bsky.social · 5h
We all have or know children, they deserve better than what we are currently doing to our planet.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 18h
Corporations and billionaires don’t want you to know what political messages they are funding. That’s why they make the info so difficult to find. PaidForBy.info changes the game. It’s 100% free to use. Please check it out and spread the word!
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Garden Dad @portlandpride.bsky.social · 12h
We have to fight to protect Oregon. Right now, that means re-electing Tina Kotek for Governor.
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Jérémie Naudé @jeremie-n.cpesr.fr · 05/10/2026
In France, high-school children are protesting to obtain better conditions for studying. The Ministry has requested that "there should be no restrictions on the use of force, and no instructions not to use all available weapons". Several children have suffered mutilations to their eyes or hands.
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Garden Dad @portlandpride.bsky.social · 15h
Portland has such beautiful gardens
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Portland City Councilor Jamie Dunphy @councilordunphy.bsky.social · 17h
I am so tired of this false media narrative about a divided council. In 2026 we have voted 395 times so far. 59 of those votes ended in a 6-6 tie. Only two of those tied votes got a mayoral tie break. The rest were budget amendments or the presidential election. Don't believe the media hype
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Garden Dad @portlandpride.bsky.social · 16h
Can I just say how amazing it is that my city councilor is just a working class Portlander trying to do right by other working class Portlanders?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
By moving to the “center,” Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Donald Trump: widening inequality, economic insecurity, and the unchecked political power of corporations and the rich. Political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy.
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Seth Caddy 🎃👻 @gingercaddy.bsky.social · 22h
Dennis Hastert, the longest serving GOP house speaker, is dead.
I FEEL LIKE GEN-Z MAY NOT KNOW THAT REPUBLICANS HAD AN ACTUAL PEDOPHILE AS SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE UNTIL 2007.
LET'S REMIND THEM.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22h
Why is 🇺🇸 media not reporting on this 128 day Albanian protest of Kushner and Ivanka’s insane corruption?
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Garden Dad @portlandpride.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Listen to this sick fuck justifying the slaughter of babies/children. Every accusation he makes is 100% projection. Israel is a violent, racist, imperialist/expansionist, genocidal, occupation regime.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
REP. @rokhanna.bsky.social: “Billionaire spending has gone from 0.3% 20 years ago to 20% — corroding our politics… if we would see clearly, politicians would say there is genocide in Gaza, and we’d zero out aid to 🇮🇱 and stop giving them weapons killing children.” (H/T @acyn.bsky.social )
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hawaii enacted a law that could neuter Citizens United. Montana could soon follow suit via a ballot referendum. Here's what you should know about the plans to get Big Money out of politics — and how they could be replicated where you live.
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Could This Actually End Citizens United?
Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United.No Supreme Court ruling or constituti
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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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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Good concrete example of the benefit of having a Democratic governor under Trump
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Tina Kotek @tinakotek.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Trump refused to pay for SNAP benefits during the federal shutdown last year, cutting off food assistance for 750,000 Oregonians. I declared a hunger emergency, and @danrayfield.bsky.social and I took him to court and won. Benefits were back in people’s hands that night.
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Sameer Kanal @kanalforportland.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
We're one month out from Election Day. Listen to Willie. Vote for change this year.
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Garden Dad @portlandpride.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Kotek has my vote. As a veteran, I was outraged when the President abused our service members to manufacture a false narrative and incite violence - literally in my neighborhood. Governor Kotek managed a difficult, dangerous and unnecessary situation admirably.
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Garden Dad @portlandpride.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A gf started telling me tonight about her coworkers all weirdly obsessed with some Queen Princess Kitty they’re all reading. I interjected a little too defensively, “her name is HRM Princess Donut the Queen Anne Chonk!”
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Garden Dad @portlandpride.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
1 in 3 Oregonians and 56% of the state's children are enrolled in OHP. It’s getting increasingly harder to find rural Oregonians healthcare when they need it.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
International lawyer: “Stop pretending silence is moral… Silence makes this possible… say the word: Genocide.” From @DiegoParrhesia 🧵
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bus enjoyer @intersections.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Brought to you by: Breakside Brewing Kachka The People's Courts Sebastiano's Le Pigeon Mother's Bistro Papa Haydn (Don't spend your money at these places, and tell them why you won't!)
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Seth Caddy 🎃👻 @gingercaddy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Christine Drazan’s condemnation of Mitch Green has made it undeniable which city officials are Republicans or at least republican-adjacent.
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Garden Dad @portlandpride.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If you didn’t already know, Christine Drazan intends to cut healthcare for rural Oregonians.
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ProfMasseyGO @profmasseygo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And I’m still calling for Portland Police Commissioner Bob Day to resign for breaking state law while in public uniform. Bob Day did so by using his uniform to interfere with @councilorgreen.bsky.social reelection campaign.
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Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
ICYM here are some of Eric Zimmerman's insults to the dozens of people testifying in favor of a universal human & enviro rights screen on the city investment policy, which a) doesn't name countries b) the council already voted to develop. These are outright lies about our (public record) testimony.
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Betsy Z @betsyzz.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Oregon for Human Rights coalition is calling for a broad human rights screen on the City's investments. I was one of those Jewish elders testifying in support, representing Coalition member Jobs with Justice @jwjpdx.bsky.social. Councilor Zimmerman is calling me antisemitic. Wild.
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Tina Kotek @tinakotek.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
FACT CHECK: Christine Drazan backed a bill to dismantle the vote-by-mail system Oregonians have trusted for more than 25 years, pushing Trump’s voter suppression agenda right here in Oregon.
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Tina Kotek @tinakotek.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Christine Drazan just said she favors cutting wages for farmworkers.
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James Belcher @jamesbelcher.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I cannot wait to vote against @councilorzimmerman.bsky.social. Smearing people who speak up for human rights as anti-semitic is a patently bad-faith move.
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“Weaponized Charges of Antisemitism”: Human Rights Advocates Reject Councilors’ Characterizations of Investment Policy - Portland Mercury
“You get two Jews in a room, you’re going to get three different opinions,” Kelcie Smolin Grega, a Jewish resident in City Council District 4 says. It’s an old joke—one that was echoed by others who s...
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Tina Kotek @tinakotek.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Christine Drazan wants tax breaks for the very wealthy while everyday Oregonians foot the bill. I believe very wealthy people and big corporations should pay their fair share so every Oregonian’s life can be better.
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Marnie Glickman @marniemix.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Portlanders stopped the Mount Hood Freeway and turned another freeway into Tom McCall Waterfront Park. Oregonians made our beaches public and free. We can and must make the CEI Hub safe.
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Garden Dad @portlandpride.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Very disappointed in Kotek weakly asking if she is allowed to rebut Drazen’s obvious obfuscation on reproductive rights. Get aggress about protecting our rights, @tinakotek.bsky.social
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Garden Dad @portlandpride.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Drazen is right about how much we’ve let existing data centers get away with, but everything about her record indicates she would have been/will be worse on the issue.
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Garden Dad @portlandpride.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Despite everything else they said about data centers, both Drazen and Kotek talk about these future data centers as if they are a given. I don’t like that.
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Garden Dad @portlandpride.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So Drazen’s solution to everything seems to be, “Privatize it and reduce the taxes on the buyers”.
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Garden Dad @portlandpride.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I don’t believe Oregonians are so naïve to think Kotek is solely responsible for the affordability crisis.
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Garden Dad @portlandpride.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Drazen is right, affordability is the #1 issue for Oregon families, but correctly identifying a problem is NOT a solution,
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When you learn about how cops and federal agents in the US are trained by the IOF, when you learn that 96% of Congress takes Israel lobby $$, you understand why what is being done in Palestine is now being done here.
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This is the Nexus of Evil
YouTube video by Parkrose Resistance
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Blue Ted @vicsq.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It has taken too long. And too late for hundreds of thousands of innocent Palestinians. But better late than never. substack.com/@peoplemustb...
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Free All Humans (@peoplemustbefree)
The Irish President declares Israel a Terror State 👏👏 thank you Catherine Connolly👇. Common Irish Americans, your power in sheer numbers in overwhelming in the America, there are more than 33 Million...
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Garden Dad @portlandpride.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A human being lost their life and @oregonian.com wrote a weird, combination dog obituary/shelter hit piece implying the deceased killed the K9 - Now we know law enforcement extrajudicially killed both the man and the dog. This is not journalism - it’s shameless copaganda.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy. When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice. The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If an internationally-wanted war criminal (whose forces have killed Americans) comes to US soil, attacks Americans (including the mayor of the largest city), and then says "Remember the beepers" in reference to a terrorist attack he committed — how can that be taken as anything other than a threat?
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League of Women Voters of Portland, Oregon @lwvpdx.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Congress, do your job! oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/09/23/c...
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Commentary: 'Congress, do your job:' Checks and balances depend on voters, too • Oregon Capital Chronicle
“Congress, do your job.” That was a repeated refrain at this summer’s convention of the nonpartisan League of Women Voters in Columbus, Ohio. Whether Republican, Democrat, Independent or every member ...
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Garden Dad @portlandpride.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
How dare a wanted war criminal come to our nation and foment hate. And how shameful that we allowed it.
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Garden Dad @portlandpride.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The fact that Netanyahu wasn’t arrested today is a damning indictment of the U.S.
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