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Brandon Mullen @brandonmullen.com · 14/10/2026
It's okay not to endorse someone. To use ink to air out what reads more like a schoolyard greivance than an editorial board's collective insight is not.
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Councilor Candace Avalos @counciloravalos.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Important to note: "There are reports of an uptick in detentions in the Portland metro area, including 10 yesterday. Three of those were in the city of Portland itself. Advocates are currently calling it a confirmed surge and are still assessing the situation."
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scott benjamin 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @scottbenjam.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Wouldn’t that be nice.
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Peter Flax @pflax1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tens of millions of American motorists believe there's nothing wrong with texting at a stoplight. Or driving 73 in a 60mph zone. Or changing lanes without signaling. Or rolling right on red without coming to a full stop. But somebody has to do something about cyclists who don't follow the rules.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 29/09/2026
Two headlines, same day. A livable wage is essential for workers and good for business. Proud that Seattle continues to lead the way.
Two headlines from the same day day published by The Seattle Times overlaid two photos of Seattle. The top one reads, "Seattle ranks fourth among world's top cities." The bottom one reads, "Seattle announces 2027 minimum wage," highlighting the increase to $22.14/hour.
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Andy @cosmariner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Why is Fox running propaganda ads paid for by the US government during an NFL game? And why is the US government paying for propaganda ads without anyone asking how much Fox is getting paid to run propaganda for Trump?
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OMC Panda @omcpanda.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What is this Paid for by US Government commercial airing on NFL football games that shows Trump walking and the audio is one of his uglier speeches? JFC that’s inappropriate.
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Mike P @mikep55.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Watching #NFL on #Fox up came #Trump with a #Political ad?? Paid for by US Gov. 🤔 #WTF How is this legal??
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Zakir Khan @mzk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Monday morning thread on police misconduct reform: Protests in Portland started in May 2020 because of the murder of George Floyd. Every night brought a new example of police misconduct that needed a new state law to stop!
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
On the afternoon of September 20, 2026, a group of right-wing agitators sprayed chemical irritants into a crowd of protesters outside of a bar in Northeast Portland, Oregon.
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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
f) no, he's right
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"The commies stole your morning wood, private, and we are going to Greenland to get it back."
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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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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Arguing a strong interest in protecting state-wide natural resources and wildlife, a coalition of State Attorneys General have filed two lawsuits to stop Trump’s quiet attempt to strip more protections from the Endangered Species Act this week. More: substack.com/profile/2357...
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Amee Vanderpool (@shero)
Arguing a strong interest in protecting its state-wide natural resources, wildlife, and environment, a coalition of State Attorneys General have filed two lawsuits in response to the Trump administrat...
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scott benjamin 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @scottbenjam.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It would gut the Endangered Species Act
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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Councilor Eric Zimmerman went on a local podcast and blatantly lied about his colleagues and the policies they support. He said, "We have 6 councilors who said they want to investigate Oregon businesses who do business with Jewish companies." This is a lie and is downright slanderous.
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No More Freeways @nomorefreewayspdx.com · 15/09/2026
We get the traffic congestion that we plan for. So why is Oregon spending tens of billions of dollars to add multiple miles of new lanes of freeway through the Rose Quarter and across the Columbia River? Every mile we build just ends up in more motorists polluting, stuck in gridlock.
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Allan @arudwick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
bricksneedmortar.substack.com/p/leaving-an... smart take: if the city was trying to encourage more transit use for a month- targetting city employees with a year of free transit is probably lower ROI than targetting low-income downtown workers
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Leaving an Opportunity on The Table - Why Are We Addressing Issues in a Vacuum
One Way Portland Could Meet its Climate Goals while Spurring Economic Development
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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 28/08/2026
Portlanders, if you like things like “accountability for police,” some businesses you might consider avoiding: Mother’s Bistro Le Pigeon Pink Martini Kachka Flor Wines Phuket Cafe Canard Langbaan Allora Hat Yai Papa Haydn Khao Soi Eem OK Chicken PaaDee Yaowarat Freeland Spirits Fields B&G Wilf’s
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ryan @ryanpbratt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
the Empire State Building saluting Dolly at 925 this evening. excuse me while I sob a little more.
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Dissent Magazine @dissentmag.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Police union militants in the 1960s took the language and, in some cases, the political repertoires of protest from some of the movements active at the time, even when in their day-to-day work they were on the other side of the barricade.
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The Origins of Police Power - Dissent Magazine
An interview with Stuart Schrader, author of Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves, about how U.S. police unions built themselves into a formidable political force, and whether the movement is more fragile than it appears.
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Dutch Cycling Embassy @dutchcycling.nl · 25/08/2026
Commuting to the train station, Dutch Style!
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This is a related and expanded graphic which emphasizes an important point: Higher speeds reduce your visibility and reaction time, making it more likely you'll hit someone or something, and then when you *do* hit them, it's more likely to be fatal.
A graphic that says Why Speed Matters

Below that are two stats:

Drivers yield 75% of the time while traveling 20 mph
Drivers yield only 17% of the time when traveling 37 mph

The next line shows that drivers have a much wider field of vision at 15 mph as compared to 30 to 40 mph.

Finally, there are three stats:

9 out of 10 pedestrians survive when hit by a car traveling 20 mph
5 out of 10 survive at 30
1 out of 10 surive at 40
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J.C. Bradbury @jcbradbury.com · 20/08/2026
50 years of economics research is "an incredible fiction." This is epic denialism.
Lucas said it’s “an incredible fiction to suggest that by actually investing in economic development, you’re detracting from everything else.” “I think public-private partnership and balance is an important part of what we do, and that is what we do each and every day,” he said.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
JFC! This is not a car crash! This is a driver killing and injuring people on bikes with a car.
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2 college cyclists killed and 7 injured in Tennessee car crash
Two members of a university cycling team have been killed and seven others were injured in a car crash in northeastern Tennessee.
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tigard-stripes.bsky.social @tigard-stripes.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Oof, that headline though. "Two speeding muscle cars kill teen girls" Autonomous vehicles strike again? Speed governors now!
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Meanwhile, the US was the only country in the world to oppose a recent UN declaration about the need to reduce crash deaths. The vote was 162 to 1.
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Rockom Sockom NoBots @rockom.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
PORTLAND URBANIST ALERT! How should Oregon transportation dollars be spent? The Rebuilding Our Transportation Vision Workgroup is reviewing transportation needs, funding challenges, priorities, and tradeoffs to provide recommendations that will inform action in the 2027 legislative session.
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Rebuilding Our Transportation Vision Survey
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Eat_bike_explore @eatbikeexplore.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Every elected leader who agreed to hand public money to help a billionaire’s basketball team needs to be voted out www.portlandmercury.com/news/portlan...
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Portland Offers Blazers a Fully-Funded Arena Renovation, But Will It Be Enough? - Portland Mercury
Amid raucous calls from protesters not to spend millions renovating the Moda Center, Portland City Council approved a lease term sheet to send to the Portland Trail Blazers Wednesday, August 12. The c...
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Carrie Leonard, PhD @carrieleonard.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This whole Moda center thing — status check: I’m still enraged. How can our elected ‘leaders’ not see the direct connections between a thriving downtown commercial area and frequent transit service.
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No More Freeways @nomorefreewayspdx.com · 14/08/2026
"How much is too much?" No More Freeways co-founder @chrissmith.us testified today to the Oregon Transportation Commission about the latest $3 billion cost estimate for ODOT's proposed Rose Quarter Freeway Expansion.
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Rip City Not Rip Off @ripcitynotripoff.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"One thumb up to the council for at least trying to get something significant for taxpayers, rather than just rearranging deck chairs — how much they stick to their guns from here will determine if they can earn the other thumb." www.fieldofschemes.com/2026/08/13/2...
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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.cryptoanarchy.network · 13/08/2026
Similarly, @counciloravalos.bsky.social is our rep, and she did us really proud today. Thank you!
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Community Protection Broadcast @cpb.works · 12/08/2026
Multnomah County voters will never live down the absolute worst DA election decision, by electing Nathan Vasquez over Mike Schmidt as Multnomah County DA. Vasquez has blatantly rejected the reality of our public defender deficit, while aggressively targeting ICE protestors.
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Portland ICE protester found guilty in trial over her clash with cop
Catherine Esperanza, 30, is convicted of interfering with a police officer during a chaotic protest in front of the ICE building.
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Councilor Angelita Morillo @councilormorillo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Our revised amendment required the City administrator and Chief Financial Officer to explain where the money could come from, what Portlanders might give up to pay for it, how borrowing could affect other priorities, and what public benefit we get for every dollar invested.
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Seth Caddy 🎃👻 @gingercaddy.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
What I’m getting out of this city council discussion of the 2026-280 gift to Tom Dundon is that the people who bill themselves as “serious business types” haven’t the first clue about business fundamentals.
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Councilor Candace Avalos @counciloravalos.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I hope our negotiators are willing to put that on the table, because for me, private capital contribution in the Moda is a minimum.
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Dr. Jennifer Krauel @freetailed.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
H A N D S O F F P C E F! 💥 PCEF is for people, not billionaires
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Kat Mahoney @kmahoneylaw.com · 11/08/2026
one more taxfoundation.org/blog/sports-...
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Taxpayers Shoulder a Heavy Burden for Sports Stadium Subsidies
Sports stadium subsidies are salient political gimmicks designed to appear as if politicians are providing tangible benefits to taxpayers. The empirical evidence shows repeatedly that stadium subsidie...
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mitchgreen.bsky.social @mitchgreen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
🚨PHD economist JC Bradbury of Kennesaw State University studies stadium deals, and says the Moda deal on the table is NOT a market-rate deal, as the mayor and others have said, but rather a total outlier, where the people have to sign the check without knowing what they’re even paying for.
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Khanh Pham for Oregon @khanhphamfororegon.com · 11/08/2026
Oregon simply won't have enough money to fix our state's crumbling roads and bridges and restore statewide transit service if we continue to write blank checks for ODOT's proposed multibillion dollar megaprojects. #orpol #orleg
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Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
“The Moda Center renovation deal has brought out the worst in the people of Portland. There’s a palpable sense of desperation among many that if the Blazers leave, it’ll be the final blow to a once great city.” I wrote an essay on my observations of the Moda Center deal. Read more:
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Moda Center Depression
Congrats Tom Dundon, the Blazers deal has gone about as bad as it could possibly go
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Councilor Candace Avalos @counciloravalos.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I still am confused about what the point was of having a council meeting to discuss the Moda term sheet if apparently there was nothing to discuss for half of my colleagues. Zero out of 11 amendments passed.
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Rip City Not Rip Off @ripcitynotripoff.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
This is my final word on the Moda Center saga. This Wednesday, the vote to spend $1.1B of taxpayer funds is going to pass. If you think you ever had a say in the matter, you were lied to. Everyone got what they wanted in the end. Everyone but you. www.ripcitynotripoff.com/everyone-but...
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Everyone But You: how Portland promised $573 million in rooms the public never entered
The league was in the room. The team was in the room. Three governments were in the room. 8,000 pages of the City's own records show who wasn't — and what it cost.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The WNBA Player’s Association issued an excellent (imo) statement yesterday, stressing the league’s values and stating that they won’t be used as political pawns. The league and its individual teams might want to reach out to whoever is doing comms for the WNBPA. Just sayin.
WNBPA
A MESSAGE FROM
WNBPA PLAYER LEADERSHIP
To everyone who loves this game: The WNBPA represents 200+ individual people with different lived experiences, cultures, lifestyles, and opinions.
We embrace justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Those are the values that unite this Union and allow it to protect women's sports while creating transformational change.
Hate, abuse, and demonization of any person or group of people, including transgender people, only fuel fear, division, and harm. We will continue to have hard conversations. But we will not be used as political pawns.
Support the Players. Support the Fans. At games, notify security if you witness hateful, violent, or abusive behavior. Online, report abusive posts and drown out the bots and bad actors. At home, tell your elected officials to strengthen Title IX.
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scott benjamin 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @scottbenjam.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The lack of negotiation skills on city council has been glaring for a while now.
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Kaliko Castille @wizkaliko.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
A failure of their fiduciary responsibility. Scarcity mindset coupled with naive belief corporate social responsibility will be prioritized over pure capitalist greed. It's always funny DSA types get pegged as not understanding business when it's the Mod Squad that would lose at Monopoly.
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Voline @voline.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This is a coordinated railroading of this subsidy to Tom Dundon by the entire Oregon political class, Governor, legislature, County, and City. This stinks of corruption.
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Kat Mahoney @kmahoneylaw.com · 07/08/2026
What a fucked up day. Thank you to you and the gang who kept trying to do something good for the city.
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Councilor Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
My amendment with @counciloravalos.bsky.social to limit the City’s commitment to $120M instead of $395M given that we have exactly zero details about what our dollars will fund just failed 5-7. Had the amendment passed we could have used the Spectator Fund to bond for the $120M. Now we can’t.
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