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Portland Policy Consensus @pdxpolicyconsensus.bsky.social · 12h

Portland City Council candidate Kellie Torres gave two notably different answers about PCEF funding on October 7 and 8. Here are both exchanges:

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Valarie Smith @valarie.bsky.social · 20h

“What if Oregon’s manifesto, going forward, were simple? Keep the air of this place smelling like the woods. Make the water so clear you can see to the bottom. Keep the coastline open forever. Make sure Oregon stays wild: in the woods, in the cities.” oregonhumanities.org/rll/magazine...

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Jamey Evenstar @jameyevenstar.bsky.social · 15h

Went to a Sen.Pham party last night and was awed by a room filled with environmental, housing, and labor advocates who were there to celebrate a fierce and effective fighter for working class families. Thank you, @khanhphamfororegon.com your support and for all you do for Oregon families like mine!

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Xavier D. Stickler @xavierdstickler.bsky.social · 21h

Is the idea of Ballard/West Seattle being automated light metro completely and truly dead? Or is there still a chance there?

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Xavier D. Stickler @xavierdstickler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Okay fine. You were right, I admit it.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It’s so cool how the modern conservative movement is antithetically opposed to property rights when it comes to legalizing homebuilding

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Evelyn 💗 @evieevolving.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Extend the WES to Salem

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Donald Trump has a significantly harsher “death to America” stance than the IRGC does at this point I think

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Xavier D. Stickler @xavierdstickler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Because by Q2 2027, we need to start mobilizing at the scale @koriander.bsky.social is talking about. We have a narrow timeframe to find a candidate, and then a long road of introducing them to Portlanders.

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Xavier D. Stickler @xavierdstickler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is a great plan, but I fear it is greatly imperiled by the eventual discontinuation of N-Line Sounder service. It’s gonna suck having a mixed use community that’s not a convenient one-seat rail ride away from downtown.

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Xavier D. Stickler @xavierdstickler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I’m aware of the daunting task that lies ahead. Equally as crucial as mobilizing this movement is picking the right candidate to take on Wilson and the establishment. By my estimation, we have 6 months to accomplish that portion of the process. And I’m at a loss.

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Xavier D. Stickler @xavierdstickler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I think we need to this, AND we also need to find Portland a better mayor. That’s likely a much more urgent task.

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Xavier D. Stickler @xavierdstickler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I know it is not the best use of my time following his bullshit, but I cannot get enough of this guy's derangement. He's such a dumpster fire, the burning embers of his sanity illuminate perfectly his irrelevance.

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Xavier D. Stickler @xavierdstickler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

After being revealed to be a bigot and just generally bitchmade, Brian Owendoff is now saying that *allowing the free market the choice to build multifamily housing in one of the most walkable, transit-oriented areas of the metro* is... (checks notes)... a radical socialist plot? Genius. No notes!

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Xavier D. Stickler @xavierdstickler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ding ding ding!!! You are correct! This is the take. We have a winner. Unfortunately I don’t have a jet ski to send you home with, but know the intention is there.

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Xavier D. Stickler @xavierdstickler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Was up in the club and a guy asked if I had any ‘Special K.’ I replied that I did, but that he was at home 🏠 ♥️. (Special K stands for Special Kitty 🐈‍⬛ )

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Xavier D. Stickler @xavierdstickler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

JVP is a heat-seeking missile for the wrong choice/decision. A magic 8 ball would be a better office holder than her, because at least it would get it right *some* of the time.

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Xavier D. Stickler @xavierdstickler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

In my mind, a return to work for MultCo workers doesn't make much sense. Most of them aren't downtown, so there isn't a 'central city revitalization' angle here. JVP is basically just mandating a bunch of civil servants consume gas during a combination energy/climate crisis.

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Sameer Kanal @kanalforportland.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If you weren't motivated before, this is a good reason to support a Senate takeover (especially in Maine). Going from 6-3 to 5-3 for 2 years may not seem like much, but every step counts.

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Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Portland City Councilor Eric Zimmerman lied on a right-wing podcast claiming that six councilors want to investigate Oregon companies who do business with Jewish companies. It’s crazy what conservatives are allowed to get away with in this town, making light of real issues like antisemitism.

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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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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending

a graph of roadway and mass transit lights

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Xavier D. Stickler @xavierdstickler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I know this post will make sense to only like 1, maybe 2 of my followers, but 35' and 30' buses are part of the queer community (35' buses are, specially, bisexual).

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Xavier D. Stickler @xavierdstickler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Awe damn I’m just seeing this! Jordan and I were down today.

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Xavier D. Stickler @xavierdstickler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I just got an ad saying the Street Trust endorsed Julia Brim-Edwards. What the fuck are we doing, gang?

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Xavier D. Stickler @xavierdstickler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m glad there is going to be a debate! Last I heard, neither one was going to attend an event the other was.

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Xavier D. Stickler @xavierdstickler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

She’s literally refusing to debate Drazan. She’s going out of her way to convince democrats not to show up. A cardboard cut-out of her would be a better candidate at this point.

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Xavier D. Stickler @xavierdstickler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the take. No doubt we can’t let another Kotek occur in 4 years, but we need to keep Kotek to ensure that’s still left a state to govern in 4 years.

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Terry J. Harris @trryjhrrs.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This measure should demonstrate (to all sides) that there are hard limits to allyship as the only organizing principle. This is a bad idea, badly conceived, and very badly drafted - and some prominent allies (who I will continue to support) should have said so, like a year ago.

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the airos look nice, and will solve an urgent operational problem that’s consistently degrading the passenger experience on the cascades — a win is a win! HOWEVER

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Xavier D. Stickler @xavierdstickler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If only had someone thought of this sooner!

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Xavier D. Stickler @xavierdstickler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Exactly. Now is the time to hammer hard against data centers, admit some mistakes in permitting so many, lean in hard on fostering business by bolstering work/middle class families, and maybe even do some GND stuff. Dems love the specter of returns on progressive infrastructure investments.

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Xavier D. Stickler @xavierdstickler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It varied, but basically all some permutation of “high taxes/low services (or at least low-impact, low visibility service). Add in a reputation for being bad for business, a stooge to public sector unions, and personally corrupt (ie the wife scandal) and you’ve got an unhappy dem electorate.

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Xavier D. Stickler @xavierdstickler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I was holding out for what you’re talking about until this weekend. These conversations represent a small sample size, but we’re had with people who I never would’ve expected to vote Republican in the current environment.

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Xavier D. Stickler @xavierdstickler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Kotek needs a sea change in her policy agenda immediately.

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Xavier D. Stickler @xavierdstickler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think it’s officially time to freak the fuck about the governor’s race. In the last 3 days, I have spoken with at least half a dozen lifelong urban democrats who say they’re planning on voting for Christine Drazan just to wake the Democratic Party of Oregon up to their discontent.

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Xavier D. Stickler @xavierdstickler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I despise that it is the left who is constantly seen as being uncompromising and self-righteous when, in my experience, I have never met someone who is more certain of their own moral and intellectual superiority than a centrist arguing for the status quo, and doing so as if that’s being “neutral.”

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Xavier D. Stickler @xavierdstickler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I have tried very hard in thread to not invalidate your perspective but instead to ask you to broaden yourself, and I’ve been met with condensation dismissal. You’re not a good faith operator, which is probably why leftists don’t fucking give you any back. It sucks!

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Xavier D. Stickler @xavierdstickler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You can’t say Angelita makes you feel like an enemy and then turn around and literally say she’s the enemy!

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Xavier D. Stickler @xavierdstickler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is just such an incredibly bad faith take. Equating some of the people who are fighting the hardest for immigrant communities, against climate change, and against oligarchs with those who are perpetrating that violence isn’t just unproductive, it’s dangerous.

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amb @amb.fyi · 27/09/2026

feels like there’s multiple compounding mammoth economic financial disasters that are all are about to explode right as the dems take charge, the big ugly federal bill chief along them. It’s gonna suck and also new dem leadership needs to be willing to go big and not shirk from meeting the moment

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Xavier D. Stickler @xavierdstickler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’d appreciate a return of good faith assumption.I don’t appreciate when you chalk up my perspective to “having a government no one understands” or that I’m “reading from a script.”

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Xavier D. Stickler @xavierdstickler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Also, my intent is not to mansplain, but rather explain my perspective. I’m not dismissing your guys’ opinions. I’m not calling you “out of touch boomer.” I don’t think you’re asking the right questions, but I’m trying not to invalidate your perspective.

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Xavier D. Stickler @xavierdstickler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I don’t block people who argue in good faith and aren’t fascists. Again, I don’t love my perspective being dismissed—I find it very condescending and I hate being talked down to—but I understand thats part of discussing things online.

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Xavier D. Stickler @xavierdstickler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I want to understand your concerns and perspective, Emma. But I also want you to understand mine. I may disagree with mods on council less than I do Trump, but when we disagree, I want someone who will be a strong voice for my values whether it’s a bike lane or a federal omnibus bill.

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