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Raven Campbell

@ravenmcampbell.bsky.social

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Planner. Mum. Pan/bi. She/her. Prone to fangirlism. Silliness abounds. #rctid #baonpdx 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿DMs open.

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pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 1h

“The incurable condition of being a little bitch” vibes

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Raven Campbell @ravenmcampbell.bsky.social · 1h

Everyone knows the cradle catholic “I think this food is for poor people” vs adult convert “no women driving” meme. Is there anything similar for other religions?

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 2h

Part of those networks of inertia consist of people mourning/in denial/clinging to nostalgia over associations that they used to find trustworthy and perceiving their grief as the end of all trust, when it’s actually pretty straightforward to get reliable information elsewhere if you want to.

Raven Campbell @ravenmcampbell.bsky.social · 2h

Eh, it’s not them this time. It’s something bouie said.

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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 3h

a little late but what an innovation lol www.billboard.com/lists/top-10...

Billboard launched the debut strip club chart in August, and will continue to track the top-played strip club hits each month throughout the year.

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margin of error @ihaveopinions.bsky.social · 11d

heterodox, adj. Beliefs that align with the historically dominant ideology of Western countries, including racism, misogyny, and eugenics, as defined by political and business leaders and enforced by the state. eg. "Only very brave boys and girls have the courage to express such heterodox views."

Raven Campbell @ravenmcampbell.bsky.social · 3h

see that reply bouie has to that one guy blowing up

Raven Campbell @ravenmcampbell.bsky.social · 3h

Someone else wearing a mask does not harm me in any way. They do not owe me an explanation for why they are.

Raven Campbell @ravenmcampbell.bsky.social · 3h

Oh lord, because it seems to be a discourse of the day:

Personally, I'm not a universal public masker, but I absolutely will not judge anyone who does. It's just none of my business. Wearing a mask might be rational to that person at that point in time.

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Julie McGalliard @mcjulie.bsky.social · Aug 27

A bunch of people in the comments were like "no, it's not" but this one guy was convinced that the locked cases were warranted because crime in the Seattle area was out of control. I asked for specific examples of this. Mostly he cited trash and graffiti.

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Julie McGalliard @mcjulie.bsky.social · Aug 27

You know, "crime" takes place in cities at night, the buildings are tall, there's graffiti and trash everywhere, "not crime" takes place in suburbs/small towns during the day, everything is one or two stories and looks super clean, like it was just pressure-washed.

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Julie McGalliard @mcjulie.bsky.social · Aug 27

Another theory comes from something I read in The Gift of Fear, where a woman was kinda displacing the fact that she hated her job **into** a fear about going to her car alone at night. I realized that "fear of crime" is deeply embedded in our culture as "acceptable reason to dislike something"

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Julie McGalliard @mcjulie.bsky.social · Aug 27

And a lot of the time people going to a city and seeing "crime" are really not seeing any crime, what they are seeing is "things that in a movie/TV/Fox News presentation would signal crime" like, the SET DRESSING for crime and they literally don't know the difference.

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Julie McGalliard @mcjulie.bsky.social · Aug 27

Anyway, this led me to concoct a theory I call "Crime Aesthetics" which is that we have this shared cultural narrative about what "crime" looks like and it just kinda looks like urban decay and poverty, but also to an extent just looks like URBAN

Raven Campbell @ravenmcampbell.bsky.social · 4h

It's nice to know that "organized retail theft operation" is now copese for "shoplifting sting" just like how "anti-human trafficking operation" is copese for "prostitution sting"

PubliCola @publicola.bsky.social · 5h

Seattle Spent Thousands on "Organized Retail Theft" Operation at Marshall's, Arresting Five and Recovering $400 in Merchandise
The operation involved at least 10 officers and suspects were jailed for up to a week for stealing knit caps, sweatshirts, and a pet toy.
publicola.com/2025/10/14/s...

Seattle Spent Thousands on "Organized Retail Theft" Operation at Marshall's, Arresting Five and Recovering $400 in Merchandise - PubliCola

By Erica C. Barnett Last week, the Seattle Police Department announced it had completed a successful “Organized Retail Theft Operation”…

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Brittney Bush Bollay @brittneybush.bsky.social · 4h

I love this pro-worker, police-free way to reduce retail theft:
"[Long Beach]’s first-in-the-nation “Safe Stores are Staffed Stores” ordinance requires major retailers to hire more employees and limit self-checkout."

Long Beach Cracks Down on Self-Checkout to Curb Shoplifting

The city’s first-in-the-nation “Safe Stores are Staffed Stores” ordinance requires major retailers to hire more employees and limit self-checkout, drawing praise from unions and pushback from grocers.

www.governing.com

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Oct 21

"But we can't afford nice things"

Stop it. That's entirely a political choice, not economic reality.

Other choices are readily available. We should make them.

How the US Dollar’s Dominance Negates Fears About Debt and Deficits

The 2024 presidential election presents Americans with perhaps the starkest choice in our entire political history. On the one hand, Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party are running on a platform re...

www.intereconomics.eu

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Oct 21

"I'm obsessed with my kid getting into the right college"

Fund. The. Damn. Public. Universities. Like. We. Used. To.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Oct 21

"College is unaffordable"

Fund. The. Damn. Public. Universities. Like. We. Used. To.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Oct 21

👇🎯 Your regular reminder that unfunded mandate are bad, we shouldn't have them, & the actual solution to nearly <every> problem in 🇺🇸 higher education - both real & imagined - is to...

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<John Facenda voice>

...Fund.

The.

Damn.

Public.

Universities.

Like.

We.

Used.

To.

Do.

Raven Campbell @ravenmcampbell.bsky.social · 8h

what a sweet baby!

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 1d

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

Musk demands US troops be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs

www.independent.co.uk

Raven Campbell @ravenmcampbell.bsky.social · 8h

something something the perils of elite projection

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

Raven Campbell @ravenmcampbell.bsky.social · 22h

I mean even if a specialized program could be done in a charter, isn’t it more efficient to have it… in the school anyway?

Raven Campbell @ravenmcampbell.bsky.social · 22h

I’m of course all “haha no”