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Sarah Iannarone

@sarahforpdx.bsky.social

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Fighting for people who walk, bike, roll, and depend on transit to get around war-ravaged Portland, Oregon. Fmly ran a global urban best practices exchange at Portland State. Recovered chef & restaurateur. #TacticalOptimist #EverydayAntifascist

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Sarah Iannarone @sarahforpdx.bsky.social · 13d

This morning, Rep. Mark Gamba and I have an op-ed in the @oregonian.com responding to the bare bones transpo funding bill #OrLEg passed Mon. We need significant, strategic investment in our infrastructure - it's critical both for safety and to support our economy.

www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2025...

Opinion: Oregon needs strategic transportation investments, not stopgaps

While legislators authorized some new funding for transportation, the need for more significant, strategic investment in our infrastructure is critical both for safety and to support our economy, writ...

www.oregonlive.com

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Zoe Washburne Rebel Scum @zoewashburne.bsky.social · 7h

Meet Portland Port Commission President Katy Coba—the woman telling Kristi Noem and DHS to take their propaganda elsewhere. Portland Airport refused to air Noem’s blame-Democrats video. That’s what defending democracy looks like. Give her the credit she deserves.

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Sarah Iannarone @sarahforpdx.bsky.social · 7h

Lol, folks not from Portland talking about *hops* have no clue how recursive the discourse they're getting themselves into.

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

You gotta give ‘em hop.

A tweet from the Anonymous account says, “Make sure the dude in the frog costume in Portland knows he's an icon.” The image is a stylized poster of a frog wearing a stars-and-stripes scarf with the word “HOP” below, in the style of the Obama “HOPE” poster.

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Sarah Iannarone @sarahforpdx.bsky.social · 7h

Yeah, we violently tore him away from scrolling OnlyFans all afternoon.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 10h

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...

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Sarah Iannarone @sarahforpdx.bsky.social · 11h

Maybe antifa should switch from black to khaki? Because MSM don't seem too troubled by the ICE Brownshirts running around masked up doing domestic terrorism.

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Sarah Iannarone @sarahforpdx.bsky.social · 18h

Perhaps being outside the walls will reinvigorate the investigative spirit that brought some folks to become journalists in the first place.

Sarah Iannarone @sarahforpdx.bsky.social · 19h

To wit, Portlanders are generally very strategic when we protest because we've done our homework and our legwork. bsky.app/profile/nath...

Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 19h

Note that the people who typically participate in Black blocs know this. Contrary to the impression of tons of liberals,people generally do Black blocs strategically. David Graeber discusses this quite a lot in "Direct Action An Ethnography". There is a direct line to inflatable frogs from Ya Basta!

THIRD EXAMPLE: STREET PARTY
Direct action aims to confront what it sees as an unjust or illegitimate form of
authority in a way that, in its very internal structure, suggests a viable alternative
to it. Actually, the same is probably true, in some sense, of protest in generaL The
result, as we've seen, is that it's often difficult to determine how much any given
action should be seen as primarily a performance meant to make an impression
on an outside audience, and how much it is better seen as a collective ritual meant
to educate, inspire, entertain, and transform the sense of possibilities of the participants themselves. Certainly, there is always a little of both. But some types of
action lean much more heavily towards one than towards the other.
If picket lines lean very much in the first direction-they are primarily about
communicating a message of defiance to specific opponents, and convincing a
broader audience to act in solidarity-street parties might be said to represent
the opposite extreme. While they are certainly intended to make a political statement or achieve a political end, they are also designed to afford participants every
possible opportunity to enjoy themselves. lhat element of pleasure-above all,
of collective, social pleasure-is really the main point. Even insofar as those taking part in a street party are trying to impress an audience, they are doing so in
such a way as to blur the boundaries, not to draw lines in the sand. Onlookers are
offered a show, with music and jugglers and clowns. The ideal is for the pleasure
of the experience to become infectious, so that the audience spontaneously finds
itself drawn in, to either mentally or, better, physically enter the festivaL
This element of pleasure is considered a crucial to what makes new forms of
protest new-almost as much as principles of self-organization and autonomy.

In activist circles that year, Ya Basta! had something of the quality ofa Next
Big Thing. Probably, this was most of all for their spectacularly innovative tactics:
members of the group were famous for covering themselves in all sorts of elaborate padding, made from everything from foam rubber sheeting to rubber ducky
flotation devices, combining it with helmets and plastic shields, so one looked
like some kind of futuristic Greek hoplite, then topping the whole thing with gas
masks and white chemical protective suits. The idea is that, so suited up, there's
relatively little the cops can do that will actually hurt you. Of course, you are rendered so clumsy there's probably not that much you could do to hurt anyone else;
but that's kind of the point. Its exponents claim the tactic is rooted in a new philosophy of civil disobedience. Where the old-fashioned, masochistic, Gandhian
approach encourages activists to hold out their willingness to let the police beat
them up as a sign of moral superiority, the "white overalls" proposed an ethos of
protection: as long as you refuse to harm others, it is completely legitimate to take
whatever measures necessary to avoid harm to yourself The costume also makes
one look rather ridiculous, but that's kind of the point too. Ya Basta! columns would often play on it by, for instance, attacking police lines with balloons or water pistols. What really impressed a lot of activists in America, though, was that
such groups had a real social base.

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Sarah Iannarone @sarahforpdx.bsky.social · 19h

I wholeheartedly agree. The NYT's bothsidesism created a glidepath for Trump and it's disgusting.

(And Wordle and recipes are not more important than democracy, sorry.)

Sarah Iannarone @sarahforpdx.bsky.social · 19h

I do not subscribe and can still play the Wordle. That said, if it weren't, I still would not subscribe.

Sarah Iannarone @sarahforpdx.bsky.social · 19h

Interesting take in one of my NPO newsletters that progressive funders being too nitpicky helps right wing movements: "Conservative funders don’t seem as caught up in banal, pointless requirements...encourage [grantees] to do whatever it takes to achieve goals."

Lesson for Democrats in there?

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Sarah Iannarone @sarahforpdx.bsky.social · 1d

We soon shall find out.

Intense turnover here, another corner lot at 60thish and Reedway they're pouring foundations this week.

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The Street Trust @thestreettrust.org · 1d

Thursday's the big day. Get your tickets to the Alice Awards: Safe Streets Party before we close registration this week and you miss out on the fun!

Whether you're joining us or not, you can still take home a unique piece of Portland cycling art from our Great Streets Silent Art Auction...

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Sarah Iannarone @sarahforpdx.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I'm fine with the infill, fine with density if it means we get better bus service on the #10 ... def not NIMBYing anything, but would like to see affordability in our neighborhood preserved. I have concerns that many of these new homes are going to cost a lot.

Sarah Iannarone @sarahforpdx.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I think I understand your view now, thanks for taking time out of your day to explain it to me.

(P.S. Good report, enjoyed reading, thanks for sharing.)

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Sarah Iannarone @sarahforpdx.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, so I misread the tone of your OP. You weren't cheerleading the possibility, just stating a fact. Thanks for clarifying, because seems like a mixed bag from my view.

I know passing RIP required big tradeoffs, but damn if these per/sq ft prices aren't pretty damn high for buyers.

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Sarah Iannarone @sarahforpdx.bsky.social · 1d

What I'm getting at is: what guarantee is there that if we took the REACH properties out of the affordable market, up-developed them & put them back on the market that anything resulting would be affordable? Are there covenants in place or something?

(Forgive, I've been in transpo too long lol)

Sarah Iannarone @sarahforpdx.bsky.social · 1d

What I'm seeing in my n'hood corner (now split) R2.5 lots: 1 BIG main house w ADU attached + 2 sm houses. Here's one example. (Main houses on 6481 & 6491 are bigger than 6471.) That's 12 units: are any affordable? (This was previously one big ole house.)

www.portlandmaps.com/detail/prope...

Sarah Iannarone @sarahforpdx.bsky.social · 1d

Do you have data that the infill is preserving affordability? If so, where can I find it? Thank you for your advocacy!

Sarah Iannarone @sarahforpdx.bsky.social · 1d

Never doubt us.
#TacticalOptimism

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the ghost of pony pony huckabuck @spindlypete.bsky.social · 1d

what the hell, they arrested the clarinet player?! rude as hell, clarinet players have enough problems

www.reddit.com/r/Portland/s...

From the Portland community on Reddit: Clarinetist from local marching band detained

Explore this post and more from the Portland community

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Sarah Iannarone @sarahforpdx.bsky.social · 1d

Guessing it's the frog suits, but outsiders are too glib about our conviviality.

Fascism & white supremacy are politics of hatred, disconnection. We fight back with community as a weapon.

My heart is so full for the countless organizers who sustain this work all year when no cameras are on them.

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IYKYK @nisslbody.blacksky.app · 1d

Portland is good at antifascism because we have always had to fight against homegrown fascists. Let's not forget that, or sugar-coat it.

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Sarah Iannarone @sarahforpdx.bsky.social · 1d

Me, watching Portland swing from global darling to dumpster fire to global darling because of outsiders gazing at us through the keyhole once or twice a decade.

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Sarah Iannarone @sarahforpdx.bsky.social · 1d

It's not all shits & giggles here; opposite, in fact.

The last decade has been incredibly hard. We struggle w/ housing shortage, poverty, homelessness, addiction. Crumbling infrastructure. Federal disinvestment & broken tax structure. And the business lobby turns on community at every opportunity.

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Sarah Iannarone @sarahforpdx.bsky.social · 1d

We don't have a football team, so we do this every Sunday in the fall.

But srsly, People need to read more about Portland, OR: we've been doing conservation, participatory democracy, antifascism for decades.

Hard work building civic infrastructure is why we're capable of resistance like this.

Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 1d

The US federal attack on Portland has resulted in the best advertisement for a city that I have ever seen. Round-the-clock joy, community solidarity and silliness that much of the West has lost and longs for.

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Friends of Portland Street Response @friendsofpsr.bsky.social · 2d

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