@dnnynnn.bsky.social
The one development the article mentions, Holloway, is down the street from me. The author's descriptions is incredibly misleading: it's little more than a quintessentially generic contemporary Portland apartment building.
December 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
The one development the article mentions, Holloway, is down the street from me. The author's descriptions is incredibly misleading: it's little more than a quintessentially generic contemporary Portland apartment building.
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Feels like journalist malpractice to call this woman a "developer". She hasn't built or financed anything. She just buys up pre-existing properties. She's a speculator, a literal rent-seeker.
December 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Feels like journalist malpractice to call this woman a "developer". She hasn't built or financed anything. She just buys up pre-existing properties. She's a speculator, a literal rent-seeker.
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As I understand today's discussion, we can stop an ISIS cell by policing the speaker list at writer's festivals and the BA syllabus at Unis. And by "stopping demonstrations." This is madness.
December 17, 2025 at 7:48 AM
As I understand today's discussion, we can stop an ISIS cell by policing the speaker list at writer's festivals and the BA syllabus at Unis. And by "stopping demonstrations." This is madness.
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These terrible, terrible last few days. Another hero gone. Have you ever seen Dallas from a DC-9 at night? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/o...
Joe Ely, Texas-Born Troubadour of the Open Road, Dies at 78
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:03 AM
These terrible, terrible last few days. Another hero gone. Have you ever seen Dallas from a DC-9 at night? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/o...
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Propaganda. We thought that it was gauche and problematic to have government propaganda about public accomplishments and so people forgot about them. People consistently like the military more than ‘the government’ and you know what a large part of that is? They have an advertising budget.
I think about this, also in terms of vaccines, and really struggle with how you have a free society that doesn’t fall into this trap in one way or another. solved problems become invisible and the solutions become the source of conspiracy theories.
This seems logical but Dems solved* the whole problem of old-age health care costs in the mid-1960s and then they lost five of the next six presidential elections because by 1968 it was a solved problem and no one cared about it.
*Yes oversimplifying here and the rest of course.
*Yes oversimplifying here and the rest of course.
December 13, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Propaganda. We thought that it was gauche and problematic to have government propaganda about public accomplishments and so people forgot about them. People consistently like the military more than ‘the government’ and you know what a large part of that is? They have an advertising budget.
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NW Natural has wasted substantial amounts of money on false solutions to the climate crisis as an expensive PR campaign to convince credulous regulators to delay necessary regulation.
We told you it was a con & now it's not even facially possible.
Great reporting by @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social.
We told you it was a con & now it's not even facially possible.
Great reporting by @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social.
NW Natural partners Modern Hydrogen have laid off almost all employees, and Tyson closed factory where NW natural made “renewable natural gas.” Oregon’s largest gas utility facing headwinds in decarbonizing energy supply since collaborators falter: oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/12/11/n...
NW Natural alternative fuel projects face uncertain future as partners falter • Oregon Capital Chronicle
NW Natural partnerships with Tyson and Modern Hydrogen on fuel projects could be impacted by layoffs and factory closures.
oregoncapitalchronicle.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM
NW Natural has wasted substantial amounts of money on false solutions to the climate crisis as an expensive PR campaign to convince credulous regulators to delay necessary regulation.
We told you it was a con & now it's not even facially possible.
Great reporting by @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social.
We told you it was a con & now it's not even facially possible.
Great reporting by @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social.
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🔔 GOOD NEWS today from a grassroots campaign in the Hudson Valley that's trying to permanently bring down the price of their light bills with public power! Check out the full details and get involved in this campaign with @sarahana.bsky.social and @mhvdsa.bsky.social
A new independent study estimates replacing Central Hudson with a publicly-owned utility will save $15.2 million in Year 1, and $210.5 million per year by Year 30! Read the full report here: hudsonvalleypowerauthority.com/feasibility/
Study: HVPA Will Save Money - Hudson Valley Power Authority
The Hudson Valley Power Authority Act is estimated to save $15.2 million in Year 1, and cumulatively $2.9 billion in the first 30 years through acquisition alone.
hudsonvalleypowerauthority.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
🔔 GOOD NEWS today from a grassroots campaign in the Hudson Valley that's trying to permanently bring down the price of their light bills with public power! Check out the full details and get involved in this campaign with @sarahana.bsky.social and @mhvdsa.bsky.social
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It's been so fun to see Hudson Valley for Public Power at work. They understand the moral stakes of this moment. They're strategic. They're organized. And now, they've got the data — public power will save millions! Definitely worth digging into the whole report from NewGen.
A new independent study estimates replacing Central Hudson with a publicly-owned utility will save $15.2 million in Year 1, and $210.5 million per year by Year 30! Read the full report here: hudsonvalleypowerauthority.com/feasibility/
Study: HVPA Will Save Money - Hudson Valley Power Authority
The Hudson Valley Power Authority Act is estimated to save $15.2 million in Year 1, and cumulatively $2.9 billion in the first 30 years through acquisition alone.
hudsonvalleypowerauthority.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
It's been so fun to see Hudson Valley for Public Power at work. They understand the moral stakes of this moment. They're strategic. They're organized. And now, they've got the data — public power will save millions! Definitely worth digging into the whole report from NewGen.
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Gas Stoves Account For More Than Half of Some Americans’ Exposure to a Known Toxin, New Research Concludes
insideclimatenews.org/news/1012202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/1012202...
Gas Stoves Account For More Than Half of Some Americans’ Exposure to a Known Toxin, New Research Concludes - Inside Climate News
The common kitchen appliance plays an outsized role in exposure to nitrogen dioxide, a toxic air pollutant.
insideclimatenews.org
December 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Gas Stoves Account For More Than Half of Some Americans’ Exposure to a Known Toxin, New Research Concludes
insideclimatenews.org/news/1012202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/1012202...
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Bumping this one more time. Shoutout to @councilorepg.bsky.social for at least mentioning this. The Mayor couldn't be bothered to even *invite* community testimony today.
Bumping this again this morning to note that literally nobody is currently signed up to testify on the city administrator confirmation scheduled for this week's Council meeting.
Why? Well, per the agenda, the *entirety* of community involvement for the appointment took place more than a year ago.
Why? Well, per the agenda, the *entirety* of community involvement for the appointment took place more than a year ago.
December 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Bumping this one more time. Shoutout to @councilorepg.bsky.social for at least mentioning this. The Mayor couldn't be bothered to even *invite* community testimony today.
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ICYMI there is apparently lot of scandalous behavior happening on the administrative side of the city, including hiding millions of dollars from city council and firing the city employees who tried to tell them about it.
Former Housing Director Says She Was Told Not to Disclose Millions in Unspent Funds. A memo Helmi Hisserich sent to city councilors says city administration viewed unspent funds as "a big PR problem."
✍️ @jeremiahhayden.bsky.social
✍️ @jeremiahhayden.bsky.social
Former Housing Director Says She Was Told Not to Disclose Millions in Unspent Funds
The former director of the Portland Housing Bureau says she was ousted for trying to advance City Council’s social housing policy and was unfairly blamed for revenue that went unspent prior to her app...
www.portlandmercury.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
ICYMI there is apparently lot of scandalous behavior happening on the administrative side of the city, including hiding millions of dollars from city council and firing the city employees who tried to tell them about it.
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As you can guess: this is not a failure for hydrogen in any sense of the word. The goal was not to use hydrogen in gas grids, it was to offer a cynically fabricated promise of a solution to allow for more time to kill regulations and fight electrification.
And it absolutely worked:
And it absolutely worked:
Utilities give up hope on using hydrogen in their gas grids – report
www.cleanenergywire.org
December 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
As you can guess: this is not a failure for hydrogen in any sense of the word. The goal was not to use hydrogen in gas grids, it was to offer a cynically fabricated promise of a solution to allow for more time to kill regulations and fight electrification.
And it absolutely worked:
And it absolutely worked:
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The mayor and his administrators appear to have thrown the former housing bureau director under the bus to kill social housing at the city.
This is a huge scandal.
This is a huge scandal.
December 5, 2025 at 12:29 AM
The mayor and his administrators appear to have thrown the former housing bureau director under the bus to kill social housing at the city.
This is a huge scandal.
This is a huge scandal.
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With Donald Trump in office, 2025 was supposed to be the year the fossil fuel industry got everything it wanted. But with your help, Breach didn't back down.
See our top 2025 climate wins 👇🧵
Full overview: www.breachcollective.org/highlights/the-climate-wins-you-helped-make-happen-this-year
See our top 2025 climate wins 👇🧵
Full overview: www.breachcollective.org/highlights/the-climate-wins-you-helped-make-happen-this-year
December 4, 2025 at 10:08 PM
With Donald Trump in office, 2025 was supposed to be the year the fossil fuel industry got everything it wanted. But with your help, Breach didn't back down.
See our top 2025 climate wins 👇🧵
Full overview: www.breachcollective.org/highlights/the-climate-wins-you-helped-make-happen-this-year
See our top 2025 climate wins 👇🧵
Full overview: www.breachcollective.org/highlights/the-climate-wins-you-helped-make-happen-this-year
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Former Housing Director Says She Was Told Not to Disclose Millions in Unspent Funds. A memo Helmi Hisserich sent to city councilors says city administration viewed unspent funds as "a big PR problem."
✍️ @jeremiahhayden.bsky.social
✍️ @jeremiahhayden.bsky.social
Former Housing Director Says She Was Told Not to Disclose Millions in Unspent Funds
The former director of the Portland Housing Bureau says she was ousted for trying to advance City Council’s social housing policy and was unfairly blamed for revenue that went unspent prior to her app...
www.portlandmercury.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Former Housing Director Says She Was Told Not to Disclose Millions in Unspent Funds. A memo Helmi Hisserich sent to city councilors says city administration viewed unspent funds as "a big PR problem."
✍️ @jeremiahhayden.bsky.social
✍️ @jeremiahhayden.bsky.social
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We spent the past month (months?) talking w/ protesters detained at Portland's ICE bldg about their experiences. We heard everything from being questioned about antifa, to not being read Miranda rights, to photos w/ arresting officers.
Their stories point to a slapdash, chaotic federal operation:
Their stories point to a slapdash, chaotic federal operation:
Those arrested at Portland ICE protests recount disparate, confusing treatment by federal officers
OPB interviewed more than a dozen people who were arrested at the ICE protests between June and October. What they described was an apparent lack of standard operating procedures as various federal la...
www.opb.org
December 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
We spent the past month (months?) talking w/ protesters detained at Portland's ICE bldg about their experiences. We heard everything from being questioned about antifa, to not being read Miranda rights, to photos w/ arresting officers.
Their stories point to a slapdash, chaotic federal operation:
Their stories point to a slapdash, chaotic federal operation:
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... like it's worth a second look. We can't invest in oil but we can in gas? We can't invest in alcohol but we can in surveillance? We can't invest in small arms, but heavy weapons (or fighter jets) are okay?
These are all questions I've been hearing and want to be responsive to.
5/
These are all questions I've been hearing and want to be responsive to.
5/
December 3, 2025 at 7:46 AM
... like it's worth a second look. We can't invest in oil but we can in gas? We can't invest in alcohol but we can in surveillance? We can't invest in small arms, but heavy weapons (or fighter jets) are okay?
These are all questions I've been hearing and want to be responsive to.
5/
These are all questions I've been hearing and want to be responsive to.
5/
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People are asking for:
November 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
People are asking for:
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A very readable, deeply-informed piece by Naomi Klein that combines genocide, the Surrealists, fascism then and now -- and Mamdani.
www.equator.org/articles/sur...
www.equator.org/articles/sur...
Surrealism Against Fascism • EQUATOR
A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide?
www.equator.org
November 28, 2025 at 3:34 AM
A very readable, deeply-informed piece by Naomi Klein that combines genocide, the Surrealists, fascism then and now -- and Mamdani.
www.equator.org/articles/sur...
www.equator.org/articles/sur...
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We formed in 2020 after our non-profit workplaces union busted and immediately got stuck in to defeat fossil fuel projects from Portland to Memphis.
We don’t have bosses. We have community partners who we work tirelessly for and in direct collaboration with.
We don’t have bosses. We have community partners who we work tirelessly for and in direct collaboration with.
When we formed Breach in 2020, we had a vision many called too idealistic. Thankfully we didn't listen. Our scheming, dreaming + hard work paid off.
We win with workers, we win with our communities, we win with you.
Help us raise $15k to keep doing the impossible: www.breachcollective.org/donate ✨
We win with workers, we win with our communities, we win with you.
Help us raise $15k to keep doing the impossible: www.breachcollective.org/donate ✨
November 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
We formed in 2020 after our non-profit workplaces union busted and immediately got stuck in to defeat fossil fuel projects from Portland to Memphis.
We don’t have bosses. We have community partners who we work tirelessly for and in direct collaboration with.
We don’t have bosses. We have community partners who we work tirelessly for and in direct collaboration with.
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Where's the progressive push back on this anti-tax campaign / gubernatorial gambit? Even Trump’s gov't closed DOGE, yet Oregon's anti-gov't extremists want to drag us backward by defunding our transportation system.
I feel like a lone voice in the wilderness on this. www.opb.org/article/2025...
I feel like a lone voice in the wilderness on this. www.opb.org/article/2025...
Opponents of Oregon gas tax increase say they’ve cleared key hurdle to let voters weigh in
The initiative needed roughly 78,000 signatures by Dec. 30 to qualify for next year’s election. Backers say they have more than 150,000.
www.opb.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Where's the progressive push back on this anti-tax campaign / gubernatorial gambit? Even Trump’s gov't closed DOGE, yet Oregon's anti-gov't extremists want to drag us backward by defunding our transportation system.
I feel like a lone voice in the wilderness on this. www.opb.org/article/2025...
I feel like a lone voice in the wilderness on this. www.opb.org/article/2025...
Seems like astonishingly poor instincts that Kotek attacked local taxes, so as to appease Knight & other plutocrats, when (1) those local taxes are popular; (2) H.R. 1 is creating a massive fiscal crisis in OR; and (4) those same plutocrats massively back Republicans anyway.
Am I missing something?
Am I missing something?
Tina Kotek has been trying to kill preschool for all for the super rich just to watch them keep making historically large contributions to the Republican Party.
Nike co-founder Phil Knight makes record-setting donation to help elect Republicans
It is the single largest donation Knight has made to an Oregon candidate or political action committee.
www.oregonlive.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Seems like astonishingly poor instincts that Kotek attacked local taxes, so as to appease Knight & other plutocrats, when (1) those local taxes are popular; (2) H.R. 1 is creating a massive fiscal crisis in OR; and (4) those same plutocrats massively back Republicans anyway.
Am I missing something?
Am I missing something?
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When we formed Breach in 2020, we had a vision many called too idealistic. Thankfully we didn't listen. Our scheming, dreaming + hard work paid off.
We win with workers, we win with our communities, we win with you.
Help us raise $15k to keep doing the impossible: www.breachcollective.org/donate ✨
We win with workers, we win with our communities, we win with you.
Help us raise $15k to keep doing the impossible: www.breachcollective.org/donate ✨
November 21, 2025 at 12:27 AM
When we formed Breach in 2020, we had a vision many called too idealistic. Thankfully we didn't listen. Our scheming, dreaming + hard work paid off.
We win with workers, we win with our communities, we win with you.
Help us raise $15k to keep doing the impossible: www.breachcollective.org/donate ✨
We win with workers, we win with our communities, we win with you.
Help us raise $15k to keep doing the impossible: www.breachcollective.org/donate ✨
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Making devastating cuts to our own budget simply implements Trump's plan to make rich people richer. Our supermajority should decouple Oregon from this new federal tax regime. It doesn't work for us. 4/4
November 23, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Making devastating cuts to our own budget simply implements Trump's plan to make rich people richer. Our supermajority should decouple Oregon from this new federal tax regime. It doesn't work for us. 4/4
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i am not going to be posting "oh please won't everybody vote for this crappy dinky little tax increase so we can run the snowplows in madras but not have any money for anything i care about" get rid of mark meek and then we'll talk
November 21, 2025 at 12:43 AM
i am not going to be posting "oh please won't everybody vote for this crappy dinky little tax increase so we can run the snowplows in madras but not have any money for anything i care about" get rid of mark meek and then we'll talk