Nick
@ecosozialismus.bsky.social
Wife guy, dog dad, public interest attorney, law professor, union officer/member, Portland pizza hype guy.
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Today, BPS staff released their code proposal for making the Critical Energy Infrastructure Hub safer.
On first glance, it's pretty good. We didn't get everything we asked for, but the major pieces are present including a prohibition on all new liquid fuel terminals + a mandatory fuel drawdown.
On first glance, it's pretty good. We didn't get everything we asked for, but the major pieces are present including a prohibition on all new liquid fuel terminals + a mandatory fuel drawdown.
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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All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
U.S. President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate.
www.cnbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:37 AM
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
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Join Communication Workers of America Local 7901 for a rank-and-file worker information session and comment writing workshop about the Critical Energy Infrastructure Hub Policy Project and the Economic Opportunities Analysis.
More information and RSVP here: tinyurl.com/a9r9xyx6
More information and RSVP here: tinyurl.com/a9r9xyx6
November 26, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Join Communication Workers of America Local 7901 for a rank-and-file worker information session and comment writing workshop about the Critical Energy Infrastructure Hub Policy Project and the Economic Opportunities Analysis.
More information and RSVP here: tinyurl.com/a9r9xyx6
More information and RSVP here: tinyurl.com/a9r9xyx6
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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 ✨
If you work in Portland, you shouldn't have to put up with the risks of liquid fuels and toxic materials stored in aging tanks on liquefiable soils.
Join this workshop to learn about how we protect workers (and residents and the environment) from very preventable industrial disasters.
Join this workshop to learn about how we protect workers (and residents and the environment) from very preventable industrial disasters.
Join Communication Workers of America Local 7901 for a rank-and-file worker information session and comment writing workshop about the Critical Energy Infrastructure Hub Policy Project and the Economic Opportunities Analysis.
More information and RSVP here: tinyurl.com/a9r9xyx6
More information and RSVP here: tinyurl.com/a9r9xyx6
November 26, 2025 at 9:17 PM
If you work in Portland, you shouldn't have to put up with the risks of liquid fuels and toxic materials stored in aging tanks on liquefiable soils.
Join this workshop to learn about how we protect workers (and residents and the environment) from very preventable industrial disasters.
Join this workshop to learn about how we protect workers (and residents and the environment) from very preventable industrial disasters.
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Oregon's Attorney General and Portland area DAs just told the feds they'll prosecute excessive force by federal agents in the state—citing evidence from the trial that shut down Trump's National Guard plan for Portland.
Oregon to Feds: Rein in Your Officers or We'll Prosecute
Prosecutors in Oregon are warning the US justice department to rein in federal agents who’ve repeatedly used excessive force on protesters, immigrants and even local police. A joint letter from Oregon...
www.portlandmercury.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Oregon's Attorney General and Portland area DAs just told the feds they'll prosecute excessive force by federal agents in the state—citing evidence from the trial that shut down Trump's National Guard plan for Portland.
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Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
Going to send a form letter *first class* or maybe an actual emissary to try to recruit Ernest Zacher to BlueSky like a king in a fairy tale trying to recruit a famous knight to fight a dragon & save the princess
Ernest Zacher, Esq., please join BlueSky.
The criminal defense lawyer was retried in Multnomah County after his first trial ended in a hung jury.
November 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Going to send a form letter *first class* or maybe an actual emissary to try to recruit Ernest Zacher to BlueSky like a king in a fairy tale trying to recruit a famous knight to fight a dragon & save the princess
Lots of things will, in fact, be going away if we continue to change the climate and create massive economic bubbles like this.
I might be too dense, but how are the chatbots going to continue at this level or greater when the companies that own them can’t make a profit?
I might be too dense, but how are the chatbots going to continue at this level or greater when the companies that own them can’t make a profit?
it's normatively bad in many ways and also clearly useful for millions of people. it can run on a laptop, thinking that it's going away is cope. gotta engage with the world at it is.
this is a bluesky bubble opinion. 800M+ people use chatgpt every week. I hate Facebook and Instagram and I wish they didn’t exist, but 3B and 2B people use them every month, respectively. it’s very hard to picture a mass or even a niche left backlash against them
November 26, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Lots of things will, in fact, be going away if we continue to change the climate and create massive economic bubbles like this.
I might be too dense, but how are the chatbots going to continue at this level or greater when the companies that own them can’t make a profit?
I might be too dense, but how are the chatbots going to continue at this level or greater when the companies that own them can’t make a profit?
Ernest Zacher, Esq., please join BlueSky.
The criminal defense lawyer was retried in Multnomah County after his first trial ended in a hung jury.
Airport police told attorney ‘we run the show’ before trespass arrest but jury acquitted him
The criminal defense lawyer was retried in Multnomah County after his first trial ended in a hung jury.
www.oregonlive.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Ernest Zacher, Esq., please join BlueSky.
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1) genuine life changing moment of my early 20s was realizing I actually didn't have to do this at all. tell the youths
2) I feel like there's a class discussion to be had around the stakes of this kind of decision though
2) I feel like there's a class discussion to be had around the stakes of this kind of decision though
So many men go through life like that. You can play poker because it's right-coded, you can't enjoy fruity alcoholic drinks because they're women-coded, you can't lick an ice cream cone because it's gay-coded. All day, every day, choosing and judging things based on coding for narrow norms.
November 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
1) genuine life changing moment of my early 20s was realizing I actually didn't have to do this at all. tell the youths
2) I feel like there's a class discussion to be had around the stakes of this kind of decision though
2) I feel like there's a class discussion to be had around the stakes of this kind of decision though
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MGT has seen her networth jump from $700k to $25 million since joining Congress in 2021. And she served juuust long enough to get a lifetime tax payer-funded pension.
She got the joke.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
She got the joke.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Marjorie Taylor Greene Came So Close to Getting the Joke
What the Georgia representative learned in Washington
www.theatlantic.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
MGT has seen her networth jump from $700k to $25 million since joining Congress in 2021. And she served juuust long enough to get a lifetime tax payer-funded pension.
She got the joke.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
She got the joke.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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This is narcissism masquerading as philosophy — the technophile elite are not recognizing a new soul in AI, they're falling in love with their creation, staring at their own reflection in a digital pool.
It is the ultimate in solipsism and has its roots in a pathological fear and denial of death.
It is the ultimate in solipsism and has its roots in a pathological fear and denial of death.
November 26, 2025 at 3:47 AM
This is narcissism masquerading as philosophy — the technophile elite are not recognizing a new soul in AI, they're falling in love with their creation, staring at their own reflection in a digital pool.
It is the ultimate in solipsism and has its roots in a pathological fear and denial of death.
It is the ultimate in solipsism and has its roots in a pathological fear and denial of death.
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“Device hoarding” un fucking real
Both major political parties agree we have one job and it’s to buy shit
Both major political parties agree we have one job and it’s to buy shit
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
“Device hoarding” un fucking real
Both major political parties agree we have one job and it’s to buy shit
Both major political parties agree we have one job and it’s to buy shit
I only want to eat soup
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I only want to eat soup
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Attacking women's appearances to silence their voices is misogyny.
November 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Attacking women's appearances to silence their voices is misogyny.
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Four of Oregon’s top lawyers are “highly concerned” about immigration officers stopping a group of teenagers at gunpoint in October and, last week, arresting a high school student on his lunch break.
Oregon attorney general, county prosecutors warn federal officers that excessive force will be investigated
Elected prosecutors from Oregon’s three largest counties along with Oregon’s attorney general say they’ll investigate federal law enforcement officers when their actions appear criminal.
www.opb.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Four of Oregon’s top lawyers are “highly concerned” about immigration officers stopping a group of teenagers at gunpoint in October and, last week, arresting a high school student on his lunch break.
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ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
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I am seriously considering hosting a weekly meet up at the library where people come and ask me questions and if I can't answer them, we learn how ti look it up.
This is so soulless, I can't stand it. We have BRAINS. We can USE THEM.
November 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I am seriously considering hosting a weekly meet up at the library where people come and ask me questions and if I can't answer them, we learn how ti look it up.
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Phil Knight is almost single handedly funding the OR GOP, one of the more extreme state GOPs in the country. Keep that in mind next time you’re in the market for sportswear or sneakers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
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 25, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Phil Knight is almost single handedly funding the OR GOP, one of the more extreme state GOPs in the country. Keep that in mind next time you’re in the market for sportswear or sneakers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
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How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 1:27 AM
How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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 25, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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.
Love watching movement all stars get drafted into Mamdani’s team
November 25, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Love watching movement all stars get drafted into Mamdani’s team
Hell yeah
I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC.
November 25, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Hell yeah
I want to visit my original watersheeeeeeeeed
This summer, young Indigenous kayakers made history on the first source-to-sea descent of the Klamath River since the removal of four dams. But this isn’t just a kayak adventure story.
‘The Evergreen’: Indigenous youth make history on a changed Klamath River
This week, we hear how the removal of four dams has changed the Klamath River, and what the journey meant to the Indigenous youth carrying on their ancestors’ work.
www.opb.org
November 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I want to visit my original watersheeeeeeeeed