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Kori 🌹 @koriander.bsky.social · 2h

Flyer for rally in defense of BAT lanes on 82nd avenue

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 2h

going open enrollment training when you have a disability

ron swanson at lowe’s saying “I know more than you” to an employee

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 1d

lina khan agenda

monday: zohran mamdani rally
tuesday: retweet matt stoller
wednesday: dinner with steve bannon
thursday: msnbc appearance about tech oligarchs
friday: red scare pod taping

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 1d

as I understand it: the proud boys had ambitions beyond street brawls. antifa did not

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 1d

my understanding is it worked really well for counter protesting the proud boys

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 1d

back in the day portland NIMBYs went all out opposing citywide 4plex upzoning, failed, and then failed again to mobilize a mass constituency in subsequent elections. would be huge if we saw that repeated with an even more ambitious upzoning in cambridge

While the Repeal Slate may have seen enthusiasm at the street level, support for its policies hasn't translated into donor dollars yet. Of 19 candidates, Hanratty ranks ninth in total donor dollars received, while Sherin, Hsu, and Bisio rank 14th, 16th and 18th, respectively.

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 1d

checking in on cambridge after their big upzoning this year

Candidate slate vows to 'Repeal' zoning building the housing that might change neighborhoods - Cambridge Day

Many higher-donor candidates this race are staunchly pro-new housing and buoyed by contributions from real estate developers. But that’s not the whole picture

www.cambridgeday.com

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 1d

a closely related cousin of this sentiment (I can’t afford a house in SF but I can afford a house in portland) continues to be a bullish factor for our economy in the near future

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Will Johnson @longklaw.bsky.social · 1d

Portland, do you have ideas for empty office space downtown? Check out this contest. portland.citycast.fm/Pivot-Proper...

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Montavilla News @montavilla.net · 1d

Portland Taproom in Tokyo Japan

In the bustling Shibuya section of Tokyo, Japan, PDX Taproom offers a slice of Portland craft beer culture to travelers and locals alongside a healthy serving of the City's charm. During my two-week stint working abroad, I had the opportunity to visit the…

Portland Taproom in Tokyo Japan

In the bustling Shibuya section of Tokyo, Japan, PDX Taproom offers a slice of Portland craft beer culture to travelers and locals alongside a healthy serving of the City's charm. During my two-week stint working abroad, I had the opportunity to visit the ten-year-old pub started by Miyuki Hiramatsu. I found a Portland-themed establishment that accurately represents our City's brewing stature and embodies some of the Rose City's more endearing features.

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 2d

yeah, to the extent that it happens it’s one of the best reasons to allow more density. which makes it especially funny when people argue it would somehow be bad if we had a policy lever that could produce infinite housing demand

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 2d

I wish it were true that increasing housing supply was an unlimited economic growth hack. it would make a lot of policy problems easier

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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 2d

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 2d

anyways this is why you don’t fuck with portland. you will get humiliated by people who will put themselves through baffling ordeals for no particular reason just to embarrass you

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 2d

if you did the naked bike ride today you are braver than the troops. once this regime is overthrown you deserve a medal of freedom

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 2d

I’m not at all optimistic about the supreme court but they have not yet been able to save the admin from having to muddle through a morass of lower court defeats and I think they’d have to get a lot more aggressive to change that

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 2d

I think there are actually lots of barriers to further regime consolidation and a lot of trump's strengths come from people assuming he's already overcome them

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 2d

I think it’s particularly important to understand what’s going on internally to the military and FBI before assuming that shuffling around political appointees in those organizations is actually working to align them with the regime

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 2d

I buy the thesis here but I worry a bit about stuff like this going too far in rationalizing trump’s regime consolidation strategy and implying it’s farther along than it is donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 2d

no judgement to people who aren’t thrilled about this part of his biography but it’s something he specifically says made him disillusioned with the military industrial complex

In 2018, Platner returned to Kabul, Afghanistan, for about six months as a State Department security contractor with Constellis, the private military company formerly known as Blackwater. 141(7][15] He returned to Maine the same year, saying he quickly grew more disillusioned with the military and what he called fraudulent funneling of taxpayer money to private defense companies. 191[6]

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 2d

when you’re a billionaire there’s nobody to tell you about your untreated psychosis

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Bulldog @harpua.bsky.social · 3d

feds rioting yet again

Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 3d

Massive escalation at the Portland ICE facility. Worst I’ve ever seen. More pepper balls than I can count. Teargas in the middle of crowd. Violent arrests. Some type of either noise or rubber bullet shotgun fired into the air then later aimed at protesters chests/heads at near point blank range.

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 3d

there’s just so much extra capacity, and none of the non freeway bridges carry that much traffic individually

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 3d

Portland: What if Minneapolis was 50% more annoying?

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