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Josh Baker
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When TEA took over Houston schools, they replaced some of the school libraries with "detention centers" and funneled state money to their own businesses.

These state takeovers are utter crap, orchestrated by deeply disingenuous people, and Texans should fight back against this naked oppression.
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📅Thurs, Oct 23 · 3–5:00 PM
📍Multnomah Bldg. Rm 126 or Zoom (link in bio)

Join MultCo. for the first Climate Justice Plan Community Forum, designed to bring in community voices to strengthen the CJP. This session focuses on the Water goal — ensuring every community member has access to clean water.
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Oregonians, we need your help.

ICE activity is increasing in our communities. If you see something, report it to PIRC's hotline (1-888-622-1510) and get your phone out to record it.
Template for comments if you want it: www.oregonpsr.org/cei_testimony

Link for submitting: www.portlandmaps.com/bps/testify/...
***Take action before 5:00pm today--Oct 17, 2025***

Let's stop the immense danger the CEI poses to Portlanders, our river, and our city's wild inhabitants. Send a comment to Portland’s Bureau of Planning and Sustainability! Talking points and comment link here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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🕔 Final hours to act!
🚫 Reject Alts 1–3. ⚠️ Alt 4 is the bare minimum and needs improvement
💚 People & planet > profit.
📩 Submit by 5PM: www.oregonpsr.org/cei_comments
More info (including example comments): www.oregonpsr.org/cei_hub

#4plusMore #portland
Legit bonkers
“LAPD wants judge to lift an order restricting use of force against the press” 😭😭😭

“Ahead of this Saturday’s No Kings protests, the Los Angeles Police Department has filed an emergency motion asking a judge to lift an injunction that restricts their use of force against the press.”
LAPD wants judge to lift an order restricting use of force against the press
The police department filed an emergency order ahead of this Saturday's No Kings protest.
laist.com
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You should also be saving PIRC’s hotline to your phone contacts to report ICE activity.
i don’t think Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition (PIRC) has a bluesky account so i wanted to make sure this info is making the rounds here

please share, especially if you have community outside of pdx—it’s important to get trained ICE watch in Eugene, Hillsboro, Aloha, Woodburn, & beyond in Oregon
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i don’t think Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition (PIRC) has a bluesky account so i wanted to make sure this info is making the rounds here

please share, especially if you have community outside of pdx—it’s important to get trained ICE watch in Eugene, Hillsboro, Aloha, Woodburn, & beyond in Oregon
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you know what WOULD have Portland on fire?

Zenith Energy's so-called 'renewable' fuels.

(like literally the rivers themselves on fire)
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(silently mouthing the words to myself) there are too many protesters abusing their right to protest
Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson's full statement, in which she says she will sign an EO permitting protest "only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street," is up on the village's website.

"There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest," Thompson says.
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“Virtue signaling” has been an all-purpose tool to invalidate any form of advocacy which isn’t centered around selfishness.
her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character
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Next week City Council will hear a pair of legislation that formally denounces the Trump Administration's attempt to terrorize our city with militarized units, while codifying Sanctuary City status protections. Portlanders have been waiting for a formal expression of City's Council will on this.
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cancer diagnoses in younger adults continues to rise, and i wish our federal gvmt would deign to fund medical research the way we currently fund wars and violence

i hope she met her transition peacefully and with love and support
Not surprising but still infuriating
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has granted an air permit to Zenith Energy. This goes directly against thousands of Portlanders who have organized for years to stop the expansion of the Texas-based fossil fuel company.

Read more about this new development 👇 #StopZenithOil
DEQ Grants Air Permit to Zenith Energy Despite Public Outcry | Breach Collective
Oregon’s DEQ approved an air permit for Zenith Energy, ignoring years of community opposition. The fight for accountability and climate justice isn’t over.
www.breachcollective.org
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Remember that viral tweet that was like "I feel bad for our country but this is tremendous content?" Now the content isn't even good. It stinks!
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Rumble on the River x Public Grids collaboration
Music, ideas, & community power FRIDAY! Hosted by @councilorgreen.bsky.social and @sevier.io & featuring many others fighting for public power & ppl-centered budgets.
📍 1211 SW Main St.
🗓️ Oct. 10 (Friday)
🕡 7pm Event starts
RSVP: Link in bio
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The NYT has a vendetta against Portland because we have better pizza
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I strongly support expanding TriMet and have started to call around to Metro Councilors about what the barriers are to Metro taking over TriMet so that local control can enable greater investment. The state cut TriMet funding, not the City, and regardless of who runs it, we need to expand it.
Hate this.
We've completed a trade with Angel City. The trade sees Hina Sugita depart for Angel City FC in exchange for defender M.A. Vignola and intra-league transfer funds.

Hina, thank you for showing up every day and giving your all to this city. We wish you all the best in LA ❤️
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Federal judge, appointed by Reagan, in 161-page opinion today in deportation matter:

"There’s the issue of masks... To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police"
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all this is going to do is make me and all of us more rabidly portland partisan. sorry i know it's annoying we'll tone it down when the feds leave. but in the meantime PORTLAND FUCKING OREGON
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# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon

The Guardian: 1st paragraph
BBC: 4th paragraph
AP: 5th paragraph
Time: 6th paragraph
Politico: 8th paragraph
NPR: 9th paragraph
CNN: 10th paragraph
NBC: 12th paragraph
Fox News: never mentions
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I moved to Portland this year after over a decade in rural alaska and the largest cultural difference I feel is that people get to be fully themselves in public in Portland in a way that is simply not safe in small town US