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how can we stroppy strangers live together without doing each other too much violence? | homes not highways | born 350ppm | still got hope so i think we’ll be fine in these disastrous times | he/they | www.amb.fyi 📍stj, pdx, or

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Anat Shenker-Osorio
@anatosaurus.bsky.social

So much to say about Brazil, not least of which is the role that Erika Hilton, a Black trans leader and most voted woman politician in Brazil, played in mobilizing folks for Lula. She was behind the critical, concrete, economic promise of shorter work-week. theprint.in/feature/erik...

theprint.inWho is Erika Hilton? Black trans politician was one of Lula’s loudest campaignersErika Hilton’s electoral triumph comes amid a hostile environment. Brazil has the highest number of reported murders of transgender people in the world, with 80 recorded in 2025.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
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one of the really useful takeaways from fukuyama's political order books is a clear conceptual understanding of what corruption *is* in its fundamental nature. and the answer... is patronage networks organized on personal connections! corruption is *inherent* in these discretionary systems!

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Astounded i managed to avoid spoilers for You Can See Everything for the last week. But now that I’ve seen it i need to devour every piece of media content possible

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this is also to say, i want bluesky to crowdsource and share with me the best of whatever’s been written about it

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Cyrus Hall
@cyrushall.bsky.social

America's Highway Trust Fund spends far more than it brings in in gas and truck taxes, and the US constantly bails the fund out from the federal general fund and by taking out loans. The Bay Area will pay ~$1.3B/year to bail out the fund yet again, starting in 2028. From @maxmautner.com.

maxmautner.comThe Bay Area will pay more to bail out America’s highways than to keep its own trains and buses runningThe gas tax hasn’t covered federal highway costs since 2008, and Congress fills the gap with general taxes. The Bay Area’s share will be ~$1.3 billion a year, more than the $980 million its Nov. 3 tra...
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anyone in Portland got leads on where you can get dry ice?

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the handful of Brazilian soccer influencers i follow on various platforms are fucking stoked lemme tell you.

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ashley fairbanks
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wellstone was the first politician i ever got to volunteer for. people love to quote “we all do better when we all do better” but i try to live by this one: “If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.”

Keith Ellison, Minnesota Attorney General@keithellison.bsky.social

Twenty-four years ago today, on October 25, 2002, Minnesota lost Senator Paul Wellstone. We also lost his wife, Sheila, and their daughter, Marcia. Campaign staffers. Today, take moment to honor Wellstone's amazing legacy.

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Gustavo Mano
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AFASTAR TODOS OS PREFEITOS ENVOLVIDOS NESSA PATIFARIA PORQUE INIMIGO DA DEMOCRACIA É INIMIGO DO PAÍS

Fabiano Denardin 🏴@oggh.hipotetica.com.br

GANHAR ESSA MERDA CASSAR O REGISTRO DO PL CASSAR AS CHAPAS DESSES IMBECIS NOVAS ELEIÇÕES ESTADUAIS ONDE GANHARAM E É ISSO

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greatest football club in the world

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andré, but scarier
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so the xx/xy group plan to 'protect women's sports' by infiltrating supporters' sections, whining online about being called names, then posting photos and trying to dox teams' most passionate fans? at this point not treating them like a hate group akin to the proud boys or kkk is willful ignorance.

Taylor Vincent@tayvincent6.bsky.social

Some hateful folks in the North End have their messaging blocked by flags and lead to a “Trans Lives Matter” chant

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losing my shit cackling at the baby boomer having technical difficulties to get the quitting time routine on the air

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I think this is a very astute read of both this horrific ad and the emotional anxieties of an estranged MAGA base writ large

Melissa Ryan@melissaryan.bsky.social

If that ad is still living rent-free in your head as you wonder, "What the hell were they thinking?" this edition of my newsletter is for you. Because I have a theory. www.altrightdelete.news/p/was-this-a...

altrightdelete.newsWas this Ad Focus Grouped?My theory on why Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign is running such a vile campaign commercial
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woof. buckle up

Oregon Capital Chronicle@oregoncapitalchronicle.com

Oregon is, so far, one of at least nine states that have received notices from US DOJ notifying election officials that observers will be deployed. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/10/23/t...

oregoncapitalchronicle.comTrump DOJ to send federal monitors to Oregon’s Multnomah County on Election Day • Oregon Capital ChronicleIt's not the first time election monitors have been sent to Oregon, but follows unusual monitor behavior in other states, Oregon election officials said.
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jamelle just straight bullying yglesias in the replies is the friday afternoon lift i needed

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common rayfield w

Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield@agdanrayfield.bsky.social

BIG NEWS: In response to a legal challenge from our office, the Trump administration today confirmed it has no plans to build ICE detention facilities anywhere in Oregon. We’ll continue to fight for Oregonians’ rights and the safety of communities across the state.

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this guy's biography gives him 21st-century-George-Bailey-if-Bend-were-Bedford-Falls vibes

Alex Zielinski@alexzee.bsky.social

Powerful interview with the man who killed the Silver Rail school shooter by @emilycuretoncook.bsky.social: "I said, 'Mom, I just had to take the life of what I think might be a child.'"

opb.org‘I’m just a carpenter from Bend’: Father who killed Silver Rail school shooter grapples with the aftermathIn an exclusive interview with OPB, Kaylub Giamanco, the man who fatally shot the teenage school shooter at Silver Rail Elementary, shares what he wants people to know about his experience.
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owendoff is once again foiled by his inability to read fine print

John Meyers@meyersstyle.bsky.social

master of Opsec at it again (check out the bottom)

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Evelyn 💗
@evieevolving.bsky.social

Every single statewide elected official makes less than Portland City Council and local county commissions. Congresspeople don’t make much more. The governor makes less than six figures. State legislators aren’t paid a living wage. Want to have our best people doing these jobs? Raise the pay.

Dave, admirer of squirrels@quercusmax.bsky.social

I'm telling you, he should think about running for statewide office! His name recognition is way up there now!

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Kevin M. Kruse
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The fact that the president's doctors are giving him the dementia test over and over again -- tracking his decline, most likely -- and that the president keeps bragging about having to take that test should be a five-alarm fire.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "You know, the first question -- they have a lion, a snake, a giraffe, and a bear. And they say 'which is the snake?' ... by the time you get to number five a lot of people are left out on the road ... I get no credit for it."

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seems increasingly clear we're underestimating how the much the exploitative dem campaign fundraising texting machine has damaged relationships to the party base and straight-up caused harm to vulnerable populations, all for consultant grift. this shit's gotta be ejected from the party apparatus

Adam Bonica@adambonica.bsky.social

Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

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"This class—and we use the word “class” intentionally to mean the firms, consultants, and strategists paid millions of dollars by Democratic campaigns to raise money, place ads, and set strategy—is extractive, and this extraction is central to many of the party’s pathologies"

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

newrepublic.comHow the Consulting Class Is Eating the Democratic PartyFundraising costs gobble up most of the funds raised. Billions are spent on TV ads that have virtually no impact. Candidates may win or lose—but the consulting class always wins.
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truly do believe the fate of human civilization at this point ultimately relies on millennials not following the reactionary selfish footsteps of gen x and boomers as our generation slowly accumulates power and money

Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social

Something is deeply broken in that 45-64 cohort. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/u...

nytimes.comJust How Much Are Young Voters Backing Democrats Now? See the Shift.In the new Times/Siena poll, 70 percent of young voters identified as Democrats or leaned that way — a jump from just two years ago.
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very unlikely but not inconceivable oregon's leg dems could hold existing seats, pick up two senate seats (SD 11, maybe 16 + 26 in play), three in the house (HD 52, 21, 15) giving dems walkout-proof supersupermajorities that could pass anything... ...only for drazan to win and veto all of it

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also:

Evelyn 💗@evieevolving.bsky.social

One thing to look out for on November 3rd: Oregon currently is very close to having its legislature consist of 50% women, with 13/30 senators and 28/60 representatives. This election may put us over the top.

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very unlikely but not inconceivable oregon's leg dems could hold existing seats, pick up two senate seats (SD 11, maybe 16 + 26 in play), three in the house (HD 52, 21, 15) giving dems walkout-proof supersupermajorities that could pass anything... ...only for drazan to win and veto all of it

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seems very unlikely that kotek would underperform at the same time all those swing district dems overperformed. but who am i to predict this feral, fickle electorate eager to shake things up

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i have a lot of hopes and dreams and anxieties about the blazers season starting tonight but my biggest ask is that somebody manages to sneak in a sign talking shit about Dundon to the opener and get it on the Jumbotron

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it's a constant talking point among oregon's republicans that rural counties are subsidizing portland's buses ODOT's allocation of STIF keeps funding relatively proportionate - if anything, on the margins many urban areas are helping subsidize transit service in rural parts of the state

Fischer 🛠️🚇@fischer.bsky.social

new in @urbanpdx.blog we're doing (transit payroll) tax positivity urbanpdx.blog/oregons-tran...

urbanpdx.blogOregon's Transit Payroll Taxes are a Model for the NationIn August this year, Governor Kotek's "Transportation Vision Working Group" heard testimony from several other states about how they fund their transportation systems and structure their state transit...
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ten years ago this week Trump literally went on television to plead with the Russians to release Clinton’s emails to distract us all from his “grab em by the pussy” tape, they did, and the media circus around it was just enough to eke out an electoral college victory and now we are all in hell

Large Langhoulage Model@shawnfleek.com

Sudden vulnerabilities deploy at critical election moments; news articles appear just before elections; information affects votes; and still you deny how deeply americans have always been steeped in propaganda, influence, and at the whims of technology.

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I spend far too much time online and it’s my central life challenge to figure out how to disconnect more thoroughly but every once in a while the internet delivers me something i can get unabashedly obsessed with and right now it’s the Muppets-Meets-Tom-Waits musical stylings of Groggy Jones

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Do i know what this is? No. Do I know anytbing about this guy? Also no. But what can I say, sometimes the algorithm just delivers

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how on earth the presence of this human hemorrhoid is still tolerated in our local civil society is beyond me. just disgusting that whatever power his wealth/relationships to certain reactionary elected leaders is enough that somehow he hasn't formally been rendered persona non grata in city hall

Councilor Mitch Green@councilorgreen.bsky.social

Today in the Housing and Permitting Committee Chair Avalos had to interrupt and call to order Brian Owendoff who violated our rules of decorum and engaged in ableist slurs at the dais. Mr. Owendoff’s comments were deplorable and the chair was right to gavel him out.