Brat
@daveykong.bsky.social
Solidarity forever
Fuck ICE
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Fuck ICE
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I clocked Mayor Wilson waiting to weaponize this against Hisserich the second the story broke.
Ask: why would Wilson oust an international expert in social housing?
Because he never really cared about creating a sustainable and affordable housing landscape for everyday Portlanders.
Ask: why would Wilson oust an international expert in social housing?
Because he never really cared about creating a sustainable and affordable housing landscape for everyday Portlanders.
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 12:07 AM
I clocked Mayor Wilson waiting to weaponize this against Hisserich the second the story broke.
Ask: why would Wilson oust an international expert in social housing?
Because he never really cared about creating a sustainable and affordable housing landscape for everyday Portlanders.
Ask: why would Wilson oust an international expert in social housing?
Because he never really cared about creating a sustainable and affordable housing landscape for everyday Portlanders.
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We’re doing it again! If you missed the last Community Jail Support onboarding, join us at The Marie Equi Center on November 23rd to learn how to start doing jail support, and connect with others to collaborate with.
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November 3, 2025 at 3:19 AM
We’re doing it again! If you missed the last Community Jail Support onboarding, join us at The Marie Equi Center on November 23rd to learn how to start doing jail support, and connect with others to collaborate with.
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Everything is stupid and dangerous right now, *but* we have an opportunity to make a least one thing less stupid and dangerous.
Please submit a comment to the PDX city planners asking them to prevent any further expansion of liquid fuel storage at the CEI Hub and mandate a fuel drawdown.
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Please submit a comment to the PDX city planners asking them to prevent any further expansion of liquid fuel storage at the CEI Hub and mandate a fuel drawdown.
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Demand a Safer Portland! Stop the CEI Hub Time Bomb!
Tell City Hall to Choose Public Health and Safety Over Corporate Profits at the CEI Hub Portland faces a historic choice—one that will determine our city’s safety and environmental legacy for generat...
actionnetwork.org
October 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Everything is stupid and dangerous right now, *but* we have an opportunity to make a least one thing less stupid and dangerous.
Please submit a comment to the PDX city planners asking them to prevent any further expansion of liquid fuel storage at the CEI Hub and mandate a fuel drawdown.
👇
Please submit a comment to the PDX city planners asking them to prevent any further expansion of liquid fuel storage at the CEI Hub and mandate a fuel drawdown.
👇
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NEW: After paying for hotel rooms to shelter homeless people, Seattle deliberately left them vacant.
By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads.
By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads.
Seattle Spent Millions on Hotel Rooms to Shelter Unhoused People. Then It Stopped Filling Them.
Early last year, the city signed a $2.7 million lease extension to continue using a hotel’s rooms as shelter space. Yet despite committing to pay the rent, the city stopped sending people there.
www.propublica.org
October 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW: After paying for hotel rooms to shelter homeless people, Seattle deliberately left them vacant.
By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads.
By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads.
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Portland: Neighbors Welcome urges City Council to reject the proposed camping ban ordinance. Portland must embrace housing first strategies that offer dignity and respect to our most vulnerable neighbors. Let's house all our neighbors, together.
October 4, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Portland: Neighbors Welcome urges City Council to reject the proposed camping ban ordinance. Portland must embrace housing first strategies that offer dignity and respect to our most vulnerable neighbors. Let's house all our neighbors, together.
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“It was heartbreaking to watch,” said Watson. “Even if you’re not a mother, seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.”
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 2:44 AM
“It was heartbreaking to watch,” said Watson. “Even if you’re not a mother, seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.”
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Spider-Man Pointing at Spider-Man Meme
Federal cops ‘instigating’ confrontations with protesters outside ICE building, Portland police official says in court
Assistant Chief Craig Dobson said federal officers were “causing some of the ruckus” at the ongoing protests.
www.oregonlive.com
September 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Spider-Man Pointing at Spider-Man Meme
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ooookay this is a nightmare???
September 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
ooookay this is a nightmare???
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Your regular reminder that Portland Police Chaplain Clyde Lewis is on the governing board for Her Voice Movement and Don'tMessWithOurKids. He'll be speaking at the extremely anti-LGBTQ+ Christian Nationalist conference at Che Ahn's church next month. Che Ahn is running for governor of California.
September 22, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Your regular reminder that Portland Police Chaplain Clyde Lewis is on the governing board for Her Voice Movement and Don'tMessWithOurKids. He'll be speaking at the extremely anti-LGBTQ+ Christian Nationalist conference at Che Ahn's church next month. Che Ahn is running for governor of California.
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Asked this guy how he felt about choking women today as he stared down at us all from the roof.
He proudly declared he likes it.
He proudly declared he likes it.
September 23, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Asked this guy how he felt about choking women today as he stared down at us all from the roof.
He proudly declared he likes it.
He proudly declared he likes it.
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Recently, Mayor Bruce Harrell mocked his challenger Katie Wilson's proposal to fund local media with a democracy voucher-style program as a pointless giveaway to irrelevant "blogs." Losing local news coverage is a tragedy, and elected leaders shouldn't mockingly dismiss proposals that could help.
September 22, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Recently, Mayor Bruce Harrell mocked his challenger Katie Wilson's proposal to fund local media with a democracy voucher-style program as a pointless giveaway to irrelevant "blogs." Losing local news coverage is a tragedy, and elected leaders shouldn't mockingly dismiss proposals that could help.
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When people complain about homeless people in parks, libraries, or other public spaces. Remember what the city lawyers argued when trying to legalize a camping ban.
September 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
When people complain about homeless people in parks, libraries, or other public spaces. Remember what the city lawyers argued when trying to legalize a camping ban.
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a larger percentage of trans people voted for harris than nearly any other demographic. they told us to settle for her tepid “support” of us and we did. she still stabbed us in the back & threw us under the bus. fuck kamala harris and fuck everyone still blaming trans people for her dogshit campaign
September 20, 2025 at 1:41 PM
a larger percentage of trans people voted for harris than nearly any other demographic. they told us to settle for her tepid “support” of us and we did. she still stabbed us in the back & threw us under the bus. fuck kamala harris and fuck everyone still blaming trans people for her dogshit campaign
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the sheer fucking gall of Dem politicians who now – in September 2025, as the Trump admin is taking away trans ppl's healthcare & passports & baselessly labeling us as "terrorists" – express their "concerns" about trans ppl & sports. they are trying to eradicate us! maybe be "concerned" about that!
September 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
the sheer fucking gall of Dem politicians who now – in September 2025, as the Trump admin is taking away trans ppl's healthcare & passports & baselessly labeling us as "terrorists" – express their "concerns" about trans ppl & sports. they are trying to eradicate us! maybe be "concerned" about that!
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The delicious end to the affair. 48 hours of the most august and respectable institutions prostrating themselves over a low rent gutter bigot with a middling podcast and as soon as his death didnt fit the narrative Trump says "RIP to that man, check out my new drapes" humiliation after humiliation
September 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The delicious end to the affair. 48 hours of the most august and respectable institutions prostrating themselves over a low rent gutter bigot with a middling podcast and as soon as his death didnt fit the narrative Trump says "RIP to that man, check out my new drapes" humiliation after humiliation
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we are having an event! if you want to learn more about jail support, ask questions, get involved, or get some supplies for when you're out there doing jail support then come join us at colonel summers park, 9/28 at 1pm!
September 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
we are having an event! if you want to learn more about jail support, ask questions, get involved, or get some supplies for when you're out there doing jail support then come join us at colonel summers park, 9/28 at 1pm!
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There’s no reason to be flying our flags half-staff here in Oregon for unelected MAGA agitator Charlie Kirk for any amount of time, let alone 4 full days, especially when he advocated for Portland to be invaded along with other sanctuary cities & hated LGBTQ @tinakotek.bsky.social @wyden.senate.gov
September 11, 2025 at 2:55 AM
There’s no reason to be flying our flags half-staff here in Oregon for unelected MAGA agitator Charlie Kirk for any amount of time, let alone 4 full days, especially when he advocated for Portland to be invaded along with other sanctuary cities & hated LGBTQ @tinakotek.bsky.social @wyden.senate.gov
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The Texas A&M firing reveals the core power dynamic at play. The reactionary centrist outrage was reserved for challenges coming from below, criticism from the public, marginalized voices, and activists. They are now silent when the threat comes from above, through the power of the state.
September 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The Texas A&M firing reveals the core power dynamic at play. The reactionary centrist outrage was reserved for challenges coming from below, criticism from the public, marginalized voices, and activists. They are now silent when the threat comes from above, through the power of the state.
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They're folding. Keep the heat on.
September 6, 2025 at 6:47 PM
They're folding. Keep the heat on.
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Last week, a housed resident attacked multiple homeless neighbors in Northwest Portland, leading to a five-hour standoff with police crisis negotiators. It wasn’t an isolated incident. Oregon leads the nation in violent attacks against the homeless, a National Coalition for the Homeless report says.
Downtown Portland stabbing continues pattern of anti-homeless violence
Police arrested a housed man accused of stabbing two homeless neighbors. Oregon sees the highest level of violent attacks on homeless people in the U.S., according to a 2024 report by the National Coa...
www.streetroots.org
September 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Last week, a housed resident attacked multiple homeless neighbors in Northwest Portland, leading to a five-hour standoff with police crisis negotiators. It wasn’t an isolated incident. Oregon leads the nation in violent attacks against the homeless, a National Coalition for the Homeless report says.
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since we are doing police abolition discourse again, my view remains that we should be striving for a society where police and prisons are obsolete, and that every step we take should be with that final goal in mind, regardless of whether we ever reach it. that's why i call myself an abolitionist
September 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
since we are doing police abolition discourse again, my view remains that we should be striving for a society where police and prisons are obsolete, and that every step we take should be with that final goal in mind, regardless of whether we ever reach it. that's why i call myself an abolitionist
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Running Down the Walls PDX 2025 is coming up! Come out and raise some funds for the ABCF Warchest to support political prisoners. Files available here if you'd like to print and propagate the flyer:
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August 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Running Down the Walls PDX 2025 is coming up! Come out and raise some funds for the ABCF Warchest to support political prisoners. Files available here if you'd like to print and propagate the flyer:
🔗 grafera.zone/archive/illu...
🔗 grafera.zone/archive/illu...
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🧵 Last year TSA rolled out facial recognition at some US airports.
The TSA is exploring the deployment of Palantir's software platform, Foundry.
It’s optional and you should opt out.
Bias, misuse & data risk demand vigilance, not complacency.
Here’s how and why 1/
The TSA is exploring the deployment of Palantir's software platform, Foundry.
It’s optional and you should opt out.
Bias, misuse & data risk demand vigilance, not complacency.
Here’s how and why 1/
August 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
🧵 Last year TSA rolled out facial recognition at some US airports.
The TSA is exploring the deployment of Palantir's software platform, Foundry.
It’s optional and you should opt out.
Bias, misuse & data risk demand vigilance, not complacency.
Here’s how and why 1/
The TSA is exploring the deployment of Palantir's software platform, Foundry.
It’s optional and you should opt out.
Bias, misuse & data risk demand vigilance, not complacency.
Here’s how and why 1/
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how does something like the northwest diverter removal come together? we're still learning some details, but here's a summary of some of the players involved 🧵
August 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
how does something like the northwest diverter removal come together? we're still learning some details, but here's a summary of some of the players involved 🧵
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When people say that Portland Street Response can or can't do certain things without saying why they can't do them, you can probably find the reasons in the 2 page Letter of Agreement for Portland Street Response on pages 91-92 here in the current PPA Contract.
www.portland.gov/bhr/employee...
www.portland.gov/bhr/employee...
www.portland.gov
August 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
When people say that Portland Street Response can or can't do certain things without saying why they can't do them, you can probably find the reasons in the 2 page Letter of Agreement for Portland Street Response on pages 91-92 here in the current PPA Contract.
www.portland.gov/bhr/employee...
www.portland.gov/bhr/employee...