Michelle DuBarry
@dubarrypie.bsky.social
Writer of grants and occasional essays.
Safe Streets 💛 Unions 💙 Medicare for All ❤️
Safe Streets 💛 Unions 💙 Medicare for All ❤️
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Michelle DuBarry
@dubarrypie.bsky.social
· Aug 18
Staying Tender
Listening to parents who are newly grieving, I notice the places where their voices break. It is not when they describe the concrete details of suffering and lifeless bodies; it is in the emptiness th...
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My essay in The Sun Magazine is a love letter to bereaved parents, my friends, and a dog named Shitter. I hope you will read!
Me: Don’t get your shoes wet!
Kids: Ok! (immediately walk into a stream)
Kids: Ok! (immediately walk into a stream)
November 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Me: Don’t get your shoes wet!
Kids: Ok! (immediately walk into a stream)
Kids: Ok! (immediately walk into a stream)
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Lots of talk about primarying congressional members. Meanwhile when I talk about wanting to primary incumbent state legislators people act like it shouldn’t even be allowed…how are you supposed to hold elected officials accountable in safe Dem seats if you don’t primary them???
November 11, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Lots of talk about primarying congressional members. Meanwhile when I talk about wanting to primary incumbent state legislators people act like it shouldn’t even be allowed…how are you supposed to hold elected officials accountable in safe Dem seats if you don’t primary them???
My son Seamus died 15 years ago today. He was killed by a careless driver in a crosswalk.
He walked at 9 months, almost as if he knew he wouldn’t have much time. His favorite thing to do was throw rocks into water. He loved the moon. He called butterflies “buddy buddies.” I miss him every day.
He walked at 9 months, almost as if he knew he wouldn’t have much time. His favorite thing to do was throw rocks into water. He loved the moon. He called butterflies “buddy buddies.” I miss him every day.
November 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
My son Seamus died 15 years ago today. He was killed by a careless driver in a crosswalk.
He walked at 9 months, almost as if he knew he wouldn’t have much time. His favorite thing to do was throw rocks into water. He loved the moon. He called butterflies “buddy buddies.” I miss him every day.
He walked at 9 months, almost as if he knew he wouldn’t have much time. His favorite thing to do was throw rocks into water. He loved the moon. He called butterflies “buddy buddies.” I miss him every day.
I've attended a few of these (excited to send my kids to Jefferson!) and am so shocked how often parents who want to send their kids to Grant bring up real estate and property values. I mean I knew they were thinking it, but to just come out and say it??? 🫣 🤢
www.pps.net/about/portla...
www.pps.net/about/portla...
Jefferson Is Rising - Portland School District
Jefferson Is Rising - Portland School District
www.pps.net
November 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I've attended a few of these (excited to send my kids to Jefferson!) and am so shocked how often parents who want to send their kids to Grant bring up real estate and property values. I mean I knew they were thinking it, but to just come out and say it??? 🫣 🤢
www.pps.net/about/portla...
www.pps.net/about/portla...
Welcome @pdx-fss.bsky.social to Bluesky! Please give them (us) a follow and join us at our World Day of Remembrance Event next Sunday, November 16.
Portland! Please join Families for Safe Streets, Oregon Walks, 1000 Friends of Oregon, @bikeloudpdx.bsky.social , @thestreettrust.org @pbotinfo.bsky.social for 2025 World Day of Remembrance.
November 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Welcome @pdx-fss.bsky.social to Bluesky! Please give them (us) a follow and join us at our World Day of Remembrance Event next Sunday, November 16.
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Portland! Please join Families for Safe Streets, Oregon Walks, 1000 Friends of Oregon, @bikeloudpdx.bsky.social , @thestreettrust.org @pbotinfo.bsky.social for 2025 World Day of Remembrance.
November 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Portland! Please join Families for Safe Streets, Oregon Walks, 1000 Friends of Oregon, @bikeloudpdx.bsky.social , @thestreettrust.org @pbotinfo.bsky.social for 2025 World Day of Remembrance.
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Families for Safe Streets PDX has a new website! Please check it out, share with your networks, and consider a small donation. All of our members have lost a loved one to road traffic violence or have been injured themselves. pdxfamiliesforsafestreets.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Families for Safe Streets PDX has a new website! Please check it out, share with your networks, and consider a small donation. All of our members have lost a loved one to road traffic violence or have been injured themselves. pdxfamiliesforsafestreets.org
Ran out of candy so I started offering kids slices of bread. One group demanded potatoes instead. I don’t have potatoes so I gave them 2 heads of garlic, a lime, and a kiwi 🤷♀️
November 1, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Ran out of candy so I started offering kids slices of bread. One group demanded potatoes instead. I don’t have potatoes so I gave them 2 heads of garlic, a lime, and a kiwi 🤷♀️
Behold, the moon.
October 31, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Behold, the moon.
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Three of my neighbors in district 1 were killed in three separate car collisions last night. We need action now to reduce pedestrian and cyclist deaths.
YOU need to do more to improve your own driving. Do better. Keep your neighbors alive.
YOU need to do more to improve your own driving. Do better. Keep your neighbors alive.
October 30, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Three of my neighbors in district 1 were killed in three separate car collisions last night. We need action now to reduce pedestrian and cyclist deaths.
YOU need to do more to improve your own driving. Do better. Keep your neighbors alive.
YOU need to do more to improve your own driving. Do better. Keep your neighbors alive.
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"In the two years since the state started charging a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, the effort has created a $5.7 billion windfall, with the surplus being used to fund bridge repairs, bolster literacy programs and address the transportation system’s budget deficit."
Taxing the rich works!
Taxing the rich works!
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:25 AM
"In the two years since the state started charging a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, the effort has created a $5.7 billion windfall, with the surplus being used to fund bridge repairs, bolster literacy programs and address the transportation system’s budget deficit."
Taxing the rich works!
Taxing the rich works!
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"Speed was not believed to be a factor in the crash." It was a factor in the severity of the injuries and the death and likely why the person driving hit the children while they were in a legal, but unmarked crosswalk. It was one block from the crash location that the speed limit went from 35 to 40.
Car strikes 3 siblings, one fatally, on way to middle school in San Carlos
A child was killed and two others were in critical condition after being struck by a car in the San Diego neighborhood of San Carlos Monday morning.
www.nbcsandiego.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:12 AM
"Speed was not believed to be a factor in the crash." It was a factor in the severity of the injuries and the death and likely why the person driving hit the children while they were in a legal, but unmarked crosswalk. It was one block from the crash location that the speed limit went from 35 to 40.
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ICYMI, on the Kaiser strike:
"Kaiser concedes that the unions and management are just $300 million annually apart at most in negotiations, and the company is sitting on $67.4 billion in reserves, up from $40 billion just four years ago."
prospect.org/2025/10/20/2...
"Kaiser concedes that the unions and management are just $300 million annually apart at most in negotiations, and the company is sitting on $67.4 billion in reserves, up from $40 billion just four years ago."
prospect.org/2025/10/20/2...
As Kaiser Workers Strike, ‘Not-for-Profit’ Is Sitting on $67 Billion - The American Prospect
Forty-five thousand workers at Kaiser Permanente—ranging from nurses to therapists to pharmacists—are on strike in the country’s largest labor action of 2025.
prospect.org
October 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
ICYMI, on the Kaiser strike:
"Kaiser concedes that the unions and management are just $300 million annually apart at most in negotiations, and the company is sitting on $67.4 billion in reserves, up from $40 billion just four years ago."
prospect.org/2025/10/20/2...
"Kaiser concedes that the unions and management are just $300 million annually apart at most in negotiations, and the company is sitting on $67.4 billion in reserves, up from $40 billion just four years ago."
prospect.org/2025/10/20/2...
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Hello Missoula!!!
October 18, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Hello Missoula!!!
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I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.
October 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.
I asked my middle schoolers how their day was, a question normally met with grunts and shrugs. I was not prepared to hear that they had a sub in 1st period and a kid with pink eye was chasing everyone around the classroom so they built a barricade by piling desks in the center of the room 🫣
October 14, 2025 at 4:49 AM
I asked my middle schoolers how their day was, a question normally met with grunts and shrugs. I was not prepared to hear that they had a sub in 1st period and a kid with pink eye was chasing everyone around the classroom so they built a barricade by piling desks in the center of the room 🫣
Good job, Portland ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
Amazing Emergency Naked Ride. Here’s the moment thousands of riders rolled through the protests at the ICE facility and cheers erupted. 😮💯
October 13, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Good job, Portland ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
My Queen @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social
Portland City Council member Angelita Morillo humorously criticizes Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, leading to laughter from CNN's Boris Sanchez.
October 10, 2025 at 3:37 AM
My Queen @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social
If you want to know how Portlanders feel about socialism, go to an art gala downtown and ask a billionaire.
October 4, 2025 at 6:27 PM
If you want to know how Portlanders feel about socialism, go to an art gala downtown and ask a billionaire.
2 things I've noticed in Portland (where we are having a similar convo): 1)Proponents of segregating children by test scores do not want to talk about demographic disparities; and 2) they co-opt disability rights language, claiming (w/o evidence) that gifted children have uniquely high support needs
Mamdani Says He Would Phase Out N.Y.C. Gifted Program for Early Grades
www.nytimes.com
October 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
2 things I've noticed in Portland (where we are having a similar convo): 1)Proponents of segregating children by test scores do not want to talk about demographic disparities; and 2) they co-opt disability rights language, claiming (w/o evidence) that gifted children have uniquely high support needs
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If you want to understand why Zohran Mamdani is talking about phasing out NYC's gifted & talented program for kindergarteners, latest episode of Have You Heard is a great place to start. Hint: inequality in school translates to inequality in the world soundcloud.com/haveyouheard...
#205 Schools as Sorting Machines
Forget all that talk about education as the great equalizer. Public schools and inequality are joined at the hip. But must it be that way? We talk to the authors of a recent book called Schooled and S
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October 3, 2025 at 12:16 PM
If you want to understand why Zohran Mamdani is talking about phasing out NYC's gifted & talented program for kindergarteners, latest episode of Have You Heard is a great place to start. Hint: inequality in school translates to inequality in the world soundcloud.com/haveyouheard...
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I wrote about why I think traffic deaths in the US are unacceptably high and why I think the average person does not angieschmitt.substack.com/p/one-in-93
One in 93
A short thought exercise on the risks we face on the roadways
angieschmitt.substack.com
October 2, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I wrote about why I think traffic deaths in the US are unacceptably high and why I think the average person does not angieschmitt.substack.com/p/one-in-93
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Jane Goodall came to our school when I was a kid. That whole week beforehand, all the teachers and faculty were freaking out and repeatedly telling us we had to be on our BEST behavior. This wasn’t some assembly about the importance of recycling, this was THE JANE GOODALL, who none of us knew.
October 1, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Jane Goodall came to our school when I was a kid. That whole week beforehand, all the teachers and faculty were freaking out and repeatedly telling us we had to be on our BEST behavior. This wasn’t some assembly about the importance of recycling, this was THE JANE GOODALL, who none of us knew.