Marisa Zapata
@marisazapata.bsky.social
Educator, researcher, administrator @ Portland State University.
I am sick to my stomach
DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting.
Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.
Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.
After Border Patrol shot two people in Portland, DHS claimed they were "vicious gang members" tied to a past shooting.
But records I obtained reveal a US prosecutor has since directly contradicted DHS, saying, "We're not suggesting he is a gang member." My dive into how DHS' claims have collapsed:
But records I obtained reveal a US prosecutor has since directly contradicted DHS, saying, "We're not suggesting he is a gang member." My dive into how DHS' claims have collapsed:
February 3, 2026 at 4:39 AM
I am sick to my stomach
Here’s something! I was POLLED about this case. They changed some details but def had to be this case. I took it in the last week!The poll was focused on the hospitals responsibility. I’ve Never seen a poll about a legal case!
I first worked on this story while at @opb.org. We were not the only publication to pay attention though. Under a steady local media spotlight, public officials did finally acknowledge internal problems with how the case was handled and bring new criminal charges. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/0...
Oregon doctor settles $1 billion sex abuse lawsuit filed by nearly 200 former patients
While David Farley settled his case, the suit against a Providence hospital is still set to proceed to trial.
www.oregonlive.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:25 AM
Here’s something! I was POLLED about this case. They changed some details but def had to be this case. I took it in the last week!The poll was focused on the hospitals responsibility. I’ve Never seen a poll about a legal case!
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Leading up to that.. Eric Lee Atty
Kids screaming "Let us out! Let us out!"
Kids screaming "Let us out! Let us out!"
January 24, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Leading up to that.. Eric Lee Atty
Kids screaming "Let us out! Let us out!"
Kids screaming "Let us out! Let us out!"
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they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
January 24, 2026 at 7:48 PM
they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
Be still my heart @councilordunphy.bsky.social. The city that plans not the city that works. My research in a nutshell. ❤️
January 14, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Be still my heart @councilordunphy.bsky.social. The city that plans not the city that works. My research in a nutshell. ❤️
Almost exactly 18k saved in this household thanks to PfA. ❤️
Each Preschool for All seat provides economic relief to families, saving up to $18,600 a year per child. When all 7,400+ recently allocated seats fill, families enrolled could collectively save $138 million annually.
That’s money back into families pockets they can reinvest into our local economy.
That’s money back into families pockets they can reinvest into our local economy.
December 13, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Almost exactly 18k saved in this household thanks to PfA. ❤️
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📣She’s at it again! The governor is selling out toddlers for tax cuts for top earners. Join our rally Monday from 11:30-1 at the Convention Center, 777 NE MLK, to demand Preschool for All be rolled out as approved 2:1 by voters! RSVP and bring friends! actionnetwork.org/events/prote...
Protest: Tell Kotek Hands of Preschool for All!
Governor Kotek is cozying up to big business yet again. Bring your friends and PFA supporters to tell her to save PFA!
actionnetwork.org
December 5, 2025 at 7:49 AM
📣She’s at it again! The governor is selling out toddlers for tax cuts for top earners. Join our rally Monday from 11:30-1 at the Convention Center, 777 NE MLK, to demand Preschool for All be rolled out as approved 2:1 by voters! RSVP and bring friends! actionnetwork.org/events/prote...
First Santa sighting of the year! Oregon rail heritage foundation for the win!
December 1, 2025 at 12:19 AM
First Santa sighting of the year! Oregon rail heritage foundation for the win!
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Want to be crystal clear that when I say "overall filers" I mean the number of households (7%) who pay this tax has grown even if the tippy top of this top 7% did not. The bottom line is that overall we have seen growth in the no. of households earning over 200k/yr! www.portland.gov/council/dist...
October 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Want to be crystal clear that when I say "overall filers" I mean the number of households (7%) who pay this tax has grown even if the tippy top of this top 7% did not. The bottom line is that overall we have seen growth in the no. of households earning over 200k/yr! www.portland.gov/council/dist...
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We are dealing with extreme heat in Multnomah County. 🥵 The following libraries will have extended hours today:
August 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
We are dealing with extreme heat in Multnomah County. 🥵 The following libraries will have extended hours today:
Grateful and inspired by the @friendsofpfa.bsky.social and all of the partner organizations that organized a massive turnout to protect one of most common sense programs I have seen. Truly inspiring work.
Over the past month, our coalition and our community came together to say, NO CUTS, NO COMPROMISES. Thank you for every email, phonecall, public comment, and PB&J assembly line for toddlers at evening meetings. Together, we won Preschool for All- AGAIN! The tax cuts are paused!
August 22, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Grateful and inspired by the @friendsofpfa.bsky.social and all of the partner organizations that organized a massive turnout to protect one of most common sense programs I have seen. Truly inspiring work.
This right here! P4A taxpayers all about P4A as is!
SO PROUD of my beautiful amazing girlfriend for testifying against P4A indexing *as a* P4A taxpayer. The indexing proposal was tabled later in this meeting and everyone who spoke up contributed.
August 22, 2025 at 12:02 AM
This right here! P4A taxpayers all about P4A as is!
It’s time! Join @friendsofpfa.bsky.social for a rally TODAY. Then MC listening session about indexing. What’s that? Who cares. It’s not what we voted for, uses false narratives, & won’t improve programs or access. I’m a PfA mom and a certified smart person. I know indexing is the wrong question.
August 20, 2025 at 7:41 PM
It’s time! Join @friendsofpfa.bsky.social for a rally TODAY. Then MC listening session about indexing. What’s that? Who cares. It’s not what we voted for, uses false narratives, & won’t improve programs or access. I’m a PfA mom and a certified smart person. I know indexing is the wrong question.
Write your thoughts down!! We can do this y’all!
Thanks to everyone who has signed up to provide testimony at our Preschool for All listening session this Wednesday evening!
Speaking slots for the 2 hour event are now full, but you can still submit written testimony using this link: multco.us/info/public-...
We look forward to hearing from you.
Speaking slots for the 2 hour event are now full, but you can still submit written testimony using this link: multco.us/info/public-...
We look forward to hearing from you.
Public testimony webform
Use this form to sign up to testify before the Board, or to submit written testimony.
multco.us
August 17, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Write your thoughts down!! We can do this y’all!
Great thread and supporting responses sharing great information about preschool for all.
I’m testifying 8/28. Join me! If you’re nervous lmk and I will cheer you on! I’m bringing my kiddo. Preschool is closed that week. Bring yours!
I’m testifying 8/28. Join me! If you’re nervous lmk and I will cheer you on! I’m bringing my kiddo. Preschool is closed that week. Bring yours!
PDX read this explainer about the perils of Julia Brim-Edwards's janky indexing scheme for Preschool for All from @friendsofpfa.bsky.social. Then smash the button to email the Country and the link to sign up to testify at one of the august dates. mailchi.mp/e643b845b722...
We have Julia Brim-Edwards on the backfoot – let’s keep pushing!
mailchi.mp
August 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Great thread and supporting responses sharing great information about preschool for all.
I’m testifying 8/28. Join me! If you’re nervous lmk and I will cheer you on! I’m bringing my kiddo. Preschool is closed that week. Bring yours!
I’m testifying 8/28. Join me! If you’re nervous lmk and I will cheer you on! I’m bringing my kiddo. Preschool is closed that week. Bring yours!
lol I did not edit my screen shot. And look - it turned out to be a great opportunity to learn more about Friends of PfA!
🥰... our emails do contain a lot of good info! Get on the list at friendsofPFA.org to get yours!✨
Some ppl are shouting about how the preschool for all tax is driving ppl out of Multco. Here’s some information data about what ppl pay. The cost of moving would be more than this tax. If you + partner’s taxable income is 270k, you owe $1k. No one is moving for $1000.
August 15, 2025 at 3:07 AM
lol I did not edit my screen shot. And look - it turned out to be a great opportunity to learn more about Friends of PfA!
Thank you Councillor for your unwavering support!
It was great to be in a room full of families and local leaders to say: we support Preschool For All! East Portland has the most families out of all the districts, so it’s very important to me that we keep growing PFA.
@friendsofpfa.bsky.social
#FriendsofPFA
@friendsofpfa.bsky.social
#FriendsofPFA
August 15, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Thank you Councillor for your unwavering support!
Some ppl are shouting about how the preschool for all tax is driving ppl out of Multco. Here’s some information data about what ppl pay. The cost of moving would be more than this tax. If you + partner’s taxable income is 270k, you owe $1k. No one is moving for $1000.
August 15, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Some ppl are shouting about how the preschool for all tax is driving ppl out of Multco. Here’s some information data about what ppl pay. The cost of moving would be more than this tax. If you + partner’s taxable income is 270k, you owe $1k. No one is moving for $1000.
Yall! We need help. Pls reach out! Even if, and maybe especially if you don’t have a kid a PfA. Don’t have kids and understand how this matters? Pay the tax and are totally fine with it? Or pay the tax and know that it on its own it’s not going to make you run away from the county? Please share!
you could even do more than this. Call them. Chalk the sidewalk outside the county building. Sky writing
Take action NOW to save Preschool for All! friendsofpfa.org/take-action
August 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Yall! We need help. Pls reach out! Even if, and maybe especially if you don’t have a kid a PfA. Don’t have kids and understand how this matters? Pay the tax and are totally fine with it? Or pay the tax and know that it on its own it’s not going to make you run away from the county? Please share!
Come help defend Preschool for all!!!
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Update on Senate Bill 106 Close to midnight on one of the last days of the 2025 legislative session, with the governor’s support, several Oregon senators wrote a bill with a shocking amendment option ...
friendsofpfa.org
August 7, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Come help defend Preschool for all!!!
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Here’s something that’s really great about preschool for all that I don’t see discussed. My son goes to a preschool at a local community center. Multiple community centers have them. The city now funds these programs through PFA. 1/?
August 7, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Here’s something that’s really great about preschool for all that I don’t see discussed. My son goes to a preschool at a local community center. Multiple community centers have them. The city now funds these programs through PFA. 1/?
Still scratching your head about the OR leg’s cuts to the housing bill? Hear @lkb-pdx.bsky.social talk about how these significant cuts will increase evictions on @opb.org’ think out loud today at 12:30!
www.opb.org/article/2025...
www.opb.org/article/2025...
Housing advocates warn Oregon legislative cuts to housing and eviction prevention program will add to homeless population
We talk with Portland State University Professor Lisa Bates about the funding for homelessness and housing programs and what’s needed in her view to address the ongoing homeless and housing crisis.
www.opb.org
June 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Still scratching your head about the OR leg’s cuts to the housing bill? Hear @lkb-pdx.bsky.social talk about how these significant cuts will increase evictions on @opb.org’ think out loud today at 12:30!
www.opb.org/article/2025...
www.opb.org/article/2025...
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Parents at the press conference were talking about how the costs of preschool were more than their mortgage payments. We have to save this program.
A group of about four dozen parents, preschool teachers and advocates gathered in front of Escuela Viva in Southeast Portland Wednesday morning for a press conference, urging Gov. Tina Kotek stop threatening Multnomah County’s universal preschool program.
Coalition of Groups Tell Kotek To Take Her Hands off Preschool for All
Joanna Hou
www.wweek.com
June 26, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Parents at the press conference were talking about how the costs of preschool were more than their mortgage payments. We have to save this program.
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Portland, tomorrow if you can please head out to this press conference sponsored by Oregon @workingfamilies.org to say Hands off Preschool for All!!! www.mobilize.us/oregonworkin...
June 25, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Portland, tomorrow if you can please head out to this press conference sponsored by Oregon @workingfamilies.org to say Hands off Preschool for All!!! www.mobilize.us/oregonworkin...