matt tuckerbaum
@mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social
Portland | housing | urbanism | climate | liberalism that builds | liberation & justice for all
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2700 families were evicted in Oregon last month.
Last month set an all time record for the number of evictions in the state of Oregon. This is an emergency, and this legislative session I'm asking my colleagues to add back $10 million to the state's eviction prevention fund to help keep families in stable housing. #orleg https://loom.ly/4Fgb5vs
Record evictions in Oregon highlight urgent housing crisis
Oregon experienced a record high in court-ordered evictions in January, driven by reduced state funding for eviction prevention and rising living costs, prompting urgent calls for solutions to keep families
www.kezi.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:52 PM
2700 families were evicted in Oregon last month.
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Put some of the recent reporting on ICE detention into context
Concentration camps
"We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick.”
eoinhiggins.substack.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Put some of the recent reporting on ICE detention into context
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"In a phone interview from the facility, he said conditions there are 'like a concentration camp, absolute hell.'
"He has been locked in the same large, cold, damp room for 4½ months with 70+ men...constantly hungry...toilets are filthy...allowed outside <12 times"
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
"He has been locked in the same large, cold, damp room for 4½ months with 70+ men...constantly hungry...toilets are filthy...allowed outside <12 times"
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record
www.irishtimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:58 PM
"In a phone interview from the facility, he said conditions there are 'like a concentration camp, absolute hell.'
"He has been locked in the same large, cold, damp room for 4½ months with 70+ men...constantly hungry...toilets are filthy...allowed outside <12 times"
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
"He has been locked in the same large, cold, damp room for 4½ months with 70+ men...constantly hungry...toilets are filthy...allowed outside <12 times"
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
Are Pets on Broadway and Plants on Broadway, located directly across the street from each other, owned by the same people?
February 8, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Are Pets on Broadway and Plants on Broadway, located directly across the street from each other, owned by the same people?
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Homeless people are not the only people who need homes.
There are millions of people who’d like to move out of their parents’ homes, ditch their roommates, leave their abusive partners, or move to a different city but can’t because housing scarcity makes rent too expensive where they want to live.
There are millions of people who’d like to move out of their parents’ homes, ditch their roommates, leave their abusive partners, or move to a different city but can’t because housing scarcity makes rent too expensive where they want to live.
1 million
Bwahahahahaha
The US census bureau says 16 million or approximately 28 homes per unhoused person.
I'll send you the links
Bwahahahahaha
The US census bureau says 16 million or approximately 28 homes per unhoused person.
I'll send you the links
February 8, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Homeless people are not the only people who need homes.
There are millions of people who’d like to move out of their parents’ homes, ditch their roommates, leave their abusive partners, or move to a different city but can’t because housing scarcity makes rent too expensive where they want to live.
There are millions of people who’d like to move out of their parents’ homes, ditch their roommates, leave their abusive partners, or move to a different city but can’t because housing scarcity makes rent too expensive where they want to live.
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Hi
these are concentration camps
these are concentration camps
The proposed centers are so large that some could house as many as 8,000 detainees at once, according to a DHS spreadsheet of more than 20 potential locations that was verified by NBC News. The largest federal prison in the U.S., for example, has roughly 4,000 inmates.
ICE plans to build mega warehouses for immigration detention spark growing concern
Sources at two government contractors told NBC News they were worried that new warehouses — and the large numbers of immigrants who would be housed in them — would present safety problems.
www.nbcnews.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:43 AM
Hi
these are concentration camps
these are concentration camps
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Concentration camps:
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."
Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...
lataco.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Concentration camps:
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."
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Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.
ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.
www.pressherald.com
February 7, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.
Wow, this is absolutely shocking.
The Portland Housing Bureau (PHB) is sitting on $106 million in unspent funds, far more than was previously reported. City Administrator Raymond Lee outlined the funding in a memo Friday afternoon.
Update: Portland Housing Bureau's Unspent Funds Reach $106 Million
News of the unspent money comes two months after city councilors learned the city's Rental Services Office amassed $21 million in revenue, which went unreported for months.
www.portlandmercury.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Wow, this is absolutely shocking.
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"DOGE’s objective was never to save taxpayer dollars. Musk did not 'fail'...DOGE was—and remains, through Vought’s OMB—an effort to extinguish the existing government and create a new one in the image of oligarchs and far-right ideologues."
From rural elders forced to live in dilapidated homes to families abandoned in the midst of carbon pollution, real people are experiencing material harms as a result of DOGE’s attacks on the administrative state.
DOGE Lives On Through Russell Vought
Trump’s White House OMB director has quietly institutionalized the government demolition agenda set in motion by Elon Musk’s wrecking crew.
buff.ly
February 5, 2026 at 9:06 PM
"DOGE’s objective was never to save taxpayer dollars. Musk did not 'fail'...DOGE was—and remains, through Vought’s OMB—an effort to extinguish the existing government and create a new one in the image of oligarchs and far-right ideologues."
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every time someone alleges that we don’t *actually* have a housing supply shortage i just think of this cartoon.
what if the supply shortage is a big hoax and we allow cities to integrate and be more sustainable environmentally and fiscally and get rid of a bunch of pointless rules for nothing?
what if the supply shortage is a big hoax and we allow cities to integrate and be more sustainable environmentally and fiscally and get rid of a bunch of pointless rules for nothing?
February 4, 2026 at 8:12 PM
every time someone alleges that we don’t *actually* have a housing supply shortage i just think of this cartoon.
what if the supply shortage is a big hoax and we allow cities to integrate and be more sustainable environmentally and fiscally and get rid of a bunch of pointless rules for nothing?
what if the supply shortage is a big hoax and we allow cities to integrate and be more sustainable environmentally and fiscally and get rid of a bunch of pointless rules for nothing?
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"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed."
A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends.
Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.
A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends.
Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.
Homeless Oregon youth got $1,000 a month for two years. Most found housing after • Oregon Capital Chronicle
Oregon is the second of its kind in the nation to implement the direct cash transfer program after New York City.
oregoncapitalchronicle.com
February 4, 2026 at 2:12 PM
"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed."
A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends.
Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.
A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends.
Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.
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Hello wonderful neighbors! Our next happy hour is TOMORROW, February 5th at Migration brewing on Williams from 6-8PM! We are excited to announce that we will be joined by members of Portland's Bureau of Planning and Sustainability who are working on the Central City Code Amendments project!
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6-8PM @ Migration on Williams
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February 4, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Hello wonderful neighbors! Our next happy hour is TOMORROW, February 5th at Migration brewing on Williams from 6-8PM! We are excited to announce that we will be joined by members of Portland's Bureau of Planning and Sustainability who are working on the Central City Code Amendments project!
I don't think Councilors should have to dance around accountability. CA Jordan made >$300k/yr, and he had 1.5yrs to transition the government to the new system. Do these recent financial discoveries suggest that he did not systematically review and transition the City's system of accounting?
Under the old system, bureaus operated in silos, and accounting practices varied widely across the City.
Commissioners were structurally incentivized to protect their own bureaus, which created a culture where full financial transparency was often discouraged rather than expected.
Commissioners were structurally incentivized to protect their own bureaus, which created a culture where full financial transparency was often discouraged rather than expected.
February 4, 2026 at 6:30 PM
I don't think Councilors should have to dance around accountability. CA Jordan made >$300k/yr, and he had 1.5yrs to transition the government to the new system. Do these recent financial discoveries suggest that he did not systematically review and transition the City's system of accounting?
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“maybe he did not know the full extent of the outrages that were committed in his community, but he knew enough. And we don’t know exactly how ICE will use this warehouse, but we know enough.”
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
February 4, 2026 at 5:57 PM
“maybe he did not know the full extent of the outrages that were committed in his community, but he knew enough. And we don’t know exactly how ICE will use this warehouse, but we know enough.”
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WaPo and CBS, yes, but two more (NPR and PBS) are on the ropes because Trump wished personally to destroy them. Another (MSNOW) faces immediate uncertainty following an ownership change.
They kneecapped or killed more than half our national news orgs in six months.
They kneecapped or killed more than half our national news orgs in six months.
The number of major news organizations in the United States has dropped by two in the past couple of months. Brutal.
February 4, 2026 at 5:17 PM
WaPo and CBS, yes, but two more (NPR and PBS) are on the ropes because Trump wished personally to destroy them. Another (MSNOW) faces immediate uncertainty following an ownership change.
They kneecapped or killed more than half our national news orgs in six months.
They kneecapped or killed more than half our national news orgs in six months.
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Damn look what a DA can do when they want to use their power
Philidelphia DA Larry Krasner warns ICE: If an agent commits crimes in Philly, I will charge you. You will be arrested. You will stand trial, and you will be convicted in state or federal court and you will do your time. Donald Trump can't pardon you for a state court conviction.
February 4, 2026 at 2:12 AM
Damn look what a DA can do when they want to use their power
Respectfully, @councilordunphy.bsky.social, we can't excuse this just because it wasn't malicious. The system of accounting was chosen and managed by City leadership who are still there. If they're incapable of effectively managing government funds, they're not qualified for their positions.
“While the timing of this information is difficult, I do not believe these were hidden maliciously, but are instead a relic of the old government system of accounting," Council President Jamie Dunphy said.
The Portland Housing Bureau has found additional unspent dollars in its coffers, adding to the previous $21 million it found through an audit last year. The uncovered funds could impact two pieces of Council business this week.
February 3, 2026 at 11:39 PM
Respectfully, @councilordunphy.bsky.social, we can't excuse this just because it wasn't malicious. The system of accounting was chosen and managed by City leadership who are still there. If they're incapable of effectively managing government funds, they're not qualified for their positions.
These are just colossal screw-ups. Donnie’s gotta go.
The Portland Housing Bureau has found roughly $20 million in additional unspent funds, two city councilors say, on top of another pot of $21 million that the housing bureau found late last year.
Housing Bureau Finds Extra $20 Million in Unspent Funds, Bringing Total to Around $40 Million
Sophie Peel
www.wweek.com
February 3, 2026 at 3:41 AM
These are just colossal screw-ups. Donnie’s gotta go.
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this particular line is maybe the best statement of purpose i have seen for those of us who want a more militant opposition to this administration
“Let us be clear: we want the power of the state. We wish to hold the criminals of the regime accountable. We wish to seize back the public funds looted by Trump and his cronies. We wish to undo the damage he has done to the government. More than any of that we wish to rebuild.”
From Powerlessness to Power
We will not achieve any of our ultimate goals without exercising state power, and the most effective way to take state power is through nonviolent but confrontational resistance.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 2, 2026 at 12:34 PM
this particular line is maybe the best statement of purpose i have seen for those of us who want a more militant opposition to this administration
I suspect that Councilor Novick’s vote against the Detention Center Fee will be his undoing in November.
February 2, 2026 at 4:13 AM
I suspect that Councilor Novick’s vote against the Detention Center Fee will be his undoing in November.
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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has said that in regards to immigration, Spain needs to choose between being an open and prosperous country or a closed-off, poor country.
I don’t know if this has sunk in here yet, but Oregon has the same choice. www.oregonlive.com/business/202...
I don’t know if this has sunk in here yet, but Oregon has the same choice. www.oregonlive.com/business/202...
People from other countries account for most of Oregon’s growth
Domestic migration is essentially flat but immigrants kept Oregon growing — barely.
www.oregonlive.com
February 1, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has said that in regards to immigration, Spain needs to choose between being an open and prosperous country or a closed-off, poor country.
I don’t know if this has sunk in here yet, but Oregon has the same choice. www.oregonlive.com/business/202...
I don’t know if this has sunk in here yet, but Oregon has the same choice. www.oregonlive.com/business/202...
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if Musk is doing this for London crime, what do you think he is doing for content about American politics, an issue that affects him much more directly?
Wowsers look at what happened to posts on Twitter/X about London crime after monetisation of posts was introduced…
economist.com/britain/2026...
economist.com/britain/2026...
January 31, 2026 at 11:42 PM
if Musk is doing this for London crime, what do you think he is doing for content about American politics, an issue that affects him much more directly?
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4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government
January 30, 2026 at 6:45 PM
4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government
