Paul Sheprow
@paulsheprow.bsky.social
Public Schools, Averting Ecological Collapse, Unions. We can build it. 🦑
🌲 Oregon 🌲
🌲 Oregon 🌲
Affordable for *who*? We need to increase affordability for working families with things exactly like universal preschool, and the tax on top earners that pays for it (approved by voters!).
This is so alienating for potential voters, who wrote this???
This is so alienating for potential voters, who wrote this???
Cutting property taxes for Oregonians affected by wildfires. Canceling planned freeway tolls. Pausing local new taxes in the Portland area. We have to keep going to make life more affordable for Oregonians.
December 25, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Affordable for *who*? We need to increase affordability for working families with things exactly like universal preschool, and the tax on top earners that pays for it (approved by voters!).
This is so alienating for potential voters, who wrote this???
This is so alienating for potential voters, who wrote this???
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With friends like these, who needs Republicans?
Cutting property taxes for Oregonians affected by wildfires. Canceling planned freeway tolls. Pausing local new taxes in the Portland area. We have to keep going to make life more affordable for Oregonians.
December 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
With friends like these, who needs Republicans?
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Oregon: PIRC hoodies are live!
#WeProtectUs
Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition
Oregon-wide hotline:
(888) 622-1510
Hoodie:
www.bonfire.com/pirc-hoodie/
Tee:
www.bonfire.com/pirc-t-shirt/
PIRC linktree
linktr.ee/pirc_pdx
#WeProtectUs
Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition
Oregon-wide hotline:
(888) 622-1510
Hoodie:
www.bonfire.com/pirc-hoodie/
Tee:
www.bonfire.com/pirc-t-shirt/
PIRC linktree
linktr.ee/pirc_pdx
December 13, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Oregon: PIRC hoodies are live!
#WeProtectUs
Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition
Oregon-wide hotline:
(888) 622-1510
Hoodie:
www.bonfire.com/pirc-hoodie/
Tee:
www.bonfire.com/pirc-t-shirt/
PIRC linktree
linktr.ee/pirc_pdx
#WeProtectUs
Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition
Oregon-wide hotline:
(888) 622-1510
Hoodie:
www.bonfire.com/pirc-hoodie/
Tee:
www.bonfire.com/pirc-t-shirt/
PIRC linktree
linktr.ee/pirc_pdx
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6,000 faculty members at Penn State has filed for a union.
These professors and other faculty will vote on unionizing in the coming year.
If they win their union it will be the largest public union in Pennsylvania.
These professors and other faculty will vote on unionizing in the coming year.
If they win their union it will be the largest public union in Pennsylvania.
December 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
6,000 faculty members at Penn State has filed for a union.
These professors and other faculty will vote on unionizing in the coming year.
If they win their union it will be the largest public union in Pennsylvania.
These professors and other faculty will vote on unionizing in the coming year.
If they win their union it will be the largest public union in Pennsylvania.
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Educators at the school district serving Richmond, El Cerrito, San Pablo, Pinole, and Hercules are going on strike tomorrow...
richmondside.org/2025/12/01/w...
richmondside.org/2025/12/01/w...
WCCUSD teachers strike to begin Thursday
United Teachers of Richmond announced via email Monday night that teachers will be on picket lines 45 minutes before the first bell.
richmondside.org
December 2, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Educators at the school district serving Richmond, El Cerrito, San Pablo, Pinole, and Hercules are going on strike tomorrow...
richmondside.org/2025/12/01/w...
richmondside.org/2025/12/01/w...
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Ice Agents in Worcester, MA RIGHT NOW attempting to take 2 women and a baby. City Council Member @etelhaxhiaj.bsky.social attempting to help her. Please share far and wide ASAP!
May 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Ice Agents in Worcester, MA RIGHT NOW attempting to take 2 women and a baby. City Council Member @etelhaxhiaj.bsky.social attempting to help her. Please share far and wide ASAP!
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"We are overwhelmed by the amount of support and engagement. I couldn’t have expected more than this. So many people I don't know showed up, and it’s better than I could have thought."
— UO Student Workers strike captain and organizer Valentine Bentz.
dailyemerald.com/164744/campu...
— UO Student Workers strike captain and organizer Valentine Bentz.
dailyemerald.com/164744/campu...
UO student worker strike begins - Daily Emerald
The University of Oregon Student Workers, after nearly 11 months of bargaining for pay, pay periods, resident assistant roles and more, have begun its strike as of 8 a.m. today. Picket lines are curr...
dailyemerald.com
April 29, 2025 at 1:27 PM
"We are overwhelmed by the amount of support and engagement. I couldn’t have expected more than this. So many people I don't know showed up, and it’s better than I could have thought."
— UO Student Workers strike captain and organizer Valentine Bentz.
dailyemerald.com/164744/campu...
— UO Student Workers strike captain and organizer Valentine Bentz.
dailyemerald.com/164744/campu...
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To write a lengthy article about a (hugely overstated) "teacher absentee crisis" and not talk to a single teacher currently working in Oregon schools is quite unfortunate. The framing here encourages people to pick sides instead of working together to solve any potential problem that might exist.
In and around Portland, teachers are missing more school than ever. Their bosses don't want to talk about it
It's not just students. Post-pandemic, teachers are also missing significantly more school days. Oregon has virtually no policies in place to counteract the trend.
www.oregonlive.com
April 13, 2025 at 12:40 AM
To write a lengthy article about a (hugely overstated) "teacher absentee crisis" and not talk to a single teacher currently working in Oregon schools is quite unfortunate. The framing here encourages people to pick sides instead of working together to solve any potential problem that might exist.
Let's go @clackcoea.bsky.social 💪💪💪
Because of the hard work, engagement and unified stance of CCEA members, the county caved on a retroactive cost-of-living adjustment, something they said they would never do.
April 12, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Let's go @clackcoea.bsky.social 💪💪💪
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There’s a lesson here for every Big Law firm, university and media company if they care to learn it.
Absolutely incredible: the Feds totally folded on Congestion Pricing, thanks to the MTA just...refusing to abide by their demands
www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
MTA, feds agree to keep NYC congestion pricing tolls through October
The MTA and the Trump administration have reached an agreement to keep New York City congestion pricing through October.
www.cbsnews.com
April 8, 2025 at 1:59 AM
There’s a lesson here for every Big Law firm, university and media company if they care to learn it.
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Attacks on public services and public workers are unacceptable. Clackamas County workers deserve to be treated fairly! Donate to support them, small donations add up!
Thank you to everyone who has supported our strike fund! This will make a huge difference in helping our lower income members be able to participate in the strike.
Can you help us get to $10k? It's not too late to donate!
Can you help us get to $10k? It's not too late to donate!
Donate to Support the members of the Clackamas County Employees Assn, organized by Scott Vandecoevering
UPDATE: The strike authorization vote has concluded, and over… Scott Vandecoevering needs your support for Support the members of the Clackamas County Employees Assn
www.gofundme.com
April 8, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Attacks on public services and public workers are unacceptable. Clackamas County workers deserve to be treated fairly! Donate to support them, small donations add up!
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Number 472: a new kind of Union that negotiates to lower your wages to help the business owner and make him successful
April 7, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Number 472: a new kind of Union that negotiates to lower your wages to help the business owner and make him successful
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Thank you to everyone who has supported our strike fund! This will make a huge difference in helping our lower income members be able to participate in the strike.
Can you help us get to $10k? It's not too late to donate!
Can you help us get to $10k? It's not too late to donate!
Donate to Support the members of the Clackamas County Employees Assn, organized by Scott Vandecoevering
UPDATE: The strike authorization vote has concluded, and over… Scott Vandecoevering needs your support for Support the members of the Clackamas County Employees Assn
www.gofundme.com
April 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Thank you to everyone who has supported our strike fund! This will make a huge difference in helping our lower income members be able to participate in the strike.
Can you help us get to $10k? It's not too late to donate!
Can you help us get to $10k? It's not too late to donate!
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Trump's executive order tonight has illegally cancelled union contracts for 67% of the federal workforce & 75% of unionized federal employees — roughly 700,000 union workers
This may be the single biggest attack on the labor movement in American history
This may be the single biggest attack on the labor movement in American history
March 28, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Trump's executive order tonight has illegally cancelled union contracts for 67% of the federal workforce & 75% of unionized federal employees — roughly 700,000 union workers
This may be the single biggest attack on the labor movement in American history
This may be the single biggest attack on the labor movement in American history
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her hospital had its reimbursements cut off because the trump administration wants to kill marginalized people so they can fund tax breaks for rich assholes and privatize popular public services
but nobody can communicate this cause and effect honestly to workers, it's all couched in ambiguities
but nobody can communicate this cause and effect honestly to workers, it's all couched in ambiguities
March 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
her hospital had its reimbursements cut off because the trump administration wants to kill marginalized people so they can fund tax breaks for rich assholes and privatize popular public services
but nobody can communicate this cause and effect honestly to workers, it's all couched in ambiguities
but nobody can communicate this cause and effect honestly to workers, it's all couched in ambiguities
The key thing is that this is true whether you believe they deserved or earned that wealth or not. That whole debate is irrelevant. Even if it were possible to legitimately earn $500 billion, we couldn't abide one person having that much power to dominate others normatively or practically.
One insight from republican theory, which I write about in my book, is that the wealthy are dangerous for what they could be doing, even if they seem harmless or benevolent now. Sure, they're giving to starving orphans or whatever in the moment. But the power they wield can't be abided. Ex: Elon.
March 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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I'm no scholar of the Great Depression or the New Deal (nudge @rauchway.bsky.social), but my understanding is that "Do big obvious helpful things, and tell people about them" worked on a much poorer & less educated base & retained that base for decades, built with public works in wake of gilded age.
March 19, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I'm no scholar of the Great Depression or the New Deal (nudge @rauchway.bsky.social), but my understanding is that "Do big obvious helpful things, and tell people about them" worked on a much poorer & less educated base & retained that base for decades, built with public works in wake of gilded age.
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Getting ready for an @aftunion.bsky.social art build this weekend
March 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Hardly the first person to say it, but the most recent episode of @thedigradio.bsky.social feels like essential listening right now
thedigradio.com/podcast/woke...
thedigradio.com/podcast/woke...
Woke Wars w/ Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor & Mike McCarthy
Featuring Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Mike McCarthy on the MAGA and DOGE war on woke; the complicity of bankrupt liberal identity politics; and the centrality of various oppressions...
thedigradio.com
March 3, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Hardly the first person to say it, but the most recent episode of @thedigradio.bsky.social feels like essential listening right now
thedigradio.com/podcast/woke...
thedigradio.com/podcast/woke...