Aubri
@briq.bsky.social
she/her. lgbtqia2s+ policy wonk. holding up double blue since first puberty.
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What amazing timing for this news story, leading into tonight's vote on banning algorithmic price fixing tools for Portland rentals.
BREAKING NEWS: We’ve secured a $7 million settlement holding the largest U.S. landlord accountable for a price fixing scheme – and putting a check on the rising cost of rentals.
#consumerprotection #orpol
#consumerprotection #orpol
November 19, 2025 at 4:43 PM
What amazing timing for this news story, leading into tonight's vote on banning algorithmic price fixing tools for Portland rentals.
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Disagreement on policy is welcome and reasonable, but calling me a Nazi for cosponsoring an ordinance to ban price-fixing is completely unacceptable. Councilor Ryan edited his post, but did not disclose the edit and explain the nature of the substantive change, so it’s here for posterity.
November 19, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Disagreement on policy is welcome and reasonable, but calling me a Nazi for cosponsoring an ordinance to ban price-fixing is completely unacceptable. Councilor Ryan edited his post, but did not disclose the edit and explain the nature of the substantive change, so it’s here for posterity.
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Y’all have got to stop trying to teach people magic with edh
Pope Leo XIV Will Have Lunch With 4 Trans Women in "Unprecedented" Meeting
https://www.them.us/story/pope-leo-xiv-lunch-trans-activists-alesia-nobile
https://www.them.us/story/pope-leo-xiv-lunch-trans-activists-alesia-nobile
November 15, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Y’all have got to stop trying to teach people magic with edh
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From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
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if you haven't yet weighed in on the fall budget amendment to redirect money away from sweeps and towards rent and food assistance, here's a link to make it easy:
www.portlandneighborswelcome.org/supportnotsweeps
www.portlandneighborswelcome.org/supportnotsweeps
Every dollar spent on forcibly moving our unhoused neighbors from one wet sidewalk to another is a dollar not spent on programs like rental assistance, which keeps Portlanders from becoming unhoused in the first place.
November 11, 2025 at 9:24 PM
if you haven't yet weighed in on the fall budget amendment to redirect money away from sweeps and towards rent and food assistance, here's a link to make it easy:
www.portlandneighborswelcome.org/supportnotsweeps
www.portlandneighborswelcome.org/supportnotsweeps
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In this story, trump adviser and former House speaker / Clinton era shutdown guy newt gingrich dunks on Dems for his correct prediction that they didn’t have what it takes to win this shutdown
I mean…. Show me the lie
I mean…. Show me the lie
NEW Furious Liberals Call for Schumer to Step Aside, Senate Dems Mostly Quiet: zeteo.com/p/senate-dem...
Furious Liberals Call for Schumer to Step Aside, Senate Dems Mostly Quiet
After their shutdown surrender, liberal lawmakers are begging their base to unite behind them anyway – as Trumpland celebrates that their opposition is a bunch of 'p*ssies.'
zeteo.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:07 AM
In this story, trump adviser and former House speaker / Clinton era shutdown guy newt gingrich dunks on Dems for his correct prediction that they didn’t have what it takes to win this shutdown
I mean…. Show me the lie
I mean…. Show me the lie
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November 11, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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"Schumer is absolutely useless. His instincts towards spineless politics are the exact opposite of what Democrats need in the second Trump era and it's long past time for him to be run out of his position as Minority Leader." @katelynburns.com #SpinelessSchumer
www.burnsnotice.com/what-was-the...
www.burnsnotice.com/what-was-the...
What Was the Point of the Shutdown?
Democrats asked voters to weather short term pain from the shutdown to get long term gains in extending the ACA health insurance subsidies. Then they threw it all away.
So, what was the point of all ...
www.burnsnotice.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:22 AM
"Schumer is absolutely useless. His instincts towards spineless politics are the exact opposite of what Democrats need in the second Trump era and it's long past time for him to be run out of his position as Minority Leader." @katelynburns.com #SpinelessSchumer
www.burnsnotice.com/what-was-the...
www.burnsnotice.com/what-was-the...
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There is something deeply broken about an economy that creates trillionaires while people get buried under the cost of living and 42 million go hungry. The ultra-rich should realize that my Billionaires Income Tax, aimed at ensuring they pay their fair share, represents the moderate path forward.
Tesla shareholders have approved a pay package that could make CEO Elon Musk, already the world’s richest person, the world’s first trillionaire. https://cnn.it/43KZnkA
November 7, 2025 at 1:57 AM
There is something deeply broken about an economy that creates trillionaires while people get buried under the cost of living and 42 million go hungry. The ultra-rich should realize that my Billionaires Income Tax, aimed at ensuring they pay their fair share, represents the moderate path forward.
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This person took this when they called the race
November 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
This person took this when they called the race
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“While we cast our ballots alone, we chose hope together,” Zohran Mamdani declared in his victory speech in New York City. Mamdani, speaking of “a new era of leadership,” will be New York City’s next mayor.
On Dems, Debs, and DSA's big night:
On Dems, Debs, and DSA's big night:
Zohran Mamdani will be NYC's next mayor, as Dems win big across the board
“While we cast our ballots alone, we chose hope together,” Mamdani declared in his victory speech. Dems Abigail Spanberger in Virginia and Mikie Sherrill in New Jersey also won.
www.lawdork.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:53 AM
“While we cast our ballots alone, we chose hope together,” Zohran Mamdani declared in his victory speech in New York City. Mamdani, speaking of “a new era of leadership,” will be New York City’s next mayor.
On Dems, Debs, and DSA's big night:
On Dems, Debs, and DSA's big night:
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why is this mayoral election different than all other mayoral elections?
in all other mayoral elections, we get to see andrew cuomo lose but once. but in this mayoral elections, we get to see him lose *twice*.
in all other mayoral elections, we get to see andrew cuomo lose but once. but in this mayoral elections, we get to see him lose *twice*.
July 14, 2025 at 10:16 PM
why is this mayoral election different than all other mayoral elections?
in all other mayoral elections, we get to see andrew cuomo lose but once. but in this mayoral elections, we get to see him lose *twice*.
in all other mayoral elections, we get to see andrew cuomo lose but once. but in this mayoral elections, we get to see him lose *twice*.
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To all consultants who suck the life out of Democratic politics + @ezraklein.bsky.social
Tonight’s victories were won under the Big Tent of reproductive freedom, trans rights, equity, civil rights, economic justice, young people and low propensity voters.
Don’t drag us to an uninspiring “middle”
Tonight’s victories were won under the Big Tent of reproductive freedom, trans rights, equity, civil rights, economic justice, young people and low propensity voters.
Don’t drag us to an uninspiring “middle”
November 5, 2025 at 3:33 AM
To all consultants who suck the life out of Democratic politics + @ezraklein.bsky.social
Tonight’s victories were won under the Big Tent of reproductive freedom, trans rights, equity, civil rights, economic justice, young people and low propensity voters.
Don’t drag us to an uninspiring “middle”
Tonight’s victories were won under the Big Tent of reproductive freedom, trans rights, equity, civil rights, economic justice, young people and low propensity voters.
Don’t drag us to an uninspiring “middle”
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Gamergate.
It's basically this: Over the last 15 years, deeply alienated and lonely internet trolls, amplified by influencer grifters and algorithms trained to increase time on metrics by stewing division, convinced huge swathes of American men that every facet of modern life is feminine and, thus, bad.
I... do not understand this new construction of masculinity?
it's not athletic. it's not stoic. it's not handsome. it's not accomplished. it's never been intellectual.
it's just rich white loud dudes on the TV who look like they don't wash their genitals? is that it?
it's not athletic. it's not stoic. it's not handsome. it's not accomplished. it's never been intellectual.
it's just rich white loud dudes on the TV who look like they don't wash their genitals? is that it?
February 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Gamergate.
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Geez maybe this is serious. A marshalling of the "Timbers Army" replete with antifascist symbols, and images of men and women wielding axes 🫣
#PortlandGoestoWar
#PortlandGoestoWar
September 28, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Geez maybe this is serious. A marshalling of the "Timbers Army" replete with antifascist symbols, and images of men and women wielding axes 🫣
#PortlandGoestoWar
#PortlandGoestoWar
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Once again, the moderate position is for ICE to be abolished and Border Patrol to be gutted, and massive civil rights prosecutions leading to prison time. Anybody running on anything less is kicking the can down the road.
Border Patrol agent talks about how he knows that the people he's arresting at this nutrition bar factory in NY are "literal street rats" who would "eat our kids"
September 28, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Once again, the moderate position is for ICE to be abolished and Border Patrol to be gutted, and massive civil rights prosecutions leading to prison time. Anybody running on anything less is kicking the can down the road.
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you know it's going to be a terrible read when the text of the opinion refers to the trans plaintiff as a "natal male" in the first four words of the opening
September 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
you know it's going to be a terrible read when the text of the opinion refers to the trans plaintiff as a "natal male" in the first four words of the opening
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It's insane to me how most of the world has stopped shipping mail and packages to the United States and the media has barely covered it. This is what I mean by boiled frogs. Everyone has become accustomed to the once unthinkable.
September 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
It's insane to me how most of the world has stopped shipping mail and packages to the United States and the media has barely covered it. This is what I mean by boiled frogs. Everyone has become accustomed to the once unthinkable.
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As Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo put it: "A city where you can get let go of your child's hand"
Pedestrianized streets let kids be kids (and let parents relax a little)
August 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM
As Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo put it: "A city where you can get let go of your child's hand"
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I find one of the most frustrating tendencies nowadays on the internet is calling anyone who realizes that leftist politics don’t just start and end with trying to figure out who can punch the fascists hardest a “liberal”.
August 20, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I find one of the most frustrating tendencies nowadays on the internet is calling anyone who realizes that leftist politics don’t just start and end with trying to figure out who can punch the fascists hardest a “liberal”.
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A man was charged with trespassing in New Haven, CT, on the very spot that the state Department of Correction had dropped him off when he finished serving a prison sentence. This is reality in a country where homelessness is criminalized, and it's getting worse, as Colleen Shaddox reports:
When Sleeping Is a Crime
With a new executive order and model state legislation criminalizing homelessness, the richest people in the U.S. are making it easier to lock up the poorest.
prospect.org
August 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
A man was charged with trespassing in New Haven, CT, on the very spot that the state Department of Correction had dropped him off when he finished serving a prison sentence. This is reality in a country where homelessness is criminalized, and it's getting worse, as Colleen Shaddox reports:
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Something that shouldn’t be glossed over is that treating homelessness as a beautification issue and not a human rights failure is something that well-to-do people in liberal cities (like Portland) use time and time again, which just helps reenforce fascist rhetoric and actions like this.
"For the president, this is something that hits home, because he is a visual person and the visuals of him driving to his golf course and seeing those homeless encampments" -- Politico's Dasha Burns puts on a masterclass in Trump sanewashing on Fox News
August 12, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Something that shouldn’t be glossed over is that treating homelessness as a beautification issue and not a human rights failure is something that well-to-do people in liberal cities (like Portland) use time and time again, which just helps reenforce fascist rhetoric and actions like this.
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The EHRC is meant to protect everyone’s rights. But internal documents reveal a different story: repeated meetings with anti-trans lobbyists, legal bias, and secret coordination. We filed the FOI. Here’s what we found.
tacc.org.uk/2025/07/01/f...
tacc.org.uk/2025/07/01/f...
FOI Exposes EHRC Bias: Private Meetings, Legal Echoes, and Policy Capture - Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective
Let’s be honest. The Equality and Human Rights Commission is not acting like a neutral regulator. It is not standing above the fray.
tacc.org.uk
July 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The EHRC is meant to protect everyone’s rights. But internal documents reveal a different story: repeated meetings with anti-trans lobbyists, legal bias, and secret coordination. We filed the FOI. Here’s what we found.
tacc.org.uk/2025/07/01/f...
tacc.org.uk/2025/07/01/f...