Ross
rosswheeler.bsky.social
Ross
@rosswheeler.bsky.social
📍Portland, OR
Some Democratic politicians apparently dislike like BlueSky because they get yelled at on here for not doing enough.

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May 26, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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I’m sure Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss are all over this.
They Criticized Musk on X. Then Their Reach Collapsed.
Three users who disagreed with the site’s owner saw views for their posts plummet.
www.nytimes.com
April 25, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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David Brooks headlines, 2020-2025
April 18, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Thank you Apple Intelligence for summarizing obvious scam emails.
April 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Honestly, there should be little doubt that the Trump administration wants to kill us all.
Trump officials quietly move to reverse bans on toxic ‘forever chemicals’
EPA bids to change chemical risk evaluations, which could expose public to higher levels of PFAS and other pollutants
www.theguardian.com
April 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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going to start calling myself a centrist and then listing all my leftist views as proof, just going to start moving the overton window by force
March 31, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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March 13, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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A theater in Miami screened the Oscar winning “No Other Land” and now the mayor is moving to end their lease

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
March 13, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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March 12, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Not even really pretending there’s a legitimate pretense for kidnapping a green card holder
March 10, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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one of the most important bills the oregon legislature is considering this session is SB 684, which would establish a revolving loan fund to build social housing across the state. highly encourage folks to testify in favor, following @pnwelcome.bsky.social’s guide portlandneighborswelcome.org/sb684
Yes to the Revolving Loan Fund — Portland: Neighbors Welcome
Now's Your Chance to tell Legislators to Build More Mixed-Income Housing.
portlandneighborswelcome.org
March 8, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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trumpflation already kicking in
January 22, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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A map of freeways proposed for Portland in the 1950s and 60s. (Red=built, green=proposed). Most US cities have a map like this somewhere. Some of Portland's most distinctive and vibrant neighborhoods would've been destroyed. The wealthiest enclaves would've been protected, of course.
January 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
If everyone who commutes into Manhattan did so by car, we would need “48 new eight-lane bridges” and “24 square miles of underground parking that takes up the entire borough.”

Think about this next time someone says congestion pricing is unfair.
Manhattan would need 48 new bridges if everyone drove. Here's what it would look like
Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters expl...
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November 25, 2024 at 6:51 PM
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I can’t tell you how different it is on X now after so many people have left. I have always followed mostly right-wing accounts because I cover them, and they are running out of people to pick fights with. So they’re just mostly fighting with each other.
November 23, 2024 at 10:07 PM
Just going to leave this here.
November 14, 2024 at 10:17 PM