Michelle DuBarry
@dubarrypie.bsky.social
Writer of grants and occasional essays.
Safe Streets 💛 Unions 💙 Medicare for All ❤️
Safe Streets 💛 Unions 💙 Medicare for All ❤️
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Michelle DuBarry
@dubarrypie.bsky.social
· Aug 18
Staying Tender
Listening to parents who are newly grieving, I notice the places where their voices break. It is not when they describe the concrete details of suffering and lifeless bodies; it is in the emptiness th...
www.thesunmagazine.org
My essay in The Sun Magazine is a love letter to bereaved parents, my friends, and a dog named Shitter. I hope you will read!
My friend turned down a chance to do field work with Jack Horner after being warned by a female grad student (thank god for the whisper network)
February 3, 2026 at 5:02 AM
My friend turned down a chance to do field work with Jack Horner after being warned by a female grad student (thank god for the whisper network)
This guy? I can’t believe it.
Jack Horner Says He Was Let Go for Marrying 19-Year-Old Student
Horner spent 34 years at the Museum of the Rockies and even advised Steven Spielberg on the Jurassic Park movies
people.com
February 3, 2026 at 5:02 AM
This guy? I can’t believe it.
I woke up mad but then I re-read yesterday's signal chat with my union buddies and it's so inspiring and hopeful and full of care/checking in on each other. I feel better now.
February 1, 2026 at 5:20 PM
I woke up mad but then I re-read yesterday's signal chat with my union buddies and it's so inspiring and hopeful and full of care/checking in on each other. I feel better now.
What do you make of the Oregonian's account stating tear gas was deployed after protesters "crossed the building’s property line and approached its security gate?" (not that it matters - I just question whether anyone actually crossed the line based on your video here)
February 1, 2026 at 4:22 PM
What do you make of the Oregonian's account stating tear gas was deployed after protesters "crossed the building’s property line and approached its security gate?" (not that it matters - I just question whether anyone actually crossed the line based on your video here)
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I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.
February 1, 2026 at 1:23 AM
I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.
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Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps
February 1, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps
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Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
February 1, 2026 at 12:50 AM
Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
Our brave ICE patriots out here tear-gassing teachers and babies
February 1, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Our brave ICE patriots out here tear-gassing teachers and babies
At the Labor Against ICE rally. Peaceful protest, lots of kids, and tear gas. They are tear gassing children.
February 1, 2026 at 12:48 AM
At the Labor Against ICE rally. Peaceful protest, lots of kids, and tear gas. They are tear gassing children.
I keep getting questions about why my union isn't participating in the "general strike" I/we are 100% in solidarity with all of it but we just declared impasse and are headed for an actual strike over wages and benefits. Members are confused. Wish we would have picked a different word for today.
insisting on calling every mass day of protest or one-day boycott a "general strike" is not the move. it's good to see people rallying around the cause, it matters, but if you want to be part of a large-scale labor action that shuts down the gears of capital, start by unionizing your workplace!!!
January 30, 2026 at 9:42 PM
I keep getting questions about why my union isn't participating in the "general strike" I/we are 100% in solidarity with all of it but we just declared impasse and are headed for an actual strike over wages and benefits. Members are confused. Wish we would have picked a different word for today.
Dems waffling on tax reform are accepting (among other things) $50M in cuts to my kids' school district. Kids are sitting on cabinets b/c there's no room for 40+ chairs, teachers asking for pencil donations. There is nothing left to cut! DO SOMETHING you absolute cowards.
Oregon Democratic lawmakers targeted by union-backed group
An advertisement campaign that rolled out Thursday is expected to ramp up in the near future.
www.oregonlive.com
January 25, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Dems waffling on tax reform are accepting (among other things) $50M in cuts to my kids' school district. Kids are sitting on cabinets b/c there's no room for 40+ chairs, teachers asking for pencil donations. There is nothing left to cut! DO SOMETHING you absolute cowards.
There is something really special about ICU workers. They take care of very sick people and deal with distraught family members. Extraordinarily kind in my experience 💔
January 25, 2026 at 3:53 AM
There is something really special about ICU workers. They take care of very sick people and deal with distraught family members. Extraordinarily kind in my experience 💔
out of an abundance of caution we panicked and made the situation more dangerous 🫤
January 23, 2026 at 9:40 PM
out of an abundance of caution we panicked and made the situation more dangerous 🫤
Solidarity with these beautiful people
Singing
January 23, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Solidarity with these beautiful people
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ODOT’s budget is fucked. They could either stop spending hundreds of millions on a doomed freeway expansion that is billions of dollars away from completion or raid the $15m a year program for sidewalks near elementary schools. Guess which Dems are choosing #orpol
bikeportland.org/2026/01/22/l...
bikeportland.org/2026/01/22/l...
Lawmakers eye Safe Routes to School funding to backfill maintenance hole
They wouldn't come for the kids' money, would they?
bikeportland.org
January 23, 2026 at 6:28 AM
ODOT’s budget is fucked. They could either stop spending hundreds of millions on a doomed freeway expansion that is billions of dollars away from completion or raid the $15m a year program for sidewalks near elementary schools. Guess which Dems are choosing #orpol
bikeportland.org/2026/01/22/l...
bikeportland.org/2026/01/22/l...
This is so good and so sad. "Bewildered nostalgia" is how I feel as a reader, too. (also as a human generally)
When the AI slop summer reading list dropped last year I knew I had to write about making book lists. Thanks to @thebaffler.com for letting me go long with bewildered nostalgia & regret on 20 years of Internet book culture & how we made the slop book list inevitable. thebaffler.com/after-the-fa...
List and Shout | Lydia Kiesling
The labor involved in making lists was as close to the opposite of a transcendent reading experience as a disillusioned culture worker could get.
thebaffler.com
January 23, 2026 at 3:08 PM
This is so good and so sad. "Bewildered nostalgia" is how I feel as a reader, too. (also as a human generally)
I’m sorry - sounds like it was not handled well at all
January 23, 2026 at 6:07 AM
I’m sorry - sounds like it was not handled well at all
My friend just texted me about this! She said parents had no idea where their kids were and had to find them and evacuate with no information. WTF.
January 23, 2026 at 4:47 AM
My friend just texted me about this! She said parents had no idea where their kids were and had to find them and evacuate with no information. WTF.
As a District 2 resident I’m very interested to see those text messages 👀
There's been a lot of talk about Dan Ryan's apology to the @portlandmercury.com last week, but he didn't follow up on what was a damning revelation from @jeremiahhayden.bsky.social's 1/13/26 article on just whose interests Councilor Ryan is serving. 1/4 www.portlandmercury.com/news/2026/01...
"Racist, Dehumanizing": Chat Images Show Portland Power Players Disparaging Councilors of Color
Messages obtained by the Mercury contain a slew of offensive tropes sent during a council president election
www.portlandmercury.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:53 PM
As a District 2 resident I’m very interested to see those text messages 👀
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Dr Speed is my primary care doc. I’m saddened and enraged that a guy trying to bike home from work had to be run over by a negligent & irresponsible driver. We need better/safer bike & pedestrian infrastructure in Bend. It’s too dangerous out there!
A GoFundMe has been launched for a man who was critically injured after his bicycle was hit by an SUV that allegedly ran a red light.
Bend family doctor critically injured after SUV runs red light, GoFundMe launched
A GoFundMe has been launched for a Bend family doctor critically injured while riding his bicycle after an SUV ran a red light. The fundraiser is helping cover medical expenses.
www.centraloregondaily.com
January 17, 2026 at 1:41 AM
Dr Speed is my primary care doc. I’m saddened and enraged that a guy trying to bike home from work had to be run over by a negligent & irresponsible driver. We need better/safer bike & pedestrian infrastructure in Bend. It’s too dangerous out there!
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A thread about the enraging way PSU is treating their faculty member & how you can help: Last spring, PSU President Ann Cudd threw tenured Professor Yasmeen Hanoosh under the bus when she was doxxed for a sarcastic remark made while being heckled by a pro-genocide group + www.opb.org/article/2025...
Portland State professor alleges discrimination and retaliation in tort claim against the university
A social media video of the professor at a pro-Palestine demonstration led to discipline. Her lawyers say the content of the clip was sarcastic, taken out of context and part of a private conversation...
www.opb.org
January 16, 2026 at 6:43 PM
A thread about the enraging way PSU is treating their faculty member & how you can help: Last spring, PSU President Ann Cudd threw tenured Professor Yasmeen Hanoosh under the bus when she was doxxed for a sarcastic remark made while being heckled by a pro-genocide group + www.opb.org/article/2025...
Moderates on council should vote for @councilorkanal.bsky.social as a gesture of good will and formal rebuke of the racism and sexism of their supporters.
The Mercury has obtained a series of images of group messages that show racist, sexist, and homophobic tropes used by a local developer and other local conservative political activists during a council president election. Readers may find this content offensive.
"Racist, Dehumanizing": Chat Images Show Portland Power Players Disparaging Councilors of Color
Messages obtained by the Mercury contain a slew of offensive tropes sent during a council president election
www.portlandmercury.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Moderates on council should vote for @councilorkanal.bsky.social as a gesture of good will and formal rebuke of the racism and sexism of their supporters.
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Portland Police Press conference on the shooting of 2 Portlanders:
-DHS said the victims had been involved with a shooting. Nope!
-But they were def part of Tren de Aragua
-actually no
-But TdA is real and active in Portland
-We can't name single crime TdA has been involved with in this city
-DHS said the victims had been involved with a shooting. Nope!
-But they were def part of Tren de Aragua
-actually no
-But TdA is real and active in Portland
-We can't name single crime TdA has been involved with in this city
January 9, 2026 at 11:07 PM
Portland Police Press conference on the shooting of 2 Portlanders:
-DHS said the victims had been involved with a shooting. Nope!
-But they were def part of Tren de Aragua
-actually no
-But TdA is real and active in Portland
-We can't name single crime TdA has been involved with in this city
-DHS said the victims had been involved with a shooting. Nope!
-But they were def part of Tren de Aragua
-actually no
-But TdA is real and active in Portland
-We can't name single crime TdA has been involved with in this city
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Billions of dollars to ODOT for continued endless polluting freeway expansions, while TriMet and other transit agencies across the state prepare for massive service cuts.
A profound public policy failure of Oregon government. #orpol #orleg
A profound public policy failure of Oregon government. #orpol #orleg
Go to trimet.org/servicecuts to learn more about the service cuts, share your feedback this month and help us shape the future of our transit service. The survey closes Jan. 31.
Planned Bus and MAX Service Cuts
Due to a growing budget gap, we must cut some TriMet service starting in November 2025.
trimet.org
January 5, 2026 at 8:03 PM