Mac Smiff
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Thoughts and opinions are my own, and may not reflect those with which I endure capitalist entanglements.
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CommunityMovement Builders is seeking organizers interested in living & working in southwest Atlanta, to support base building & community organizing. We offer a monthly stipend of $1,000 & reduced rent of $250 per month in one of our community houses. For details bit.ly/3XOLPRE
November 25, 2025 at 5:16 AM
CommunityMovement Builders is seeking organizers interested in living & working in southwest Atlanta, to support base building & community organizing. We offer a monthly stipend of $1,000 & reduced rent of $250 per month in one of our community houses. For details bit.ly/3XOLPRE
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Councilor Morillo's anti-AI price fixing ordinance passes!! amazing feat by Morillo and team.
So much admiration for Morillo who has quietly been doing everything in her power to protect communities from harm, while facing credible death threats and ugly bad faith attacks.
So much admiration for Morillo who has quietly been doing everything in her power to protect communities from harm, while facing credible death threats and ugly bad faith attacks.
huge props to @counciloravalos.bsky.social to holding her ground and holding her colleagues to account even as Councilor Pirtle-Guiney tried to undermine her.
respect.
respect.
November 20, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Councilor Morillo's anti-AI price fixing ordinance passes!! amazing feat by Morillo and team.
So much admiration for Morillo who has quietly been doing everything in her power to protect communities from harm, while facing credible death threats and ugly bad faith attacks.
So much admiration for Morillo who has quietly been doing everything in her power to protect communities from harm, while facing credible death threats and ugly bad faith attacks.
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@councilordanryan.bsky.social watch out, even our statewide elected officials are enacting the national socialist agenda
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 4:26 PM
@councilordanryan.bsky.social watch out, even our statewide elected officials are enacting the national socialist agenda
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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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The Office of Violence Prevention is hosting a Community Peace Collaborative Friday, Nov. 21, 10:30am - 12:00pm at PPB North Precinct, 449 NE Emerson St. RSVP at www.portland.gov/community-sa...
Community Peace Collaborative
Join us as the Portland Office of Violence Prevention's monthly Community Peace Collaborative (CPC) meeting.
www.portland.gov
November 18, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The Office of Violence Prevention is hosting a Community Peace Collaborative Friday, Nov. 21, 10:30am - 12:00pm at PPB North Precinct, 449 NE Emerson St. RSVP at www.portland.gov/community-sa...
As a country, we gotta stop failing the easy tests.
First it was, "Is it bad to bomb children?" And we failed.
Now it's, "Is it OK to have sex with children?" And I'm afraid for us.
First it was, "Is it bad to bomb children?" And we failed.
Now it's, "Is it OK to have sex with children?" And I'm afraid for us.
November 18, 2025 at 10:38 PM
As a country, we gotta stop failing the easy tests.
First it was, "Is it bad to bomb children?" And we failed.
Now it's, "Is it OK to have sex with children?" And I'm afraid for us.
First it was, "Is it bad to bomb children?" And we failed.
Now it's, "Is it OK to have sex with children?" And I'm afraid for us.
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Tomorrow: Portland Street Response is holding a town hall at the East Portland Community Center from 6-7:30 pm! You'll have the chance to hear program updates and have the opportunity to ask questions.
More info:
More info:
Portland Street Response Town Hall
Join Portland Street Response for a town hall on Tuesday, November 18, 2025 from 6-7:30 p.m.
www.portland.gov
November 17, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Tomorrow: Portland Street Response is holding a town hall at the East Portland Community Center from 6-7:30 pm! You'll have the chance to hear program updates and have the opportunity to ask questions.
More info:
More info:
I just hope that everybody learned something.
November 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I just hope that everybody learned something.
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just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:
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Urging everyone to submit testimony in support of the amendment and share with the people they know
bsky.app/profile/wils...
bsky.app/profile/wils...
Testify to stop the sweeps before Wednesday!!
> Scroll to item 8
> Testify on this item
> Submit written testimony
> Support with changes
> Write a comment supporting Councilor Morillo’s amendment to defund sweeps and fund social services
www.portland.gov/council/agenda
> Scroll to item 8
> Testify on this item
> Submit written testimony
> Support with changes
> Write a comment supporting Councilor Morillo’s amendment to defund sweeps and fund social services
www.portland.gov/council/agenda
City Council | Portland.gov
City Council holds regular meetings at 9:30 a.m. on the first, second, fourth and fifth Wednesday and 6:00 p.m. on the third Wednesday of each month. If there is sufficient business, additional meetin...
www.portland.gov
November 11, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Urging everyone to submit testimony in support of the amendment and share with the people they know
bsky.app/profile/wils...
bsky.app/profile/wils...
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I already knew sweeps were awful policy, but volunteering in day shelters and seeing people trying to recover from a sweep made me more angry at them than I ever knew possible.
November 11, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I already knew sweeps were awful policy, but volunteering in day shelters and seeing people trying to recover from a sweep made me more angry at them than I ever knew possible.
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No one wants to see suffering but moving it around to other parts of town doesn’t solve the issue.
When the funding alternatives are sweeps and rental assistance, we should choose the latter because it actually prevents more people from becoming houseless.
When the funding alternatives are sweeps and rental assistance, we should choose the latter because it actually prevents more people from becoming houseless.
November 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
No one wants to see suffering but moving it around to other parts of town doesn’t solve the issue.
When the funding alternatives are sweeps and rental assistance, we should choose the latter because it actually prevents more people from becoming houseless.
When the funding alternatives are sweeps and rental assistance, we should choose the latter because it actually prevents more people from becoming houseless.
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Is your business ICE-free? Let people know. We have created free, printable signs for display to tell officers on official business that they do not have permission to enter without a judicial warrant.
Link to download poster: www.ojrc.info/kyr
#defendourcommunity
Link to download poster: www.ojrc.info/kyr
#defendourcommunity
November 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Is your business ICE-free? Let people know. We have created free, printable signs for display to tell officers on official business that they do not have permission to enter without a judicial warrant.
Link to download poster: www.ojrc.info/kyr
#defendourcommunity
Link to download poster: www.ojrc.info/kyr
#defendourcommunity
I think it's funny that Trump is suing people for defamation whilst claiming that Portland has no stores.
November 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I think it's funny that Trump is suing people for defamation whilst claiming that Portland has no stores.
When they start their set by getting the audience to yell "Fuck ICE!" repeatedly.
November 7, 2025 at 7:11 AM
When they start their set by getting the audience to yell "Fuck ICE!" repeatedly.
I'll bet Kanye apologizing to the rabbis so he can invest in the rebuild of Gaza.
November 7, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I'll bet Kanye apologizing to the rabbis so he can invest in the rebuild of Gaza.
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“This is not immigration enforcement. This is racial terror. This is state-sanctioned violence. This is the face of fascism. Not in some far off land but in our backyard.”
www.oregonlive.com/washingtonco...
www.oregonlive.com/washingtonco...
Latino community describes terror as ICE intensifies Oregon operations
And Washington County declared a state of emergency over the “fear and anxiety” residents feel amid the nationwide immigration crackdown.
www.oregonlive.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
“This is not immigration enforcement. This is racial terror. This is state-sanctioned violence. This is the face of fascism. Not in some far off land but in our backyard.”
www.oregonlive.com/washingtonco...
www.oregonlive.com/washingtonco...
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ICYMI at #portland Farmers Markets, #snapcard shoppers will get $20 for $1 whether you have $1 on the card or not
https://doubleuporegon.org/
https://doubleuporegon.org/
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November 6, 2025 at 4:37 AM
ICYMI at #portland Farmers Markets, #snapcard shoppers will get $20 for $1 whether you have $1 on the card or not
https://doubleuporegon.org/
https://doubleuporegon.org/
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I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
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New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field.
In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront.
By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:
In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront.
By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:
FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
www.wired.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM
New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field.
In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront.
By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:
In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront.
By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:
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Some people see Oregon’s government as a deep blue democracy, but it’s actually the evolution from a whites only resource colony into an oligarchy (watch who Tina Kotek & state leg jump for) & is now on its way to becoming a resource colony again (land and cheap power playing host to data centers).
3 billionaires together own twice as much wealth as half of Oregonians combined - Oregon Center for Public Policy
In what may be the first ever estimate of wealth inequality in Oregon, a new report by the Oregon Center for Public Policy (OCPP) finds that three
www.ocpp.org
November 1, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Some people see Oregon’s government as a deep blue democracy, but it’s actually the evolution from a whites only resource colony into an oligarchy (watch who Tina Kotek & state leg jump for) & is now on its way to becoming a resource colony again (land and cheap power playing host to data centers).
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Just to be clear, “camping” is something people do for enjoyment.
Hope this helps!
Hope this helps!
November 1, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Just to be clear, “camping” is something people do for enjoyment.
Hope this helps!
Hope this helps!
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Stop the genocide
October 31, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Stop the genocide
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If you don't know Portland at all this is a good primer by @jeremiahhayden.bsky.social, in his last story for @streetroots.bsky.social (in conjunction with @us.theguardian.com) before joining @portlandmercury.com www.streetroots.org/news/2025/10...
Trump’s Portland echoes local portrayals of disorder
When Trump called Portland ‘war ravaged,’ locals flaunted its beauty. Trump did not create the narrative himself, and vulnerable Portlanders have long felt the impacts.
www.streetroots.org
October 31, 2025 at 10:22 PM
If you don't know Portland at all this is a good primer by @jeremiahhayden.bsky.social, in his last story for @streetroots.bsky.social (in conjunction with @us.theguardian.com) before joining @portlandmercury.com www.streetroots.org/news/2025/10...