matt tuckerbaum
@mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social
Portland | housing | urbanism | climate | liberalism that builds | liberation & justice for all
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You’re arresting terrified children and using them as bait. Arresting kids getting treatment at doctors’ offices. Blinding protesters. Illegally raiding homes. Making people terrified to leave their homes.
You want to pee in peace?
Quit your fucking job.
You want to pee in peace?
Quit your fucking job.
Border Patrol agents are very sad that everyone in Minnesota hates them.
“At each gas station where the agents stopped to use the restroom, groups of agitators appeared, yelled at them, stalked them, and even tried to prevent law enforcement vehicles from leaving…”
“At each gas station where the agents stopped to use the restroom, groups of agitators appeared, yelled at them, stalked them, and even tried to prevent law enforcement vehicles from leaving…”
January 22, 2026 at 5:27 AM
You’re arresting terrified children and using them as bait. Arresting kids getting treatment at doctors’ offices. Blinding protesters. Illegally raiding homes. Making people terrified to leave their homes.
You want to pee in peace?
Quit your fucking job.
You want to pee in peace?
Quit your fucking job.
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Trafficking the boy after using him as bait, pinning someone in the snow to spray into their mask, shooting Marimar Martinez, murdering Renee Good—Bovino and Miller are asserting the right to harm anyone they want. The only acceptable response is to make sure they can no longer harm anyone at all.
January 22, 2026 at 12:47 AM
Trafficking the boy after using him as bait, pinning someone in the snow to spray into their mask, shooting Marimar Martinez, murdering Renee Good—Bovino and Miller are asserting the right to harm anyone they want. The only acceptable response is to make sure they can no longer harm anyone at all.
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a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project
January 22, 2026 at 3:05 AM
a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project
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There is a new political coalition being formed specifically in opposition to Trumpism. It grows stronger with each new atrocity and will not disappear when Trump does. The coalition's natural home is with the Democratic Party, but only if the party moves to capture it.
@gregsargent.bsky.social has this right. Republicans can’t scare freedom loving people into not standing up for their neighbors. But the absence of backup from Democrats is will demoralize some and tempt others to more radical forms of opposition. newrepublic.com/article/2055...
January 22, 2026 at 2:32 AM
There is a new political coalition being formed specifically in opposition to Trumpism. It grows stronger with each new atrocity and will not disappear when Trump does. The coalition's natural home is with the Democratic Party, but only if the party moves to capture it.
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“How much are we spending on officers to enforce this? On the courts? Could we be spending that on real solutions to homelessness?”
www.opb.org/article/2026...
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No one has been convicted of violating Portland’s public camping ban, records show
People experiencing homelessness face citations for violating a public camping ban.
www.opb.org
January 21, 2026 at 4:34 PM
“How much are we spending on officers to enforce this? On the courts? Could we be spending that on real solutions to homelessness?”
www.opb.org/article/2026...
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Still need to understand what happened here, but the new variable is a new City Administrator.
There’s apparently some question of how many branches our new government has. If this matches the same pattern despite a new CA, then it will be very clear that the answer to that question is two.
There’s apparently some question of how many branches our new government has. If this matches the same pattern despite a new CA, then it will be very clear that the answer to that question is two.
Ahmed is the third bureau director to be placed on leave in the past year.
Portland emergency management director placed on administrative leave
The head of Portland’s emergency management bureau is on administrative leave.
www.opb.org
January 21, 2026 at 1:14 AM
Still need to understand what happened here, but the new variable is a new City Administrator.
There’s apparently some question of how many branches our new government has. If this matches the same pattern despite a new CA, then it will be very clear that the answer to that question is two.
There’s apparently some question of how many branches our new government has. If this matches the same pattern despite a new CA, then it will be very clear that the answer to that question is two.
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Ossoff: "There's a wickedness to the program. I don't know, pastor, where it is in scripture that it says deny care to the sick, take from those with the least to give to those with the most, violate the house of worship to hunt down the refugee. Where in the scripture are those lessons taught?"
January 20, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Ossoff: "There's a wickedness to the program. I don't know, pastor, where it is in scripture that it says deny care to the sick, take from those with the least to give to those with the most, violate the house of worship to hunt down the refugee. Where in the scripture are those lessons taught?"
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We have an entire class of Democratic "leadership" that has been told that it's dangerous and extreme to say this, and that does not understand that what Democrats want is for their leaders to articulate what they believe and why they believe it. That should not be as big an ask as it apparently is.
Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."
January 20, 2026 at 5:04 PM
We have an entire class of Democratic "leadership" that has been told that it's dangerous and extreme to say this, and that does not understand that what Democrats want is for their leaders to articulate what they believe and why they believe it. That should not be as big an ask as it apparently is.
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1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees
ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals
Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care
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ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals
Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care
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ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment
ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months
popular.info
January 20, 2026 at 1:42 PM
1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees
ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals
Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care
🧵
ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals
Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care
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big business guys for instance. maybe half of them are just pro-Trump but the other half are looking down the barrel of potential extreme ruination and going "I can't see anything" paulkrugman.substack.com/p/big-busine...
Big Business Should End Its Faustian Bargain With Trump
He’s out of control – and if you don’t hang together to counter him, you’ll hang separately
paulkrugman.substack.com
January 20, 2026 at 2:57 PM
big business guys for instance. maybe half of them are just pro-Trump but the other half are looking down the barrel of potential extreme ruination and going "I can't see anything" paulkrugman.substack.com/p/big-busine...
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maybe call it cowardice expressed as willful stupidity. they see Trump doing ABCs of fascism shit and the reaction is knee jerk scoffing even as they step over hog tied children, or suddenly they don't understand English or causation
January 20, 2026 at 2:36 PM
maybe call it cowardice expressed as willful stupidity. they see Trump doing ABCs of fascism shit and the reaction is knee jerk scoffing even as they step over hog tied children, or suddenly they don't understand English or causation
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just like with Hitler there's cowardice--everyone knew that Munich was despicable betrayal--but with Trump there is a related but distinct behavior, to so many elites it is actually incomprehensible that It's Happening Here, Now
at some point you have to see it as a psychological issue. the people who run this country are cowards. the media who reports on them are cowards. they have never been able to face what is happening, they are committed to a project of persuasion: pretend everything is fine and it magically will be!
The president is a mad king threatening war against America’s closest allies because he’s got a psychological fixation on an empty frozen island and a Nobel Peace Prize snub and the best the media or opposition can manage is “Trump changes America’s priorities, perhaps for the worse”
January 20, 2026 at 2:34 PM
just like with Hitler there's cowardice--everyone knew that Munich was despicable betrayal--but with Trump there is a related but distinct behavior, to so many elites it is actually incomprehensible that It's Happening Here, Now
The (UNC) kids are alright. Out here making me feel pretty damn proud to be a Tar Heel. This is what moral clarity looks like.
January 20, 2026 at 3:06 PM
The (UNC) kids are alright. Out here making me feel pretty damn proud to be a Tar Heel. This is what moral clarity looks like.
Kiddo told himself out loud, “You can do this,” when he ran into a challenge today. And then he did it. Hard to describe how good it feels to witness that.
January 19, 2026 at 5:26 AM
Kiddo told himself out loud, “You can do this,” when he ran into a challenge today. And then he did it. Hard to describe how good it feels to witness that.
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True liberals have spent centuries fighting and dying on the barricades so their brothers and sisters can have a world where they are free to live as they please in a society governed by reason and law, not arbitrary force
January 18, 2026 at 3:59 PM
True liberals have spent centuries fighting and dying on the barricades so their brothers and sisters can have a world where they are free to live as they please in a society governed by reason and law, not arbitrary force
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Liberalism is a radical idea of universal liberation, even if most of its modern-day adherents are squishy opportunists who are simply echoing what they perceive as the prevailing ideology of their friends
I have come to understand that Will Stancil was always radical, he just wasn’t (likely, still isn’t) radical about the precise thing(s) a lot of us on here wanted him to be radical about.
I’m hearing people freak about a military deployment to Minneapolis but it doesn’t change much. It’s scarier but the same. We still outnumber them 100 to 1. They have more guns than us either way. They can shoot us either way. They’ll probably be easier to find and follow if they’re in a tank.
January 18, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Liberalism is a radical idea of universal liberation, even if most of its modern-day adherents are squishy opportunists who are simply echoing what they perceive as the prevailing ideology of their friends
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Tribes have been here longer than any of us, they are quite literally the opposite of immigrants.
Tribal leaders are still unable to locate their missing members.
January 17, 2026 at 5:10 AM
Tribes have been here longer than any of us, they are quite literally the opposite of immigrants.
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At what point do people say out loud that the federal government is engaged in a campaign of ethnic cleansing?
I feel like I am going crazy reading about "immigration raids" and "protests" and "self-deportation". If we want to stop a genocide, we need to acknowledge how close we are to it.
I feel like I am going crazy reading about "immigration raids" and "protests" and "self-deportation". If we want to stop a genocide, we need to acknowledge how close we are to it.
January 17, 2026 at 4:20 PM
At what point do people say out loud that the federal government is engaged in a campaign of ethnic cleansing?
I feel like I am going crazy reading about "immigration raids" and "protests" and "self-deportation". If we want to stop a genocide, we need to acknowledge how close we are to it.
I feel like I am going crazy reading about "immigration raids" and "protests" and "self-deportation". If we want to stop a genocide, we need to acknowledge how close we are to it.
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Since the inauguration, 70% of the Red Flag alerts by the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention have been issued for the United States.
www.lemkininstitute.com/red-flag-ale...
www.lemkininstitute.com/red-flag-ale...
Red Flag Alerts for Genocide
The Lemkin Institute issues Red Flag Alerts when developments occur in countries and regions that exhibit several red flags for genocide. We understand red flags as immediate developments that have th...
www.lemkininstitute.com
January 17, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Since the inauguration, 70% of the Red Flag alerts by the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention have been issued for the United States.
www.lemkininstitute.com/red-flag-ale...
www.lemkininstitute.com/red-flag-ale...
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Walkable, bikeable, and transit-oriented denser neighborhoods are a pro-family policy.
An underrated factor in "why don't people in wealthy societies have more kids" is changing societal norms that now expect even older kids to be chaperoned by an adult any time they are in public, and to be chauffeured by a parent as their only means of transportation
Older generations spent a lot less time parenting. Millennial dads spend nearly as much time parenting as Boomer moms did. Millennial and Gen X moms way more.
via The Economist
via The Economist
January 16, 2026 at 6:58 AM
Walkable, bikeable, and transit-oriented denser neighborhoods are a pro-family policy.
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America has always been an argument. An argument between a wealthy white few ready to kill or control the rest to seize more money & power and the bravest possible people determined to make the promise of life, liberty & yes happiness apply to all, no exceptions.
On the ground here in Minnesota, it’s hard to reconcile the immense bonds of community that have been built in a week with the fact that we live in a country whose government appropriated billions of dollars to an unaccountable paramilitary force whose sole purpose is ethnic cleansing.
January 15, 2026 at 4:03 PM
America has always been an argument. An argument between a wealthy white few ready to kill or control the rest to seize more money & power and the bravest possible people determined to make the promise of life, liberty & yes happiness apply to all, no exceptions.
For no reason at all, thinking about how hard the Sisters in Sound of Music went
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January 15, 2026 at 2:09 PM
For no reason at all, thinking about how hard the Sisters in Sound of Music went
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Man the bias dynamics on display at City Council today are all sorts of messed up
January 14, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Man the bias dynamics on display at City Council today are all sorts of messed up
man, I really appreciate our progressive Councilors staying resolute and steady while the moderates thrash around trying to get their way
I'm biased, but I can't imagine this looks great to someone who's more on the fence
I'm biased, but I can't imagine this looks great to someone who's more on the fence
January 14, 2026 at 7:06 PM
man, I really appreciate our progressive Councilors staying resolute and steady while the moderates thrash around trying to get their way
I'm biased, but I can't imagine this looks great to someone who's more on the fence
I'm biased, but I can't imagine this looks great to someone who's more on the fence
EPG and Novick as “labor” folks, immediately turning around and voting for Smith, who is freshly accused of trying to break Council staff unionization push, is really something.
January 14, 2026 at 6:31 PM
EPG and Novick as “labor” folks, immediately turning around and voting for Smith, who is freshly accused of trying to break Council staff unionization push, is really something.