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pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 14h

even setting aside whatever it means for the vote on the release of the epstein files, we're at a very grim place if the republicans are straight up refusing to seat people democratically elected to congress

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 14h

Today marks yet another day that Speaker Mike Johnson has denied Adelita Grijalva her right to govern.

She won her special election on Sept 23rd but has yet to be sworn in.

Why? Because she will become the 218th vote needed to discharge the release of the Epstein files.

Say her name.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 18h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 17h

Easy ninety second task to ask elected officials to stop expanding fossil fuel infrastructure in city limits, especially where it’s gonna liquify into the willamette river when the earthquake hits:

Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 1d

Everything is stupid and dangerous right now, *but* we have an opportunity to make a least one thing less stupid and dangerous.

Please submit a comment to the PDX city planners asking them to prevent any further expansion of liquid fuel storage at the CEI Hub and mandate a fuel drawdown.

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Demand a Safer Portland! Stop the CEI Hub Time Bomb!

Tell City Hall to Choose Public Health and Safety Over Corporate Profits at the CEI Hub Portland faces a historic choice—one that will determine our city’s safety and environmental legacy for generat...

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Portland: Neighbors Welcome @pnwelcome.bsky.social · 1d

We are also incredibly excited that the Opening Lecture will be given by the one and only Michael Eliason, RA @holz-bau.bsky.social! The opening lecture will have limited seating, but there will be reserved seats for volunteer mentors (sign up here: pnwdreams.notion.site/mentor)

Blue flyer for the Pacific Northwest Single Stair Design Competition Kickoff Event. The sponsors are the University of Oregon School of Architecture and Environment, Portland: Neighbors Welcome, and Strong Towns PDX. The Text on the right reads:

Opening Lecture by Michael Eliason
Monday, October 20, 2025
5:30 - 7:30pm / doors open at 5:15pm University of Oregon Portland Innovation Building: Commons (3rd Fl) 2811 NE Holman St, Portland, OR 97211

Join our kickoff event for the single stair student design competition! The event will feature a lecture by Michael Eliason, RA, on single stair code reform.

Michael is the founder and principal
of Larch Lab. He is a researcher,
writer, urbanist, and architect based
in Seattle. He is a licensed
architect, holds a B.Arch from
Virginia Tech, and has been an
advocate and consultant for Passivhaus
buildings for over a decade. He is
also the author of ‘Building For
People’ (Island Press 2024).

Space is limited, and attendance from
students, faculty, and mentors will be
prioritized. The general public should
register their interest in advance at
the QR code below. Video recording
will be available. Light refreshments
provided.

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pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 22h

it's not new but it remains shocking and remarkable how brazenly they are attempting to manufacture their own reality

Nik Streng @nikstreng.bsky.social · 22h

The Feds are giving right wing influencers and media outlets special privileges to the ICE building in Portland. They’re lying about local media getting the same access.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Feds grant ICE building access to conservative media, influencers, ignore local Portland press

Not all news organizations have been granted the same access to the ICE facility and the people who work there.

www.oregonlive.com

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pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 22h

no onion rings for fascists

Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · 22h

Apropos of nothing, Sec. Kristi Noem is currently praying over Burgerville with Portland ICE officials.

A screenshot of a video of Noem praying at a conference table with other people wearing suits. Fast food bags and water bottles sit on the table.

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pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 22h

you can find a lot of cameras on ebay but personally i must stan my local neighborhood shop, from which you can be sure whatever you buy is gonna work, and their developing is exquisitely good

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pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 22h

these were all taken with my Olympus XA, which has rapidly become my favorite camera, although i have a few others

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pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 22h

hard not to wonder how cool it'd have been like to see him on the 2018 world cup stage if the usmnt hadn't shit the bed and missed qualifiying, although honestly, dude's had a pretty remarkable career on his own terms.

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pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 22h

in honor of Darlington Nagbe's retirement announcement and in brazen self-promotion, i'll link to the piece that willamette week let me write about him ten years ago on the eve of the mls cup

www.wweek.com/news/2015/12...

The Improbable Run Of Darlington Nagbe And The Timbers Tells The Story Of a Changing Portland

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A precocious, talented 20-something Ohio kid moves to Portland in 2011 after college in Akron to follow his long-shot professional dreams. He settles in with a...

www.wweek.com

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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 23h

Meanwhile Noem allowed local social media streamer David Medina to ride in with her.

www.instagram.com/reel/DPhQIJ2...

Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 23h

Noem appears to have arrived? Not sure how long we’ll be blocked from the street outside ICE processing facility. I can say unequivocally she did not witness anything she claims is happening at this facility, as she entered the facility…

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Senator Khanh Pham @senkhanhpham.bsky.social · 1d

Transportation is what connects us to each other.

At a time of isolation and disconnection, state legislators must vow to roll up our sleeves and revisit this critical conversation about how Oregon can build a safer, healthier, cleaner transportation that literally brings all of us together. #orleg

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pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 1d

safe routes to school is a feminist issue

West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 1d

It's so obvious that our entire labor system is predicated upon the idea that someone (i.e. the mom) will stay home and handle all of those logistics. Every time I ask someone how they make it work now, the response is usually "we don't, really"

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Chad Lykins @chadlykins.bsky.social · 1d

Oregon Republican Party posts fake images in attempt to provoke military invasion of Portland.

Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 1d

The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

www.theguardian.com

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pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 1d

Today tiktok served me a weird AI-generated video of a trans woman on the St Johns Bridge (or what AI thinks the bridge looks like) and the account that made it only has
3 videos but had been retweeting a bunch of ghoulishly racist/anti-Semitic brainrot content? Whatever’s going on here ain’t good

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

important reminder that an actual alien from another planet plays in the NBA

Daniel Thompson @dr-thompson.bsky.social · 1d

I'm trying to make sense of this Wembanyama block tonight.

#NBASky #SkyHoops 1/2

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pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 1d

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Portland: Neighbors Welcome @pnwelcome.bsky.social · 1d

We are excited to announce that we are co-sponsoring a Single Stair Design Competition along with our friends at @strongtownspdx.bsky.social and the University of Oregon School of Architecture! The competition will be open to undergrad + grad students in Oregon and Washington pnwdreams.org

Flyer describing a Pacific Northwest Single Stair Design Competition. It is sponsored by Portland: Neighbors Welcome and Strong Towns PDX. It is eligible to Undergrad + Grad students in Oregon and Washington. The prizes are 1st: $1500, 2nd: $1,000 (x2), 3rd: $500 (x3). Important Dates are: November 15th, 2025, which is when registration is due, and April 1st, 2026 which is when submissions are due. To learn more, the website link is PNWDREAMS.ORG

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 2d

its truly remarkable, you have to really take the measure of it and it's almost hard to comprehend it, but the president of the united states is having texas invade illinois and oregon just to make twitter content

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pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 2d

public service is such a grueling slog of a manifesto of love to a community and in these dire times the depths of the fundamental commitment so many are stepping up to make to protect our little willamette river hamlet is just awe-inspiring and humbling and i hope everybody gets some rest soon

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pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 2d

There’s a number of activists, lawyers, politicians, staffers, journalists, and various other rabblerousers than have been more or less on call for every moment of the last two weeks to figure out how Portland can stand up to Trump and i just gotta say i salute you all, solidarity and gratitude

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pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 2d

really proud of this goddamn annoying city

Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 2d

She’s still out here ✌️

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pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 2d

Those photos of wheeler with the shovels at the groundbreaking should have ended his political career

pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 3d

Will literally never forgive the displacement of the food cart pods where all the high schoolers, businesspeople, rich, poor, young, and old used to congregate. Downtown died after that. For a stupid hotel that no one stays in, that promised to add affordable units and then did not.

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 4d

lot of problems with that piece but here's one: if anyone tries to blame "empty downtown" on anything other than

1) the pandemic
2) ted wheeler destroying the big food cart pod so his developer friends could build a hotel no one uses

they're either a moron or a developer

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Julia Shumway @jmshumway.bsky.social · 2d

Waiting for start of hearing on emergency restraining order to stop federalized troops from California from coming to Oregon. Meanwhile, Illinois governor says Trump admin has already moved onto backup plan of sending Texans here and to Illinois.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

wrote this line yesterday:

"If President Trump were, in other words, trying to instigate some kind of national divorce, it is hard to imagine what he would be doing differently than this."

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2d

Statement from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.
We must now start calling this what it is: Trump's Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state's military troops.
I call on Governor Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate. There is no reason a President should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge, consent, or cooperation.
The brave men and women who serve in our national guards must not be used as political props. This is a moment where every American must speak up and help stop this madness.

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