@dnnynnn.bsky.social
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The problem with “Portland nice” is officials think accountability, which sometimes necessarily means being adversarial, is uncouth.
December 28, 2025 at 3:33 AM
The problem with “Portland nice” is officials think accountability, which sometimes necessarily means being adversarial, is uncouth.
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I cannot emphasise enough how Australia's political and media class are destined to enact the worst outcomes (authoritarianism, race hate, violent suppression) to the Bondi terror attacks, even as the broad population generally supports the least-bad outcomes (community-building, gun control etc)
Australia’s most populous state will tighten security across Sydney following a deadly attack at Bondi Beach this month, with authorities leaving open the possibility of military support
Sydney Could See Army Patrols After Bondi Attack, Premier Says
Australia’s most populous state will tighten security across Sydney following a deadly attack at Bondi Beach this month, with authorities leaving open the possibility of military support as the country reassesses its counterterrorism posture.
bloom.bg
December 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I cannot emphasise enough how Australia's political and media class are destined to enact the worst outcomes (authoritarianism, race hate, violent suppression) to the Bondi terror attacks, even as the broad population generally supports the least-bad outcomes (community-building, gun control etc)
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LeMonde said, not on our watch
December 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
LeMonde said, not on our watch
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Austerity being rebranded as Affordability
Cutting property taxes for Oregonians affected by wildfires. Canceling planned freeway tolls. Pausing local new taxes in the Portland area. We have to keep going to make life more affordable for Oregonians.
December 24, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Austerity being rebranded as Affordability
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this is so embarrassing
Cutting property taxes for Oregonians affected by wildfires. Canceling planned freeway tolls. Pausing local new taxes in the Portland area. We have to keep going to make life more affordable for Oregonians.
December 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
this is so embarrassing
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Meanwhile, Mamdani is posting this.
December 25, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Meanwhile, Mamdani is posting this.
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That is not what is going to happen. Also, massive unemployment in the tech industry will make you well aware of the amount of people that work in tech that you wouldn’t have thought did. I believe I am right about the AI bubble, but being right will not make me very happy
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Escalating VC liquidity crisis?
Don't threaten me with an affordable housing market!
Don't threaten me with an affordable housing market!
December 24, 2025 at 5:24 AM
That is not what is going to happen. Also, massive unemployment in the tech industry will make you well aware of the amount of people that work in tech that you wouldn’t have thought did. I believe I am right about the AI bubble, but being right will not make me very happy
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bsky.app/profile/unla...
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I find it incredibly difficult to write about my Jewishness. I didn't want to write this, but I did.
We need to re-embrace complexity and nuance in thinking about and discussing the Jewish future.
We need to re-embrace complexity and nuance in thinking about and discussing the Jewish future.
Holding complexity amidst catastrophe
I didn't want to write this.
I don't want to write this.
I feel like I need to write something.
I am writing this.
I am not good at writing about my Jewish experience.
I am still writing this, ei...
in-between-days.ghost.io
December 23, 2025 at 7:08 AM
I find it incredibly difficult to write about my Jewishness. I didn't want to write this, but I did.
We need to re-embrace complexity and nuance in thinking about and discussing the Jewish future.
We need to re-embrace complexity and nuance in thinking about and discussing the Jewish future.
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Politicians and the media have seized on the Bondi tragedy to drag Australia further right, writes @amyremeikis.bsky.social.
www.deepcutnews.com/p/massacre-a...
www.deepcutnews.com/p/massacre-a...
Massacre as political theatre: our shameful national response to Bondi
Politicians and the media have seized on the Bondi tragedy to drag Australia further right
www.deepcutnews.com
December 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Politicians and the media have seized on the Bondi tragedy to drag Australia further right, writes @amyremeikis.bsky.social.
www.deepcutnews.com/p/massacre-a...
www.deepcutnews.com/p/massacre-a...
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nice argument. unfortunately for you i have already portrayed you as the passed out and drooling sleeptime bear and me as the alert, confident and powerful throat cooler koala
December 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
nice argument. unfortunately for you i have already portrayed you as the passed out and drooling sleeptime bear and me as the alert, confident and powerful throat cooler koala
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Here's me. "Weaponising the Bondi tragedy is a betrayal of all our children"
Weaponising the Bondi tragedy is a betrayal of all our children - The Shot
Breathe, slowly. It helps. Cry if you need to. All of this hurts. But please understand, before we go any...
theshot.net.au
December 19, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Here's me. "Weaponising the Bondi tragedy is a betrayal of all our children"
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"Israel has reportedly violated the ceasefire at least 738 times, including on Nov. 22 when it bombed the homes of my family members," writes Ahmad Abushawish
https://prismreports.org/2025/12/18/israel-is-still-killing-palestinians-including-14-of-my-relatives/
https://prismreports.org/2025/12/18/israel-is-still-killing-palestinians-including-14-of-my-relatives/
Israel is still killing Palestinians, including 14 of my relatives
Israel has reportedly violated the ceasefire at least 738 times, including on Nov. 22 when it bombed the homes of my family members
prismreports.org
December 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
"Israel has reportedly violated the ceasefire at least 738 times, including on Nov. 22 when it bombed the homes of my family members," writes Ahmad Abushawish
https://prismreports.org/2025/12/18/israel-is-still-killing-palestinians-including-14-of-my-relatives/
https://prismreports.org/2025/12/18/israel-is-still-killing-palestinians-including-14-of-my-relatives/
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Hanson at the Bondi memorial calling for students to be "rounded up" and cuts to immigration. The crowd muttering in agreement, and giving her a huge round of applause once she finishes.
Everything is about to get so much worse in Australia
Everything is about to get so much worse in Australia
December 16, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Hanson at the Bondi memorial calling for students to be "rounded up" and cuts to immigration. The crowd muttering in agreement, and giving her a huge round of applause once she finishes.
Everything is about to get so much worse in Australia
Everything is about to get so much worse in Australia
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Cannot believe how concussed the discussion is in Australia. We have a major security problem - two extremists training with (?) ISIS overseas and had easy access to guns – and Sussan Ley is releasing an Action Plan that is like "We will amend the Australian Research Council Act"
December 18, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Cannot believe how concussed the discussion is in Australia. We have a major security problem - two extremists training with (?) ISIS overseas and had easy access to guns – and Sussan Ley is releasing an Action Plan that is like "We will amend the Australian Research Council Act"
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The Netherlands: Regardless of the fault, the motorist bears the liability because they pose the danger.
Vancouver:
Vancouver:
Vancouver cyclist ‘solely’ responsible for collision with SUV, tribunal finds
Vancouver cyclist responsible for collision: tribunal
A Vancouver cyclist has been ordered to pay a driver’s insurance deductible after B.C.’s Civil Resolution Tribunal found he was “solely” responsible for a collision more than two years ago.
www.cp24.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The Netherlands: Regardless of the fault, the motorist bears the liability because they pose the danger.
Vancouver:
Vancouver:
The one development the article mentions, Holloway, is down the street from me. The author's descriptions is incredibly misleading: it's little more than a quintessentially generic contemporary Portland apartment building.
December 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
The one development the article mentions, Holloway, is down the street from me. The author's descriptions is incredibly misleading: it's little more than a quintessentially generic contemporary Portland apartment building.
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Feels like journalist malpractice to call this woman a "developer". She hasn't built or financed anything. She just buys up pre-existing properties. She's a speculator, a literal rent-seeker.
December 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Feels like journalist malpractice to call this woman a "developer". She hasn't built or financed anything. She just buys up pre-existing properties. She's a speculator, a literal rent-seeker.
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As I understand today's discussion, we can stop an ISIS cell by policing the speaker list at writer's festivals and the BA syllabus at Unis. And by "stopping demonstrations." This is madness.
December 17, 2025 at 7:48 AM
As I understand today's discussion, we can stop an ISIS cell by policing the speaker list at writer's festivals and the BA syllabus at Unis. And by "stopping demonstrations." This is madness.
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These terrible, terrible last few days. Another hero gone. Have you ever seen Dallas from a DC-9 at night? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/o...
Joe Ely, Texas-Born Troubadour of the Open Road, Dies at 78
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:03 AM
These terrible, terrible last few days. Another hero gone. Have you ever seen Dallas from a DC-9 at night? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/o...
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Propaganda. We thought that it was gauche and problematic to have government propaganda about public accomplishments and so people forgot about them. People consistently like the military more than ‘the government’ and you know what a large part of that is? They have an advertising budget.
I think about this, also in terms of vaccines, and really struggle with how you have a free society that doesn’t fall into this trap in one way or another. solved problems become invisible and the solutions become the source of conspiracy theories.
This seems logical but Dems solved* the whole problem of old-age health care costs in the mid-1960s and then they lost five of the next six presidential elections because by 1968 it was a solved problem and no one cared about it.
*Yes oversimplifying here and the rest of course.
*Yes oversimplifying here and the rest of course.
December 13, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Propaganda. We thought that it was gauche and problematic to have government propaganda about public accomplishments and so people forgot about them. People consistently like the military more than ‘the government’ and you know what a large part of that is? They have an advertising budget.
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NW Natural has wasted substantial amounts of money on false solutions to the climate crisis as an expensive PR campaign to convince credulous regulators to delay necessary regulation.
We told you it was a con & now it's not even facially possible.
Great reporting by @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social.
We told you it was a con & now it's not even facially possible.
Great reporting by @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social.
NW Natural partners Modern Hydrogen have laid off almost all employees, and Tyson closed factory where NW natural made “renewable natural gas.” Oregon’s largest gas utility facing headwinds in decarbonizing energy supply since collaborators falter: oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/12/11/n...
NW Natural alternative fuel projects face uncertain future as partners falter • Oregon Capital Chronicle
NW Natural partnerships with Tyson and Modern Hydrogen on fuel projects could be impacted by layoffs and factory closures.
oregoncapitalchronicle.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM
NW Natural has wasted substantial amounts of money on false solutions to the climate crisis as an expensive PR campaign to convince credulous regulators to delay necessary regulation.
We told you it was a con & now it's not even facially possible.
Great reporting by @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social.
We told you it was a con & now it's not even facially possible.
Great reporting by @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social.
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🔔 GOOD NEWS today from a grassroots campaign in the Hudson Valley that's trying to permanently bring down the price of their light bills with public power! Check out the full details and get involved in this campaign with @sarahana.bsky.social and @mhvdsa.bsky.social
A new independent study estimates replacing Central Hudson with a publicly-owned utility will save $15.2 million in Year 1, and $210.5 million per year by Year 30! Read the full report here: hudsonvalleypowerauthority.com/feasibility/
Study: HVPA Will Save Money - Hudson Valley Power Authority
The Hudson Valley Power Authority Act is estimated to save $15.2 million in Year 1, and cumulatively $2.9 billion in the first 30 years through acquisition alone.
hudsonvalleypowerauthority.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
🔔 GOOD NEWS today from a grassroots campaign in the Hudson Valley that's trying to permanently bring down the price of their light bills with public power! Check out the full details and get involved in this campaign with @sarahana.bsky.social and @mhvdsa.bsky.social
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It's been so fun to see Hudson Valley for Public Power at work. They understand the moral stakes of this moment. They're strategic. They're organized. And now, they've got the data — public power will save millions! Definitely worth digging into the whole report from NewGen.
A new independent study estimates replacing Central Hudson with a publicly-owned utility will save $15.2 million in Year 1, and $210.5 million per year by Year 30! Read the full report here: hudsonvalleypowerauthority.com/feasibility/
Study: HVPA Will Save Money - Hudson Valley Power Authority
The Hudson Valley Power Authority Act is estimated to save $15.2 million in Year 1, and cumulatively $2.9 billion in the first 30 years through acquisition alone.
hudsonvalleypowerauthority.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
It's been so fun to see Hudson Valley for Public Power at work. They understand the moral stakes of this moment. They're strategic. They're organized. And now, they've got the data — public power will save millions! Definitely worth digging into the whole report from NewGen.
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Gas Stoves Account For More Than Half of Some Americans’ Exposure to a Known Toxin, New Research Concludes
insideclimatenews.org/news/1012202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/1012202...
Gas Stoves Account For More Than Half of Some Americans’ Exposure to a Known Toxin, New Research Concludes - Inside Climate News
The common kitchen appliance plays an outsized role in exposure to nitrogen dioxide, a toxic air pollutant.
insideclimatenews.org
December 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Gas Stoves Account For More Than Half of Some Americans’ Exposure to a Known Toxin, New Research Concludes
insideclimatenews.org/news/1012202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/1012202...
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Bumping this one more time. Shoutout to @councilorepg.bsky.social for at least mentioning this. The Mayor couldn't be bothered to even *invite* community testimony today.
Bumping this again this morning to note that literally nobody is currently signed up to testify on the city administrator confirmation scheduled for this week's Council meeting.
Why? Well, per the agenda, the *entirety* of community involvement for the appointment took place more than a year ago.
Why? Well, per the agenda, the *entirety* of community involvement for the appointment took place more than a year ago.
December 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Bumping this one more time. Shoutout to @councilorepg.bsky.social for at least mentioning this. The Mayor couldn't be bothered to even *invite* community testimony today.