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matt tuckerbaum
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Portland | housing | urbanism | climate | liberalism that builds | liberation & justice for all
Three months later, this still looks exactly like it did at first. The story of capital's collaboration with this regime needs to be told.

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A neighbor to the South Shore building said they suspected this may be the case, back in November when the then-tenants announced they were unionizing.

“This is an attempt at gentrification. Point-blank, period,” they said.
January 22, 2026 at 2:37 AM
To the same end, focusing so much on cheaper downtown parking - or skybridges from parking garages to office buildings - isn’t gonna do much to juice the pedestrian numbers.
January 22, 2026 at 12:26 AM
Stay resolute. You were spot on. You said what needed to be said. It’s on them if they don’t want to hear it.
January 21, 2026 at 2:19 PM
I think the only place at the confluence of state highway + rail access without liquefaction risk is the Kellogg Park industrial area at the Milwaukie / Portland border
January 20, 2026 at 11:12 PM
now I'm wondering if this the person I think it is or if they're just infected with the exact same strain of brainworms
January 20, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Reactionary centrists want the privilege of power without the responsibility of having to use it. I like the idea of a bipolar world, where they’ll have to choose - though I think we’ll be disappointed by the choices of many of them.
January 20, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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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
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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
Have you tried Gamma? I find Claude’s slides to be pretty rudimentary. Gamma can do a lil too much visual slip but has a much slicker presentation for talks.
January 20, 2026 at 5:16 AM
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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