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Save the date! We're so excited about this upcoming livetaping of @opb.org's Stop Requested series, coming up on Tuesday October 28:

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The Big Dig x OPB’s Stop Requested LIVE: a conversation about what to do with Portland’s highways

Every American city is divided by crumbling old highways. Every city is trying to figure out what to do with them. Join Ian Coss, host of the Peabody-Award winning podcast

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Rob Galanakis @robgalanakis.bsky.social · 6h

Someone just stole my bike from outside Tabor space in SE Belmont and 55th, email me if you are it

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cassie @wilsonxcassie.bsky.social · 5h

LETS GOOOO

A. Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social · 7h

Really excited to announce my next adventure with Ruth Rosas! Read our press release and joint statement from Disability Rights Washington and @americawalks.bsky.social!

Announcing the launch of the Nondrivers Alliance

October 8, 2025 — We are excited to announce the launch of the Nondrivers Alliance, a new project where those of use who can’t drive or can’t afford to drive can organize for communities that…

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Alex Halpern @halpernalex.bsky.social · 7h

It’s really easy to joke about because things are so normal and nice here, but they really are planning on coming in and destroying it for no reason. They don’t know, or if they know they don’t care, and wow is it awful.

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Julia Shumway @jmshumway.bsky.social · 7h

Ninth Circuit issued an administrative stay of judge's order blocking National Guard in Portland pending oral arguments tomorrow. Net impact: Troops remain federalized but can't be deployed. More tk

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cassie @wilsonxcassie.bsky.social · 7h

Gives me so much hope!!

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cassie @wilsonxcassie.bsky.social · 7h

If we don’t have stores then where do you think I bought my overpriced oat milk?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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pony pony huckabuck @spindlypete.bsky.social · 8h

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I used to love this place as it has a really interesting outdoor seating area great coffee, and interesting vibe but the owner of this place I have watched verbally abuse her employees and it's disgusting. I remember going in one day and watching one of the baristas look like she was noticeably afraid of her employer like she was walking on eggshells and it was very odd and noticeable. I thought this lady might've been stressed out to work there. A few weeks later, I was going by this place as I live nearby and I saw this owner of this coffee shop, screaming at the top of her lungs in the face of this same barista.
Just verbally ripping into her verbally, abusing her something is wrong with that lady. Anytime I'm around that owner of this shop. I get the icky feeling. I've watched her scream at the top of her lungs in the face of someone who was just trying to do their best working for her. Everyone is stressed lady, some of us more than others, you don't take your stuff people.... I felt incredibly bad for that barista who appeared to be a middle-age mom type of person. I will never return to this place even though it was so close by and had an interesting unique vibe, loving small business. I will never go here again lady you need therapy to apologize to that chick..
Food: 4 | Service: 1 | Atmosphere: 1

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cassie @wilsonxcassie.bsky.social · 9h

Breaking news the federal government is afraid of people wearing inflatable animal costumes and shaking their asses

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cassie @wilsonxcassie.bsky.social · 9h

Reign of Terror 👹

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 9h

"Antifa-led hellfire"

www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

PORTLAND: Fake News Ignores Antifa Violence, Residents’ Pleas for Help

For years, an Antifa-led hellfire has turned Portland into a wasteland of firebombs, beatings, and brazen attacks on federal officers and property —

www.whitehouse.gov

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cassie @wilsonxcassie.bsky.social · 11h

This is so Cassie coded

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11h

I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.

Zohran sits on a bus talking to a rider sitting behind him.

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cassie @wilsonxcassie.bsky.social · 21h

I didn’t expect to be able to hear the helicopters/planes over my fan even with the window shut

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cassie @wilsonxcassie.bsky.social · 21h

Or put us on wheels 👀 train wheels 👀 go zoom zoom

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