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W/ Portland DSA / Renter Power .... anyone need some firewood? Check out https://pdxrenterpower.com/

As a councilor who’s gotten lots of death threats, these particular protestors are annoying but mostly harmless. To me the line gets crossed when they try to break into offices where my staff are (which happened) bc I want my team to be safe at work. Threats to them are a no go, I love those people

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)@iwriteok.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I'm sure Portland's elected leaders have reasons to be worried. I get death threats for writing about politics in this city, they surely must. But the incident described was: 1. Not in any way violent or dangerous 2. Smith's desire to escalate by openly carrying a gun is horribly irresponsible

I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.

Vastly underreported angle to Sameer Kanal as Council President --- the guy used to run model U.N. conferences. He quite literally understands the importance of bringing together diverse perspectives to overcome contentious issues.

NEWS: In a heartbreaking video, after ICE shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, a woman who was in the same SUV cries out: “They killed my wife. I don’t know what to do." “We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head,” the distraught woman sobs. www.advocate.com/news/minneso...

Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting

“They killed my wife,” the distraught woman says, adding, “They shot her in the head.”

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I think it’s honestly disgusting and deeply unserious that the Revoke the Permit people have clipped videos of my women colleagues eating pizza at the dais as some kind of shaming tool, which is now being used by right-wing media to harass them in misogynistic ways. Congrats everyone.

Gresham's new East County Library is incredible! It's no branch library, but a flagship like Central Library downtown. It's credited to Portland's Holst Architecture, but the design came equally (or more) from Ghanaian-Brit starchitect David Adjaye (who was dropped before construction). WOW.

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Disagreement on policy is welcome and reasonable, but calling me a Nazi for cosponsoring an ordinance to ban price-fixing is completely unacceptable. Councilor Ryan edited his post, but did not disclose the edit and explain the nature of the substantive change, so it’s here for posterity.

An ig post by councilor Ryan opposing the price fixing ban ordinance and calling it something out the national socialist playbook