andrew-again.bsky.social
I have parasocial relationships with every member of the Portland City Council.
I've also written stuff about labor and policy for The Nation, the EWOC blog, and a silly little blog of my own.
🇵🇱🦅 / PDX
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I see some pierogi, a gołąbek, and a naleśnik! Good shit.
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Still more legal than the Portland Arts Tax
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Concept: huge tolls right on the border to keep out the Californians.
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That's true. I was doing the math, though, and between the Portland, Salem, and Eugene chapters, we could take a swing at a bunch of districts or even a statewide race (especially a primary!). Red Empire in Oregon yk
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It's scenic out there!
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The Wrath of TOD
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Pro: tolls
Cons: immediate state of Jefferson secession
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Something poetic and profound about this one.
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I'll look into what I can find about how candidate recruitment works.
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You could be right! I think that gets back to this issue though. Everyone wants someone to run, but we've got to find actual good candidates. If they don't have previous political experience, you'd have to be pretty intentional about finding someone with a convincing case for them.
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My first thoughts were her and Dacia Grayber.
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She's not up for reelection until 2028. I agree, though.
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Probably essential for more AOC or Zohran type figures. I believe she was literally recruited with no previous experience.
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Do we know how you recruit candidates? I feel like this is a skill many PACs and such have but the left needs more of
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If my neighbors were the US and Israel and both had guns, I wouldn't be taking chances!!
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Listening to Reggeatón and scrolling a list of Portland's largest employers
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(I'm from Portland)
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Florence, Oregon represent!!
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Not really sure how committee meetings work in this analogy. Open to suggestions.
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Is this a "we're so back" or a "it's joever"
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Wondering what twist of future politics will lead to somewhere in America being called Kronstadt...
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Congrats!!
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Gonna have to google what and why the Children's Levy is!
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I suppose if we're tokenizing our Eastern-bloc parents, I can join in. My parents waited in lines for food deliveries at empty stores in Leninist Poland. They support Zohran!!
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That one guy is still working on the big documentary about charter reform and the election, right?
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Here's a little historical anecdote. During the Flint Sit-Down Strike in 1937, workers were assigned to groups of 15 that they were with 24/7 for the eight weeks of the occupation. After they won, one worker wrote that the following days were the loneliest of his life.
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I also think a lot of us grew up with the Internet making us aware of how bad things are in the world and organizing offers a really unique way to change that. It's great that Teen Vogue has developed a bit of a labor focus.
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This is a really great article and a great angle. Unions used to be an important form of social network for many Americans, and that definitely has an appeal for young people today.
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*Portlanders
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The witch (SB 106) is dead!
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JVP is smart enough to take the opposite side of terrible ideas, like this and the office of sustainability cuts.
We should push hard on P4A after this. There's clearly a huge base for it and some of the common concerns could be good ways to strengthen the implementation and engage more people.
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Thank you! @emily-vwg.bsky.social noticed they'd scheduled today's meeting, which led me to notice the amendment. It was a team effort and everyone did great raising hell about it.
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Really makes you wonder why we approved this shit in the first place
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I will! I met her last summer and she seemed pretty smart about P4A
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Wish I were watching this rn
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Yeah. I've thought about how we should have a system where for every dollar above the cutoff, you lose 50¢ of benefits, so that people on disability and other direct cash benefits aren't penalized for increasing their income. Still a fan of universal stuff where possible though.
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Preach, Terry
www.opb.org/article/2025...
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Also, I really don't think people that make over $250,000 are in Portland because of the low taxes! They're probably here because... Idk it's Portland? This whole rationale is so stupid.
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No yeah, it's different in most of the ways that matter.
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Exactly. In fact, if not for the DSA merging its plans with what the county was cooking up, we would have gotten a version on the ballot that wasn't universal, didn't have a progressive tax, and didn't pay teachers well.
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I'm pretty close to Taylor's district-ready to knock on some doors.
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Well the state preschool programs are only available to families at 100%/200% of the FPL, so I think she's thinking that's how it should be for P4A.