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andersem.bsky.social
Believer, skeptic, humanist, typist & dad. Trying to make places fairer as director of cities + towns for @Sightline.org, here in Portland OR. Views here: mine, all mine.
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More than 200 people remain locked in prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration, without any right to trial.

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Darnielle : Meloy :: Dylan : Donovan

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The coin-operated presidency. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/5481...

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This morning, Oregon's HB 2138 moved through Ways & Means with bipartisan support, headed for the floor of both houses. It'd remove many remaining barriers to starter homes across the state. www.sightline.org/2025/06/04/o...

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Great news: In a new "priorities survey" of 1,893 District 3 residents, our Inner Eastside for All proposal came out +28 points overall, +22 among homeowners and wow +58 among home renters cc @councilormorillo.bsky.social & her D3 colleagues portlandneighborswelcome.org/inner-eastsi...

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lovely & timely

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At my wife's college friend's wedding in Wilmington in 2021, we were doing the standing in a circle handshakes thing. It was loud. "Ozzie?" I said to one woman I hadn't quite heard. "I wish my name was Ozzie," she said. Didn't know why everyone was amused til my wife told me who Aubrey Plaza is

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Underrated benefit of an SDC holiday: removes a particular barrier to microapartments (private bathroom & 2-burner stove; shared kitchen). Legalized citywide in 2021 but not much used yet. www.kuow.org/stories/why-...

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I love this show podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

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This doesn't jibe with my observation. Big protests are always the peaceful kind, because few people want to join smashy, vitriolic, or violent events. Size of peaceful protests *correlates* to size of less peaceful protests. But not causally I think? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/u...

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March: Oregon legislator supports push to leave NIMBYs in charge of making new historic districts June: "It feels like we should be seeing a lot more results for the housing dollars we’re investing," Oregon legislator says www.opb.org/article/2025...

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In 2022, a city report found that when Portland imposed an underfunded affordability mandate on buildings of 20+ homes, 12-19 unit buildings (those with zero below-market homes) doubled as a share of production. Then in 2024, city & county fully funded the program. Guess what happened?

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"Tokyo and St. Petersburg required engineering feats on the scale of anything seen in the US. Amsterdam and Mexico City were literally built on top of water. Hong Kong and Rio de Janeiro were carved out of mountains. Nothing about these cities is natural."

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large, diverse, sustained peaceful protests have a great track record when it comes to driving change…

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