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Chicago-based attorney never giving legal advice. firm believer in the power of community.
Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social Environmental lawyer, union member/officer, & wife guy. Voted #1 Portland pizza hype guy account.
Lauren Armony @larmony.bsky.social Idea Guy™️ | Former Baby | Aspiring Swoletariat AuDHD Baddie - opinions are my own-
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(they-them)
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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is Former Twitter user, but I left when it became a Nazi bar. Made the nytimes Twitter bot, worked for the NYT before moving into civic technology. Living in Takoma Park, MD and fighting for a hopeful and humane future. (He/him) More info at jacobharr.is
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Shawn Fleek @shawnfleek.com Political. Creative. Portlander. Northern Arapaho. Husband. Dad.
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Gretchen Sisson @gretchensisson.bsky.social Sociologist at ANSIRH/UCSF; founder of Abortion Bridge Collaborative Fund; author of 'RELINQUISHED: The Politics of Adoption & the Privilege of American Motherhood.'
Kat Mahoney @kmahoneylaw.com Attorney, Tea Drinker
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social Director, Stratification Economics at The Roosevelt Institute/Roosevelt Forward
@rooseveltinstitute.org
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Taxes are what we pay for civilized society
Opinions are my own
Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social civilian drone technology and GIS/spatial data consultant, journalist and writer, monitors small drones in the Ukraine war, humanitarian-aid adjacent, always annoying online. they/them pronouns. read my newsletter: https://little-flying-robots.ghost.io
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Anders Hart @andershart.bsky.social Portland-based transportation planner Urbanism, economics, and ecology
Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social Texas Congressman. Democrat. Born, raised and represent San Antonio.
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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc Civil-rights lawyer
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Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social Writer, reporter, editor, all-around delight. Work lots of places. Author of THE INFLUENCE OF SOROS and BAD JEWS. Working on new book on Holocaust remembrance. Don’t yell at me. emilyctamkin@gmail.com. emilyctamkin.substack.com.
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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org A national coalition building power through collective advocacy, grassroots organizing, & strategic communications to abolish immigration detention in the U.S. #FreeThemAll #AbolishDetention
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joan @joanbybike.bsky.social Bikes, transportation, Portland, local politics, the downfall of petromasculinity, also dogs and books
Nora 🐝 @elanorjb.bsky.social PDX, some kind of forest gremlin.
also a trans femme mom lawyer writer.
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Dacia Grayber @djgrayber.bsky.social Oregon State Representative. Union Firefighter. Mom. Likes lifting heavy things, running far, nerdy policy. Personal account.
Resolute sin of empathy practitioner.
Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social Politics Prof.| Kettering Foundation Research Fellow| Author of The Politics of Common Sense & Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements
Chris Olson 🐸 🌹🚲 @chrisolsonpdx.bsky.social No war but class war. Solidarity Forever🌹
Portland, OR
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Jessica Vega Pederson @jvegapederson.bsky.social Multnomah County Chair. Former County Commissioner for District 3 and former Oregon State Representative. She/her.
Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social Author of The Golden State (2018) and Mobility (2023). www.lydiakiesling.com
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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social Guidebook author, TV & radio host, business owner, Lutheran, and NORML Board Member. Fanatically positive and militantly optimistic.
Silky Shah @silkys13.bsky.social executive director, Detention Watch Network, author Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition (Haymarket Books, 2024), from Texas, views my own
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From the river to the sea!
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John Thelefty @johnnthelefty.bsky.social Research & Report on right-wing extremism. Citizen journalist, photographer, activist, recovering addict, drug policy & criminal justice reform advocate.
Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Annihilation. Agent Joe Veltre at Gersh / speaker bureau Authors Unbound. To contact, use the contact form at jeffvandermeer.com. PDX, anti AI, he/him