Michelle DuBarry

Oregon Democratic lawmakers targeted by union-backed group An advertisement campaign that rolled out Thursday is expected to ramp up in the near future.

Dems waffling on tax reform are accepting (among other things) $50M in cuts to my kids' school district. Kids are sitting on cabinets b/c there's no room for 40+ chairs, teachers asking for pencil donations. There is nothing left to cut! DO SOMETHING you absolute cowards.

There is something really special about ICU workers. They take care of very sick people and deal with distraught family members. Extraordinarily kind in my experience 💔

out of an abundance of caution we panicked and made the situation more dangerous 🫤

Solidarity with these beautiful people

Lawmakers eye Safe Routes to School funding to backfill maintenance hole They wouldn't come for the kids' money, would they?

ODOT’s budget is fucked. They could either stop spending hundreds of millions on a doomed freeway expansion that is billions of dollars away from completion or raid the $15m a year program for sidewalks near elementary schools. Guess which Dems are choosing #orpol

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This is so good and so sad. "Bewildered nostalgia" is how I feel as a reader, too. (also as a human generally)

I’m sorry - sounds like it was not handled well at all

My friend just texted me about this! She said parents had no idea where their kids were and had to find them and evacuate with no information. WTF.

As a District 2 resident I’m very interested to see those text messages 👀

Dr Speed is my primary care doc. I’m saddened and enraged that a guy trying to bike home from work had to be run over by a negligent & irresponsible driver. We need better/safer bike & pedestrian infrastructure in Bend. It’s too dangerous out there!

Portland State professor alleges discrimination and retaliation in tort claim against the university A social media video of the professor at a pro-Palestine demonstration led to discipline. Her lawyers say the content of the clip was sarcastic, taken out of context and part of a private conversation...

A thread about the enraging way PSU is treating their faculty member & how you can help: Last spring, PSU President Ann Cudd threw tenured Professor Yasmeen Hanoosh under the bus when she was doxxed for a sarcastic remark made while being heckled by a pro-genocide group + www.opb.org/article/2025...

Moderates on council should vote for @councilorkanal.bsky.social as a gesture of good will and formal rebuke of the racism and sexism of their supporters.

Portland Police Press conference on the shooting of 2 Portlanders:

-DHS said the victims had been involved with a shooting. Nope!

-But they were def part of Tren de Aragua

-actually no

-But TdA is real and active in Portland

-We can't name single crime TdA has been involved with in this city

Billions of dollars to ODOT for continued endless polluting freeway expansions, while TriMet and other transit agencies across the state prepare for massive service cuts.

A profound public policy failure of Oregon government. #orpol #orleg

If you write about public health, I am begging you to stop using car crash deaths as a foil. The implication that we accept some kinds of child deaths but not others is very painful to people (including me) who have lost children in crashes. These deaths are preventable, too.

The mayor says something really important about something that's bugged me for a long time: that we force grieving families to relive their trauma over and over again as they lobby elected officials asking them to do the right thing. I am so glad to hear him say those days are over.

In this hotel lobby at 6:30 am a man is talking loudly about livestock futures (volatile). His ringtone is a cow moo. A bull elk is mounted on the wall behind him, wearing a Santa hat. A very Montana morning

I would knock a million doors, fundraise, cartwheel down the middle of my street for a candidate who promised to tax the rich and fully fund schools. I am not even sure I can muster energy to fill in the bubble on my ballot for whatever this is.

With friends like these, who needs Republicans?

He tried to save himself. He killed an 11-year-old instead An explosive collision in the summer of 2023 came amid a historic surge in both fatal traffic crashes and shootings.

A wrenching story about gun and traffic violence. Buried in this story is the fact that the 11yo's father had also been killed in a crash five years earlier. What a sweet kid. What senseless loss. Appreciate the depth of reporting by @noellecrombie.bsky.social 💔

They also cause a massive amount of horrible, expensive injuries. Most don’t know how bad it is til they are lying mangled in a hospital bed, realizing their health and auto insurance are garbage 🇺🇸

Christmas cookie in the shape of a sweater. A splatter of red frosting where the arm broke off.

Tragically this cookie lost its arm while being transferred to the cooling rack

U.S. seizes ‘very large’ oil tanker off Venezuelan coast, Trump says The seizure was a significant escalation in the U.S. pressure campaign against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his country’s oil-dependent economy.

Just noting that no one is ever going to seize a tanker full of solar energy
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RFK 🤝 my 2009 Portland, OR new mom support group

I just got a public opinion poll that asked if I would support using Preschool for All surplus funds to compensate victims of property crime 🙃

This story is so upsetting. I wonder if Portland law enforcement would be open to talking with crash victims/surviving family members about driver accountability.

👋 just searching Bluesky to see if anyone was posting about this. I work for a community college in OR and we managed to submit a proposal for short-term credentials. The timeline was insane. Feels like we submitted the first draft of what could have been a good proposal.

My one-and-only mother was hit & killed by a car on Wednesday. I am all the adjectives you can imagine: shattered, devastated, bereft.

And no hour has passed in the last 48 where I have not felt unbelievably lucky, overwhelmed with gratitude for all the time I got to be her daughter.

This is so beautiful and so wrenching to read. Thank you for sharing her with us. Wishing you comfort ❤️