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10 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Lots of talk about portraits of communists on a skirt I wore to a spectacle in 2016, but nobody wants to take on the Ninja, Space Force or James Dean images on there, too?

Cowards.

For the record, art as social commentary is not the same as endorsement. bbc.co.uk/programmes/art…
Spectacle as social commentary is something for which Portland is well known. From Naked Bike Ride to Pop Mob, the Raging Grannies to Banana Bloc, it's one of my favorite forms of protest.

The Reverend Billy Talen is a master of the form. businessinsider.com/profile-of-wil…
I could not love you more, Portland. Of course this was locally made! More, as the genealogy of Sarah's "Couture Controversy" Skirt unravels (for the archives).
"Couture Controversy" according to FOX news. I wish the kids in fifth grade who voted me "most likely to wear crazy pants" could see me now.

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Heartening to see y'all questioning the merits of a write-in campaign yesterday but it's not particularly relevant electorally. Wheeler's incumbency is the real threat to the future of Portland this November.

You can help me unseat Wheeler 3 ways this week. 📝 ⬇️
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The 6-to-1 pubLic match resets for the general. Buying advertising, sending mail, paying campaign staff, phones & internet, distributing (and redistributing lol) lawn signs all cost a lot of money.

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@LauralPorter Pulling this quote out of context misrepresents what I was trying to say her. I guess I got a little flustered with being repeatedly interrupted while trying to give a thoughtful response. So I want to correct the record, because I'm getting repeated death threats over this. 1/
@LauralPorter Peaceful protests are advancing the movement, and as noted in the article, I of course oppose crime and arson. 2/
@LauralPorter I disagree with the Mayor's characterization of peaceful protesters as attempted murderers. It's fodder for Fox News and the Trump administration to use our beautiful city as a campaign prop and I won't be party to it. 3/
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Portland police have escalated to attacking cyclists on main thoroughfares in daylight. I have a hard time imagining any context in which this is acceptable use of force.

(FYI this is a primary route SB off the Hawthorne, a busy bike bridge)
Hey transportation community, want to step into the fray on this one? Random right of way closures day after day? Attacking cyclists? None of this is OK.
@BikePortland @Why_Not_Bikes @PBOTinfo @ChloeEudalyPDX @thestreettrust @go_by_bike @bikeloudpdx @andrewtheen @BlairStenvick
A more clear camera shot via @KATUNews
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The field for this hire was thin from the get go. Shoureshi was never the right choice. Wim gave plenty of notice before leaving, so trustees could have called a failed search and started over.

No PhD needed to know that a stitch in time saves nine. 1/x
Haven't talked much about my exit from PSU but caveat: I'm bitter. PSU trustees waste hundreds of thousands in taxpayer dollars on greasy private consultants like Margolis Healy and shitty hires like Shoureshi while students face an 11% tuition hike and programs are cut 🤬 2/x
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4 Apr 19
OMG you just described Oregon.
No, seriously, there's research supporting it. muse.jhu.edu/book/11742
(progressive portlanders flummoxed by #orpol contradictions should read Clucas & Steele as well as Kopp's "Eden within Eden: Oregon's Utopian Heritage"

Explains.
So.
Much.)
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Full house for @UrbanLeaguePDX conference commemorating 30-year anniversary of Mulugeta Seraw's murder by white supremacists on the streets of Portland. @rblazak gives attendees a brief history of Oregon's roots as a white supremacist Utopia.
Oregon's small Black population is not coincidental; it was by design-- the design of the KKK. The Klan elected Portland mayors and they marched in the Rose Parade. There were Klan rallies where the Timbers now play.

This anti-Black racism extended to Jews and Catholics as well.
This white supremacist foothold didn't weaken in the 1920s or 40s or 60s. It was still going strong (arguably strengthening as white supremacists from other parts of the county migrated to seek refuge here) in the 80s & 90s w rise of skinheads/neo-Nazis (inc Eastside White Pride)
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