Communications professional. Champions the common good and civil liberties.
Portland, OR
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Sarah K retweeted
Thousands of workers tried a 4-day week, and their mental and physical health improved.
A study tracked 2,896 workers across 141 organizations for six months.
Reducing the work week by 8 hours led to better physical and mental health, with no loss of productivity.
Sarah K retweeted
A concerning report has revealed that hundreds of thousands of Oregonians cannot afford the state’s current cost of living. koin.com/news/oregon/half-or…
We need to tax the rich (and reinvest dollars away from broken policing solutions) so that we aren’t fighting every year about who gets knifed in the city budget. That said, city workers are going to get pink slips over the police budget and this short sighted shelter plan.
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The prohibition of psychedelics is one of the greatest failures of scientific and political institutions over the last 50 years.
I think sometimes it’s doing a greater kindness to keep some sharing of “truth and honesty” under wraps, consider what it’s like for the other person to walk with this on the street. Maybe your confession seeking moral absolution is actually cruelty.
so... what was wrong with the amendment on having a target # of people for the sustainability commission, as the rest of the bodies do?
It shouldn’t have to take communities professing their pain for you to understand that this is a malevolent organization that, importantly, makes you look bad!
agree with avalos & kanal - if a councilor pulls something from a consent agenda for discussion (as members of the public also do), they shouldn't be shut down.
especially around a volunteer body appointment - councilors & the public need greater involvement here.
Sarah K retweeted
All of the CDC’s full-time cruise ship inspectors have been laid off, as well as the head epidemiologist for investigating cruise ship outbreaks.
At least a dozen outbreaks have already been documented this year on cruise ships.
screengrab from @sophiegreenleaf's updated article.
when the case made for PPA inclusion in NOLC involves longtime city councilors comparing PPA joining NOLC to J. Edgar Hoover within the FBI, you may have lost the plot and idk, should rethink the org’s value here?
ALT Councilor Steve Novick did comment, quoting an oft-butchered remark by Lyndon B. Johnson, who once said of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, more or less: "It's probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in."
“'The PPA knows we have a labor-friendly City Council, that labor is popular. They understand that unions lift the standards for all workers & working people & they’re making overtures to other city unions to say, ‘We’re all on the same side here, right?'" portlandmercury.com/news/202…
“But the reality is, if the past is any precedent, police will be funded. Other city workers will be set up on a path of austerity and cuts.” portlandmercury.com/news/202…
Sarah K retweeted
🧵Scenes from Hands Off protests around Oregon denouncing billionaires Donald Trump and Elon Musk attacking the USA’s democracy, economy, human rights, government agencies, environment, and global standing
#50501Movement #HandsOff2025
