Michael Andersen
@andersem
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Believer, skeptic, humanist, typist & dad. Trying to make places fairer as director of cities + towns for @Sightline. Views here: mine, all mine.
Portland, OR
Joined September 2008
This was the week things flipped for me: more to read & more post engagement on Bluesky than on twitter. If you haven't, you should make a starter pack there on your favorite subject + see if your folks have made their own yet. Here's mine.
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DC updates feed today:. Congress Votes to Do Thing It Opposes but Trump Wants. Administration Begins Using New Powers Recently Granted by Supreme Court via Technicality. Congress Votes to Do Thing It Opposes but Trump Wants. Congress Votes to Do Thing It Opposes but Trump Wants.
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I came to know @gototemple as the funniest blogger in the greater Portland area. 15 years later, she's published a fun book, set locally, about anti-homelessness philanthropy. worth checking out
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RT @TheAtlantic: The fight over housing has been framed in a way that splits the Democratic coalition, Ron Davis argues. “But this fight sh….
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RT @hamandcheese: Child benefits raise fertility, you just have to be willing to spend big to move TFR back to replacement. 9% of GDP soun….
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RT @clurhealy: People detained at Alligator Alcatraz aren’t showing up in a government locator. Families and attorneys are struggling to fi….
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The number of homes listed for sale in the Portland metro has returned exactly to its pre-pandemic level; last year it was 23% lower. Should make it a bit easier for those with stable income to buy a home.
June 2024: 6 of the 50 largest metro area housing markets had active inventory ABOVE pre-pandemic 2019 levels . June 2025: 20 of the 50 largest metro area housing markets had active inventory ABOVE pre-pandemic 2019 levels. Analysis via @ResidentialClub
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RT @otis_reid: Highly recommend applying to our two new Abundance and Growth roles at @open_phil ! We are looking for up to 4 new team memb….
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RT @christianbrits: This is really funny. The neighbors, NIMBY, sue over new, more YIMBY zoning code. The city, incompetent, misses filin….
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Every radical movement needs the story of an apocalypse that they’re trying to avoid, and this is the one for the new monarchist right
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RT @EFischberger: Huge news from @ElliotKaufman6:. A group of powerful Hebron clan leaders has launched a bold initiative to break away fro….
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good call.
Let’s do two year law school, one year B Schools, three year Med Schools — efficiently compress learning to get on with our lives.
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RT @CSElmendorf: CA deserves its moment in the sun, but journalists should be paying more attention to the amazing Abundance policies -- an….
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we have been attempting to purchase additional health care, and generally speaking we have succeeded in doing so. additional health? that’s another story.
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"Higher taxes on consumption are almost certainly going to be part of any serious attempt to solve America’s looming fiscal crisis. Our federal tax revenues are unusually progressive compared with those of other OECD countries."
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