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UK Council By-Election Results, Read From Portland by a Londoner – Six wards, four changes of hands and one tied percentage have produced seventeen contradictory analyses in a single group chat.
Portland Midterm Election Count Diary: Refreshing a Map in a Bar – Every Marxist knows elections are a distraction from the real struggle, which is why I have refreshed this map forty-four times.
Portland City Workers Strike Vote: Picket Signs and Spreadsheets – Solidarity, I have learned, is mostly holding somebody else’s thermos in the rain while having opinions about fonts.
Open Enrollment in Portland: Premiums Up 13 Percent, Hope Down – I have compared forty-one health plans at a laundromat table and the only thing that is fully covered is my disappointment.
UK Budget Reaction from Portland: A Letter to the 29 Bus – I read an entire fact-check of the Budget before breakfast and the main finding is that almost everything arrives later than advertised.