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?

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 💔

From my own niche: institutions of higher education should stop chasing trends, work internally to assert a set of values, and then build curriculum around those values.

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

Just noting that no one is ever going to seize a tanker full of solar energy www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

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.

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.

Would love for an education reporter do a deep dive into dysfunction in OR Community College governance. LCC may be the canary in the coal mine. eugeneweekly.com/2025/11/25/n...

For the loved ones of someone killed in a traffic crash, every day is a day of remembrance. But many others need a reminder of the devastating human toll traffic violence takes each day. On Sunday, Portlanders gathered to honor the lives lost and demand action to prevent more needless deaths.

A hearty middle finger to all the inner NE parents using their wealth and privilege to protest sending their kids to Jefferson.

Go straight to the interview! youtu.be/wWNgJzeJqOw

Portland, please stand with crash victims and their families, have some hot chocolate, and hear about what we're doing to prevent others from experiencing the devastating impacts of traffic violence. It's a somber, powerful event that also manages to be hopeful. Hope to see you there 💛

This is an absolutely blistering piece about the tragedy experienced by one family who lost a brother and son to traffic violence, and the systems that make these crashes keep happening.

Me: Don’t get your shoes wet! Kids: Ok! (immediately walk into a stream)

My son Seamus died 15 years ago today. He was killed by a careless driver in a crosswalk. He walked at 9 months, almost as if he knew he wouldn’t have much time. His favorite thing to do was throw rocks into water. He loved the moon. He called butterflies “buddy buddies.” I miss him every day.

I've attended a few of these (excited to send my kids to Jefferson!) and am so shocked how often parents who want to send their kids to Grant bring up real estate and property values. I mean I knew they were thinking it, but to just come out and say it??? 🫣 🤢 www.pps.net/about/portla...

Welcome @pdx-fss.bsky.social to Bluesky! Please give them (us) a follow and join us at our World Day of Remembrance Event next Sunday, November 16.

Portland! Please join Families for Safe Streets, Oregon Walks, 1000 Friends of Oregon, @bikeloudpdx.bsky.social , @thestreettrust.org @pbotinfo.bsky.social for 2025 World Day of Remembrance.

Families for Safe Streets PDX has a new website! Please check it out, share with your networks, and consider a small donation. All of our members have lost a loved one to road traffic violence or have been injured themselves. pdxfamiliesforsafestreets.org

Ran out of candy so I started offering kids slices of bread. One group demanded potatoes instead. I don’t have potatoes so I gave them 2 heads of garlic, a lime, and a kiwi 🤷‍♀️

Behold, the moon.

Three of my neighbors in district 1 were killed in three separate car collisions last night. We need action now to reduce pedestrian and cyclist deaths. YOU need to do more to improve your own driving. Do better. Keep your neighbors alive.

"In the two years since the state started charging a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, the effort has created a $5.7 billion windfall, with the surplus being used to fund bridge repairs, bolster literacy programs and address the transportation system’s budget deficit." Taxing the rich works!

"Speed was not believed to be a factor in the crash." It was a factor in the severity of the injuries and the death and likely why the person driving hit the children while they were in a legal, but unmarked crosswalk. It was one block from the crash location that the speed limit went from 35 to 40.

ICYMI, on the Kaiser strike: "Kaiser concedes that the unions and management are just $300 million annually apart at most in negotiations, and the company is sitting on $67.4 billion in reserves, up from $40 billion just four years ago." prospect.org/2025/10/20/2...

My sister sent me these from Livingston, MT (population 9,000) #NoKings

Hello Missoula!!!

Sad to miss the Portland #NoKings protest but I stopped by the one in Sedona. Shout out to the 🐸

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

I asked my middle schoolers how their day was, a question normally met with grunts and shrugs. I was not prepared to hear that they had a sub in 1st period and a kid with pink eye was chasing everyone around the classroom so they built a barricade by piling desks in the center of the room 🫣

Good job, Portland ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

My Queen @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social

If you want to know how Portlanders feel about socialism, go to an art gala downtown and ask a billionaire.

2 things I've noticed in Portland (where we are having a similar convo): 1)Proponents of segregating children by test scores do not want to talk about demographic disparities; and 2) they co-opt disability rights language, claiming (w/o evidence) that gifted children have uniquely high support needs

If you want to understand why Zohran Mamdani is talking about phasing out NYC's gifted & talented program for kindergarteners, latest episode of Have You Heard is a great place to start. Hint: inequality in school translates to inequality in the world soundcloud.com/haveyouheard...

I wrote about why I think traffic deaths in the US are unacceptably high and why I think the average person does not angieschmitt.substack.com/p/one-in-93

Jane Goodall came to our school when I was a kid. That whole week beforehand, all the teachers and faculty were freaking out and repeatedly telling us we had to be on our BEST behavior. This wasn’t some assembly about the importance of recycling, this was THE JANE GOODALL, who none of us knew.

Live from "war ravaged" Portland

The disorientation of reading this while getting ready to take my son to his soccer game in our war-ravaged (?) city Portland has a proud and vibrant protest tradition and I'm genuinely worried that people will be hurt/killed by this escalation. I hope our state leaders respond forcefully.

Continued escalation from Trump this morning. I need to hear a forceful response to this from Gov. Kotek, assuring Oregonians we will not tolerate this level of illegal intimidation. To service-members: remember you do not have to follow an unlawful order such as implied below.

Portlanders, save the date! Details forthcoming…

I've been working with some PPS parents on a project that has sparked a lot of uncomfortable (and necessary IMO) conversations about the district's approach to TAG. I'm incredibly proud that our work was discussed by @haveyouheard.bsky.social - I hope you will listen!