The Oregonian does not mention the broad and enthusiastic support @councilorgreen.bsky.social has from union members who do not stand to directly benefit from a corrupt Moda Center deal. He showed up (literally! on a rainy picket line) for PCC workers.

My friend Jess Gregg in the NY Times today ❤️

I’m at a Starbucks in Seattle where they have removed all seating including on the patio. The lobby features padded bars to lean on (?) Why do they hate their customers?

Goooooood evening and happy Sunday! The out of pocket cost of the birth of my son, after “good” insurance, after meeting my deductible (despite a wicked pregnancy, everyone was healthy) was OVER TEN THOUSAND US DOLLARS. And then I went back to work still bleeding. So I don’t think it’s the phones.

After a three-month preliminary review, the Oregon Government Ethics Commission (OGEC) on Friday, June 12, voted to open a full investigation into former Portland Community College (PCC) President Adrien Bennings over potential conflicts of interest when she served in the role.

It’s a solid article and i love seeing more coverage of the significance of these cuts, but it’s missing the crux of why we are in this mess in the first place - the oregon legislature failed to act last year, and effectively left trimet and other transit agencies around the state to starve.

Two unions representing 2,300 workers at Portland Community College went on strike for three weeks in March, in the first-ever community college strike in Oregon, and a rare wall-to-wall strike where both educators and support staff walked out together. labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...

I wrote about our historic strike at Portland Community College for @labornotes.bsky.social

Great news my son recorded the middle school band concert on his phone so I got to listen to it twice!

FAFO labor/DSA edition 🤩💪

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The attempt by @councilorclark.bsky.social to defund a police accountability board approved by over 82% of voters is a disgrace, spitting in the face of the vast majority of Portlanders to make all communities less safe. Let’s support democracy and ensure this fails.

The PCC faculty union has responded to news of Bennings’s departure: “At a time when students and employees struggle to afford basic needs, and PCC programs are fighting for crumbs under the Fiscal Sustainability Action Plan, this payout is shocking and unacceptable.”

Kien Truong, the only board member to vote "no" said he was not provided a copy of the separation agreement before the vote. A reporter told me she had to file a public records request to see it. What we know is it includes a $275K golden parachute to the worst, most corrupt President in PCC history

Mothers invented traffic calming.

Sending love to all the brands and companies who reached out to me on Mother's Day 💕

ACCESS Academy primarily serves white-identified students from Portland's wealthiest neighborhoods. As a taxpayer and PPS parent I would much rather see this $ go to neighborhood schools.

Tonight's nighmare fuel: “I was hiking up Mystic Falls Trail when I saw bear prints in the mud,” Craig Lerman told Cowboy State Daily on Tuesday morning. “I kept walking a little further and saw a bloody hat with a watch torn off.”

Just once I'd like to click on an article about a SCOTUS brawl and learn that one of the liberals punched this guy. Instead it's always liberals issuing mild/correct criticism and conservatives responding "how dare you" "no you are" etc.

The Portland chapter of Families for Safe Streets @pdx-fss.bsky.social (along with Oregon Walks and 1,000 Friends of Oregon) is working on similar legislation -coming in 2027 🤩

Exciting news in Seattle! Banning cars from Pike Place Market from 10am-4pm saw retail sales rise 9.2% and restaurant sales rise 10.2% last summer. Now, the city moves to make the pedestrianization more permanent.

The agreement includes Know Your Rights trainings and job protections for educators navigating immigration issues in a Latino-majority Oregon school district.

Zohran Mamdani on CBS — “Socialist politics can flourish anywhere, because there is only one majority in this country, and that is the working class. It’s time we have a politics that puts them at the heart of what we’re doing, not in the appendix.” America’s Mayor can’t miss.

Re: gen-x discourse. I am reminded of something a former NYPD officer told me. He said 90% of cops are assholes. 10% are the absolute best people you will ever meet. Not sure about cops, but I think this may be true for my generation. (If you are reading this and gen-x you are in the 10%)

Things bike helmets will protect you from: -Head injuries from a slow speed fall -Light rain -Being blamed for not wearing a helmet if you get hit by someone driving 5,000 lbs of metal and glass Things bike helmets won't protect you from: -Everything else 🤷🏻‍♀️

My husband and son were hit by a car and both sustained serious head injuries. Our son (22 months) did not survive. Neither were wearing helmets but no one yells at them about that b/c they were pedestrians in a crosswalk. If you're not putting a helmet on to walk to the grocery store, maybe MYOB

"Hell yeah" is something I've never said after watching an ad for a democratic politician from my home state (until now!)

Too many of us are intimately familiar with the havoc injury and fatal crashes wreak on families and friends, how they seep unconsciously into a community’s sense of safety, and anesthetize us to the psychological damage caused by witnessing preventable suffering again and again. 📰New Merc out now

You should be embarrassed to be a member of congress and issuing anything other than impeachment resolutions. You're in the model UN. They should give you legos and a propeller hat

It is not "bullying and Intimidation" to primary a democrat who does not support funding schools and supporting workers. (It is awesome 🤩)

What a beautiful moment.

All power to the faculty of Portland Community College. It’s very close, even identical to our @CfuUaw win in very important ways. You organized, stood strong, and forced better working conditions for yourselves and thus better learning conditions for your students. Lfg.

During the #PCCStrike we talked a lot about the gendered division of labor. I'm oversimplifying, but women did the heavy lifting on the line (organizing, set-up, food, clean-up) while it was disproportionately men involved in negotiations, esp. sidebars and backchannel conversations. BUT...1/3

The Bennings administration will be remembered for its grift, greed, and cruelty and a board that supported/enabled it. It will also be remembered for a strike that empowered workers to reject this kind of leadership, forcefully. We (and our students!) deserve better.

So proud of us for standing our ground against a corrupt administration! We’re not done yet - 1) Dr. B has got to go 2) Cuts should come from the top (admin salaries and consultant/special project fees) 3) SAVE MUSIC AND SONIC ARTS!!

We did it @pccffap.bsky.social and we will never be the same. I am so inspired by the talent, committment, and resolve of my PCC colleagues and the students who stood with us every step of the way 💙💙💙

The dereliction of duty by the PCC Board of Directors is shocking. Spring term hangs in the balance for thousands of students.

Not going to link but the Oregonian Ed Board coming out against restorative pay for striking PCC workers is class solidarity for bosses. Students understand this, which is why they are unequivocally on the side of teachers and staff #PCCStrike

One reason the PCC unions are winning the public relations war is that we don't have professional public relations people doing all of our comms. It's just teachers, staff, and students talking about how they are trying to go to school and afford groceries.

Important to note that PCC refuses to offer restorative pay for striking workers but they also want us to catch up on all the work we missed, including submitting grades.

Please read this op-ed co-authored by @pccffap.bsky.social union president Ben Cushing As with most strikes, this is about more than money. PCC workers are revolting against austerity, administrative bloat, and cuts that harm students. Day 13 and we are holding the line #PCCStrike

images from the ongoing strike at Portland Community College, this time at the Cascade Campus. The strike goes on. See how you can support us in our quest for fair pay and shared governance (pccstrike.com)

I took the Zoom transcript from last night's Portland Community College Board meeting and cleaned it up so people could easily read the testimony. All were 🔥, but my faves were from student Rachel Thomas (which made me 😭) & @pccffap.bsky.social President Ben Cushing. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

“Right now, the people who teach us are outside, not because they want conflict, but because they want to feel valued for the work they do every day” PCC Cascade student Rachel Thomas

I wish the councilors could have been in the @pccffap.bsky.social bargaining room last Tuesday when their letter supporting our strike hit our inboxes. Knowing these leaders have our back was wind in our sails ⛵

When you impose an austerity budget on workers and students while funneling money to administrative bloat, expect resistance 💕

PCC Board of Directors: I'm asking you to do the right thing and step in and repair the damage that Dr. Benning's administration has done to labor relations at the college. @pccffap.bsky.social and PCCFCE make this institution run and deserve contracts that have a COLA that meets the moment ✊🎓👷‍♀️

Yesterday, the PCC administration asked us to arrive at 8am and promised to have a proposal in our hands by 8:30. We did not reveive a proposal until nearly 11am. Mediation is a lot of sitting around, but it's not unproductive. SO much happens when nothing is happening at the table.

Read the comments. Students are (correctly) placing blame on PCC administration for the strike 🥰 www.instagram.com/portlandcomm...

I'm actually shocked that our local Fox affiliate ran this story in which students place the blame for the strike/disruption squarely (and correctly) on PCC administration 💙💙