Reed College fires community safety director who shared alumnus’ phone, address with FBI Gary Granger, who served in that job for over 15 years, defended his actions and called his termination 'political.' @oregonian.com www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/0...

Portland City Council recently united around an effort to reinvigorate the city's Vision Zero program, bringing traffic safety to the forefront for the first time in years. Will their efforts be enough to curb Portland's epidemic of traffic violence?

Assistant Chief Craig Dobson said federal officers were “causing some of the ruckus” at the ongoing protests.

BREAKING: Cascade PBS, which operates the website Crosscut, is laying off 19 people, reportedly including its entire news staff. In an email to staff, CEO Rob Dunlop blamed federal cuts, saying the nonprofit is "winding down our longform, written journalism."

Trump is rescinding road safety grants all over the country, in blue states and red ones. The reason: those projects are "hostile" to cars. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Girls shouldn’t be getting debilitating migraines 💔 in 2025 of all years

Meanwhile, students at Marist Catholic High School in #EugeneOR will be walking out of school at noon today in support of a theology teacher who was fired for accurately describing Kirk's beliefs. His wife also resigned in protest.

Kids at a high school in Springfield, Oregon (near Eugene physically, if not culturally) walked out of their high school today to protest against a teacher who apparently posted something they deemed improper in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder. www.registerguard.com/story/news/e...

Is this the first time in history a sitting Portland City Council member has corked an intersection during a bike ride? Cc: @councilorgreen.bsky.social A group rode/walked to City Hall today ahead of the council discussion on Vision Zero, led by @councilortkl.bsky.social.

Despite this news, this evening's city council meeting was just put on pause after anti-ICE protesters interrupted.

Anti-ICE protesters have spent months calling on Portland leaders to revoke a permit allowing ICE to operate in the South Waterfront. Today, Mayor Keith Wilson said ICE violated conditions of its land use permit by holding detainees longer than allowed.

ICE Grabs North Portland Dads, Meet the Tree-Killing Beetles, and Trump Wants Oregon Voter Data. It’s GOOD MORNING, NEWS. www.portlandmercury.com/good-morning...

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Immigration advocates say if you see ICE targeting someone, knowing what to do in the moment is critical to protecting immigrants. It’s hard to know what to look for, but this guide can help you better understand how to be an effective bystander in Oregon, and your legal right to do so.

Following a recent trip to Israel and the West Bank, Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley says the US and its allies have a moral obligation to stop providing military aid for the war in Gaza.

Not to be dramatic but the Strava update is horrible and borderline ruining my life

The press doesn’t have to explicitly lionize Charlie Kirk in order to send a message about those who criticize him. AP’s use of the word “consequences” here implies Dowd had it coming. Whatever you think of his comments, he got fired not for what he said, but because a far-right mob demanded it.

Portland wanted its Sunday Parkways program to emulate the famous open streets events popularized in Latin America. But the city hasn’t fully invested in the program, which could be transformative if embraced wholeheartedly.

The 16-year-old who shot two students in a Colorado high school on the same day Charlie Kirk was killed was a virulent white supremacist and antisemite www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...

Political analyst Matthew Dowd has been fired from MSNBC after his comments about the death of Charlie Kirk, Variety reports

Liberals are doing the right’s job for it. By lionizing Charlie Kirk and refusing to acknowledge his real political project, they’re giving power to the right’s completely predictable effort to use his death to forward their goal of an authoritarian, fascist state.

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

Whatever you think about the events of yesterday, we don’t need to be doing…this

The Charlie Kirk shooting happened essentially as another school shooting happened a state away

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

belatedly, @taylorgriggs.bsky.social knocked this one out of the park. pitch perfect overview of the absolute clusterfuck that is the politics around the legislature's transportation package, which still hasn't been passed, and leaves so much more work ahead www.portlandmercury.com/street-view/...

No shade but the city of Portland LOVEEESS marking my public records requests as “completed” after sending me a fraction of what I asked for and then making it impossible to ask any follow-up questions

Republicans are currently dominating the conversation around the transportation bill currently sitting in the Oregon Legislature. @taylorgriggs.bsky.social says that needs to change, unless Democrats want every subsequent attempt at transportation funding in Oregon to be more and more abysmal.

If you wanna apply for this job you have like four hours to do it.

he saw the bikeportland interview

The Oregon transportation funding bill is being slammed by Republicans as the height of liberal excess— even after Democrats whittled it down to a shell of its former self. www.portlandmercury.com/street-view/...

The Tillamook politician said he found himself increasingly on the other side of his party's stance on key issues. “Protecting Medicaid benefits...? Opposed. Keeping rural hospitals afloat? Opposed." He realized he hadn't changed, but his party had.

Last week, a housed resident attacked multiple homeless neighbors in Northwest Portland, leading to a five-hour standoff with police crisis negotiators. It wasn’t an isolated incident. Oregon leads the nation in violent attacks against the homeless, a National Coalition for the Homeless report says.

This is the digital stasi. Social media influencers utilizing tips from followers for content that they monetize while working with state actors to target the people they want. It's all a spectacle packaged as content. Destroying people's lives for profitable ideological bloodsport.

Local lawmakers joined Palestinian Oregonians and other advocates at a rally outside Portland City Hall today. The group urged US legislators to support an effort to curtail military spending in Israel amid its ongoing siege on Gaza. So far, two Oregon US congresswomen have signed onto the bill.

Oregon elected officials, including several Portland City Council members and state legislators, are speaking out in support of the Block the Bombs Act, which would stop the US from sending major weapons to Israel as it continues its siege on Gaza.

It’s probably unhelpful to scold or shame people for using it, but I do just wanna say that the rampant use of AI is viscerally troubling to me, especially when it’s used for completely unnecessary things. I’d so much rather see “bad art” made by humans than machines—I think most people would.

Thomas Jefferson: Buzz Lightyear went woke, the movie went broke 3rd grader: do u have any thoughts about Liberty? do u like organizing countries? Thomas Jefferson: they have my soul in a crystal! Help me children!

After the chaos at the CDC this past week, Oregon, Washington and California say they are going to form their own "Western Health Alliance," particularly around vaccines.

The Oregon House is back in session to vote on @GovTinaKotek's transportation funding bill. And Republicans, who hate the bill, agree to suspend the rule requiring it to be read in full. So this will be somewhat efficient? #orleg #orpol

My guess is the slow growth of Bluesky has very, very little to do with “unwelcoming” users (🙄) and much more to do with the fact that people have been using Twitter for like 20 years and it’s really hard to change ingrained behavior

The world’s leading genocide scholars’ association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president says. There was no immediate response from the Israeli foreign ministry.

Also, the only reason "operations and maintenance" is so expensive and backlogged is because the system is so heavily tilted toward driving — which causes pretty much all the wear/tear/damage to the system. If we had more bike/walk/transit, ODOT's maintenance budget would go waaaaaay down.

Oregon legislators are discussing the transportation funding bill in a work session following about two hours of public testimony. Rep. Drazan (R) acknowledged that people rely on transit to get to doctor’s appts but suggested they could use OHP taxi/rideshare reimbursement instead.

Governor Tina Kotek isn’t present at the public hearing for the transportation funding bill she introduced, which has miffed some legislators and members of the public. It’s unclear where she is or if she will return during the special session, which is likely to continue through at least midweek.

Also, lots of folks in opposition bringing up idea that the bill would, "give ODOT ability to raise taxes w/o a vote." That's not true. Again, Rs have spread this disinfo to gin up fear/anger, just like they did w, "the bill has tolling" last time around. Here's the truth about that provision...

The responses to the proposed transportation package can be grouped into several different camps. I think it’s illuminating to look at what those are. First, the most avid supporters: Kotek, many Dem legislators, freight industry leaders, ODOT staff and unions (who want to keep their jobs).

Excellent story by Taylor Griggs in @portlandmercury.com about Portland Tennis Courterly, which is neither a secret literary magazine nor on Bluesky as of yet . . . www.portlandmercury.com/books/2025/0...

WSJ: ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.... On Aug. 5, Greenwich police discovered that Soelberg killed his mother and himself in the $2.7 million Dutch colonial-style home where they lived together.