In my old town the GOP had run basically without serious challenge for decades. A bunch of us "millennials" joined the local Dem party and basically asked to help. We were running it in a year. Within 4 years we had a majority of town seats flipped Dem. A FAR more progressive Dem than old party

I am not a crazy ideologue. I just think that the richest society in human history has a moral responsibility to welcome the stranger, feed the hungry, treat the sick, and house the homeless. If doing that requires forcing comfortably-housed people to accept neighborhood change, I'm ok with that.

Latest news roundup from Bend YIMBY. Including our November 11th meetup to talk Neighborhood Commercial bendyimby.substack.com/p/bend-yimby...

I wrote about state-level ADU reform and the differences between @strongtowns.org and YIMBYism. www.maxdubler.com/blog/2025/11...

Cycling is healthy, fun, and one of the simplest and cheapest ways to fight the climate crisis. More bike lanes mean safer streets, cleaner air, quieter neighborhoods, and even local economic growth. Honestly, what more could we ask for?

"The most effective way to resist the authoritarian takeover of our democracy is to make it clear to companies partnering with authoritarians that there will always be consequences for such business relationships." - @barely.live #BoycottTmobile #teslatakedown ✊ www.commondreams.org/opinion/boyc...

Went for a bike ride today and was in just shorts/jersey. Pretty incredible for November in Oregon!

NIMBY in chief

Right, the answer isn't to abandon the party to these weasels. The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.

Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart. If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.

A Bend-LaPine Schools plan moved a step closer toward utilizing some of its undeveloped land for much-needed housing in one of the state's most expensive housing markets.

Parking was one of the more controversial aspects to Portland's Residential Infill Project. This newly built triplex at SE 16th & Morrison is a good example of how eliminating parking requirements allowed a mature tree to be saved. www.redfin.com/OR/Portland/...

I understand the impulse to say "how can you celebrate one small piece of good news when [all the bad news]" or even "how can you celebrate the mere temporary absence of bad news on this topic" but I am, and I will.

Spokane has been killing it with housing reforms: eliminating parking minimums near transit increasing height maximums Reducing lot minimums THE RESULTS? The proof is in the puddin':

If we designed roads for cars in the same way we design bike paths, we'd never have to worry about speeding again. Problem solved.

And she's doing the hard work of running to push them in the right direction. We all have to get more involved in whatever ways we can

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

folks. this is not going to blunt the blue wave. i am going to need you to ease all the way back on the dooming. trump is going to do eighteen more horrible things that eat news cycles by next *week*. no one is going to still be fuming about this in a year

In other words, take that rage and put it to work. Don't just post. Get out there and push back against crappy local candidates and help out the good ones. Call your senators and tell them, even if they're 'no', they don't get any more money unless they ditch Schumer

Another way for the Democratic base to use its power and channel its anger right now would be to launch a loud and aggressive “withhold your donations” campaign until Senate Democrats change their tactics and Schumer resigns.

Turning your back on politics is simply not an option in this moment. If you don't like what you see happening, get *more involved*. Become a PCP with your local Dem group. Take over the local party and push them in a better direction. Run for something.

WHY THE FUCK ARE REPUBLICAN DUMB-ASSES ARGUING OVER JUST HOW MUCH NAZISM IS AN ACCEPTABLE AMOUNT OF NAZISM WITHIN THEIR OWN PARTY? SPOILER ALERT: IT'S BECAUSE REPUBLICANS FUCKING SUCK, THAT'S WHY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO MY POST. LINK IS HERE: bit.ly/4otbkDN

I am pretty confident that @wyden.senate.gov and @merkley.senate.gov won't vote for this deal, but they need to work to convince their colleagues. And if Dems cave, they won't see a dime from me until Schumer is gone as leader

Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.

been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians

The bumper says 'rugged working man'. But the cargo bed says ‘cosplay builder with soft hands’. Time to ban these fragile-man-mobiles from our cities.

I want to be really clear that fixing this means not only outlawing nepotism but paying legislators a wage that does not tempt them to pay their family members as staff. Underpaying our legislators is asking for corruption.

sunday AM ☕️ and urbanism thread the embodied carbon and cost savings with EU regs on single stair buildings are massive over double loaded corridors.

A wealthy safe streets advocate could do the most good by paying a team of maybe a half dozen journalists to aggressively and comprehensively report every single traffic death in every major city. Depicting the horrifying human cost, FOIing PDs and DOTS, contextualizing it in policy choices, etc.

Went and confirmed this myself. Gross. And this isn't even difficult to see; it's not some weird insider code

Astonishing how hard this administration is working to keep people hungry. It's clear they are trying maximize public suffering, in hopes of getting people to blame Dems for that suffering. But it's transparently the White House working overtime to keep the suffering going! bsky.app/profile/cram...

This @scalzi.com book, "Starter Villain" has some quite funny "startup bro" satire and it gets me to thinking that... this era in tech feels like it's coming to a close. I'm looking forward to something better replacing it, at least for a while until it too becomes stale

He’s not even trying to tether his insane ramblings to any vague sense of reality any more.

Nuremberg trials for Stephen Miller and co.

I think we should make it legal and easy to build starter homes like townhouses and condominium apartments in more places so people can get on the homeownership ladder affordable without having to sign up for 50 year loans they’ll probably never pay off.

In 80 years or so historical preservation groups will be fighting to preserve rare examples of early 21st century buildings with crazy patterns of 'mass breaking'

THE DUMB-ASS LT. GOV. OF INDIANA IS OUT HERE SAYING IT'S NOT THE GOVERNMENT'S JOB TO HELP PEOPLE. HE CAN FUCK OFF WITH THAT SHIT, STRAIGHT INTO THE SEA. I COVER ALL THIS AND MORE IN "THIS WEEK IN STUPID," MY VERY STRONG LOOK AT THE DUMBEST FUCKING SHIT THAT HAPPENED. LINK IS HERE: bit.ly/49HMBHi

Wow! Might need to do a reporting trip to Minneapolis. Portland could use more of what they’re doing.

The ability to convince capital markets to hand you a trillion dollars on the strength of obvious bullshit paired with the inability to get a single human to sincerely and spontaneously say they love you is some real punishment of the gods shit.

oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis

Not sure I'm a fan of how these look. 29 inch wheels already kind of aren't great for shorter people

Trump's tariffs are hurting us in two ways: First, the obvious: Higher costs → either lower profits or higher prices. Second, more subtle (perhaps bigger): We’ve signaled we’re an unreliable partner, so allies are reorganizing supply chains to avoid us. That's hard to unwind.

@bmj.com, a renowned health journal, slams car bloat: "Cars are becoming steadily larger, [and] with this comes potential harms to health...Action is needed locally, nationally, and internationally to curb sales of new SUVs and to reduce their presence in urban areas." www.bmj.com/content/391/...

This is all a bit much complexity after a few Friday drinks. The bottom line is that we should feed hungry people people and if you're the one appealing that to the court, may you burn in fucking hell

“Cities are good, people want to live in dense walkable neighborhoods, and urban governance should prioritize city residents’ quality of life over suburban drivers’ convenience” remains a genuinely radical political program in America.

just a reminder that yesterday ICE tried to probe northwest portland and got shut down by blocks worth of people roving the streets looking for them. they didn't return today.

"Republicans are keeping the government closed, starving kids, and making you miss your Thanksgiving flights because they want your healthcare costs to go through the roof" is actually a pretty effective message for Democrats

This is a great thread to help understand why some of our victories in the policy arena don’t always immediately translate to housing being built. Single stair convo anyone?

GTFO of Oregon, feds