@trimet.org fare gates work!

Example: a climate group representing younger Americans sues the President for failing to act on climate change. Immediate settlement announced endowing a $1trn green transition fund.

They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

Thank you Justice Roberts for making insider trading legal again. It's never been a better time for Congress to ban stock trading for the President and all it's members. cc @merkley.senate.gov @wyden.senate.gov @repbonamici.bsky.social @repdexteror.bsky.social

#SingleStair reform is sweeping the nation to deliver more affordable, safer (thanks to modern fire rating & sprinklers), better homes for millions of people. Fire fighters should be stoked to see these built compared to tinder boxes of single-family homes. virginiamercury.com/2026/05/15/v...

Federal gas tax is 18.4¢/gallon. Average new non-electric/hybrid car is 25.6 mpg. Average driver drives 13,476 miles a year. That means they spend $97 in federal gas tax/year. Congressional leaders want EV owners to pay 50% more a year to the federal government to drive less polluting vehicles.

They are raising taxes on electric vehicles but not on gasoline vehicles. It’s bad policy during an energy crisis but also during any other time too.

Over 30,000 Idahoans are losing their medical coverage because Trump ended the Affordable Care Act subsidies. Maybe we ought to consider cutting US Military airshows until we can restore ACA subsidies? idahocapitalsun.com/2026/04/23/a...

People have already memory-holed how critical #TeslaTakeDown was. It was the earliest decentralized set of protests in the second term as early as Feb 2025 at a time when most people were shell-shocked and Dem leadership was cowering and capitulating. And it pushed Elon out of the WH.

Awesome rally against Data Center Disasters in Hillsboro today!

The Lead Paint Theory of Anti-Gentrification holds that preserving neighborhood disamenities like freeways depresses property values, keeping housing affordable. Lead Paint Theorists oppose quality of life improvements like parks, bike lanes, and small businesses like coffee shops or restaurants.

They won't leave. Portland is too lucrative a market. And even if they do, the economic impacts with be nil. Drive a better deal; don't give away the store. Source: City Observatory share.google/5ODju41jN4bv...

"Radical opponents"? You mean 50 years of economic research that consistently finds sports venues of all forms, location, and funding strategies fail to pay off. No worries, "what Portland is at risk of experiencing is completely without precedent." THIS ONE WILL BE DIFFERENT!

Ladies and gentlemen! Lift. Your. Cameras! The first new Amtrak Cascades trainset arrives in Seattle tomorrow at 11:29 am! It will be coming south from Everett attached to the Empire Builder. Track Train #7 at asm.transitdocs.com for precise times. You can share pics/video here! #wsdot #trains #PNW

Quickly growing (and AI-resistent) job market

“The Highway Lobby spends millions to make sure we spend billions.” — Union of Concerned Scientists. Their profit, your cost. Pleased to support @ucs.org in sharing/boosting their important new article below, with our newest @urbantruth.bsky.social poster. #UrbanTruth

Robotaxi deadheading irritates residents and thickens congestion. Cities should tax the hell out of it.

A good reminder that Waymo is currently mapping Portland so they can surveil you and your neighbors. We don’t need this shit.

@oregonmetro.gov could do this in a heartbeat, but refuses to do so

really insightful and horrifying stuff from @thefarce.org

Looking forward to every D to run on "ban the President AND the Congress from stock trading"

@repdexteror.bsky.social was 🔥 on this markup hearing Burgum is proposing cutting $1B from the National Parks (@altnps.bsky.social), while funding over $1B in Trump vanity projects. "Are you supporting Trump's Vanity project, OR our treasured National Parks?" youtu.be/Zn4EbtdrnKI?...

This is a subsidy from all Californian renters to wealthy people who live in fire zones.

Every state should be a single district proportional vote: vote for a party and each party gets as many members as their proportion of the votes. There is no way to impose fair maps and districts are meaningless anyway.

This is my dad. Without revealing his age, he's proof that 8-80 infrastructure is life-changing. He lives in a car-dependent Memphis suburb. Last fall, the city extended the Greenline within 0.5 miles of his house. Now he rides 5 miles every day and could get all the way into midtown without a car.

latest IBR news: Tolls as high as $4.70 High tolls expected to deter traffic to ~30% lower than today, but new bridge still built to ~twice current size Tons of I-205 diversion expected Only $1.7B raised from these high tolls Even w/tolls, still *$2.5 BILLION* budget gap just for IBR phase 1

Such good inspiration for Portland's Residential streets: 1. Narrow roadways (with limited on-street parking) to reduce maintenance costs 2. Infiltration w/ vegetation to reduce storm water drainage/costs 3. Narrow X-ings / wide sidewalks that enable 8 y.o.'s to be independent 4. Family-sized units

Oregon should consider an identical “windfall tax” on AI / semiconductor profits

yet another investigation concludes that Tesla isn't seriously operating a robotaxi service, but is staging yet another in a long series of "self-driving" performances with no greater goal than propping up its absurd stock price www.reuters.com/business/aut...

From bikes to EVs to transit, Trump's war in Iran is boosting every transportation mode he hates

@wyden.senate.gov @merkley.senate.gov Oregonians see that the Supreme Court is actively dismantling our democracy. Stop acting like this is normal, and join your colleagues calls to reform the court

the Democrats retaking the House and Senate, on its own, will not destroy the Republican project. The only way to do that is a broad, years-long cross-ideological commitment to break American conservatism's power base TL;DR congressional Dems must be forced into war with the used car salesmen.

IMO, if you want to protect "the children," you should do something about the two leading causes of death for US children. (Guess which party works relentlessly to prevent any progress on this score.)

If I'm honest, FHWA getting de-funded would probably be a good thing. Removing the incentive for states/cities to blow billions on highway expansions is not only a great climate policy, it would dramatically reduce the incentive for states/cities to overbuild their highways.

Superb report from @sightline.org: "Apartments Are the Climate Solution Hiding in Plain Sight" Yes. Don't overcomplicate things, just build a bunch of f'ing apartments.

@amyklobuchar.com needs to hear this

Yes! We need D's to (finally) develop a shadow Government! Get the most qualified folks for picks to HHS, FBI, USDA, etc. to go on the air constantly to belittle and pick apart everything going wrong with this admin.

Did you know that we're co-organizing a single stair design competition with our amazing friends at @strongtownspdx.bsky.social? Well, we are, and we're delighted to announce our amazing jury lineup!

70% top marginal tax rates

NZ Green card holder detained by ICE now being disappeared if it can happen to her, it can happen to anyone

Just returned to a visit to Mt. Hood National Forest and saw a notice posted do stopped. It said the area next to the little road, under power lines, had been sprayed with three kinds of defoliant, including glyphosate. I’ve walked there for 39 years and never seen that. Pure vandalism.

vote for nithya!

We don't ordinarily publish posts at [checks watch] 8:51 PM on a Friday night, but state constitutional law expert Quinn @yeargain.bsky.social has an outside-the-box idea for reversing the VA Supreme Court that is very much worth taking seriously: Dems can simply lower the retirement age.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but go ride a bike the next chance you get

Palmer drought index. Worst ever. Worse than the dust bowl. Fire season is coming.

‘Household employment fell by 226k, its fourth straight monthly decline. While it may end up getting revised away, this sort of thing hasn’t happened since 2009. Moreover, it hasn’t happened without a recession since 1966.’ blinks.bloomberg.com/news/stories...

Oregon needs a "stamp duty" of 80-90% for farms/forests/orchards. Data centers and sprawl are consuming our natural resources.

We could have these nice things too in the US. Unfortunately, we've allowed our cities to be planned by Traffic Engineers instead.

SCL doesn’t ask the public if we want safe transmission lines. SPU doesn’t ask the public if we want safe watermains. Boeing Field doesn’t ask the public if we want a safe runway. WSDOT doesn’t ask the public if we want safe bridges. Why does SDOT put safe streets up for debate?

ATWATER: ".. Faced with higher taxes," the wealthy flee. ".. The net result is an increasing awareness, especially among those at the bottom, that those at the top are at best temporary residents and not true citizens of the local community."