Vice President JD Vance gets roundly booed at the opening ceremony of the Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympics. "Those are a lot of boos for him, whistling jeering," says the presenter. US athletes receive a warm welcome from fans, though.

Want to learn more about the International Olympic Committee's ridiculous insistence that the Olympics are *not political* & how that leads to exactly this sort of situation? I wrote this short primer: "What Are the Olympics For?" bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/trade/what-a...

to be an effective politician, one must: * understand policy * have an articulable vision of the future * understand strategy (focused goals, how to achieve them) * enjoy people * think fast under pressure * be able to raise money * serve the **public** * have a soul * understand when to retire

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The bill, HB 4007, should be scheduled in the next week for a work session to vote it out of committee. You can show your support for smart, sensible e-bike and micromobility policy in Oregon until 8am tomorrow, 2/6 at www.TheStreetTrust.org/Testify.

The Street Trust's and Oregon Micromobility Network's work on improving e-bike and micromobility access and safety was front and center yesterday morning as the first bill heard this session by the Oregon House Transportation Committee!

Thanks to the Fosters for stewarding this community resource for so long, and for all of the hard work they put into hosting the annual MLK breakfasts and funding the youth via Skanner Foundation.

Clackamas County officials are urging people near 301 South Redwood St. in Canby to evacuate immediately due to what they’re calling a hazardous materials emergency.

Be a climate leader! Support the power of e-bikes (the safe legal kind, not the dangerous, imposter "e-moto" kind) to reduce emissions and increase community mobility. @thestreettrust.org has hard data to support their use. Please signal your support tomorrow if you can!

BREAKING: Europol & Paris cybercrime unit raid Musk X office in France. "Investigations range from sexually explicit deepfakes, aiding the distribution of child sexual abuse material to the dissemination of Holocaust-denial content." #DefendDemocracy #HandsOffOurEU www.politico.eu/article/poli...

DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting. Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.

If you buy your pass to the 2026 Oregon Active Transportation Summit THIS WEEK (hosted in partnership with @trecpdx.bsky.social), you'll enjoy all 3 days of knowledge-sharing and networking at the lowest possible cost. Go to www.OregonTransportationSummit.org/Tix by the MONDAY, 2/9 deadline to save

Today is the official start of the Oregon Legislature's short session. We're excited to have legislation on this session's crowded agenda that will shape the future of micromobility in our state. What HB 4007 the 'Safe Rides' Bill Does...

While I was disappointed that Clipse's "Let God Sort it Out" was passed over, US of A needs all the Bad Bunny it can get and then some right now.

Bad Bunny's speech at the Grammys just now was very powerful. "ICE out." He went on to explain that immigrants are humans and Americans, not savages. We must not be consumed by hate for them* but focus on love - love of ourselves, our families, our communities. *ICE/MAGA, I assume

In case you were wondering why ICE attacked a "poorly run Democrat city" like Portland: “We will, however, guard, and very powerfully so, any and all Federal Buildings that are being attacked by these highly paid Lunatics, Agitators, and Insurrectionists,” he added. www.cnn.com/2026/01/31/p...

Nice speech. What were your public safety personnel up to today?

Elsewhere in the US acting shocked that the Feds used extreme violence against a protest crowd in Portland really haven't been paying attention. It was occupied by Trump in 2020 and people were likewise assaulted. But it was OK to blame the violence Antifa rioters then, who apparently deserved it.

CCing Clackamas County on this memo.

You so often see "not everyone wants to cycle!!!" as an argument against measures to address car dependency. Not everyone wants to drive!!!

Telecommuting was the fastest growing mode split pre-COVID. I'd argue the biggest driver is that Portland has lost the plot on it's cycling strategy. Where culture change was once a tool to ease the transition to carfree urban development, for quite some time now, the culture has been the focus.

"It is so much easier to ‘oppose the excesses,’ about which one can, of course, do nothing, than it is to oppose the whole spirit, about which one can do something every day.” from They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-1945 by Milton Mayer, Chapter 14 Collective Shame 2/2

This was such a great essay. I listened to half of it as I did my dishes but ended up wanting to read the rest. The author is paying homage to DFW in so many ways here, it’s nearly as obscure and delightful as Infinite Jest.

Question for my transport behavior/psychology folks. Have you ever taught, taken, or even seen listed a class on transportation psychology? Not as topics woven into broader engineering classes, or in human factors classes, but more the social psych or sociology of transportation.

Join us for the 15th Oregon Active Transportation Summit (OATS) at PSU as a speaker or presenter! OATS brings together government practitioners, nonprofit leaders, private sector experts, and advocates to advance innovative solutions in active transportation and public transit.

Sign on to our ‘No Cuts to Safe Routes’ letter to state legislators here: secure.everyaction.com/srGYwcnUsEq1...

Mike Schmidt would have made it a point to be on this list.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

La liberté est mort.

Keith Porter, Jr. #SayHisName when you are talking about people killed in the streets by ICE this year. I see a lot of people and orgs talking about Renee Good and Alex Pretti (as well they should) but BIPOC erasure is how we got here in the first place. www.foxla.com/news/anti-ic...

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

While glad to see Bovino humbled, I really don’t have any higher opinion of Homan—a cruel, cold, corrupt, calculating bureaucrat who’s devoted more of his career to mass deportation than almost anyone. He’s the architect of child separation.

☎️ Say NO to cuts to Safe Routes to School by calling the key Oregon decision-makers listed here... Governor Kotek and the Joint Transportation Committee are considering taking funds from Safe Routes to School (SRTS) to fill other gaps in ODOT's budget.

As someone who donated ten years of my limited spare time on public placemaking and neighborhood events, a lot of people can’t comprehend how much a couple women with determination and an excel spreadsheet can do with our own money and time.

I think @sarahjeong.bsky.social said it's because they devalue women's labor and a LOT of this Scary Logistics stuff comes from people who don't understand that basically all of the civic life they enjoy is created with the help of free labor, largely by women.

Was just thinking about how when you’re a compassionate person of color, there is a melancholy when uprisings finally happen when a white person dies. Cause you affirm humanity, so you believe it is the right thing to happen AND because you know how many of your own people were denied that dignity.

don’t forget when he was running for President he said "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters,"

70 years after the 1936 Berlin Olympics

In 2020, I ran a million dollar political campaign which included a pillar of #EverydayAntifascism. Was called radical extremist even though I only ever nonviolently protested. Truth is: I'm highly educated, know definition of the word, genealogy of the idea, and saw fascism emerging in society.

A lot of liberals and mods about to face cognitive dissonance as they call to #AbolishICE and then have to grapple with why we would let any law enforcement agency kill members of the public with impunity. Law enforcement have been killing people from marginalized communities in the USA forever.

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

Tomorrow! Emergency protest in solidarity with Minneapolis and in memory of Alex Pretti, murdered by ICE/CBP! 3pm Salmon Street Springs.

Minnesota's state FBI-like bureau is suing Noem. It says before pre-emptively declaring the killing righteous and abandoning the crime scene, feds took exclusive custody of evidence, including "apparently seized cellphones." MN asserts a sovereign right to investigate crimes within its borders.

I get the impulse to push for more, harder, faster, but it's worth noting here: the lawyers for both the state and various other plaintiffs have been working their asses off at absolute breakneck speed today.

The legitimacy of liberal democracy is at stake

From Angry Catfish, independent bicycle shop in Minneapolis

Washington, you know what to do. Light up those phones