If the Rapture comes before I get to celebrate Halloween one last time I am suing God for damages and I’m going to win

The street plaza stuff today looks really interesting. There appears to be a of thought and engagement that went into it. Seems like an important morning meeting.

They can’t take long coats from you if you’re 5’2” 😏 (@drmitchpdx.bsky.social don’t be mad we went to Franks-A-Lot without you, you know you took too long)

Notice how this article lists accomplishments from the progressives (Zenith investigation) and no accomplishments from the moderate bloc, yet no one asks what they’re doing. They have as many swing votes as we do!

Nothing has cured my dysmorphia and insecurities more than when I trend on the posts of right wing trolls and people are like “I hate her and everything she stands for!!! But I do gotta say…she’s hot” 😂

Well, I am against fascism. I believe there’s a word to describe that political stance but it’s escaping me at the moment. Oh well!

30 next year, close enough If you never ask, the answer is always no! And Your gut feelings will lead you to what is familiar to you, not necessarily what’s good for you.

welcome to The Resistance, *checks notes* *sighs* *weeps gently* ...michael eisner

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With unanimous support from Mayor + Council, Portland reaffirms its commitment to Vision Zero❤️ Shout out to @councilortkl.bsky.social for shaping PDX road safety Resolution❤️ Will Portland now act to be the second US city without traffic deaths? (Hoboken, NJ has had zero traffic deaths since 2017.)

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

A grandmother is reading to her baby grandson in the bus 🥲 The world continues to be worth saving

I am obsessed with Teacher Tiffany 🥰 an A+ human! 😘

The homie continues to homie!! Someone get him a hot dog or something

When Juli Cobb's car ran out of gas in the middle of the road, three men from a nearby homeless encampment rushed over to push her car to safety.

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.

Councilor Sameer Kanal @councilorkanal.bsky.social stopped at Bike Happy Hour last week to share the work he's doing around ICE and Portland's sanctuary city status. Safe streets advocates cannot ignore the fact that Trump has unleashed masked agents who scoop up people without due process.

There are two police transparency related meetings in Portland this week. PCCEP on Wednesday, Sept. 17 and FITCOG on Thursday, Sept. 18 - both start at 6 pm. Full PDX Police Transparency Calendar is here, and, as always, subject to change: pdx-police-accountability.github.io/pdx-police-t...

My new staffer/financial analyst is here but I worked with her in Commissioner Hardesty’s office when I worked the front desk. She reminded me that 2 weeks into me doing constituent services she told me “one day we're going to work for you.” Now she’s here, working alongside me. Life is so strange.

This gets to something that as a former stand-up I recognized but couldn’t name. A 31 year old professional content creator baiting 19 year old amateurs into the format of his choice isn’t debate, it’s crowd work. It’s debate-shaped crowd work farmed for content.

i do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

My niece got $25 from the tooth fairy…inflation is hittin’ everyone these days including the Tooth Fairy

I have such sweet, thoughtful, good people in my life. I am so lucky 🥰

Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.

Waking up back in Portland ✨💕🥰😍🥳🤩🧚‍♀️👼💃🏻🦋🪽🌳🌿🌞🌹

man they really didn't give a shit about that guy. as soon as it was clear they couldn't use his death to launch a purge they started to treat it like a nothingburger

Someone is making new accounts to keep harassing me and saying vitriolic racist and sexist shit and I’m really enjoying just blocking every account and imagining them furiously creating a new email to open a new account each time 😂 Some people need to get laid or eat chocolate cake or something

Right winger gets murdered: he was the kindest, gentlest boy who ever lived Right winger ends up being the murderer: he was also the kindest, gentlest boy who ever lived

As members of Congress across the country shared concern for their safety, three prominent Oregon Democrats received bomb threats Thursday.https://www.koin.com/news/oregon/oregon-democrats-receive-bomb-threats-amidst-rising-political-tensions/?cid=bluesky_

My observation of the National Guard in D.C. so far is that they all look apologetic and miserable. Pretty clear they don’t want to be here. If anything, they are more mild mannered than the D.C. police and the Capitol police. That’s a good sign imo.

haven’t waited longer than 5 min for a transit connection since arriving in this city. would be great to have this back home instead of plowing hundreds of billions per year into terror and violence. instead of financing a genocide in Gaza we could have social housing and fast and complete transit.

Non immigrants don’t seem to understand that you can be afraid and still do the thing and even laugh while doing the thing because courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s grace under pressure. You have neither. And my name is Angelita. I stopped making myself more digestible for others long ago.

How do you think the budgets to fund bombs instead of food or healthcare or housing get passed? IN A POLICY ROOM. WITH A BUNCH OF ASSHOLES WEARING TIES! AS THEY DETERMINE WHICH LIVES HAVE VALUE AND WHICH DO NOT!! The greatest violence is not interpersonal it’s done at mass scale through budgets

Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado.

I have a lot to say about political violence and it’s strange to me that the people denouncing the murder of one individual can’t muster the sentiment to say it’s wrong to commit genocide. The greatest violence in this world happens in policy rooms. Why is one life valuable and another not?

Shantae Johnson and Arthur Shavers, well established in Portland’s Black farming community, now operate Multnomah County’s reopened CROPS farm.

Don’t sugarcoat it, SCOTUS has legalized racial profiling. It was already happening, but in a 6-3 decision, SCOTUS has cleared ICE in LA to go to areas where day laborers congregate and ask people to prove citizenship, i.e. “show me your papers.”

On a flight to DC for work and I jokingly said to my colleague that we wanna visit all the museums with edited history and a woman told me slavery wasn’t real…chill times ahead

One really annoying aspect of the new "anti-woke" dogma is that its adherents won't hesitate to use woke ideas, themes, and even language if it helps them

This entire thread has great suggestions and strategies, you love to see it

SEIZE JOY FROM THE JAWS OF PAIN. ARE YOU HYDRATED?

Ok I’m done being angsty I love my job I love Portland and I love a goddamn plaza!! Also big scissors

This was such a wholesome response. I love this.

Word to Chicago protesters: going “floppy” is a tactic that annoys police, wastes their resources, and makes them look bad.

Just gonna tap on this sign again and hope that my belief that transparency/education on the bureaucracy is not wasted, and that instead it helps us develop a good inside outside game to push together in the most effective ways

Partnership4Progress (astroturfing outfit & pass through for rich people politics) just sent out an enormous newsletter saying social housing is impossible for Portland that hilariously acknowledges that if we want a world class housing situation we’ll need decades of socialist governance. I agree!

he saw the bikeportland interview

Friday Vibe Check

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.