This is the most unhinged thing I've ever seen. It's like that season of Game of Thrones where the church took over. www.youtube.com/live/6gs09ik...

Weird that our right wing DA won’t charge right wing protestors. Everyone saw the video of him pushing a woman. Not much question about what happened. Great signal to send to all these other outside agitators who are gearing up to come into Portland.

Meanwhile, on the site formerly known as Twitter, people are still arguing with ragebait accounts about whether or not immigrants pay taxes.

After ignoring the protesters for months, politicians and lawyers are using protest talking points to successfully beat Trump in court. Let's not forget this.

Federal law enforcement officers have used excessive force against peaceful protestors and given favorable treatment to those who support Trump administration policies, Portland City Attorney Robert Taylor told Justice Department officials today.

The Portland City Attorney writing a scathing letter to the DOJ was not on my bingo card.

Another case study in why we desperately need decentralized app governance. 👇🏾

Yep

Pay attention to the language that will be used by much of the media. The Global Sumud Flotilla never entered Israeli waters. They are in international waters attempting to reach Palestinian waters. Israel is once again breaking international law

Meanwhile, residents in the South Waterfront report government drones hovering right outside their windows.

Can the National Guard fill potholes? Or build tiny homes? Any chance we can do a swap for the Army Corps of Engineers? We got bridges needing attention here...

Thanks to @mayorkwilson.bsky.social for being responsive to Council about extending parking hours to 7-10 PM. This negatively affects our economy (example: @councilordunphy.bsky.social noted its impact on musicians). Other than event districts, starting 10/15 we're going back to 7 PM free parking.

The decision to invade Portland has been met with disdain from DSA and center-right business organizations alike, the latter of which must do a major heel turn to make their point. The mayor and governor have come out strongly against it. Regular Portlanders hate it, too. This is what matters.

BREAKING: WE WON!!! 💥 💥 💥 Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment. Full ruling here:

THIS is political violence, by the way.

what we really need in this moment is WWeek publishing more content about how the city councilors who are bravely putting themselves out there to publicly criticize a violent dictator who is sending troops to our city are communicating with one another on Microsoft Teams.

Anybody else just hear a loud explosion near Lents?

We've extended the application deadline to Oct. 8!

Social media numbers are way up since Trump started talking about Portland again. Gotta wonder if this is all for the algorithm.

We're not going to combat authoritarianism with recycled IG memes. Please wake tf up.

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

The swoop is in full effect. I repeat, the swoop is in full effect.

Trump's Portland 'war' zone is really one driveway in front of an ICE facility that has been the site of violent frederal overreation for months: share.google/bhVYxRssA5qj...

Ron Wyden said hell this is getting serious

I'm setting up at the Hollywood Saturday Farmers Market and a random lady comes over to tell me that she appreciates us having City Council Town Halls out in the public.

A GENERAL STRIKE for a mere 72 hours would solve one metric fuckton of problems. Grind their gears of capitalism to a halt, and they run out of money/oxygen in THREE DAYS. 👇

Wild how these huge companies just cave into fascism as soon as it presents itself and only roll back the harm done if half the world responds through public boycott.

RIP Assata

I was streaming The Delfonics on Tidal and my dad is like, "Where did you get that?" "Ummm... the internet?"

About 1.5 miles into my run, I passed a man walking a twirling chihuahua and he shouts out, "Aren't you Mac Smiff?" Turns out we have a friend in common. Glad I was running hard!

Overheard in a coffee shop: "Wait... Is K-Pop different than anime?"

Any time they tell you it can't be done in Portland, remember that California already did it. A preview of our draft of an ordinance to do this exact thing is coming to the Community and Public Safety Committee this Tuesday, 9/23 at 2:30 pm. www.portland.gov/council/agen...

Waiting for someone holding a Starbucks cup to proudly tell me how they canceled Disney+.

Many media outlets hid the full truth of Trump -- his background in organized crime, his Epstein ties -- out of fear, only to be obliterated by him in the end. Had they not self-censored then, they might not be state-censored now. When you hide the truth, you face the consequences.

People standing up harder for Jimmy Kimmel than starving Palestinian children doesn't surprise me because nothing in this country matters until it happens to a "decent white man". We're getting "How's this millionaire supposed to feed his family now?" vibes, but nothing for the 300K Black women.

For the record. My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers. I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

The Post’s decision to fire Karen Attiah, one of their strongest voices, is just despicable. Unfortunately, it speaks to the moment we’re in. The best thing we can do is vigorously support Karen’s work.

This is also political violence

We don't yet have any idea what the ideology of the Kirk shooter was. But we do know that the Denver school shooter was a far-right white supremacist. www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...

GM ⛅️ So the Wall Street Journal (@wsj.com) initially ran with this absurd, unsubstantiated claim, per “sOuRcEs”, is now slowly backtracking the claim that the bullet casings were engraved with “tRaNs iDeOlOgY”, blaming Trans folks for Kirk’s death. TRN ≠ Trans TRN = Turan (Turkish manufacturer)

The New Portlanders Policy Commission works to integrate immigrant and refugee Portlanders’ voices into the City’s policies and decision-making. I’m incredibly grateful for their counsel and dedication during this time of racist and xenophobic targeting by the federal government.

Movies are cheaper to shoot in Europe because they have universal healthcare.

The only Kirk I know is the Captain.

Here's a video account of the altercation outside of the Central Library in Portland. And again, the police narrative is shit and skews the perception of events. www.opb.org/article/2025...

This was a big meeting, mostly panels with limited time for Q&A & discussion. I'm glad we're bringing to light some important issues, partners, successes, & challenges. Now I'm processing. The next Community & Public Safety Committee is 9/23 at 2:30 PM. It will discuss ERPOs, ICE, & more. 16/end

Penning #pedophilepoems for your perverted pimp pals is peek perversion.

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.

Toured the airport today and got to see the Delta plane that had the door fall off in-flight. Couldn't tour the plane though cuz the investigation is ongoing!

‘What could we build instead of prisons?’: New projects at the intersection of abolition and design prismreports.org/2025/08/28/a...