My biggest complaint about biking is that I start out shivering and then end it sweating. And I'm not sure what's the best solution for that

I'm nice but I'm latina nice. Which means I'll burst out laughing when you do something stupid and hurt yourself but I'll absolutely help you out afterwards. I will also be a shoulder for you to cry on but also point out if you're the problem

A guiding principle for making the world better 🥰

I am learning that I'm neither logistically nor emotionally prepared to bike in this level of rain

Portland, we need a politician who is worthy of Breenan Lee Mulligan doing a stream with them. Come on y'all

I think it's important to remember that activists and people who participated in historical wins can have bad takes. You don't owe them deference when they're wrong on a topic. You can acknowledge that they participated in good work and have allowed their politics to stagnate

the reason that it's so disturbing when Newsom/Buttigieg/Harris say that they want to force trans ppl out of sports is that it signals that they don't want to fight for trans rights at a time when there is a massive genocidal campaign against trans people. 1

God help me if I'm ever stuck in France because the extent I cannot speak French is also comical. My girlfriend spent 5 minutes trying to help me pronounce "Louvre" correctly and the first 3 was just me accidentally Rollin my r's

Things that make my heart sink at work "My water heater started leaking" "All of the drains in my house are clogged" "My kid threw a toy in the toilet" "I can't find this leak" "I think the pipes are cpvc" That last one is going to make me scream in terror

Fastest way to make me cry is discussing or songs about immigration. Or showing me old literature discussing immigration.

Redfin keeps trying to convince me that it's a good idea to sell or rent out my house

Tree lighting folks: oh look it's Santa!! Me: bah humbug 🥱 Tree lighting folks: oh look! Some of our city Councilors! Me: Oh my gosh!! 😯🤩

Shout out to the indigenous speakers at the tree lighting ceremony. Calling for a free Palestine and justice for Sudan is pretty good

I do think you're a jerk if you take up more than one seat on the bus with your bag of stuff. That is kinda a jerk move when the bus is crowded

Shout out to the cashier at the Killer burger location in Sellwood. Your lipstick was amazing and your wings were perfectly sharp

People mad at city councilors act like someone can't listen and eat at the same time. Also I actively can't complain, because I too have eaten food while watching people give testimony. But they stayed longer because I turned off the meeting after I gave my testimony

Normalize balaclavas for biking. My nose is cold 🥶

I don't believe people need a profit motive in order to perform labor, I've seen people argue on the Internet for free

Attacking women's appearances to silence their voices is misogyny.

Once you start doing stuff in Portland, you come to find out that Portland is less a city and more a small town

Went to a constituent coffee thing and had the worst photo taken of me oh my God 😭 what did I do to deserve this????

I'm usually opposed to ad hoc attacks on people I argue with....but when the same hairstylist posts nonsense about my City Councilor, I can feel the bitchy devil on my shoulder start to rise

One of the retorts I hate the most about housing is the "well why don't you house someone?" And it's frustrating because a lot of people do, actually! If you've let someone couch surf at your home, you are housing someone temporarily. My family has done it multiple times with different people

So after seeing Dan Ryan's non apology, I'm honestly more angry than before I'm especially angry at EPG seeming to selectively decide what does and doesn't count as being "on topic". Honestly low key racistly selective.

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If you're more upset by how a marginalized person responds to disrespect than you are about the original disrespect......you're the problem

For the love of God, leash your dogs if you're going to have them in the front yard

How people decide to treat and talk about the homeless and the incarcerated shows you their true character.

I'm going to be real with you, I can't imagine starting a meeting at 9:30 and *still* being in that same meeting a full 9 hours later. Absolutely not

Some of y'all mispronounce Spanish last names and your disrespect is infuriating

There's a specific irony in using the politically correct term for unhoused people/homeless people and then advocating for the continued violence against the very people

I absolutely have a name that I pretty much only use when I order coffee. Not because I'm considering a name change but because my heart sinks every time a barista asks me how to spell my name. It's honestly just easier to give a different name that no one needs help spelling

Novik not being at the city council meeting has for me SWEATING 😬😬😬 begging people to have a heart this meeting because my surprise vote guy is MISSING

My body is ready

The Portland Clean Energy Fund creates climate jobs for Portlanders installing solar panels and heat pumps to save working families money on energy costs, and make our air cleaner and city greener--especially in more vulnerable neighborhoods like mine that have seen generations of under-investment.

Due to a series of events, I now know who John Forester is......due to a series of events, I now hate John Forester

This is important and will take you less than five minutes.

Kinda fucked that we do elections the way we do. What do you mean that someone needs to have good politics and be highly charismatic and a good communicator? And there's evidence that they get bonus points for being hot? That's not a sustainable system

Ground-shifting outcomes will require ground-shifting organizing, ground-shifting objectives, and ground-shifting leadership.

When you have a party that's more focused on being a "big tent" and focused on winning, this is what you get. There are no cohesive values that bind them together except that they are not Republicans. We need a new party with actual standards but for now, vote out the spineless

I'm glad the Democrats seem to be celebrating Mamdani's win but it's absolutely infuriating when taken in the context of how many pushed back on him and denied him support. That on top of how many people were happy that Fateh lost. Like......some of y'all and go fuck yourselves

One of the things that's been frustrating about politics is how many of them have prepared for years to get into politics. It leaves so many of them insulated from the working class. How would politics change if they had friends who saw first hand the effects of privatized medical transportation

You really do have to be willing to be part of making the thing that you say other people must make or do. That's just basic at this point. [feel free to rage about this on your own timeline not in my mentions]

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I need to find a good place to get a lip ring

a girl said white guys need to get off the podcasts and back into emo bands and i agree

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

Good morning to Black and Brown leftists, the immigrant community, and the trans community. Everyone else can wait a bit, right now is for us.

GM 🧖🏽‍♂️ Roughly 60% of the sweeping Democratic election wins yesterday, were won by anti-establishment candidates with progressive leanings.