vance’s definition is widely used among the racist pedophiles he follows on X

guy from connecticut or something in 2020 who just saw ted wheeler get tear gassed: this man should run for governor

I think today might have killed both major upcoming freeway projects in the portland area

The estimated price tag more than doubled from $6 billion to $13.6 billion, but staff told a bistate panel Dec. 15 it didn’t have new numbers.

wow, what an end. thanks to victoria for taking over live tweeting!

We have the same goals but different ideas to get there. What I have seen is Kanal working across the aisle. clarifying Smith was responsible for SIP. Smith could be our secret p-cauc. Don't want p-cauc to be a "perpetual disqualifier" for candidates

I'll try and fill in!!!

my favorite “real housewives” franchise is the portland city council

democracy dies in darkness

I'm about to have to leave too 😭 we need someone else to take up the live tweeting mantle

an olivia clark tendency I am annoyed by is that when she doesn't support something it's always distracting from more important priorities but then she doesn't really have an identifiable policy agenda of her own

This is the most damning part. ICE shot a young mother. They refused to allow immediate medical assistance for 15 MINUTES. Their cars blocked EMS from the scene. When they shoot you, they want you to bleed out. Sick freaks.

I want to make one thing clear: this year, it's enchiladas.

He says he wants a VP prepared in case he is hit by a bus. But Trimet is eliminating the bus. Checkmate Kanal.

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I've been a gloomy gus about PDX & OR population growth but this suggests a rebound, surely thanks in part to our relative home affordability. But if we don't make it easy to build homes, growth will doom that affordability! www.oregonlive.com/business/202...

an early council president disagreement: avalos asks that the council vice president facilitate the nomination discussion, with EPG disagreeing that the code is clear that the council president should have that responsibility.

If everyone involved isn’t sitting in a Hennepin County cell at the end of the day, our leaders have failed

after a second round of voting, a surprise winner emerges for portland city council president: Avalos - JEB! Dunphy - JEB! Smith - JEB! Kanal - JEB! Pirtle Guiney - JEB! Ryan - JEB! Koyama Lane - JEB! Morillo - JEB! Novick - JEB! Clark - JEB! Green - JEB! Zimmerman - JEB!

anyone want to do a bet on how many rounds of voting we’ll have for city council president today?

talked to a guy on the 72 today who said he thought the 82nd ave project had been canceled because it had been so long since it was announced and he hadn’t seen any changes in transit service 😭

Glory to the Republic and those who defended her

Much has been written about potential safety benefits of AVs. Given the lack of AV data transparency, I cannot speak to whether, or to what degree, AVs are safer than an average human driver. What I can say: This is the wrong question. 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

The WES was built for ~$166M in 2009. That's ~$250M in 2025. The Interstate Rose Quarter project is projected to cost $2 billion, or 8 times what the WES cost. Meanwhile, a WES extension to Salem was killed in committee last year. The problem isn't the money. It's how we choose to spend it.

downtown repricing watch: got an ad for a place advertising cheap art studios downtown www.boardoftradepdx.com

I apologize for the political jargon but want to be clear on this: no, absolutely not, stick to making sassy Lincoln Project ads and get the fuck out of my face

sent an email to my state reps when the fx2 service cuts dropped last year. nosse's office responded to my comment about increasing the trimet payroll tax by assuming I was talking about the statewide transit payroll tax, and taylor's office ignored me. both extremely on brand

golden hour #WeatherlyWatch on the way back from downtown

you ever notice how transit cuts in the biggest city in the state aren’t talked about as a political risk for the governor, despite being vastly worse for transit riders than an unnoticeable gas tax increase is for drivers?

If you live in Senate District 21, you should run in 2028. Kathleen Taylor hasn't had a contested primary in 10 years, and in that time she has done nothing to substantively improve the lives of Oregonians. She opposed housing reform and she tried to defend pre-school for all. Run against her!

Finally, @trimet.org continues to slowly degrade its essential Frequent Network brand, with further evening frequency cuts on some segments. This is a boiling-frog problem with potentially very bad long term ridership consequences. 6/

democratic leaders in the senate acquiesced to republican demands to massively cut transit funding in order to avoid a walkout during the special session this summer and then had to shut down the legislature for a month anyways because of gorsek’s surgery. just a catastrophic failure of leadership

This lays at the feet of the state legislature. This is their fault for not doing the job we elected them to do.

This is not how I wanted to get a Line 15 extension to St. Johns

We also asked readers to tell us about their experiences with congestion pricing. Many described quieter, less stressful streets.

grim trimet.org/servicecuts/

continually impressed at how badly dan ryan fucked up his participation trophy bureau appointment

The notion that SDCs pay to offset the impacts of growth is complete fiction, as perfectly illustrated by this story. They're just a convenient way to raise money. nwexaminer.com/p/theres-sti...

The Indian government is threatening action over this, so it's getting covered in the press. Some state AG should pursue action and that'll lead to more coverage in the US

mamdani admin copying @pdxrenterpower.bsky.social’s renters town halls 😛

Michelle Milla moved here from St. Louis in late 2023 and immediately started trying to get a forty-year-old food pantry at the Episcopal Cathedral shut down. www.opb.org/article/2024...

why is olivia clark taking meetings with a tiny faux-neighborhood group run by republicans?

This is very in line with my “tech press only wants to fantasize about science fiction scenarios and doesn’t actually care to engage with what is happening presently in the real world” theory about this though

nimby backlash slouching towards salem from the outer ring portland suburbs www.opb.org/article/2026...

Would like to take this moment for us to appreciate the contrast with Biden admin Latin America policy which at least featured attempts to make things more democratic and helped ensure a smooth transition of power in Brazil.

can tell nobody watched beau is afraid because I haven’t seen anyone referencing it today

what’s the chance the DOJ actually loses this case? www.npr.org/2026/01/03/n...

Statement from Oregon Senator @wyden.senate.gov on Venezuela attack.

first as tragedy then as farce. then as farce again. then farce one more time. a little more farce after that. then some farce. and then another farce and more farce after