Covid vax hit hard this year

Absolutely delighted by the comment “I support amending the code because our city needs more snacking opportunities!” before I even realized it was from the delightful @emilyguise.bsky.social

Important note to Portland bike folks: there’s a hairless cat who lives in a house on the north side of NE Tillamook between MLK & 7th, and it likes to hang out in a window where you can easily admire/gasp in horror of its nakedness

If anyone still thinks that Oregon Republicans have any actual interest in governing, take a look at this. They’re labeling all queer Oregonians as cockroaches, which certainly applies to some of their members and even more to some of their kids. This is just hateful, nasty stuff

Shout out to @mcsweeneys.net for letting me treat a certain kind of article with the level of respect it deserves. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

dan ryan, supporting the vision zero resolution, bravely calls for tolerance from transportation advocates of other modes of transportation like cars and trucks

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.

Always good to read what Ta-Nehisi Coates writes www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

At first I thought this was about the Bob Stacey Crossing but nope! There are lots of breaking elevators all around.

ICE has reportedly just taken two North Portland residents, one who was on his way to work and another who was with their 13-year-old child outside of a school. The kidnapping of our neighbors is horrific and unacceptable.

Can confirm — quick and easy to get both flu & COVID shots in WA. Scheduled an appt, used my Oregon address, no questions no problems.

Truly wonder what it will take for the legislature and ODOT to give up on these (unnecessary!) freeway expansions at a time when transit and road maintenance budgets are taking huge hits

Via @bikeportland.org, this is just awful, a totally unprovoked attack on a teen cyclist www.bendsource.com/news/localne...

This is lovely. Cheers to the public librarians, especially those working with youth

If you're like me and wish "Gilded Age" was all Peggy Scott, then you need "Our Ancestors Were Messy." @nicholehill.bsky.social spills the tea on Black icons like Ida B. Wells and Langston Hughes, with gossip torn from the headlines of Black newspapers. So good!! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

Update: 20 year old kid who last week discussed Portland posers at length informed me earlier today I am fully Portland core

How many pedestrian intersection scrambles are there in Portland? (I love them so much)

Just got scared silly by a raccoon in my fenced in backyard. Why was it walking towards my elderly little dog?!?!

So it sounds like, in Oregon, we have to get a prescription or drive to Washington to get a Covid vax. This is annoying for me, and a huge barrier for many who need it. Ugh

Are red states experiencing any sort of extra brain drain of educated folks to blue cities and bluer states? Thinking about the folks fired at Texas A&M in particular (gift link), though the job market isn’t easy anywhere in higher ed

She’s objecting to the terrible schedule and pay for legislators, a known problem, especially hard for mothers of young kids, as well as all the money going to ODOT. We could solve both these: more pay for for legislators and less money to ODOT for boondoggle megaprojects

Spoiler: yeah, probably, but you knew that already

Emerging from a brief social media disengagement - which I highly recommend - with some professional news: I've started a new job as the Pacific Northwest bureau chief for The New York Times. Looking for story ideas, news alerts, background info, pet theories, restaurant recs, travel tips etc.

This is fantastic. Has someone does this math for Portland?

Important news, Portland: my 20 year old kid has informed me that everyone in Portland is a poser, except him of course, but including his brother

Today I am going to make pesto out of this basil I grew from one small basil plant, with walnuts from the giant tree just out of sight of this basil. Very excited to continue to use up the 44 pounds of walnuts (!) I gathered in my yard two years ago

Twinless is a fantastic film, and you get to test your knowledge of NE and NW Portland

I really don’t love that the city seems to be basing its hopes for economic recovery on some lower paid office folks paying for a sandwich once or twice a week while being forced back to the office 4-5 days

Someone just told me that bicyclists are some of the most entitled and unaware folks in Portland, so I went ahead and stepped out of that conversation. Fun!

Let’s say a neighbor was illegally blocking the right of way in front of their house with traffic cones and official-looking A frame signs, seemingly to reserve parking for themselves but trying to make it look like a work area. What would you do?

Just learned that the Portland Water Bureau recommends we store 14 gallons of water per person for emergency preparedness, and more if you have pets. They say that’s two weeks of water. 14 gallons! www.portland.gov/water/store-...

he saw the bikeportland interview

290 comments so far on the @bikeportland.org story about bike happy hour, mayor wilson, and protests bikeportland.org/2025/09/04/h...

I heard the best theory about this article: the writer, who lives in Portland, didn’t want to include any of the places they actually go www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

All, this is super interesting. This Oregon Republican house rep is switching parties because he’s tired of obstructionist Republicans who refuse to govern

@brockmon.bsky.social hi!

When anyone says anything about throwing taxpayer money at pro sports, remember that the mayor is emailing us begging for change to support the most basic of services to our most vulnerable neighbors

this seems like a better thing to bully our mayor about www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

“Clean your room or the boogie man will come and get you,” says dad I mean Mayor Wilson www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

my rose colored glasses have me like “but in 2020 we all held hands and yelled at the mayor 🌼 TOGETHER 🌼“

Mayor just left the bike Portland bike happy hour after anti ICE and pro Gaza folks chanted with megaphone and interrupted interview. Lots of unhappy folks who really wanted to hear mayor talk about the whole diverter thing

How much does the CDC control distribution of vaccines? Asking for myself and also all of the west coast www.oregonlive.com/health/2025/...

Thanks to @bikeloudpdx.bsky.social for doing these public record requests! Also, wow, this does not look good. The city apparently lied about the support of PBOT engineers for the diverter removal.

I could have been right hooked (if I wasn’t paying careful attention) at least four times on NW & SW Broadway on a ride at around noon today, including at a few no right on red intersections where the driver turned right on red

Apparently I'm not the only Portlander wondering why there are so many spiders building webs outside my house right now www.reddit.com/r/askportlan...

If someone set up an account in FB in 2025, and has locked their profile, seems like they might be a bot?

“It’s hard to know whether the people the mayor’s office has reunited with loved ones in other states have remained housed… because the city stops tracking and checking on them as soon as they arrive at their destination, and once they’re picked up at the airport or bus or train station.”

Former Oregon representative from Portland suburb calls on Trump to crack down on immigration enforcement right in her own backyard. Rep. Janelle Bynum, who was a deciding vote in support of the controversial “immigration crime” bill Laken Riley Act, beat Chavez-DeReamer in 2024, as a Democrat.

And it’s already happening as predicted: local news websites have headlines about the “Flat Fire” and the “Portland Fire,” which is extra stressful til you remember one is the poorly named new local WNBA team

Incredibly wholesome content here