Wow this is so much worse than even the headline suggests. The snarking was bad, even though Nolan may not have realized they were being racist. The apology in broken Spanish was really not a good idea! youtu.be/TNmPw0ZpbCg?...

I'm just glad I live in a state with a Democratic supermajority, where our legislators can scramble together millions at the last minute for the important things, like an arena renovation that will benefit a billionaire

Quebec archives have been overwhelmed with requests from French-Canadian Americans looking to prove Canadian citizenship, many wanting to leave the US—now an option with Canada’s new citizenship by descent expansion ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/222...

I don’t know Jeff but somehow he has described exactly the dynamic of the revoke the permit folks hassling Councilor Morillo and the rest of council

I hope this group comes up with some ideas beyond “make people go to their offices 4 days a week instead of two or three” www.portlandmercury.com/news/2026/02...

Thorns new kit once again screams, we’re girly girls, not the man hating kind of feminazi, and we’ll wear stereotypical femme colors that the bulk of our fans wouldn’t be caught dead in, la la la

Oregon has a new genetic privacy notice and we can opt out of future anonymous or coded research. How to decide? Please give me your opinions. I am at the doctor’s office right now

Thoughts and prayers to my colleagues (ahem) who are about to realize they’re (we’re) eligible for our employer’s new retirement incentive program

We need NYC-based authors/writers to use their skills to share the importance of public libraries in the 21st century. If this is you, write things and post them to all of your networks. Also sign a letter to the City Council: actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

A real shocker here

This is grim and sad

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Oregon Republicans gonna Oregon Republican(t)

The arts tax annoys me so much. It was most annoying the year my kid turned 18 and made like $1100 and had to pay the same as ye olde neighborhood millionaire. And you know, I'm general a go-tax-go kinda gal www.opb.org/article/2026...

My neighbor is proposing to calm traffic by adding street parking. This is the only time free parking is good, maybe? @arudwick.bsky.social

Ah, another example of something that should never have been funded with public dollars

Begging people to stop reposting those images of bare chested horrible men. Please.

These people will rot in a hell I don't even believe in www.wweek.com/news/schools...

Gen X-Gen Z communication update: my kid was incredibly surprised that I knew what looksmaxing was; I was shocked he had no idea what I meant by gay hockey

2788 families in oregon were served eviction notices in january; a record high, nearly twice pre-pandemic levels. if you're an oregonian looking for a thirty-second activity to shake your fist and demand policymakers stick up for tenants in these wretched times, here's a really easy action alert:

What an extraordinary legacy www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Another opportunity to remind everyone to #DeclineToSign. It *permanently* hijacks 2% of the existing budget revenue (including PCEF). How much is 2%? Almost double the the entire Portland Street Response Budget.

“How can I possibly comment on such atrocities when I haven’t personally witnessed any because I have closed my eyes and covered my ears because I am afraid of the president and other Republicans???”

It is possible to love pro sports and also think public money should not be spent luring them, keeping them, or funding their infrastructure. Not just possible, but also reasonable in this time of massive budget cuts across Oregon. How did a rich potential NBA owner jump the line?

Safe routes to Moda and a bazillion dollar Moda Center renovation are still on the table, naturally

Portland throwing money to a professional sports team while we’re in the midst of a housing crisis, when we can’t afford to maintain roads we have built, when we are dealing with a federal invasion—it’s so gross

Behind every powerful man, there’s a wife, several kids, and a bunch of nannies who make sure you don’t accidentally lose your kids on Pedo Island

Yowza, there’s a lot of news right now, but don‘t miss this beautiful, terrible story about a community in Wilder, Idaho (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...

Just off a call w Jeffrey Tumlin, who was the Director of Transportation of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency 2019-2024... when robotaxis came to town. He says Oregon is at risk of copying CA's failure by letting Waymo come in w/o local regulations. HB 4085 is really bad folks!!

Was the kid Liam Ramos???? 😭😭😭

This seems good! Except of course it makes me think something else worse is coming. Always an optimist! www.opb.org/article/2026...

What is going on!!!!

Oregon federal judge Mustafa Kasubhai: "The presumption of regularity that has been previously extended to Plaintiff ["The United States of America" (the Trump regime)] that it could be taken at its word—with little doubt about its intentions and stated purposes—no longer holds."

Wow, it looks like the city is refusing to look into if District 2 Councilor Dan Ryan is regularly using his personal phone for official city business -- even though there's been local reporting suggesting that exactly this is happening. Frustrating!

This is really bad, and much worse than I realized www.wweek.com/news/2026/02...

The new Muppet Show is like a warm glass of cocoa when you’re tucked into a comfy couch under a cozy blanket. A real respite.

This is extraordinary: “In a well-functioning constitutional democratic republic, free speech, courageous newsgathering, and nonviolent protest are all permitted, respected, and even celebrated. In an authoritarian regime, that is not the case“

It’s not often I say bravo to anyone at Duke, but cheers to the student-journalists who are searching the Epstein files for their professors and then reporting on it dukechronicle.com/article/duke...

DHS claimed they shot two ‘vicious gang members’ in Portland, OR, but Prosecution records obtained by The Guardian tell a quite different story www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Wow, that teargas is going for miles from the ICE building

Lots of teargas at ICE tonight in Portland. People were just standing and chanting.

I am thinking back to summer 2020 when a lot of moderate (?), liberal (?) folks in Portland argued that “bad” protestors were a big problem, that if protestors just behaved properly and “peacefully,” the cops wouldn’t respond with force and teargas

4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...

If your children got tear gassed today I want to hear from you, even if you don’t live in my district. You can contact my office at [email protected]

Like many have said, the gassing outside ICE today was really bad, and it impacted a huge group of people. I heard multiple people say they felt like they were going to throw up as they tried to leave the area. (I experienced similar effects.) It followed a peaceful protest led by labor groups.

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

I recorded this today, in Portland, Oregon, at a huge march to the ICE facility in SW. The crowd was full of cyclists who had ridden there in memory of Alex Pretti; members of several labor unions; and ordinary citizens of every age, including this little girl. So of course ICE deployed tear gas.