Happy #PrideMonth! Enjoy a Tesla getting smashed by a light rail train with a pride flag.

Paris urban biking investment helps cut pollution in half: “Between 2005 and 2024, levels of nitrogen dioxide and fine particulate matter — 2 of the most harmful pollutants to human health — have been slashed by 50% and 55%, respectively.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social momentummag.com/paris-proves...

yeah so the recent threads i was reposting about this are the bigger reason i'm annoyed about my main getting suspended & since it's a slower afternoon here, i'll probably just recreate something for it on this account too. i even agreed to go on a podcast at work for this topic!

Portland has promised $3.91B in retirement and disability benefits to its police and firefighters and has saved almost none of it. Instead, the bill lands on your property taxes, a little more every year. What does it costs you, and how it could be fixed? www.portlandciviclab.org/deep-dives/f...

On Tuesday, June 16, another crackdown on the anarchist movement took place in Rome and elsewhere, resulting in seven arrest warrants for comrades, several suspects released, searches conducted throughout Italy, and the eviction of the Bencivenga squat in Rome anarhistka.org/italy-the-an...

Is music criticism dead? We asked 23 versions of the same kind of guy and one screenshot of a woman’s tweet to find out out

helpful coverage from @elpais.com english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-...

If you're a billionaire who's expecting everyone else to pay for Moda Center upgrades, you might want to pretend even just a little bit that you care about selling people on that. Dundon didn't even bother to stick around for the reception

If you were worried that you missed strawberry season in Portland - I just went and picked a ton more of these yesterday at Columbia Farm on Sauvie Island

Hello friends near and far 💜 I've reached the end of my savings, frustratingly, just as we've solved the root mystery of my illness (it's Lyme) and are seeing continued success with treatment. I'm asking for your help in bridging the gap between now and when I can hopefully work full-time again.

One day I'll perhaps be able to talk about the experience of this whole case. But today it's just gratitude—to our team, to @davidsug.bsky.social's team, and to the plaintiffs—for getting us here. May we make our community stronger and more resilient for the future. www.opb.org/article/2026...

These folks worked so hard during the height of the pandemic for protections for incarcerated people in Oregon

🚨BREAKING NEWS: The OJRC and Sugerman Dahab have reached a landmark $49 million settlement in a class action lawsuit over COVID-19 deaths and infections in Oregon prisons. Here's the breakdown [1/6]

Almost every time I park my e-bike somewhere public I get questions about it from curious people. That never happens with my other bikes. So many people are interested in what e-bikes can offer them, which makes the moral panic around them all the more infuriating.

It would be a dereliction of duty for me to ignore the *overwhelming* body of evidence that points to deals exactly like this one as mostly subsidies to private owners at the public expense, where claims to new economic development and tax revenues are largely unsupported by the facts.

With the Prarieland sentences being handed down, it's a good time to remember that while this might feel new, law enforcement has been using similar tactics to criminalize rappers for years. Saying their lyrics prove they are criminals and gang leaders and then hitting them with RICO charges

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through 6/26, enjoy free standard shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

Judge O’Connor stated from the bench that he is giving maximum sentences to the Prairieland sentences because “the state wants to send a message to anyone who shares a similar ideology.” Additionally, motions 29 and 33 for acquittal and a new trial were denied from the bench.

Welp, I am on one of the activists that Madison Square Garden's owners were keeping a file on. To me, this shows exactly why giant corporations should not be allowed to use dangerous surveillance technologies like facial recognition. They can and will use it to silence critics and consolidate power

COVID Alert❗️Biobot released their 1st COVlD report in a month, and it shows levels rising in the US after the prolonged national relative "lull" in transmission. biobot.io/risk-reports...

A neonazi stabbed an antifascist in Goettingen on Saturday. The injured comrade suffered life threatening injuries & is in critical condition. Yesterday, over 1,000 antifascists participated in a spontaneous demo, some attempting to head towards the home of the fascist, but were stopped by police.

Reminder: Steel Bridge lower deck closed tomorrow (6/23) from 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Please choose an alternate route to cross the Willamette River.

Muscle are doing essential, important work. They're at the vanguard of what's hot in queer cinema rn, and they are in the process of restoring four important films and they need our help. PUMPING IRON II: THE WOMEN is an all time favorite of mine & is among the films being restored

For @thesicktimes.org, I'm looking to talk to a couple of people with Long COVID & related diseases who rely on COVID-19 wastewater data about how potential funding shortfalls for this surveillance may impact them. DM or email me ([email protected])!

hard to explain how much i love this band, and how much this song rules, and how much it sounds like portland, and how completely the chorus changes and melody transport me there. team dresch forever and ever stereogum.com/2502999/team...

The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009. Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.

If you're wondering why my account got flagged for "adult content," and a post hidden from view for the very first time, the answer is: I posted a picture of Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson (shirtless) embracing and kissing in a Star is Born

New rule: If your organization or gathering has a land acknowledgement, it is required to follow that acknowledgement by naming the efforts it is currently making toward restorative justice for Native people. #landback #landacknowledgement #indigenous

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤 🩷🤍🩵🤍🩷 Many in-person events aren’t accessible to people with disabilities. 🩷💜💙 🩷💛🩵 So come celebrate Pride with The Sick Times! 💛🤍💜🖤 🖤🩶🤍💜 Drag artists! Musicians! And more queer performance art! We're excited to see you there! luma.com/ih0oq3yw?mc_...

This book is so bad that when my colleagues and I (all trauma specialists specifically in IPV/SV) read it for our office book club we could hear each other yelling about it through the walls. Fuck this book and this man's shitty fucking science and gross ass writing.

It’s very funny watching Andrew Hoan have to go on TV new and get aggro trying to sell a Moda deal that he thought he accomplished through back room dealing. Every time he goes on TV, they lose more ground. Some random guy from New York telling Portlanders they don’t get it is great strategy.

two weeks left for these great deals on great gay stuff! let me ship a weird trans anthology to your home for cheap, I beg.

If you are under 45 in the US, you should get this. Your gender is irrelevant here. Shout out to my one ex who listened to me after we broke up and was like, "I got the shots" It's a series. I got the series, like, eons ago. If you already have HPV, get the shots. It covers many strains.

Mt Hood seen from Sherrard Pt

Never a better time to stop organizing with the PSL.

“This is the second recall for the Alphabet-owned robotaxi company in a bit more than a month. Back in May, Waymo recalled 3,791 robotaxis after a vehicle drove onto a flood road in San Antonio.”

New spider discovered that's endemic to the Columbia River Gorge and it has claws columbiainsight.org/new-spider-s...

The biggest winner in the Portland Police Association's ballot measure signature gathering effort? Washington DC based Fieldworks, LLC. They've pulled in $723,848.87 so far. bsky.app/profile/marc...

Just hit 2,000 miles on my electric cargo bike - so nice to be able to haul my birding gear across town or do big grocery runs with it. One of the best things I've ever bought

I stopped someone from signing this petition today. The canvasser told them it was to improve 911 response times and that the PCEF money was "just sitting there". When I brought up concerns he admitted to not really know anything about the petition beyond what his employer told him

Thank you for sharing and donating y’all, I’m 22% of the way there now, which takes some pressure off! 🙏🩵

And there it is. PPB Officer Jimmy Pryce retired on May 29, 2026. He will not be returning from LOA for a fourth time. Now we get to begin paying his FPDR pension. Looks like that's the end of the internal investigation. Oh well. bsky.app/profile/marc...

I got to it:

SURVEILLED AND SOLD: Immigration, Surveillance and Journalism. A conversation with journalist Narimes Parakul Join us tomorrow to discuss this timely topic, and learn more about how we can come together to protect our communities! www.meetup.com/portlands-te...

Portland Police Association (PPA) is now in for over half a million dollars on the signature gathering effort that is being falsely advertised as not raising taxes. Taxes will go up. FPDR pays PERS contributions for all new sworn police and fire employees.

At the hearing in the federal courthouse in St. Paul. Fifteen people were indicted on conspiracy charges etc. and are making their first appearances. The courtroom is full, with about 100 people. Five defendants came into the courtroom, a couple with fists raised, which some in crowd mirrored. (1)

"I think about how people are obsessed with one corner of Black cinema. There are three other corners that people are not touching. What lies ahead for me is asking why people aren’t chasing these films?" @812filmreviews spoke w/ Maya Cade abt the continuing mission of the Black Film Archive:

Multnomah County burn ban is starting today, several weeks earlier than previous years www.portland.gov/fire/burn-ba...

PLS SHARE: In addition to dozens of libraries, misting stations, and other already-open cool space , 2 cooling centers will open from Noon to 9PM today, June 15: 📍Multnomah County East Building, 600 NE 8th St, Gresham 📍Bud Clark Commons, 650 NW Irving St., Portland