Portland will not bend to Trumpism. We will not be shocked into compliance with his overtly racist, and violent attacks on our most vulnerable neighbors. We must get organized and refuse to allow his authoritarianism to be normalized in our city. Use your voice, be smart and safe, and stand strong.

it’s become evident that i do actually need to read that abundance book, not because i want to, but because its become important for my work. does anyone have a copy they can lend me?

I really can’t keep screaming that we cannot go on as normal without people tuning it out but I must. We are in immense danger and the fascists are only becoming more brutal and more emboldened. We must sacrifice comfort in the short term or we will endure pain for decades.

I also hope we don’t forget all the local folks who’ve spent years spreading the “portland is a hellhole” narrative to gain short-term political power and/or social media clout. They provided ammo to the Trump machine. They fed the false narrative and now the chickens are coming home to roost.

The Portland Metro Chamber, which over the past five years has constructed the narrative that Portland is a crime-infested city where you can't go anywhere to feel safe, said in a press conference that Portlanders should fight against Trump's deployment of federal agents by purchasing more things.

watching cal raleigh hit home run number 60 is something i am never going to forget.

the world’s on fire but my baseball team has a catcher with a huge butt and 58 home runs

the mariners! let’s fucking go

the drop in quality between vienna’s public transit and trimet is worse than falling off a cliff.

looks like my vienna vacation was just extended two days (my flight was cancelled and the next flight they can put me on departs on wednesday)

i swear to god these viennese mosquitoes have a vendetta against me. and i have a vendetta against their lack of screened windows.

we are here at the karl marx hof

the viennese love saying the word “situation” like: - the situation today - the housing situation

i’m heading to vienna tomorrow for my junket with the portland city councilors to study social housing. i love international post! please send me a dm with your address if you want a postcard!

servers in europe are really underestimating how thirsty i am, give me the big sparkling water, i don’t care if its almost a liter.

ugh the football posting has started, pls make it stop

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this is because “Affordable Housing” built with lihtc (which a majority of all subsidized housing uses) relies on a thing called the area median income which ties rent to 30% or 60% of that. which you can imagine is quite high in a place like seattle.

ah, the bad london tap water, just how i remember

been saying this for years!!

the oregon coast is something magical

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Oh yes, it will be very popular to implement a sales tax on consumers (who are, according to these people, already overtaxed) instead of multibillion dollar businesses. What a joke.

rent stabilization is not the same as rent control, both are regulations on rent but rent control is much more restrictive.

see!! this is why i’ll never believe it

i’m still not used to any mariners offense

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

American brain drain has only begun, but with trends like these, the only people who remain in a decade will be people with bad luck, the biggest stubborn streaks ever, or the shittiest CVs. Or fascist politics.

i’ve been wandering downtown eugene while i kill time before a meeting eating lots of individually wrapped candies and i am astonished at the lack of public garbage cans. i need to place to dispose of my candy wrappers!

i’ve been a one airpod always in hater but since getting a pair i kind of get the convenience. i don’t think i’ll be reformed from my hating but it’s given me new perspective.

Remote work emptied Portland's downtown—not high taxes and not racial justice protests, even though the business lobby has tried to blame both. "Killing our national model of a universal preschool program will not revive our old downtown-centric economic model." www.streetroots.org/news/2025/07...

i’m currently editing the course book for a trip i’m organizing to vienna to study social housing, and it’s making me so frustrated that even their wonky neoliberal tax incentives for housing development are designed with protecting the public good rather than private enrichment.

the low income housing tax credit program is the biggest fucking scam disguised as a private-public partnership to develop public housing.

content from palestinians surviving genocide being marked as spam on social platforms really is illuminating to me how so much effort/labor/capital goes into ensuring the comfort of advertisers and protecting their ability to sell products and that really sucks.

the worst part of my summer (second only to the urban heat sink) is listening to the portland racetrack, something about the constant engine droning gets to me and i get so cranky.

I am seeking the full astrological charts of every member of Portland City Council and will stop at nothing to access the information I seek. Watch this space

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"In policy terms, rich people are the wrong focus, Young said, because they aren’t highly mobile. Young people on track to become rich are mobile, he said, and cities should seek to attract them before they put down roots." Amen, Cornell U professor Young

i can’t believe willamette week went through 300 pages of texts just to tell us that any effective political maneuvering requires coordination? that’s the cover story?

jp crawford with that barrel roll

we rented a cabin on mt hood and i was so surprised to see all these vacation rentals with razor wire around the property lines. can’t be good for the wildlife??

HOW ELSE WOULD A NIGHT LIKE TONIGHT END?! J.P. CRAWFORD #WALKOFF HOME RUN!

i thought it was over for sure for the mariners when they brought out bazardo. hopefully this means jp is finally coming out of his slump.

i got a mosquito bite on my goddamn scalp. i fucking hate outside oh my god.

well. at least there's new worms

I share "White Flight" with students when I want them to understand that people didn't reject public services (esp. education) because they were ineffective. They rejected them BECAUSE they were effective but benefitted all and not a select group. So, they formed private options to limit benefits.

Some Portland food cart or restaurant needs to name a hot dog after Mitch Green