Ha, kudos to the creator of this Don't Save Lloyd account. 👏 👏 👏 Anyone working to save Lloyd Center mall like it's some Midcentury Modern gem needs their head examined. A glamorous TOD project on that site will do more for that historic (lowercase H) district than a mall & sprawling car parking.

These are the types of raised/tabled crossings that I want US cities to start building. They're continuous for people walking and biking instead of continuous for drivers (even if they're raised up).

LOL! LMAO, even.

Seeing that apparently THOUSANDS of people showed up to pay their respects to a retired MAX train tells me that Oregonians are actively yearning for public transit, and politicians that throw their weight behind efforts to not just restore but massively expand service will be handsomely rewarded

This is crazy. Just open-air larceny.

cityobservatory.org/city-of-indu... love the title, love the article. Portland punching above its weight in an indicator that should lead to future success

Picking up trash is such a good way of growing civic solidarity & caring for your neighbors. Portland is what we make it, the Mayor is helping make it a cleaner city on his weekends. Good for him. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

wouldn't mind several orders of magnitude more of this

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

Voting on spy powers at 2am will definitely help with trust in the government!

everything about DOGE was fucking wildly illegal and everyone involved in it should spend time in prison and have their assets seized

I’ll miss Lloyd Center as a core institution of NE Portland. But am so excited for what will come next for this great location w easy transit access We need more low barrier, dense commercial space across the city, as shown by Lloyd Center’s strange and vibrant second life of small biz & popups

"Cyclists are welcome to follow the rules of the road" buddy I've got some bad news for you about the success rate of -drivers- following the rules of the road, but for some reason it's not OK for me to menace them and argue in public forums they shouldn't be allowed out there

Huge news: Portland City Council Unanimously Advances Resolution to Build More Homes in Inner Eastside. Thanks so, so much to everyone who testified, to all who showed up at our rally, and our champions on the city council. portlandneighborswelcome.org/ie4a-resolut...

Density is exciting, not scary 🏗️✨🏙️ Portland’s inner east side won’t look like DC does in these photos, but it WILL look like home or a new job to more Portlanders with Inner Eastside For All. That’s exciting to me.

I lived in the fastest growing zip code in the U.S. for 6 years and guess what. It rocked. I saw a lot of cranes and cool buildings and so many new neighbors! Life rocked! This is my argument in favor of Inner Eastside For All.

Love seeing forward progress on housing solutions in Portland! Councilors Avalos, Green, and Morillo are locked in to fund rent assistance, seed a sustainable social housing acquisition strategy & support affordable housing ecosystem in PDX. Housing champions ✨🏙️🏗️👏

Thank you Councilor Morillo for stressing the importance of _public dollars_ getting spent thru _public processes_ It’s basic good governance and it’s part of why city agencies exist

Obsessed w this from Mayor Wilson! Can our Mayor Wilson compete?

She was granted withholding of removal from India *decades* ago, and had been living and working legally (including for the U.S. government!) ever since. But with third country removals now a real option, TSA shared her data with ICE and they arrested her at the airport on her way to a job.

Utterly bummed I can’t be there tomorrow to cheer on Portland’s newest upzoning plan, but so excited for the incredible potential Inner Eastside for All will unlock for our city!! 🏗️🏙️🤟

Major news organizations including The New York Times and USA Today are blocking the Wayback Machine while using it as a tool for their reporting. Attacks on the Internet Archive jeopardize Internet freedom, free speech, and data integrity.

U.S. World Cup attendees simply wouldn’t be getting the full American experience if they weren’t nickel and dimed at every single opportunity! What’s a $14 convenience fee here and a $80 increase in a train ticket there?

This is a big problem. Lumping together deaths among peds/cyclists and car occupants obscures the extent to which the US fails to protect people outside of cars. Congress & safety advocates should push NHTSA to stop doing it.

Even Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has to deal with drivers parked in the bike lane

More statues of animals. They will never disappoint us as human heroes do.

call me a liberal nationalist but I feel proud to export an American culture of space exploration, multicultural immigrant cuisine, the Black American music tradition, football basketball baseball, NY Jewish comedy, land grant universities, and social libertarianism

Another example of Jim Crow 2.0 smdh apnews.com/article/new-...

A bike crash Monday evening has given me lots of time to reflect on my gratitude for community. From the stranger who took my bike home w her while I was in the hospital, to kind nurses resolving pain, family showing up & coworkers sending flowers 💐🥲❤️‍🩹 So lucky for my community (& health insurance)

Happy Confederate surrender day! This should be a national holiday, and it says a lot that it isn’t.

Just to spell this out… You need ID to vote in Kansas. For most, that means a driver’s license. Kansas has canceled valid licenses of people who’d updated their gender marker. Many of those affected will need new licenses to be able to vote. A new license costs $16. = Poll tax on trans people.

One of the strikes hit the building where I used to live, and another one hit one block over from my current apartment. Both in very normal residential neighborhoods. Israel strikes central Beirut without warning after saying Iran ceasefire doesn't apply there: apnews.com/article/isra...

This is the value of a functioning, responsive 311 system. Instilling civic confidence and even pride when done right! No task too small to take care of a beloved city. Can Portland replicate at smaller scale?

Ever wonder how to get rid of a mattress? Or how to find resources for a neighbor in need? Call 311.    311 is contacted 100,000 times every day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. No call is too small.    So on the anniversary of 311 (3/11), I decided to answer some of those calls myself.

Gotta make these for real

FWIW "Impeach The President" remains a banger youtu.be/wqbEsS5kFb8?...

it's never "meet the liberals pushing for nuremberg 2.0" is it?

Turns out covering up for pedophiles isn't a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0

We should rebuild the good parts of the midcentury American economy with the green energy transition and space exploration filling the role of WWII industrial mobilization / Cold War political economy send post

New idea: let’s launch him to the moon and leave him there

Nobody is doing civic engagement like this guy. 🔥🔥🔥

Until arrest warrants are issued and enforced for attacking, vandalizing and destroying national heritage these rulings are are just baby steps. The bums made the East Wing and White Housewwn look like ground zero with no more authority to do so than Bin Laden had. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

my son is 2. there must be a reckoning for this

NYTimes has spent years breathlessly repeating claims that objecting to the treatment of Palestinians is antisemitic, but when right-wingers say they're “J-pilled,” NYTimes calls this "slang for skepticism of Israeli influence." Where's the "J" in "Israel"? Might that "J" mean something else?

Since the headline is a bit confusing, the NYT is reporting that on the same day we hit the girl's school in Minab, we also sent a missile full of tungsten steel pellets at a girl's volleyball tournament hundreds of miles away in Lamerd. Twenty one dead. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...

I 🐸 you, portland. #NoKings #NoKingsPDX #NoKingsIII #PDX

🚨 THIS JUST IN: With over 100 protests still to come, we can already estimate that at least 8 million people participated in No Kings protests today. That makes No Kings 3 the largest single day of protest in American history. #NoKings

holy shit! for context, this is 2/3rds the ENTIRE population of st. paul, about half the population of minneapolis, or 3.5% (hey, it's that percentage people like!) of the population of the WHOLE FUCKING STATE