Basically every national story in politics these days is “unqualified person terrible at job, disaster results; person promoted”

Allowing the federal government to deploy tear gas at peaceful protestors, and letting that weapon of war wash over and flow into an apartment building, is bad.

The Ninth Circuit just ruled, again, to allow federal agents to continue to deploy tear gas & chemical munitions in Portland's South Waterfront with no restrictions. BUT the case is NOT OVER! On July 10, the Ninth Circuit is holding oral argument on the underlying appeal.

Tear gas is a threat to public health, public safety, and free speech.

has any man ever been more vindicated? x.com/stuartbuck1/...

Roseline Coffee on NE Davis is one of the loveliest places to meet and work. The smell of roasting coffee is so delightful and their seasonal lemon zazu latte is so chic and summery!! All it could use is a better bike rack situation because I had to lock to a street sign 🚲

Here's just one example of the people who Secretary Rollins claims are "doing better:" www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

This should honestly be illegal

Why is an insurrectionist rioter handling counterterrorism while we’re at war? Or at all?

if you can't take sharp questions from a journalist, don't try to run a fucking newsroom

it is in absolutely everybody’s best interests to develop some hobbies aside from Phone

In 2011, I got a third degree burn from a classroom’s cast iron radiator (original to the 1924 building). PDX voters eventually passed bond measures to fix up literally rotting schools. Grant got its first major reno, voter approved, after 90 years. But the Moda Center needs one @ 30 yrs? ???

Just fascinating to observe differences in how elected officials manage public dollars going to private sports stadiums. Important to note that St. Louis taxpayers were still paying for the publicly funded stadium for the Rams until 2022… *6 yrs* after the Rams moved to LA.

What if the president did things to help Americans instead of making everything worse all the time. That could be good

The U.S. government handed a 3-year-old to an abuser to torture him to death, and then his mother was allotted one hour for his funeral.

Throwing one more story into the "Is AI going to replace all jobs?" folder. finance.yahoo.com/sectors/tech...

It's not like the light rail component that was designed was truly exceptional, but it's notable that the transit component is what is on the chopping block and not any effort to rightsize the massive five mile freeway expansion with massive new interchanges

restricting the most critical crossing in our entire regional transit system for a few hours to let the big military boats ominously dock in our front yard for a weekend feels less and less charming every year

Happy Pride 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✨💘 Trans lives are precious and sacred. Queer people nationwide are under threat by fascists who want control and conformity. We will outlive them. We cannot be erased. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

As horrifying as this campaign of premeditated murder is, what might be even more disturbing is the utter indifference of Congress, the public and our allies to such a shocking and unapologetic obliteration of the many laws and norms against targeting civilians. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/w...

I consider it a violation of my personal human rights to have to look at an ad at basically any time

Justice starts with Bovino in jail.

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Every single person who had anything to do with setting up this site for the Trump regime is a racist piece of shit who should be shunned and denied government employment forever.

Called this back in October

if you’re being impacted by or mad about service cuts it’s really important to specifically tell your state legislators about it. doesn’t hurt to complain to trimet, city councilors, etc but the legislature has the power here and they need to know people are mad. tell your friends too!

The Portland Metro must fund shelter bc it’s inhumane to leave our neighbors out in the elements. AND, expanding shelters will not resolve homelessness! Expanding shelter does not fix the underlying economic forces preventing folks from getting & staying housed www.streetroots.org/news-stories...

Trump is threatening to bomb friendly countries now. This is madness on a global scale, courtesy of the Republican Party.

This is textbook racism. As in, this is an example that an elementary teacher might use to explain racism to a child: "If someone says all members of a particular race are stupid, that's racism, kids." Any news outlets that uses any word for this except racism is not reporting the truth.

Routle - TriMet 05/27/2026 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩 ⬛ www.routle.city/trimet

A decade ago, analysts were calling Spain a cautionary tale. Too much solar, too fast! Today, Spain is rapidly on its way to having the cheapest power in Europe. Maybe this time, solar naysayers will learn... haha, jk, they'll just move the goalposts.

I’m always rooting for JT Flowers. His advocacy on behalf of TriMet riders is relentless. When transit cuts service it loses trust w riders and these cuts will be felt so deeply in NE Portland www.instagram.com/reel/DYyXMmk...

helluva time for the oregon legislature to decide to defund trimet and force the agency to cut transit service

Ahem, Portland. Take an idea from Montreal:

A policy advocate who isn’t at least somewhat good at marketing their policies to the public is a *worthless* policy advocate. I feel this should be obvious.

"It will be challenging to pass a [transportation] package that meets our state's basic needs if I'm also expected to raise additional billions of dollars for current and future cost overruns of an oversized highway bridge project." -Oregon Senator Khanh Pham

Irony is dead

Every metropolitan area in the US should be studying congestion pricing now to be ready to implement with a new administration. There is no other tool that so quickly and effectively decreases traffic, increase bus speeds, increases transit ridership, and reduces emissions.

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a disgrace not only to the office of the president but to military families who have lost loved ones

Converting to Catholicism so I can tell my bosses using unregulated AI is against my religion and I will sue them like that cake lady who hated gay people if they make me use it

pretty huge deal that seattle's social housing developer is going to build more units than portland's housing bond (1800 vs 1300) while capitalizing a revolving fund that lets them continue building housing on an ongoing basis www.thestranger.com/news/seattle...

WATCH: On Jan. 31, hundreds of families gathered at an ICE facility in Portland, Oregon, to protest immigration enforcement. We spoke with two brothers, ages 11 and 15, who attended the protest and described being tear-gassed firsthand.

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The NYT sees itself not as a defender of journalistic principles or a champion of democratic values, but rather a theater critic for political actors. There are no real-world consequences here, no pain or suffering for the common people who aren't in their social circles. It's just a parlor game

There are a hundred "Is Mamdani Being Insensitive to Jews By Acknowledging that Palestinians Are Human?" stories in outlets like the NY Times, meanwhile multiple Republican politicians LITERALLY say that all Muslims are terrorists who should be expelled from the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/n...

The Arlington National Cemetery Memorial apparently has deleted references and information on everyone interred there who wasn’t a white straight man from their database - attempting to sweep their existence under the rug. My thoughts on this obscenity cannot legally be shared on this platform.

Palestinians deserve so much better than Israeli incursions, violence, and ethnic cleansing. This is fascism. It’s so abominable that U.S. policy is to turn a completely blind eye, even to support this. Unacceptable

Investing in “things that provide dignity” is the heart of Portland. Thank you @councilorgreen.bsky.social for recognizing the worth of all Portlanders, more of whom will have showers and healthcare access because of your work today. It’s just the neighborly thing to do.

It is a 10/10 experience to have a city councilor actively improving our data privacy on the city level. THANK YOU @councilormorillo.bsky.social for your continued focus on this stuff