People will be like "bluesky is an echo chamber" and then not engage with people who ask them questions.

Sometimes I encounter people and I think "they wouldn't last a minute in the WinCo behind Clackamas town center"

Budget talks in Portland City Hall have exposed a political chasm between how some city councilors and Mayor Keith Wilson want to address homelessness.

Shot vs chaser. (I don't know if I'm memeing right)

I swear the way people talk about it they want capacity to be determined by what you overheard about someone in a restroom line

Public request: @coachmaxsteele.substack.com I would like to have a text based good faith discussion about your recent substack post and how you view commitment and lack of capacity.

You know, I've been around plenty of people intoxicated or in a mental health crisis and I've never once had the thought "I should take a picture of them to go on the internet"

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it many more times. Don’t like trash around homeless encampments? Supply dumpsters. Easy and less expensive than sweeps and cleanups. Don’t like human excrement on the ground? Supply ports potties. Again, cheaper and easier than cleaning it up later.

Mayor Wilson calling nonprofits to scare them with false information is really good insight into how he plays politics.

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Most interesting piece of this article: The best guess is that people from Maryland are threatening our city.

So apparently the sky is falling because Councilor Morillo wants to move $4.3 million from the camp sweeps budget to… wait for it… housing, food, and community support. Here’s the deal: Portland spends about $17 million a year on the “Impact Reduction Program.”

Democrats, coming off a historic national protest against fascism and a country-wide electoral sweep:

Just leaving these two excerpts here. Completely irrelevant to anything happening

Indeed. The idea that @councilormorillo.bsky.social's amendment is a huge problem is just nutty in this context.

We basically have a split council and the left has to mobilize if we want to win on these crucial issues. The reactionaries with show up foaming at the mouth and councilors on the fence have to see that there is the same or greater energy in favor of funding rent assistance. Organize or lose.

Anyone who says "Wilson has a mandate" needs to reveal where they ranked Rene.

If a procrastinating shit poster like me can submit testimony to redirect funds from sweeps, you can too!

We've created all sorts of rhetorical devices and synonyms to hide people's ideas of "if we hurt this person, they will act how I want them to"

It's always wild when the "I hate Portlands culture" people think they represent Portland.

“They are willing to genocide others but I’m safe probably” It’s the same shit they make fun of republicans for. Leopards and Faces

fuck this

Tonight we're doing what the gov't refuses to do: help our unhoused neighbors by sharing 60 servings of homemade, mouth-watering chili mac! (I hear the secret ingredient is socialism) We rely on donations to feed people Venmo- pdxfeedthestreets Cashapp- FTSPortland #MutualAid #PDX #MutualAidPdx

It’s good to care about people and to try to do what you can to prevent or mitigate their suffering. Literally what is there that is more meaningful than trying to make things better for more people?

Regular reminder that being queer does not mean you have good politics.

Less visible homelessness in downtown Portland doesn’t mean there’s less homelessness in Portland.

They demand prayer in schools but forbid prayer outside of detention facilities

I’ve considered Keith Wilson a less-than-honest actor since he told a mayoral forum that he’d revoke Zenith Energy’s permits if malfeasance was demonstrated, took office, & immediately fast tracked Zenith’s new LUCS after they were fined by DEQ for illegally using infrastructure for fossil fuels.

I do find it fascinating that men think their attention is some type of reward. We literally carry weapons to deter you.

This is absolutely the case. I’ve seen a huge uptick in Buckman/Belmont. Fewer tents or “prepared” shelters but the very improvised beds of people who have had their previous shelter possessions taken or destroyed. You can’t end homelessness without homes.

I watched an interesting TikTok the other day that I want to express some of my thoughts on and how it relates to local (and national politics) And it was about Cthulhu 1/x

"In a time of budget crisis and lack of resources impacting us in Portland and beyond, it's important that we focus on funding what is most valuable to our citizens and our identity: Hurting homeless people and making sure they know we view them as absolute trash that needs to be wiped clean."

Sweeps equal shelter is such an underpants gnome argument.

In the week since Mayor Wilson began enforcing the public camping ban, we are seeing MORE tents in East Portland. Those folks are just being swept into my district. I told the mayor that this is what would happen and asked him to bring extra resources to East PDX to meet the displaced. He did not.

A friend has been trying to rehome her beautiful husky for months and it's come down to the point where she's going to have to surrender her somewhere if she can't find somebody to adopt her 😞

Portland Police Association President Aaron Schmautz must be pretty sad that Trump isn’t allowed to send troops into Portland.

you are so much closer to poverty and homelessness than you ever are to getting "rich". being a dick to poor and unhoused people is disgusting behavior!

The belief that Nazis arise as a consequence of the left’s (fictional) behavior is itself a Nazi ideological frame. Believing this makes you an OG classic 1930s Hitler sympathizer *at best* and an actual ideological Nazi at worst.

I need you all to know that my mother sent me this. 🤣 That is all.

One of my favorite things about people announcing their candidacy for council is the people who signal that they still don't understand how the new election process works. If you're posting on the internet about it, you've had over a year to learn.

Just talked with a professor from France who informed me that they just don’t do evictions in the winter where he’s from and that that’s extremely normal. It would be a BATTLE to get a policy like that in Portland. We’re honestly barbaric in the United States. It’s absurd.

Running on a platform of harming homeless people, getting rid of bottle returns and more cops. Fuck this dude.

We need our politicians to be less reddit and more bluesky. I will not be elaborating.

There's a statement a trump supporter made about him that lives rent free in my brain because I've started to see it everywhere. I don't know the exact words but it was something along the lines of "What he says isn't really what he means, I know what's in his heart and that's what he's saying"

With AI pushing people into harmful behaviors and suicide, there is a non-neligible chance in my mind that I wouldn't be here today if it had existed 20 years ago. I would have been a victim of my own hand. And that's terrifying in a way I don't think I've ever felt before.

Don't forget transcripts for video and audio. These will help blind users and low-vision users, deaf and hard-of-hearing users, people with ADHD, and people with audio-processing disorders. Transcripts also benefit search engines, people in quiet spaces, and people in a hurry.

Down with AI! Bring back the lemonade that kills you!

I've never asked y'all for anything (or if I did I don't remember) so know I'm being a real, real serious rat when I ask this. If you live in Portland. Let the council know you support this. I'll think you're cool and be your friend.