Visiting Portland’s parks this summer made easy. Portland Parks & Recreation is offering free shuttle rides to the Oregon Zoo in Washington Park, Pittock Mansion, and three Forest Park trailheads.

The City of Portland makes employer contributions to PERS for all of its employees, and also picks up employee contributions to PERS for Police and Fire employees. So, yeah, our property taxes here in Portland are funding the concentration camps. bsky.app/profile/marc...

Rode a few trails in Tillamook State Forest. I'm sad it took me this long to get into mountain biking, our Oregon wilderness is incredible. #bikesky #mtb

It’s a trick question: buy an ebike

The City Council of Vancouver, WA yesterday voted 6-0 to adopt their new comprehensive plan and zoning code www.columbian.com/news/2026/ju... To say it's ambitious would be an understatement. 1/5

“We are a life-saving agency, it’s our mission – our core mission, to save lives – and we appreciate the fact that bike lanes put people in a safer place and they save lives,” FDNY Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore testified at a Council budget oversight hearing on Monday.

When you live on an ODOT arterial.

A great reminder that we can't solve the climate crisis without completely reorienting land-use policy in this country. Car-dependence is a choice. If you're an environmentalist and you aren't working on supporting urban densification, you're literally and figuratively spinning your wheels.

Two people who were hired to gather signatures for a Portland ballot initiative that would use clean energy funds to hire police say they were trained to mislead the public about the proposal. At least one person has already detailed their concerns about the campaign in a state ethics complaint.

Each year, the Society of Professional Journalists awards newsrooms for their writing, photography, design, audio, video, and magazine journalism. The Mercury is proud to say we took home six awards in all—two first place awards, and four second place. (We’re gonna need to install a new shelf!)

Any discussion about affordability needs to talk loudly about the ongoing costs of car dependency.

We could use a dozen swimming areas on the Willamette.

Nothing transforms a city faster than replacing on-street parking with people-focused space. One change can create room for cafés, trees, walking, cycling, play, and local commerce. Streets should be places to live, not storage lots for cars. #Graz

I’m not exaggerating about the billion thing. This is a $1.55 billion effort. It’s almost all clearly being wasted. They’re redoing every single corner in my neighborhood. They’re all totally fine. Some of the most accessible ramps in the city. www.politico.com/states/new-y...

How it started, how it’s going. 😁

Just a reminder that immigrants inside Delaney Hall are on their ninth day of a hunger and labor strike in protest of inhumane conditions and this was Governor Sherrill’s response last night:

Finally got my Turbo Levo back from the shop and can hit the trails again! I plan to do Rogers Camp Loop next week. 🚵‍♂️

The SpaceX IPO and the flurry of rules-changes around it should really be a bigger scandal. It's not only one of the biggest swindles in human history, it's proof of nearly universal corruption. We are simply ruled by thieves and gangsters.

Say what you will about Malcom Gladwell's analysis, he's a great story teller and this conversation is amazing.

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) said in a yet-to-be-published proposed rule Friday that it’s drawing up plans to radically crack down on mail voting by sending ballots only to voters who are registered with the federal government. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Our democracy in its entirety is at stake right now and we need leaders who recognize that. We must immediately do everything in our power at the state and local level to protect the sanctity of our elections and ensure they are free and fair.

Everything has to change. Everything. Do not settle for politicians who want to go back to "normal." "Normal" was the garbage state of existence that allowed all of this evil to take root and thrive. Everything has to change.

Smart idea. Building financial infrastructure separate from Wall Street can ensure competition and fair markets.

This is nicely put. The machine that subordinates all life to its own algorithm of self-expansion is already operating: It’s called capital. www.newyorker.com/science/anna...

18 months ago I funded @nbrhoodwrkshop.bsky.social to convert a SFH into three units. Today we closed the books on the deal, all three units sold for asking (or more) and I made a 14% return. 1/

LOL indeed, this article is garbage. If you have or know a cat, watch a few YouTube videos on cat bonding. Slow blinking is a superpower.

Tonight! I wish I could go. 😭

Portland Oregon just does not need as many five lane roads as it has. One could even argue it barely needs any.

Don’t let any shenanigans shame you from buying an e-bike. In addition to e-assist, there are bounds of other accommodations that make biking accessible. Everyone is welcome.

The Struggle Against Data Centers in Oregon | Part Three: “The Cost” A five-part series on the data center battle happening in Hillsboro, Oregon. To support my work, please subscribe to my Substack, Last Week in Hell. Everything is free to read/watch (for now at least).

Just spoke with the Oregon Government Ethics Commission. Genuinely Kafkaesque how this all works. A months-long process to determine whether the city violated public meeting laws on an extremely urgent issue. I’ll still go through the process, but damn this is depressing.

Is this a DSA shirt? If so, may I make a modest design suggestion: Add "dang" and then color D from dang, S from shirts and A from always red. @portlanddsa.bsky.social

Helpful infographic from /r/solar on the details of parking lot solar. #solar ☀️ Plant trees.

Planners need to understand how buildings work from the inside, this is ass backwards. The place to get more family-sized units is mid-rise, single-stair apartment buildings on single-family lots.

Uber's COO recently voiced an uncomfortable truth that many in the tech industry are yet to admit. He said while Uber's engineers are consuming massive amounts of AI tokens, it is incredibly difficult to prove that this spending actually benefits the end user or improves the product proportionally

This is the quickest and easiest way to end homelessness in a city. Stop arguing block by block and upzone the entire city. Allow single stair stacked flats everywhere.

I tried to organize a neighborhood party with bouncy castle in our local park last week and the city told me “No inflatables, period.“ Is bouncing more dangerous than riding a bike, for instance?

It’s wild to live in a big swimming pool they’re filling with concrete because they don’t want black people to have anything that’s pretending to be a country

If you own index funds as part of retirement funds or other investments, Elon Musk is about to steal from you www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

Allow food/drink vendors in parks. Take a cut. Why is this so hard to solve? Every European park has kiosks and cafes.

Never underestimate what one person can do by looking at a complex problem clearly and making the case, patiently and logically, for better. @stephenjacobsmith.com So excited to see this registering.

Woof. Ferrari’s Pontiac Aztec.

How many times have you heard, "We could solve all of our problems by just going all-in on nuclear like France?" Meanwhile, "Previous hot summers have halted French nuclear reactors as the temperatures of the river water cooling them rose." Expensive and doesn't work when it's hot? Great!!

The asymmetry here is beautiful.

wake up babe, another "Nigel Jaquiss got his hands on internal IBR documents showing they're just making up numbers to justify massive grift, cost overruns and overbuilt freeway expansion" story just dropped

nominate this one for latest theme ericjoyner.com

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an e- bikes for clunkers policy would pay for itself in spades better public health outcomes better quality of life more money in local communities curbing support for fossil fuel companies' climate arson

i cant believe tom steyer is the first dem politician (that ive seen) to proudly and forcefully make this correct and obvious counter argument to the bigotry but im glad he did