Transness is eternal. There will be happy, fulfilled trans people that exist long after each and every one of these fuckers has long since passed. We will fight like hell for each and every one of our living and we will proceed in spiteful joy because unlike them we are building the future.

We don’t get here without the unrestrained transphobia of outlets like The Atlantic and The New York Times or the utter failure of messaging from the Democratic Party. The liberal establishment kicked trans people to the curb and looked away as the bus ran us over.

HOLY SHIT. Shout out to @wrightkatu.bsky.social for digging this up. The Blazers literally CANNOT MOVE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE until 2030. There is literally ZERO rush to sign a deal. Let's put Tom Dundon on a 4-year City option, that way Tom can feel that competitive burn he always talks about.

And whatever you do, don't share this. bsky.app/profile/port...

There are now two competing ordinances to restore services after Portland's budget. One of them once again proposes taking money from police accountability. Ours doesn't. That isn't the only option. It's a choice. Watch the video to hear why I think Portlanders should be paying close attention.

My favorite paragraph was the one about how Loretta Smith and Olivia Clark's attendance might be a government ethics violation. So well written. Gift link: www.oregon.gov/ogec/public-...

www.opb.org/article/2026... Realize why Hoan wants this: brokering a $600 million deal it'll cement him as the most powerful business lobbyist in Oregon. Wilson can claim he saved the Blazers from leaving (white savior bullshit). Kotek linking the arena to the Albina Vision Trust (white savior)

If you missed the City Council Moda Working Session, here are the headline items that came out of it. The biggest discovery: Tom Dundon already owes the city hundreds of millions of dollars due to his responsibility to keep the Arena "first-class". 🤯 www.ripcitynotripoff.com/work-session

Watching the council mtg about Moda. Just to note 🏀 SF’s Chase Center: 100% private money. 🧊 Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena: $1B+ gut-and-rebuild, 100% private. 🔌 LA’s Intuit Dome: $2B+, completely owner-funded.

If you ask our mayor, the ideal Portlander is one that pays their taxes, stays away from City Hall, and shuts their mouth. Your tax money belongs to Keith, and if you believe otherwise you have an angry newsletter coming your way.

I’m unsettled by the Mayor’s newsletter today re: Moda. Rather than acknowledge that there are very real concerns about how this process has unfolded, he chose instead to cast critique as short-sighted and opportunistic in an effort to deflect from the impressive lack of rigor to date on his part.

The results of City of Portland Moda Center funding survey are in: Strong opposition to spending up to $120 million of city dollars on renovations with 56% of respondents being strongly (47%) or somewhat opposed and only 41% being strongly or somewhat supportive. www.mentimeter.com/app/presenta...

Portland Clean Energy Fund money should not benefit the billionaire owner of the Portland Trailblazers.

Posting this on Juneteenth was most certainly intentional.

In Portland we have people who are fiscally conservative but socially liberal, who view themselves as progressives who just happen to always take the most conservative approach when it’s time to act because something something…it’s pragmatic? Good things AREN’T possible is the message kids!

There are white people all over the internet saying shit like “I’m sorry that baby died, but…” and if you’re adding “but” to the end of that sentence then fix your fucking heart because you’re a broken person with no humanity. For fucks sake. White folks are never beating the allegations

Remarkable how Portland’s charter reform has managed to usher in an exciting, dynamic, progressive new generation of civic leaders and their mere presence has accelerated the old guard elected officials and municipal power brokers’ descent into the most foul, revanchist, petty and bitter curmudgeons

Having a colleague talk about defunding police accountability as a precondition to voting yes on the City Budget is one of the more bizarre arguments I've heard in 18 months, and that's saying something.

If you wrongfully signed or were canvassed with lies, tell the SOS at Toll free 1-866-673-VOTE (1-866-673-8683) [email protected]​

The Oregon Secretary of State’s office has opened an investigation into allegations of misconduct against a campaign to divert PCEF funds to police. The state has so far received 28 of these complaints, which allege petitioners are misleading voters about the proposal or its funding source.

The reason cops kill is because the job attracts people who fantasize about murder.

Gang - What the fuck is wrong with people… Groundscore’s bottle redemption is supposed to be moving to ab indoor space and neighbors and shit are trying to stop it. The peoples depot isn’t just for homeless folks. It’s for anyone who wants to redeem cans for cash immediately. I’ve used it.

This idea that councilors should gather behind a literal paywall to talk about the Moda deal with Dundon, to get lobbied out of public view potentially as a quorum, instead of a public meeting is disturbing. That style of access-based lobbying to policy development is over.

Super impressed by @councilorkanal.bsky.social on KATU talking about Moda. This is what good leadership looks like. youtu.be/IrStxLy2M5Y

no obligation for city government to participate in this humiliation ritual and it would be cool if a bunch of people showed up outside the moda center to embarrass these plutocrats on the same day

The “CEO” of the Portland Metro Chamber wants city council to cancel public business to come to its $350 per person fundraiser to meet the billionaire instead. You can’t make this stuff up.

It’s wild how some local media outlets don’t verify things before publishing, or do press releases for the police/conservative elected officials. The left would never get that benefit from corporate media. I saw this so much with the city budget. I wonder if they’re even watching the meetings

When critics cry about PCEF dollars "directed to fund only nonprofits," that's code for them being pissed the money is going to Black and Brown communities, not their white affluent ones. In retaliation, they want PCEF money to buy more cops so they can overpolice said Black and Brown communities.

When critics cry about PCEF dollars "directed to fund only nonprofits," that's code for them being pissed the money is going to Black and Brown communities, not their white affluent ones. In retaliation, they want PCEF money to buy more cops so they can overpolice said Black and Brown communities.

Councilor Pirtle-Guiney is an embarrassment to progressives in Portland.

If I were a cynical political operator, I’d say it’s playing politics to bring the Temu version of an amendment that actually fights for labor so you can save face when you lack the vision and courage to save city jobs and services, but what do I know.

a huge part of my base is the PCEF / environment mvmt. the idea that i’m doing politically expedient things in an election year by *drawing on PCEF interest* to save a number of core services from being gutted, to include saving jobs in … checks notes … PPB is a helluva thing to put on writing.

It is deeply unserious and disingenuous to debate PCEF is a slush fund (it isn't) or has a surplus (it doesn't) as justification for a ballot measure that aims to use PCEF as a slush fund. 🙄 Like the petition canvassers in the Portland streets, this essay is intentionally misleading the public.

Portland City Workers Battle Cuts Jeanette DeCastro of PROTEC 17 and Christopher Gustafson of CPPW unions lay out the chaotic, bad faith and short-sighted elements of the Mayor's proposed budget and the City workers' unions plans to fight the cuts.

When the Oregonian prematurely pronounced the defeat of Tammy Carpenter and Myrna Muñoz, they used it as an opportunity say it shows voters reject the “tax the rich” platform being promoted by the left. Their political project is promoting tax cuts for their advertisers, the wealthy & corporations.

The six moderate councilors and mayor running cover for Urban Alchemy — when they had full knowledge of these facts — is outrageous and scandalous.

Speaking truth to power. 🔥 I saw again this week how hard you fight for your constituents. I'm not in your district, but know that we outside D1 see how your work benefits all Portlanders, too. Thank you, @candaceavalos.bsky.social. I so appreciate you.

Councilors Loretta Smith, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Eric Zimmerman, Dan Ryan, Steve Novick and Olivia Clark voted no. Let's name names

Entirely fair and in-bounds to tell your neighbors that Council’s conservatives (Smith, Ryan, Pirtle-Guiney, Novick, Clark, Zimmerman) intend to take us backwards to the days of Portland’s decline, when the city’s elites sold out its middle class to sell rich tourists on the city’s brand

Portlanders voted for REAL police accountability with over 80% support. Now Clark 1 would take $10 million away from the new oversight system before it’s even fully up and running. 😡 📧 Email Council 🗣️ Testify Monday ❌ Tell them: NO on Clark 1 🛑 Don’t raid police oversight $$$ to fund policing!

To no one's surprise, The Oregonian relying on dog whistle politics with their use of 'professionalism' here. Sounds about white.

📣 Recall Mayor Wilson!

New public records give insight into a Portland city councilor’s idea to sue the city, let the mayor break a tie, and decide the council’s president in January. A longtime labor leader told the Mercury she was “an observer,” but public records starkly contrast her laissez-faire, big tent narrative.

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