they are able to peel back the ACA because its a shitty half measure but if we had gotten real universal healthcare instead no one would dare touch it because literally everybody on all sides would flip out. one more reason why Democratic incrementalism and "pragmatism" is fucking stupid !!!!!

Someone: "You can't haul that on your bike" Cargo bike people:

what we need in PDX is a visionary mayor and council who can compel a systemic pivot across agencies to speed this climate adaptation work up rather than slow it down, to operate from a place of courage rather than risk aversion, and to invest in a unionized city green jobs workforce

I've never watched one of these Tesla Grok videos. Why would someone want this, let alone pay for it? "Football is gay b-t-w," actual words the voice bot emits.

This imagined defense by Cheney ("What I Got Right About the Iraq War") from The Onion in 2023 ought to run as a sidebar to every obit that's published this week: is.gd/mzdB9j

If I can’t even have the greenways to go pick up groceries in the fucking horrible weather, where am I supposed to be???

I don't think there's anything wrong with talking about the state of the housing market as a "market failure" but if you are a skeptical of well functioning markets, as many of us are, here's an alternative: the housing market is working as designed, and we should design it to work differently

if you went back to these 20th century planners and told them their policies have produced a city that's only affordable to high income homeowners they wouldn't respond "oh no, we've distorted market outcomes through overregulation!" they'd understand that their zoning policy was working as expected

I'm not "roadkill," I am hunting down the driver who killed me to ask you why you didn't ride a bike

Last weekend I was biking and a group of teen girls screaming and laughing ran right into the street in front of my bike. I was able to stop because I was going 16 mph on a bike and wasn’t distracted. A lot of kids are going to be acting like those teens today - if you can, please avoid driving.

I can accept that Mayor Wilson feels he has a public mandate to enforce a camping ban, even if I think it’s a waste of money. But it’d just be madness for the city to lose sight of a long-term vision for housing everyone, which has been Hisserich’s main focus

In 2004 I had a big argument with my boss who insisted GWB was Pro Choice and Kerry was against legal abortion (pre smartphone so not easy to disprove). It was eye opening and the lesson stuck with me.

Counterpoint: We should recognize anyone who gets their kid to school via bike is overcoming a system designed to prevent it, and support them, and our disapproval should be focused on those who make the choice to drive.

I'll be here tomorrow. Some thoughts on the settlement. 🧵

Your car is destroying our liveable planet. -Microplastics -Noise pollution -Sedentary lifestyle -Crash injuries & deaths

👴🏻Hey, Mamdani staffer! Why hasn't Mamdani met with me, personally?! 👩🏼Um... He met with you as a group already. We get it. You want to keep rents high and don't want to pay more in taxes. He can't meet you all again one by one. There are over 100 billionaires in NYC. Can y'all like, choose a leader?

Here in Bend, Oregon it's a great day to walk or ride bikes to the #NoKings event. Fossil fuels fuel fascism, along with wrecking the environment and so many other problems

I love that this moment in time wasn’t engineered by business interests; it’s from and of the people. You can’t manufacture that.

Amazing Emergency Naked Ride. Here’s the moment thousands of riders rolled through the protests at the ICE facility and cheers erupted. 😮💯

i wouldn’t bet against Bari Weiss, but i absolutely would oppose her. that so many in our society are so market addled they confuse the difference is much of our problem.

Come out for #BikeBus Fest next Sunday in SF!!! Ride, celebrate & have a chance to win an amazing Woom Bike!! luma.com/BikeBusFest

Representative Hòa Nguyễn passed away this morning surrounded by loved ones after a courageous fight against cancer. She asked that this chapter of her life be remembered through the work of making Oregon a just, equitable, and compassionate place. #orleg #orpol

Tired: getting your shit stolen is expensive Wired: every $1 of fenced or destroyed stolen property spurs $5 of economic activity

#BensonBoone is a class act, he was clearly so into this and having a blast, it made the experience so uplifting and joyful. What a wholesome video, worth a quick watch!

What an unforgettable afternoon with #BensonBoone on the #BikeBus! The energy, the smiles, and the singing made it a ride we'll never forget.

It's now a stakeout to get the rest of my gear. At 34th and Hawthorne.

Someone just stole my bike from outside Tabor space in SE Belmont and 55th, email me if you are it

Did they just scramble a fucking jet?!

Anyone hear whatever that was? Hopefully fireworks?

Not only does this story get a number of basic facts wrong, it doesn’t take time to actually explore why Portlanders elected these folks. Coming in with a pre-baked PDX story to fit a NYT narrative about NYC is harmful, especially at this moment.

Liberal-brained: This $3.8m is a waste of money. Modern monetary theory-pilled: This is a $3.8m stimulus for Oregon. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

This was such an ideological and short sighted move by the board, I still don't understand what they were thinking even after running for school board. So frustrating and easy to foresee.

Trump’s deployment of troops to Portland is a dangerous escalation of authoritarianism. Now is the time to find our own ways of standing up and fighting back to preserve our democracy. Fellow vets: we need you to muster. And those serving: you can refuse an unlawful order as you may receive it.

Moving forward we need to reaffirm a positive vision for our city that, while recognizing the diversity of views on how to build it, provides no space for the politics of zero-sum thinking and centers on raising our living standards from the bottom up.

After fighting zombies all morning, these feral child soldiers, 10 and 12, are heading to the local depot to resupply on MTG booster packs in #wartornportland

also disorienting how our parks are full of people, our streets full of farmers markets, everyone’s hyped up on the ducks game tonight, the Timbers have a match downtown… so much normal quotidian peaceful stuff is happening and the Feds are announcing they’re showing up and willing to shoot people?

Yesterday morning in #warravagedportland

i would again like to remind everyone that NEGATING A FRAME REINFORCES IT "he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality "this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening START WITH WHAT IT IS not what it isn't

I'm nearly through The Deficit Myth and I'm fully MMT-pilled (modern monetary theory). With the federal government taking the opposite approach, I'm wondering if any city/state will step in with its own currency or payment system, like sketched out by @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social for Greece.

We biked 14 miles to breakfast at Slappy Cakes! #BanCars #Pancakes #Breakfast #Vegan

This death was the result of too many guns and not enough gun legislation and a bored young man, as far as I can tell. Democrats should introduce a package of gun regulations on par with Massachusetts gun laws and name it the Charlie Kirk Pro-Life Initiative

Great LTE. Kirk’s shtick was mock listening to a student then picking up on a phrase mentioned by the student then running off one of his stock rants. His patter left no space for honest debate. He was a bully like his hero Limbaugh and his was a radio talk show format at a card table.

A good one for this crowd

A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.

See you on the southeast/sloth route! Join our bike bus anywhere along the way. The rain should be done and the sun coming out just as we're starting.

Not gonna lie the first time I saw "json" was a "json serializer" class in C# and I thought a tech lead at the company Jason Spangler wrote it.

Ok I get it now. These people believe this was genuine debate and argument. But it's not- it's bad faith, it's persuasion not by argument but by deception. They fell for the ruse, hook, line, and sinker.

What the fuck is a groyper

@bikabout.com incredible thread on her School Street

Totally random, but I am almost certain I bought this cargo trailer from this person a couple years ago. It's now intentionally known as it appeared in a @cathytuttle.bsky.social presentation in NL. Small world!