“Homeless portlanders are our neighbors” is a bad rallying cry of any sort because the honest to god response is just: “yes, that’s the problem.”

The sibling relationship between Seattle and Portland has entered a new era

Cool indoor air quality / HAVC / ASHRAE 241 article for the sickos: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Traffic law enforcement is too important of a public good to be left to the police

One of my more cynical political thoughts is that if the autoworkers union doesn’t fully back the Dems, if they take a trifecta in 2028 they should let Chinese EVs in with no tariffs. Americans yearn for a $14,000 BYD EV

I foolishly commented on the Portland subreddit and now my mentions are filled with people arguing about social housing Impossible to overstate how much ppl think it’s a good idea but have zero trust in the govt. that is, however, a great problem to have. Just gotta rack one win to swing the issue

‘Trump wiggles his way out of this jam easily’ VS “my god he’s obviously a rapist pedophile how can this not be the end for him”

Literally two different people came up to the guy rigging the whale to explode and told him he was using way too much h dynamite. He told both of them to fuck off.

I like The Diplomat because I’m a sucker for political thrillers and dramas, but the central conspiracy is treated *so lightly* when it would literally be casus belli for world war 3

This is correct and is also why Senator Mark Meeks must be run out of Oregon

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

This idea is worse than the Dems just caving and reopening the govt for nothing. It would actively, perhaps wildly, benefit republicans.

I will see a marten in Oregon someday. I don’t pray for much, but I pray for this.

Based on a new filing with the 1st Circuit by blue states describing operational chaos in the SNAP program caused by the extreme bad faith of the Trump Regime, you may want to spend SNAP money now (low confidence). If you are in Wisconsin, you should do so immediately (higher confidence)

Watching people on here get heated as they try to talk about a big idea that’s very cleanly, but not very fully, laid out in a short book, because one of them read the book and the other didn’t. This post is about either communism or abundance.

The Oregon plan of “get this money to people’s Oregon Trail Cards immediately and damn the torpedos” was clearly correct. I don’t think there is a mechanism to claw that back.

$1.4B kicker in Oregon next tax season. Just the single dumbest thing we do. Literally no other state does this!

One thing I’ve “enjoyed” about the shiva tradition this week is the torn black ribbon I’ve been wearing. A lot of people have recognized it. A sign to the world to be gentle with me.

Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix. Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!

OR lawmakers should be paid enough that we don’t need to settle for a “short session” every other year! That’s a bad way to run a government!

AneriCorps was the closest thing we had, it was an amazing program, especially their CCC analog. It enjoyed bipartisan support for decades. Then Trump and the Republicans killed it.

Idk man it just feels like the wheels are gunna fall off this thing soon. It feels like the engines of this plane on fire, we’re on a glide path that’s turning into a dive. And yet the car is still rolling, we’re still airborne??

"We don’t have a youth e-bike problem — we have a youth e-moto problem." Guest opinion from Megan Ramey. bikeportland.org/2025/11/05/o...

I have so little respect for everyone who lives in Vancouver. Just the ultimate freeloaders.

The words “liberal”, “neoliberal”, “leftist”, and “socialist” losing all of their policy and economic intonations and becoming solely in/out-group social signifiers is very bad! It leaves us with a smaller vocabulary and less of an ability to actually talk about policy. Maybe that’s for the birds

If Oregon has a legislative victory next year proportional to Virginia’s today, Democrats would hold 44 seats. This would flip seats in Scappoose, Dallas, Medford, Coos Bay, and Canby.

Tonight was important because the Trump regime has acted as if a 1.5% win gave them the Mandate of Heaven. This was the first election since the presidential, and across the nation people showed up to prove that no such mandate exists. Also because our parks department needed the $

We must run this asshole out of office. There are some things that if you do them, it has to be the end of your career. Or else the entire political infrastructure breaks.

this is the part of my evening posting arc where many of you cringe while i wax on about the political revolution sanders articulated in 2016 and how despite the haters, those 10k+ birdie stadium rallies are now bearing fruit and you know this because the new mayor of NYC is referencing eugene debs

Good speech from council prez re: park levy passage. Honestly? Would Have been a persuasive stump speech 👀

This is 100% a win. Any incoming votes will break more toward yes than no. Gg

PARKS LEVY PASSES

At the parks levy watch party. Mood is hopeful but tense.

Sam Adams/Andrew Cuomo: An entire city blinks a few times and mutters “I thought we already ran this asshole out of town,,,”

genuinely beautiful that new york elected a muslim lefty mayor the same day that dick cheney died

Half an hour till NYC, hour and a half till parks levy, two and a half hours till CA. Whoever said ‘you can’t win them all’ was a pessimist and a loser

MattY: the American right is correct about several things and we should concede that Me: Holy shit! You want to concede on lower taxes? MattY: LOL no...no not those views Me: So....deregulation? MattY: Haha no not those views either Me: Which views, exactly? MattY: Oh, you know the ones

Nationally, and in Oregon, we need a system that allows for more than two parties if we are going to continue to have a democracy. The fact that it’s nearly impossible to do this in America doesn’t make it not true.

What will come will come. If you shit yourself and are vindicated by events, you will still be in the same situation as the people who did not but stinkier.

So Dick Cheney was an evil bastard, he engineered the theft of an election that overturned our democracy, he was the political architect of so much of the evil that Trump is doing, and he has the blood of millions on his hands. The only joy/victory is that today we are here, and he’s not.

best way to contextualize cheney’s death is to purchase and read this book. when i think of dick cheney i will think of the millions of futures snuffed out by him and his friends as they reigned terror upon the world in the name of “freedom.”

I’ve got Election Day jitters. Too many people have texted me to ask about the parks levy for my comfort.

American century of humiliation- baseball edition

Once I hit age 65 I’m gonna start trick or treating again as a bit

As I do every year, I gave out beer to the adults and it fucking crushed

we have four bureaus being consolidated into a single utilities bureau and i have not seen a single one of the councilors even acknowledge this is happening, it is a huge and enormous change in how the city works, but i know what the city council thinks about israel-palestine conflict

Spotted lantern fly

The parks levy and the SDC freeze are, potentially, together some real touch the stove shit. “Hey so not only is the aquatic center/park not gunna be built, but 300 people are getting laid off and also all programs are being paused so we can afford to maintain barebones core functions. Enjoy!”