The Portland Planning Commission just voted 6-2 to adopt code provisions that would legalize tall, thin residential buildings on many more sites in the Central City. efiles.portlandoregon.gov/record/17793...

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I think a lot about how there's two concurrent visions of America that are dueling: one that's progressive and universalist and one that's reactionary and insular. Both of these speeches happening within hours feels like the clearest manifestation of this.

Arguing that bringing Walmart into the Lloyd Center can rejuvenate it is certainly a choice.

FYI if you’re planning on speaking at the lloyd center hearing tomorrow:

The Lloyd Center redevelopment represents a great opportunity to bring life to the neighborhood and meet Portland's housing, transit, and climate goals. To abandon a vision of thousands of homes in a mixed use, transit rich district in favor of a soon to be vacant site would be a profound mistake.

For me just spitballing, this proved to be remarkably accurate wrt Measure 120. I'm still not 100% certain how much one or the other influenced the result. My gut instinct says more the latter, but also its hard to rally support given how much was cut.

Social democratic means to democratic socialist ends.

cityobservatory.org/city-of-indu... love the title, love the article. Portland punching above its weight in an indicator that should lead to future success

Outstanding work by P:NW and everyone else! We're gonna do so much urban infill.

There's a national media event unveiling our new Amtrak Cascades trains in DC today. Here are some photos for you to enjoy! The Cafe Car is even stocked with our PNW favorites.

The vibe of the Halftime Show

A space for people to live and play right on the river is such a massive improvement compared to how we currently utilize the waterfront. Really excited to see this grow.

Viewing this ultimately as a lazy and uncurious proxy for the NYT's anti-Mamdani arguments goes a long way towards framing the baffling choices that were made in this article.

A major supporter of public transit, González once said highway expansion projects are an, "old way of doing business." bikeportland.org/2025/09/04/j...

Between this and the 13th Ave plaza removal, the NIMBYs in the Pearl have absolute contempt for anyone that isn't them. A wildly unrepresentative cohort who want to freeze everything in amber. They don't speak for the rest of us though. Email [email protected] and give your support.

Do you live in NW Portland and have moral principles? The neighborhood associations are not representative, but that can work in our favor if we organize. DM me 👀

Long term we really need to settle on a sustainable funding source for Trimet if we want to grow the system.

We simply cannot afford a doom loop for TriMet. Reduction in service will lead to a reduction in ridership, leading to declining fares, more cuts, 🔁 The cost will be increased congestion, further deterioration in PBOT assets and of course emissions. We can’t afford that. Call your state reps.

Lots of great tidbits here, but this one stuck out to me. Given the precariousness of state-level transit funding and Trimet's post-2020 timidness, having Portland act as a strong guide for setting regional transit priorities and exploring new revenue sources would be a welcome change.

New Portland Green Loop Concept Plan - Early Engagement Survey survey.alchemer.com/s3/8379827/P...

If so, it would be our equivalent of abolition in the 19th century or decolonization in the 20th: the end of a barbaric and inhumane practice that the world is organized around and, as such, whose end is (at first) almost impossible to imagine and widely believed to be a naive dream.

THIS IS THE HIGHEST URGENCY - a transportation bill could pass Oregon Legislature today that funds only ODOT - no safety, no transit, no cities and counties. Last minute hearing at 3:45 today, please sign up to OPPOSE. olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/M...

My live reaction to finally checking the NYC primary results.

Some of us never lost faith. Some of us knew.

I thought the Center for Public Enterprise wrote something more explicit on the topic, but this covers the gist of it. While I understand dipping into the PCEF as stopgap funding, it's a real waste of the fund to not be more ambitious.

I'd love to see the PCEF turn into or cultivate a municipal green investment bank that can grow these types of projects.

We're going to win.

Lesson 13 of "On Tyranny": Practice corporeal politics. Find your No Kings protest, June 14th.

On the one hand, it's astounding how so many pundits are just reactionary centrists who are parroting elite consensus as the will of the masses. On the other hand, they continue to be the biggest terminally online cry babies in creation.

Regarding the NW 13th Ave plaza removal: my office is engaged on this and actively working to restore these car free spaces. My intention is to pursue a solution in systematic fashion, via code change, because it speaks to broader issues in the struggle for who gets to claim our streets. Stay tuned.

NW 13th Ave is such a better street now than it was pre-COVID. I'm really angry that this is what @pbotinfo.bsky.social wants to return it to.

Portland: we need to revitalize the Central City Also Portland: we must reopen this street to cars

The Chicago Pope implies the existence of a New Keynesian Pope and a Behavioral Pope

Still a long way to go to get MAX ridership to where it should be, but 8% year-on-year growth for Q1 is very positive news.

In honor of Earth Day, I add this new beauty to my Transit Passes of the World collection.

Type of shit I’m on as of late

Our social housing resolution has passed out of committee with a vote of 4 yeas. Really grateful to @counciloravalos.bsky.social for her leadership and partnership on this. Let’s go.

Absolutely. People in the left get nervous about the neoliberal vibes but I think it’s actually be a much needed departure from the actually-existing neoliberal era

THIS is the only proper response in the face of a tyrant's power grab, not rolling over as a contemptuous quisling. Schumer can either get out of the way or be forced out.

Another Pro-Housing Action Alert! PNW Priority Bill 684, to establish a Revolving Fund for Construction Loans for Mixed-Income Housing, gets a hearing in the Senate Housing Committee on Wednesday 3/12 Join us in submitting testimony. #orleg www.portlandneighborswelcome.org/sb684

Illustrations by Attila Hejja, born in Budapest on this day in 1955.

Did the same an hour ago. If we can't expect the feds to do anything remotely beneficial, then we need to push at the local and state level to step up.

My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country. We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one. I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions — but in deference to my obligations.

Anti-Trump demonstrators in Los Angeles have taken over the 101 freeway to protest ICE deportation raids. 🎥 ktla

God bless Cascadian solidarity.

ah, man - i should finish this essay. the point is that dewey and rorty are still undefeated and the progressive narrative of the founding must be maintained, perpetuated, and defended against amero-pessimists and reactionaries alike.