can we stop pretending The Free Press was "an outlet" and remember that it was a substack? please and thank you. she's done a great job of creating the illusion that she is a journalist who was running a newsroom, but she's an opinion writer with a newsletter, no need to repeat the lies folks.

"The proposal is that two entire lanes of 82nd - northbound and southbound - will be closed to motor vehicles, and the bus lanes will take their place..." - David Tarlow, CFO Washman Carwash Umm. Mr. Tarlow that's not even how the bus lanes would work! "Business access" is in the name. jeezus.

Just thought I'd put these two things side by side to help illustrate a point.

Reno Nevada put their surface running rail line into a trench for $282 million. For the cost of like 1/8th of a mile of I5 widening we could grade separate the line.

Don't break up the massing. Ornament the surface of your plain box with a decoration at the ground floor for the pedestrians, some stuff in the middle, and a fancy cornice molding at the top.

A great way to learn cybersecurity skills is via @hackclub.com's free tutorials with Freecodecamp, created by and for high schoolers for free. www.youtube.com/watch?si=AH_...

ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*

Look I get publishing a broad spectrum of opinions but I already fed them this morning

I'm at the @pnwelcome.bsky.social happy hour, and folks, I do not regret to inform you that we are gonna win.

like, oregon's pension fund has $75M tied up in tesla. it's a small percentage of the total fund, but tesla's also their tenth largest position

Increased ICE activity in North Portland today has led Portland Public Schools to lock exterior doors at César Chávez School and George Middle School, along with other protective measures. Other North Portland schools are monitoring the situation closely.

can we get a @jojopdx.bsky.social special on this?

A side effect of replacing parking spots with trees : now this sloped street has become a favorite place for runners to do their interval training ! Back when it was full of parked cars, you’d never see that.

Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it. It's the story of our time. The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next. www.authoritarian-stack.info

Breaking News: A jury found a man not guilty of assault for throwing a sandwich at a federal agent in Washington.

Last night the city council of Gresham, OR (pop 115k, Oregon's fourth-largest) voted unanimously to repeal costly parking mandates citywide, effective Dec 4. 23 Oregon cities now have zero parking mandates. Join the @parkingreform.org to bring this to your community! (1/2)

*Murray Bookchin noises*

Straight to the Hague

Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.

congrats terrence hayes on your ascension to official portland metro chamber sock puppet hack perennial candidate status

Baltimore just legalized single-stair buildings up to 6 stories and duplexes and even quads in single-family zoned neighborhoods. Abundance, hon www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

Portland is no threat to the Republic... The first sight upon leaving my hotel was a flourishing haberdashery. Portland was the site of very large No Kings protests. And they were constructive and peaceful and very much in the spirit of the rights proclaimed by the Constitution.

THEY USED TO CALL US WOKE NOW THEY CAN CALL US WIDE AWAKES

The democratic socialist future of America will require millions of Leslie Knopes doing the thankless work of the bureaucracy required to provide services to the people. If you think people like her are "neoliberal shills," you're not really a democratic socialist, you're just a cosplayer.

A merry "fuck you" to Dan Ryan in particular tonight. Might I suggest that you touch grass in our lovely parks.

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Bluesky rn

It's possible spending all your time mainlining an algorithmic feed of posts programmed by a drug-addled Nazi who is explicitly trying to influence election outcomes is a poor way to understand reality.

The lesson here may be that Kamala Harris fucked up by not brandishing her Glock at the debate.

Dark woke coming

Sneaking this in before your feeds are flooded with election results. Portland City Council approves lots of legal settlements, but councilors were skeptical of this $6 million agreement — the result of a 2022 lawsuit over Portland’s adherence to the Oregon Bike Bill. What happens next is unclear.

Uh hey guys they invented a new single-stair reform

Did a presentation for a state building officials conference today, and I mentioned some stuff about other countries. The first question was somebody asking me if we can really compare ourselves to other countries’ codes when they don’t take into account and life and safety. Almost a verbatim quote!

This is such a pernicious piece of disinformation I got out of bed to type this thread with a real keyboard. First off I strongly recommend against withdrawing your money from a bank because TikTok told you to. It's a giant waste of your time. Second: don't trust a man that drinks blue Gatorade Zero

From an Egis presentation at CUTA yesterday about integrating bike infras and trams. The French do multi-phase pedestrian crossing, and that's why they can have absolute priority and we can't. Also: their TSP philosophy is fundamentally different >>> Paging @florianbonet.bsky.social

Kissinger: “Well, well, well - look who it is.” Rumsfeld: ”Took you long enough.” Epstein: “They’ll let anyone in here!” Cheney: “Good to see you fellas!” Asmodeus, Prince of Worms: “BACK TO WORK”

in q&a, the kelsey's allie cannington mentions they are excited about single stair and elevator reform - and mention how it can help get elevators into smaller projects. wow. cc @edmendoza.bsky.social @stephenjacobsmith.com @markasaurus.bsky.social thekelsey.org/learn-center...

New video: A glacier on Antarctica’s Eastern Peninsula experienced the fastest retreat recorded in modern history—in just two months, nearly 50 percent of the glacier disintegrated. Watch this video to understand what happened. Study by @ciresnews #Antarctica #glaciermelt

I...I have questions for the Slavs

Oh my god

Does anyone know how much money California *could* borrow via bonds if it wanted to? I'm curious about its capacity to fund lightly to moderately subsidized social housing, if the use of funds matters for how much can be borrowed. @aceckhouse.bsky.social @pewilliams.bsky.social

My Detention Facility Fee policy will have a first hearing at the morning Council Session on 11/5. It will be posted tomorrow on the website, and I will repost a link for people to submit written testimony. I also recommend emailing your district Councilors if this is an issue that matters to you.

In addition to Read's suggestion that Sec. 230 shouldn't protect algorithmic content, it also shouldn't protect *paid* content. Platforms should absolutely be able to be held legally responsible for accounts and content they monetize. @wyden.senate.gov

there’s no place like fall at home 🌹

Speaking as someone who thinks Mamdani’s resume is pretty thin, the obvious concern here is that his one opponent has an incredibly extensive resume, which consists of political mismanagement and sexual harassment

Abduction of Proserpina, by Giambologna, 1579 (from the @NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena), 📸 by @nturchiarophoto

Damn, that's a zippy-ass powerchair.

What gets left out in the discussion of e-bikes is how great they are for people like me who weren’t confident on a regular bike. My e-bike gives me so much freedom and it’s so much more fun and convenient than driving! I wish more people had access to safe bikeable infrastructure.

I'm supporting the Parks Levy, and made a donation yesterday to help support late get-out-the-vote efforts like texts and emails. If you can't make time to knock doors, a donation still helps!