It's amazing what it says about income inequality that the math on this proposal actually works.

Another good day for Lori Chavez-DeRemer

INBOX: Oregon Speed Zone Panel will review zone in Deschutes County Me: The what is doing what now?

Prediction: this work session does not make it past the 7th slide

Home to the Portland Sneaker Library and Museum apparently. cc: @zillowgonewild.bsky.social

So, this public meetings law legislation is moving. Passed the House yesterday 47-4, and it already looks like it'll be headed to the Senate floor today. olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2026R1/M...

This is great news in a great North Idaho story

A Council meeting that went waaaay over its time slot that covered maybe half of the work they were scheduled to do. Why? Because work wasn't done in committee, in part because councilors who should have participated in those committee meeting didn't.

Whether she knows it or not, Councilor Avalos is demonstrating this week that the Council needs to *commit* to a committee system like a normal city and that the current system isn't working.

I might have more to say about that lengthy detour into fiasco in the Council meeting just now, but one thing that maybe they can fix when they come back -- I thought that Ordinance was going to have an emergency clause.

Sincere apologies for the screenshot tweets, but buying out leadership is essentially a standing policy in the City of Portland.

Looking forward to seeing @colorcoalition.bsky.social's 2% budget cut proposal to fund the new participatory spending program

ABC FOX Montana reports Ryan Zinke will not seek reelection to the U.S. House. House Democrats are targeting this seat and have already invested heavily in flipping it. A significant retirement: www.montanarightnow.com/elections/co...

Fahey's best tool would be to announce her own massive big money Dem fundraiser - say, on Thursday - to show Diehl how things are going to work now that he's opened the door.

Lori Chavez-DeRemer, even incompetent as a figurehead.

seems bad

Look, if your industry needs to be immune from lawsuits because you decline to adhere to basic industry safety standards, that's a *you* problem. No wonder your insurance rates are sky high.

Just yesterday, I was explaining to Saki that the War Powers Resolution is an empty vessel for Congressional authority over an illegal war, and that U.S. courts would quickly disclaim their jurisdiction anyway. #explainingthingstocats #caturday #warpowers

ICYMI, a huge decision yesterday requiring the feds to obtain a warrant for arrests of immigrants in Oregon. Worth reading to get a feel for the operationalized illegality involved. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

From tariff arguments GORSUCH: What's the reason to accept the notion that Congress can hand off the power to declare war to the President? SAUER: Well, we don't contend that. What if Congress decides it's "tired of this legislating business"? That'd be a "wholesale abdication," Sauer ntoes

I'm preparing to eat more than my low key per capita amount in the upcoming month www.pdxdiningmonth.com

This little corner of the Clean Air Act is so incredibly important to the most front line of frontline communities. Neighborhoods that have already seen more than their share of spills, fires and explosions will now be facing even more risks but with less information and less help.

Checking in on current status of the tariff refund legal industrial complex. Some great shot/chaser stuff today.

I am a (retired) lawyer but a bad and impatient negotiator. When I taught negotiation in a law school class, I admitted as much, noting that as a negotiations student, I was always the first person dropping bombs on North Korea or whatever. The lesson was supposed to be that you can't be doing that.

The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close! New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

This thread, read alongside the moderate vs fight discourse today, should be particularly instructive for Oregon politicos, pundits and enviro practitioners.

The U.S. military used a laser to shoot down a Customs and Border Protection drone, members of Congress said Thursday, and the Federal Aviation Administration responded by closing more airspace near El Paso, Texas. apnews.com/article/mili...

Is everybody okay over at @opb.org?

City Council has enough trouble getting things done as is, but people not doing their homework is just making things much worse. #subtweet

Well, if Trump is suing for $10 billion because of leaked info from the IRS, that means the government is on the hook for about $427 trillion here — more than its total budget over U.S. history. Oh well!

Republicans putting the Trump tax-cuts-for-billionaires on the ballot should be an insane political move in what should be an overwhelming blue wave election. But if anyone could screw it up, it's Oregon Democrats.

MultCo's Elections Division is a strange and difficult management puzzle - enormous pressure, extreme workloads and surged staffing for the weeks on either side of elections, and unforgiving precision required in the planning and preparation work for core staff between elections.

Tariffs have created a whole new U.S. industry, which will support thousands of workers for years to come.

This is simply a lesson in who'd be making these decisions, and what "Clean Energy Fund" criteria they'd be using: The PCEF Committee, using narrow criteria, the Mayor and Council using broad criteria, or the police union using no criteria whatsoever.

This is amazing. There are still six weeks left. cc: @portlandartmuseum.bsky.social

Nightmare PCEF Committee #DeclineToSign

A nice moment toward the end of the final meeting of the Council's Governance Committee yesterday. A knowing fist-bump between the only two members of the Council Presidents Club after successfully guiding the committee through a vote on an amendment to an amendment to an already-amended exhibit.

Multnomah County Animal Services is resuming full operations after a quarantine for a deadly respiratory illness outbreak among dogs in the shelter’s care. https://www.koin.com/local/multnomah-county/multnomah-county-shelter-lifts-quarantine-after-deadly-outbreak-among-dogs/?cid=bluesky_ 

I swear to god ...

Sort of a critical moment for written public comments as a thing. Indiscriminate clicktivism was bad enough, but slop is going to kill them off once and for all.

Watching the hockey game already knowing how it turns out does not make it any less amazing. Like, knowing the keeper is going to make the save almost increases the intrigue.

Budget survey for Multnomah county survey.multco.us/jfe/form/SV_...

Feb 22nd 1980 - Team USA beat USSR in the medal round at the Winter Olympics. 📽️📅 Depicted in Miracle (2004)

The meeting that could've been an email? In Oregon, the email is illegal. Until it's legal for a city councilor to simply send an email to collegues asking if they want to cosponsor a resolution, the state's open meetings law is broken.

Going to put this in the record now: 2030 Winter Olympics curling will be rocked by an AI scandal. Strategy, tactics, shot probabilities etc seem like they'd all be easily calculable and optimizable for elite competitors in advance of every rock.

Every John Waters story/interview is packed with incredible stuff.

Also: did you know that you can donate directly to the Animal Shelter and specify where the money goes? They don't specifically have an enrichment donation, but donating can help animals get adopted more quickly! www.multcopets.org/donate/one-t...

Guys, I regret to inform you that the Multnomah County budget season is officially underway.

Archie pretends to sleep through my explanation of the 3-3-3 Supreme Court split on the major question doctrine in the tariffs case. #explainingthingstocats

Looks like Republicans don't even need to walk out.