We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Workers at the Department of Education tell me their out of office messages were changed without their consent or knowledge to blame Democrats for the shutdown.

While I *know* all this is really not about efficiency and waste, it’s really the hypocrisy of “America First” up against the fact that we’re arresting & not paying American’s right now but sending $20M to ARGENTINA that is killing me at this moment. And building a fucking ballroom.

So I'm supposed to go wilderness backpacking this weekend. Permit not issued because I wouldn't either if I was a NPS ranger. Plus when "leadership" puts out a nonsensical msg like this on the website... Small potatoes compared to not getting paid, but is it wrong to expect more from my govt?

It's okay, they made sure to make the announcement after the season ticket renewal window ended

National Guard Already Lost at Powell’s Books: tinyurl.com/4mw4n9h2

As a reminder, doing the work necessary to conduct RIFs during a shutdown is illegal

Trump wants the military to shoot people protesting and @opb.org frames it as "both sides". Change it or I cancel my membership.

Many things this man says are scary. This is actually terrifying and I MUST trust that these flag officers will risk their military service to say no.

When people ask for a definition of gas lighting, having authorities call this a war ravaged community is a good definition.

Gonna brave the streets this morning to practice at @bhaktiyogamovement.bsky.social Yoga gives us many tools for Resistance @anjalirao.bsky.social Also didn’t sleep well because of the probable ICE Blackhawk circling downtown/inner SE late into the night. Funny what doesn’t feel safe here.

So many feeling about this. 1) US people are MISERABLE (generalization, but still) and in pain and 2) humans always look for shortcuts and 3) when you’ve repeatedly been told that people have what you desire and are holding it from you, maybe then you would believe there’s a magic sure for your pain

“The president should be removed from office because he is plainly insane.” I mean, there is no war in Portland. There just isn’t. You can’t & won’t avoid reporting this story. But you’ll still find a way to try to report it in a way that gives him the benefit of the doubt. And that’s wrong.

Friend visiting from Wisconsin. "Why was there a huge group of cyclists with lighted bikes riding by downtown? Me, OH, because it's Thursday! Thank you TNR for keeping on keeping on. #pdxbikes

The good news/bad news of living with a bike person is "I'm just gonna go test ride some bikes" and you say "sounds like fun" also very well could mean it's New Bike Day. We'll see when he gets home...

This was from banning trans girls from girls sports. Just so you understand the reality of what's going on here.

They are literally canceling culture

CBS, ABC and Disney should get the full treatment Target got. They are anti-FreeSpeech & openly pro-Fascist. Boycott them. Destroy their bottom line. See how long they can survive just MAGA viewership. Time to put your money where your love of the Constitution is. Do. Not. Support. Them.

Hold on, these are the "we don't have to bake your gay wedding cake" people?

As a pregnant person, I focused on my health & upcoming life changes as I neared birthing my kid. My PhD did not give me the hubris to want to decide when and what vaccines to give my baby. Good research had been done for decades. Those EXPERTS decided for me — that’s how public health works!

Our taxes. Our country. Supporting Israel as it destroys a land and it’s people. How is protesting this controversial. Oh that’s right: our country. Just like ourselves, it’s full of beauty and hope and great pain and destructive power.

Trump has allowed all the horrible, craven, human tendencies out of the shadows and into the government. WE, US taxpayers, literally paid for this.

Legacy media and cable news reduced Trump's aggression against Chicago to a question of whether troops would be sent immediately. When he said he was taking his fascist military spectacle elsewhere, those media players declared the situation over—while waves of federal agents attack our neighbors.

Apropos of, well, today, I've been thinking about the truly vile misogynistic and just mean email we got in Rep Power's office. And also the R rep who was cc'd on one & actually responded back calling out the horribleness of treating *people* in this way. I hope we're not too far past that part.

Just really not looking forward to a day of showing up to work tomorrow with all this swirl in my brain while trying to actually work. It's exhausting. I'm exhausted. How about you?

I think I need a puppy. Right now.

World Suicide Prevention Day. Another school shooting. The murder of Charlie Kirk. At the end of the day— all we have is our humanity and our ability to foster connection. To bring all of it out of the dark. To heal.

Data is my jam. @pbotinfo.bsky.social summer bike counts. Summer's not done yet!

Why yes, I am that Portlander out walking to get lunch getting wet because all their fancy rain gear is at home

Lunch ideas near N side of blumenauer bridge. Go

ICE snipers is just not a thing I want to see ever anywhere

This Whole Thread. FFS

This is such a great thread with concrete examples of 3rd spaces that are for social engagement with physical activity (climbing/swinging) but not ‘sports’.

That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.

Today as I got too-fast passed by a truck with Christian stickers on the back I thought about what I could say if my bicycling legs could catch up to them. "Love thy neighbor as thyself"?

What Danielle said. According to the Yale Budget Lab, the average effective tariff rate in this economy right now is 18.2% Let me put that another way. President Trump has raised taxes on American businesses and consumers by -- on average -- 18.2%

Today at the vet I volunteered to pay for some of the pro bono work they did for a semi- homeless neighbor's cat because I can. That felt good. 1/

Crowd sourcing again: do I have a cold or did anyone else have allergies that flared up in the past week? Regardless I DON'T FEEL GOOD. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Portland peeps, where would you go buy an area rug (large size)?

Summer colds are the worst

When will the USDOT be issuing a "safety warning" to the Texas Department of Transportation, which maintains infrastructure in a state where one person was killed in traffic every two hours in 2024, and one person was injured every *two minutes* for the entire year?

Leslie Glustrom, a biochemist from Colorado, is speaking with a hoarse voice. Wildfire smoke in the state “makes it very difficult for me to speak, so hopefully you will take that as part of the evidence in this record,” she said.

Portland is such a great city. Look at all that tree cover (even though we have places with little tree cover, this is still amazing).

In the past week, the new bike racks I've been advocating for were installed on the corner near the yoga studio. This morning my teacher said that seeing them reminded her that change is possible.

Well shit I'm one of those people who spread misinformation.

"Motorized vehicles create remoteness which they alone can shrink. They create distances for all, and shrink them for only a few." —Ivan Illich 📸 #Brasilia

Very bad news from Costco. One of the groups orchestrating this pressure campaign is Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian Nationalist law firm that is hellbent on reshaping US society. The ADF coalition "now turns its focus to CVS and Walgreens."

4/ So a "PhD-level expert in your pocket" would be push you to think harder and better. It would ask YOU to answer the question with precision and evidence, then poke holes in your answer not by providing pat answers but pushing you to be more sharp and clear. That ... isn't what chatbots do.

I love bluesky for the unvarnished truth I get here, but this is also the same reason I stay away frequently. My cup of unvarnished truth runnith over and I FEEL that I can't take any more.

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said." It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy. I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.