Today, BPS staff released their code proposal for making the Critical Energy Infrastructure Hub safer. On first glance, it's pretty good. We didn't get everything we asked for, but the major pieces are present including a prohibition on all new liquid fuel terminals + a mandatory fuel drawdown.

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Vote in stupid online poll

Next Wednesday at City Council: Price fixing ban vote & detention facility impact fee ordinance first reading. Very good things to show up for and support! www.portland.gov/council/agenda

i need all my transit-heads and city-planning-heads to go take this survey the city is doing about fixing the dangerous streets near my house and encourage them to just ludicrously maximize pedestrian and bike safety to the brutal ruinous detriment of cars portland.gov/StarkWashington

Without serious grassroots movement pressure in Portland & (half) of our city council demanding action, I don’t think we’d see Rep. Maxine Dexter as a co-sponsor of this resolution. No matter what corporate media says, your efforts are transforming what is “politically possible” in an enormous way.

Small but important victory in the lawsuit challenging the city’s approval of a land use compatibility statement for Zenith in February.

Well said @councilordunphy.bsky.social

"There is a school of thought that's prominent in city hall... that if everybody is angry, then you're probably doing good politics and I think that's absolutely bullshit." bikeportland.org/2025/11/13/c...

BREAKING: (Gift) New Epstein emails reveal that Epstein claimed he had kompromat on President Trump. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

An underappreciated dynamic: NYPD unions mostly stayed out of the election, and did not endorse Tisch. Though some have called Tisch the NYPD pick, it's not obvious what rank and file or unions want--she was the ruling class pick. This means Zohran's real fight with the NYPD hasn't happened yet.

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Like, this is a damning indictment against every NIMBY in Portland, OR & Vancouver, WA attributing our trash problem with encampments. Our unhoused neighbors are being blamed for the illegal dumping of housed people, because housed people don’t want to pay to dispose of their garbage properly. 👇🏾

Yesterday city officials considered removing funding from a homeless sweeps program, and things got tense. Mayor Wilson rallied ahead of the vote, sparking fear in service providers that their funding could be cut. Providers say they need more notice next time if policy-makers want strong coalition.

One of the news stations showed a “protest” that looked a lot like about 12 well known conservative activists marching one block to city hall

Portland’s Mayor, much of City Council, and many Portlanders spent recent days aligning themselves directly with Trump’s policies towards our precariously housed and homeless neighbors, while rabidly promoting a local extension of it. It’s been utterly disgraceful and profoundly disappointing.

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

any updates on this btw?

I will probably remember him for arming a genocide and mercilessly attacking the student movement that rose up in opposition fwiw

It’s better to live in a world of universal rights and access to services than have our health and well being be at the whims of a small number of investors and (pedo) super rich people

Can’t even imagine what’s in the files they keep trying to block if the ones that they’re releasing includes everything from Trump spending Thanksgiving with a pedophile while he was president to the pedophile was working to broker deals for Israel.

Socialist Mayor Wilson > CEO Mayor Wilson

Katie Wilson has been elected Seattle's next mayor www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

“Sweeps are helping people get shelter” this is literally not true they are on the next block the next day

BREAKING: Rep. Adelita Grijalva signs the Epstein discharge petition, serving as the 218th vote to force the bill to the floor for a full vote of the House.

Landon Thomas Jr of the New York Times got told by Jeffrey Epstein that Trump walked into a glass door bc he was so busy staring at girls in Epstein's house and didn't print it. wild that the Times didn't consider that newsworthy.

As of 9:30 AM today (24 hours before the committee update tomorrow), city staff have not uploaded their materials to the committee website. They know this is a very high interest item and city councilors have repeatedly and strongly urged staff to provide these materials in advance.

In a shocking trove of emails released by House Democrats, Jeffrey Epstein alleged that President Trump “spent hours” at his home with a victim and “knew about the girls.”

We’re already seeing the effects of increased enforcement: camps that have been swept are just moving out to East Portland. Houseless folks need rental assistance, not shelters and sweeps.

NEW: 2020 footage said to be in 2025. A neighbor who keeps reappearing in the same clip, said to be on different days & months. A broadcast from elsewhere suggested as Portland. How Fox News misled its viewership -- which may have included the president. www.propublica.org/article/port...

Big day in Portland politics at city hall today. There's an anti-price fixing ordinance and a fall budget adjustment process that will include amendments about moving $ away from sweeps to rental assistance and support for immigrants and refugees.

This naked attempt by wealthy special interests to steal these funds from low income Portlanders under the guise of “public safety” is ugly and frankly, offensive. #orpol www.wweek.com/news/city/20...

the police union is going to try to raid the Portland Clean Energy Fund via ballot initiative

This feels so deeply unhinged. "Kneecap the neighborhood"? My guy, touch grass, please.

You don't have to wait for the next No Kings rally to get plugged into the radical organizing we do every day. Join DSA now: go.dsausa.org/portland

Sweeps are violence and it really is that simple. If you live in Portland and have a heart in your body please take the time to testify in person/zoom tomorrow or in writing and ask our city council to reroute money away from sweeps, which do not reduce homelessness. www.portland.gov/council-cler...

ACTION ALERT: Join Portland: Neighbors Welcome in submitting testimony to Portland City Council in support of Councilor Morillo's Fall Budget amendment to fund support, not sweeps, for our neighbors. portlandneighborswelcome.org/supportnotsw...

Mayor Wilson's sweeps and shelters aren't working. "Wilson’s overnight shelters have remarkably high vacancy rates. Data collected by the city and shared with Multnomah County show some shelters up to 80% vacant on average night over a recent two-month period." www.opb.org/article/2025...

The Democratic Party does investor owned utility protectionism at your expense

It’s increasingly clear Berkshire’s strategy to keep PacifiCorp solvent in face of wildfire lawsuits is to have its lobbyists pressure state lawmakers into providing liability limits (at ratepayer expense) rather than dipping into Berkshire’s extraordinary profits www.bizjournals.com/portland/new...

The steady flow of small follower anonymous conservative accounts to BlueSky is a sign that these people understand they are losing by only spreading trash in their existing social networks. Also, you don’t need to engage with that. Use that block button.

There are a lot of Portlanders who consider themselves progressive but turn reactionary when they see visible poverty. The urge to just make poverty disappear from sight instead of working toward holistic solutions is why we don’t have nice things in this country. Poverty is a social creation.

I think voters at large will very likely have trouble remembering details of chuck schumer selling out the aca by nov 2026. also I think in the next three months you're gonna see a lot of unlikely folks stopping by the dsa table at various no kings events

I do think this is a point of radicalization because a lot of angry, angry normal people were ready to dig in and suffer a lot in order to make fascists suffer a little, and their resolution was sold out and made into a mockery

I went back and watched this exchange today, and the response to Smith’s questions (from her colleagues and the O) encapsulates something that holds Portland back. It is absolutely insane that the City Administrator, who makes $300K+/yr, couldn’t answer this question. youtu.be/MoMbQ4PMRA4

In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies

Seattle's Mamdani is winning by an absurdly small margin over our incumbent mayor, who once pulled a gun on a pregnant woman in a parking lot. Vote in your local elections! www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...

Most people would melt into a puddle in response a fraction of the harassment and violent threats that Councilor Morillo receives on the regular.

senate brain is a disease, man

Acute and chronic viral infections, including Herpes Zoster (Shingles), Hepatitis C, HIV, CMV, influenza, and SARS-CoV-2, are linked with a substantial increased risk of cardiovascular events, from a systematic review. Figure for SARS-CoV-2 below newsroom.heart.org/news/some-ac...