Kotek & the OR Dems should give a refund to utility ratepayers who have been gouged for the last 5 years from their inaction (which somewhat ended this session w/ the passage of the Power Act). We paid to subsidize a bunch of data centers everyone hates for some oligarchs & utility execs. Robbery.

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Just saw a teenager wearing a sweatshirt that said “nobody cares work harder” And that made me really sad

The Oregonian’s billionaire stenographer getting dragged by the national experts

I’ve been warning that these deals don’t pencil out in terms of net economic benefits, but the boosters of the deal have dismissed that perhaps because I’m a politician now or perhaps because sports econ isn’t my field. Well, their hubris has now drawn the ire of the sports economists.

Sexual abuse of Palestinian detainees isn't some Kristof hallucination, it's been documented for years. No one is even attempting to refute this stuff, they're basically just saying that the allegations are so severe that they can't be true. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

not only is Jon completely wrong about water rates (clearly hasn’t been paying attention) but misses the entire point: the governor is very unpopular even in her stronghold. i’m not blaming her for the water rates, but if she was savvy she’d pivot immediately to running on lowering these costs

The attempt by @councilorclark.bsky.social to defund a police accountability board approved by over 82% of voters is a disgrace, spitting in the face of the vast majority of Portlanders to make all communities less safe. Let’s support democracy and ensure this fails.

Another Tammy Canvass

I’m a few days late but still

data centers and stadium funding really are starting to feel like areas where centrists are walking into a public opinion buzzsaw

This is Oregon’s project 2025 but even less serious somehow

The PCC faculty union has responded to news of Bennings’s departure: “At a time when students and employees struggle to afford basic needs, and PCC programs are fighting for crumbs under the Fiscal Sustainability Action Plan, this payout is shocking and unacceptable.”

free campaign idea for tina kotek: - do a PR thanking the Prosperity Council for the efforts, but announce you’re going in a different direction and disband it - instead announce that you’re going to end the kicker and strengthen the progressive income tax - announce plan to lower h2o rates in PDX

Join this absolute king 👑 as he pushes us toward victory for Tammy and a huge shot across the bow at the corporate power that runs this state

It’s unacceptable to cut the nearest fire engine to the CEI Hub, particularly as we head into a hot, dry summer. So I’m offering an amendment to chop from the top to restore that and an emergency medical response team.

Reeks of desperation. City council holds all the leverage now.

My God. I keep seeing the Oregonian’s attempts to have snarky clapbacks at me for questioning the billionaire Moda deal and they’re not only so cringe, but they’re getting absolutely decimated in the comments. Like the level of rage about giving a billionaire a handout is unprecedented.

Because PBA/PMC executive salaries draw substantially from City-approved fees on downtown property, including public taxpayer-funded property like Portland City Hall, we are effectively paying them to sue the City

incredibile that a governor who doesn’t even have majority favorability in the Portland area bc she’s courted basically the fiscal policy of Reaganomics, is doubling down on taking away the ability to fund preschool for all.

It’s going to be so funny if the Portland Metro Chamber sues the city for exempting more poor people from the Arts Tax.

I told you guys this months back without the aid of polling and I got a lot of “no ways!” You gotta trust me. I’ve got the gift of second sight.

Reminder that I AM launching these and I need YOUR help so our LEGISLATURE isn’t ABSOLUTE DREGS

Lmao going after estate tax? that's the most republican bullshit i've ever seen. It's brazen, even for a republican-led council.

Governor Kotek empowered a bunch of right wingers to recommend that she cut environmental and climate regulations, slash corporate taxes, and eliminate Preschool for All. Not only do we have to fight Donald Trump, we have to fight our own Democratic Governor’s Republican economic policies.

Big win for the Constitution and Francesca Albanese against the appalling ICC sanctions. "Protecting the freedom of speech is "always" in the public interest."

Look at this absolute trash.

The mayor is out of control

The Oregonian sports guy drawing more and more attention to back room dealing with a billionaire and telling the city’s residents we have no choice but to fully capitulate to his demands is supposed to improve the chances it will happen?

I knocked doors for Tammy Carpenter and I will do it again!

New in red scare news 👇

Ashley Hartmeier-Prigg’s campaign is using the same dirty red scare tactics as the Portland Metro Chamber. She’s bought and sold by the same corporations who want to expand data centers in Washington County.

As someone whose career has been animated by concern for human rights in the counter terror context I fear I had not sufficiently considered human rights in the *counter retail theft* context 😭 Your semi-regular reminder that wage theft costs our economy far way more than retail theft.

Janeen Sollman sucks so badly

hey Oregonian i actually think we should give more a shit about this than reporting bluffs from the elite bsky.app/profile/apne...

Unfortunately, we can't trust the USPS to deliver our ballots, right now, Oregon. Drop them in a ballot box instead. In Multnomah County, they are at all library branches and some other locations. multco.us/info/officia...

Raise taxes on the rich and corporations

We don't need to stop talking about climate. We need to recapture it from the elites and technocrats. Climate affects everyone's lives. Normal people get this.

Wilson is a snake oil salesman who has no rizz. Curled up into a little ball after some mild interaction from Councilor Novick last week.

These data center companies, like all major polluters, lie constantly and only morons + people on the take believe them

This claim has been bullshit from day one, even under the laughable interpretation of the Clean Air Act they were using. but EPAs 2026 NSPS Turbine rule update permanently shut the door on this. and they're doing it anyways. Completely cucked and criminal regulators. An embarrassment

wake up babe, another "Nigel Jaquiss got his hands on internal IBR documents showing they're just making up numbers to justify massive grift, cost overruns and overbuilt freeway expansion" story just dropped

Here’s a sneak preview of my Community Health And Safety amendment to the budget, which cuts over $2M in security for elected representatives and gives that money to CHAT, Portland Street Response, Lunch & Play, and the Office of Violence Prevention. All amendments will be filed on Thursday!

Jessie Burke just quietly fled town and no one has been held accountable for this grift

Can someone more familiar with this explain how much tax payers got hosed? How much did they spend on the building/use of the loan already?

Wait, you can do that?! Just... tax rich people more?! And cut unnecessary police overtime? And then you get to have libraries and schools and parks? And record low crime? And city services that work?

A tech-only agenda for the future of the grid and decarbonization more broadly is an apartheid agenda. Unwillingness to engage with this fact is enabling apartheid. Don't be an apartheid enabler.

TRUMP: “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation. Not even a little bit.” And there you have it, folks

Do people who use BlueSky only talk to other humans on BlueSky? Go talk to people elsewhere! You can just do it! Why are you negging other people about talking to each other here! You don't have to take a crowd of people with you to interact with humans in another place!

going back to not knowing or caring who Bill Oram is