this seems like it’s the case at the far end of 21st ave, those big towers have gone in without much parking, but they’re pretty hopping most of the time

will say I personally am very sanguine about traffic changes. seattle has done a ton of infill similar to what we’re talking about with IE4A and it seems pretty clear that when you build density without requiring parking you end up with growth that’s mostly driven by non car owners

shoutout to councilor kanal for pushing PBOT on planning for increased traffic from inner eastside upzoning: “[car free streets] should be one of the things that gets modeled in the future . . . I would love to see a greater level of imagination”

Put another way, suburbia is built to minimize all interactions with other people, including purely commercial ones, and it's getting worse over time with both the internet and the designs of newer suburbs. Is it any wonder people are lonely?

“We have every branch of the government but They (tm) still control everything. But if you violently lash out at random hard enough, all your dreams will come true. Trust me, America.“

This. They’re “ironic,” but the joke is always punching down. They “don’t care,” but only because the system benefits them in ways they don’t see. They don’t want “politics,” they just want the world to cater to their every whim. I could’ve very easily been this person. We can choose differently

Mission accomplished, time to cash in

After Columbine there was a Buffy episode that was supposed to air that dealt with what appeared to be a school shooting. The themes were similar enough they delayed the episode. In delaying The Savant Apple TV+ is saying that the themes are similar. That Kirk was facilitating an online hate group

if you dont stop calling us nazis we will have the secret police disappear you to a slave labor camp

Charleston quite famously wanted to enforce it's fugitive slave laws in Boston

We had an incredibly well executed recovery post COVID that maintained a high level of employment, quality of life, which firms immediately survived and we could pick up in '22 almost where we were in '19 with real wage gains and people fucking HATED IT and its basically the abyss for me

The superdole was a wild success that the left and populists pretend never happened and no one gave any political credit for and really should have been an early warning sign that deliverism would fail.

I'm struggling to contain my anger over the government's handling of the ICE shooting in Dallas - specifically, the refusal to publicly identify three human beings who were killed or seriously wounded These monsters do everything possible to dehumanize refugees. We can't let them get away with it

gotta remember that no one likes this shit

Hey! Someone figured it out!!

I said for years that the only way to permanently reduce migration to the United States was to destroy the vision that the world had of this country as the land of opportunity. That wasn't a goddam suggestion!

meanwhile on the handbasket:

Kimmel’s defiant return highlights one of the most disturbing dynamics of Trump II, that so many people in positions of leadership are chickenshit frauds who would rather fold in advance than put up anything resembling a fight www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Look at all these stupid countries around the world holding their leaders accountable and acting like the laws apply to everyone evenly. What a bunch of suckers.

normally i don't like these navel gazing regretful-trump-voter hunts but i do think it's interesting that even the dumbest people alive are sick of the sports gambling ads

everybody hates these guys, their ideas are stupid, and you do not have to fall into the trap of assuming trump’s win says anything meaningful about what americans actually want. for instance, americans actually don’t want to ban vaccines. they want this guy banished to a desert island

anti-vax is one the most toxic political positions in america but it hasn't usually been covered like that because one segment of the population where it *is* somewhat popular is among business and media elites.

Some people here love to dismiss ‘sportsball’ but S. African teams being banned from international competition was an important factor in ending Apartheid because it made their crimes real for non-political folk.

Imagine if NPR had actually talked to safe streets advocates for this story and learned how the solutions to drivers killing people is not, in fact, victim blaming

With the Tylenol bullshit I’m reminded that women have always been the scapegoat. Remember, they didn’t burn witches. They burned women. And I have no doubt that some would like to bring that practice back.

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status. He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them. Chuck Schumer has showed us time and time again that he is wholly incapable of understanding and meeting the dangerous moment we are in. It’s time for new (and better) Democratic leadership.

absolutely shocked and disgusted to see France join the club of nations who throw former presidents in jail just because they "committed a bunch of crimes." I'm going to throw up www.wsj.com/world/europe...

i'm sorry, but if you think voters should avoid the consequences of what they voted for, you don't actually believe in democratic accountability: Trump ran on tariffs. They are getting tariffs. Voters will learn that tariffs are bad.

Transparency? Not an important value for the long line of Portland mayors...

Unless and until the Council decides how (whether?!) to do proactive oversight, there's no motivation for the mayor / executive branch to be proactively transparent.

Yiiiiikes. Not a good look for the mayor.

Do you want to screen Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile in your town or city, unlike a cowardly major movie chain? Email us at [email protected]. We'll allow you to screen it for free. Yes, again, this is real.

once again trump’s great political asset is that voters literally do not believe anything he says

This is, without any exaggeration, exactly how Putin and Orbán proceeded — using antisemitism to discredit the idea of civil society and political opposition, and as an excuse to undo the rule of law. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

A group that lobbies far more than any other entity and can get its position generously communicated on any corporate media outlet at any time is not suffering. What's happened is that they were fully dominant before and now they have been demoted a bit in status & are losing their minds about it.

Andrew Hoan makes like $350K a year to alternate between being angry and a poor little baby on propaganda tv news. Half of his salary is paid through Clean and Safe (public money). These people want government to serve them alone.

These people are throwing constant tantrums about their loss of power. Literally showing us how weak they are. No one should reward this shit.

PBA went from strident and making threats to going on KATU (Sinclair) to cry about how unfair everything is for business owners. Embarrassing.

We don't have 500 followers on here, yet. But we're breaking our silence to alert all the cool kids that we'll be screening this as a special late night show on Thursday, Oct. 2. Tickets on sale soon at cstpdx.com.

Forgot one: “Demand that your local leaders build complete networks of sidewalks and protected bike lanes.”

The reason Trump won is that people like this actually refused to believe his own words, substituting their own fanfic Trump instead bsky.app/profile/shar...

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

I think a lot of people jumped on the MAHA train early because "healthier" sounds good, without really knowing what it means, only to find out pretty quickly that this guy wants children to die

I have become more sympathetic to the idea that saying you can’t hold Trump voters morally culpable for Trump regime actions is patronizing. It partakes of an old and to my mind destructive left wing habit: to think of conservative white voters as not quite adults.

imagine a world where politicians said stuff like this about trans health care, too. coz they totally could, from a science perspective

“Male loneliness” is a vague, empirically unfalsifiable Potemkin village of an argument meant to smuggle yet more anti feminism into popular consensus.

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

There's a reason they seem to be mostly targeting women to beat up, and we all know what it is.