“And, here’s the thing: Even if the mythical Portland crime wave happened, and was still happening, there’s absolutely no excuse for the federal government to invade Portland. That’s the message leaders should be stressing.”

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

wizard frog is insane

we all sometimes feel tempted to pin the blame for problems on whatever their causes may be, which is why it's so important to elect representatives who are not swayed by such childish notions

I’m sorry, which is it: are boys in an acute crisis that demands that all the nation’s resources and attention be leveraged toward their improved happiness and status? Or is their natural superiority only obscured by affirmative action for women? You have got to pick one because you can’t have both.

A sex-blind admissions policy at selective universities will not go the way that the Trump administration thinks it will.

I so appreciate @phuocerman.bsky.social coverage of the Thorns. I’m happy for Hina but am so sad for the Thorns and for all of Portland. We knew this was going to be a rebuilding year with a lot of transition, but this just feels… bad

Portland will not bend to Trumpism. We will not be shocked into compliance with his overtly racist, and violent attacks on our most vulnerable neighbors. We must get organized and refuse to allow his authoritarianism to be normalized in our city. Use your voice, be smart and safe, and stand strong.

Portlanders are defying Trump by doing what they love most: forming a single file line at the dive bar

Trump has sent the military to occupy portland in a horrifying authoritarian escalation and thankfully willamette week knows the real priority right now is to juice one more story out of the fact that public records laws haven’t updated to reflect our electeds text each other on Microsoft teams

I don’t want to hear anymore “Portland is dying” narrative or vague complaints about “ANTIFA” as the clarion call for action in the city. All of that led to Trump targeting us. Groups like People for Portland, associated right-wing media ecosystem, and political opportunists own this.

I actually do think the question of what comes after persuasion is a difficult and crucial one. It’s something I had to grapple with as a feminist after the failure of Me Too. But that’s a much bigger question than the opinion column form—or the podcast form—really allows people to ask.

Stop in to any of our Portland locations and try our (hopefully) limited time only, all-new Throwing Soup specials! Thanks for supporting Arbyfa

begging democrats to fight right now like portland is as important as jimmy kimmel

This should be getting more press, and imo should be tied in with the failures of the shelter model. These aren't just "mental health" programs, they're case management, wraparound, etc. People are going to lose their housing due to having their case managers laid off.

I love Charlie Jane Anders so fucking much.

nimbys across the city are quaking in fear.

ah yes human trafficking, the concern that is famously only ever raised in good faith

Jesus Christ, I guess Portland nimbys are afraid of hot dogs now?

While I did expect some pushback on my Hot Dog Urbanism ordinance from property owners who lose the veto power they currently enjoy, I did not expect folks to conclude that making it easier to come into legal compliance for street vending *checks notes* is pro human trafficking.

the main divide in portland politics is if you think we have a “livability” crisis resulting from high levels of unsheltered homelessness or a broader housing and cost of living crisis of which unsheltered homelessness is one symptom

If the swifts learned how to zipper merge, they’d get down that chimney a lot faster

Is this the first time in history a sitting Portland City Council member has corked an intersection during a bike ride? Cc: @councilorgreen.bsky.social A group rode/walked to City Hall today ahead of the council discussion on Vision Zero, led by @councilortkl.bsky.social.

Important new research on the impact of zoning on the housing market. Minimum lot size requirements have two main effects: they increase housing costs and contribute to racial segregation. This was somewhat known to housing folks, but this paper matters because it uses advanced methods and data

Broken record territory rapidly approaching, but once again: Homelessness is not a societal inevitability. It's a policy failure. This is a solvable issue with a known solution, even under capitalism, because that solution is less expensive than the current responses. We just don't want to do it.

As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

A byproduct of the weird and honestly kind of racist tendency to think of Black feminism as an undifferentiated mass of virtue, rather than as a diverse, substantive, and internally fractious tradition.

An eloquent image: Setting aside the content under the tarp for a moment, teens were asked to make art expressing what it is like to be a teen, and the end result was a mural wrapped in a tarp by adults. I bet a lot of teens would find this expressive of their experience.

Do you live in NW Portland and have moral principles? The neighborhood associations are not representative, but that can work in our favor if we organize. DM me 👀

The way that people, including some of my colleagues, talk about unhoused people like they’re inherently criminal, deranged, or ill, when we know STATISTICALLY the main cause of homelessness is the cost of housing, comes directly from a fascist and eugenicist mindset against the poor.

wise words @councilordanryan.bsky.social

As a sci fi fan, this is the best piece of media I’ve consumed in a long time.

Yeah

I fucking love Sam Coffey.

There's a lesson here.

you want to do a total rebuild of the democratic party right before the most important midterms in history? do you love this shit? are you high now? do you ever get nervous?

I ran the field program for a (losing) campaign to unseat Julie Parrish in 2016. I was hired by FuturePAC and flown out to DC for DLCC training on how to run field for local races. Nothing that I learned in that experience gives me hope about what happens in Salem.

so fucked up that andor made me lowkey like star wars. at least 5% of my identity was built around never being into star wars

Please read this thread

Each time a remotely progressive candidate wins office in the US, the rich declare they're going to leave town. What do they actually do? Nothing. A 2016 study found only 0.04% of millionaires move in a given year due to tax increases. Rich people talk to feel important. Please properly tax them.

Incredible news! The resolution in support of Portland Street Response passes with robust support in a 10-2 vote! With a recently increased budget, support from @mayorkwilson.bsky.social and the vast majority of the Portland City Council — the future of Portland Street Response is looking bright!

Look, I’ll tell you one thing for sure: Portland’s renaissance will absolutely never come from alienating young people who want to start families in favor of wealthy business interests. It just won’t.

It was always going to take more than 5 years to get PFA up and running. It was always going to take way more than 5 years to really feel the positive effects. I truly don't understand what our legislators expect from things like this and 110...

I wrote my legislators, you should too. This is fucking unreal. I Struggle to understand the cowardice so obviously displayed in this move. In a time when we so desperately need something, anything to believe in.

"The...data from 2024 and the first third of 2025 suggests a strong possibility that the United States will report the lowest murder rate ever recorded, the lowest property rate ever recorded, & the lowest violent crime rate since 1968" - @jeffasher.bsky.social jasher.substack.com/p/its-not-ju...

scrawny 18-year-old about to fall out of an army helicopter over tehran: this is so epic. this is totally sigma, right babe? AI e-girl operated by a balding intelligence officer in virginia: that's right baby, Iran is totally cringe

In the midst of what is objectively a pretty nightmarish moment in our collective reality, there are a few things in the news bringing me real earnest joy. 🧵

Seems to me that the worst possible time to shy away from building a strong social safety net based upon local progressive taxation is when the federal government is doing fascism.