You can’t say D’Angelo without “Angel” RIP 😭

Next week City Council will hear a pair of legislation that formally denounces the Trump Administration's attempt to terrorize our city with militarized units, while codifying Sanctuary City status protections. Portlanders have been waiting for a formal expression of City's Council will on this.

LA: we will fight you. Chicago: we will fight you. PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

Noem has with her right-wing social media personalities David Medina, Benny Johnson and Nick Sortor (who was arrested for fighting outside the ICE facility, Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office not pursuing charges). No news conference or opportunity for press to ask questions.

These are the people the Oregon Democrats have been making concessions to with their supermajority.

👀 Multnomah County DA Nathan Vasquez declines to prosecute Nick Sorter after Portland Police arrested the right-wing influencer last Thursday. Two others have been charged.

Update as of 4:30pm Temporary Restraining Order against the feds has been granted. The judge did not find evidence that the military or the guard need to be brought in because the protests in Portland have been relatively calm. Aggression is coming from federal agents and right wing provocateurs

more dillon, less ice

Portlanders - @councilormorillo.bsky.social is bringing back the ordinance to end anti-competitive rental practices including the sale and use of algorithmic devices (add Code Section 30.01.088) >> to the homelessness and housing committee! Sign up to testify here: www.portland.gov/council-cler...

We never need this guy back in a position of power.

Antifa is what we make it

adding metal detectors inside the library downtown in response to a shooting that happened outside the library: an idea so unbelievably stupid that only the portland metro chamber and PPB could come up with it

I was able to visit one of Mayor Wilson's five overnight shelters last week for a snapshot of how these spaces fit into the city's homelessness response. Here's what I saw/heard:

follow for updates: www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Calling Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries “Radical Left Democrats” 🤣😂😭🫠💀

$3.8 MILLION? Are you hecking kidding me www.opb.org/article/2025...

Really excited to have my partner get a paid vacation of unknown length after having to deal with 47’s bs the last nine months.

Today is Orange Shirt Day, when people wear the color to remember the federal Native American boarding school policies that forced thousands of children from their homes. A federal report shows Oregon identifies 10 such schools, but many more went unlisted.

Oregon recently joined 10 other states where people over the age of 65 outnumber children. And homelessness among the state's seniors went up 12% in 2024. With a growing number of baby boomers reaching retirement age, experts anticipate this trend to worsen with an increasingly fragile safety net.

Trump’s deployment of troops to Portland is a dangerous escalation of authoritarianism. Now is the time to find our own ways of standing up and fighting back to preserve our democracy. Fellow vets: we need you to muster. And those serving: you can refuse an unlawful order as you may receive it.

As a former gamer, I cannot overstate how big of a deal this right-wing takeover of Electronic Arts is. Are they going to create video games where they kidnap and dismember journalists like Jamal Khashoggi?

@wweek.com is now featuring AI ads against JVP for not protecting kids at the Central Library. They click through to Partnership for Common Sense Government, who has railed against charter reform and who has gotten most of its funding from the Portland Business Alliance. www.commonsensegovpdx.com

Tell me your secrets for taking time to read a book FOR FUN without guilt. Mind, not textbooks or books for learning or that one for your book club - I’m talking about pure personal enjoyment. Internalized capitalism got me down bad about it 🫩

A total about-face by Metro Chamber and allies, trying to repeal the portrait of Portland crime they drew up during the post-COVID years, when it seemed politically advantageous. Now, the crime narratives are “outdated,” because the people who constructed them decided so. Sleight of hand.

John squeegee ruined my life DiLorenzo

Special shout out to Portland Business Alliance, Jon DiLorenzo, Angela Todd, Vadim Mozyrsky, Rene Gonzalez, and Dan Ryan & co. Along with all the people that live so far out the closest they come to town regularly is the Costco.

“It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.” Assata Shakur

We keep each other safe. If you see ICE or if you know someone who’s been detained, call the PIRC hotline: 1-888-622-1510. Make sure you’re using the CLEAR model (Count, Location, Equipment, Activity, and Report Time) when you call.

What we saw in Vienna is a city where housing is treated as a human right rather than a means to make profit. In Tuesday’s Homelessness and Housing Committee, @councilordunphy.bsky.social, @councilorgreen.bsky.social, and I shared some of our takeaways from the trip.

oh hell yes! The lack of street vendors (and I assume this will apply to parks as well, hopefully??) is a huge barrier to creating vibrant public spaces. We've needed to loosen/define regulations around this for years and I'm so happy to see Green making the effort.

In Vienna there was a dog and sausage stand at every major transit stop! Sometimes falafel and kebabs too. PMC has been all about activating public space for safety, I hope they also support this common sense ordinance to increase space activation and entrepreneurship across the city.

I am finally able to go on little walks, and I am surprised by how agitated I am by the *light* vehicle traffic in my neighborhood. In Vienna, the streets were mainly for pedestrians, bikes, busses, and trains. I joyfully walked over 6 miles a day. Here it’s so clear that it’s just for cars.

Feeling more validated as an OG Ezra Klein hater by the day.

Covid No. 5, nothing like Mambo No. 5

Portland has spent billions on housing, with very little to show for it. Let's stop reinventing the wheel and instead learn from the successes and failures of other cities around the world to create something that actually works for Portland.

idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...

Hi ICE killed a single dad at a traffic stop here on Friday Today they are disappearing people again in broad daylight, they are everywhere If you have any national platform at all Chicago is fucking begging you, please help us

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

Really grateful I have privileges that that allow me to be a total b*tch to US customs officials, because I was, in fact, a total b*tch to them after they told me I could not bring cured Austrian sausages back with me. 60 euro of fine meats gone forever.

Swimming in the Danube was an 11/10. I want Portland to have a beautiful, clean, and police-free waterfront! Would also not mind giving Vienna a run for their money on largest floating trampoline.

Toured Alterlaa today! A housing project that homes over 3000 people with over a 90% happiness rate. There is a shopping mall, multiple rooftop swimming pools, indoor swimming pool, a sports complex, beautiful walking areas, schools, and more. Dream big, friends!

Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).

A social housing complex I was really impressed by in a newer development in Seestadt (NE Vienna). By no means perfect, but…!!! I didn’t get a picture of it but the Elinor-Ostrom-Park is located under the train bridge and has basketball courts, rock walls, gyms and a place to practice biking!

By 8:50 a.m., the outreach volunteers had wrapped up their shifts. And the people the volunteers said hi to were swept by Rapid Response... about 10 min after they passed through. READ THIS WHOLE ARTICLE www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Will do some kind of post-trip summary, but the most fascinating thing I learned was that not only does Vienna have an institution for workers that functions the way any chamber of commerce works (e.g., lobbying resources for all workers), but that they do legal defense for tenants and win.

Supreme Court legalizes racial profiling, a practice that has long since been the reality on the ground. The hoods are off. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/u...

Nobody is “grooming” your kids to be gay or trans but people ARE grooming them to be Nazis.

the other side of this is basically a statement that we have found ourselves in a very poor state bc we’ve have decades of political instability caused by letting a few wealthy families and an associated business lobby run the city for a hundred years.