I did not expect this at all. I did not expect anyone to do anything to try and save Trimet service. Thank you Flowers. really.

Portland is home to one of the oldest and largest model railroads in the country. On May 3, the Columbia Gorge Model Railroad Historical Society hosted an open house and allowed the public to view this sprawling creation filled with Portland icons.

Scenes from May Day with Portland DSA!

I wrote a guest blog post for @pdxforall.bsky.social sharing why I'm voting YES on Measure 120 this May. #orpol https://www.portlandforall.org/news/passing-measure-120-would-help-minimize-cuts-to-trimet-transit-agencies-across-oregon

Oh hell yes this is some degrowth I can get behind

Looks like we’re finally getting traffic calming bollards

I will never stop talking about the public meeting where McEnerny-Ogle said that the MAX should use batteries and not wires because said wires looked "Like a 3rd-world country"

Portland struggles with class issues in ways that can be hard to explain to people who haven't lived here. Comments like this one, said during the foie gras hearing this week, underscore exactly what I mean.

Just a little history of the MAC "The club is known for its exclusivity and was historically male-dominated. Women members were not given full voting privileges until 1977. Jews were also not allowed to be a MAC member until 1958."

Live downtown? Your rent paid half of Hoan (red)’s salary as he negotiated the Blazer Bailout.

Two buses, three hours and 13 miles: how Americans in ‘transit deserts’ get groceries without cars

Roughly 2500 people came together today on May 1 to mark International Workers' Day! A coalition of 90 groups organized a community fair, rally, and march to key locations, connecting the struggles of migrants and the struggle of the working class. #WorkersOverBillionaires

130 year old Terra cotta pipe?!? Oh hell yes

New sinkhole just dropped

SOUND UP FOR COUGAR KITTEN PURRS

FRIDAY: “we don’t keep secrets. Let’s make a podcast about how we don’t keep secrets.” WEDNESDAY: “yeah, that was my un-disclosed $43,000 dark money push pull. You got me.”

It’s May Day! Do you know what kind of dirty and underhanded tricks your local ruling class is up to? The Portland Metro Chamber is the gathering place and lobbying arm for Portland’s worst looters and polluters. They protect the bosses, keep the workers exploited, & threaten our environment.

Big news: the governor convened a transportation funding task force and it meets TOMORROW. www.oregon.gov/gov/policies...

Portland DSA Member Kaleigh testifies laying out the professional standards of public identification in healthcare and asks the council to pass a similar standard for police in the Right to Know Who is Policing You. @portlanddsa.bsky.social

Hwa Jeong Kim! They killed it hwajeongkim.com

FRIDAY: “we don’t keep secrets. Let’s make a podcast about how we don’t keep secrets.” WEDNESDAY: “yeah, that was my un-disclosed $43,000 dark money push pull. You got me.”

The “Right to Know Who’s Policing You” ordinance will come before Portland City Council tomorrow. Here is my video with all you need to know:

At my first thorns game and which PBA exec do I see….

Councilor Mitch Green’s reaction to finding out that Mayor Wilson supports Waymo coming to Portland: "My immediate reaction was like, Ew, like who asked for this?" @councilorgreen.bsky.social www.kgw.com/article/news...

Perhaps, in their endorsement of Drazan for governor, @wweek.com should have commented on this evil policy that does nothing and helps no one. Just adults bullying children. www.wweek.com/news/2026/04...

COMRADE WILLAMETTE WEEK ENDORSES TAMMY CARPENTER

Gang behavior

THURSDAY: show up to support this! I talk a lot about transit climate etc but this is such a no brainer.

Reminiscing abt some excellent pandemic-era hysteria. This guy lived in Portland from 2017-2020 (💀), came back and parked a car full of shit in a downtown parking garage, got his window smashed, parked it in a garage AGAIN, lost a Nintendo switch + adult coloring book, & then sobbed abt it to media.

"Waymo has told advocates that expecting it to respect bike lanes is 'too high a bar' because customers expect to be dropped off in them." bsky.app/profile/davi...

“We are gonna do so much vision zero work by putting more cars on the road and depriving public transit of more ridership. This will be so GREEN” -overly internet-ed contrarians

Insiders gonna insider

I wonder if KGW would use this inquisitive puzzle game music to describe someone being shot

this is the funniest thing i've ever read

I’ll be here. This is common sense policy but somehow it will need support to get past our cop union.

For the non-insiders: ‘22 charter change + ‘24 elections scared our ruling class bad. The non-elected holdovers from the old govt circled the wagons. This included hiding 10s of $Ms from the ELECTED council for months, strategizing w/ the mayor to put the $ towards sweeps instead of Social Housing.

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I don't know how WMATA's automation push is going to go--I have been impressed with what I've seen-- but it's a huge deal for US transit. Automation has been a bit of a third rail here and having someone break the ice could be transformative. And obviously potentially painful in some ways.

Batteries ***and wires*** needed.

Watching now!

This is good! But we’ve gotta look into a rebrand from “community transit”.

Who on my TL said Elon had been too quiet this morning…

This earth day, I’d happily donate to enviro orgs who will fight fir transit funding in the Portland area. I love frogs. Car dependence & climate change will squoosh many frogs.

This article was how I found out that [Waz’s opponent] got $10K from the Used Car Dealer who bought Big Pink

Finally someone willing to say it!!

Oh brother.

Update on the Moda Center process: I was recently asked to join a small group of councilors to stay close to the talks as the admin enters negotiation. It was conveyed to me that a condition of being in this group would be a commitment to honor an NDA between the city and the team. I refused. 🧵

I can’t get past the paywall but if I find out where it is I’m going