He’s already torn down what the Statue of Liberty represents, so why not? www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

My credit card would spontaneously combust if I tried to do this challenge (I can't trust myself in bookstores). But I love the idea: www.portlandbookweek.com/bingo

Have decided to be 85% motivated by spite from here on out. Caffeine will make up the remainder.

TFW a house you’ve admired for decades (biking past it many times a week) goes up for sale and you think, “oh it’s not huge, maybe we could consider it” and IT’S LISTED for $1,050,000. (Says @hortzka.bsky.social, “But I thought Portland was dying?”

This is going to be a forever battle to defend voting rights.

Ye olde Rose Festival Low is about to make its annual appearance:

This was not in the law. CMS chose this. This is how Social Security Disability works. And we have an entire field of law built around helping people navigate that Byzantine bureaucracy. It’s not unusual to take years to access benefits. Lots of sick people are going to lose their health insurance

I can’t believe I went for a walk around the neighborhood on World Bike Day like a chump.

Live every day like it's World Bike Day.

This is truly one of the worst things the court has done — both in terms of legitimacy and in terms of the law — since I have been covering the court.

Lending $620M to a firm tied to Donald Trump Jr. is one of many actions by the Trump administration that have helped companies in which the Trump family holds stakes. But it’s the first contract to be directly linked to White House intervention.

Not at all surprised that the treason fund is dead but they’re keeping the Trump IRS immunity: www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06...

This is so infuriating— consumer choice has been their drumbeat and THIS IS NOT SUPPORTING CONSUMER CHOICE. Signed, a consumer with a 35-year old gas stove that is ready to go away

It’s just this guy, Marco Rubio, and the two worst americans in history running every agency in DC now, huh

So, the administration will spout “consumer choice” ad nauseum but they only support you making the choice THEY approve that will keep fossil fuels burning in your kitchen. It’s nonsense.

They'll need permission to join scientific societies and to subscribe to journals. WTF?

Reading “the art thief” and I am increasingly convinced I want to know much less about this manchild, not more. It’s about to join the #dnf virtual pile.

“For example, any org… adopting what Trump has called “gender ideology,” but which is actually just recognition of the biological and social complexity of sex, gender and sexuality — would be ineligible for future federal research funding and could have their current grants canceled as well.”

The dismantling of USAID has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, 400,000 of them children.

The problem with sneaking out announcements like this late on Friday is the New York Times will report on them on Monday. Cash Back for Replacing a Gas Stove With Electric? Not Anymore. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

Even the executive summary makes me ill... www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

The plan is to literally steal the mail

Not at all surprising, and yet I remain shocked that our society continues to coddle this unreal level of misogyny: www.npr.org/2026/05/27/n...

It’s going to be more than half by next week — and I know because I just did a grocery store pickup this morning and THE ABSOLUTE COST of stuff this week, my god.

We keep saying that our lives are in danger from abortion bans. How much evidence do you need? news.ohsu.edu/2026/05/18/a...

Tifo from @rosecityriveters.org today: We Must Defend Each Other. #BAONPDX #NWSL

NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️

How many women have to suffer or die before our lives are seen as worth saving and we change the laws?

for the tldr peeps - drumpf hired an airbnb co-founder to create spoof/fake versions of 40 fed govt sites that handle things, like voter info, that should not accessible, let alone manipulated or leveraged, by the executive branch. this is a shadow govt op with coup capability hiding in plain sight.

This is so disappointing. I’ll never stop supporting OPB but I’m in fear of what is happening at NPR News.

1. Lead Left, a super PAC created on 4/24, purports to stand "against MAGA extremists." It has spent $3M+ in Democratic primaries. But it's funders and motivations have been secret. Until now. It's a GOP dirty tricks operation. 🧵

“.. four months after its establishment, the board’s financial fund set up by the World Bank has received no money from donors, according to four people familiar with the matter. ‘Zero dollars have been deposited,’ one said.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/5ba3...

In Aug 2026, working people across Portland will wake up and head to a transit station for a bus or train that will never come. We are calling on community members to attend tomorrow’s Trimet board meeting and urge them to use $11m from their contingency fund to delay transit cuts for 1 year.

Ahem, Portland. Take an idea from Montreal:

helluva time for the oregon legislature to decide to defund trimet and force the agency to cut transit service

I have maybe a little garden this year!

A Trump-appointed US Attorney with no experience told grand jurors they'd hear about “bad guys” and “murderers” who “did what you are going to hear about.” He handed them business cards. The cases got tossed—and three days later, he got confirmed. Extraordinary via NYT/Alan Feuer buff.ly/xpnVcJ7

they’re shooting crowd control munitions at crowds that include multiple members of congress, the governor, and a sitting united states senator. they fired pepper balls at the senator. they cannot and will not be reigned in by democracy, whatever’s left of it.

'Gone from public view are links to lists of dozens of “Notable Graves” at Arlington of women and Black and Hispanic service members who are buried in the cemetery...other “Notable Graves” lists remain highlighted on the website, including lists of politicians, athletes and even foreign nationals.'

The blood pressure in this room could move a river off course. #coys

@pdxhistorian.bsky.social update:

Because yeah, he couldn’t have done that.

Uhhhgghhhh. Why is Portland uniquely bad at having functional elevators? I had to use the brakes to slowly bring my 65lb cargo bike down this once and I’ll never do that again.

“.. Elon Musk gleefully boasted about feeding the United States Agency for International Development into a ‘wood chipper.’ “.. An Ebola outbreak in the region in 2018 took nearly two years to contain. .. This time around, we have far less capacity to respond.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/o...

🚨 🚨 🚨 NEW: A shocking @USCIS memo seems to declare that hundreds of thousands of immigrants living in this country and applying for green cards must instead apply for visas abroad; which could MASSIVELY disrupt lives. 🧵 on what we know, and what we don’t.

I'm going to keep complaining about this.

This is one in every 10 Oregonians about to lose their insurer next year:

RFK Jr. is taking backdoor routes to cut preventive healthcare that must be covered under the ACA.

“The delay in confirming the outbreak was in part because samples were taken to the national lab in Kinshasa, Congo, at the wrong temperature. That task previously would have been managed by U.S.A.I.D.”

The New York Times editorial board: “Americans should be cleareyed about what the president is doing. He is taking their money and showering it on criminals.”