My only issue with the leaked Peacock texts is that @counciloravalos.bsky.social was not critical enough of Tiana Tozer.

California legalizes life near public transit! Governor Newsom has signed SB 79. My thoughts: humantransit.org/2025/10/cali...

How have I been lately? Never better. I’m focused (failing). In my lane (on my bullshit). Moving in silence (screaming loudly). You aren’t ready for this heat tbh.

As a transit nerd, I had such a great time in Montréal--in large part because of these fantastic user interface features. The 1st is a graphic displayed on platform screens. It relays how full each part of the next upcoming trainset is, allowing riders to disperse and find a less crowded section.

I love my boyfriend

Courtesy of @harebrained.bsky.social

Paris celebrated the opening of its 300th “school street”: landscaped & pedestrianized or semi-pedestrianized blocks situated in front of schools. Most have been completed since 2020.

PPB plane doing its thing over South Waterfront ICE facility.

a whole damn city full of people living their own lives on a perfect autumn afternoon and president brain worms’ authoritarian propaganda machine has manufactured a reason to send in the military to round people up and potentially shoot those protesting our racist deportation goon squad

It's okay to admit it's pretty fucking scary when the most powerful person on earth is threatening state violence against a community you live in and love. In spite of this, I know Portlanders are going to show a lot of courage in the days ahead.

I also hope we don’t forget all the local folks who’ve spent years spreading the “portland is a hellhole” narrative to gain short-term political power and/or social media clout. They provided ammo to the Trump machine. They fed the false narrative and now the chickens are coming home to roost.

In the US, everything that *makes cities work* costs 2-5x what it costs in Europe and Asia. This includes, but is not limited to: -Elevators -Buses -Subways

For what it's worth, here is the Downtown Neighborhood Association's statement from two weeks ago when Trump first started threatening a military occupation of Portland. You can expect a more up-to-date statement from leadership soon.

Continued escalation from Trump this morning. I need to hear a forceful response to this from Gov. Kotek, assuring Oregonians we will not tolerate this level of illegal intimidation. To service-members: remember you do not have to follow an unlawful order such as implied below.

The plan? We get Trump to send in federal troops to Portland, but a high ranking official gets stuck behind a freight train for so long in SE that they convince the Department of Transportation to give us a grant for a comprehensive east side bypass of the Union Pacific rail line

This is literally what the actual "siege" of the auxiliary ICE building looks like

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.

Sure wish we lived in a timeline where a US Senator didn’t have to warn his constituents about the pending arrival of federal agents

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

More people should be talking about this.

Something interesting I noticed while in Astoria this weekend is how the City created accessible sidewalk curb ramps by simply extending them with a blub-out planter, rather than tearing out and completely rebuilding the curb. Very ingenious and frugal. I like it.

I think the biggest challenge we face as progressives is the need to understand that the average American is 2025 is actually a fascist. The social and cultural views espoused by this administration actually are quite popular with the average person.

Regular Xavier: I 🩵 trains Evil Xavier: I think we can fit another general purpose traffic lane on TV highway if we get rid of the sidewalks.

Week Without Driving? I think some of you need to try a Week Without CRUISING first!!! #urbanism #safestreets #transit #numtot #transportation

Today on Burnside, a BMW jumped the curb, plowed across the sidewalk, and careened into the ground floor of the Crystal Ballroom in downtown Portland. Sounds like speed was likely a factor. We need major changes on this roadway immediately. #Portland #downtownportland #pdx #downtown #safestreets

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Opinion | I’ve dedicated my career to promoting free speech on college campuses. Here’s why the murder of a red state college dropout by another red state college dropout means it’s time to fire liberal professors in blue states.

if you want to know how it's going, every journalist in the US is currently running around a highly religiously conservative town trying to figure out if a hated sexual minority is somehow, in any way, related to the shooting of a radio host

Sometime between 1975 and 1990, SE 8th Ave between Morrison and Belmont Streets was removed from the grid and became a parking lot in the middle of this whacky little superblock. I wonder if the City was compensated at all. #Portland #portlandhistory #urbanplanning

no offends if this is you but if you're thinking "this is going to make the right do fascism" they're already there. they blew up a boat with 11 people on it for being immigrants. they're kidnapping US citizens and trying to rendition them to Uganda. do you think we're on a trajectory to peace

This is the messiest resignation letter I've ever seen. heidilueb.com?fbclid=IwdGR...

The US president trafficked & raped underage girls, the evidence is overwhelming, everyone knows it, and this country's elites & institutions are so broken, so insular, so decadent that we can't even bring ourselves to state it clearly, much less do anything about it. Contemptible & pathetic.

New Goose-from-down-the-hall just dropped.

So I'm grumpy that we seem to be once again creating a dynamic in our party where the people who got to the right answer sooner are marginalized for doing so, while people who were wrong get credit for changing their minds once it became obvious they were wrong. (See also NAFTA, Iraq War, Gaza.)

Big Oil donates to his campaign...Trump hands out tax breaks and guts clean energy funding. Fraudsters donate to his Super PAC...Trump hands out pardons. Airlines donate to his inaugural fund...Trump cancels a rule requiring them to refund passengers. Everything is for sale.

I just got back from a wonderful vacation in Montréal with my lovely bf--and have thoughts on its fantastic urbanism! First and foremost--the bike lanes are of supreme quality: they're protected, well-marked, well-drained, and well-used! Here's a photo of one pretty much empty so you see the infra

I choose to believe this black dot represents a new TriMet MAX line that’s only for ghosts: the ⚫️ black line… spooktacular!

Making it illegal to build new homes for yuppies does not keep older homes affordable. Rich people just buy the old homes and build luxurious new homes inside their walls, which drives up the price of housing. I understand that this is unsatisfying to people who want housing for the neediest first.

Instead of bargaining with our union and achieving TAs toward our contracts, Starbucks is back to getting charged with Unfair Labor Practices! Tell Starbucks that TAs are better than ULPs. Sign our No Contract No Coffee pledge! bit.ly/NoContractNoCoffee

According to the Housing and Transport Index, the combined cost of housing and transport as a share of local incomes is actually *higher* in Houston than it is in NYC. Maybe it's the sunbelt that has the affordability crisis?

If PPB & the Mayor want to get more eyes on the street at the I405 underpasses, they should work with ODOT to transfer the land to PPR and build a skate park/pump track/pickleball and tennis courts and shit, maybe even a food cart pod. We have the SDCs, and rent from the pod could go to maintenance.

Being a progressive young person in a neighborhood association is a mindfuck. On the one hand, it’s like “Hell yeah, I’m making a difference in my community. This is the entry level of democracy.” On the other, it’s like “why am I sitting through a 45-minute debate about 12 parking spaces?”

Fascism is here. We are not “getting closer” or “in danger of.” This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over. Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.

i don't like to peddle in doomerism but i simply don't know how to wrap my brain around the profound impacts these cuts will have, how enormously hard it will be to backfill these vital services, and how much needless suffering we will inflict on our most vulnerable www.wweek.com/news/health/...

They are going to burn up billions in taxpayer funded equipment because they don’t want Americans to have access to scientific proof

The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed. Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.

Cities are under attack by most republicans and killing public transportation is their next project 2025 goal.

It’s great that now that Palestine is entirely rubble all our leaders and the surrounding countries have the guts to *whisper* that it’s a genocide and call to stop supplying arms! We can’t ever stop a genocide if it’s only a genocide in hindsight, and you condemned everyone who tried to name it.