The US military achieving direct combat objectives versus the US military doing seeming anything else

It’s midnight:07 pm Saturday, and this line 9 is completely full. Don’t ever tell me no one rides transit.

A very sobering realization I've slowly been coming to is that we are much, much closer to global elites pushing for a literal genocide of the working class/global south than we are to them accepting even a milquetoast social democracy in the west. I believe the former will happen in my lifetime.

This picture is so crazy that if you had this as a scene in a made-for-TV dystopian scifi movie in like 2014 people would switch channels because you’d ruined the suspension of disbelief.

Loretta Smith & Wesson

Can the security guards in City Council chambers please not have punisher skills on their vests? Not to curtail free speech, but can we not?

Did Olivia Clark just out Eric Zimmerman as a Swiftie?

From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying. teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...

Grateful for @trimet.org's leadership, and for the community voices who have pushed the agency to prioritize bus service on 82nd Avenue. This is a victory for healthier, more affordable and more equitable neighborhoods in East Portland. https://loom.ly/M0czKOY

The only way to avoid that outcome is to imagine some new funding source that will appear in response to the beauty of the free fares vision, but any such funding source would be better spent on service, regardless of whether the goal is ridership or access to opportunity. 6/

valentine's day coming up tomorrow, please use these responsibly

MAHA: Eating a giant steak cooked in butter alongside beef tallow fries and washing it down with coffee spiked with butter Not MAHA: Clean air, clean water, health insurance, vaccines, disease monitoring, scientific research, food assistance, food safety, bike lanes

May your email never find me. May I sublime onto the next plane of existence without the burden of text comprehension

hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this

“I wonder why Portland’s homelessness crisis is so bad?” Donnie Oliveira with $106M shoved up his ass:

If you live in Forest Grove, please for the love of God run against Susan McClane.

Hitting *the third floor* of an apartment building across the street is more than a mere skill issue.

In a lovely tribute to Catherine O’Hara, one of the tv screens at the Eagle is playing Schitt’s Creek instead of porn

At the heart of every well used US transit system is a piece of infrastructure that was built over 100 years ago that you simply could not build today under any circumstances.

Me when TriMet suggested City Council use PCEF transportation decarbonization money to pay for hydrogen buses on 82nd

Dog (assisting in) driving an old man around. Not very traffic-safety of them, but I'll allow it.

The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE

That goes for what’s happened in Palestine as well. The surveillance technology they tested on Palestinians is now being used against us at home. The imperial boomerang always comes back. The war always comes home. Your fate is bound to mine, and mine to yours.

Strategic masterminds, the OR Democrats, think cutting safety funding for kids trying to get to school is the way to solve our transportation budget woes. Actually, the OPPOSITE is true: red or blue, urban or rural, safety for kids and families around schools is a TOP PRIORITY and BASIC NEED.

Positively shocked that the house magazine of the Manhattan Institute is upset that my book refuses to attribute America's record-high homelessness to "personal choices"—rather than, say, rents outpacing income gains by 325 percent since 1985.

Update: The Netherlands has been hit with tariffs from the US due to the deployment of the two guys.

Any elected leader who thinks ICE in the era of Donald Trump can be fixed with body cameras and "more training" is deeply unserious, lacks commitment to civil and human rights, and should be voted out of office.

The Star Tribune had an insane graphic about the presence of immigration enforcement in Minneapolis. There are more immigration officers in the metro right now than local police officers.

Councilor Ryan says he has to be "a voice for those who are voiceless" on this city council, which is a wild rhetorical position given the Owendoff news that just came out and validated everything we already more or less knew about him

As I was saying… www.portlandmercury.com/news/2026/01...

The Mercury has obtained a series of images of group messages that show racist, sexist, and homophobic tropes used by a local developer and other local conservative political activists during a council president election. Readers may find this content offensive.

“While construction costs are estimated to increase by 68%, the costs for consultants and staff are estimated to increase by 406%. You might call it the “consultant industrial complex.” #orpol #orleg pwlobby.com/up-up-and-aw...

Door to door "papers please" raids by masked and armed agents of the state against the express wishes of local elected officials, but tell me again how we were "overreacting" to call Trump a fascist

I did not have beefing with a genocidal banker on my 2026 bingo, but here we are. Brian, if you're reading this: Free Palestine, and kiss my ass.

If the executive branch can unilaterally cut off federal funding to specific states the union has already been dissolved.

Nathan Vasquez is telling Portland residents he’s cooperating with the feds. Philly DA Larry Krasner told them to get the eff out of Philly. They are not the same.

Less than 400 Venezuelans live in Portland, according to U.S. census data. Elliott Young, a Lat. Am. history professor at Lewis and Clark U who has researched Tren de Aragua in Venezuela, surrounding countries and the U.S., said he has not seen any evidence of the gang’s presence in Portland.

yesterday: confirmed TdA affiliation, agent fired “a defensive shot” today: “suspected” TdA affiliation, no statement about number of shots

Steve Novick being council president would be a really good bit, I won’t lie. Just complete and utter esoteric strangeness.

Activism literally means organizing, advocating, and mobilizing to influence policy and power. If you fight for cops, business interests, property, budgets, or the status quo—you’re an activist too. You’re just advocating for things this system already prioritizes.

just unfathomable grift from the highway lobby and the freeway industrial complex. hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to consultants for four years to propose a simply untenable overbuilt freeway expansion, while the state lays off all the snowplowe workers and cuts transit service.

The WES was built for ~$166M in 2009. That's ~$250M in 2025. The Interstate Rose Quarter project is projected to cost $2 billion, or 8 times what the WES cost. Meanwhile, a WES extension to Salem was killed in committee last year. The problem isn't the money. It's how we choose to spend it.

the real doom loop is service cuts to our transit system. if you cut frequency on an already infrequent system, it’s going to hurt ridership, which will lead to more cuts and fare hikes, which further hurt ridership. all of that of course adds future liabilities to the rest of the transport system

30% of Oregonians cannot or will not be a driver. However, 100% of Oregonians will, at some point, be a pedestrian. Drastic transit cuts--including half of a MAX line--should be a five-alarm fire, but it barely made a dent in the news cycle compared to a 6¢/gallon gas tax increase.

The big difference between centrist and leftist takes on affordability is that centrists are trying to manage a political cycle, while leftists are trying to win the conjuncture—creating a new political order with a fundamentally different political economy.

Billions of dollars to ODOT for continued endless polluting freeway expansions, while TriMet and other transit agencies across the state prepare for massive service cuts. A profound public policy failure of Oregon government. #orpol #orleg

Ppl sometimes tell me to not comment on federal or international news on my personal accounts bc I’m a local elected and I’m like…IM LITERALLY SOITH AMERICAN and I’m HERE bc the U.S. helped install a dictator in Paraguay and ruined our country! And $ spent on bombs is $ not spent on bridges!!

There are, right now while you're reading this, 7 grams of microplastics in your brain, and most of it came from car tires. That's 0.5% of the entire weight of your brain. Is literally car tires. And you convert more of your body to car tires every day.

It's actually important that, to the extent you are able, you stop using oil

Portland City Council member (& veteran) @councilorgreen.bsky.social gives a 🔥 talk connecting the dots between spending on war abroad & the lack of proper funds at home. Shouts out @portlanddsa.bsky.social as well as @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social as sources of inspiration in this perilous moment #PDX