Made a list of various resources, businesses, and orgs providing assistance due to the loss of SNAP funding, only to realize there are already a dozen other lists doing so. Regardless, here's a spreadsheet with 60+ businesses, orgs, and mutual aid-groups stepping up. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social on making public transit accessible: "I think the way that you move around the city, it influences the way in which you see the city. Too often if you're riding around only in a car with tinted windows, the only New Yorker you might see is a reflection of yourself."

In one sense, it doesn't seem to be working. But I do feel seen.

A full house turned out for last week's Gateway Town Hall, co-hosted by @counciloravalos.bsky.social and @councilordunphy.bsky.social. We have your recap, fresh and ready for you: www.eastportlandvoice.org/gateway-join... #eastportland #portlandoregon

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread: I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong. So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

I am praying over my Trailhead Coffee that some video-savvy Portlander will commemorate Noem's visit with a reduxed version of the John Wick opening, in which Noem kills his puppy.

BREAKING: A federal judge blocked President Trump’s call-up of the National Guard for a deployment in Portland, saying his actions were based on false claims and undermined Oregon’s sovereignty.

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries. He said this out loud.

A few other lovers of East Portland and I are starting up a local news source called @eastportlandvoice.bsky.social. We are still warming up, so please subscribe, share, and engage! <3 #eastportland #portlandoregon #localnews

For example, here is an easy breezy medical power of attorney form. This is the person you would choose to make health care decisions if you were unable to articulate them yourself. www.oregon.gov/oha/PH/ABOUT...

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

Dear fellow Portlanders, this is an occasional reminder that I am a notary public and waive all fees as a community service. Love y'all. 💓

IN THE USA… Anderson Cooper: So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them? Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing… www.cbsnews.com/news/100000-...

Unanimous! While I've advised on many resolutions/ordinances, the Vision Zero Resolution was the first one I actually drafted. Awesome community and staff partnership. Stewarded by the incomparable, collaborative leadership of @councilortkl.bsky.social. Remarkable. bikeportland.org/2025/09/18/w...

I refused to placate the bully. Then I refused to placate the institutions who placated the bully. Then I refused to placate the shills who placate the institutions who placate the bully. I'm still standing; the rest are down. Never placate the bully.

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot. one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

Have you taken a moment to comment in support of the Roadless Rule? Now is a good time (due Sept. 19)! Learn more, get sample language, and share your thoughts. Thanks to @orsierraclub.bsky.social, the Oregon Trails Coalition, and many other groups. www.oregontrailscoalition.org/post/roadles...

"In the current environment of fear and uncertainty at NASA, it will be more challenging than ever to elicit dissenting views, making it more difficult than ever to prevent the next human spaceflight tragedy."

Hey, #Portland! A big goal for my project, Stumptown Savings, is to destigmatize talking about cooking, meal planning, and grocery shopping on a budget. It's a conversation worth having, especially for folks on SNAP and fixed incomes.

I lived in NYC during 9/11. Every year, I listen to Rep. Barbara Lee's floor speech as the lone Congressperson to vote against the raw use of military force. Rep. Lee showed us the difference between reaction and response. (1/3)https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/barbaraleeagainstinvasion.htm

Enough is enough. We cannot continue to be a nation that meets gun violence with inaction. This is a public health crisis and we must end this cycle of trauma once and for all. www.cbsnews.com/news/shootin...

Gosh, if only there were a way to get large-scale polluters to pay for the impacts of climate change in Oreg--OH WAIT! @senkhanhpham.bsky.social, Sen. Golden & others championed SB 1187 this year, but it died even after hundreds came to support it. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/04/10/o...

Looking forward to listening to this tonight!

Nothing like menopause plus threatening driving behavior in a shopping plaza (seriously, what do you think you're accomplishing? We're going to the same gym, sugar) to remind me that it's time to pick up that mindfulness practice again.

"Those who don't build must burn." - Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

As Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo put it: "A city where you can get let go of your child's hand"

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath Some costs aren’t costs.

Okay, here we go… First, what and who is the Portland Planning Commission? “The Planning Commission focuses on land use planning, while continuing to advance the policies in Portland’s Comprehensive Plan.” tl;dr: You can learn more and sign up for updates here: www.portland.gov/bps/planning...

A number of people/groups have asked where one can learn about Portland's planning process and what the Planning Commission does. So as your Chair, I'm spending this lovely Thursday summer evening putting together a video playlist from our Planning Commission training from 2023. Coming soon...

Strange, I was told congestion pricing would turn Manhattan into a ghost town

“Fred Meyer closing... it’s the latest data point telling us that we don’t matter out here. It’s hard news. But it doesn’t have to be the end of our story," sez East Portland born/raised @stephrouth.bsky.social.

Do you ever look at your most recent dozen texts and say, my gosh, how did I get so lucky to know these people?

I'm a US citizen and a veteran. But it doesn't matter. No one deserves to be treated this way. It's inhumane and it's wrong. I hope no one goes through what I did. I want to do as much as I can so this doesn't happen to anyone. -George Retes, Unjustly detained on July 10th by ICE

Quorum!! The depth of experience and skills represented on Portland's Planning Commission is really something to behold. Excited to work with our five new (well, four new, Eli thankfully returning) Planning Commissioners starting next week. Go Team. www.portland.gov/bps/planning...

This part. We are not talking about the trend of pharmacy closures and how that impacts lower income neighborhoods. Walmarts, Targets (i know i know, and also...), Krogers, all come with the loss of pharmacies.

The entire plaza is for sale, for the going price of about $45 million. montavilla.net/2025/06/07/g...

If you live near 82nd you know that when the temps climb over 90 degrees, our neighbors face deadly conditions. The good news is we can change this - plant more trees, create more shade, expand cooling in homes and community spaces, check in on vulnerable neighbors. What are your ideas?

To whoever recommended that I read Broad Band by Claire L. Evans (@theuniverse.bsky.social), I can only say THANK YOU. And I'm sorry that I forgot which amazing friend put this book in my path.

This is your occasional reminder that I am a notary public and waive all fees as a community service.

Our history of zoning for loneliness, possible transportation futures, and stock pots as community organizing tools. I had a romp of a time talking with @halbur.bsky.social and Kip Silverman on the latest Progress Portland Podcast episode: progressportland.podbean.com/e/episode-44...

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Exactly this.

This video shows Senator Padilla being forcibly removed and handcuffed by federal agents after he appeared at a press conference of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and started asking questions. Via Senator Padilla’s staff.

Oregon’s lone Republican Congressman, Cliff Bentz, represents more than 705,000 Oregonians — about 16% of the state’s population — who will feel disproportionately the cuts in the Republican tax and spending bill currently being considered by the U.S. Senate. buff.ly/76M0A2T

RELEASE: Jon Schleuss, president of The NewsGuild-CWA, sounds the alarm on police violence against reporters during the LA protests. “We demand that every law enforcement agency open investigations into any officer violating the rights of journalists doing their jobs.” Journalism is NOT a crime.

Large peaceful protest from over the weekend. What doesnt get views on the news is what's actually happening in the majority of places. Peaceful protests that the local police are more than happy to keep safe while occuring. This is what Mayor Karen Bass is calling for to continue.