Everything is stupid and dangerous right now, *but* we have an opportunity to make a least one thing less stupid and dangerous. Please submit a comment to the PDX city planners asking them to prevent any further expansion of liquid fuel storage at the CEI Hub and mandate a fuel drawdown. 👇

NEW: After paying for hotel rooms to shelter homeless people, Seattle deliberately left them vacant. By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads.

Portland: Neighbors Welcome urges City Council to reject the proposed camping ban ordinance. Portland must embrace housing first strategies that offer dignity and respect to our most vulnerable neighbors. Let's house all our neighbors, together.

“It was heartbreaking to watch,” said Watson. “Even if you’re not a mother, seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.”

Spider-Man Pointing at Spider-Man Meme

ooookay this is a nightmare???

Your regular reminder that Portland Police Chaplain Clyde Lewis is on the governing board for Her Voice Movement and Don'tMessWithOurKids. He'll be speaking at the extremely anti-LGBTQ+ Christian Nationalist conference at Che Ahn's church next month. Che Ahn is running for governor of California.

Asked this guy how he felt about choking women today as he stared down at us all from the roof. He proudly declared he likes it.

Recently, Mayor Bruce Harrell mocked his challenger Katie Wilson's proposal to fund local media with a democracy voucher-style program as a pointless giveaway to irrelevant "blogs." Losing local news coverage is a tragedy, and elected leaders shouldn't mockingly dismiss proposals that could help.

When people complain about homeless people in parks, libraries, or other public spaces. Remember what the city lawyers argued when trying to legalize a camping ban.

a larger percentage of trans people voted for harris than nearly any other demographic. they told us to settle for her tepid “support” of us and we did. she still stabbed us in the back & threw us under the bus. fuck kamala harris and fuck everyone still blaming trans people for her dogshit campaign

the sheer fucking gall of Dem politicians who now – in September 2025, as the Trump admin is taking away trans ppl's healthcare & passports & baselessly labeling us as "terrorists" – express their "concerns" about trans ppl & sports. they are trying to eradicate us! maybe be "concerned" about that!

The delicious end to the affair. 48 hours of the most august and respectable institutions prostrating themselves over a low rent gutter bigot with a middling podcast and as soon as his death didnt fit the narrative Trump says "RIP to that man, check out my new drapes" humiliation after humiliation

we are having an event! if you want to learn more about jail support, ask questions, get involved, or get some supplies for when you're out there doing jail support then come join us at colonel summers park, 9/28 at 1pm!

There’s no reason to be flying our flags half-staff here in Oregon for unelected MAGA agitator Charlie Kirk for any amount of time, let alone 4 full days, especially when he advocated for Portland to be invaded along with other sanctuary cities & hated LGBTQ @tinakotek.bsky.social @wyden.senate.gov

The Texas A&M firing reveals the core power dynamic at play. The reactionary centrist outrage was reserved for challenges coming from below, criticism from the public, marginalized voices, and activists. They are now silent when the threat comes from above, through the power of the state.

They're folding. Keep the heat on.

Last week, a housed resident attacked multiple homeless neighbors in Northwest Portland, leading to a five-hour standoff with police crisis negotiators. It wasn’t an isolated incident. Oregon leads the nation in violent attacks against the homeless, a National Coalition for the Homeless report says.

since we are doing police abolition discourse again, my view remains that we should be striving for a society where police and prisons are obsolete, and that every step we take should be with that final goal in mind, regardless of whether we ever reach it. that's why i call myself an abolitionist

Running Down the Walls PDX 2025 is coming up! Come out and raise some funds for the ABCF Warchest to support political prisoners. Files available here if you'd like to print and propagate the flyer: 🔗 grafera.zone/archive/illu...

🧵 Last year TSA rolled out facial recognition at some US airports. The TSA is exploring the deployment of Palantir's software platform, Foundry. It’s optional and you should opt out. Bias, misuse & data risk demand vigilance, not complacency. Here’s how and why 1/

how does something like the northwest diverter removal come together? we're still learning some details, but here's a summary of some of the players involved 🧵

When people say that Portland Street Response can or can't do certain things without saying why they can't do them, you can probably find the reasons in the 2 page Letter of Agreement for Portland Street Response on pages 91-92 here in the current PPA Contract. www.portland.gov/bhr/employee...

"We [can't be] sitting here looking for, 'oh, please, please give us things!' No, we're going to fucking take them. This is the thing folks don't realize about trans folks: if you make it so that I can't get access to the things I need to survive, I'm going to find a way to do it."

August 4-5 Multnomah County Courthouse SW 1st My felony trial for assault on police officer charges. Come see the liar cop who fabricates evidence against Indigenous Grandmothers for dealing with chalk on Earth Day 2023.

When people talk about "legitimate concerns" about trans athletes I like to remind them that many sports governing bodies had existing policies based on scientific/medical evidence that were working just fine until a bunch of bigots got mad and forced those organizations to reverse their policies.

ACTION ALERT! The Oregon Transportation Commission votes Thursday to consider pausing the $2,000,000,000+ proposal to double the width and number of freeway lanes for the Rose Quarter Freeway. Join No More Freeways in demanding OTC direct ODOT to pause the expansion: nomorefreewayspdx.com/pauserq/

Update: Court records say the former city council president is charged with conspiracy to impede law enforcement and two counts of assault on an officer. At the time, he was trying to prevent a bus carrying two legal immigrants from leaving to a detention center in Tacoma.

Damon Lamarr Johnson was killed by the Portland Police because he was a Black man with a mental health illness while... trying to clean his apartment but making a mess and singing and eating cake. That's why the police entered his apartment and put their hands on him. Black man with cake.

ICE killed a farm worker in Camarillo yesterday

The hotline is being underutilized this season. Print out a stack of these to post up or hand out at protest locations in Portland— And memorize it if you're going out! Downloads available here ↓ 🔗 grafera.zone/archive/illu...

The 2024 PPB annual STOPS report came out last week. Overall, the police have INCREASED their disproportionate stops of Black and Hispanic people in Portland. The worst offender is the Focused Intervention Team. 46% of their stops were Black people and 21% Hispanic or Latino.

Our worst fears were true. They want to kill Preschool for All, and would rather not deal with the inconvenience of public opinion. No public hearing. This would eliminate the PFA tax by July 2027 and force PFA to meet DELC standards (which are lower than PFA standards - not full day or full week).

call your senators and tell them to kill this absurd amendment www.arcgis.com/apps/instant...

In recent weeks, both actual ICE presence and rumors of ICE presence have increased dramatically in Oregon. Unverified rumors about ICE cause panic in our communities and can take capacity away from responding to true ICE action. Follow the steps in these slides to verify & report ICE in Oregon.

A couple hundred are here at ICE in South Portland. The people from the No King march who drove here seemingly swelled the ranks. The marchers don’t seem to have arrived yet but tear gas is out.

A person who says they’re not affiliated with the No Kings rally organizers gets on the mic and tells the crowd that—when the last marchers cross the bridge—a group will be marching from here to the ICE facility in South Portland

This is Alejandro Orellana, who the FBI arrested for allegedly distributing face shields, or, as many have simply called them, masks. please support Alejandro and Centro OSO in any way you can, even if that is simply wearing a respirator in public spaces in your daily life to normalize PPE.

Protesters have entered the office building where Peter Thiel’s West Hollywood office is located:

The end result of anti homeless rhetoric.

VIDEO: ICE LEAVING Arcadia Hotel earlier today after protestors made noise for HOURS outside the hotel. No arrests were made, police likely inequipped due to DTLA curfew turmoil. IG: psl_losangeles

Good morning PDX. How many places in your neighborhood need cleaning? Your tax dollars are paid for PPB to payrol and clean ICE for ICE. 6-9-25 7:49am Occupy ICE day 3

Folks watching Oregon's law enforcement drone bill SB238 will be interested to see my extensive investigative reporting on Portland Police drone use, work I have done to understand how PDX surveillance policy might affect surveillance tech use.

Update from Freedom Flotilla Coalition Press Officer, Hay Sha Wiya: "The Madleen is currently under assault in international waters. Quadcopters are surrounding the ship, spraying it with a white paint-like substance. Communications are jammed, and disturbing sounds are being played over the radio."

If you think COVID vaccines should continue to be available to all: take 5 min and add your comments at the link below. (Advice for what to say in the linked thread.)

Oregon friends - take this quick one minute action from Move Oregon Forward to send an email to your legislators demanding a safe and sustainable transportation package: secure.everyaction.com/KPE8nOtNdEae...

New investigation: After Oregon invested $20m for drug addiction services, counties spent the funds on prosecutors, sheriffs, police gadgets + cars. I got records revealing how law enforcement used $ meant for treatment, as providers face major cuts + patients are stuck on waiting lists to get help

🚨 Zenith Energy Tells LUBA that LUCS Conditions Are Not Binding and Enforceable 🚨 New court filings by Zenith Energy characterize their many promises to Portland -- such as transitioning away from crude oil and reducing air toxics -- as "self-imposed operational limitations"

Cop City officially opened with a ribbon cutting Tuesday morning. In response, Stop Cop City protesters have hung a “no cop nation” banner off Jackson Street Bridge.

Today, the caucus with a super minority in the lower chamber of the Oregon Legislature released their transportation proposal. I am going to hone in on their plans to drastically cut public transit funding. Their plan is unpopular, bad for Oregon, and acutely bad for rural Oregon. A thread...