this is basically portland's version of a haka

In 2016 Hinton predicted that AI would replace all radiologists in five years. Ten years later, why hasn't it happened? This post is a great explainer. www.understandingai.org/p/ai-isnt-re...

Pew finds something that everybody in codes and standards knows but few will say out loud: we apply far stricter fire safety standards to apartments than to houses. www.pew.org/en/research-...

We shouldn’t be declaring victory (plenty still to do) but we should be realizing that real rents in Portland have been flat for 10 years PDX rents are now 7% below the national average

(1/3) With today’s Senate vote, Oregon passed a much-needed transportation package that will mean safer roads & bridges, reliable buses, and stronger accountability for every dollar spent. #ORleg #ORpol oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/09/29/o...

Tireless Mercatus team @salimfurth.bsky.social @ebwhamilton.bsky.social @charlescgardner.bsky.social just dropped 18 (!) strategies for state govts to increase housing supply. Love the ideas to limit "lawsuits of questionable merit" [ahem, Virginia]. www.mercatus.org/research/pol...

In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look" chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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

Huh thehill.com/opinion/camp...

Portland is a welcoming, safe, and inviting city with falling crime rates and a resurgent business community. The success of a proudly progressive city refutes everything Donald Trump stands for. That’s why he is willing to burn the constitution in order to halt it. 5/

I saw the new PT Anderson movie in a crowded theater last night and strongly recommend that experience youtu.be/kQUPdVxZNPk

Surprising to me

Melian Trump “build the Girdle” I’m trying to delete it

I like it. Pretty similar to Portland! My ideal Portland council would have a few at-large members too

Grateful to see my rep on the list!

D.C. folks who care about OR & WA housing might enjoy this @pewtrusts.org event next month. I think we're the only two states that have legalized co-living (aka SROs) in all multifamily zones! If that's a perfect fit for empty office buildings, sweet web.cvent.com/event/eee204...

I’m starting to notice a trend in the polling data… —Top Public Worry: Corruption —Biggest problem in Fed Gov: Corruption —Top fear: Corruption —What one word would you use to describe American government?: “Corrupt” It’s almost like voters are trying to tell us something.

In one week! Join us Thursday, Oct 2, at El Centro De La Raza to ask Sightline senior researcher Shannon Grimes your burning elections questions! Shannon will overview #RankedChoiceVoting, #ProportionalRepresentation, and Seattle's #DemocracyVouchers. Save your spot at: www.sightline.org/hotseat/

After 9 years of not wanting to jump the gun, I started The Hobbit with the kid tonight. I was especially nervous about all the poems. After I got through the second ("far over the Misty Mountains old...") he said "That is such a good poem! Poems are so great." Yes they are lil dude. 💔

We're rallying TOMORROW for more homes for Portlanders in our most opportunity rich neighborhoods!

“The fallout from Mr. Kimmel’s remarks engulfed the normally sleepy world of TV affiliates in a thorny national debate…” - bro who has never set foot in a local TV station www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/b...

haha

Starting Wednesday, Oregon cities can legalize the one on the right 😃 But it'll be a walk-up! 🙁 U.S. elevators are oversized & overpriced, so developers avoid them. To get age-friendly cities, the state should allow: • the one on the left • 5'x5' "wheelchair+1" elevators 🛗

all the news that's fit to print huh www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/w...

great piece

The network news will "take a great story and they’ll make it bad,” he said, speaking to reporters in the Oval Office. “See, I think that’s really illegal.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

Do you wish you lived in a city where you could simply buy some street food, like a delicious hot dog, while boppin around the city? Then you're going to want to submit written testimony or sign up to speak in favor at the Arts & Economy Committee next Tuesday.

Seems important for anti-monopolists to recognize that the antitrust powers of the FCC are the ones currently being used by the state to control speech

when you're a star, they let you do it www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/w...

thinking back on this..

he was a champion of free speech and if you disagree youre under arrest

We’re proud to sign on to the commonsense principles from @pewresearch.org to support housing affordability… and we’ll take the opportunity to brag about some recent Cascadian wins 😎 🔽

Obama on Charlie Kirk:

Parenting goals in this letter from Haywood Jones, to a law firm where his son David had applied for work in the mid 60s. Love, earnestness, and respect. Bowie kept it for the rest of his life. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Thinkin about Horace Greeley

What a fun panel - thanks for the charming leadership & good questions, @muhammadspeaks.bsky.social

I've always liked this Robert Redford anecdote about his having lobbied Mike Nichols to play the lead in The Graduate. www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/03...

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In & around DC, @alexbaca.bsky.social says it’s “increasingly rare” for her to be asked by electeds to do turnout. @justupthepike.bsky.social mentions the time an elected asked not for big numbers but for “one quippy teen” who would make nimbys look bad 😂 #yimbytown

They don’t have the power to do what they’re threatening on a grand scale. But they want us to think they do.

Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity 2004: A year 2010: ~ a month 2015: ~ a week Now: A day ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... The free speech crusade will continue until complete conformity and submission are achieved.

“One man stood alone for decades building the body of work that makes this movement possible. If any of us feel alone in this work, think of Professor Donald Shoup. “His work will reshape cities for decades to come.” @adamgreenfield.bsky.social for the Austin Parking Reform Coalition #yimbytown

Will Rhatigan of the Citizens' Housing and Planning Association on selling transit-oriented upzoning to small-town MA: We started with the stories that'd persuade us. Climate benefits. Racial justice. It didn't land well. What worked was self-interest: homes for family & local workers. #yimbytown

Do not underestimate demand for the permitting process session #yimbytown

This information divide is the problem. The lack of a clear truth. We need to grapple with this as a society if we want up keep it.

I thought I didn’t like this app much but that was before I realized it was going to provide a leaderboard #yimbytown

By a single yes vote, including three of the body’s 10 Republicans

Portland, Oregon, we can't wait to see you!