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I read all 102 pages and here's what I've learned so far. A few bits: - Bike tax unchanged at $15. - Someone inserted provision for mandatory 12 foot lane widths on all freight routes. - Transit tax boosted over initial proposal. - Big win for "Great Streets" bikeportland.org/2025/06/09/t...

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

Absolutely right.

submitted 3 hours ago • 33 comments

Sharing this piece from 2020 with my LA reporter friends. Now is a good time to be asking about weapons use policies for less lethal munitions. My good friend @jlevinson.bsky.social did so back during Portland's big protests and there were plenty of misuses happening.

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

They shot at a reporter's legs a few days ago from behind while the camera was rolling. This is the same playback as 2020 in Portland but fewer protections from abuse.

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

As an advocate, the lectures about how people should protest better — "Be peaceful!" "Don't wave flags of foreign countries!" — is so exhausting. There are 100,000+ people out in the streets of Los Angeles. When and where would the meeting be to tell people to stay on message and who would run it?

submitted 23 hours ago • 4 comments

The last sentence is basically what I was emphasizing in my messages with my Senators & Rep who it feels like are somewhat sleepwalking through this "hair on fire" emergency along with the congressional Dems! I don't get where their sense of complacency comes from and it frustrates me to no end!

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Yeah, what a farce!

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

PCEF delivered 15,000 cooling units installed across the city, 18 months ahead of schedule. We need more of this type of government effectiveness!

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

One thing that I haven't seen said in the last 24 hours is that the Democratic Party had an opportunity, as an institution, to help shape, foster, and direct the grassroots popular uprising against Trump II. They made a conscious decision not to.

submitted 1 day ago • 51 comments

For those who live elsewhere, this is the heart of downtown #LosAngeles. My friends are here. My union is here (sup @wgawest.bsky.social). My teenager is here. People are passing out pastries & singing & praying. All we want is for our neighbors not to be kidnapped off the streets.

submitted 21 hours ago • 30 comments

Pretty suss that our Senators' offices in DC don't pick up the phone during work hours - No one has ever answered the phone at @wyden.senate.gov's office. I left him & @jeff-merkley.bsky.social voicemail from me asking them to get at least a little angry about Trump sending the military into LA.

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

ODOT knows how to waste money to line the pockets of their contractors. Fences, boulders and counterproductive highway widening! Wish anyone in #orleg was interested in pressing accountability for their spending before giving more $ the way they are to school districts who have to cut every year.

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Just to be clear: peaceful protest is as American as it gets. But when insurrectionists were beating cops in his name, Trump never deployed the National Guard. That tells you everything.

submitted 23 hours ago • 19 comments

This is the essence.

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

In today's episode of doomerism isn't a strategy, here's a list of things you can do today to make the world around you suck a little bit less: Pick ONE thing and do it. bsky.app/profile/itsa...

submitted 112 days ago • 10 comments

Earlier today ICE agents hit someone with a car and tear gassed a neighborhood, sparking several fires and disrupting businesses. Immigrants, by contrast, did not.

submitted 2 days ago • 103 comments

One way to be a patriot right now is not to engage in doomerism. These people are fascists and they’re very dangerous. But they’re also weak, undisciplined, and unpopular. And they’re losing.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

Cannot stress enough that this is a pitiful action by a weak, scared, pathetic group of insecure, wannabe authoritarians, and they should be mocked until the end of time for wanting to bring in the military over some people protesting them at a Home Depot.

submitted 2 days ago • 50 comments

We should be scared about what’s happening right now in LA—the president calling up troops to subdue protestors without the governor’s agreement.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Nothing happening today stops until Trump is removed from office. He has defiled the constitution and violated his oath of office repeatedly. @democrats.org @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social need to get leaders who understand the seriousness of the crisis!

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

submitted 2 days ago • 103 comments

EVERYBODY WATCH. ICE IS OUT OF CONTROL. Video of SEIU California’s President David Huerta getting assaulted & arrested during an ICE raid in the warehouse district of Downtown Los Angeles today. He’s an LA native, American citizen and labor leader. Don’t turn away.

submitted 3 days ago • 2017 comments

An American citizen and Los Angeles native, @seiucalifornia @seiuusww President David Huerta was injured and detained when ICE terrorized a working neighborhood. We demand his immediate release!

submitted 3 days ago • 36 comments

Don't let these men and their pissing match distract from the fact Republicans are still trying to rip away healthcare and food from actual children.

submitted 4 days ago • 66 comments

The PBA is running scared. Y'all don't even realize what a good sign it is that they are trying this stuff. This is desperation.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

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submitted 4 days ago • 21 comments

A very succinct encapsulation of the absurdity and harm of financially bludgeoning your own country over a “trade deficit”

submitted 5 days ago • 22 comments

This good, but what would be better would be to fund a lot ig this through congestion pricing which NYC has shown can be super efficient at delivering tangible benefits that are more visible to those who pay the costs.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Just like his first reckless Muslim Ban, Donald Trump is running his same old playbook of hate and division. This isn’t about making Americans safer — it’s a cruel blanket ban that will rip apart families and hurt our global leadership. We must fight back.

submitted 5 days ago • 37 comments

I’m not putting anyone on a pedestal but at every opportunity to be a shithead who throws marginalized people under a bus this man chooses the opposite and he’s wildly popular because of it and I don’t understand what about that isn’t clicking for other dems

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

Well this is very not good “BLS is reducing sample in areas across the country.” www.bls.gov/cpi/notices/...

submitted 5 days ago • 30 comments

Cost estimate of the House-passed "Big Beautiful Bill" is out It'd be the largest cut to Medicaid+CHIP and SNAP in history while still increasing deficits by $2.4 trillion due to $3.8 trillion in tax cuts This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history

submitted 6 days ago • 65 comments