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Love and justice in the Rose City. Unelected night mayor. transpo · housing · poverty · race · harm reduction · public health. Portland politics, policy + govt. [he/they]
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Today I learned the Mexican president holds a daily press conference extolling the vital role of women in Mexico’s ongoing history 🤯

Washington Post got their hands on internal documents from DOGE showing the entire plan to implement resegregation. They're going to purge minorities from government by calling them DEI. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

Woof.

www.opb.org/article/2025...

Made a pair of screw shoes last year and feeling vindicated to use them at least once in this ice storm. They are easy to make! Note: I am not a runner. skyrunner.com/screwshoe.htm #pdx #pdxbst

Things are feeling rather frosty in the pink blue amalgam. #pdxbst #pdxtst

A VERY strong briefing by city staff in the Council's Climate, Resilience, and Land Use Committee this morning. One of the clearest and most comprehensive look at carbon emissions at the city level I've seen. The climate action plan for Portland is a good one. 1/2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaoW...

Shoutout to the grocery workers at Safeway on MLK, busy as ever yet holding it down with a skeleton crew. #pdx #pdxtst

Catching up on the homelessness + housing committee meeting. Main takeaway: we elected some smart folks.

Breathtakingly cold outside tonight in Portland. Winter warming shelters are open today, free trimet rides to shelters. Please take a look around your neighborhood and check in with folks sheltering outside. #pdxwx

Seems bad.

Nice to see conservation measures being seriously considered, but why make ODOT the caretaker of this important public resource? They clearly don't care about access, and their appeal for conservation is a required checkbox for them to tick. www.opb.org/article/2025...

"Eight years after Oregon lawmakers approved a multibillion-dollar transportation bill to fix roads and improve infrastructure, key projects remain unfinished, funding is running short and an audit has uncovered major financial missteps." #orleg www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/p...

With the change in Portland's form of gov't comes a change in how Portlanders can follow and engage with city issues. Here are the basics:

Campari, neat. Soda back. Before a meal. Trust.

blazers looking like a playoff team 🤯

"They want to institute a system that resembles the immigration regime of the 1920s through 60s, when the desirability of immigrants was determined by openly racist criteria." one of a dozen important points made in this piece. thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/maga-feedi...

Good guy Oregon State Laws preventing small conservative towns from collaborating with ICE. You love to see it. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...