If we fully fund the renovation, we will never get a dime out of Dundon ever. He's the bully demanding payment to cross the street. And so many people are insisting we need to pay the bully

5 of 5 cyclists, including me, out going places at 6:30 am were masked up. I guess we've adapted. #climatechange #wildfire #fuckcapitalism

In "trivial consequences of a wildfire" I'm thinking it's 50-50 that the Bull Run Watershed tour I'm supposed to go to on Saturday will be cancelled. All these places I've camped and hiked in the red zone....

A caucus of violent, drunk ex-husbands controls three branches of government and both chambers of Congress.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 4d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

Q: “Were we prepared for this?" A: “In a wind-driven event, there’s not a fire department in the country that could be ready for an event this size.” But also, there are hundreds of others through mutual aid. Planned preemptively given we knew the high risk.

At this point, the Blazers = the appearance of a bloated tick that wants to feast on more blood. Unless they're deliberately trying to be off-putting? Why in the heck would anyone in Portland want the Blazers here with this kind of predatory, asinine, plain disrespectful messaging from the owner?

OPB@opb.org · 6d ago

Portland Trail Blazers officials told city councilors the city needs to do more than just help fund a renovation of the Moda Center if it wants to assure the Blazers’ long-term presence in Oregon.

You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS

Breaking news! Kushner-backed construction firm builds new baseball stadium in Hyde Park.

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 6d ago

Google Earth, a tool often used as a source of satellite imagery to verify photos and videos, has added a feature that allows you to alter satellite imagery with AI, for reasons. blog.google/products-and...

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

As a union member, fuck off. "But it also contained items that team officials deemed 'nonstarters' — including a proposed $3 million annual fee to make up for property taxes the Blazers won’t pay, and requirements that the team sign a 'labor peace agreement' paving the way for unionized staff."

OPB@opb.org · 6d ago

Portland Trail Blazers officials told city councilors the city needs to do more than just help fund a renovation of the Moda Center if it wants to assure the Blazers’ long-term presence in Oregon.

It is perhaps time to stop entertaining that Tom Dundon, the NBA or Blazers management are negotiating in good faith. Trying to union bust over what's already a sweetheart proposal and claiming you (Paul Allen actually) already did a lot of investment in the team is asinine.

Familiar pattern: "In Missouri, Georgia, Ohio and now Nebraska, Republican men running for high office face significant allegations of domestic violence, stalking, even sexual assault — accusations that once would have derailed any run for office." --NYT 2022

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · last wk.

some classic Traditional Patriarchal Values right here. also with Moreno's refusal to call it out, because the whole thing is largely conspiracy to enable the abuse of women, even your own daughter www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u...

This ban, coupled with the ban on wheels in the wilderness, makes both trail maintenance AND fire fighting something only the most crazy fit 20-something’s can do. Have you tried to use a Pulaski? A long hand saw? After hiking them in 10+ miles the day before? Neither have I but my daughter has

High Country News@highcountrynews.org · last wk.

An experienced trail crew leader argues that, in today’s forests, the rigidity of the regulation buries what it’s designed to protect.

i like zoos where they're still figuring out how to handle formerly hosting animal shows. the baltimore aquarium has a funny sign at the dolphin encounter like "the dolphins don't have to do tricks during their feeding time if they don't feel like it but you can watch in case they do them anyway"

Today at a picnic someone asked me "so what's a summer activity you like to do in Portland" and I answered "eat all the fruit"....

I can't be the only one watching Le Tour final continually exclaiming "look at that huge protected bike lane" as they race around the city.

bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph.

I’d like to make it clear for all the people following me what the sheer gravity of the news is. Without this facility we can’t ensure constant communication with spacecraft beyond Earth orbit. If this facility is off-line, the Artemis program cannot send a crew to the Moon.

Andy Scollick@andyscollick.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex at Robledo de Chavela municipality in the Community of Madrid, Spain on fire. Burgohondo wildfire. 📷 via Infues Avila

Here's the deal. WE fucking started this war. And somehow we are pissed when those attacked fight back? And by we I mean the US, I mean the fascist takeover. I don't mean we, the majority of the American people.

In Portland, the expanded space for ICE is at the Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal Building on 3rd Ave downtown.

Bruce Little@brucedlittle.bsky.social · 2w ago

Over the past several months, ICE & DHS have carried out a secret campaign to expand ICE’s physical presence across the US with more than 150 leases & expansions taking place in nearly every state, disregarding government lease procurement procedures & hiding listings Gift link => archive.ph/brFKH

being afraid of the DSA is loser shit, sorry. “these progressive ideas are scary!” grow up.

Oh boy a new front. The promised escalation is here.

George Pearkes@peark.es · 2w ago

Good morning.

I have gotten really good pain relief and injury recovery support from some supplements. But like everything MAGA, moves like these lead me to distrust even more what I can purchase at retail outlet (as opposed to a farmers market or a butcher)

Paul Bleicher@pbleic.bsky.social · 2w ago

Astonishing. RFK Jr. adds 8 members to a 6 member FDA advisory panel. 6 of them were sellers of peptides, and the 7th a compounding pharmacist. In an 8-6 vote with all 8 votes coming from these new panel members, the panel approved 4 peptides against the objections of FDA scientists.

Out here counting cyclists for @pbotinfo.bsky.social , but more importantly counting friends I haven't seen in ages (current count of 2)

I love depave. I love public green spaces where there used to be pavement. I do not love building these spaces on transportation corridors, even if those corridors are "just bikes". Sun evening we got yelled at trying to ride through rainbow road VERY SLOWLY as there was some sort of street fair.

BikeLoudPDX@bikeloudpdx.bsky.social · 2w ago

𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴... 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗗𝗲𝗽𝗮𝘃𝗲 & 𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 Thurs Aug 6 4-5:30p SE 7th & Sandy Part of many exciting summer events at Portland's Future Green Plaza @depave.bsky.social RSVP/ info: www.depave.org/futuregreenp...

simply because the Communists are more "revolutionary," But I think that the belief in participatory decisionmaking is the more important value by far. (How much socdems really believe in that, in a representative capitalist democracy, is certainly debatable)

That’s an actual real quote. From FHWA of all places. So everyone in the transpo industry still crowing “tRaMsPoRTaTiOn is bIpArTiSaN,” just stfu

USDOT pulls down more bike lane web info, saying "This is a common sense approach despite the Left's belief that everyone should ride a bike to their shoebox-sized apartment to eat crickets to achieve a phony climate agenda." If you hate bike lanes, you ride with Trump. www.npr.org/2026/07/23/n...

DOT cranks up its campaign to strip bike lane references from federal websites

Transportation officials have removed a growing list of safety materials that mention bike lanes from federal websites. Safety advocates warn that's undermining proven measures for reducing crashes.

npr.org

MAGA explained in my dog’s behavior: the neighbor cats sunning on the top of the fence or garage roof are somehow bringing evil and pestilence and also impinging on his ability to lay in the sun on the deck. They are using the sun that rightfully belongs to him (and I think us humans whom he loves)

Dammit. Knew this fire free summer could only last so long.

Daniel Swain@weatherwest.bsky.social · 2w ago

Another lightning outbreak now ongoing in PacNW (TS Elida's remants), & this time fuels are considerably drier west of Cascades following recent heat. Numerous additional wildfire ignitions are likely across much of OR/WA over next 48 hr, worsening existing outbreak. #ORwx #WAwx