Khanh Pham for Oregon
@khanhphamfororegon.com
Community organizer, parent, and Senator for Oregon SD 23. Social media policy: https://linktr.ee/sen.khanhpham
Community partners are eager to begin construction on our plans to improve transit and safety on 82nd Avenue. Unfortunately the Trump Administration is currently stalling on advancing multiple transit projects across the country. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/upshot/transit-projects-trump.html
Single-stair buildings have become an increasingly important topic in housing policy because they raise a fundamental question: are there opportunities to safely build more housing, on more sites, by modernizing regulations that were developed decades ago?
1.5 million of those were children www.cbpp.org/blog/number-... There is no job data showing 5 million people, or anywhere close, found new jobs because work requirements don't work and many of these people were already working. www.cbpp.org/blog/work-re...
Number of Children Receiving SNAP Continues to Drop Under Harmful 2025 Republican Reconciliation Law
In the 19 states with publicly available data or that have shared unpublished data, the harmful Republican reconciliation law has taken SNAP food assistance away from more than 1 million children...
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayRollins: "For those who love work and celebrate work and want people to work and not be on food stamps, it's a pretty big win when we've moved 5 million people off food stamps, y'all."
WOAH. Blazers leaked emails show they refused to respond to city emails asking basic questions, weeks before any “first-class” claim was mentioned, contradicting Dewayne Hankins claim that that claim “chilled negotiations” They were not negotiating in good faith since the beginning.
@wrightkatu.bsky.social · 18h agoNEW: Internal emails obtained by KATU show Portland Trail Blazers leaders debated whether to respond to the City of Portland's questions on key pieces of a proposed Moda Center deal, with one executive saying the city's requests felt like "a trap”. katu.com/news/investi...
There is another way to live that is not at war with the planet. 😷
Check out this resource from Multnomah County on how you can be prepared:
Be smoke ready
Things you can do to be smoke ready before a wildfire starts.
multco.us
Let's go on a bike ride! Hope to see you on August 29 for a community ride celebrating climate investments throughout East Portland, ending at one of my favorite events of the year - the Jade District Night Market. RSVP here: https://loom.ly/SYFxrFQ
Heads up, Portland - wildfire smoke is expected to roll in to the region today and stay with us through the week. It's a good time to wear an N95 mask and limit your outdoor time, if you can. https://loom.ly/32thrZg
Oregonian: Wildfire smoke expected to bring unhealthy air to Portland as temperatures near 100
As some 2 million acres continue to burn in more than 30 wildfires across Oregon, forecasters predict a shift in winds will bring potentially dangerous air quality to the Portland metro area, which is already expected to see near-triple-digit temperatures throughout the week.
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The wildfires burning across northern and western Spokane are a sober reminder of both human resilience and systemic failure. What we are seeing tonight is not a challenge that local first responders, city hall, or individual homeowners can solve on their own.
1/ @mjflepage.bsky.social argues in @newscientist.com that more North Sea drilling doesn't matter for the #climate, because what counts is how much we burn. He's usually excellent as a climate writer and I found the piece a real let-down. A thread on why. 🧵
Portland’s cops shouldn’t be helping Trump undermine faith in our local elections. #democracy #pdx #portland
My heart has been with Rip City fans today. ❤️🔥 You've loved this team through thick and thin for generations. 56 years! 🥺 You deserve a future where the Blazers stay in Portland, and you deserve a negotiation that respects both your loyalty and this city. I'm going to keep fighting for both. 🫶🏾
Dundon may be willing to take the deal to the edge. Portland should not try to beat him at brinkmanship. Here's what the city should do. 🧵
We're live from City Hall. Proceedings should begin shortly. Blazer contingent includes Dewayne Hankins, Charles Boyle, plus more. Reporters include OPB, Athletic, KGW, plus more. President Dunphy is ready to preside. Other councilors are entering, with Councilor Green in some sweet Blazer gear.
More than a million acres in Oregon are on fire, and as of Thursday morning, the Bench fire on Warm Spring Indian Reservation has grown to over 64,000 acres. Please join me in supporting wildfire recovery efforts in Warm Springs by donating here: https://loom.ly/umv03f4
Controversial opinion, apparently? It’s good when there are city workers with enough moral fortitude to stop and gather evidence when they find out canvassers are lying to the public for signatures. It erodes democracy and engagement when you give your signature and find out you were lied to.
The Portland Clean Energy Fund is making so many critical, essential investments in our community - and every dollar of PCEF reallocated towards a stadium renovation or the cops is a dollar lost in programs like this Girls Build summer camp: https://loom.ly/Lz0JA1Q
What does the Portland Clean Energy Fund pay for? Inside one program funded by PCEF
Portland leaders may redirect Clean Energy Fund dollars to police or Moda Center upgrades. KATU spotlights current PCEF grants like Girls Build, a green construction camp for foster and unhoused girls, funded with $130K.
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As the organizers of this deeply cynical campaign become more desperate in holding on to their signature submissions, I'll add that I personally heard their paid signature gatherers giving blatantly incorrect information to customers outside the Parkrose Grocery Outlet. I didn't happen to film it.
As Signatures Are Disqualified, Campaign to Hire More Police Cries Foul
With early numbers indicating that a Portland ballot initiative to hire additional police officers is falling shy of the valid signatures needed to place it on the November ballot, its backers on Mond...
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I think our Council President is managing the Moda talks situation deftly. Completely uncharted territory. Thanks for your leadership @councilordunphy.bsky.social
In 2011, right after graduating college, I was hired by US Senator Merkley to assist his constituent services team. Specifically, I was hired to process all the privacy release statements from the thousands of homeowners facing a foreclosure on their subprime mortgages. 1/🧵
Terrific quote by my friend and colleague Adriana in last week's KGW story about efforts to redirect vital PCEF funds away from community investment and towards cops and the Trail Blazers' stadium renovation. https://loom.ly/AGDkMqk
Evergreen politics tip: Run against your opposition, not the people your opposition scapegoats and reviles. And since this seems unclear: Dems' opposition is Republicans.
Jeff Hauser@jeffhauser.bsky.social · 2w agoIf our DCCC saw Republicans and fascism as foes as important to fight against as the DSA they would aggressively move to impeach Vought while attacking Blue State Republicans in Congress (e.g., CA, NY have double digits between them) for complicity. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
These designs are gorgeous! I'm currently preparing multiple pieces of legislation next session that would make it legal and cheaper to build these beautiful homes in communities across the state. https://www.sightline.org/2026/07/09/introducing-the-new-neighborhood-apartment/
We have sanctuary cities, but for whom? States like Massachusetts, California, and New York offer essential protections for marginalized people. You can't be a sanctuary for vulnerable people if you don't build the housing they need and can afford.
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈@maxdubler.com · 2w agoLiberating queer kids from their unaccepting families has always been central to my YIMBY advocacy. It’s why I am so angry that San Francisco has refused to meaningfully grow its housing stock since the seventies.
It is imperative that Oregon's legislators pass a transportation package next year, and that we prioritize investments in maintaining and preserving our existing roads and bridges along with restoring and expanding public transit service across the state. #orpol
Oregon lawmakers say they’ll prioritize bipartisanship in 2027 transportation funding plan
At its third meeting, Kotek’s transportation workgroup invited lawmakers to discuss their priorities and policy ideas they want to include in 2027.
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The Portland Clean Energy Fund continues to make meaningful, tangible investments in our community that make our city healthier, more climate resilient, and more equitable. It's time to tell the Blazers and cops: hands off PCEF. https://loom.ly/Vj3mblM
Happy Pride! It was a joy and salve for the soul to be around thousands of Oregonians' celebrating LGBTQ rights and all of our rights to be our authentic selves free from discrimination or fear. #HappyPride
It's unacceptable that the campaign to defund PCEF has spent the last few weeks brazenly lying to the public to collect signatures. It suggests backers know the public wouldn't otherwise support their effort to steal PCEF money for more cops. https://loom.ly/46IZ97c
