“If the Timbers leave, all the businesses around [Providence Park] close.” As someone who lives in the area, WHAT BUSINESSES?!?!
Brian Owendoff now introduces himself as a former “rose quarter committee member”, in case any marks want to pretend that project isn’t captured by demons rn
This blazers invited testimony is soooooo corny. So corporate. Do these people think it’s working?
And to think, we could have taken some millions of $’s from the police and put it towards funding social services. Instead we have a police department that defunds itself by spending all of its money on flying in weird paid signature gatherers for petitions that fail.
Kaliko Castille@wizkaliko.bsky.social · 24h agoLooks like Portland Police aren't going to be able to raid PCEF to hire more cops when they can't even hire for the positions they already have open.....sorry about your luck!
I hear the blazers are asking people with a $$$ stake to come pack testimony. Let’s show the fuck up and provide an alternative viewpoint! (Links in original post)
Portland DSA@portlanddsa.bsky.social · yesterdayOn Wednesday, Aug. 5, City Council will consider a "term sheet" for the Moda Center negotiations. This is an opportunity for you to testify to the City Council about how you feel about the Moda Center issue and what the City should demand in exchange for public money.
Yeah it might bankrupt our transit system, cook the planet, pollute our backyards with tire/brake dust/exhaust, and expose us to more traffic collisions, but at least those displaced by I-5 & their descendants can return to it and live above the noisy polluting freeway (???)
The Oregonian@oregonian.com · yesterdayThe Portland project’s funding gap raises questions about whether it will proceed as planned. https://mrf.lu/2ZXPL
Yeah, this about sums up the Ruinous Transactional Freak who bought our NBA team. If the cybertruck was a person. Lie cheat and steal your way to that PJ.
Tyler Parker@tylerparker.bsky.social · 2d agoWrote about Dundon, who sucks.
Left-punch all you want, 24 of the 26 years the building sat empty were under the old charter hegemony. It might be easier to redevelop abandoned warehouses then pay officers to watch them 24/7 for 25 years.
People don’t get real jobs any more they are just “Founders” at “The Good” and think that entitles them to a platform
demi 🪄@deminlawrence.bsky.social · 2d agoBedsaul’s post was reposted/commented on by a couple community big hitters. Specifically though, in the comments of a repost of it, AI-slop LinkedIn poster Jon MacDonald suggests “stack the council/ commissioner roles with business owners” Shawn “The Voice for Innovation in Business” Busse agrees.
www.opb.org/sponsorship/... Did safer Portland steal the OPB “corporate circle” logo or is it the other way around?
The OPB & KMHD Corporate Circle
OPB Sponsorship works!
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Rally with Dark Horse Workers United! DHWU is calling all supporters to join us for a rally at Milwaukie Waterfront Park on August 3rd from 5pm to 6pm. 🧵
Evil billionaire: I hate you and everything you stand for. Give me $900 million. City council: what will you spend it on? Can you tell us? The Oregonian: how toxic. You are “chumming the waters with billionaire sentiment”.
NW Naito building fire causing heavy smoke (up to 24 hrs) •Check fire.airnow.gov; open windows if Air Quality is Good/Moderate •Keep windows shut, recirculate AC, use purifiers •Kids, seniors, pregnant & heart/lung conditions need a clean room •Outdoors: Wear an N95 mask 📸: Portland Fire & Rescue
This piece raises a bigger question than one viral City Council moment: What happens when race, age and culture are used to shield a public official from accountability, while the Blackness and legitimacy of other elected leaders are treated as negotiable? 🧵 www.portlandmercury.com/opinion/the-...
THE BLACK BYLINE: Viral “Daddy” Rift Highlights a Bigger Culture War Within and Beyond Portland City Council - Portland Mercury
“I read all the revolutionary shit you read. But I am alive because of what my Grandmama did with her understanding of Christ.”—Kiese Laymon, 2026 “As a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed peop...
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They are injecting digestive enzymes into the concept of the truth and turning it into some kind of nutritious post-reality slurry for easy slurping
Erik García Gundersen@erikg503.bsky.social · 4d agoSame guy 10 months ago. Wonder what changed between then and now???
Same person who voted to defund Amtrak and safe routes to school for freeways 👇👇👇👇
Rip City Not Rip Off@ripcitynotripoff.bsky.social · 5d agoTim: So you don't feel that Tom Dundon should have to put in a couple hundred million on this thing? Lieber: "I mean I, I, it was not something, it was something that we had sort of talked about, um, it was not something that was overwhelmingly needed at the time.
Update: this decision was reversed! Kudos to the neighbors who organized themselves for a better outcome. I’m grateful that Parks was receptive to our feedback.
Mitch Green@councilorgreen.bsky.social · last wk.Not my district, but c’mon man. I’ll be sending a letter to Parks about this (with a cc to the D3 councilors), but this is one of those moments where in the midst of the many ongoing policy challenges that Portlanders experience that have no near term solution, you don’t add some new pain like this
Environmentalism isn’t about how many leafs are next to you as you prepare to burn fuel. It’s about how much fuel you burn.
Willamette Week@wweek.com · 6d agoIs it dog pee and coffee or just flawed interior landscape design?
The modz on city council are suddenly realizing that the transit service cuts they averted their eyes to when the interstate was open are going to make a lot of people late for work when the interstate is closed this fall. Someone should have done something! www.youtube.com/live/UEa09IX...
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Credit to @councilorclark.bsky.social for advocating for a transit impact fee on autonomous vehicles (Waymo). Should have been suggested a long time ago!
@pbotinfo.bsky.social is at this public works committee saying that no transformative elements on W Burnside rebuilt b/c the rebuild will be phased. I’ve played this game before. Repaving will happen, in 5 years when no one’s paying attention the transformative elements will get quietly cut.
Good news everyone, “Tall building is demons” will find plenty of representation this November
Safer Portland is calling for the state to count signatures for their Pro-Cop ballot measure, rather than the city, which to me smells like desperation. The Police Union Chief calling for an elections official to be fired is a new low IIRC. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
I just want to appreciate zohran mamdani who has really done the work on this issue and talks about free transit as part of a comprehensive package of transit improvements (that he is implementing right now). very much someone I’m happy to respectfully disagree with on this
Mayor Karen Bass@mayor.lacity.gov · 2w agoAs Chair, I’ll build a long-term financial plan to make Metro fare-free. I’ve fought for a world-class transit system my entire career because public transit should create opportunity for everyone.
Solidarity to AFSCME workers. We can’t be laying people off while we buy basketball billionaires new sky boxes.
Portland Jobs with Justice@jwjpdx.bsky.social · 2w ago✅SIGN AND SHARE! No More Layoffs for Do Good Multnomah Workers! Workers at Do Good Multnomah, a shelter organization in the Portland metro area affiliated with AFSCME Local 1790, are 15 months into their first contract campaign and are facing their 4th major round of layoffs in the last year.