This is exactly why @councilortkl.bsky.social and I are bringing our resolution seeking to ban NDAs for data center development and initiate a moratorium next week. We need a moratorium now.

Portland data center planned inside five stories of high-rise, records show

Plans to convert part of a Portland office tower into data center space come as gubernatorial candidates call for a ban.

oregonlive.com

Don’t buy the lie about a war on cars. They’ve been waging a WAR ON WALKING for a century. #UrbanTruth #WarOnWalking

The United States: where giving a frail voter waiting in the Georgia sun a glass of water is punishable by a year in prison, but the president can offer everyone $5k to vote for his party.

“In this diner in the swill producing region of the San Fernando Valley, the conversation among the regulars turns to how the Democrats are always talking about how great Hamas is.”

lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 22h ago

washingtonsun.com/2026-electio... i thought this was a really informative look into where some of the most bizarre and out of touch dem apparatus pet issues come from

Realizing that Trump is someone bad people can look up to. See themselves. Like a kind of representation, visibility.

a friend cooked up a dashboard to track go portland go's donors: whoisgopdxgo.org

We gave your contact info to our junkie friend. We think he wants to scam you.

Brian Actors Guild@spocksbrian.worstpossible.world · 3d ago

I love journalism and journalists

Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel

mitch being an impressively witty online brian poisoned poaster is proof that charter reform has increased pure representation in city politics, at least for me, personally

mitch (he/him)@drmitchpdx.bsky.social · 3d ago

thread counts in the sheets and thread counts in the skeets.

None of these people figured out that Starship Troopers was satire

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d ago

this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie

Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com

Cascadia Cast Iron has a perfect 5-star rating on Google! Do you have an old cast iron or carbon steel pan, skillet, Griddle, Dutch oven, etc. that has seen better days? Let me bring it back to life for you! maps.app.goo.gl/FeDSg1mRxEda...

We've now added 18 new members by my count, meaning we're only 81 away from reaching out goal. If you value the work I do with Stumptown Savings, become a member today! It's just $8/month, $80/year and helps provide my reporting and resources to the thousands of Portlanders who depend on it.

Bryan from Stumptown Savings@bryanmvance.com · 7d ago

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The Portland Business Alliance, in the guise of Downtown Clean & Safe, has employed hawks to haze the natural crows of the city’s downtown — no doubt at below-market rates. Surprising no one, in their intolerance for uncontrolled life, they’ve gone all-in for the artificial kind

Cassandra Wilson has left us, at only 70. How tragic. www.wbgo.org/music/2026-0...

WBGO mourns the loss of NEA Jazz Master and two-time Grammy Award-winning vocalist Cassandra Wilson

WBGO's Doug Doyle reports on the passing of Grammy Award-winning jazz singer, songwriter and producer Cassandra Wilson

wbgo.org

The Trump administration secretly obtained 6 months of phone records for a journalist without a search warrant or any judicial oversight.

Trump’s DHS is using an obscure law to secretly snoop on journalists, non-profits and unions: ‘It’s outrageous’

Even after judges rejected the same ploy, the Trump administration is going directly to social media and telecommunications companies

theguardian.com

Here is what the Israeli-occupied West Bank, not including a detailed look at occupied East Jerusalem, actually looks like in 2026. The International Court of Justice ruled in July 2024 that Israel’s nearly 60-year military occupation of East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza was illegal.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 2w ago

Frank Lowenstein, senior envoy on Israel-Palestine under the Obama administration, conceded in an article today published in the New Yorker that the two-state paradigm is basically dead and has been for years, rendering the same old rhetoric about supporting a 2SS fantastical without policy changes.

Let's talk about accountability and transparency regarding Zenith and ISQ. I Squared Capital (ISQ) is worth about $66B. It takes 15 different entities to run this bullshit... shell games.

The Court Appointed Monitor in US v. City of Portland is interested in "your perspective on the Portland Police Bureau's community engagement" - link to their survey is here. portlandpolicemonitor.com

Because we live here

Regional manager in a large organization “goes a little silly in the head” and his team has to be recalled.

Dan Hon@danhon.com · 2w ago

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: A chief technology officer is worried about keeping his spreadsheets private.

Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops

My idea to help w speeding: A city-sponsored “neighborhood pace car” program where volunteers get a placard/signage on car saying, “I’m going the speed limit. Are you?” Or just do it w city fleet vehicles. We just need to normalize going slow and folks will chill.

Jalopnik@jalopnik.bsky.social · 2w ago

What's a little extra 5 or 10 mph on the clock?

Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarize yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express.

Malaclypse the Middle@malaclypse.bsky.social · 2w ago

Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarize yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express.

okay i’ll bite: who is hasan piker?

Remember if you’ve ever heard a Republican claim they’re actually ok with immigration but just want all the immigrants to do it legally, they were lying

Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 2w ago

Jesus Christ. All green card interviews worldwide are paused indefinitely

“Help”

Mitchell Epner@mitchellepner.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I take Lexapro. I have taken Lexapro for over two decades. The times that I have discontinued taking Lexapro have ended very badly for me. RFKJ is trying to kill millions of Americans like me. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/s...

You fuckers made me do it. The Racist Academicals Patter Song.

“Bicycle crash” “Hit by a car”

FOX 12 Oregon@fox12oregon.bsky.social · 2w ago

A woman has died after being hit by car while riding a bike in Southwest Portland, according to police.

Imagine having Larry David living rent-free in your head

r o o@jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 3w ago

found out Larry David just starts verbally abusing Alan Dershowitz whenever he sees him, this is very good