I just took my girls (Theo and Nelly, the Great Danes) on a walk and explored a few streets we haven't walked down before.

I absolutely love walking in #PDX because there always so many interesting things to see! So many cool old houses, and interesting people!

Today we found a house with goats in their front yard! It was nice to meet some new friends. We'll have to go that way more often!

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Calls for reinforcements at macadam ICE facility. Calls for sharing this on socials. There have been multiple injuries OTG. Requesting more people, more gas masks to spare as the crowd is large, and more boosting of this message.

Please boost, please share on your socials if you're local or know Portland locals

#PDX / #Oregon pals!

TriMet is asking for written testimony in support of House Bill 2025:

“Without this additional revenue from the transportation package, we would need to reduce our service by 27% by July 2027.”

Sample text, and a link to submit testimony, provided in the link below

https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/ORTRIMET/bulletins/3e47ee2

This OPB article from 2020 has a good look at the problems that come with Federal officials deputizing local law enforcement, and what the city did then.

#PDX

https://www.opb.org/article/2020/10/23/federal-deputy-portland-police-restrictions-hardesty/

Hello #Portland #PDX people. I'm meeting with organizations and artists to talk about the Guilded Freelancer Cooperative. We help independent workers with contracting/invoicing support, immediate payment, and access to benefits. We offer services to all 1099 workers, but especially creative workers from historically marginalized communities.

Wants to chat? Give me a shout and/or visit our website:
www.guilded.coop

#coop #cooperative #SolidarityEconomy #NGOs #EconomicJustice #art #LaborRights

#orPol #transportation hearing needs written comment today for #ClimateAction #pdxBikes #ODOTGTFOpdx #TriMet funding #transit and #SafeRoutesToSchool #ProtectedBikeLanes #stuffInTheStreet #BikewayNetwork #Portland #pdx #NoMoreFreeways #BusLanes not #stroads #BikeTooter #OregonWalks #TheStreetTrust

https://bsky.app/profile/thestreettrust.org/post/3lrbps4ntsh2m

The Governor of Oregon has declared that Trump lacks legal authority to deploy the Oregon National Guard for the #June14 protests in #pdx #uspol #nokings #nokingsday https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2025/06/trump-has-no-right-to-deploy-oregon-national-guard-against-protesters-in-portland-kotek-insists.html

Needed: #PDX area front-end #developer willing to #volunteer time to teach and mentor a high school FIRST Robotics program.

The Tactics & Strategy wing of the Skyview Robotics program has been working on a data collection and reporting tool and could use some professional guidance. The mentor "stack" includes Product, UX Design, Data Analyst, and Dev Ops, but nobody to teach front-end coding.

We'll meet Tues and Thursday nights starting in the fall. Reach out for more info. Thanks!

Coming to you live from the (floating) floor of the Crystal Ballroom waiting for the #TheyMightBeGiants show to start.

I know what they say about #pdx and I am here to tell you this particular intersection underscores, nay, reinforces every single thing you ever heard about #Portland being weird.

It is glorious and bizarre and fun and odd and I couldn't love it more.

Back to you, Bob.

Trader Vic's #Tiki bar, #PDX, #Oregon. Sat, April 7, 2012

Very glad I got to visit this place before it closed.

CoolPix S3100

Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner ET-AOP landing at Portland #PDX / #KPDX, on a flight which originated at Tokyo Haneda #HND / #RJTT. This appears to be some kind of charter or VIP flight. (A search for relevant news found only Ethiopian restaurants in Portland.) It taxied to an international passenger arrival gate. The only previous time I've seen an Ethiopian plane at Portland was a new pre-delivery 777F coming out of the Boeing paint hangar. #aviation #travel #avgeek #PNW

i'm hosting a series of six rides this summer that prefigure what our major arterial roads could/should/would be without compulsory mass automobility -- straight, smooth tracks for bicyclists and other human-powered transit! (and maybe some light rail and trolleybuses thrown in there too).

each weekend, we will tackle some of portland's "unfriendly" roads, stroads, and orphaned highways and claim a lane. i'm used to riding these roads solo during heavy traffic hours, so it would be ~*fun*~ to bike as a larger group on roads where cyclists "don't belong" or "shouldn't be on" -- laugh through their windows, spit on their tires! (jk jk... but actually tho). check out the links below for details if you'd like to join any of the rides (thanks again to @shift2bikes for such a great calendar resource).

ride #1: 6/29, 3pm - milwaukie ave
https://www.shift2bikes.org/calendar/event-21939

ride #2: 7/6, 5pm - cesar chavez blvd
https://www.shift2bikes.org/calendar/event-21940

ride #3: 7/12, 11am - sandy blvd
https://www.shift2bikes.org/calendar/event-21941

ride #4: 7/20, 2pm - 82nd ave
https://www.shift2bikes.org/calendar/event-21942

ride #5: 7/27, 10am - powell blvd
https://www.shift2bikes.org/calendar/event-21943

ride #6: 8/3, 1pm - mlk jr. blvd
https://www.shift2bikes.org/calendar/event-21944

Question for my Portland people: can you still buy a bunch of spinach?

I noticed when I moved to the east coast that a lot of produce was ridiculously over packaged. Maybe you can buy a bunch of spinach at the farmers market, but at the store, you can only get those pre-washed packages of baby spinach.

I wondered if my hometown has also taken this horrible turn.

hear me out: what if we just didn't have fleet week this year #pdx

wowowowow time is fake and it's already the first week of the month again, apologies for the last minute post but we'll be meeting up for the monthly letters to prisoners at Revolutions Bookshop this Thursday from 6:30-8pm. Wear a mask and bring a friend! We've got all the supplies, no experience necessary