Pdx dog lover
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If Powells is in trouble, might the city leaders think some fundamentals are all off??
The Portland company has struggled to bounce back financially in the years since the COVID-19 pandemic.
Powell’s Books names new CEO amid layoffs, financial struggles
The Portland company has struggled to bounce back financially in the years since the COVID-19 pandemic.
www.oregonlive.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:48 PM
If Powells is in trouble, might the city leaders think some fundamentals are all off??
One of the best places in Portland and people thought it was ok to live there?
Asking them to leave is the problem?
Councilors/commissioners please speak up about the Vision
This is an example of moving in wrong direction
Let's get sensible and say, it's about ⏰ they were asked to leave
Asking them to leave is the problem?
Councilors/commissioners please speak up about the Vision
This is an example of moving in wrong direction
Let's get sensible and say, it's about ⏰ they were asked to leave
Nearly 30 people were forcibly removed from the Thousand Acres recreation area last month, after living unhoused on the public land for years.
Now, they face instability as they try to survive on the streets in the same system that drove them to seek refuge in the wilderness.
Now, they face instability as they try to survive on the streets in the same system that drove them to seek refuge in the wilderness.
Oregon's Dismantling of Longstanding Houseless Encampment Highlights Broader Problems
From relative stability in an established community, to being repeatedly swept on the streets of Multnomah County, unhoused residents formerly living in the Sandy River Delta highlight a breakdown in ...
www.portlandmercury.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
One of the best places in Portland and people thought it was ok to live there?
Asking them to leave is the problem?
Councilors/commissioners please speak up about the Vision
This is an example of moving in wrong direction
Let's get sensible and say, it's about ⏰ they were asked to leave
Asking them to leave is the problem?
Councilors/commissioners please speak up about the Vision
This is an example of moving in wrong direction
Let's get sensible and say, it's about ⏰ they were asked to leave
Why are you going against the mayor. Why oh why?
It makes us not like you peacock people and JVP - the ones mentioned
We must not allow street camping. Sanctioned somewhere
Where are your solutions?
Fundamentals are messed up
We need intervention! Shelters are it
www.wweek.com/news/2025/11...
It makes us not like you peacock people and JVP - the ones mentioned
We must not allow street camping. Sanctioned somewhere
Where are your solutions?
Fundamentals are messed up
We need intervention! Shelters are it
www.wweek.com/news/2025/11...
Many of Mayor’s Emergency Shelter Beds Are Unoccupied Every Night
Data released by Mayor Keith Wilson’s office last week shows that most of his new emergency shelter locations are struggling to reach 50% occupancy on any given night.
www.wweek.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Why are you going against the mayor. Why oh why?
It makes us not like you peacock people and JVP - the ones mentioned
We must not allow street camping. Sanctioned somewhere
Where are your solutions?
Fundamentals are messed up
We need intervention! Shelters are it
www.wweek.com/news/2025/11...
It makes us not like you peacock people and JVP - the ones mentioned
We must not allow street camping. Sanctioned somewhere
Where are your solutions?
Fundamentals are messed up
We need intervention! Shelters are it
www.wweek.com/news/2025/11...
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You don’t hate billionaires enough
How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 1:40 AM
You don’t hate billionaires enough
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Is this the plan as to how you'll increase social housing?
All multi family housing can be bought by a non profit?
Woukd like to hear more. So SFHs are not yoir goal? What about plots with ADUs?
t.co/SUIWJH20g7
All multi family housing can be bought by a non profit?
Woukd like to hear more. So SFHs are not yoir goal? What about plots with ADUs?
t.co/SUIWJH20g7
https://nypost.com/2025/11/22/opinion/city-council-plans-to-wreck-nycs-housing-market-in-name-of-affordability/
t.co
November 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Is this the plan as to how you'll increase social housing?
All multi family housing can be bought by a non profit?
Woukd like to hear more. So SFHs are not yoir goal? What about plots with ADUs?
t.co/SUIWJH20g7
All multi family housing can be bought by a non profit?
Woukd like to hear more. So SFHs are not yoir goal? What about plots with ADUs?
t.co/SUIWJH20g7
November 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
It's really cold outside…
I hope all the people who are living in a tent, wake up this morning
If only they would take a shelter bed instead
Oh wait, our counselors don't think that's a good solution and prefer them to live in tents.
Oy vey
I hope all the people who are living in a tent, wake up this morning
If only they would take a shelter bed instead
Oh wait, our counselors don't think that's a good solution and prefer them to live in tents.
Oy vey
November 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
It's really cold outside…
I hope all the people who are living in a tent, wake up this morning
If only they would take a shelter bed instead
Oh wait, our counselors don't think that's a good solution and prefer them to live in tents.
Oy vey
I hope all the people who are living in a tent, wake up this morning
If only they would take a shelter bed instead
Oh wait, our counselors don't think that's a good solution and prefer them to live in tents.
Oy vey
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"Portland has reclaimed the frog as a symbol of its resistance to Trump’s efforts to militarize the city. Perhaps women should claim the glamorous, sassy Muppet Miss Piggy, a known diva with a fierce karate chop, as their own symbol. Call a woman a piggy, and see how that goes..., Mr. President. "
November 19, 2025 at 3:21 AM
"Portland has reclaimed the frog as a symbol of its resistance to Trump’s efforts to militarize the city. Perhaps women should claim the glamorous, sassy Muppet Miss Piggy, a known diva with a fierce karate chop, as their own symbol. Call a woman a piggy, and see how that goes..., Mr. President. "
They want to hear from us apparently
Use your voice either online or in person
Use your voice either online or in person
Hope to see you at the D1 PSR Town Hall tonight!
Tomorrow: Portland Street Response is holding a town hall at the East Portland Community Center from 6-7:30 pm! You'll have the chance to hear program updates and have the opportunity to ask questions.
More info:
More info:
November 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
They want to hear from us apparently
Use your voice either online or in person
Use your voice either online or in person
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Please join me Friday for my next constituent office hours in the Hillside neighborhood!
November 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Please join me Friday for my next constituent office hours in the Hillside neighborhood!
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It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.
November 13, 2025 at 3:46 AM
It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.
Read this post to keep yourself informed as to what they think they might be able to achieve
We need to decide if this is what we want
I want realism
We need to decide if this is what we want
I want realism
Read this post about the future of socialism on Portland and then join DSA: go.dsausa.org/portland
On our blog: read about what Zohran's win in NYC implies for the future of politics in Portland. portlanddsa.org/an-historic-...
November 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Read this post to keep yourself informed as to what they think they might be able to achieve
We need to decide if this is what we want
I want realism
We need to decide if this is what we want
I want realism
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Being inside a building isn't stressed enough.
A building is way better than a tent.
Do people no longer read the three little pigs story?
Librarians unite.
A building is way better than a tent.
Do people no longer read the three little pigs story?
Librarians unite.
November 11, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Being inside a building isn't stressed enough.
A building is way better than a tent.
Do people no longer read the three little pigs story?
Librarians unite.
A building is way better than a tent.
Do people no longer read the three little pigs story?
Librarians unite.
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Some national groups, including one called the Welcome PAC, sees Gluesenkamp Perez’s blue-collar identity and strong ties to her district as a model to lower the temperature in American politics.
National groups are betting on blue-collar Democrats following Gluesenkamp Perez’s success
Southwest Washington Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez’s centrist politics are being seen as a template for the 2026 mid-terms.
www.opb.org
November 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Some national groups, including one called the Welcome PAC, sees Gluesenkamp Perez’s blue-collar identity and strong ties to her district as a model to lower the temperature in American politics.
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Newly filed unemployment claims are up 7.8% so far this year, at their highest point since 2021.
New Oregon unemployment claims point to weaker job market
Newly filed unemployment claims are up 7.8% so far this year, at their highest point since 2021.
www.oregonlive.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Newly filed unemployment claims are up 7.8% so far this year, at their highest point since 2021.
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"So far in 2025, copper bandits have already done more than $500,000 worth of damage to streetlights and lighting junction boxes in the Portland metro, using prybars, bolt cutters, torches and sledge hammers to get at the valuable metal inside them."
www.oregonlive.com/news/2025/07...
www.oregonlive.com/news/2025/07...
Copper-wire thieves are knocking out streetlights across Portland, leaving highways – and police – in the dark
The Oregon Department of Transportation has already spent more than $500,000 repairing streetlights in 2025.
www.oregonlive.com
July 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM
"So far in 2025, copper bandits have already done more than $500,000 worth of damage to streetlights and lighting junction boxes in the Portland metro, using prybars, bolt cutters, torches and sledge hammers to get at the valuable metal inside them."
www.oregonlive.com/news/2025/07...
www.oregonlive.com/news/2025/07...
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Haha yeah looks right
Anyway, my radical but also normie lib housing as a human right take is that we should do almost all our redistribution with vouchers and/or cash. Transfers do the job I care about most (housing almost everybody) & governments are really good at them
Anyway, my radical but also normie lib housing as a human right take is that we should do almost all our redistribution with vouchers and/or cash. Transfers do the job I care about most (housing almost everybody) & governments are really good at them
November 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Haha yeah looks right
Anyway, my radical but also normie lib housing as a human right take is that we should do almost all our redistribution with vouchers and/or cash. Transfers do the job I care about most (housing almost everybody) & governments are really good at them
Anyway, my radical but also normie lib housing as a human right take is that we should do almost all our redistribution with vouchers and/or cash. Transfers do the job I care about most (housing almost everybody) & governments are really good at them
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Interesting, 11th hour update: Councilor Dan Ryan has come out in opposition to the Parks Levy renewal, splitting from the mayor and his 10 city council colleagues.
A breakdown of what Measure 26-260 does – and doesn’t – do, and how it relates to the parks department’s financial crisis.
What to know about Portland’s Parks Levy ballot measure
The proposal to renew and increase the city’s Parks Levy has reignited a debate around how the city’s cash-strapped parks department is financed. And there’s a lot on the line.
www.opb.org
October 31, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Interesting, 11th hour update: Councilor Dan Ryan has come out in opposition to the Parks Levy renewal, splitting from the mayor and his 10 city council colleagues.
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A real rollercoaster of a story here:
A top Portland political aide took in a homeless woman. He abandoned her at a state park days later
"If I could do it over, I would do it differently.”
www.oregonlive.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:37 PM
A real rollercoaster of a story here:
Does anybody in Portland think that the DSA is actually helping?
Please give your reasons
Please give your reasons
October 31, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Does anybody in Portland think that the DSA is actually helping?
Please give your reasons
Please give your reasons
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I co-wrote Trump’s first anti-terrorism plan in 2017-18. He’s not trying to stop “left-wing” terrorism. He is staging it.
His troop deployments are a false flag — meant to provoke a response in order to justify harsh crackdowns.
This is now very obvious.
His troop deployments are a false flag — meant to provoke a response in order to justify harsh crackdowns.
This is now very obvious.
October 7, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I co-wrote Trump’s first anti-terrorism plan in 2017-18. He’s not trying to stop “left-wing” terrorism. He is staging it.
His troop deployments are a false flag — meant to provoke a response in order to justify harsh crackdowns.
This is now very obvious.
His troop deployments are a false flag — meant to provoke a response in order to justify harsh crackdowns.
This is now very obvious.
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It seems clear—I think to everyone, now—that a false and illegal invocation of the Insurrection Act is coming before the end of the year. Media outlets should be telling us how they will prepare for this potential Treason. State governments should be telling us. Activists should be developing plans.
October 6, 2025 at 11:17 PM
It seems clear—I think to everyone, now—that a false and illegal invocation of the Insurrection Act is coming before the end of the year. Media outlets should be telling us how they will prepare for this potential Treason. State governments should be telling us. Activists should be developing plans.
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I am calling on US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to pressure for the release of Paul and Stephen, two Portlanders who joined the humanitarian flotilla to Gaza.
Humanitarian aid is not a crime.
Let's bring our Portlanders home.
#pdx #orpol #portland #portlandoregon #oregon
Humanitarian aid is not a crime.
Let's bring our Portlanders home.
#pdx #orpol #portland #portlandoregon #oregon
October 7, 2025 at 2:47 AM
I am calling on US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to pressure for the release of Paul and Stephen, two Portlanders who joined the humanitarian flotilla to Gaza.
Humanitarian aid is not a crime.
Let's bring our Portlanders home.
#pdx #orpol #portland #portlandoregon #oregon
Humanitarian aid is not a crime.
Let's bring our Portlanders home.
#pdx #orpol #portland #portlandoregon #oregon
In our Food Issue, @mudede.bsky.social writes about Seattle's street-food scene, and talks to local vendors about some of the hurdles they face as authorities shut down more unpermitted food vendors every year.
Big City, Big Street Food
Seattle is growing. We are becoming big. And with a big city, comes big, delicious food tents.
www.thestranger.com
October 4, 2025 at 11:23 AM