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Councilor Sameer Kanal @councilorkanal.bsky.social · 5h

Portland is a safe city.

#PDX #Portland

Portland ranks No. 4 among U.S. cities for preventing and reducing gun violence

Recognition builds on Portland’s decrease in violent crime .

www.portland.gov

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 8h

Single-stair, right up to France’s 50-meter height limit

Joe Giddings @joegiddings.bsky.social · 19h

This new residential tower in Lyon is made from wood.

In many ways, this is quite an incredible building. Here's why:

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Will Hollingsworth @whollingsworth.bsky.social · 8h

I had forgotten about the park fight!

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 10h

folks they’re calling each other mean names on twitter . . . they’re telling you to drive out to fight them at a park in the middle of the night and, let me tell you, they’re not showing up. oh no. and then they’re looking up your court records, and what they’re finding? it’s very bad.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 10h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 9h

Dire as the stakes are, leaning into absurdist and lighthearted forms of protest seems like a great way to puncture the fantasy Trump & co are spinning to attempt to rationalize a violent crackdown.

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 9h

As the administration goes all in on an alternate reality about portland that bears no resemblance to fact and rule of law, continuing radical (and just plain funny, ridiculing) acts of the imagination along with other ways of getting out the reality on the ground may help curb their momentum.

fake film poster with a sunset and the portland frog protestor with words The Portland War, A Film by Ken Burns

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Genderless Rodent, but Halloween Themed @genderlessrodent.bsky.social · 12h

Just learned the Portland frog is nonbinary and fuck yeah! That's the representation we need!

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 1d

MAGA is freaking out & splintering over a leaked text chain—which TPUSA’s Andrew Kolvet says is real—where Kirk wrote “Just lost another Jewish donor…Jewish donors play into all the stereotypes. I cannot & will not be bullied like this. Leaving me no choice but to leave the pro Israel cause.” 1/

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Marnie Glickman @marniemix.bsky.social · 8h

Watch #Portland City Councilor Angelita Morillo call Kristi Noem a “renowned puppy killer” on CNN. Brava!

Bulldog @harpua.bsky.social · 9h

Portland City Council member Angelita Morillo humorously criticizes Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, leading to laughter from CNN's Boris Sanchez.

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Will Hollingsworth @whollingsworth.bsky.social · 8h

Really killing my dream of five minute headways on the N-S Chris

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Will Hollingsworth @whollingsworth.bsky.social · 11h

If the streetcar is gonna be fubar over the Broadway can we run like triple frequency on the N-S and just see how that goes?

BikePortland @bikeportland.org · 12h

Expect shifts in traffic patterns around the bridge as folks scurry for detours — and get ready to share the south sidewalk!
bikeportland.org/2025/10/09/m...

Major closure of Broadway Bridge begins Monday

Bikes will be prohibited too; but for just four total hours across two days.

bikeportland.org

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BikePortland @bikeportland.org · 12h

Expect shifts in traffic patterns around the bridge as folks scurry for detours — and get ready to share the south sidewalk!
bikeportland.org/2025/10/09/m...

Major closure of Broadway Bridge begins Monday

Bikes will be prohibited too; but for just four total hours across two days.

bikeportland.org

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Will Hollingsworth @whollingsworth.bsky.social · 11h

Don't forget to bring the big tarp. Lotta terrorism to fit under there today.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Will Hollingsworth @whollingsworth.bsky.social · 11h

Pales in comparison to my strategy (crashing in the dark).

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Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 12h

In today’s Labor and Workforce Development Committee happening now, we’re introducing presentations on wage theft in the construction industry and in caregiving. We’ll also discuss the Future Ready Oregon program. www.portland.gov/council/agen...

Labor and Workforce Development Committee | Portland.gov

Subject matter:Internal and external investments in internships, apprenticeship, and job training programs.Apprenticeship and workforce utilization goals.Workforce and workplace policies and worker pr...

www.portland.gov

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Jonathan Maus @jonathanmaus.bsky.social · 11h

So much of what Trump and his cronies say that their enemies are doing is just projection… So the fact that they’re latest line of attack is that Portland/Oregon is “covering up terrorism” is a real tell.

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Tim C @steeple3k.bsky.social · 14h

I created a google doc of the age of current MLS stadiums. This isn't about how long teams have played there, just when the stadium opened. Soldier field is exactly 1 year older than PP, but nothing else comes close.

Chart of MLS Stadium Ages. This has nothing to do with how long the teams have played there, just when the stadium at the location is listed ads opened on wiki.

Portland and Chicago are outliers on the old end, with Vancouver next oldest.

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Emily Hamilton @ebwhamilton.bsky.social · 13h

This Brian Potter post provides a thorough break down of the data on rising pedestrian fatalities in the U.S. open.substack.com/pub/construc...

Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US?

It’s unfortunately not uncommon for pedestrians to be killed by cars in the US.

open.substack.com

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Terry J. Harris @trryjhrrs.bsky.social · 13h

The coming national horror is that if Portland's *truly* minimal level of protest justifies federalizing and deploying troops, they can and will be federalized and deployed anywhere the President wants and whenever he wants.

Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 13h

My initial read on this argument: Judge Nelson is eager to disagree with his 9th Cir. colleagues that federalizing the NG is reviewable at all.

He's also eager to disagree with Judge Immergut that the Portland protests were small and under control.

Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 13h

McArthur about the ICE protesters: "these are violent people." Says the president is entitled to say "enough is enough."

Asks for a stay pending appeal. Sits.

Argument is over.

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Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 14h

Like I said: Kristi Noem is a liar, has no honor, and we are lucky that we have a proud protest tradition that shows this administration we are not backing down. 🫡🐸🐔

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pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 13h

frequency is freedom

David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 17h

The #1 piece of advice that TransLink's CEO offers other North American transit agencies:

Provide frequent service

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 1d

WWII "Friend" poster series from the Allied Forces, originally demonstrating the various Allied forces (British, Australian, Chinese, French, Dutch, etc.) and their appearances

It reads:

"This man is your FRIEND

He fights for FREEDOM"

The image is a sepia/black and white toned image of the Portland Frog protester, simply labelled FROG

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Will Hollingsworth @whollingsworth.bsky.social · 1d

But I already have a frog pin...

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 1d

cut 👏 and 👏 cover

1 million Portlanders by 2045 🌲🌧️🦫🚲🚇 @bradleybondy.com · 1d

When Portland and Metro leadership finally decide to get to work on the downtown MAX tunnel, we're gonna have to be careful to not let them excavate to the and center of the earth in an effort to coddle a couple dozen whiney business owners.

This is so unbelievably wasteful.

Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 1d

I just can't get over the differences in scale between Ballard Link's Westlake Station as proposed and the original Westlake Station, off to the left.

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