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@intersections.bsky.social
Night Mayor, D2.
Portland policy + politics, (inter)national urban affairs.
Blazers, beer + spirits, support the arts, harm reduction saves lives.
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Portland policy + politics, (inter)national urban affairs.
Blazers, beer + spirits, support the arts, harm reduction saves lives.
[he/they]
Upright Brewing going out with a bang. Portland legends who we will be missed.
December 31, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Upright Brewing going out with a bang. Portland legends who we will be missed.
Triple net leases are a ridiculous "ordinary" practice which makes commercial rents infeasible for many emerging and existing businesses. Like what does a commercial landlord even do if you're paying for everything?
One of Portland’s Few Black-Owned Music Venues is Facing Eviction
One of Portland’s few Black-owned music venues is facing eviction from its location in Southeast Portland. The Heights lounge and event space was founded in 2024 by local musician Jermaine Malone. Sin...
www.portlandmercury.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Triple net leases are a ridiculous "ordinary" practice which makes commercial rents infeasible for many emerging and existing businesses. Like what does a commercial landlord even do if you're paying for everything?
This sucks and here's hoping there will be a successful appeal of the appeal. Your chaser is the new McD's on Lombard can't and won't have a drive thru thanks to our forward thinking policy. Obviously we need to close these loopholes on historic/histrionic drive thrus, but we also have W's here.
Update: the city will allow the DQ drive-thru.
www.portlandmercury.com/news/2025/12...
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www.portlandmercury.com/news/2025/12...
efiles.portlandoregon.gov/record/17614...
Drive-Thru Debacle Threatens to Keep Historic Dairy Queen in a Deep Freeze
Over the past few years, Portlanders have heard little about the plan to rebuild the old Dairy Queen on Southeast Division and 56th Ave. The Dairy Queen, which was demolished in 2019 after more than 5...
www.portlandmercury.com
December 30, 2025 at 8:36 PM
This sucks and here's hoping there will be a successful appeal of the appeal. Your chaser is the new McD's on Lombard can't and won't have a drive thru thanks to our forward thinking policy. Obviously we need to close these loopholes on historic/histrionic drive thrus, but we also have W's here.
Happy New Year! 🙃
Article TLDR: ODOT/PBOT are hosed, I bet Salem repeals HB 3115, city council is in for a rough go of it the next time they send something to the voters this decade that’s not school related, and we are gunna need to fight like hell for P4A
December 30, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Happy New Year! 🙃
nice to feel like the internet is fun again, if just for a fleeting moment
December 30, 2025 at 8:05 PM
nice to feel like the internet is fun again, if just for a fleeting moment
Really tired of the near daily power outages with pacific power in inner NE Portland.
December 30, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Really tired of the near daily power outages with pacific power in inner NE Portland.
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I both love and loathe that we make trimet free on drinking holidays. Showing both how important it is and that we generally, as a society, don't care about how important it is
TriMet and C-Tran will once again offer free rides on public transportation on New Year's Eve.
Portland New Year’s Eve: Need a ride? Consider these options for getting home safely
TriMet and C-Tran will once again offer free rides on public transportation on New Year's Eve.
www.oregonlive.com
December 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I both love and loathe that we make trimet free on drinking holidays. Showing both how important it is and that we generally, as a society, don't care about how important it is
> At the same time, the review found that recent randomized controlled trials involving products mainly or only containing cannabidiol, or CBD, which does not have psychoactive properties, demonstrated almost no improvement in managing pain.
A new systematic evidence review finds short-term improvements in #PainManagement for cannabis products high in #THC, but they’re also high in side effects like sedation, dizziness & nausea. https://news.ohsu.edu/2025/12/22/cannabis-products-with-more-thc-slightly-reduce-pain-cause-more-side-effects
Cannabis products with more THC slightly reduce pain, cause more side effects
Research review also finds products higher in CBD than THC have almost no benefit in reducing pain.
news.ohsu.edu
December 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM
> At the same time, the review found that recent randomized controlled trials involving products mainly or only containing cannabidiol, or CBD, which does not have psychoactive properties, demonstrated almost no improvement in managing pain.
Majorly bummed after learn
Ing that MetroPaint, the Portland metro regional paint recycling and resale program, is closing. 🎨💔
Ing that MetroPaint, the Portland metro regional paint recycling and resale program, is closing. 🎨💔
December 28, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Majorly bummed after learn
Ing that MetroPaint, the Portland metro regional paint recycling and resale program, is closing. 🎨💔
Ing that MetroPaint, the Portland metro regional paint recycling and resale program, is closing. 🎨💔
Be like Blake. #ripcity
Trail Blazers player treats homeless man to Christmas Eve meal in random act of kindness
Blake Wesley noticed a man wearing a Blazers cap and invited him to share a meal, continuing a tradition of community service instilled by his parents.
www.oregonlive.com
December 27, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Be like Blake. #ripcity
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Merry Christmas, everyone!
Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years
An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Merry Christmas, everyone!
💚❤️
We printed 2 holiday cards for our @trimet.org drivers today!
They'll both get a gift as well. Thank you drivers!
They'll both get a gift as well. Thank you drivers!
December 24, 2025 at 11:32 PM
💚❤️
How do you feel about Gov. Kotek championing wide austerity measures in social media posts to Oregonians on Christmas Eve, 2025 edition?
Let her office and campaign know, through all available channels.
www.oregon.gov/gov/pages/sh...
Let her office and campaign know, through all available channels.
www.oregon.gov/gov/pages/sh...
December 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM
How do you feel about Gov. Kotek championing wide austerity measures in social media posts to Oregonians on Christmas Eve, 2025 edition?
Let her office and campaign know, through all available channels.
www.oregon.gov/gov/pages/sh...
Let her office and campaign know, through all available channels.
www.oregon.gov/gov/pages/sh...
I just learned that the Lloyd Safeway was open until 1am back in 2014, thanks to this zine.
December 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I just learned that the Lloyd Safeway was open until 1am back in 2014, thanks to this zine.
Forced to leave toddler behind.
FORCED TO LEAVE TODDLER BEHIND.
FORCED TO LEAVE TODDLER BEHIND.
December 23, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Forced to leave toddler behind.
FORCED TO LEAVE TODDLER BEHIND.
FORCED TO LEAVE TODDLER BEHIND.
I had no idea there was a group trying to save the mall. While I await the wrecking ball with furtive glee, I do think Cllr. Dunphy is onto something important here which is the city needs to be more involved in transforming outmoded commercial spaces into new incubators of creativity and small biz.
4) I met with Matthew Henderson from Save Lloyd www.savelloyd.com
Lloyd Center is vibrant in a way it hasn't been in 20 years. This is what happens when you give entreprenuers access to afordable retail space and the freedom to try something different.
How does the City facilitate more of this?
Lloyd Center is vibrant in a way it hasn't been in 20 years. This is what happens when you give entreprenuers access to afordable retail space and the freedom to try something different.
How does the City facilitate more of this?
Save Lloyd Center Mall
www.savelloyd.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I had no idea there was a group trying to save the mall. While I await the wrecking ball with furtive glee, I do think Cllr. Dunphy is onto something important here which is the city needs to be more involved in transforming outmoded commercial spaces into new incubators of creativity and small biz.
OR-6 is fucked again after this recent storm. Imagine if ODOT cared as much about rural highways as it does expanding urban freeways.
December 20, 2025 at 7:06 AM
OR-6 is fucked again after this recent storm. Imagine if ODOT cared as much about rural highways as it does expanding urban freeways.
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best comment goes to “the fuck were they doing all that math for”
UPDATE: House Democrats did not immediately respond for comment on why the Epstein Dropbox files were left open for comment but it appears that the feature has now been turned off. @evystadium.bsky.social gets into what happened.
@mjgault.bsky.social has the story: www.404media.co/the-governme...
@mjgault.bsky.social has the story: www.404media.co/the-governme...
December 18, 2025 at 10:05 PM
best comment goes to “the fuck were they doing all that math for”
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FOUR new deaths in ICE detention. That puts the total this year at 30 people dead; the highest in ICE's history and worse than even during the COVID years.
It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.
It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.
In the 90 minutes since I posted this, I've gotten two more death notifications.
ICE has a responsibility to take care of these people, something they are clearly disregarding. This is beyond horrifying. We must ensure dignity and humanity for detained people in this country.
ICE has a responsibility to take care of these people, something they are clearly disregarding. This is beyond horrifying. We must ensure dignity and humanity for detained people in this country.
Within 15 minutes today, I got two back-to-back notifications of deaths at ICE facilities.
28 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office. These facilities are overcrowded & are putting their own profits over health and safety. We need oversight & accountability NOW.
28 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office. These facilities are overcrowded & are putting their own profits over health and safety. We need oversight & accountability NOW.
December 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
FOUR new deaths in ICE detention. That puts the total this year at 30 people dead; the highest in ICE's history and worse than even during the COVID years.
It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.
It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.
“ICE parked b/w the portables and the main school, in ski masks. Assault rifles visible in the car. Hundreds of students walk through there every day. BSD has an 8-step protocol, but none of it includes a lockdown. Someone with guns looking to kidnap students, that’s obviously a lockdown scenario.”
Another student walkout happening now at Beaverton School District schools in Oregon demanding proactive protocols for ICE activity near schools. The walkout last week had a massive turnout and even resulted in some students from one of the middle schools who participated being suspended.
Beaverton Students Stage Largest Walkout in Years Amid Silence and Inaction from District
By late morning on December 8th, the rain in Beaverton, Oregon was coming down hard, flood-warning hard. But at 10 a.m., students poured out from their classrooms anyway, chanting through the wind and...
www.wewillfreeus.org
December 18, 2025 at 12:54 AM
“ICE parked b/w the portables and the main school, in ski masks. Assault rifles visible in the car. Hundreds of students walk through there every day. BSD has an 8-step protocol, but none of it includes a lockdown. Someone with guns looking to kidnap students, that’s obviously a lockdown scenario.”
Oregon's budget is running on fumes while we have no sales tax, we have the harebrained kicker, severe caps on property taxes, and yet we're platforming "but the estate tax!!" takes in 2025??
I've got a few issues with this piece scrutinizing Oregon's estate tax (AKA wealth tax) but the big one is labeling it a "story produced by the Oregon Journalism Project," an investigative nonprofit, when it's clearly a submitted commentary/opinion piece:
www.wweek.com/news/state/2...
www.wweek.com/news/state/2...
Oregon: No Place to Die
Oregonians in their golden years are advised to leave the state to avoid the estate tax, and no one is tracking the number who do.
www.wweek.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Oregon's budget is running on fumes while we have no sales tax, we have the harebrained kicker, severe caps on property taxes, and yet we're platforming "but the estate tax!!" takes in 2025??
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Family, community mourns Portland man shot dead while working at convenience store
Santi Ram Rai was a singer, raised two young children and volunteered as a youth coordinator for an organization that helped the children of fellow refugees from Bhutan.
Santi Ram Rai was a singer, raised two young children and volunteered as a youth coordinator for an organization that helped the children of fellow refugees from Bhutan.
‘Heartbroken and uncertain’: Portland shooting of Bhutanese refugee leaves family, community in mourning
Santi Ram Rai, 33, was a husband and father of two who was deeply involved in his community.
www.oregonlive.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Family, community mourns Portland man shot dead while working at convenience store
Santi Ram Rai was a singer, raised two young children and volunteered as a youth coordinator for an organization that helped the children of fellow refugees from Bhutan.
Santi Ram Rai was a singer, raised two young children and volunteered as a youth coordinator for an organization that helped the children of fellow refugees from Bhutan.