Could see more of a rationale to it if you had demonstrated an ability to fund your own priorities & programs, instead of, you know, spending the last week of session attacking Preschool for All while your legislative supermajority failed to pass a transportation bill: prospect.org/2025/07/18/2...

Making devastating cuts to our own budget simply implements Trump's plan to make rich people richer. Our supermajority should decouple Oregon from this new federal tax regime. It doesn't work for us. 4/4

i am not going to be posting "oh please won't everybody vote for this crappy dinky little tax increase so we can run the snowplows in madras but not have any money for anything i care about" get rid of mark meek and then we'll talk

*visits Ireland once*

At a time when Portlanders are suffering from an affordability crisis, when thousands face threat of eviction, we have an obligation to act to protect the half of our population who rent. Bad faith slandering from right wing colleagues won’t deter me from fighting for tenants.

After all the dismissiveness and misleading presentation of growth rates, there's basically no escaping the fact that US data centre growth is a globally significant story that is directly incentivising new fossil fuel use and infrastructure growth

Feeling pretty vindicated, given last year's WEO

You guys realize that taxing people to pay for services isn't socialism, right? This is just how governments work.

Here's another piece about how Portland's methods, ie sweeps without bountiful supportive housing and services for people to be "swept" into, do not work, and kill people www.propublica.org/article/port...