Kari Chisholm
@karichisholm.bsky.social
Politics. College Football. Oregon Wine.
I ❤️ Portland. YIMBY.
I ❤️ Portland. YIMBY.
Oregon needs statewide tax reform. Which leads to the question: What’s a major tax reform proposal that you think would start at 55% or better before the opposition messaging starts? (Spoiler: no one has found one yet…)
August 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Oregon needs statewide tax reform. Which leads to the question: What’s a major tax reform proposal that you think would start at 55% or better before the opposition messaging starts? (Spoiler: no one has found one yet…)
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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
Wow. The Trump effect.
March 3, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Wow. The Trump effect.
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Practically none of the 18 zillion people on here who blame the DNC for things it has no control over are angry about it screwing up one of the few things it does.
Come on morons, get angry, this is your time to shine!
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...
Come on morons, get angry, this is your time to shine!
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...
The Democratic Party Reconsiders a Huge, Vulnerable Database of Voter Information (Gift Article)
The party’s storehouse of everything it knows about American voters required an extraordinary intervention to keep it running, people involved said. A meltdown could have crippled its campaigns nation...
www.nytimes.com
March 1, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Practically none of the 18 zillion people on here who blame the DNC for things it has no control over are angry about it screwing up one of the few things it does.
Come on morons, get angry, this is your time to shine!
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...
Come on morons, get angry, this is your time to shine!
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...
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As of today, a new term has entered our language. A “rubio” is a spineless lump of nothing. Example: Don’t be such a rubio.
March 1, 2025 at 4:03 AM
As of today, a new term has entered our language. A “rubio” is a spineless lump of nothing. Example: Don’t be such a rubio.
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Great story about Portland’s new mayor, Ted Lasso, er, Keith Wilson by @shanedkavanaugh.bsky.social
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
‘Real Ted Lasso vibes’: Inside Portland Mayor Keith Wilson’s first days at City Hall
Wilson, 61, is the first mayor to seize the reins at a radically transformed Portland City Hall, where he is both the figurehead and cheerleader of Oregon’s most populous city and a steward of its vas...
www.oregonlive.com
February 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Great story about Portland’s new mayor, Ted Lasso, er, Keith Wilson by @shanedkavanaugh.bsky.social
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
C’mon Portland!
🚨 NEWS 🚨
Spokane is poised to completely eliminate height limits downtown in order to spur housing growth and economic development.
The policy will use the same interim zoning ordinance pathway successfully used to legalize plexes citywide and make parking entirely optional in new development.
Spokane is poised to completely eliminate height limits downtown in order to spur housing growth and economic development.
The policy will use the same interim zoning ordinance pathway successfully used to legalize plexes citywide and make parking entirely optional in new development.
Interim Zoning Ordinance Would Eliminate Building Height Limits
Proposal aims to spur housing construction, economic development
my.spokanecity.org
February 13, 2025 at 6:17 AM
C’mon Portland!
Some very important lessons for anyone that actually wants government to help people.
Opinion | This Is How Democrats Can Counter Elon Musk (Gift Article)
Recklessness will not get us to a revitalized government, but neither will excessive caution and addiction to procedure.
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Some very important lessons for anyone that actually wants government to help people.
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Opening the James Beard Public Market will highlight Oregon as a “culinary capital of the world,” the group's executive director said.
James Beard Public Market buys downtown Portland building, eyes 2025 partial opening
Opening the James Beard Public Market will highlight Oregon as a “culinary capital of the world,” the group's executive director said.
www.oregonlive.com
January 18, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Opening the James Beard Public Market will highlight Oregon as a “culinary capital of the world,” the group's executive director said.
Let’s gooooooooo!!
Whammy.
James Beard Public Market buys downtown Portland building, eyes 2025 partial opening
www.oregonlive.com/dining/2025/...
James Beard Public Market buys downtown Portland building, eyes 2025 partial opening
www.oregonlive.com/dining/2025/...
James Beard Public Market buys downtown Portland building, eyes 2025 partial opening
Opening the James Beard Public Market will highlight Oregon as a “culinary capital of the world,” the group's executive director said.
www.oregonlive.com
January 18, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Let’s gooooooooo!!
Wow, this is powerful stuff. “Why are Democrats afraid of power?”
It’s a long read, but worth every minute of it.
It’s a long read, but worth every minute of it.
Lots of critiques of the Democrats rest of shaky arguments about messaging and priorities among DC leadership. But that's not the real reason we should be raking them over the coals
The Crisis of Democratic Governance
State Democrats have failed to deliver what the American people want.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 17, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Wow, this is powerful stuff. “Why are Democrats afraid of power?”
It’s a long read, but worth every minute of it.
It’s a long read, but worth every minute of it.
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Lots of critiques of the Democrats rest of shaky arguments about messaging and priorities among DC leadership. But that's not the real reason we should be raking them over the coals
The Crisis of Democratic Governance
State Democrats have failed to deliver what the American people want.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Lots of critiques of the Democrats rest of shaky arguments about messaging and priorities among DC leadership. But that's not the real reason we should be raking them over the coals
You guys. This. This right here. Build all the housing.
Yes. Building ANY housing, including luxury housing, is good, because the wealthy person then has a shiny new luxury apartment to buy instead of buying an old brownstone to "refurbish" which includes displacing the 6 existing tenants.
January 16, 2025 at 8:00 AM
You guys. This. This right here. Build all the housing.
This is really good stuff from @mattyglesias.bsky.social, particularly the stuff on the intersection of immigration policy and housing policy.
Great recap by @mattyglesias.bsky.social on why skilled immigration is beneficial. I especially think the closing sentence should be taught in schools—particularly in my home country, Italy: "the more you try to add up supply constriction, the poorer everyone gets."
open.substack.com/pub/matthewy...
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Skilled immigration is good
But bad housing policy can ruin anything
open.substack.com
January 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This is really good stuff from @mattyglesias.bsky.social, particularly the stuff on the intersection of immigration policy and housing policy.
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If you’re pitting urban trees against infill housing you’re doing environmentalism wrong. The threat to our urban forest isn’t development, it’s the climate crisis. New housing within the city helps lower emissions and saves trees.
Activists halt Lake City tree removal, seek compromise with developer to preserve trees
There’s a growing new fight to save two trees in Seattle’s Lake City neighborhood.
komonews.com
January 5, 2025 at 5:24 AM
If you’re pitting urban trees against infill housing you’re doing environmentalism wrong. The threat to our urban forest isn’t development, it’s the climate crisis. New housing within the city helps lower emissions and saves trees.
This. Is. Extraordinary. www.instagram.com/reel/DD-MPWA...
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January 4, 2025 at 7:43 AM
This. Is. Extraordinary. www.instagram.com/reel/DD-MPWA...
I’ve always been super impressed by Sen. Schatz, who might be Schumer’s successor. This interview is really good and important. All the way to the end.
Sen. @schatz.bsky.social argues that Democrats need to stop saying things that are “egregiously weird sounding” to echo activists and academics and instead speak like normal people.
“But it’s also just alienating. This magic words thing has to go away.”
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
“But it’s also just alienating. This magic words thing has to go away.”
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
December 28, 2024 at 4:03 PM
I’ve always been super impressed by Sen. Schatz, who might be Schumer’s successor. This interview is really good and important. All the way to the end.
Go Shoreline, WA. We can do this, Oregon!
Shoreline just amended its comp plan to get rid of parking requirements in 6 months. Passes 6 to 1.
Hell yeah!
Hell yeah!
December 17, 2024 at 7:40 AM
Go Shoreline, WA. We can do this, Oregon!
And yet, it’s the digital fundraising strategy of most Democrats!
(except the clients of my former firm…)
(except the clients of my former firm…)
“actually, only bad things will ever happen” is an intensely fucking irritating thing to read dozens of times per day
December 17, 2024 at 4:24 AM
And yet, it’s the digital fundraising strategy of most Democrats!
(except the clients of my former firm…)
(except the clients of my former firm…)
Yes! THIS! To save the planet from climate catastrophe, we need a RAPID buildout of transmission capacity to move all that new wind and solar power to the people who need it. Stop with the small-minded NIMBY objections. The planet is at stake!
Attention Portland environmental groups: stop saying you are supportive of renewable energy and then immediately oppose transmission and infrastructure projects. Your NIMBYism and clogging up things with lawsuits is just helping the fossil fuel industry. #pdx
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/o...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/o...
Opinion | Climate Activists Need to Radically Change Their Approach Under Trump (Gift Article)
Climate purity is a recipe for failure.
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2024 at 9:18 AM
Yes! THIS! To save the planet from climate catastrophe, we need a RAPID buildout of transmission capacity to move all that new wind and solar power to the people who need it. Stop with the small-minded NIMBY objections. The planet is at stake!
More evidence that the fundamental cleavage in American politics isn’t race, income, church-going, or homeownership. It’s educational attainment.
Percentage of residents with a college degree by Oregon House of Representative district (2024)
December 15, 2024 at 7:37 PM
More evidence that the fundamental cleavage in American politics isn’t race, income, church-going, or homeownership. It’s educational attainment.
Bravo! @adambonica.bsky.social is right on. How many times can we tell people "we're going to lose!" before they believe that... we're going to lose? Why are we actively demotivating our best supporters?!
Dems are drowning supporters in manipulative fundraising emails & texts.
In my @msnbc.com op-ed, I argue it's time to end these disrespectful tactics & return to treating supporters as partners in progress—not just as ATMs.
Leadership is about more than just fundraising. So is winning.
In my @msnbc.com op-ed, I argue it's time to end these disrespectful tactics & return to treating supporters as partners in progress—not just as ATMs.
Leadership is about more than just fundraising. So is winning.
Opinion | Democrats’ fundraising tactics aren’t just annoying. They’re backfiring.
We need a frank discussion about Democratic fundraising practices and their long-term consequences.
www.msnbc.com
December 15, 2024 at 3:27 PM
Bravo! @adambonica.bsky.social is right on. How many times can we tell people "we're going to lose!" before they believe that... we're going to lose? Why are we actively demotivating our best supporters?!
Great column by @robertcruickshank.com.
As Barack Obama said, “If we want to make it easier for young people to buy a home, we need to build more units—and clear away some of the outdated laws and regulations that made it harder to build homes for working people.”
prospect.org/infrastructu...
As Barack Obama said, “If we want to make it easier for young people to buy a home, we need to build more units—and clear away some of the outdated laws and regulations that made it harder to build homes for working people.”
prospect.org/infrastructu...
Make It Legal to Build
The Yes In My Backyard, or YIMBY, movement believes that solving the housing shortage entails removing impediments to adding supply.
prospect.org
December 13, 2024 at 4:04 PM
Great column by @robertcruickshank.com.
As Barack Obama said, “If we want to make it easier for young people to buy a home, we need to build more units—and clear away some of the outdated laws and regulations that made it harder to build homes for working people.”
prospect.org/infrastructu...
As Barack Obama said, “If we want to make it easier for young people to buy a home, we need to build more units—and clear away some of the outdated laws and regulations that made it harder to build homes for working people.”
prospect.org/infrastructu...
Big news for PDX and for Portland!
Alaska Airlines’ CEO on plans for growth at Portland podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
December 11, 2024 at 2:27 PM
Big news for PDX and for Portland!