Kori 🌹
@koriander.bsky.social
he/him, 30 y/o, Chemical Engineering Badger. Likes cooking, climate freak, WV ➡️ PDX. Probably yelling @ my electeds
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@koriander.bsky.social
· May 29
Ecosocialist Working Group Releases Transit Rider Survey Report - Portland DSA
Portland DSA’s Ecosocialist Working Group aims to influence Salem policymakers to do better for under-served frequent riders.
portlanddsa.org
This spring, we got on @trimet.org to survey 300+ regular transit riders about their needs. Riders want frequency, better shelters and unarmed rider ambassadors.
Please check out my article in The Thorn! It has a link to the full report.
portlanddsa.org/ecosocialist...
Please check out my article in The Thorn! It has a link to the full report.
portlanddsa.org/ecosocialist...
Hear me out: in the voters pamphlet it might be compelling to show some transit & housing projects with scale, in addition to all the great individual benefit stuff.
A citizen ballot initiative backed by the Portland Police Association will seek to reroute 25% of revenues from the Portland Clean Energy Fund tax to fund the hiring of 400 additional police officers.
Ballot Initiative Will Seek to Reroute 25% of Climate Tax Revenues to Hiring Police
Sophie Peel
www.wweek.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Hear me out: in the voters pamphlet it might be compelling to show some transit & housing projects with scale, in addition to all the great individual benefit stuff.
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Advocates are celebrating a small win that makes a big difference in their lawsuit against the city after an appeals court ruled in their favor Thursday. A state land use board that understands complicated land use law better than the city's preferred Multnomah County court will hear their case.
Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Environmental Advocates in Zenith Energy Lawsuit
Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Environmental Advocates in Zenith Energy Lawsuit. Environmental advocates celebrated the procedural win, saying the Land Use Board of Appeals has a better grasp on comp...
www.portlandmercury.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Advocates are celebrating a small win that makes a big difference in their lawsuit against the city after an appeals court ruled in their favor Thursday. A state land use board that understands complicated land use law better than the city's preferred Multnomah County court will hear their case.
Big @portlanddsa.bsky.social presence in this OPB article.
Also read the awesome @jeremiahhayden.bsky.social piece in @portlandmercury.com but I had to share this one cuz I’m in the thumbnail
Also read the awesome @jeremiahhayden.bsky.social piece in @portlandmercury.com but I had to share this one cuz I’m in the thumbnail
Portland city councilors rejected a plan Wednesday to cut millions from the city program that removes homeless camps, after a lengthy and contentious council meeting.
Portland city councilors reject plan to cut millions from homeless camp removal program
Portland city councilors rejected a plan Wednesday to cut millions from the city program that removes homeless camps, after a lengthy and contentious council meeting.
www.opb.org
November 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Big @portlanddsa.bsky.social presence in this OPB article.
Also read the awesome @jeremiahhayden.bsky.social piece in @portlandmercury.com but I had to share this one cuz I’m in the thumbnail
Also read the awesome @jeremiahhayden.bsky.social piece in @portlandmercury.com but I had to share this one cuz I’m in the thumbnail
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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Seattle has had a series of mayors who got elected promising to “finally” use police to crack down on homelessness — the existing policy that every previous mayor has deployed.
Once they get into office they don’t deliver because it doesn’t work. We waste four years and the problem gets worse.
Once they get into office they don’t deliver because it doesn’t work. We waste four years and the problem gets worse.
The story about the gun got buried, virtually nobody in any position of influence talked about it. The more significant element of this was money. The business class within Seattle really liked his harsh-crackdowns-on-unhoused-people policy, and they put a lot of resources behind his campaign.
November 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Seattle has had a series of mayors who got elected promising to “finally” use police to crack down on homelessness — the existing policy that every previous mayor has deployed.
Once they get into office they don’t deliver because it doesn’t work. We waste four years and the problem gets worse.
Once they get into office they don’t deliver because it doesn’t work. We waste four years and the problem gets worse.
Thank you for working so hard to do the right thing. Someday your colleagues will have always been against sweeps.
I’m disappointed that we didn’t pass our amendment to redirect money from sweeps to upstream solutions like rental assistance, food assistance and immigrant and refugee support. But, I’m proud of the work that went into it and the absolute resolve in my colleague @councilormorillo.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Thank you for working so hard to do the right thing. Someday your colleagues will have always been against sweeps.
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Invoking climate change and LA/HI urban wildfires to justify further homeless sweeps is some 400-level Bodies And Spaces Nonsense.
November 13, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Invoking climate change and LA/HI urban wildfires to justify further homeless sweeps is some 400-level Bodies And Spaces Nonsense.
Fehrenbacher hof owner (who is a 13 unit landlord) testifying for sweeps kinda betrays the hippie bohemian vibe they cultivated….
November 13, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Fehrenbacher hof owner (who is a 13 unit landlord) testifying for sweeps kinda betrays the hippie bohemian vibe they cultivated….
No one ride train. Cut budget. Unga bunga
November 12, 2025 at 11:39 PM
No one ride train. Cut budget. Unga bunga
Idk about you but I’d rather experience a poor person yelling on the train than be in a plane crash.
We gotta listen to this guy piss and moan about subway crime and he's out here saying "I can't guarantee safety"
Sean Duffy: "I can't guarantee safety"
November 11, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Idk about you but I’d rather experience a poor person yelling on the train than be in a plane crash.
Support not sweeps. We don’t have to live like this.
ACTION ALERT:
Join Portland: Neighbors Welcome in submitting testimony to Portland City Council in support of Councilor Morillo's Fall Budget amendment to fund support, not sweeps, for our neighbors.
portlandneighborswelcome.org/supportnotsw...
Join Portland: Neighbors Welcome in submitting testimony to Portland City Council in support of Councilor Morillo's Fall Budget amendment to fund support, not sweeps, for our neighbors.
portlandneighborswelcome.org/supportnotsw...
November 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Support not sweeps. We don’t have to live like this.
I don’t feel *good* about this! I want to see Lids Not Lanes. But maintaining the transit service we already have will always take priority over this.
After years of delay and months of very bad news, ODOT staff will ask their bosses if it's finally time to pull the plug.
bikeportland.org/2025/11/11/i...
bikeportland.org/2025/11/11/i...
Is this the end? State transportation commission could defund I-5 Rose Quarter project
Project staff call the question after eight years of planning and little progress to show for it.
bikeportland.org
November 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I don’t feel *good* about this! I want to see Lids Not Lanes. But maintaining the transit service we already have will always take priority over this.
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This is not what they actually say. This is what they used to say, in the long ago before times when Shaheen learned to do politics. There is no kumbaya median voter anymore. The question you get knocking doors is not "why can't you all just work together?" it's "why didn't / will you fight harder?
Shaheen: "When I talk to my constituents in New Hampshire, you know what they say to me? They say, 'Why can't you all just work together to address the problems that are facing this country?'"
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 AM
This is not what they actually say. This is what they used to say, in the long ago before times when Shaheen learned to do politics. There is no kumbaya median voter anymore. The question you get knocking doors is not "why can't you all just work together?" it's "why didn't / will you fight harder?
I don’t think people understand how organized pro-sweep turnout will be to wednesdays council meeting.
Register for item 8 ASAP. If you can’t make it, testify in writing:
www.portland.gov/council/agenda
Register for item 8 ASAP. If you can’t make it, testify in writing:
www.portland.gov/council/agenda
November 10, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I don’t think people understand how organized pro-sweep turnout will be to wednesdays council meeting.
Register for item 8 ASAP. If you can’t make it, testify in writing:
www.portland.gov/council/agenda
Register for item 8 ASAP. If you can’t make it, testify in writing:
www.portland.gov/council/agenda
Stadium hood ⚠️ is trying to whip testimony against @councilormorillo.bsky.social ‘s Wednesday budget amendment, to redirect sweeps $$$ into rental assistance! This is your sign to write/show up
November 8, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Stadium hood ⚠️ is trying to whip testimony against @councilormorillo.bsky.social ‘s Wednesday budget amendment, to redirect sweeps $$$ into rental assistance! This is your sign to write/show up
“What you get is a piece making the various more or less bovine noises of studious grey-lady impartiality, with the labor of anything resembling ‘appraisal’ surgically excised.”
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM
“What you get is a piece making the various more or less bovine noises of studious grey-lady impartiality, with the labor of anything resembling ‘appraisal’ surgically excised.”
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We like to think that these signs made by our Art Department were critical in this effort to crush the President's stupid dreams
November 8, 2025 at 2:13 AM
We like to think that these signs made by our Art Department were critical in this effort to crush the President's stupid dreams
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We’re on the right track! Make sure you track your ballot to confirm it is accepted, NOT challenged. Check our links in bio to do so! More votes will be counted on Monday!
November 8, 2025 at 12:32 AM
We’re on the right track! Make sure you track your ballot to confirm it is accepted, NOT challenged. Check our links in bio to do so! More votes will be counted on Monday!
Ask me how I know 💀
this always gets pushback but try living in a state with a "part time" legislature that receives a small salary and you wind up with a government run by bail bondsman and guys who own boat dealerships
The Mayor of New York only makes $260k. I bet there are police that make more than that in NY with overtime.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
November 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Ask me how I know 💀
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1/ Seattle! 2000 ballots need signatures (updates or didn't sign)!! Tell your friends to check their ballot status here: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/... And if you have time between now & Nov. 14, volunteer to help cure votes: linktr.ee/Wilsonforsea... ("Ballot Chasing for Katie Wilson")
November 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
1/ Seattle! 2000 ballots need signatures (updates or didn't sign)!! Tell your friends to check their ballot status here: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/... And if you have time between now & Nov. 14, volunteer to help cure votes: linktr.ee/Wilsonforsea... ("Ballot Chasing for Katie Wilson")
This would be such a win!! I would die for this (mildly inconvenience myself)
Portland City Council will consider an amendment next week to redirect $4.3 million from the city program that sweeps homeless encampments. If passed, the budget adjustment will instead invest $2 million in rent and food assistance, and support for immigrants and refugees.
City Council Mulling $4.3 Million Cut From Homeless Sweeps Budget
“We’re in a position right now, where people are going to end up being unhoused for the long-term, and we have to take action,” City Councilor Angelita Morillo said, explaining a proposal to divert fu...
www.portlandmercury.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
This would be such a win!! I would die for this (mildly inconvenience myself)
A lot of amazing testimony from really cool people at today’s policy and budget committee!! @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social @rylieringtail.bsky.social I’m sure I’m missing people who I’m not sure on bsky…. Anyone know if it was recorded anywhere? 👀 @trimet.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
A lot of amazing testimony from really cool people at today’s policy and budget committee!! @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social @rylieringtail.bsky.social I’m sure I’m missing people who I’m not sure on bsky…. Anyone know if it was recorded anywhere? 👀 @trimet.org
Me and the homies trying to get a bus to run late enough that we can stay out all night at a bar
November 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Me and the homies trying to get a bus to run late enough that we can stay out all night at a bar