If you are in the Portland metro please support a local collective of women farmworkers and get a beautiful wreath! www.mujeresluchadoras.org/shop/p/2024-...

In the week since Mayor Wilson began enforcing the public camping ban, we are seeing MORE tents in East Portland. Those folks are just being swept into my district.

I told the mayor that this is what would happen and asked him to bring extra resources to East PDX to meet the displaced. He did not.

Still waiting for the live cam of all the billionnaires packing up their NYC apartments to move to Ohio

Not sure whose fault it is primarily that most people don't seem to know that the president is basically a manager whose job is to carry out the will of Congress, and not The Country's Boss

They were fighting fires burning through the Pacific Northwest. Federal agents arrested firefighters, more reign of terror on immigrants as Trump rapidly expands policing and paramilitary forces

Oregon moves one step closer to passing one of the most substantive local news funding bills in the country, requiring Google and Meta pay for news content they’ve used for free to grow their enormous profits while newsrooms shutter from lost revenue
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Great work from @maxbernstein.bsky.social and the Oregonian fighting to get a recruiting email from the state police SWAT team that repeatedly glorified violence.

#OtD 26 Apr 1982 the Bradford 12 trial began of 12 Asian youths arrested for preparing to defend their community from fascists. The defence argued PoC had the right to self-defence from racist attacks & all 12 were acquitted. More in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/2019/09/18/e...

“But Spoon’s tactics represented a new avenue of attack. For farm owners, it raises the possibility that speaking out — or running for office or backing the wrong bill — could trigger a political enemy to try to call down an ICE raid.”

If you’re in Portland, OR, come organize with @pdxforall.bsky.social or @friendsofpsr.bsky.social . We’re making lots of good trouble.

Council President vote new recap:

Pretty much everyone voting for Avalos has made an impassioned speech about why she will be an even leader.

So far, I've not really heard anything impassioned about Clark. This is Old Guard bullshit.

friends and colleagues of any generation: I invite and welcome this constructive input

Grateful for ranked choice voting and charter reforms in Portland.

The election is over and now is the time to plan what’s next. Join Next Up Action and Portland for All for What’s next, Portland? Nov. 26, 5:30 pm. RSVP at portlandforall.org/events

Despite public perception, Metro data shows housed residents are responsible for most waste dumped on public property in Portland.