Mike
@outdoorsenjoyer.bsky.social
Sanctimonious enviro guy.
Portland-based public interest lawyer
Portland-based public interest lawyer
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🗞 In the new issue of Street Roots: Six months of data showing every instance between January and June 2025 in which workers through the city’s Impact Reduction Program took the homes or belongings of people living outdoors.
Purchase this week's issue: streetroots.org/vendors#locate
Purchase this week's issue: streetroots.org/vendors#locate
December 31, 2025 at 4:01 PM
🗞 In the new issue of Street Roots: Six months of data showing every instance between January and June 2025 in which workers through the city’s Impact Reduction Program took the homes or belongings of people living outdoors.
Purchase this week's issue: streetroots.org/vendors#locate
Purchase this week's issue: streetroots.org/vendors#locate
It would have been my B5 S4 avant (11 years) but I think the Syncro eclipsed it this year (yes I am a masochist)
December 2, 2025 at 1:09 AM
It would have been my B5 S4 avant (11 years) but I think the Syncro eclipsed it this year (yes I am a masochist)
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They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,
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i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times
October 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times
Will these guys ever shut the fuck up?
“It’s not war ravaged. It was war ravaged. And the damage that’s been done to Portland is really, really, really sad. …"
Portland is ‘not a war zone’ but bears scars of 2020, Oregon’s only GOP member of Congress says
“It certainly is war ravaged,” the eastern Oregon representative said, noting he wants Portland police to “step up and do their job.”
www.oregonlive.com
October 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Will these guys ever shut the fuck up?
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No shade to this particular person but I hate how often we have to learn this. If you lay down they will trample you, if you surrender they will kill you, if you’re “peaceful” you’re a sitting duck
This is insane. I was at the Portland protest yesterday. We were peaceful. We stayed off ice property. They came out and attacked us with pepper bullets, tear gas, shoving, pepper spraying in eyes. The injustice is horrific. This was a group of all ages, neighbors, portlanders
October 5, 2025 at 11:26 PM
No shade to this particular person but I hate how often we have to learn this. If you lay down they will trample you, if you surrender they will kill you, if you’re “peaceful” you’re a sitting duck
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Friends, this is why class analysis is important. The ruling class is small, but they are in lockstep.
They are not ordinary Portlanders no matter how many times they assert it or create PACs with names like "People for Portland" or "We Are Ordinary Portlanders"
They have different interests.
They are not ordinary Portlanders no matter how many times they assert it or create PACs with names like "People for Portland" or "We Are Ordinary Portlanders"
They have different interests.
October 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Friends, this is why class analysis is important. The ruling class is small, but they are in lockstep.
They are not ordinary Portlanders no matter how many times they assert it or create PACs with names like "People for Portland" or "We Are Ordinary Portlanders"
They have different interests.
They are not ordinary Portlanders no matter how many times they assert it or create PACs with names like "People for Portland" or "We Are Ordinary Portlanders"
They have different interests.
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They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office
After announcing a $20 billion bailout of Argentina, the White House now says it's pausing $18 billion in funding for NYC infrastructure projects
Russ Vought would love nothing more than to tear this country down to its studs
Russ Vought would love nothing more than to tear this country down to its studs
October 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office
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Worth noting the FBI used its resources to find someone who pointed a laser pointer at the unidentified helicopter flying over the ICE building, found them with 4 people "suspected" of being here unlawfully, and they are now in ICE custody.
Surveillance is at an all time high, act like it.
Surveillance is at an all time high, act like it.
The Oregon National Guard said it has begun the process of mobilizing guard members with law enforcement experience to comply with President Donald Trump’s deployment order for 200 troops in Portland, but it could be next week before there are actual boots on the ground.
At least 166 Oregon National Guard members have volunteered for Trump deployment
Lt. Col. Stephen Bomar, director of public affairs for the Oregon Military Department, said Thursday is the absolute earliest the guard could arrive in Portland – but he wouldn’t bet on that.
www.opb.org
September 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Worth noting the FBI used its resources to find someone who pointed a laser pointer at the unidentified helicopter flying over the ICE building, found them with 4 people "suspected" of being here unlawfully, and they are now in ICE custody.
Surveillance is at an all time high, act like it.
Surveillance is at an all time high, act like it.
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perfect timing to have encountered this rebecca solnit quote this morning
September 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
perfect timing to have encountered this rebecca solnit quote this morning
“Heartwarming: Poor People Discovered to be People with Feelings”
When Juli Cobb's car ran out of gas in the middle of the road, three men from a nearby homeless encampment rushed over to push her car to safety.
When her car ran out of gas, help came from a homeless encampment
When Juli Cobb's car ran out of gas in the middle of the road, three men from a nearby homeless encampment rushed over to push her car to safety.
n.pr
September 18, 2025 at 4:42 PM
“Heartwarming: Poor People Discovered to be People with Feelings”
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These are right-wing terror events I covered just from 2017 to 2023. It's not even close to comprehensive. The government's trying to erase this history.
September 15, 2025 at 8:15 PM
These are right-wing terror events I covered just from 2017 to 2023. It's not even close to comprehensive. The government's trying to erase this history.
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what happened to charlie kirk is a) fucking horrible and b) the exact thing, word for word, that he spent his public life advocating for and cheerleading, and any coverage that isn’t frank about that second part is massively irresponsible
September 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
what happened to charlie kirk is a) fucking horrible and b) the exact thing, word for word, that he spent his public life advocating for and cheerleading, and any coverage that isn’t frank about that second part is massively irresponsible
Reading this in Oslo with zero memory of where I live: “yes, and I can’t imagine living any other way”
Mamdani: We need to make public transportation so good that “no matter how much money is in your pocket, you say: I’m gonna use this.”
September 7, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Reading this in Oslo with zero memory of where I live: “yes, and I can’t imagine living any other way”
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I wrote about the humility of expertise and the arrogance of ignorance, the profound laziness that attends believing that you can find knowledge by ignoring the accumulation of inherited human knowledge, and the ways lazy arrogance fuels narratives of fascism. www.the-reframe.com/your-ignoran...
Your Ignorance Doesn't Make You An Expert
Let's go chasing waterfalls.
www.the-reframe.com
August 31, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I wrote about the humility of expertise and the arrogance of ignorance, the profound laziness that attends believing that you can find knowledge by ignoring the accumulation of inherited human knowledge, and the ways lazy arrogance fuels narratives of fascism. www.the-reframe.com/your-ignoran...
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A good, relevant time to pause and re-read @natepowell.bsky.social's classic and consider how well the final frame called it: these were indeed the "future" fascist paramilitary participants and their ushers.
About Face
Death and surrender to power in the clothing of men.
popula.com
August 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
A good, relevant time to pause and re-read @natepowell.bsky.social's classic and consider how well the final frame called it: these were indeed the "future" fascist paramilitary participants and their ushers.
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More than hot dogs!
August 11, 2025 at 1:24 AM
More than hot dogs!
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This is obviously correct but I would like to stress that the actual dollars and cents of it all is not the point of imprisonment. Rather it's that there is a very visible technology dedicated to punishing people who - for one reason or another - don't take the suggested path laid out for them.
This math applies to incarceration more generally. When we criminalize poverty, addiction, and mental illness it means we spend more money on incarceration than it would have cost to deal with the things we criminalized.
July 16, 2025 at 1:32 AM
This is obviously correct but I would like to stress that the actual dollars and cents of it all is not the point of imprisonment. Rather it's that there is a very visible technology dedicated to punishing people who - for one reason or another - don't take the suggested path laid out for them.
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Using your white privilege for people of color only when it's easy is meaningless. It's only meaningful when it costs you something. Now is the time for courageous politics, so I'll fight for other ways to backfill the loss in federal grants, which may include raising taxes or cutting other programs
July 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Using your white privilege for people of color only when it's easy is meaningless. It's only meaningful when it costs you something. Now is the time for courageous politics, so I'll fight for other ways to backfill the loss in federal grants, which may include raising taxes or cutting other programs
Hey @tamerlaneblog.bsky.social can I get an ID on the year/model on this one?
June 29, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Hey @tamerlaneblog.bsky.social can I get an ID on the year/model on this one?
Excellent work by Scott Kocher- this is such an important piece of making walking and cycling safe in Portland.
"If the city continues with its lip service approach of fixing only a handful of locations it can be sued and will have to pay." - Scott Kocher, Forum Law Group
bikeportland.org/2025/06/26/o...
bikeportland.org/2025/06/26/o...
Oregon Court of Appeals rules against City of Portland in parking setbacks case
A closely watched intersection daylighting case can now move forward to trial.
bikeportland.org
June 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Excellent work by Scott Kocher- this is such an important piece of making walking and cycling safe in Portland.
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It is true. ICE would still be brutalizing immigrants, cops would still be rioting, Israel would still be committing atrocities with our money, capitalism would still be destroying the planet - but they would indeed be at brunch.
June 14, 2025 at 9:09 PM
It is true. ICE would still be brutalizing immigrants, cops would still be rioting, Israel would still be committing atrocities with our money, capitalism would still be destroying the planet - but they would indeed be at brunch.