Tyler Frederick PDX
@tyler-frederick.bsky.social
A guy who gets too involved in state/local policy in Portland Oregon.
https://substack.com/@tylerfrederickpdx?r=5wgms9&utm_medium=ios
https://substack.com/@tylerfrederickpdx?r=5wgms9&utm_medium=ios
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BREAKING NEWS: We just secured a final court order blocking National Guard deployment!
Today's ruling is a huge victory for Oregon. The courts are holding this administration accountable to the truth and the rule of law.
Today's ruling is a huge victory for Oregon. The courts are holding this administration accountable to the truth and the rule of law.
November 8, 2025 at 1:40 AM
BREAKING NEWS: We just secured a final court order blocking National Guard deployment!
Today's ruling is a huge victory for Oregon. The courts are holding this administration accountable to the truth and the rule of law.
Today's ruling is a huge victory for Oregon. The courts are holding this administration accountable to the truth and the rule of law.
stream.mux.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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Trump and Stephen Miller’s authoritarian playbook is painfully predictable:
1️⃣ Target a Democratic city
2️⃣ Lie about crime
3️⃣ Deploy heavily armed agents to aggressively detain innocent people and violate their rights
4️⃣ Create stress and chaos
5️⃣ Use self-created chaos as excuse for militarization
1️⃣ Target a Democratic city
2️⃣ Lie about crime
3️⃣ Deploy heavily armed agents to aggressively detain innocent people and violate their rights
4️⃣ Create stress and chaos
5️⃣ Use self-created chaos as excuse for militarization
October 22, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Trump and Stephen Miller’s authoritarian playbook is painfully predictable:
1️⃣ Target a Democratic city
2️⃣ Lie about crime
3️⃣ Deploy heavily armed agents to aggressively detain innocent people and violate their rights
4️⃣ Create stress and chaos
5️⃣ Use self-created chaos as excuse for militarization
1️⃣ Target a Democratic city
2️⃣ Lie about crime
3️⃣ Deploy heavily armed agents to aggressively detain innocent people and violate their rights
4️⃣ Create stress and chaos
5️⃣ Use self-created chaos as excuse for militarization
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MAJOR NEWS: @GavinNewsom signed SB 79, my bill allowing more housing near public transit — rail, subway, rapid bus.
It’s a huge step for housing in California. It’ll create more homes, strengthen our transit systems & reduce traffic & carbon emissions.
Thank you, Governor!
It’s a huge step for housing in California. It’ll create more homes, strengthen our transit systems & reduce traffic & carbon emissions.
Thank you, Governor!
October 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
MAJOR NEWS: @GavinNewsom signed SB 79, my bill allowing more housing near public transit — rail, subway, rapid bus.
It’s a huge step for housing in California. It’ll create more homes, strengthen our transit systems & reduce traffic & carbon emissions.
Thank you, Governor!
It’s a huge step for housing in California. It’ll create more homes, strengthen our transit systems & reduce traffic & carbon emissions.
Thank you, Governor!
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Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.
She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.
(Published June)
She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.
(Published June)
Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations
A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...
www.propublica.org
October 10, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.
She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.
(Published June)
She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.
(Published June)
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People protesting in Portland against the federal show of force are dressing up as inflatable animals. Here's why.
![Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.
There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.
What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.
It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lzlqyldh7nfc34pfffvd24ko/bafkreiap6asa64jdjb2vlv4c2sdritjrntsibvsv7baj6o4cgwcfgsjeny@jpeg)
October 10, 2025 at 1:42 AM
People protesting in Portland against the federal show of force are dressing up as inflatable animals. Here's why.
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HAPPENING NOW — This morning, Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order establishing “ICE-free zones.”
“That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as grounds for these raids,” Johnson said to applause.
thetriibe.com/2025/10/mayo...
“That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as grounds for these raids,” Johnson said to applause.
thetriibe.com/2025/10/mayo...
Mayor Brandon Johnson signs executive order establishing ‘ICE-free zones’ • The TRiiBE
Johnson is calling for a full investigation into “all of the brutality” that federal agents have conducted this past week.
thetriibe.com
October 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
HAPPENING NOW — This morning, Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order establishing “ICE-free zones.”
“That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as grounds for these raids,” Johnson said to applause.
thetriibe.com/2025/10/mayo...
“That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as grounds for these raids,” Johnson said to applause.
thetriibe.com/2025/10/mayo...
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BREAKING NEWS: We just secured a court order blocking the president’s order to deploy federalized National Guard troops to Portland when a federal judge granted our request for a Temporary Restraining Order. Read our statement.
#orpol #nationalguard #portland #portlandoregon
#orpol #nationalguard #portland #portlandoregon
October 4, 2025 at 11:51 PM
BREAKING NEWS: We just secured a court order blocking the president’s order to deploy federalized National Guard troops to Portland when a federal judge granted our request for a Temporary Restraining Order. Read our statement.
#orpol #nationalguard #portland #portlandoregon
#orpol #nationalguard #portland #portlandoregon
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BREAKING: A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump from federalizing and deploying Oregon National Guard troops to Portland following a challenge from the state and the city of Portland.
oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/10/04/f... by @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social
oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/10/04/f... by @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social
Federal judge blocks Trump from deploying Oregon National Guard to Portland • Oregon Capital Chronicle
This is a breaking news story and will be updated. A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump from federalizing and deploying Oregon National Guard troops to Portland following a c...
oregoncapitalchronicle.com
October 4, 2025 at 11:48 PM
BREAKING: A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump from federalizing and deploying Oregon National Guard troops to Portland following a challenge from the state and the city of Portland.
oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/10/04/f... by @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social
oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/10/04/f... by @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social
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I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...
September 28, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...
open.substack.com/pub/tylerfre...
Wrote my second substack article ever. This is one that took a ton of work behind the scenes to make sure a solution to oregons property tax system makes sense. Feel free to let me know what you think!
Wrote my second substack article ever. This is one that took a ton of work behind the scenes to make sure a solution to oregons property tax system makes sense. Feel free to let me know what you think!
When Taxes Ignore Reality: Oregon Can't Ignore Solutions
Incremental reform that restores equity, stabilizes Portland’s budget, and protects households.
open.substack.com
September 17, 2025 at 12:27 AM
open.substack.com/pub/tylerfre...
Wrote my second substack article ever. This is one that took a ton of work behind the scenes to make sure a solution to oregons property tax system makes sense. Feel free to let me know what you think!
Wrote my second substack article ever. This is one that took a ton of work behind the scenes to make sure a solution to oregons property tax system makes sense. Feel free to let me know what you think!
Couldn’t agree more! That being said, I’d prefer an efficient system once people switch, so they can see the benefits right away. Instead of using the fees to make the system efficient after the fact.
Make driving more expensive by charging folks to park and to obtain special permits. Then work with folks who live in the impacted neighborhood and use the parking revenue to make walking and biking safer. Seems like a common sense policy to me.
bikeportland.org/2025/09/16/p...
bikeportland.org/2025/09/16/p...
Parking fees lead to safe street upgrades in northwest
This is how we encourage mode shift!
bikeportland.org
September 16, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Couldn’t agree more! That being said, I’d prefer an efficient system once people switch, so they can see the benefits right away. Instead of using the fees to make the system efficient after the fact.
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Portland is facing dire transit service cuts and we're being told our 30 year old indoor sports arena is out of date and taxpayers must fix it.
Transit uses obsolete infrastructure every day. It would be nice to update the rail system so it can run at normal speeds on hot days, for example.
Transit uses obsolete infrastructure every day. It would be nice to update the rail system so it can run at normal speeds on hot days, for example.
They're coming, hat in hand, for our tax dollars
Keeping the Blazers in Portland is a generational opportunity, according to Oregon business leaders
Many of the state’s most prominent business leaders have publicly called for the Blazers to stay in Oregon, and for taxpayers to help fund an arena rebuild or renovation
www.opb.org
August 21, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Portland is facing dire transit service cuts and we're being told our 30 year old indoor sports arena is out of date and taxpayers must fix it.
Transit uses obsolete infrastructure every day. It would be nice to update the rail system so it can run at normal speeds on hot days, for example.
Transit uses obsolete infrastructure every day. It would be nice to update the rail system so it can run at normal speeds on hot days, for example.
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In the words of @humantransit.bsky.social "Technology Never Changes Geometry" humantransit.org/2016/07/elon...
Cars simply can't scale to meet the needs of cities because they are extremely space inefficient.
Cars simply can't scale to meet the needs of cities because they are extremely space inefficient.
August 14, 2025 at 11:38 PM
In the words of @humantransit.bsky.social "Technology Never Changes Geometry" humantransit.org/2016/07/elon...
Cars simply can't scale to meet the needs of cities because they are extremely space inefficient.
Cars simply can't scale to meet the needs of cities because they are extremely space inefficient.
These kinds of things happening are beyond frustrating.
NEW: Oregon liberals, opposed to nuclear power in the 1970s, created a complex process for getting new energy projects approved.
It’s now being used to stall developments in wind and solar — with a 76-year-old activist leading the charge.
With @opb.org
It’s now being used to stall developments in wind and solar — with a 76-year-old activist leading the charge.
With @opb.org
How One Woman Is Stalling Green Energy Projects in Oregon
Irene Gilbert is a 76-year-old retired state employee on a mission, fighting energy projects like large wind farms in Oregon’s rural communities. Renewable energy advocates and lawmakers treat activis...
www.propublica.org
August 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
These kinds of things happening are beyond frustrating.