scott benjamin 🇺🇦🇵🇸

Even before the election, if pressed it was obvious he didn’t care about ending homelessness, just the “sight of homelessness “.

This isn’t just about a stadium renovation, it’s a massive handout to a billionaire who is threatening to destroy a sports/cultural icon of Portland unless the government complies.

Do not comply in advance.

“Any resulting shift by American automakers toward gas guzzlers that can’t be sold in Europe or China could further isolate the U.S. market. And the United States would increasingly cede the future of automotive technology to Chinese electric vehicle giants like BYD, experts said.”

It's one thing to burn a gallon of gas but in all of the choices one makes over the years and decades of creeping fascism and predatory delay on climate action, do you really need to drive today?

Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.

Nonprofit says Portland’s Leach Botanical Garden will close in March without additional funding The 17-acre public park in outer southeast Portland is part of a coalition that provides environmental education to Black and brown children and teenagers.

The 17-acre Leach Botanical Garden in far southeast Portland says it will close if it doesn't get more funding soon. The public park is owned by the city, but managed by a nonprofit. The city hasn't provided funding since last year.
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WTF?

ACAB

Check out this new bike parking facility in Lyon, France!

This next-level facility not only includes top-class features inside, but also connects seamlessly with the cycling network outside. How cool is it too see so many places investing big into bike parking like this?!

📸 Jérôme Zindy - Linkedin

Welp (and both $edivvys$ are unavailable). CTA can brag all they want about stations but its pointless if you put lyft in charge of a municipal program that competes with their core business

If nothing comes up, go here and sign up for a virtual training in bystander intervention and/or active shooter trauma, because you might need the second one too.

Don't wait.

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This chart of East Multnomah County (Gresham/Fairview/Troutdale) is a bonkers illustration of how drivers just lost their minds during the pandemic and have still not found them.

Also shows urgent need for radical redesign of our roads to prevent folks from driving dangerously.

2025 was the third hottest year ever.
Trend is worrying and faster than expected a few years ago.

Only when we stop burning coal, oil and gas, temperature will stop rising.

www.ecmwf.int/en/about/med...

Crazy. The 10 years since the Paris climate agreement, have been the 10 hottest years recorded.

Men are too emotional to be president.

Federal Agents Wound Two People in Portland Shooting The couple, a man and a woman, were found by police near Northeast 146th Avenue and Burnside Street, and were transported to local hospitals.

“I knew it was going to start here,” said a local resident, who gave the name Aaron D., fighting back tears. “This neighborhood is deeply integrated, it’s deeply diverse.” www.wweek.com/news/city/20...

The 'Affordability Crisis' Conversation Can't Leave Out the Cost of Cars — Streetsblog USA We can't talk about Americans' empty wallets without talking about our empty buses and sidewalks and overall dependence on automobiles.

"...it's also important to remember the role that car dependency itself plays in our housing crisis, and how inextricably intertwined the two crises are." - @keawilson.bsky.social

revolution.

Bike lanes often look empty but it’s not because they don’t get used, it’s because they are so efficient at moving people.

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the fact that there is free parking at all in manhattan is wild to me

It's like the "We Build Green Cities" movement never happened here.

Between this, the fight for transit prioritization on 82nd, the failure of congestion pricing, the defunding of transit ... this place has lost the plot.

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…

* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M

So YES this has been a huge success.

Do I blame the GOP for their repeal shenanigans - you betcha.

But Kotek, Fahey, and Wagner had a SUPERMAJORITY and still managed to fumble two years of broad consensus building that led to HB2025.

The looming collapse of Oregon's transportation system rests on them.

It’s an American Obsession. It’s Based on a Total Lie. We Have to Stop Before It’s Too Late. The truth about what's happening on America's roads—and how we can stop it.

“The phenomenon is known as induced demand. The result is an endless cycle in which congestion leads to highway expansion, which invites more trips, which brings back traffic…The pattern is so inevitable that economists have dubbed it the iron law of congestion.” #InducedTraffic

I BETTER NOT CATCH ANY OF THESE MAGA FARMERS WE'RE BAILING OUT BUYING CANDY BARS, BIRTHDAY CAKES OR ROTISSERIE CHICKENS WITH THEIR WELFARE CHECKS!

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We now learn that Fifa had a very specific "ask" in exchange for its "Peace Award" to Trump, with loads of gold trinkets, and that was dismissal of a criminal corruption case against senior Fifa officials. And Trump granted it. Another corrupt bargain, barely noticed (and ignored by US media).