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when you win a small concession you just get to keep yelling btw. one time a local official said to me "you people are never happy" and like: correct! it is not our job to be happy with compromise! it's our job to be annoying forever actually

you are not wrong!!

I hear excellent things about Stapleton fwiw

point otherwise well taken though, especially as timelines like this that are designed to constrain public ability to weigh in may, over time, create a public that doesn’t care to engage because why bother

one factor to consider: the plan was not released to anyone afaik until sunday afternoon. folks have had less than 72 hrs at this point to see it much less put a comment together - I spoke with 2 ppl last night who are broadly tracking this/interested and didn’t know the committee already voted

advocates mad at me for defunding sidewalks in front of schools so we can spend that money on Literally Nothing should take it up with my republican colleagues, who I love and cherish and look forward to working with next year. my name is kate lieber and I approve this message

r/femalelivingspace

yes there were $850m in highway revenue bonds authorized in the 2025 session for the 2025-27 biennium - a number that would have been proportionate to the $ in HB 2025 for project debt service… if it had passed 💀 we are about $250m into that $850m allowance as of January ‘26

From the last Gilded Age to the present one, elite disinterest remains one of the greatest barriers to great and inclusive public transit. This 1929 ad makes the same argument we must make today. 1/

Just in time for tomorrow's Oregon Joint Subcomm on Capital Construction, let's oppose the transfer of bicycle tax revenue et al. from the Multimodal Active Transportation Fund to highway maintenance! @ortrailscoalition.bsky.social makes your testimony easy: mailchi.mp/oregontrails... 1/4

me talking about the united states

hey we're doing an operation called Based Epic Chad. lol. everybody will think this is awesome. we will never end up like Mussolini

goodnight and god protect the innocent people of iran, may they know justice one day

it took an expensive, coordinated effort & a lot of people saying “this doesn’t matter” to get from a bathroom ban costing one state $400 million & a gubernatorial race to “trans people must turn in their documents which become invalid in a few hours or face fines & potential jail time” in 10 years.

🚍 ACTION ALERT! 🚍

82nd Avenue is East Portland's Main Street, and our community deserves frequent and reliable transit.

Join me and Representative Thuy Tran in asking the legislature to fund full Business Access and Transit Lanes on 82nd Avenue: #orleg #orpol

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I like to give my toaster breaks between making toast to do whatever he wants

long overdue representation for the “repeatedly kicked in the head by a mule” community

noah robinson legitimately said “I don‘t really like this bill being in March because me and my dad’s birthdays are both in March….. I do support bumping it tho”

Just floating an idea

Loretta Smith & Wesson

(is what I would say if you cared, which you don’t of course 😇)

unfortunately the time limits (35 days for this one) are in the constitution so change would also require voter approval. you can extend by 5 days with 2/3 majority approval of the legislature but anything more requires a constitutional amendment and at that pt you might as well just change quorum

cool job alert

isn‘t the Corporate Activity Tax in the SSA functionally similar to gross receipts tax tho? still a pound of flesh but iirc that was why it showed up in the SSA deal

valentine's day card: you must be 100 million dollars in unspent portland housing bureau funds because I'm glad I found you

valentine's day card: I love you more than dan ryan loves storefronts

valentine's day card: are you a portland city council president vote? because I want to do it twelve times with you

valentine's day card: I just passed a resolution . . . asking the city administrator to report back on the feasibility of asking you out

valentine's day coming up tomorrow, please use these responsibly

at least they’ll need a third vote to get anything out? 😬

billionaires are themselves on the frontlines of even more hideous accumulation of wealth and power if u rlly think abt it

and also this all arguably pales in the face of the moda center rn. complete subversion of several already-fraught budget processes at once under duress from a bazillionaire, and once that rubicon is crossed, who knows what happens

some real dogshit ideas got shot down via the CIP process too, i fear if it’s open season on earmarks they’ll come back and we get like $50mil of EVs for cops 🥲

and agreed, every path to more transit $ runs thru the state so the more people breathing down their necks the better imo!