Xavier D. Stickler

The US military achieving direct combat objectives versus the US military doing seeming anything else

It’s midnight:07 pm Saturday, and this line 9 is completely full. Don’t ever tell me no one rides transit.

Let’s say we found a way to shut it down—there isn’t one, but let’s say there was…

That doesn’t abolish ICE. It doesn’t go away just because you can’t see it anymore. They would still find a way to terrorize people.

Groovy Goose

Not if Travis Nelson gets his way

A very sobering realization I've slowly been coming to is that we are much, much closer to global elites pushing for a literal genocide of the working class/global south than we are to them accepting even a milquetoast social democracy in the west.

I believe the former will happen in my lifetime.

Somehow I ended up on the Partnership for Progress mailing list. I thought I would stay subscribed so I could stay informed on what they’re up to.

I had to unsubscribe because the AI sloppery pissed me off too much. This doesn’t even scratch the surface of how bad it is.

Masked paramilitaries marching in front of a hanging Trump banner on the DoJ

This picture is so crazy that if you had this as a scene in a made-for-TV dystopian scifi movie in like 2014 people would switch channels because you’d ruined the suspension of disbelief.

Loretta Smith & Wesson

You’re so right, and that’s a very good point, but I don’t care. I want my gay bars on my gay street next to my gay plaza!!

Hard disagree. We need to rebuild the gayborhood on Harvey Milk!

Can the security guards in City Council chambers please not have punisher skills on their vests?

Not to curtail free speech, but can we not?

I saw a DoorDash driver delivering food to my building last night from the chipotle 3 blocks away.

Maybe my neighbor is sick. More likely, they just didn’t wanna walk the 3 blocks.

I haven’t! This map is just downtown south of Burnside. It’d be interesting to make a map of the entire city.

Did Olivia Clark just out Eric Zimmerman as a Swiftie?

I would do anything, ANYTHING, for Tony Goldwyn.

Downtown Redevelopment Map - Google My Maps Downtown Redevelopment Map

This 1-story retail building should be replaced by something taller with housing.

This lot is on my database of properties with high redevelopment potential.

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I don’t think Drazan is gonna be the R nominee.

Which… lol. Lmao, even.

These are important civic assets, and more importantly, profit-generating venues for the City directly and indirectly

3) Upgrades to them need to be part of comprehensive capital maintenance and improvement plan. Ideally, because the needs of all 3 are so urgent, we'd do them all together.

A couple things:

1) The reno of Moda is a deeply inappropriate use of PCEF dollars. PCEF should be used for decarbonizing, community-led projects. Transit, bikes, solar panels, housing. Not a slush fund for mega projects.

2) We need updates to Keller, Providence Park, and Moda

1/2

If we would reach a degree of civilization higher and grander than any yet attained, we should welcome to our ample continent all the nations, kindreds, tongues and peoples, and as fast as they learn our language and comprehend the duties of citizenship, we should incorporate them into the American body politic. The outspread wings of the American eagle are broad enough to shelter all who are likely to come.

From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
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Transit-priority lane decision keeps 82nd Avenue Transit Project moving forward but funding questions remain - TriMet News The decision advances the design of the project but millions of dollars in additional funding must be identified to determine …

Grateful for @trimet.org's leadership, and for the community voices who have pushed the agency to prioritize bus service on 82nd Avenue.

This is a victory for healthier, more affordable and more equitable neighborhoods in East Portland.
https://loom.ly/M0czKOY

Who’s your provider?

I won’t lie: I think the ice rink is important and should be incorporated into the redevelopment.

But is the ice rink more important than say… 5,000 housing units? Restitching the street grid? Creating open space in what is currently a wasteland of parking garages?

I think not.

But what if it was a double loaded corridor with bedrooms setback deep into the footprint adorned with some sliding barn doors and no windows?

Wouldn’t that be cooler?

Oh my God I love that. THATS TOO CUTE AHHHHHH

Is he named Valentino because he was born on Valentine's Day?

The only way to avoid that outcome is to imagine some new funding source that will appear in response to the beauty of the free fares vision, but any such funding source would be better spent on service, regardless of whether the goal is ridership or access to opportunity. 6/

YOU’RE KIDDING.

I can’t believe you have personal beef with Will Stancil. Like you’re on a Stancil watchlist. Incredible.

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