"first they came for my property value"

Opinion | Something Surprising Happens When Bus Rides Are Free

Sorry, but this @nytimes.com op-ed on free fares in New York City, by @galvinalmanza.bsky.social, is deeply ignorant of the issues.

It proposes that pretty social justice vibes and some careless citations will change facts of math. Thread: 1/

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/o...

Opinion | This Is Just Who Trump Is

"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)

Just a few blocks south of my first Portland apartment. It’s the first Stumptown I ever visited and where I learned to love good coffee.

ICE does not have the same history of criminal behavior, but it does share a long record of abusing its powers and mistreating people in its custody. Put succinctly, these agencies deal with people the American system has frequently treated as barely human. Now these agents have been unleashed on Americans. Putting masks on people in agencies with internal cultures like these was always a recipe for catastrophe. The Trump administration took the most corrupt, poorly trained, and impulsive law-enforcement agencies in the country, gave them masks, and turned them against American cities.

I think this is the essential quality that made CBP/BP and ICE so easily convertible into fascist squadristi www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I guess but originally bridge and tunnel was meant to describe people from the outer boroughs/Jersey coming into Manhattan who were less sophisticated(who read as blue collar), perceived as ruining the vibe. It make no sense in the Portland context.

'Reminds me of Anne Frank': Jewish seniors are offering to hide their Haitian caregivers as Trump's TPS end looms - Jewish Telegraphic Agency The end of Temporary Protected Status has Holocaust survivors offering to hide Haitian staffers, according to the CEO of a senior-living center in Florida.

For those objecting to comparisons between Germany then & the U.S. now:

“About 500 seniors live at Sinai Residences in Boca Raton, Florida, including many Holocaust survivors. Recently, some of them asked if they could hide the building’s Haitian staff in their apartments.”

Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs. The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

A large vigil and protest for Alex Pretti is under way near the VA hospital in Portland, Oregon. I'm on the ground with @contrariannews.org

Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."

YouTube video by lanklan Gil Scott Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

#MusicChallenge
#IsmuasMonthOfMusic

Day 24 - A song that feels like a warning

Gil Scott Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

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One of those glorious moments where every building in the old photo is still extant in the modern Street View. Looking east at Alberta and 17th, 1911 and 2025.

I know Will wasn’t the first to say it, but I cant stop thinking about “we will never have as many guns as they have/they will never have as many people as we have” and how easy that makes it to pick a strategy

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

An improvement over the parking lot that was there.

ICE agents ate at a Minnesota Mexican restaurant before arresting staff Immigration law enforcement agents reportedly followed employees out of the restaurant after they closed for the evening

A few days ago, Fox News was whining about ICE agents getting heckled at a Mexican restaurant in Minneapolis.

Meanwhile, in the town of Willmar, ICE agents had lunch at a Mexican restaurant, waited until it closed, then confronted and arrested three workers as they left.

People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.

!!!!!

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek taps Republican rival to boost business relations Tim Knopp, a former state senator from Bend, will join Kotek’s administration.

Not something anyone I've talked to was expecting. Former state Sen. Tim Knopp, who led the longest legislative walkout in Oregon history, now works for Gov. Tina Kotek. #orleg #orpol

www.opb.org/article/2026...

Yeah, I’m guessing it‘s from around 2009 or so. MLK viaduct project is still going on in pic, which wrapped in Spring 2010. Doesn’t look like Wyatt Green renovation had really got going yet.

In partnership with Sen. Emily Alvarado, I’m requesting a bill to change commercial zoning to help local governments develop more housing.

This bill would require cities and counties that use Growth Management Plans to permit residential and mixed-use development in areas zoned for commercial use.

Thanks for the update! I was wondering how this was progressing.

Again I apologize for belaboring this point, but I really haven't seen it mentioned by any mainstream source: if you go frame by frame, it is exceedingly clear the shooter recorded most or all of the encounter on his phone, and was likely recording at the exact moment he shot her.

Sir, he asked for a minor interaction.

i knew rents were trending downward, but are housing prices down overall as well?

Unfortunately, Portland’s had several. We are on track for about 50 homicides this year, which will be the lowest in post pandemic era.