Candace Avalos

Cultivate Initiatives in East Portland accepts clothes, they do workforce programs with our unhoused neighbors, I imagine they would benefit from having suits on hand for people to go to interviews, etc.

I think it’s honestly disgusting and deeply unserious that the Revoke the Permit people have clipped videos of my women colleagues eating pizza at the dais as some kind of shaming tool, which is now being used by right-wing media to harass them in misogynistic ways. Congrats everyone.

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I want to be clear about what the detention impact fee proposal, introduced by Councilors Morillo and Green, is designed to do. This isn’t a revenue tool — it’s a deterrence tool.

A group of people listen to a panel from Portland Street Response.

Portland Street Response is hiring! People with lived experience are encouraged to apply. Deadline for applications: 11/24, 1:20pm.

It was inspiring to hear the difference Portland Street Response is making in the lives of those most vulnerable in our city at the East Portland PSR Town Hall. In the short period since PSR has scaled up their programs, more Portlanders are receiving the right responder at the right time.

Reminder that I'm hiring an Operations Coordinator! If you're passionate about organization and systems, this is the position for you.

Applications are due by November 30.

When other cities are having to cut climate programs back, Portland is only scaling up! That’s why we can’t let PCEF be raided to plug other budget holes.

I represented Portland on a panel discussion about addressing extreme heat with other local leaders, and I was so excited to talk about all the great resilience work that’s happening through the Portland Clean Energy Fund.

i said to a friend it was a slow news day and then had to remind myself the president called for the execution of congress members and it’s just crazy how his blood lust has become routine

Trump calls to hang Democrats who oppose him
US Coast guard no longer considers swastika a hate symbol
97.4% of (mostly) Latinos ICE arrested have 0 criminal record

This is what systemic white supremacy looks like. Trump is building a Nationalist Christian (Nat-C) state to violently stifle dissent.

I won't be able to participate in today's meeting because of a scheduling conflict with the National League of Cities summit. If you want to see more of my thoughts on the TAO and context of how we got to today's vote, check out last week's thread:

Whistles are one of the most accessible tools in resisting ICE.

Here’s how to use them:

huge props to @counciloravalos.bsky.social to holding her ground and holding her colleagues to account even as Councilor Pirtle-Guiney tried to undermine her.

respect.

Every workplace has that one person who demands "professionalism" and "decorum" from everyone else, but never applies those standards to themselves. 🫩 Y'all know who this subtweet is about. 💅🏾🙂‍↕️

Important stats from Councilor Avalos: 25 % of Portland renters are severely burdened.

Councilor Avalos' live-tweeting thread about the state of Portland's Inclusionary Housing is worth reading.

IH is now working in Portland because the program is fully funded - ensuring that we build mixed-income neighborhoods while also encouraging more housing production across the city.

This is not the level of decorum I expect from my colleagues. I think it’s especially ironic that Councilor Ryan would ask us to focus on policy and not on personal callouts, when this is one-sided behavior on his part.

USCIS halts upstate naturalization ceremonies, leaving hundreds waiting Clerks in seven counties say federal agency under Department of Homeland Security did not explain the sudden cancellations, which have left hundreds of lawful permanent residents in limbo.

Today, I called on the federal government to reverse the cancellations of naturalization ceremonies in several New York counties.
 
Our newest citizens and their communities deserve this proud and significant moment that reflect the best of our country.

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.

Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

Four giants control 80% of meat processing.

A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.

The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

TIL Ruby Bridges is only 71 years old. man alive Jim Crow was just yesterday

Solange Opens Free Digital Library Of Rare Black Books Solange has launched a digital library archive of Black and brown authors where readers can borrow books at no cost.

Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days

AG Rayfield announces $7 million settlement with largest U.S. landlord over price fixing scheme

AG Rayfield and a bipartisan coalition have filed a proposed $7 million settlement to resolve claims against Greystar Management Services LLC, as part of the coalition’s ongoing enforcement efforts targeting price fixing involving housing rental prices across the country.

“We’re in the middle of a housing crisis, and families are already stretched to their limits. When the largest landlord in America uses an algorithm to price fix the rent, the result is simple: people pay more. It squeezes working families when the cost of housing is already at an all-time high. This settlement holds the largest U.S. landlord accountable. It’s a win for Oregonians, our pocketbooks, and the rule of law.”

BREAKING NEWS: We’ve secured a $7 million settlement holding the largest U.S. landlord accountable for a price fixing scheme – and putting a check on the rising cost of rentals.

#consumerprotection #orpol

Every workplace has that one person who demands "professionalism" and "decorum" from everyone else, but never applies those standards to themselves. 🫩 Y'all know who this subtweet is about. 💅🏾🙂‍↕️

Epstein survivor Haley Robson: "To the President of the United States of America, I want to send a clear message to you…I can't help to be skeptical of what [your] agenda is…I am traumatized. I am not stupid. You have put us through so much stress…It's not right."

0.3% of all housing in the state is accessible. Allowing this to continue being the case is not an option. If we only act at the whims of developers who couldn’t care less about disabled people’s quality of life, then we’re gonna be stuck waiting a long time for the access we deserve.

Local Progress is a great org representing a wide collation of left of center electeds & policy advocacy. While there is nothing wrong with being associated with DSA, local LP participants have included Gresham City Councilor Morales, Metro Councilor Lewis and many others not known as “socialist.”

Efforts fail to save a stranded humpback whale on the Oregon Coast Authorities say a last-ditch rescue effort failed Monday morning to pull the stranded whale so it faced the ocean at high tide and could potentially swim to safety. A veterinarian began preparing to e...

This makes me so sad 😭
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

I’m still struggling with the fact that ICE “brown shirts” went to a taco shop and thought they would get served.

F that!