matt tuckerbaum

Yes - short discussion on that here.

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Step into your power, Council. Show Portland that the Mayor and Staff are stonewalling you. Make them show up. Make them own everything that’s not being done well.

What’s the mechanism they need to use to compel attendance?

Okay, I’m not interested in continuing this with you.

Be well ✌️

If you want to influence things, you need to give people a reason to listen to you. The way that you show up - hidden, hostile, ignorant - suggests you’re not here to engage.

You don’t listen, you react. You fixate.

This isn’t healthy. That you can’t see that, only confirms there’s an issue.

Here’s the thing: posting repeatedly about and at people from anonymous accounts has been considered trolling for as long as the internet has been around.

You two have posted nearly 45 times for everyone person that has considered you worth a follow. That speaks volumes.

Put your name on your big talk or buzz off. It is so pathetic that you spend your time this way.

credibility is an interesting thing to fixate on during a crashout rant, donchya think, Alex?

"Does this feel like or look like a well-run competent administration? It took them 10 months to discover that the United States doesn't grow bananas and that therefore if we tariff bananas that that's not going to bring banana factories on shore."

You two talk a big brain-rotted game from behind your anonymous accounts. Whenever you’re ready to emerge from Grandma’s basement and get help, start here:

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I hope you both get the help you need.

I’m baffled by how he keeps the caucus together so well, when he comes off as such an incompetent buffoon almost every time he speaks to media

Did you have Claude categorize the non-zoning articles? What were the other big buckets?

I know that’s a long way back, but I think it’s important to show that it hasn’t just always been this way, we made the decision to make it what it is now, every day we don’t change it is also a decision, and we can change that decision anytime we conclude that lives are worth more than convenience.

Photo from the early 1900s of Cesar Chavez Blvd in Portland, Oregon. Looking north from SE Lincoln on the west side of the street. A large planting strip with trees sits between the sidewalk and Chavez, which appears to just have one lane in each direction.

Photo from the 2022 of Cesar Chavez Blvd in Portland, Oregon. Looking north from SE Lincoln on the west side of the street. The planting strips and trees are gone, the road is two lanes in each direction, and there is no protective buffer for pedestrians or street design elements to slow cars down.

It’s been that way for a while, but not always. It used to be one lane each way, with trees in large planting strips (and maybe a median) that protected pedestrians. Compare and contrast these photos from the same spot, looking at the building that now holds Joe Bike.

Miriam Adelson’s rag, apparently

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I’m fine with the idea that there should be some revenue generation from it, but the fee structure is clearly miscalibrated if bars and restaurants are taking them down instead of paying up. I’m not sure it’s in PBOT’s interest to optimize for seating, so Council probably needs to take it up.

Not sure I’m following: Parking in this area is completely unregulated and unpriced. IIRC, PBOT has let plans for permitted parking districts languish on the shelf for years. Are you just saying that they’re taking advantage to capture revenue? Or that they’re trying to raise $ to cover admin costs?

I like thinking big like this. FWIW, my car commute from Inner SE to Nike averaged in the low-20mph range (including stoplights). With an e-bike, a continuous crosstown bike highway would actually be competitive!

Lincoln was re-elected on a party platform saying "That foreign immigration, which in the past has added so much to the wealth, development of resources and increase of power to this nation, the asylum of the oppressed of all nations, should be fostered and encouraged by a liberal and just policy."

@profanity.accountant what’s the verdict?

"Fascist violence was neither random nor indiscriminate. It carried a well-calculated set of coded messages: that communist violence was rising, that the democratic state was responding to it ineptly, and that only the fascists were tough enough to save the nation from antinational terrorists. An essential step in the fascist march to acceptance and power was to persuade law-and-order conservatives and members of the middle class to tolerate fascist violence as a harsh necessity in the face of Left provocation." - Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism (2004)

"An essential step in the fascist march to acceptance and power was to persuade law-and-order conservatives and members of the middle class to tolerate fascist violence as a harsh necessity in the face of Left provocation."

- Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism
(2004)

Yeah, we (P:NW) have been focused on pushing for regulatory changes to make new housing options possible in Inner Eastside and Central City. I’m pretty sure this would be allowed with current rules? I’m hoping @counciloravalos.bsky.social will include for office SRO housing in her One Housing Plan.

This should absolutely be a part of our strategy, yet I have never once heard anyone proposing it here.

(Also, sorry for intruding on the Sightline public group chat)

Wall calendar at home?? 😱 I cannot even fathom living like this, I would be completely lost without Google calendar

The ‘New’ Solution for the N.Y.C. Housing Crisis: Single-Room Apartments

Relegalize SROs. Relegalize single stair buildings to enable larger, family sized homes. Legalize townhomes everywhere. Legalize ADUs everywhere. Legalize apartment buildings in more places. Yes to all the homes.
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Thank god for AG Rayfield. This is what present, capable leadership looks like.

You can see the transfer of car brain logic in transit design: the assumption that if your transportation vehicle is not immediately outside your doorstep, it won’t be used. Nevermind that the FX2 started moving ~30% more people along Division after stop consolidation.

Two adjacent thoughts: Their preoccupation with engaging militarily with cartels suggests to me that they find them competitive, which further supports the idea.

And Trump represents the culmination and union of @nilsgilman.bsky.social’s twin insurgency of plutocrats and organized criminals.