narrative violation alert!

Yet again I remind everyone (as Elizabeth does in her very next tweet) that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness & disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo -- the thing itself.

Is that Albert Kaufman?

and on top of running the team into the ground during the first playoff trip in years, he's threatening to move the team, and the Mayor is putting us in a terrible negotiating position and trying to shovel climate-adaptation revenues at him to renovate the stadium.. it's all so stupid

My THREE year-old just looked at me and said, "Okay, old man," with a mischievous grin on his face. THREE.

Interesting move for someone who's getting not one but two competitors for title of favorite child next week.

People leaving California are often less rich than their neighbors. New research shows what happens after they move A new report revealed that people who leave California tend to be financially worse off than their neighbors. It also found what happens after they leave.

New study: Families who leave California are much more likely to have financial problems than those who stay. But seven years later, those who leave are much more likely to be homeowners than those who stay. Revive the California Dream: build more housing!
www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

The Kernside station will be in / under the old trolley building

the 28th Ave subway will be incredible

It is enormously frustrating that Wilson, like the rest of our business and “economic development” establishment, seems incapable of recognizing our many unique strengths and building on them. Trying to compete on the same terms as everyone else is a terrible approach.

Trump defends Susie Wiles, agrees he has an 'alcoholic's personality' President Trump said he stands by White House chief of staff Susie Wiles after she made wide-ranging comments about his administration in Vanity Fair.

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this is why we're building passivhaus social housing in seatle.

as i wrote in my book Building For People, no other building standard comes close to protecting residents from effects of wildfire smoke

which are going to get increasingly worse due to climate change

I have been thinking this feels like a no-brainer too.. it sets a strong perspective of believing in a growing population as a good thing. I’d love to trial it at the neighborhood level - or, maybe P:NW could lean into our name and build a narrative around it

I have a hard time imagining what it would feel like to lose sight of earth

This is my Roman Empire

I won’t lose any sleep worrying about that crowd pulling that off

One Government for Portland A citizen-led initiative to consolidate Multnomah County and the City of Portland into a single, accountable, and effective government.

There’s a nascent merger effort, but based on the folks behind it, seems like it’s mainly trying to undo Portland’s charter reform multnomo.org

‘Stop jerking us around’: Portland approves $56M housing plan after months of talk Councilors also ordered city staff to accelerate plans for a potential rezone of part of Portland’s east side that could boost the supply of apartments and other mixed-use dwellings in neighborhoods w...

The @oregonian.com covered our rally and the unanimous IE4A resolution:

www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

No worries, the origin isn’t the important part! Seeing it bring people into the fold is pretty cool though

All Stages, Wages and Ages — Housing for the Eastside | The Southeast Examiner of Portland Oregon Headlines | Inner Eastside For All February 2, 2024

I got to put that flag in the ground with the SE Examiner piece, which led with it: www.southeastexaminer.com/2024/02/all-...

I saw Alkarim Devani say it and thought it was perfect for IE4A x.com/DevaniAlkarim

I thought he was making cider these days

A lot of posts today re-re-rediscovering things that have been obvious for a decade:

National political media won’t think critically. They’re stunted by access.

Republicans invented “originalism” to give them the power to remake the country.

When will we stop discovering and start countering?

walkable cities strongly encourage a feeling of imagined community that helps make you a good citizen. if you experience the city only in slices it's easier to see large swathes of it as fundamentally alien or hostile.

This 👇

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If this is Wilson’s passion, he could get a job with Portland Solutions and leave the job of mayoring to someone else.

For me, the mayor’s job is to effectively govern & administer the city. I’d argue he’s failing at this even on his own terms.

He made one major campaign promise & did not deliver.

This approach doesn't get celebrated the same way that securing one-off allocations do, so I'm taking a moment to celebrate it here. It rocks to have a Councilor who says, "I'm choosing to build a system that's fair and consistent and capable of delivering over time."

She said, with many projects worth of investment brought forth, "I ask myself: 'How are we deciding? How are allocating these dollars thoughtfully with a process that is responsible and accountable?'" This is the kind of thoughtful, discerning governance we deserve.

There's a clear divide between these types on our current Council. We are *very* lucky to have leaders like Councilor Avalos who approach this with such conviction and clarity: "Equity is not just about who gets in front of us. It's about whether everyone had a fair shot to be considered."

Then, there are elected officials who build a system that work better for everyone. For sure, they still do constituent service, but they use the cases they see to determine how government systems need to change for better outcomes across the board.

There's a kind of elected official who uses their office to fight for individuals who approach them for better treatment or access to resources. They view their position as a way to extract things for the people who ask for help. These officials usually gain a reputation as a fighter.