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Netflix’s The Perfect Neighbor is a brutal reminder that racism doesn’t always kick down the door—sometimes it just calls 911.
Our latest Black Byline connects the dots between Florida, Oregon, and the systems that insist they’re keeping us safe.
✍️ @donovanscribes.bsky.social
Our latest Black Byline connects the dots between Florida, Oregon, and the systems that insist they’re keeping us safe.
✍️ @donovanscribes.bsky.social
THE BLACK BYLINE: Netflix’s Perfect Neighbor Proves That Not All Hate Wears Hoods
“Some things you can't escape Death, taxes, and a racist society that make Every nigga feel like a candidate For a Trayvon kinda fate Even when your crib sit on a lake Even when your plaques hang on a...
www.portlandmercury.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Netflix’s The Perfect Neighbor is a brutal reminder that racism doesn’t always kick down the door—sometimes it just calls 911.
Our latest Black Byline connects the dots between Florida, Oregon, and the systems that insist they’re keeping us safe.
✍️ @donovanscribes.bsky.social
Our latest Black Byline connects the dots between Florida, Oregon, and the systems that insist they’re keeping us safe.
✍️ @donovanscribes.bsky.social
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An excellent story on the Bike Bus phenomenon via @wweek.com featuring @coachbalto.bsky.social and including a cameo by two podcasters on book tour.
Sam Balto Has Made Portland’s Bike Buses Famous. Can They Last?
The bike bus concept is gaining in popularity, and Portland is now home to about 25 bike buses. This is largely thanks to Sam Balto.
www.wweek.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
An excellent story on the Bike Bus phenomenon via @wweek.com featuring @coachbalto.bsky.social and including a cameo by two podcasters on book tour.
Has anyone done the math on office conversations to SRO or more communal designs, with communal kitchen/bathroom (i.e. plumbing) around the core and living/bedrooms on the edge? Not every downtown residential building needs to be family flats.
The alternative to an SRO isn't a larger apartment; the alternative is a tent.
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.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/n...
November 26, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Has anyone done the math on office conversations to SRO or more communal designs, with communal kitchen/bathroom (i.e. plumbing) around the core and living/bedrooms on the edge? Not every downtown residential building needs to be family flats.
Note what it doesn’t have: millions of $$$ in traffic signals, special paint and concrete curbs and bulbs and much quieter. These streets are much easier to build and far cheaper to maintain.
Rush hour traffic in Utrecht.
Sound on 🔊 if you want to experience that rush hour IS possible without the constant, deafening noise of cars overpowering people talking.
Sound on 🔊 if you want to experience that rush hour IS possible without the constant, deafening noise of cars overpowering people talking.
November 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Note what it doesn’t have: millions of $$$ in traffic signals, special paint and concrete curbs and bulbs and much quieter. These streets are much easier to build and far cheaper to maintain.
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Phil Knight is almost single handedly funding the OR GOP, one of the more extreme state GOPs in the country. Keep that in mind next time you’re in the market for sportswear or sneakers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
Nike co-founder Phil Knight makes record-setting donation to help elect Republicans
It is the single largest donation Knight has made to an Oregon candidate or political action committee.
www.oregonlive.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Phil Knight is almost single handedly funding the OR GOP, one of the more extreme state GOPs in the country. Keep that in mind next time you’re in the market for sportswear or sneakers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
Here in America, we socialize risk and privatize profits. Anything else would be un-American. /s
You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.
November 24, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Here in America, we socialize risk and privatize profits. Anything else would be un-American. /s
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Attacking women's appearances to silence their voices is misogyny.
November 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Attacking women's appearances to silence their voices is misogyny.
@govpritzker.illinois.gov should eminent domain the property (it’s in receivership) and make it social housing controlled by the tenants.
Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
November 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
@govpritzker.illinois.gov should eminent domain the property (it’s in receivership) and make it social housing controlled by the tenants.
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It's up to Oregon to fight back.
Come with me to Salem for Legislative Days - and learn about all that Oregon policymakers are doing to protect our state from the federal administration. #orleg
Come with me to Salem for Legislative Days - and learn about all that Oregon policymakers are doing to protect our state from the federal administration. #orleg
November 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
It's up to Oregon to fight back.
Come with me to Salem for Legislative Days - and learn about all that Oregon policymakers are doing to protect our state from the federal administration. #orleg
Come with me to Salem for Legislative Days - and learn about all that Oregon policymakers are doing to protect our state from the federal administration. #orleg
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if there's a reason to keep up the "tribunals for all involved" discourse one such reason it is to put in stark relief how far away some of the Dem politicking is from the mood on the ground
eric swalwell said on msnow that a major goal of a dem majority after the midterms would be for ice masks to come off and badges to come out, this is insufficient
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 AM
if there's a reason to keep up the "tribunals for all involved" discourse one such reason it is to put in stark relief how far away some of the Dem politicking is from the mood on the ground
Exactly the same scenario as Portland‘s i5 mega projects. Our transportation institutions refuse to acknowledge a changing world.
I really cannot recommend this excellent piece on Hammersmith Bridge highly enough
Hammersmith Bridge
Where did 25,000 vehicles go?
nickmaini.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Exactly the same scenario as Portland‘s i5 mega projects. Our transportation institutions refuse to acknowledge a changing world.
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Cracks me up how you could just replace Venezuela and Venezuelans with Iraq and Iraqis and it’d be indistinguishable from something written in 2002
November 23, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Cracks me up how you could just replace Venezuela and Venezuelans with Iraq and Iraqis and it’d be indistinguishable from something written in 2002
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This industry/regulator alignment is clearest at DOT's pipeline safety office. It's put out a flurry of deregulatory proposals, many signed by one Trump appointee: Ben Kochman.
Until January, he worked for a pipeline trade group.
One proposal cribs language from his old employer.
Until January, he worked for a pipeline trade group.
One proposal cribs language from his old employer.
November 20, 2025 at 12:39 PM
This industry/regulator alignment is clearest at DOT's pipeline safety office. It's put out a flurry of deregulatory proposals, many signed by one Trump appointee: Ben Kochman.
Until January, he worked for a pipeline trade group.
One proposal cribs language from his old employer.
Until January, he worked for a pipeline trade group.
One proposal cribs language from his old employer.
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If you’re interested in the ongoing effort to make this happen you should come to White Owl Social Club from 4-6PM on December 13th! Cannot emphasize the amount that we would love to get you 🫵 involved to build an Inner Eastside for All! portlandneighborswelcome.org/events/2025-...
November 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
If you’re interested in the ongoing effort to make this happen you should come to White Owl Social Club from 4-6PM on December 13th! Cannot emphasize the amount that we would love to get you 🫵 involved to build an Inner Eastside for All! portlandneighborswelcome.org/events/2025-...
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In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
November 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
November 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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hey btw portland, Katherine at @depave.bsky.social got us onto bluesky! follow if you like good news!
Who doesn't love a before and after photo? Check out our recently completed MSMBC project in #northeastportland! We removed 15,000 square feet of asphalt and replaced it with a vibrant greenspace, with a nature play area, shade, a food garden 33+ trees, 700+ perennial plants, and more!
November 19, 2025 at 1:01 AM
hey btw portland, Katherine at @depave.bsky.social got us onto bluesky! follow if you like good news!
One example of the regulatory corruption driving up the costs of building dense housing.
And when I call it an astroturf org, I’m not throwing the term around lightly – when I signed up for the mailing list, the address it was associated with was a Johnson Controls office address (they’ve since rented a UPS mailbox for the purpose to disguise themselves better)
November 18, 2025 at 11:07 PM
One example of the regulatory corruption driving up the costs of building dense housing.
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Zoning started with the goals of encouraging segregation and car dependence a century ago. It is a moral imperative to abolish it.
November 17, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Zoning started with the goals of encouraging segregation and car dependence a century ago. It is a moral imperative to abolish it.
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This is *exactly* what happened in my South Austin neighborhood- we now have great restaurants, bars, coffee shops, stores, movie theatre, etc because of the 10-15 nearby apartment buildings built since early 2000s.
Almost all of which were opposed by the local neighborhood associations.
Almost all of which were opposed by the local neighborhood associations.
If we built more apartments in a .5 mile radius from my house, the new people would support new businesses which would drive up my home's value and also provide a larger tax base to improve my city's services. I would much prefer that over parking for chuds and their pickup trucks.
many YIMBYs i know are actually quite explicit about working against their own financial interest
November 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
This is *exactly* what happened in my South Austin neighborhood- we now have great restaurants, bars, coffee shops, stores, movie theatre, etc because of the 10-15 nearby apartment buildings built since early 2000s.
Almost all of which were opposed by the local neighborhood associations.
Almost all of which were opposed by the local neighborhood associations.
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a big runoff last night, in New Orleans:
Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.
So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.
Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.
So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.
Calvin Duncan wins Orleans clerk of court race - Verite News New Orleans
Duncan, a political newcomer and former prisoner, defeated incumbent Darren Lombard by a wide margin in Saturday's runoff.
veritenews.org
November 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
a big runoff last night, in New Orleans:
Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.
So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.
Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.
So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.
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for years i've written that trees and density are two great tastes that go great together
but it requires both land use *and* building codes that prioritize this. no US cities have land use that does this well.
www.theurbanist.org/2018/05/07/t...
but it requires both land use *and* building codes that prioritize this. no US cities have land use that does this well.
www.theurbanist.org/2018/05/07/t...
Trees + Density = Livability - The Urbanist
# Last October, Seattle Weekly republished an article headlined, ‘Will Seattle Finally Protect its tree canopy’, which was followed a few days later by Seattle Mag’s ‘The Struggle to Save Seattle’s Ur...
www.theurbanist.org
April 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
for years i've written that trees and density are two great tastes that go great together
but it requires both land use *and* building codes that prioritize this. no US cities have land use that does this well.
www.theurbanist.org/2018/05/07/t...
but it requires both land use *and* building codes that prioritize this. no US cities have land use that does this well.
www.theurbanist.org/2018/05/07/t...
Going out to dinner at the ungodly hour of 8pm. 😵
November 16, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Going out to dinner at the ungodly hour of 8pm. 😵