J. Wychodeski @deserteyelid.bsky.social · 19mThe part of this that isn't talked about enough is that roughly one third of all Portlanders are trying to survive on sub $20k annual income. 214k people over 18. After taxes that's an entire annual income spent on housing alone. 100
Reposted by J. WychodeskiCozca @cozca.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Portland police are refusing to return my riffle with no legal reason to do so. I have no felonies, no felony charges, no charges at all. They are claiming I have arrests in other states. I have zero arrests in any other state. "Your case is really complicated. I cant give you your riffle." 1136
Reposted by J. WychodeskiCozca @cozca.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I have zero federal charges, I had a "failure to obey" federal charge from 2025 ICE that was resolved months ago. They have no legal reason to refuse the return of my hunting riffle. The least they can do is let me sell it or give it to family. 151
J. Wychodeski @deserteyelid.bsky.social · 02/10/2026They don't care about this, and the original restructuring by council (add $1k min income to avoid a head tax) seems relevant. Tonkon Torp's involvement has the DiLorenzo method all over it: sue 'biggly' and take the settlement to affect policy. 6-6 split + the mayor. 000
J. Wychodeski @deserteyelid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026If PPB is providing data (including "flock type" alpr) to LexisNexis then they are providing it to ICE and the Feds. A restrictive data policy is clear and consise, that's why everything we ever see is not. We need this for PPB, but also for Portland broadly, to include commercial surveillance. 272
Reposted by J. WychodeskiKate Kaye @katekaye.bsky.social · 01/10/20261. Though PPB uses Motorola’s Vigilant Solutions license plate readers, it is not known whether data captured by PPB’s Motorola ALPR devices is shared into the data Vigilant Solutions sells through the Thomson Reuters CLEAR data partnership. 222
J. Wychodeski @deserteyelid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026PBA/Metro Chamber PACs. You get digging on it and it’s just a handful of real estate developers/investors and a few assorted regular complainers. 147 entities, 570 transactions, $8,320,892.51. Trans Date 5 Oct 2020 through 25 Sept. Data current as of post date. 1113
J. Wychodeski @deserteyelid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The parable of the Nazi bar fails in that the inclusion doesn't happen over time. You let one Nazi in your bar and you have a Nazi bar. 000
J. Wychodeski @deserteyelid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026So big pink got sold off at a discount compressing the tax liability of the new owner is all the talk. But then the new owner hires the former owner to "manage" the property at per sq ft rate of what, $10mil / year? Maybe that should be a bigger part of the convo. 100
J. Wychodeski @deserteyelid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Personally don't understand why the new arts tax exemption is only $20k and a pass through llc business tax would be 25x that at half a mil. $20k and you can't even afford a roof in Portland. Business tax exemptions should be tighter and averaged over employee salaries. 031
J. Wychodeski @deserteyelid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026We should replace the arts tax with something like this. No where to go but winning. 010
J. Wychodeski @deserteyelid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Wtf is an "urbanist"? Y'all realize how ridiculous that sounds? 000
J. Wychodeski @deserteyelid.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This type of thing would never happen if the city cut the bloat from PPB's media wing & stopped letting them craft the narrative. The pio officer that released it should be disciplined as well, and an outside investigation into who all collaborated on this. 011
J. Wychodeski @deserteyelid.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This is what it's all about. Almost half of all property in Portland is owner addressed to a different location. None of that has investment benefit or potential to its occupants. You are the mine from which they extract their "abundance". 020
Reposted by J. WychodeskiAlissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026when a fascist assaults someone in front of them and the response is “yeah well they need to file a report first,” that isn’t some neutral limitation on what police can do. It’s a choice. 19511
Reposted by J. WychodeskiChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 22/09/2026It'd be great if Bluesky posted a monthly count of the number of law enforcement requests it receives to unmask accounts. 12594151
J. Wychodeski @deserteyelid.bsky.social · 21/09/2026We replaced our entire city government, but for some reason we have to overlap these two for years because it's one more holdout from the police union to avoid accountability. Ridiculous. 000
Reposted by J. WychodeskiUzza @uzzamodea.bsky.social · 21/09/2026You can help out the victim of today's hate rally assault in PDX here: bsky.app/profile/cozc... 14327
J. Wychodeski @deserteyelid.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This whole thing is sketch and was a bad idea from the start. There's also the vigilantism from the PDNA, recording people and harassing them throughout the neighborhood. Portland needs to provide protected class status to poverty and start treating these actions like the hate crimes that they are. 130
J. Wychodeski @deserteyelid.bsky.social · 20/09/2026You can even add a photo, making this part of the public record. 100
J. Wychodeski @deserteyelid.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The city has an ADA non-compliance tool. You can report scooter obstructions here: (for "Which of the following items are visible at the site?" select "A vehicle, such as a car, truck, RV, trailer, motorcycle, or boat in the right of way") www.portland.gov/homelessness...portland.govReport a CampsiteReport unsanctioned camping and/or campsite-related trash in Portland. To help this process work efficiently, please wait one week before filing a new report on the same location. 100
J. Wychodeski @deserteyelid.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Laborers' Local 483 jobs are among those the mayor is privatizing in transferring the Portland Tennis Center to "save $". The City is contractually obligated to retain the workers. Be curious to know if the "savings" are not actual and just transfered on paper to another facility. 000
J. Wychodeski @deserteyelid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026In truth, this is a distinction, not a misconception. Releasing a statement via official Portland Police Bureau channels as "Chief", is nominal to a uniformed presser. This is not a letter to the editor or opinion piece in The O from "Bob, not Portland" 071
Reposted by J. WychodeskiAlan Kessler @alankessler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026So he directed staff to release it? That's actually worse. 051
Reposted by J. WychodeskiMarc Poris @marcporis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Along with the fact that every NEW sworn police and fire employee necessarily raises taxes, we also learned that due to FPDR "picking up" their PERS contributions, it costs the public at least 38% more (and rising) for a sworn officer to do a job that could otherwise be done by a non-sworn employee. 163
J. Wychodeski @deserteyelid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Actually, this makes it worse! This is an official statement from the Portland Police press office engaging in electioneering. Instead of being from the Chief, it's now the department: the ever nebulous "we". 043
J. Wychodeski @deserteyelid.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Now would be a good time to review how much we spend on the PPB press wing, from a podcast, to film production, to a pr wing. And maybe just give it to Schools. 010
J. Wychodeski @deserteyelid.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Why isn't this a bigger deal? Why does the police chief even have press conferences? Yet alone using his position to influence an election. 171
J. Wychodeski @deserteyelid.bsky.social · 17/09/2026In recent years, after being discovered as a full ass Nazi, Portland police promoted Mark Kruger to Captain. The city issued an apology and issued back pay for saying he brought "discredit and disgrace upon the Bureau". 110
J. Wychodeski @deserteyelid.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Why'd the last guy lose his PPA president job? Wasn't that at the same time as those tweets? 231
J. Wychodeski @deserteyelid.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Perhaps more importantly, /who/ came up with them and why are they being presented to council? 110
J. Wychodeski @deserteyelid.bsky.social · 15/09/202611% of this presentation is just pictures of cops. 110
J. Wychodeski @deserteyelid.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Maybe choices of which foods we purchase shouldn't be influenced by optical illusions in layout further confused in sea of pricing noise. 110
J. Wychodeski @deserteyelid.bsky.social · 12/09/2026According to PPB, these "criminalists" averaged $158K last year. 010
J. Wychodeski @deserteyelid.bsky.social · 11/09/2026"The cost of renovating or modernizing vacant spaces often exceeds what rents can support." So what, fuck it? 100
J. Wychodeski @deserteyelid.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The Vacancy Tax report by ECONorthwest is so wildly detached from conditions in Portland it's to the point of having ignored them entirely, with the exception of hypothesising on measure 5/50 constraints. Entirely a pro landlord speculative fiction. 100
J. Wychodeski @deserteyelid.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Make turning your giant oversized house into cottages the new prius signaling. 010
J. Wychodeski @deserteyelid.bsky.social · 10/09/2026"age in place" is an interesting approach to this. What if we approached infill with the same lens? Replace oversized houses on giant lots with cottage clusters & 6-plexes (already coded). Divide the lot and it's former owners get a unit to age in with some (undetermined) equity. 220
J. Wychodeski @deserteyelid.bsky.social · 08/09/2026A sizeable portion of this city is empty lots and abandoned buildings being sat on by outside real estate speculators. 082
Reposted by J. WychodeskiRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I'd be OK fighting a holy war on behalf of the libraries. 591827283
Reposted by J. WychodeskiChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 06/09/2026The reason we spend so much money being awful to unhoused people is the system needs a visible reminder of what landlords and bosses are threatening you with. 91632560
Reposted by J. WychodeskiCrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 06/09/2026The end of noblogs.org does not simply represent a threat to anarchists or volunteer-run tech collectives. The Trump administration aims to shut down any institution or project that it perceives to stand in the way of its pursuit of totalitarian control. We must fight them every inch of the way.crimethinc.comAt the Turning of the TideWe revisit the structural forces behind Trump's return to power, review the events of 2025, and propose a strategy for how to fight our way out of the Trump era. 010045
J. Wychodeski @deserteyelid.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Taylor is smart enough to know that while this bad faith argument won't hold, his ruminating would scare council into closed door session. Problematically, he left enough in chamber to suggest anything short of giving I² whatever they want would result in the City's financial liability to Zenith. 151
Reposted by J. WychodeskiKat Mahoney @kmahoneylaw.com · 31/08/2026Let's talk about accountability and transparency regarding Zenith and ISQ. I Squared Capital (ISQ) is worth about $66B. It takes 15 different entities to run this bullshit... shell games. 44824
J. Wychodeski @deserteyelid.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Pretty wild they don't already do this. If the city paired a transit tax on large employeers with discounts for providing transit passes they could probably patch some potholes and and shore up transit with a stake on Trimet's board. 121
J. Wychodeski @deserteyelid.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Are you serious? What happened in 2008? "Oregon homes were a little cheaper than average back in 2008. Now they’re 9% more expensive and a lot more expensive in some places. Housing costs in the Portland area, for example, are 25% higher than the national average. 110
J. Wychodeski @deserteyelid.bsky.social · 28/08/2026If you don't mow your lawn or your paint is flaking cities regularly declare your home a public nuisance and take it from you. This is a clear public nuisance to the point of menace with the easiest fix of "digging a channel" but some rich folks up stream want to bury their toxic waste here so... 010
