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Jacob Hoopes (they/he) @rjacobhoopes.carfree.life · 23/07/2026

Got to take a quick look at the new Amtrak Airo trains as they passed through Portland. They look so great!! Excited for my next opportunity to travel #bytrain @amtrakcascades.wsdot.wa.gov

The Amtrak Airo trainset at Union Station in Portland, viewed from above.

More of the Amtrak Airo trains viewed from above. Big Pink is visible in the background.

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pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I hadn’t seen this yet. This is beyond awful.

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Jacob Hoopes (they/he) @rjacobhoopes.carfree.life · 23/07/2026

Yoooo last night of charging the ankle monitor 💯👀🔥 #huge

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Candace Avalos @candaceavalos.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Just want to remind everyone that the Mayor cut 200 critical jobs which will result in significant service cuts at a time when Portlanders need govt the most, meanwhile he kept 70 vacancies in the police bureau even though per PPB's own staffing report they will NOT fill most of those positions. 🙃

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Sundance @sundance.bikesky.social · 23/07/2026

We choose to build bike lanes in this city not because it’s easy, but because we want to make driving hard.

Kennedy meme about space on the road for bikes

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amb @amb.fyi · 23/07/2026

alert, alert, not a drill, the shiny new train is coming through Portland tomorrow

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Brandon Mullen @brandonmullen.com · 23/07/2026

Wanted to clip this bit from my last video: I want EVERYONE to consider running for some office somewhere, even and ESPECIALLY if you have never considered it. One way out of where we find ourselves is to have more people from more backgrounds, cultures, places, and perspectives representing us.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Zohran Mamdani has appointed former FTC Chair Lina Khan to lead New York City's top economic development agency. Her understanding of how corporate power undermines economic freedom, which she examines in the video below, make her a perfect fit. Watch.

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The Illusion of Choice: How Big Business Controls Your Life (ft. Lina Khan)

From your grocery bill to your paycheck, monopolies are making you less financially secure and ultimately less free. For

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Jacob Hoopes (they/he) @rjacobhoopes.carfree.life · 22/07/2026

The conservative councilors demonstrate a profound disdain for compromise and good governance. Infuriating. @councilorkanal.bsky.social demonstrates an attitude of leadership and understanding that reaches across the aisle, despite the conservatives' reprehensible, irresponsible politicking.

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Councilor Candace Avalos @counciloravalos.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

First up, we have public comment. Portlanders spoke about concerns with public safety, advocating to save the Keller, concerns with potential fraud at the state government, and a goodbye from Jacob Hoopes.

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Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

There is just way too much space given to vehicles in NYC for a pedestrian city. It's absurd. Farcical.

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Mayor Katie B. Wilson @mayor.seattle.gov · 22/07/2026

Right now, our transit system is breaking records and delivering real value for our families. I appreciate City Council’s partnership in crafting a package to voters offering a low-cost way to bring people more and better of the cheapest travel option available, public transit.

Mayor Wilson Thanks City Council
For Passage of Seattle Transit Measure Renewal

“Right now, our transit system is breaking records and delivering real value for our families. I appreciate City Council’s partnership in crafting a package to voters offering a low-cost way to bring people more and better of the cheapest travel option available, public transit. It’s a package that respects people’s hard-earned dollars and brings 100,000 more bus trips to Seattle every year and funds 22,000 free transit passes for low-income households.

Next week, we will gather in City Hall so I can sign the bill and send it to voters for their consideration this November. To everyone who showed up and helped shape the Seattle Transit Measure – I also say thank you, and congratulations.”

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Justin Buzzell @buzzell.social · 22/07/2026

Everyone likes free stuff. Maybe I'm being too optimistic, but I believe if TriMet was free ridership would skyrocket.

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the moon report 🌖 @seachanger.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Portland needs this vibe for removing asphalt and planting trees - shred all of the permits, err on the side of green

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Portland DSA @portlanddsa.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Councilor Eric Zimmerman likely committed a felony by trading contributions (but won’t be prosecuted), according to the Oregonian

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1 million Portlanders by 2045 🌲🌧️🦫🚲🚇🚰 @bradleyclover.com · 21/07/2026

Crazy idea that violates the *LAWS OF NATURE* What if we just in the span of a couple days replaced all the on street parking on Inner Hawthorne with more pedestrian space? Just slap down some precast concrete curbs? The sidewalks are so narrow! Its embarrassing.

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Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Related: @counciloravalos.bsky.social and I intend to submit this letter to the Commission. We discussed in committee today to ask for more signatories, so a version of this letter will go out tomorrow with hopefully more names. Please consider supporting this appeal as well. Thanks.

portland.gov

Committee letter to Planning Commission

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Nathan Ong Norris @nathanongnorris.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

It’s gonna be hot for the next few days. Putting out extra cold water, in one of the many free fridges across Multnomah County, is one of the best ways to help our neighbors who don’t have access to reliable electricity or refrigeration stay comfortable through the heat. Salty snacks, also helpful.

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Councilor Candace Avalos @counciloravalos.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

A 0.5 FAR bump to a 2.5 base creates a realistic baseline for medium-density multi-dwelling projects. This makes it easier for projects like single stair buildings.

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IMEU Policy Project @imeupolicy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Mayor Zohran Mamdani in his address at the Nelson Mandela Global Leadership Forum: “Why must we wait until a thousand more parents bury in their children? Until even more lose their limbs, their homes, their futures, to come together and insist on Palestinian freedom?“

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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Portland: everyone who is seriously thinking of using our CLEAN ENERGY FUND to bribe our basketball team to not leave town needs to know that our transit agency is on track to cut nearly 1/3 of its service from what it was in 2025. Which is the greater crisis?

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Jacob Hoopes (they/he) @rjacobhoopes.carfree.life · 21/07/2026

This is horrible - the 20% of Portlanders with the lowest income are not only deeply cost burdened, but are cost smothered. IN 2024, the MEDIAN rent was 100% of household income! This is so profoundly cruel and the situation needs to be addressed with the urgency it deserves.

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Mary Sue @marysuesays.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Don't know why it took me this long to look for it. But yeah. Taylor Farms uses prison slave labor. www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2023/ju...

Published by the Arizona Republic, the report counted 26 DCRR prisoners with detainers filed by federal Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The detainers render them ineligible for employment in the U.S. Moreover, a 2007 state law makes any potential employer criminally liable for failure to check their work eligibility. But the law exempts employers renting prisoner labor from DCRR or its for-profit subsidiary, Arizona Correctional Industries.

Many Arizona firms have taken advantage of this opportunity, including brands like Hickman’s Egg Farms, Taylor Farms, NatureSweet and Televerde. After hiring DCRR-supplied workers for as little as $4.75 an hour – one-third minimum wage – the firms claimed not to know whether any undocumented workers were among them. DCRR couldn’t say either, though it noted that 10,000 undocumented prisoners are currently working assignments inside state prisons where they are incarcerated.

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Nora (Haunted) @elanorjb.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

We’re in this weird period where the dream of the 90s is once again alive in Portland but nobody’s really noticed yet

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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Multiple conversations with different reporters: "why are housing prices so out of control in Oregon?" "we've got problems but actually, this is something Oregon is doing well at, here are the numbers" "huh OK well that's not a story I can tell. Nobody would care" Frustrating!

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Jason Notte @notteham.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Tucked amid all of this: "...they know very little of the stuff we would agree to." The disputed term sheet accomplished one key goal in the Moda Center discussion with the Blazers: Revealing obfuscation as part of the process.

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Jacob Hoopes (they/he) @rjacobhoopes.carfree.life · 20/07/2026

One excellent path forward has been made clear. Folks should take a look at the whole thread for context. This is VERY good and impressive reporting. Great job, @ripcitynotripoff.bsky.social.

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Rockom Sockom NoBots @rockom.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I also believe this to be true, except for "white collar" crime--which is and always has been driven by pure greed and has forever dwarfed petty survival crime.

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Jacob Hoopes (they/he) @rjacobhoopes.carfree.life · 20/07/2026

This feels like a horoscope or alignment chart for our councilors. What a funny (and perhaps telling) assessment of their engagement. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Indeed, getting all dozen councilors to respond to a questionnaire on the Moda Center was a fraught endeavor.
The newsroom requested that each respond to the survey within five business days.

Four councilors - Mitch Green, Sameer Kanal, Angelita Morillo and Eric Zimmerman - answered all the questions, though Kanal only did so days after the deadline. Another four - Council President Jamie Dunphy, Council Vice President Olivia Clark and Councilors Elana Pirtle-Guiney and Dan Ryan - submitted their answers jointly while Councilor Loretta Smith returned a modified questionnaire that addressed five of the original eight questions.

Councilors Candace Avalos and Tiffany Koyama Lane, meanwhile, each emailed statements that touched on some - but not all - of the questions they received. Councilor Steve Novick declined to participate in the survey entirely.

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Khanh Pham for Oregon @khanhphamfororegon.com · 20/07/2026

The Portland Clean Energy Fund continues to make meaningful, tangible investments in our community that make our city healthier, more climate resilient, and more equitable. It's time to tell the Blazers and cops: hands off PCEF. loom.ly/Vj3mblM

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Jennifer @jenwith1n.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Dispatches from the big ebike event in Portland - the range of ages, abilities, and bike styles really emphasizes the transformative power of e-bikes. I saw someone biking in with a cane in her basket. Don’t let anybody tell you this isn’t a viable path to sustainable transportation.

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Jacob Hoopes (they/he) @rjacobhoopes.carfree.life · 20/07/2026

Tax empty lots to oblivion. Either build or sell. It's absurd that we've designed a system that encourages and enables this, so much so that folks are tying their late-life quality-of-life to empty lots remaining empty.

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Lloyd Alter @lloydalter.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The demographic reality is inescapable: We are going to have millions more older drivers with diminishing capabilities, in cars that are too big and too dangerous for everyone around them, with few satisfactory alternatives to driving. It will not end well.

lloydalter.substack.com

How will we live when we reach the end of our drivespan?

Our cities and suburbs are not designed to cope with the demographic time bomb.

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Portland DSA @portlanddsa.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Portland DSA in the Pride Parade! Trans People Exist- Billionaires Shouldn't!

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

My Spanish champion is Pontevedra Mayor Miguel Anxo Fernández Lores, who kicked cars out of city center: “It's not my duty as mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. It's the same as if you bought a cow, or fridge, and then ask me where you're going to put them.”

fastcompany.com

This Spanish city has been restricting cars for 24 years. Here's what we can learn from it

Pontevedra, Spain, offers some of the best evidence available about what happens when a city is reconfigured to accommodate people, rather than cars.

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Jacob Hoopes (they/he) @rjacobhoopes.carfree.life · 20/07/2026

There's some really beautiful cats in Sunnyside

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Since “defunding the pillars of society in order to save money” and “giving all the money to police and wealthy pricks” are core tenets of conservatism, I think as a society we ought to consider “conservative” a dangerous indecent thing to be, and those who identify as such should pay a social cost.

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Jacob Hoopes (they/he) @rjacobhoopes.carfree.life · 20/07/2026

Pride was amazing. I love you Portland!!!! ❤️🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍🌈

A picture of the pride parade from within the DSA contingent.

A picture of the DSA booth from within the booth.

Jacob folding shirts in the DSA booth. Overalls, buttons, ebike bib, water bottle, and smile all included.

Jacob and Angelita smiling at the camera.

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Jacob Hoopes (they/he) @rjacobhoopes.carfree.life · 20/07/2026

The key quote from @councilorgreen.bsky.social. The state and county money can help Dundon et al THIS year. It's their call if they want to wait & lose access to that money. The cost for them only rises if they choose to continue slow-walking the city and the council. I don't get their strategy.

Right now, it's a matter of $120
million. Like, if Dundon came out today and said 'I'm gonna pick up the tab on the $120 [million] ... that would probably get us to the finish line tomorrow."

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pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Happy Pride Portland 🏳️‍🌈 I couldn't be happier to celebrate with my queer family 💙 This Pride costume is a tribute to the gold Joan of Arc statue in my beloved district 3 🗡️✨ 💛 Ready to fight for my city 💛

Angelita selfie in her gold Joan of arc dress

Angelita speaks into a megaphone in front of Portland DSA. She is wearing a gold dress and gold boots

DSA folks marching in the parade carry an “Angelita for Portland” banner

Angelita takes a selfie in the reflection of a window

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