Jay Thatcher

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OR Attorney General Rayfield has been amazingly successful fighting the Trump Regime. But it ain't cheap. Gov. Kotek's last 2 budgets included *big* increases for the AG's Office, making these lawsuits possible. Drazen would never budget for lawsuits against Trump's authoritarian overreach.

Doing a panel this morning about the decade since the Malheur occupation, and I just realized it was exactly 10 years ago today that the jury in the first trial, involving the Bundys, was given the case and started deliberations. I wrote this earlier this year: www.pdxmonthly.com/news-and-cit...

This piece on Gonzaga coach Pat Tyson is worth a read. Before stepping onto the Gonzaga campus, he was already known as one of the best HS coaches in Washington state. www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...

My favorite graphics in "Transportation and the Shape of Cities" #8: A bike lane can be built with paint and plastic, made more durable with curbs and planters, or built into the infrastructure of a rebuilt street. All take the same space, but the cost and the feel of the street are quite different.

@pedalingpastor.bsky.social

To understand how the Trump administration behaves and makes (and unmakes) policy, you have to understand that it comes from a constant battle between incompetence and evil. Their policies are usually a combination of both in different measures.

I'm attending No Kings's event, “Know Your Federal Voting Rights / Conozca sus derechos electorales federales” - sign up now to join me! It starts in 43 minutes. www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

🎃Thei did the Mash; thei did the Monstere Mash. The Monstere Mash! Beholde: sepulchral smash! Thei did the Mash, and it kaughte on moost fast - Hark, heare the Mash! Forsooth, the Monstere Mash!🎃

Riding bikes home from school yesterday we had a hard time crossing a busy arterial. She told me, “that street takes away my confidence.” It is hard to teach a child to not go when one person stops for you. It is safer to wait for a break in traffic, even if it irritates the person who stopped.

Went 1-on-1 with Chad Johnson, talking about Oregon State, Jesse Legree, Jeremiah Smith, the NFL, Dennis Erickson, Jonathan Smith, & more. Stay to the last question… (unless you have the kids around you; then log off early). YouTube:

8600+ Oregonians took the Governor's survey on what they want to see in a future transportation package. What a surprise! People want to fix the damn roads, expand transit service and build safer streets. Oregonians are not clamoring for ODOT to spend billions on freeway expansions. #orleg #orpol

Many thanks to @wyden.senate.gov for joining in support of this one!

SAFE! Corvallis is planning on happy hour on 10/9, plus canvassing for city council candidates Greg Shiffer and Danielle Chambers. mailchi.mp/a912409abf4b...

“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you really haven't learned anything.” ― Muhammad Ali Bicycles are proven to be great tools for crafting friendships that will often last a lifetime.

2/ The American people don't want to see more lives lost in foreign wars for oil. Iran war powers measure falls short in Senate, despite new GOP support. www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-...

"In trying to explain Quaker meetings, I sometimes say it is a bit like birdwatching: it involves quietly waiting, expecting or hoping to experience something, but never knowing exactly what it will be." @timquaker.bsky.social sets out six reasons to attend a Quaker meeting for worship.

My lived experience is that Oregonians are more state-proud than Washingtonians, Illinoisians, or Ohioans, that Iowans are more state-proud than Oregonians, and that Minnesotans are more state-proud than Iowans More than that, I cannot say

Since 1999, the federal government has spent $21.3 billion on infrastructure for people who bike and walk Since 2010, over 100,000 people have been killed while biking and walking in the US Imagine if we funded safer infrastructure rather than war

When the 2050 Marin County Vision Network is complete, you will be able to ride a bike, with your kid or your mom, from Pt Richmond to Pt Reyes Station, or from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Sonoma County border, all on low-stress bikeways. Marin will be the most bikeable county in America.

"the tools most effective at reducing terrorism have often been those that treat it as a matter of law enforcement or political conflict rather than war." -- www.rand.org/pubs/monogra...

It's also Yom Shishi, Elul 29—Erev Rosh Hashana, the eve of the holiday on which we celebrate not the Jewish New Year, per se, but Creation itself. It's a holiday of cycles & circles, of renewal & promise. We hold death & life on this day & in this season. May we choose life. Shana Tova ❤️

Every greenway intersection in Portland should look like this.

I'm looking forward to joining Saffron Walden Quakers for their book club - there'll be a chance to talk about the book first, and I'll join for the last half hour of the online session. Details on the poster/in alt text.

The 40-hour work week. The weekend itself. Lifesaving safety standards. Organized labor has changed our country for the better. This Labor Day, we recognize the achievements of our unions and the workers who make the American way of life possible.

More great reporting from the @portlandmercury.com and @taylorgriggs.bsky.social. Hoopes included us here on Bluesky in his gentle, positive pre-sentence outreach. I'm looking forward to seeing what he brings to our world after this journey.

Sometimes it seems like the world doesn't know quite what to make of Quakers—and the movies are no exception. For decades, Friends were seen "thee"-ing and "thou"-ing across the screen, our spiritual beliefs reduced to a rejection of violence the modern world finds unrealistic. But that's changing.

Past 72 hours. 🇺🇸 @cnbc.com @bloomberg.com www.cnbc.com/2026/09/04/w...

Even if local progress doesn't stop global warming, the consolation prize of less particulate still makes fossil fuel reduction worthwhile.

The thread is about markedly reduced pollution in greater London following transportation reforms.

"The choice not to pay taxes and withdraw my money from the war system came from a spiritual place," Joseph Olejak writes. That choice led to, as the title of his memoir reveals, 26 Weekends in County Jail. "Whether it was worth it didn’t really apply because it was a choice made beyond fear."

"Contrary to popular belief, speed in itself is not a major cause of crashes. In fact, there is a consensus of professional opinions that many speed-related crashes result from both excessively low and high speeds." Big Lie of omission to not include crash severity azdot.gov/business/eng...

here's a piece I wrote about a revival going on in the Twin Cities. www.ms.now/opinion/dhs-...

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63 years ago, hundreds of thousands of Americans marched on Washington to demand equality, fair jobs and freedom. Today, the fight continues against those who want to turn back the progress we’ve made as a country. We must stand up for voting rights, equality and justice for all.

Honestly I fucking dare them. This is like bait for Critical Mass nationwide

My idea to help w speeding: A city-sponsored “neighborhood pace car” program where volunteers get a placard/signage on car saying, “I’m going the speed limit. Are you?” Or just do it w city fleet vehicles. We just need to normalize going slow and folks will chill.

Shocking.

Joan Slonczewski has microbes on their mind. And they’re willing to share them with you! Slonczewski’s four decades of science fiction open doors to worlds where technology and ecology merge and where sentient microscopic beings might just be the death of us, or our salvation.