matt tuckerbaum

Hell yeah! Translating into terms creepy old men will understand: school closures will sabotage Portland’s ✨renaissance✨. Every gear of our local government should be aimed at growing Portland and making our governance structure support that growth - from schools to tax systems. Go, Mitch, go!

anyone in the Portland biking/walking/transit community interested in hacking together a camera + speed detector system we can rotate through dangerous locations? I’ve witnessed so much speeding and so many close calls sitting in my front porch and I’d like to have data to hand to PBOT

Fellow parents, the spookiest thing about this spooky season is that DST ends / we fall back an hour the Saturday night of Halloween 👻 This madness must end. Make DST permanent.

"the aim is to cut travel times between the line’s three hubs to roughly an hour per segment; that is, a trip between Seattle and either Portland or Vancouver should take about an hour" learn more and follow the link to WSDOT public comments open until Nov 13, from @hsrail.bsky.social

This looks like an amazing role!

good lord this is depressing

Build the housing, run the buses, metaphorically and literally make room to welcome red state refugees into big blue cities

Implementation & diffusion of general purpose technologies always takes longer than boosters expect because taking full advantage of the new affordances requires transforming institutions, skillsets & protocols—& those things are hard/slow to change. Consider electricity: www.bbc.com/news/busines...

Portland’s law enforcement organization is what we might euphemistically call truth-challenged

This is not funny, Terry only speaks like this when he’s very distressed

it speaks volumes that Oliveira is the DCA who’s surviving the Wilson administration, especially given how things have gone with his portfolio: PHB, Prosper, Moda, Zenith, Arts Tax, and the collapse of housing production

This is why we can’t have transit

How about this: every CRE guy that wants Portland to pay for the Moda renovation is forever required to support full costs of commercial buildouts in their own spaces, and they’re forbidden from offering NNN leases? @councilorgreen.bsky.social

This piece raises a bigger question than one viral City Council moment: What happens when race, age and culture are used to shield a public official from accountability, while the Blackness and legitimacy of other elected leaders are treated as negotiable? 🧵 www.portlandmercury.com/opinion/the-...

Folks, I'm closing up shop here for a while. My focus is going to be hyperlocal while we expect to welcome two new kiddos earthside in the coming days. Take care of each other, and leave your spaces better than you found them. ✌️

that is gorgeous… every home has light on two sides

🤩🤩 my goodness he is so good at this

Oregonians need to be prepared for secession, and Oregon's leaders need to be recruiting other blue states to leave with us. The Heritage Foundation, which published Project 2025, says Oregon should be denied federal representation, based on bad-faith arguments about our mail-based voting system.

The Left-NIMBYs have infiltrated the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies and it's a real shame

A group of Ecuadorian fishermen survived a US drone strike, were detained at gunpoint, phones wiped, ship blown up, disappeared to El Salvador, then released without charge. “They knew we were fishermen. Even the Salvadorian authorities said things had been handled very badly.”

Sooo… who’s gonna go nuclear on Mayor Wilson? This guy is getting so much leeway despite one terrible decision after another

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.

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.

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...

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

This is my Roman Empire

The @oregonian.com covered our rally and the unanimous IE4A resolution: www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

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?