Gotta clock that double overtime somehow.
Marc Poris@marcporis.bsky.social · 11h agoAlso, this was a welfare check call, which is NOT SOMETHING THAT ARMED OFFICERS SHOULD BE DOING, for the most part. Of course, we don't have all the details here - maybe the person who was "transported by emergency personnel" had some weapons? bsky.app/profile/marc...
I don't know. If you want oversight, maybe don't give tens of millions of $ to the shortcut around oversight department. This entire department should be unnecessary w/ a functioning administrative gov structure. This is their entire point.
Mitch Green@councilorgreen.bsky.social · 2d agoThis is why I have insisted on oversight at every step, whether we’re talking water rates, stadium subsidies or our shelter system. The job of a Councilor is threefold: legislate, allocate and investigate. We need to investigate this serious breach of public trust.
CityTeam is the building where Mayor Wilson had his "mission accomplished" presser alongside Skyler Brocker-Knapp, "director of Portland's homelessness initiative" for The O. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
Portland mayor set an ‘unrealistic goal’ for shelter beds – and is poised to hit it. Will it end unsheltered homelessness?
Nearly 7,500 people are living outside or in their vehicle in Multnomah County, the vast majority of them in Portland.
oregonlive.com
Wheeler created Portland Solutions to entrench business access in city gov and to go around normal bureau processes and council. Oversight is ripping out a dept that should have no purpose in a properly administered gov and redistributing their budget. This is their entire purpose.
Councilor Angelita Morillo@councilormorillo.bsky.social · 2d agoI’m grateful for the coverage from KATU who broke the story, and from the Mercury for continuing to dig into this. It’s clear Council has more to do. I will keep pushing for oversight.
Wtf!? 2x pay! Didn't we just close the schools and cancel public transportation? Fuck these clowns.
Marc Poris@marcporis.bsky.social · 3d agoWhoops, left out the alt-text on the previous post, so here it is again.
This is stupid and something council has the power to immediately stop. Why would we do this? Also, using false pretenses to seize people's property seems sketch. www.kgw.com/article/news...
The thing is, most people don't think "killing" is wrong. They think "murder" is wrong and "murder" is a normative statement. Killing is ambiguous, as we see here. Most people actually think killing the profiteers of murder is not, in turn, murder, but justice.
shaun@shaunvids.bsky.social · 4d agothe luigi situation is interesting in that while most people obviously think killing is wrong, there's a general exception given for killing someone who is killing others, & apparently a lot of people think that the US healthcare system is ran by killers killing people for profit, so y'know
Dan Ryan delivers this 3 min pièce de résistance on what it means to be a moderate liberal. No plan. No thoughts. Just pondering himself into knots. What a clown.
Marc Poris@marcporis.bsky.social · 4d agoCouncilor Ryan understands and appreciates the issue (Public health impacts of chemical weapons) and would like a presentation with the users of chemical weapons next time. This is a tough three minutes to watch. www.youtube.com/live/jFtboi3...
I can't believe this didn't fix it.
Leah Greenberg ❌👑@leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 6d agopeople will look back on this era and recognize the destruction of USAID among the most profound stains on America's conscience, and the architects of its destruction as white supremacist perpetrators of mass infant death
Turns out 29,000 or so of the signatures collected were duplicates (or triplicates, or quadruplicates in at least one case!), from out-of-Portland voters, from people not registered to vote, or otherwise invalid. www.portland.gov/auditor/news...
Initiative Petition 1PDX2026 does not qualify to Portland’s November ballot
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You'd think with such a generous handout of social welfare you'd have enough left over to install a basic fire suppression system, which, fwiw, lack thereof was the code the city used to evict all the Pearl's former tenants so Homer Williams et al could build Piss and Moan capital, USA.
J. Wychodeski@deserteyelid.bsky.social · 2w agoExcluding the building that his indebted blackwater wannabe mall cop mercs definitely did not burn down, Stuey hordes $113,447,340 in market value real estate but pays taxes on only $37,472,930 of that (before other associated discounts) thanks to measures 5 and 50. Socialism for the wealthy.
Excluding the building that his indebted blackwater wannabe mall cop mercs definitely did not burn down, Stuey hordes $113,447,340 in market value real estate but pays taxes on only $37,472,930 of that (before other associated discounts) thanks to measures 5 and 50. Socialism for the wealthy.
Reminder that Portland has no language in protected class based on financial status so bigoted language around poverty continues to permeate. As those impoverished seek shelter in abandoned warehouses, derelict property owners burn their buildings down around them safe in comfort by council.
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
futurism.com
I am fine with losing the team. But this is the "ROI" that conversations keep missing. Part of living somewhere is having nice things. That's OK! PDX needs to shoot higher and maybe offer more in trade for a better return, cause pretty sure Dundon's motivation is just inflicting "payback".
Taylor Griggs@taylorgriggs.bsky.social · 3w agoI am truly sad. I don’t want to lose the team. I think the Blazers are extremely culturally and economically important to the city and I think it’s ill-informed to say otherwise. But of course the city can’t capitulate to the team’s every ridiculous desire. This is so fucked
Anyone ask about the no trade plus player option?
Taylor Griggs@taylorgriggs.bsky.social · 3w agoDamian Lillard, please make your voice heard
I thought the city was out of money? Maybe it's not that people are too stupid to know what to recycle, but that we [mayor Sam Adams] reduced trash service by 50%. Maybe metro should recycle more or pick up more trash so we're not throwing it in the wrong bin or the street.
The Oregonian@oregonian.com · 4w agoThe program looks to keep bad trash out of recycling bins.
What I'm missing is where "supplemental budget" exists in the charter. All I see is "budget" and ordinances. Appropriation ordinances would seem to require spending funds on their *designated purpose* set in the budget.
Ridiculous!
Marc Poris@marcporis.bsky.social · 4w agoThe Portland Police Bureau promoted Corey Budworth to Sergeant on July 16, 2026. He was the PPB officer that was indicted for using unjustified force against a photojournalist, by pushing her to the ground and hitting her in the head with his baton while she was seated. bsky.app/profile/marc...
MultCo transit police rolling all around Delta Park doing traffic stops through Heron Lakes and up into Columbia Villa. That's a lot of resources for an area with little to no transit service. Is this where all the Trimet money is going?
Doesn't the "investment" calculus change when their chief asset has a no trade clause with a player option?
The Oregonian@oregonian.com · 2mo ago“It feels like we’re making a pretty big investment by staying here,” Tom Dundon said.
Florida owners of Portland real estate with cumulative value by owner city.
J. Wychodeski@deserteyelid.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe scale of this is so ridiculous that meaningful static representation gets lost in the bluesky image scale. Florida for example.
Yo! Those cooling spaces map is just city parks.
Multnomah County, OR@multco.bsky.social · last mo.☀️ Portland summers are getting hotter! Those at high risk include older adults (especially men over 50 living alone), outdoor workers, pregnant people, and those without AC, to name a few. Make a plan to stay cool! Find cooling spaces near you at: link.multco.us/interactive-map-cool-spaces
Chat, what is racketeering?
Rockom Sockom NoBots@rockom.bsky.social · last mo.I just watched this 6 minute video which aired live on @kgw.com.web.brid.gy where Aaron Schmautz a Sergeant with the PPB and the President of the PPA (cop union) lie and dissemble for 6 straight minutes. He answers exactly zero of the interviewer's questions. He lies about "defunding".
Chat, what is racketeering?
Rockom Sockom NoBots@rockom.bsky.social · last mo.I just watched this 6 minute video which aired live on @kgw.com.web.brid.gy where Aaron Schmautz a Sergeant with the PPB and the President of the PPA (cop union) lie and dissemble for 6 straight minutes. He answers exactly zero of the interviewer's questions. He lies about "defunding".
