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Who even knows, man.
THIS THURSDAY (8/6) at Committee of the Whole, we'll continue two conversations from the previous meeting. On the Zenith-ISQ Franchise Transfer, the staff presentation is done, so we'll start with testimony, then go into Councilor discussion/consideration. You can sign up to testify: 1/2
Consent to franchise transfer from Zenith Energy Terminals Holdings LLC to ISQ Springer Holdings, LLC (amend Ordinance 188554)
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Last week, Zenith sued the City to try to prevent democratic oversight of its planned sale of its (illegally expanded) oil by rail throughput facility to a private equity firm. Let them know just what you think about this. Sign up to testify tomorrow around 9:45 am: www.portland.gov/council-cler...
Register for testimony or submit written testimony to Council
Complete this form to register to provide verbal testimony on an agenda item during Council and committee meetings, or to submit written testimony on an item.
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Kori 🌹@koriander.bsky.social · 2w agoAn oil company would haaaaaaaaaaate it if a large number of people signed up to testify on multiple items at Thursdays committee of the whole meeting and took so much time testifying that the sale of the oil company got pushed off the agenda www.portland.gov/council/agen...
I'm going to be brutally honest: watching people speedrun conspiratorial revisionism regarding COVID just five years after the pandemic killed one million Americans makes me understand how Holocaust denial took root in living memory of the death camps. It is the same basic sick instinct.
The great Covid bait and switch - Lawyers, Guns & Money
I find it fascinating how the entire Covid epidemic has undergone some sort of almost Orwellian historical revisionism, and not merely among the right wing, although they are of course by far the wors...
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“'The primary reason the petition failed to qualify was the low number of signatures from registered Portland voters,' an announcement from the Auditor’s Office states." Not beating the Clark County Constituency charges, PPA.
Portland Mercury@portlandmercury.com · yesterdayA ballot initiative that sought to direct 25 percent of Portland’s Clean Energy Fund toward hiring additional police officers failed to gather enough valid signatures to qualify for the November ballot.
Looks like Portland Police aren't going to be able to raid PCEF to hire more cops when they can't even hire for the positions they already have open.....sorry about your luck!
Hey Boise/Eliot, Portland, Oregon neighbors. If you have seen this guy (Shady), drop me a DM. He's been gone for a few days now.
'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)
I kid you not, the Portland Thorns are signing Tobin Heath #BAONPDX www.allforxi.com/nwsl/16772/u...
USWNT and Portland Thorns legend Tobin Heath to be honored in upcoming match at Providence Park
The soccer books will say that the retired midfielder went out as a Thorns’ player.
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It's a perfect week to persuade Portland City Councilors to take action on climate and protect us from dangerous fuel corporations like Zenith Energy and I Squared Capital.
Sam Hiatt is killing the Thorns this year, thank goodness they extended her
Tordin playing Wilson into space is a tremendous game to play
“We should return to an older and more accurate name for the Civil War: the Slaveholders’ Rebellion. If a country unquestioningly adopts language that obscures its bloodiest crimes to absolve their worst perpetrators, how can we expect successive generations to remember the new assaults on democracy
Opinion | The ‘Civil War’ Is a Lie. Let’s Call It the ‘Slaveholders’ Rebellion’ Again. (Gift Article)
To face our own history, we must be honest about it.
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Join me, sports economists @jcbradbury.com & @victor-matheson.bsky.social with co-host @councilormorillo.bsky.social on the economics of publicly funded stadiums. The term sheet is coming with limited information provided to us on the Moda Center renovations. Let’s discuss. zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: The Economics of Publicly Financed Arenas with City Councilor Mitch Green and Angelita Morillo. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email abo...
The Moda Center remains top of mind as we approach the City’s August 12th vote on a term sheet, but how can we reach a fair deal for Portlanders? What are the potential costs and benefits of publicly ...
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The Red Sox went 21-4 this month, best in the club's 125 year history, while playing several really good teams. Whatever comes of the rest of the season I may never see a month like that again
Green through New Adventures in Hi-Fi is a superior 5 album run to Murmur through Document.
lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d agoPost your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.
James Jamerson is the most significant figure in music.
lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d agoPost your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.
The only creative industry that is inarguably both doing well and doing great work right now is "new baseball guy names."
Bobby Nightengale@nightengalejr.bsky.social · 5d agoJhomnardo Reyes is going to the Orioles for Dean Kremer, per source.
It is genuinely incredible that these state senators, the mayor, and governor all had no second thoughts abt cutting an obvious shithead a blank check AND thought everyone would just go along with it willingly. Baffling stuff even if you think it's the right move (which is equally baffling)!
Rip City Not Rip Off@ripcitynotripoff.bsky.social · 6d agoTim: So you don't feel that Tom Dundon should have to put in a couple hundred million on this thing? Lieber: "I mean I, I, it was not something, it was something that we had sort of talked about, um, it was not something that was overwhelmingly needed at the time.
Sometimes when doing genealogy research you stumble upon stuff that leaves you speechless.
This Red Sox run has been something else, just relentless
Alex Speier@alexspeier.bsky.social · 6d agoBack-to-back homers from Wilyer Abreu and Willson Contreras. Contreras took considerable enjoyment in watching the flight of his moonshot on a hanging breaker, then flung his bat and popped his jersey on the way to first. Red Sox take the lead, 5-4.
The cop lobbyists are complaining that a person captured a video of a petitioner they hired committing misconduct and want us to believe it's much worse to document misconduct than to commit the misconduct? They're just mad they got caught and blame other people for their own incompetence.
don’t talk to me about a bonmati, mariana, graham hansen or alessia russo. and don’t talk to me about a calendar either. temwa chawinga has been the single most consistently unstoppable force in woso for over two years.
It's a big, wide world of delicious cheeses, but Cabot seriously sharp cheddar is a load-bearing cheese in my life like no other. Beautifully sharp, not dyed orange, readily available, not cheap but not boutique cheese expensive either, good alone or with things, just a perfect goldilocks cheddar
Tom & Lorenzo@tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · last wk.People on Bluesky sigh and talk about The Discourse as if it were something required of them instead of something they opt to partake in, day in and day out. You really don't have to. Post about your favorite cheese
I love Cedanne Rafaela, man, what an electric player
As the organizers of this deeply cynical campaign become more desperate in holding on to their signature submissions, I'll add that I personally heard their paid signature gatherers giving blatantly incorrect information to customers outside the Parkrose Grocery Outlet. I didn't happen to film it.
As Signatures Are Disqualified, Campaign to Hire More Police Cries Foul
With early numbers indicating that a Portland ballot initiative to hire additional police officers is falling shy of the valid signatures needed to place it on the November ballot, its backers on Mond...
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Council passes a policy (more specifically? my office) but then the administration has to do the rule making for it. Implementation is where good policy goes to die, so sending feedback is important!
Terry J. Harris@trryjhrrs.bsky.social · last wk.While all y'all were out naked bike riding, I was writing comments on the city's detention center tear gas nuisance rulemaking.
MAN WEARING CUSTOMS AND BORDER PATROL HAT ON BOARD EAST BOUND RED LINE TRAIN. 6:20 PM 7/24/2026 UNKNOWN IF HE IS AN ICE AGENT. PLEASE SPREAD.
