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Professional Tip: If the copier sighs, give it space. If it hums, make a wish. If it speaks, contact your beneficiaries.
A 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.
Enhanced Community Safety Initiative Won't Qualify For November Ballot - Portland Mercury
A 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 ballo...
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“Just one more lane, bro!” What a masterclass in wasting taxpayer money. According to program administrators, the cost estimate increase is due largely to having to delay/rearrange work because they can’t pay for it. Who knew we didn’t have the money? Literally fucking everyone.
Price tag of Portland’s Rose Quarter road project jumps past $3B as funding gap balloons, records show
The project’s funding gap raises questions about whether it will proceed as planned.
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Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025.
The SCREEN Act is a Christian Nationalist Nightmare
Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects...
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This is the most damning thing in this entire Moda center renovation. The State knew that Dundon was coming in. He told them he wanted a 100% publicly funded deal, and they immediately capitulated. They didn't price the deal or negotiate with Dundon & the NBA. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybu9...
Should taxpayers renovate the Moda Center?
YouTube video by KGW News
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On Wednesday, Aug. 5, City Council will consider a "term sheet" for the Moda Center negotiations. This is an opportunity for you to testify to the City Council about how you feel about the Moda Center issue and what the City should demand in exchange for public money.
More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.
Proposed changes to the National Historic Preservation Act could destroy historic sites including Oregon's Waldo House, eliminate public comment, do away with input from Native tribes, and more.
Trump Administration threatens historic and culture resources • Oregon ArtsWatch
Proposed changes to the National Historic Preservation Act could destroy historic sites including Oregon's Waldo House, eliminate public comment, do away with input from Native tribes, and more.
orartswatch.org
"Alan Dubinsky, a spokesperson for the Service Employees International Union Local 49, said large corporations are taking advantage of the public healthcare system to subsidize their profits."
Oregon Center for Public Policy@ocppnews.bsky.social · 6d agoAmazon and Walmart -- two companies owned by some of the country's biggest billionaires -- have gotten massive tax cuts in recent years. But somehow, they don't have the money to provide health insurance to many of their workers. 😡 https://bit.ly/4wyqFai
You don’t have to wait till Christmas to host a cookie exchange.
A strip done in collaboration with the @humanartistry.bsky.social , starring Question Hound as he gets some unwanted help for a comic he’s working on:
ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil
Literally what fandom discourse has turned into I fear.
My great-grandfather was among the first Jews sent to Dachau, but it had operated for 8 years prior. He arrived to find a concentration camp already full of communists and other leftist dissidents. The public's acceptance of their incarceration paved the road for his own.
Noah Berlatsky@nberlat.bsky.social · 2w agofascists use anti leftism to build power and co opt centrists and liberals. they are doing this right now! this is what all the gibberish anti communist rhetoric is about!
This is unhinged behavior from Safer Portland & the police union president. Last time the campaign got caught lying to Portlanders about their initiative they attempted a red scare. Just run an honest campaign instead of whatever nonsense this is.
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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I finished Blazing Eye Sees all by @leahsottile.bsky.social and it was a wild ride. It's a book that illuminates the fringes not only of our current moment but our nation's history.
Review by ihavequalities - Blazing Eye Sees All: Love Has Won, False Prophets and the Fever Dream of the American New Age
Using Amy Carlson (aka Mother God) and the Love Has Won religious movement/cult as an anchor, ...
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Following my book-narrated-by-a-mount lion I read a book-narrated-by-a-creepy-doll, Olga Ravn's The Wax Child. And it was very unsettling, but in a way I was not expecting.
Review by ihavequalities - The Wax Child
Magic lies at the center of The Wax Child yet the horror of the slim novel is all mundane. The...
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We Used to Be Able to Buy Things in This Country. “Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy.” [dannykatch.substack.com]
We used to be able to buy things in this country
Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy
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"Whatever you do, make sure you surprise yourself." Some old-school against AI advice from my late writing teacher, Luciano Iacobelli. #pastichemachine #sycophancy #postmodernism #irreduciblestrangeness #aiwriting
@onthemedia.bsky.social takes on the shambling, corpse of 50s/60s right wing bogeyman of communism. This time, with the last actual communist state — Cuba — as the nexus is a global movement that’s controlling all democrats in an attempt overthrow US democracy. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
The Red Scare, but Dumber | On the Media | WNYC Studios
This week, the State Department published a report accusing Cuba of being the “capital of 21st-century communism,” and of plotting an anti-American revolution. On this week’s On the M...
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That’s a nice structural problem you’ve got there. It’d be a real shame if someone were to propose an individualized solution for it.
Unopened and unclaimed at the end of the neighborhood block party.
