If local law enforcement is arresting people for pregnancy loss or self-managed abortion, members of that community have a compelling need to know. But why would they need to know their name, or what they look like? The public safety threat is the cops, not the people in handcuffs @autonomynews.co

Journalists Need to Stop Treating Pregnancy Criminalization Like Tabloid Fodder

A recent arrest in Kentucky underscores everything news outlets get wrong when covering criminal charges after abortion and miscarriage.

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Local news makes itself hard to love when it publishes the names of people arrested after abortion or pregnancy loss. Cut it the fuck out, lots of these charges are illegal and you're ruining people's lives

It is very funny that we’re basically hip deep in the midterms and they’re still putting this cabinet together.

Tonight pccep www.portland.gov/pccep/events... Lisa Judge, Seattle Inspector General will be there.

FWIW, both of VDARE’s founders were on the masthead of the National Review in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Peter Brimelow was also a staffer for Senator Orrin Hatch. This white nationalist thread has been present in the conservative movement for a long time. Screenshot is from 1997.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5h ago

SCHIFF: You told my staff you stood by your article in white nationalist website VDARE where you wrote, 'Muslim immigrants & their kids seem prone to terrorism' C: I wrote that article in support of Trump's travel ban S: Do you stand by it? C: I stand by that article S: That's all I need to know

Nothing is more delightfully polar on a hot day than Type 2 MAX train AC. NOTHING.

Did some modeling at the dais to show you what would happens if we pass my amendment: we’d generate free cash flow from the current encumbrances of Moda fees net of debt service on a $120MM bond issuance. No PCEF $, no general fund obligation and reduced public contribution by 2/3rds

Mitch Green@councilorgreen.bsky.social · 5h ago

We’re hearing testimony on the Moda term sheet today. I have filed an amendment that seeks to do two broad things: 1. empower the Joint Authority to limit expenditure public funds in the public interest with transparency and accountability 2. Reduce City’s commitment from $400M -> $120MM

Owendoff is whining up a storm on Facebook this morning about the Loot PCEF For Lazy Cops measure failing to qualify for the ballot and man, is he in a mood.

it's not just thriving it's expanding with a small biz hub going in next door. almost like people want urbanism with good stores, e.g. pioneer place, pacific place, pacific centre (we're not creative in the PNW) and urbanist-in-transition places like washington square, bellevue square, metrotown...

Tim Chevalier@youwere.cool · 14h ago

I only lived in Cambridge for 3 months, but somehow the Cambridgeside Galleria was always my town’s weird mall, even before it existed

Hometown was too small for a mall. Went to college next to a town with a good mall and a dead mall. Except since I left western MA those two reversed. Portland’s weird mall is about to be redeveloped.

ashley fairbanks@ziibiing.com · 19h ago

tell me about your town’s weird mall

Detroit: Passed a millage which will increase bus service about 5-10% over the next 2 years. Seattle: Expanding transit with extended hours on 34 lines and three new ones, 2 run 21 hours a day, without cutting lines. Portland: We're slashing transit because Tri-Met management needs a new Mercedes.

KATU is running shitty AI Frog Ferry ads. Weird there's money for Quixotic transportation boondoggles that explicitly exclude poor people but we're slashing Tri-Met service so badly the doom loop for ridership is about to get so much worse. But, hey, some fuckass consultant is making FrogBux.

Man, Urinating Tree has the "Days of our Steelers" cue package ready.

Julius Kim@juliuskim.bsky.social · 19h ago

Aaron Rogers is going to be insufferable this year. The Steelers should never given him a platform, and Mike McCarthy is going to hate coaching this D-bag again.

Convo at the grocery store: “Do you ride your bike every day?” “Most days.” “I see you with it. In my country, I wasn’t allowed to ride bikes. Because woman. I’m going to learn to ride. When I do, I’m going to tell you.” — Thanks for telling me your story, Bahar. (I live for these moments.)

Over a million bucks for sweet fuck all. This is what the PPA is about: wasting as much money as possible to avoid the barest spectre of police accountability.

Alan Kessler@alankessler.bsky.social · 24h ago

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...

These numbers out of Missouri on the GOP attempts to seize power are not going well. The worst part is "not going well" is an understatement.

We're under a month from deliverance. Stay strong.

Nathan Jahnke@ffnatejahnke.bsky.social · 21h ago

I have reached the point of the offseason where I am writing about all 32 kickers.

We’re a little late for National Watermelon Day. But better late than never. 🐶❤️🍉 #dogsofbluesky #pitbulls #rescuedogs 

This law firm was just awarded a $150 million/year contract to lead representation of unaccompanied minors through immigration proceedings. Seems really bad!

Corey Rayburn Yung@coreyryung.bsky.social · 23h ago

In addition to having no experience in immigration, their website shows Ilya Shapiro (!) and disgraced former law prof Joshua Wright (!) as Senior Counsel. I don't think this massive contract was awarded to give immigrant children effective, zealous advocacy. burkegroup.law/our-team/

This llama duckie watched me get a root canal today while outside the window the hazy wildfire smoke air rolled into our area. Strange times.

It is 2006. I am 22. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance. It is 2026. I am 42. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance.

People who don't live in Portland are very eager to hire other people who don't live in Portland to do violence to people who do live in Portland.

Portland Mercury@portlandmercury.com · 24h ago

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.

With any luck, Seattle will build enough housing for me to be able to move back there before I get permanently priced out of Portland because...yeah we ain't building shit.

Fischer 🛠️🚇@fischer.bsky.social · 21h ago

seattle social housing developer really seems like the real deal. they have a lot of resources and also seem really serious about developing state capacity + fiscal capacity to be a large scale housing builder and operator

It's that it's happening in a car with the Lord's transmission that really bothers me, but it bothers me generally, especially when it's done so obnoxiously. JJJ, print a story on this!

852dude@852dude.bsky.social · yesterday

This sucks ass. When I start my car I want to be able to put my foot on the pedal and drive off. I dont want to watch an ad. A distracting ad. Right in the middle of my console. Again. This sucks ass.

Portland area

A. Parise@jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · yesterday

If anyone needs an air conditioner i have three i can give away, hit me up.

Also, never you mind that wildcat strike was going on in East Portland since the mid-teens when there had been a vague push for police accountability and some mild criticism of hte Gang Violence Response Team list, such as that i so happened to be on it because of WHERE I MOVED FROM/TO. #PDX

*gestures ethnically*@palkyrie.bsky.social · 22h ago

I love how the same people who called me "hysterical" for claiming the PPB was on wildcat strike in 2022 are now claiming the same fucking thing has been happening since 2020. But that's the problem with Cassandra shit. Y'all let the Cassandras die and let wh*te male dipshits take credit. #PDX

Steve Novick still sucks.

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I love how the same people who called me "hysterical" for claiming the PPB was on wildcat strike in 2022 are now claiming the same fucking thing has been happening since 2020. But that's the problem with Cassandra shit. Y'all let the Cassandras die and let wh*te male dipshits take credit. #PDX

Um, gonna go out on a limb and assume it's been defalcated sort of like all the money for Venezuelan oil going into an anonymous bank account in Qatar, but, again, like perimenopausal women being in their 40s, what do i know?

Forbes@forbes.com · yesterday

Summer’s almost over and Sean Duffy’s controversial road trip reality series has yet to launch, leaving corporate sponsors out millions of dollars and critics asking what the money was really for.