We're live from City Hall! Press is here: good reporters like Alex Zielinski of OPB, Evan Watson at KGW. Session should start momentarily. There are a few brief agenda items ahead of the Moda debate, so we'll jump back in once Moda things get rolling.

We are now to our main event: our draft Moda term sheet.

Loretta Smith is really trying to force 'nuh uh' legally and the lawyer is like 'not my farm'.

The technical amendment is to add the County's provisions that they voted to approve:

5 things to know before Wednesday’s vote on Moda Center negotiations

Here’s what you need to know ahead of the meeting.

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Why does Dan Ryan suck so much.

so Mark Walter, who was at the White House recently, is under investigation by the Trump administration and just so happened to abruptly sell one of America’s premier sports franchises to the brother of Trump’s son in law 🤔

Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.

Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned

Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.

aiddata.org

i've been covering national security for decades, on and off. i've never heard of anything like this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

USS Abraham Lincoln sailors tried to jump overboard amid extended deployment – reports

Aircraft carrier’s crew in ninth month at sea and has spent record 250 days consecutively without making land

theguardian.com

I couldn’t make this up if I tried.🤬 “An anti-sex-trafficking nonprofit in Utah whose founder resigned after multiple women accused him of trafficking and sexual abuse has won a federal contract to provide legal services to unaccompanied immigrant children in government custody.“

Disgraced Anti-Sex-Trafficking NGO Gets $244 Million to Rep Migrant Kids - The American Prospect

The founder and CEO of Our Rescue resigned in 2023 amid allegations that he had sexually abused and trafficked women himself.

prospect.org

Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.

like, i don’t think we need to get into a complex discourse about intersectionality and the wnba’s role in the culture. this is about one player, someone clearly acting in bad faith and with ulterior motives, parasitically using the fame of her much better teammate to make herself gen-z megyn kelly

KEEP BULLYING THEM IT WORKS

The AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an Impact

Platforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop. A growing number of sites and apps now have tools and policies to flag, label, and ban AI-generated content.

wired.com

Which begs the question why Harris was campaigning with her?

Over on X, Dennis Prager is having the same sort of “Fuck around with conspiracy-obsessed ultra-nationalist populism as a Jew, and find out where that eventually leads” moment that Ben Shapiro has been having for a while now. Not defending Prager’s argument, just noting the viral antisemitism.

slammed the brakes so hard I flew through the windshield

New: Flock planned to use cameras in hundreds of thousands of Uber, Lyft, and delivery driver vehicles as a way to collect more license plate data. Pitched the idea to an Attorney General. Would basically turn Uber/Lyft into roaming surveillance vehicles www.404media.co/flock-pitche...

Flock Pitched a Plan To Turn Uber and Lyft Drivers Into Roaming Surveillance Vehicles

A Flock presentation shows the company planned to use around 350,000 Uber, Lyft, and delivery drivers to collect license plate data for its surveillance system.

404media.co

Ahhh, Oregon

Salem Brought a Guillotine To Oppose New Data Center. Company Reps Left, Feeling “Unsafe”.

Salem's city council voted unanimously to pursue a data center moratorium after residents - and a guillotine - pushed back on a $5.1 billion AI facility.

yahoo.com

“Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge…” — Victor Frankenstein

Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 6d ago

Um… “For the first time, scientists have used artificial intelligence to create new kinds of viruses, raising hopes for medical advances while also raising the disturbing possibility that the technology could someday be used to invent dangerous pathogens.” Gift link:

A staggering 55 people have died in ICE custody since Trump's return to office. But the agency's official death toll record-keeping doesn't account for people like Prisciliano, whose health deteriorated in detention but died shortly after the agency released him from custody to be hospitalized.

The Deaths ICE Doesn’t Count

Prisciliano Trejo Ricano passed away in the hospital days after being released from detention.

motherjones.com

They stole ALL the Flock cameras in Winona.

In the authoritarian mind, for students to voluntarily allow other people to examine their genitalia for the purpose of pleasure is a “crime”, but for the same students to be forced by law to allow strangers to examine their genitalia for the purpose of bigotry is “protection”.

Kat Hartness@kathartness.bsky.social · last wk.

Not a word about verifying the gender of boys... this is little girl specific. Child sexual abuse on a state level 'Surefire method' for destroying girls' sports seen in bill targeting kindergartners www.rawstory.com/project-2025...

the, objectively, funniest part of this is that most of the signatures the Climate Change Cash for Cops petition gathered were from people who either weren't registered to vote in Portland or who weren't *from* Portland (just like most Portland cops). www.portlandmercury.com/news/enhance...

Effort to Send Climate Dollars to Cops 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...

portlandmercury.com

Now sir, you informed me that your ex turned ‘tricks’, as you put it, when you broke up in 1996, is that right?

Cathode Ray Vaughn@schneidremarks.bsky.social · 3w ago

"Now, sir, it's my understanding that you and your ex, you didn't have any children, is that correct? Did you perhaps share any mutual friends? No, huh? Well then, I can't help but wonder why she was trying to contact you well after midnight? What was it that she wanted? What did she need?"

We’re making great strides domestically in hunger.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Rollins: "For those who love work and celebrate work and want people to work and not be on food stamps, it's a pretty big win when we've moved 5 million people off food stamps, y'all."

This will get a fraction of the attention that Zohran Mamdani got for calling Netanyahu a war criminal.

Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · last wk.

Depicting Jewish people with horns is a centuries-old, dehumanizing, antisemitic trope. Democratic Gov nominee Phil Weiser is outspoken about his mother’s birth in a Nazi concentration camp, his family members killed in the Holocaust, and the threat posed by antisemitism today.

[takes off work gloves] the only place i “discover feed” is at tractor supply

One more interesting point: this spring I sat down with Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes for an extensive interview about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media has unquestionably aided the Trump administration’s cover up here.

Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · last wk.

Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points: