i don't care about any arguments against this. right now the sum total of my political advocacy is: crush the Republicans and make them pay. i don't care what comes after because until we do that nothing better is possible.
I'll admit that I definitely spent a smidge more time than I should have thinking about how much I loathed Rene Gonzalez when he was on council.
It will never even come close to comparing to how much time and energy some of these right wingers spend on loathing Morillo, Green and Avalos.
The conservatives on city council love putting money jn the general fund because they believe Portlanders don’t have the attention spans to track what they do with it afterwards.
We get what we pay for, and we pay for part-time legislators.
me in 2050: doctor my nutritional gummy gave me covid 4
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Nobody ever wants to hear this but our politics would be smarter and less corrupt if elected officials and their staff were paid more. Especially true for state legislatures but it applies to Congress too.
What a miserable pile of steaming grievances Zimmerman is, damn
Zimmerman just said he’s worried about the “Fox News-ites’” opinions, as if he’d be on the receiving end of the harassment instead of the women of color who are bravely pushing this amendment.
With the shitstorm of mess happening at all times, this story of RFK Jr's very own colonial pseudoscience trash study experimenting on extremely vulnerable African babies...that wasn't reviewed for ethics AT ALL...got buried.
We now know our efforts led to the halt of the study. Worth every dime.
IMHO, it is important that Woke 2 be deemed "excessive" by historians, "sweeping too broadly" with "punishments too severe." It cannot be merely a course correction, it must be an overcorrection. Nothing less will serve as an adequate deterrent against the fascists and their collaborators.
Honestly it would be so cool if Loretta Smith brought a gun to City Council. Eric Zimmerman should bring nunchucks. Steve Novick with a chainsaw for a hand. Sameer Kanal with a katana. Morillo with one of those blade ball chains like in Kill Bill.
fwiw my household cackled
She’s sobering up
Ratio her
oh fuck she’s drunk News is gonna happen
yikes
Post that says “"If you're upset about my "Uday Hussein: Hot or Not?" piece, may I interest you in other reporting l've done that doesn't trivialize blistering authoritarianism?"”
Look man, thay photo alone tells the whole story: it's a hit piece.
For reference:
Epic handshake meme with one person labeled he’s uday Hussein, the other person labeled stancil stans and the handshake labeled not reading the article
yikes
Lots of people goofing about this, and yeah, its funny. It’s also a completely disqualifying authoritarian impulse imo
this isn’t going to happen. it’s a ridiculous proposal. i don’t think the tactic employed by the revoke ppl was good or helpful, but it doesn’t warrant getting shot over! biggest threat to my life safety would be a councilor who sits across the dais from me drawing on somebody and missing
There must be trials. Not as an emotive aspiration, rhetorical meme, or empty threat. A concrete plan. A dedicated special court for it. Structural legislation and prosecutors and funding and all the rest of it. Everything necessary for it can be done constitutionally. All it takes is the will.
A screenshot of the ChatGPT Personalisation settings with me having entered "Do not give me psychosis, remember that I do not want it." in the Custom instructions field.
Letterboxd screenshot Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022 Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.
i often think about this review
Background guy is all of us
Do Oregon next
“This needs to be a question not of policy, but of philosophy.” Unlike, say, housing people, which is strictly a matter of policy.
Councilor Zimmerman just made a PBOT employee cry in a city hall meeting. Very normal and reasonable temperament 👍
Big drywall punching energy. He literally says “I am using today as an opportunity to kind of foot stomp the CIP program…”
