John Schroeder

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…”

The real takeaway of the upcoming election will be that maga veered so far right so fast that Schumer et al couldn’t keep up with them, and having an actual, if accidental, opposition party led to a landslide.

Days after passing our resolution for an oversight hearing on how this happened, more money was found.

While there could be a perfectly innocent explanation for this, Portlanders deserve transparency, especially when we repeatedly tell them we have to cut cherished programs and staff.

Deleted a post because I’m mad but I don’t want to pick fights. Suffice it to say I don’t think we should avoid prosecuting ICE agents because we need to “break the cycle”

NBC editing out the booing of JD Vance is a disgrace. It’s an international event. Americans have the right to know what the world is saying. NBC has bowed down to Trump.

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

Multnomah County would be inarguably better off in this moment were Mike Schmidt still the DA

Release the Owendoff files!

you personally have the ability to secure elections for yourself and your neighbors.

With all the breathless coverage of the unspent funds I’m curious where the stories about today’s council resolution are?