A slider should be called a curveball and a curveball should be called a slider it is absurd that baseball fucked this up so bad

This is just straight up holocaust shit

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Elect a Republican DA, get Republican policies. From www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...?

It is so nice to be in the discourse for this goofy frog shit instead of tear gas and property damage

Meanwhile in #Portland

(also: would this be portland if some freak weren't saying "nice viral sensation you've created, but I was doing that before it was cool"? no, it would not, and you're all very welcome)

Abolish the Police Unions

Frogmentum

Federal officers appeared to clear the road for an exiting vehicle and quickly retreated without interacting with the many characters outside

Frogs Together Strong has me entirely fucked up

“FROGS TOGETHER STRONG” my God the aura…

Who called them Sun Chips and not the obviously more accurate Dorwheatos

Announcer saying "Kershaw means so much to this organization" Fuck that. Speak for yourself. I've been a fan since the days of Fernando. Not only does Kershaw shit the bed when it matters most in the postseason he's a dick.

Dan Ryan wants to be sweet, remains extraordinarily salty

On the one hand they're destroying all trust in mass media. On the other had maybe everyone will get the hint and log the fuck off

Please take a moment to do this, your kids will thank you

Plus also all the dangerous chemicals stored in the area that will turn into clouds of noxious gas. Send a letter!

I would fuck with a place called Burger Ritual actually

“Praying at Burgerville,“ a new memoir from Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast

baruch dayan emes, may his soul ascend to the heighest plane

Kristi Noem Chompsky is this anything

there’s a confusion in this conversation between the political, where Trump is truly a huge departure, and the social, where he is very much a continuation of a tradition that dates back to the founding.

Philly booing Ohtani cmon man. He's not a Dodger he's our national baseball Folk Hero. He is for everyone. He loves dogs and hits balls 500 ft and throws the ball 100 mph.

Force-carbonated pickle brine

Omelas Simulator, a city builder where your currency is misery and you have to decide between children, puppies, and kittens in various amounts.

Our responsibility as portlanders is to accuse our business class of being republicans. If they support the natl guard coming in, they’re republicans. If they thank Christine drazan at a homeless shelter meeting, they’re republicans

This article has a lot more important problems so I feel stupid saying this…but umm…the Mercury wrote and published the first major article about the DSA councilors back in June. Of course it isn’t the local reporting linked or mentioned here.

One Battle After Another is basically “what if Big Trouble in Little China, but Woke” and it fucking rules

Big Corbs on the Good Website

But the idea that there are places anymore where we have no obligation or responsibility to consider our stewardship, meaning no wild places left, I believe has passed and we chose to stay naive and grab at a lost innocence, possibly at our peril

A city that sat out most of the Revolutionary War and rioted to not participate in the Civil War stole the Yankee name. It should be a Connecticut minor league team name.

I am tired of people saying "we need to make the tent bigger" when they mean "we need to kick out some of the people who are already under it" is I think the main thing

Like truly what does Ezra Klein believe in? What are the things he won't sacrifice?

Listening to that podcast and Klein just constantly alludes to his beliefs while Coates says again and again that it's important to state things clearly

Okay but she should have talked about the good basket first though, not leading with the negative is like messaging 101

more local journalism forever and ever amen. Stoked on this one, worth throwing em some $ if you love the city

If you see this picture post a random image from your device.

Just straight up insult to injury cmon

You can say a lot of things about Portland, but one we thing we won’t let you get away with is describing South Waterfront as “not bikeable”

Short-form social media:

special kudos to @typewriteralley.bsky.social, who captured my caffeinated crazed energy at my YIMBYtown panel this month www.theurbanist.org/2025/09/27/y...

My new article, “Marx’s Concept of Life,” is now out in EJP.

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Portland I love you

I also hope we don’t forget all the local folks who’ve spent years spreading the “portland is a hellhole” narrative to gain short-term political power and/or social media clout. They provided ammo to the Trump machine. They fed the false narrative and now the chickens are coming home to roost.

I encourage all the media outlets who are about to send people to ”war ravaged” Portland to think twice. Some of the strongest extremism reporters in the country live in this region; journalists who understand the culture of the Northwest and the history of activism here. Do it right this time okay?

Deeply embarrassing for us here in Portland and the greater PNW more broadly