Drove to Bend for a concert but made a quick stop to put my feet in the Deschutes.

Watch the first two minutes of this video as 100+ diplomats walk out on Netanyahu, leaving the general assembly hall nearly empty. Netanyahu is a war criminal and should be treated as such.

Seems like not a good look to say state employees can't travel to educational conferences but you can spend $200,000 on a trip (for you and your wife) to Japan/South Korea on a "trade mission" to keep relationships "stable". www.opb.org/article/2025...

Just bought tickets to two shows this weekend as an early birthday present to myself and I’m pretty pumped. Tomorrow I’m headed to Bend to see MxPx and The Ataris so high school Kaliko is pretty pumped. This will make it four shows in two weeks after seeing Haim and Linkin Park last week!

I kinda gave up on Facebook awhile ago but I've been using it pretty heavily the last two weeks to bait MAGA folks from my network out into the open. Lots of nonsense but today I had someone say it was crazy that Lindsay Graham says Trump should have a 3rd term and acted like it was new info. 🤷🏽‍♂️

This week I told an elected official that he needed to stiffen his spine. And that he gets cautious advice because he's a cautious person rather than a fighter -- and that when you've got fighters at the top of an organization, it filters down to the rest of your employees. We need fighters.

I took a nap after the girls left for school and I don't regret a thing.

Bynum is trash and I wish someone would primary her. #BynumIsABummer

The world is run by those who show up and the people who've been showing up suck.

I'm becoming too jaded. If this continues much more I might need to find a new line of work.

This popped up in my YouTube feed and it reminded me that Scott Stapp is an incredible song writer and that well written songs can be done in any genre. Now I just need someone to recreate this A.I. slop and improve it in real life. youtu.be/mS0iCTOXVag?...

I've spent a lot of time deep in the gutter of TikTok since CK's death and I'll I can say is if he was killed in some secret Trump/Netanyahu/Honeypot Wife plot, I actually *do* feel sorry for him.

I haven't sat in on one meeting w/ an elected official this year that didn't leave me enraged due to their inability or unwillingness to meet this moment. What I'm learning is being an elected official does not equal being a leader --- and potentially by definition makes them incapable of leading.

If you haven't seen Chief of War on AppleTV yet, it is the single greatest piece of contemporary Hawaiian art I've seen. As a Hawaiian who traces my lineage back to the chiefly lines of Maui and Hawai'i island, it was an unbelievable experience to see my people on film like this for the first time.

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

Kimmel is our canary in a coal mine moment. It's time to get the fuck out of this tunnel.

For the record, Kimmel being taken off air because the FCC chair pressured Sinclair Broadcasting to do so is more of an attack on free speech than Kirk being murdered by some random groyper.

I always find it funny when people assume I live in a bubble when I've probably watched more Charlie Kirk, Ben Shapiro, Nick Fuentes, Alex Jones, Patrick Bet David, Joe Rogan, et al. than most people who would defend their views in my friends list.

Two weeks of retreats and then the Housing Oregon conference this week. Looking forward to finally catching up on my massive to-do list and my atrocious inbox.

Sara and I have been talking about whether we want to have a third kid for a while now and I’ve been leaning towards not because we are finally getting some control of our lives back after 4 years but I just saw a friend who is a “boy mom” took her two sons to the TPUSA memorial. Now I need a son.

DO YOU KNOW A BADASS POLITICAL ORGANIZER? My team at APANO Action Fund is hiring a full-time Child Care Organizer to help us organize parents, kids and child care providers as we work our way towards a universal child care system for the State of #Oregon! www.apanoactionfund.org/careers/chil...

Listening to JD Vance host the Charlie Kirk Show on Rumble and he's got Stephen Miller on to talk about how to stop the "violence" on the "radical left". Things are going well.

everybody who rushed to do hagiography for Charlie Kirk, some guy who chose to live as a terrible and hateful person, is simply the latest fool to get their hand stuck in the far-right honey jar we call The Media Cycle

Charlie Kirk wasn't a good person and Trump is on the Epstein list. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!!!!

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

I won’t be celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk. I want to live in a country where assholes can say shitty things and believe shitty things and not get killed for it. I want people like Charlie to feel the sting of long term electoral irrelevance not the life ending impact of an assassins bullet.

This is called complicity. Willful ignorance isn’t an excuse for covering up the President’s relationship with the country’s most notorious pedophile.

Kamala doesn’t get to call Biden’s decision to run reckless without owning her part in the charade.

Bought myself a Bass and an amp off marketplace as an early birthday present. Been wanting to learn but after attending Reggae Rise Up a couple of weeks ago, I decided it was finally time to get in the groove.

Wow. Rep. Javadi is switching parties and will be running for reelection as a Democrat. #ORPOL cyrusjavadior.substack.com/p/had-enough...

This line of reporting w/o nuance & context from @shanedkavanaugh.bsky.social is “really stupid”. We should distinguish between decision-making that belongs in the open, and coalition-building that ensures BIPOC communities and progressive voices can govern effectively under our new system.

The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.

Want to know how tired I am? I reserved a Zipcar for work and then took a Lyft to the wrong college campus to pick it up. I usually pick one up from Reed College so that’s where I took my Lyft — but apparently I booked it at Lewis and Clark tonight. 🤦🏽‍♂️

Life is all about timing and sometimes closing one door opens all the others.

Yesterday, @shanedkavanaugh.bsky.social of The Oregonian posted an article (I’m not posting the link) about @counciloravalos.bsky.social using A.I. to help her craft some of her messaging as if it was news. If we’re going to do a story about city council and A.I., talk to the other councilors too.

My main takeaway from my college sociology class was that socialism is just democracy extending from the ballot box to the boardroom.

The Kamehameha High School Varsity Football team is in town to play West Linn Friday night! Super bummed I won't be around to see the game but my buddy Kawika from Bamboo Grove had the whole squad in the restaurant yesterday!

The best part about this special session is I'm OOO and will not be paying attention to anything until I get back after Labor Day.

People who know me professionally in this era probably think of me as being somewhat unreliable but it's only because I'm better at drawing boundaries between my personal and professional lives and now that I have kids, one clearly gets the priority. I've been to burnout city and it wasn't nice.

Hoping to clear out some mental cobwebs this weekend at Reggae Rise Up. Got some 🍄 that should help with that. 🤙🏾

Creating a packing list for a weekend camping trip without kids -- it is a much shorter list.

Wake me up when Travis and Taylor call for an end to the genocide.

This is what representation really looks like. And in East Portland it’s long over due. Shout out to @candaceavalos.bsky.social for continuing to show up for the community every day.

I think all social platforms should require verification of identity. Time to get rid of the bot armies that are destroying democracy and our brains.

I will compliment the President, @mcuban.bsky.social: he’s really good at distracting from the fact that he’s in the Epstein Files.

Been waiting all year for the Reggae Rise Up festival in Redmond this upcoming weekend — it will be the first multi day trip for Sara and I away from the girls — but of course fire season is threatening it. Feel for those who live under threat of these conditions year after year.

It’s time for universal basic income and we should be taxing A.I. companies to fund it.

After sitting in on all the board meetings this week it was pretty clear Commissioner Brim Edwards was on an island by herself. It was interesting to see Moyer and Singleton specifically call out that BE’s effort was different than what the Governor did — maintaining their working relationship.

Yes, but we must be upset that our city councilors….TALK TO EACH OTHER!!!

“Hello. I am a rich person in Portland who swears I am going to move because you are taxing me for preschool. Also, we must do everything we can to keep the Blazers in town, including taxing the poors, because, unlike preschool, the NBA is a public service necessity”