Tom Dundon’s speedrun to “sell the team” chants continues unabated.

Portland

When the billionaire lays out their demands, that’s shrewd business-behavior. When a city councilor lays out how far away they are from those demands, that’s grandstanding, got it.

ISAAC CHOTINER: So, this manga about the little dinosaur is called Gon? Me: By Masashi Tanaka, yeah. CHOTINER: This is badass. Thanks for showing this to me. Me: No problem.

This. All of this. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Interior of a Tavern (flipped), by Adriaen Brouwer, 1630, 📸 by @asiakpurnell

Good book, recommended without reservation.

Oram’s counterargument to “publicly funded stadiums never have the promised ROI to the public” is literally just this.

“OK, now let’s do an oblivious one.”

The city’s wealthy property owners (any city, really) can be the change they wish to see.

If you’ve spent 55 years on this Earth and you’re thinking like this just hang it up. You got sent to the wrong planet, this shit wasn’t meant for you.

It’s been-

Pyramid shaped economic arrangements are famously on the level and more rich guys should say they’re at the top of one when describing their wealth.

Today I honor the famous sorcerer Yoda

From JT Flowers (Albina Vision Trust, TriMet board member) Instagram: He’s proposing to extend service cuts to August 2027 and a bunch of other good stuff!

Anyone know of a good cryptkeeper? I was suspicious of mine after so little work was getting done so i set up a hidden camera and half the time he's just sitting there telling stories

First responders have had it up to here with Waymos. from @aarianmarshall.bsky.social

These things are going to fuck up the Ross Island Bridge zipper merge and it will radicalize me.

Is there a chance the team could move? The board of gov’nors won’t approve!

what if we made the whole country out of ballroom

why breed dogs with jaws large enough to tear through Flesh, when you could breed dogs with minds large enougj to tear through Fallacy.....

I’m at the combination Comedy Central Roast of Adolf Hitler / Reichstag Fire

Man Practices Haircut Request Before Heading To Barber https://theonion.com/man-practices-haircut-request-before-heading-to-barber-1819578836/

Whole generation got their brains pickled by the idea that politics is a process of patient triangulation and consensus-building instead of a knife fight that decides how pain, suffering, and resources are distributed throughout society

Fiesta Spurs > Rainbow Astros

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

PLAYOFF BLAZERS

The Blazers should win the championship this year as a prank.

how do you call a flagrant based on a guy getting pulled to the floor who did not get pulled to the floor?

My only concern with this is if it turns out that Angine de Poitrine are also plants and I have been worked.

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

In exchange for public funding for the Moda Center, I want at least two strings attached: 1. Guaranteed cheep/free seats for residents (perhaps through the MultCo library card, like cultural passes to the ballet and Japanese Garden) 2. Street pricing on concessions like PDX (bc why is beer $17??)

All I think when I see that picture is dudes rock

Lots of interesting quotes and impressions of Dundon’s ownership of the ‘Canes. Definitely worth a subscription.

On vacation in San Francisco and have been at multiple intersections surrounded by empty Waymos, not looking forward to them trying to brute force these congestion enhancers into Portland.

Oregonian really working to build a “City Council is too mean to Westsiders” narrative under their reporting.

search your camera roll for hell

In the 30 years since the Refreshments' Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy, "Banditos" and the King of the Hill theme made Roger Clyne briefly famous, he's never stopped writing and never left the Arizona borderlands. We talked for @rollingstone.com ahead of his latest LP www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

The trash that occupies the White House (and any legislator failing to act to stop him) is bombing children in Iran. This is intolerable. The time for mass mobilization is now. Join an org, get into the streets, contact your reps. No war on Iran.

Jeffrey Bezos? The space pervert?

A Presidents’ Day poem from me, at Michigan City Review of Books. Enjoy. mcrb.neocities.org/timetraveler

Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways

Feels like a subtweet to cut to Nurk after that Clingan dunk.

Making my “current practices must change immediately” sign as we speak.

DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression. CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school? DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town. C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name? DR: Now look