I was talking about what we need to get done tomorrow and the lady I live with said "Stop soft launching tomorrow." We have to shut down tik tok until we can figure out what's going on

The #PortlandFire had the most turnovers in a #WNBA games since XX/XX/XXXX. www.rosecoloredbuckets.email/p/game-9-rec...

NEW: Federal judge ends Kennedy Center name change, bars two-year closure plans for now. “Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it.” Trump responded ... as one would expect. This evening, at Law Dork:

when ur on a walk and there's a dog

RAJ Sports has announced that the Kaiser Permanente Performance Center, the new state-of-the-art joint practice facility for the Fire and Thorns, will have its ribbon-cutting ceremony on August 22 during the Bhathals' second annual Epicenter Week.

Sarah Ashlee Barker is shooting 😱 from the field in the fourth quarter this season: 👇 #WNBA #PortlandFire

The #PortlandFire have a winning record! www.rosecoloredbuckets.email/p/game-7-rec...

Eid Mubarak to everyone celebrating in Minnesota and around the world! May this Eid bring you renewed hope, peace, and love. 💙

Rest in peace and rhythm, Sonny Rollins. Thank you for everything.

Congratulations to Tammy Carpenter for winning her election to Oregon House District 27! Tammy will fight alongside @portlanddsa.bsky.social to fully fund public schools, win universal healthcare and establish a Renters’ Bill of Rights.

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I... was not expecting this dramatic of a wave of moves coming this early. Writing about this tonight, hopefully!

55 POINTS 55 REBOUNDS 55 ASSISTS 55 BLOCKS

this would go so hard as an album cover

By popular demand, the @portlandmercury.com is back with live reporting from today's city budget talks. Today's amendments to Mayor Wilson's proposed budget include tweaks to parks, city jobs, shelter and displacement. Tune in for highlights from me and the inimitable @taylorgriggs.bsky.social.

After his partner died of AIDS-related complications, David Bohnett used the insurance payout to launch GeoCities - what became one of the internet’s earliest queer communities

SimCity 2000 (1993)

Dan Ryan and Elena Pertle Guiuney just voted to close a St. Johns fire station in their own district, D2, that could have been saved through a policy of good fiscal management.

They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

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It's (way too) early, but here are some outlier stats for the #PortlandFire so far. #WNBA www.rosecoloredbuckets.email/p/outlier-st...

Game #3 is in the books. #PortlandFire #NewYorkLiberty #WNBA www.rosecoloredbuckets.email/p/game-3-rec...

"Mike has 20 grandmothers who volunteer at the Grandma Stand in New York City and it’s now grown to at least six more states and 20 other localities looking into the idea. And it’s a win-win for everyone." pix11.com/news/local-n...

Game #1 Recap (a.k.a. the Skyler Diggins game) www.rosecoloredbuckets.email/p/game-1-rec...

Sug Sutton has been ruled out, however. She and Karlie Samuelson are both sidelined. Everyone else is good to go.

Looking ahead to the first game of the #PortlandFire season, at home vs the #ChicagoSky. #WNBA www.rosecoloredbuckets.email/p/preview-ga...

Today is WNBA roster cutdown day (deadline is 5ET/2PT). Would expect the Fire’s final roster to come down to the wire. They have a practice this afternoon that will get over before 2.

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While negotiating the retired player recognition payments for the new CBA, Tina Charles brought up the idea that, if a retired player is deceased, their beneficiary should receive the payment. That made it into the final agreement. Just one aspect of the rich legacy she left off the court

Thoughts on the final #PortlandFire preseason game. #WNBA #LASparks www.rosecoloredbuckets.email/p/game-recap...

Reminder that Florida voters passed a Constitutional amendment in 2010 banning gerrymandering with 62% of the vote and the Florida GOP just stole the courts and ignored it. By contrast retaliatory gerrymanders in CA and VA passed with the approval of voters. Yet media portrays them as equivalent.

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this is the engine that powers social media and large parts of the internet in general

Alex Sarama said today that the Fire's final three cuts are going to come down to the wire at Thursday's deadline and a lot will be determined in the practices between tomorrow's preseason finale and the 7th. Several key players just got here so he hasn't seen every combo yet.

i see a horse has won the kentucky derby again. this is beginning to feel rigged

A note on every single #PortlandFire player (after exactly one preseason game): #WNBA www.rosecoloredbuckets.email/p/a-note-on-...

The #PortlandFire have played their first-ever (pre-season) game. Here are some thoughts: #WNBA #SeattleStorm www.rosecoloredbuckets.email/p/the-portla...

Enshittification has come for the Portland Trailblazers.

Breaking: Supreme Court invalidates second majority-Black congressional district in Louisiana, effectively gutting last remaining part of Voting Rights Act

We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.

It's propaganda season, baby. #WNBA #PortlandFire www.rosecoloredbuckets.email/p/quotes-fro...

They shot Alex Pretti ten times while he was face down in the street.

RAJ Sports and Gray Media just announced that on April 29 (day of Fire's first preseason game), Fox 12 Plus will be rebranded as Rose City Sports Network, an over-the-air women's sports channel that will show Fire and Thorns games plus original programming.

The preview starts tomorrow 👀 Preseason tips off at 3pm/ET.

Here’s “Gugusse and the Automaton”, the just-found-formerly-lost 1897 George Méliès film with a new score by Nick White and me. This collab was 100% Nick’s idea, and I’m glad of it! I’ll be making and posting a horizonal version of this at some point. Enjoy! youtube.com/shorts/TrRgg...

Cyberstuck in Oregon

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I know it's been done to death but it bears repeating: Our local budget is a moral document. What we choose to and choose not to support with our limited funds is emblematic of what we as Portlanders value for our city and community. If the budget doesn't align with those values, it's wrong.