Folarin Balogun, born in New York to Nigerian parents. People like JD Vance would say he's not *really* American when, in fact, he's the epitome of American. 🇺🇸

I know management doesn't care what I think, but @redsox.com this AAAA team is an utter embarrassment. You know the issues and pretend they will just fix themselves. No need to trade for a "big bat" at this point, but maybe a new CBO is in order.

Fwiw www.army.mil/article/2104...

This 1890s photo of Portland keeps showing up and people keep arguing about where it was taken from, despite some very obvious clues in the photo. So I did what any sane and reasonable person would do and triangulated landmarks to prove things once and for all.

Happy to say that the Milwaukie City Hall National Register of Historic Places nomination I've been working on for the past year or so, is up for review in June! If you want to read it, here's the pdf: www.oregon.gov/oprd/OH/Docu...

Portland almost demolished a good chunk of Southeast for a freeway. Almost! I wrote a bit about the never-constructed Mount Hood Freeway for the @portlandmercury.com Transportation Issue.

Recently had the opportunity to talk about one of my favorite topics, the Mt Hood Freeway. www.portlandmercury.com/transportati...

We won't last 33 more months of this. This must stop. We must make it stop.

Not as old as the website, but 14 years and still looks "peepy"

It is risen! My 14 year old Peep, that is.

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

I hear it's mostly in the Oval Office

Read our statement on today’s executive order limiting vote by mail. #orpol

Will it work? I don’t know. But it is certainly better than preemptively conceding ground to the Right’s claims that they deserve disproportionate power as representatives of “the people.” It’s time for (small-d) democrats to assert their right to define what “real America” should be going forward.

No Kings! No kakistocracy! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

"Gushing blood...USA! USA! .... stabbed...USA!USA!.... bodies...USA! USA!...." WTF?! WTF?!

Vote by mail in Oregon has made it possible for more citizens to vote, including those in the most rural (and right leaning) places in the state. SAVE Act supporters can F right off.

"Be as wise as my Grandmama." The New York Times obituary for Jesse Jackson concludes with these stirring words from his 1988 "Keep Hope Alive" speech at the 1988 Democratic National Convention.

Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.

Sad to see them go. 😔

Outside of a very few designated stations with facilities like ticket offices and freight handling, the passenger facilities at most PRL&P interurban stops were very spartan, as this view of the waiting shed at Stanley in 1946 shows.

I’ve reviewed proofs and the book is headed to the printer! Building Portland’s Memorial Coliseum: a Mid-Century Political Firestorm is due out to the public in April. Cover sneak peak coming next month…

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune

A little project I'm working on, coming up on January 28th! oregonblackpioneers.org/black-histor...

A nice story in the latest Oregon Humanities magazine about Portland freeways for which I was interviewed. oregonhumanities.org/rll/magazine...

Zira for the timeline cleanse. Happy Friday!

No Kings!

No Kings. - Portland, OR this Saturday 10/18. Portland Indivisible and 50501. We Say NO KINGS! · No Kings share.google/0Y0WMKsGKD0t...

With all this talk about Portland and plywood, this ad seemed oddly fitting.😀 Oregonian 9/25/1966

We’re eight days away from No Kings Day, and we have 2,500 protests planned in all 50 states and across the world. October 18 is going to be the biggest day of nonviolent protest in US history — and we want to see you there. Find your local event: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

This piece is just an essential, important and excellent intervention as Coates' Vanity Fair essay was. One NYT column isn't that important, but an accommodationist mindset has spread in center-left elite circles. And it should be rejected forcefully. democracyamericana.com/posts/c5d024...

My neighborhood today.

Seventy (70) years ago today Portland’s Exposition-Recreation Commission selected Delta Park as the site for what we now know as Memorial Coliseum. My book on the site selection process will be out in the spring. Until then, here’s a primer I wrote back in 2017. mikeaorr.medium.com/portland-mem...

Sales for Hellfire Club tees ought to be going through the roof Portland! www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

IT’S OFFICIAL: We now have more protests planned for October 18 than there were back in June. It’s not even October yet but you’ve already put 2,100 events on the No Kings map. We hope to see you at the largest day of peaceful protest in American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

Said goodbye to dear sweet Clio tonight after 10 wonderful years. 😪

There is no insurrection. There is no threat to national security. There is no need or legal justification for military troops in our major city. www.klcc.org/politics-gov...

Thanks to all the folks from around the country speaking out in support of Portland. Out here on the front lines, the most dangerous place might be the Goodwill bins.

Jesus Christ, how are you so unbelievably bad at this? A deeply unpopular president is recklessly destroying our government, wrecking our democracy, covering up pedophilia and now threatening to use military force against our own citizens but you're tsk-tsking about protecting healthcare?

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?

My office is reaching out to the White House and Homeland Security for more information. We have been provided no information on the reason or purpose of any military mission. There is no national security threat in Portland. Our communities are safe and calm.

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

I hear the President has decreed that it is possibly a crime to refer to Americans as "fascists," but "fascism" is a word that has a relatively clear meaning that's worth understanding. Here's how an official publication of the US Army defined "fascism" in 1945.

Oregon Journal and Oregonian July 16, 1953. The first mention of an arena complex at the bridge site. Sneaky release of a plan by Councilman Nate Boody

Help Put Portland Ahead! via Portland City Archive, 1954 AD/22455

Where can I find a Sandwich Rebellion T-shirt?

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.