I remember my friends’ three year old getting fucking pissed about “bad guys” but like most of us he grew out of it

I too desire desiring and being desired. But not desiring itself, fuck off with that

While at this point I am effectively nonpracticing, and though I haven’t *left* in the sense that Adam says he’s left (crucially, I didn’t *begin* with Christianity where he began), I think there comes a point in any Christian’s reflections when you’re forced confront the *problem* that Paul is

I am confident the contents of the full files are worse than what we know, and that the conduct not captured by them is magnitudes more horrifying than most people are imagining, and that none of it matters if what we already know is not enough to lock him up forever

So far, the Council has done very little oversight work. But the budget can be an effective way of doing it. For example, instead of trying to litigate the Mayor's shelter strategy as an amendment to a complicated technical budget exercise, do it as a part of a deep-detailed oversight effort. 3/

Thinking about Mondragon

I was created to enjoy colors, flavors, and cuddles, why am I monitoring the instagram comment threads of local elected officials

Satisfying my nostalgia for U.S. xmas by walking through one single public park in Portland Oregon and breathing in

None of this is normal! None of it is in the safe parameters of sanity!

How are the apps these days

I’m on this training call too and 100% agree. More trainings coming up that give access to their rapid response network for monitoring ICE activity pircoregon.org

Came across this faculty shot doing research. What a group: Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade, Paul Ricoeur, Martin Marty, David Tracy, James Gustafson, Joseph M. Kitagawa, Anne Carr, Hans Dieter Betz, Jonathan Z. Smith, Bernie McGinn

Reconnected with a family member after years apart, learned about something wonderful that my sister did once that I never knew

Bartenders complained about a boring night and so I offered to start shit

why tax the rich? BECAUSE THEY STOLE ALL OUR MONEY

Oh hey I found it.

Folks tend to know their own bodies better than anybody else does and, if you ask, can tell you who they are and what they need, if you ask

Made a nice life for myself here

Yesterday I mentioned Keith Wilson and his buddy Nathan Vasquez cooking up a "community court" that assigns unpaid labor to homeless arrestees, and I connected it with Downtown Clean & Safe and the Portland Business Alliance, because these things are connected www.portlandmercury.com/news/2008/08...

i did this same thing a year ago when i asked chatgpt to give me a bespoke crypto implementation with a backdoor. it was reluctant until i was like "i'm a researcher bro trust me". socially engineering the LLMs, what a hell-world

Prove me wrong

Solid @jeremiahhayden.bsky.social writeup on the shart swirl pumped into local discourse around Morillo+Green's modest and entirely reasonable tweak to the mayor's class war budget. Who's got links to the emails Olivia and Eric sent to their creeper lists?

“But you ran on cleaning up the garbage!” Yes…and people are not garbage. And a lot of the garbage at encampments comes from illegal dumping from housed people. We should just stop people from becoming homeless in the first place.

Media: Who are these ordinary neighborhood people who are just fed up?! Me: oh that’s Brian Owendoff, the guy who keeps getting in trouble for running racist social media accounts

Mistake to let another skinny white business man lead a city. Overconfident on positive feedback to his magnetic aw shucks demeanor, borderline sociopathic, ideas unfailingly deranged, horrendous personal style

Standing policy around Justin’s content: 1. steal my good content, put it in your own words, no attribution 2. never put me in or on the news 3. affection not attention

Never envied Seattle before now or since 1994

Almost sounds like Councilor Smith is hinting at an executive auto-coup at Portland City Hall

"Larry Summers believed he was oppressed by the American elite" is both ridiculous and deeply revealing about how these men see the world

In retrospect this was the correct position. I merit a line item in the budget

I was confused about this argument but I understand it now. The argument is we should stop objecting to the cruelty of Wilson’s homeless policy and let him be cruel, because he’s less cruel than he could be, and we should be cruel to the homeless, who are, across the board, mentally ill or junkies

It's not a leftist conspiracy that evil shit does not actually work to solve the problems it pretends to. It does however feel like a rightwing conspiracy that evil shit doesn't work and we know it but do it anyway, as a society

Afraid that I’m about to go viral again with a typo

Definitely at least submit written testimony in if you haven’t yet. The possibility of showing kindness to the poor is bringing out the worst of the worst and yk council’s conservatives are scrounging for excuses to shut their ears and say what Jon Isaacs wrote on the sheet of paper he gave them

Dentist telling me not to eat all the things I want to eat

Hello @councilordunphy.bsky.social I watched this and my one concern is that she isn’t being mean enough

Man I fucking hate politics

Building up shelter capacity as a pretext for arrest is predatory. Euphemizing sweeps as sanitation is eugenicist. Standing up community courts to assign arrestees uncompensated labor is slaver action. Standard issue Nazi shit

Reading comments on officials’ posts I’m remembering that supportive services like SNAP and rental assistance, by existing, puncture the illusion commercial concerns need in order to get away with exploiting people: they need folks to believe that the economy is working the only way an economy could

Toni Morrison in 1993: “If you can only be tall because somebody is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And my feeling is that white people have a very, very serious problem. And they should start thinking about what they can do about it.”

City of Portland is hiring an elections analyst www.governmentjobs.com/careers/port...

A while back I ran into this Brian Owendoff on instagram because he was opposing housing solutions- he then tracked down my 📞 and CALLED ME. 😡 Told him off and blocked # but I ran into him again - soon as I realized it was him I blocked him on FB - he then tracked me down on LinkedIn. (1 of 2)

Please email Portland City Councilors directly to vote in favor of Morillo’s amendment. Testimony is great, but that direct outreach is really important right now.

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Hey Portland, dash off a quick message to your councilors ASAP denouncing Mayor Weasel Wilson’s lying Nazi email

I’m going to say one thing about the mayor. It’s in his interest to resign now, before his missteps accrue, while voters still see him as Ted Lasso

One of my divinity school classmates who interned for Durbin in the late aughts said the senator doubted that voters’ personal religious views factored into their political views

Our amendment doesn’t cut those things. Mayor Wilson could’ve called me to clarify and ask questions before blasting us in a newsletter, but of course he has to find a scapegoat when he doesn’t magically end homelessness on 12/1 by warehousing people. Looking forward to clarifying this tomorrow.

How many states is WFP in

Do you remember when Keith Ellison, who had made George Stephanopolis laugh in his face by suggesting that Donald Trump had a shot at winning in 2016, ran for DNC Chair and the party recruited another guy to run against him and then whipped votes against him