It took the state/county/surrounding counties/city/business community/voters, etc. 150+ years to build a solid infrastructure of predictable permanent homelessness for 5000+ people.
It's not going to get solved in a year by one man. Stop griping & get to work.
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Cover of the business of racism: labor and environment in Brazil's racial Capitalism by Ian Carrillo
The Introduction of my book is currently free to read.
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“The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled.”
Celeste Dupuy-Spencer’s 2021 masterpiece, “Don’t You See That I Am Burning".
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For over a century, Alaska residents with a mental illness were sent to locked psychiatric facilities in Portland - Morningside Hospital - that made the lowest bid to provide care.
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Ten times the federal funding lost from cuts to the CPB budget. Fantastic.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/b...
It's a John Barrymore week here, tonight with DINNER AT EIGHT by George Cukor in 1933. Barrymore by this time was both insane with alcoholism AND the greatest actor in the world. Barrymore knew it, the crew and actors knew it, the media knew it, the audience knew it. And he was terrific.
Symposium: Solitary Confinement - State-Sanctioned Torture
May 2 | Hoffmann Hall, Portland State
Breakfast + lunch included
Register at ojrc.info/solitary-conference
A delicious meta-joke delivered by Billie Burke, from Hi Diddle Diddle (1943).
Bargaining in Progress Bargaining is underway with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 189, representing the Auditor's Office, and the Portland Police Association. Portland Police Association Background * Approximately 790 employees * Average total earnings: $156,235 ** Base Wages: $115,486 ** Premiums: $14,988 ** Overtime: $25,762 * Average total compensation: $223,918 ** Pension & Other Wage-Driven Benefits: $43,776 ** Health Insurance and Other Miscellaneous Benefits: $23,907 Contract Status * Current labor agreement - expired June 30, 2026 * Bargaining commenced January 12, 2026 ** Two bargaining sessions completed to date *** PPA Proposal 4.6.26 *** City Proposal 3.20.26 *** PPA MOUs Proposal 3.20.26- Updated *** PPA MOUs Proposals 3.20.26 *** PPA Tentative Agreements 4.6.26 * Community Listening Session scheduled for April 11, 2026 * Three additional sessions scheduled for April 2026
Here's what you'll see on the PPA Bargaining Updates page.
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Same.
PDX now: sighted in the downtown foliage looking well fed and frisky.
No One at Waffle House Remembers FEMA Official Who Says He Teleported In www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...
David Hockney
For all we know Maxwell is in Dubai.
We've been measuring homelessness to see which government is going to pay for it for 40+ years and still don't have convincing data.
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Don’t offload personal responsibility for this behavior on drug addiction. Millions of drug addicts get through everyday without threatening nations and civilians.
Must watch film - the prequel to SUNSET BOULEVARD. Gloria Swanson is amazing - resets the bar for starlets moving forward.
Here is the February 26, 2026 declaration of Melissa Eckstein, President of the Unity Center for Behavioral Health, in which she states that Unity Center is "not a "walk-in" center as envisioned by" the Settlement Agreement.
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As Northwest police departments adopt artificial intelligence, some see a dystopian nightmare. Others see an inevitable future.
www.thewesternedge.media/p/robo-cops-...
Novick's right on all points, perhaps especially that "sometimes you elect people who are easily cowed and scared."
www.wweek.com/news/2026/03...
Nemo encounters a pack of wolves and is afraid they are going to eat him up. They flee when a pack of bears show up. He’s scared of them at first two but they also turn out to be friendly. They come upon a city that Nemo decides to visit but he wakes up first.
Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay from March 22, 1908.
Pierce Sanitarium Opened: 1914 | Closed: c. 1928–1930 | Capacity: 20-25
Pierce Sanitarium Opened: 1914 | Closed: c. 1928–1930 | Capacity: 20-25
Run by Dr. Jerry Pierce, catered primarily to patients suffering from neurasthenia, mild mental health issues, and recovery from surgery or addiction.
PDX now.
The beautiful game. The horrible governing body.
Red Card: The 2026 World Cup, Sportswashing, and the FIFA Greed Machine by Jules Boykoff with an intro by Dave Zirin is available for PRE-ORDER at 15% off!
Link in bio.
@julesboykoff.bsky.social
@edgeofsports.bsky.social
Benjamin Franklin: “Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins.”
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This response after ten minutes of Claude repeatedly inserting irrelevant promotional links as citations into basic search requests. Just a mis-information machine.
Finally - Alien Boy: The Life and Death of James Chasse has made it to Estonia.
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Oh yeah this is a great film, akin to AKIRA in quality (for its time) and impact.
