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I mean if anything the whole measure seems like kind of an assault on representative democracy. We vote for people to actually learn about the budget and make good decisions, an end run around that makes no sense to me.

It's not just me asking about the dark money in the Dumb Two Cents Thing™ campaign, @wweek.com tried during their endorsement interview, but got nowhere.

How is this "in-kind" nonsense legal in Oregon? From last week, here's a nice round number of $25k of "in-kind" support for "campaign consulting" for "General Operational Expenses" purposes. Even in old-school Baltimore campaigns, "walking-around money" had more documentation than this.

Quick update on this. According to a filing yesterday, East County Rising dropped another quarter of a million of dark money into the Dumb Two Cents Thing™. Dark money is now 95% of the $1.1M Yes campaign. Anyway, thoughts and prayers for your YouTube watching over the next week.

To go with my new profile pic thing, here's the newest VOTE NO ad featuring all three newspaper endorsements AND an actual firefighter!

The Public Safety Committee is reviewing recommendations for Portland Street Response today. Because it's election season, I'll point out that the Dumb Two Cents Thing™ will siphon $16M from the general fund, which is more than the entire PSR budget and then some. www.portland.gov/sites/defaul...

This, in a letter to the Oregonian today from the chief petitioner of the "participatory budgeting" initiative, inadvertently demonstrates why it is such terrible policy. It's NOT "budgeting" if you can't say (or don't understand) where the money comes from.

Where is YES getting close to a million dollars of "In-Kind" contributions? Almost entirely from East County Rising Action Fund, which is not required to disclose donors. (Someday, Oregon should really close these reporting loopholes.)

But then you pit the neighborhoods against each other in some sort of to-be-determined citywide vote.

@backroll23.bsky.social She’s full of all sorts of surprises.

RIP Dolly 😭

Seattle Times dipshit quits because his editors were smart enough to spike his stupid columns: defector.com/matt-calkins...

Trae Young capped teeth are out there!

World Cup fuckery

Each member of the crew hates Lalas for different reasons Rebecca Lowe and Thierry Henry are used to working on high quality soccer TV shows and can’t believe how boorish and stupid and boring he is. And Zlatan is just like “I simply do not respect anything about this man, I yearn to destroy him”

Apparently double dribble is also a gather step jump stop

NBA showdown fits are trash! Did they all go to the Craig Sager yard sale?

No one taught Chet how to block out 🤣🤣

GO DUCKS!!!

What’s this 1/2 time show 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Geno is an ass.

Of course Boebert snapped a photo. That's the closest she's ever been to someone actually qualified to be the fuckin' President and whatnot.

Who would have guessed!

Chelly's been doing this thing where she reports on "someone(s)" putting up love notes for PDX ICE, like they were sweet gestures of support from community randos. But Chelly is close friends w one of them - Audra Price - who's connected to some of the most violent extremists in the area. thread

@mayorkwilson.bsky.social did you ask Kevin how much he really stole? Don’t give this parasite the time of day. www.opb.org/article/2023...

It’s -2000 degrees below zero. You just flashbanged yourself twenty feet from the front desk. Three hours sleep cause locals who hate you bang garbage cans outside your room all night. The Home2Suits has fallen and you’re not getting that signing bonus for another 4.5 years. Ass. It’s all ass, dude.

It was kind of a tossed-off gag in a blog last week but the ICE/CBP forces in Minnesota really are an expansion team made up of the most readily available players in a depressingly glutted violence worker marketplace. Not even quad-A types. Independent league guys with well-known makeup issues.

VIDEO ANALYSIS: Witness videos appear to contradict the Trump administration's narrative of Alex Pretti's killing. nbcnews.app.link/nl9zFuvje0b

“After college, Weiss eventually got a byline in the Opinion section of the New York Times, where she proved about as skilled with a pen as Adolf Hitler was with a paintbrush.” www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

@backroll23.bsky.social what the fuck is Gluesenkamp Perez doing??

his name is Jonathan Ross and he shouldn't get a good night's sleep for the rest of his life www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

Great day to have functioning eyes and a working brain

Ryan Day is a fraud.

Well, the guy caught defrauding the government works with the guy who makes up stories about defrauding the government.

Worst fight ever!

Happy Friday

Never change Magic!

Gross