I think the same thing that makes me a "good" writer (not a great one) is what makes me a nearly non-existent social media poster: my internal editor is FAST AND LOUD.
Gays don’t fight dirty enough. If I was the CEO of Grindr, you’d all be waking up to a link with a list of each and every one of those politicians’ accounts with screenshots to go with them.
Like they are acting funny. So we need to get hilarious.
Some news: Mayor Wheeler is withdrawing his public drug use ban proposal, since it would have likely been challenged by a state statute that bans cities from creating such policies.
Amid collapsing bridges and burning forests, I wish more people would realize that the ruling ideology of the last 40 years has wrought this for the same reason it cannot fight this: it doesn’t believe that government, the only system capable of addressing this, should address it
Honestly, I'm tired of UBI pilots. They've tried them in a bunch of countries, they've all worked. They've all increased economic activity, allowed people to make better choices for themselves, let people set up businesses or escape poverty or escape abuse. Can we just implement?
"You will be driving them to large compounds....Did you research Urban Alchemy - who are being sued for their treatment of staff and clients - before you hired them?!"
- Margaret Zebroski, board member of Hazelnut Grove
"This ban suggests that unhoused citizens...have less of a stake in the common life of the city than those who want them to disappear" - Sara Fisher, Episcopal priest
On #portland OR City commissioners proposal for an 8am-8pm camping ban. #homelessness
"We respond to every catastrophe"-Scott Kerman, Blanchet House
"We're at a breaking point"-Katie O'brien, Rose Haven day shelter
"I'm not going to be able to persuade you to do the right thing" - Ed Johnson, Dir of Litigation OR Law Center
"We wish you would listen to us"- S.
There is enough food for everyone on the planet. Pretending like America’s
budget is busting because starving people are getting too much free food, and not because of America’s bloated war budget, is obscene.