Alan Kessler

A sentence consisting of an equative clause coupling the two coreferential relative-headed noun phrases is a sentence that enables rhetorical work.

For some reason I can't stop thinking about how much more grotesque Tyrion was in the book, and how using (the v. v. pretty 🫠) Dinklage to play him discarded important hints about his provenance.

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Remember when they won a Pulitzer?

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Okay, but what if most of a person's childhood trauma centered computers?

Sucker is required to preserve his failed bits For-Ev-Er. ORS 162.305 OAR 166-200-0325(7) ADM-0100

It’s wild that no other media outlet besides the Mercury is covering the Dan Ryan text saga…like, these lobbyists were calling councilors of color racial epithets. They called me a burrito. Meanwhile there were ten million stories about daddy gate, but crickets on this? Disparity in standards

A Multnomah County judge ordered Councilor Dan Ryan to preserve evidence on his personal phone until an ongoing public records lawsuit is resolved. “This is not a game of cat and mouse," Judge David Rees said. "There are some indications that those games are being played, and it has to stop today."

I have been off work for a while for (see previous post) — but want to elevate this deeply odd story. A lot of interesting choices being made here.

This is indeed how @alankessler.bsky.social lives

So glad to see @jamellebouie.net talking in the NYT about how many of the neo-Nazis in the Republican party are in their 20s. It's something I was trying to peck away at with this @thewesternedge.bsky.social piece. Young people don't know life w/o Trumpism www.thewesternedge.media/p/the-age-of...

Okay now I’m actually starting to keep count on the number of Oregon cases where public records are being held back.

Steph’s a real one and we would be well served to have her leadership at the EMSWCD

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Q for the attorneys in the house: if Ryan is conducting city business on his personal phone - even only occasionally - couldn't using auto-delete be seen as a deliberate, systematic attempt to evade public records requirements?

Update says that Dan Ryan apologized to the Mercury! This is good. Next I hope they poke around at whether Ryan has been texting privately about city business, in violation of public records laws.

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Sorry, your honor, I traded in my ankle monitor for a discount Fitbit. I’m sure nothing was lost.

Dan Ryan is under a court order not to delete messages from his personal phone, which may contain public records. In court documents, Ryan said he no longer has the phone he's been using, because his spouse traded it in the same day a judge barred him from deleting records. He says nothing was lost.

The same bullet?

And here I thought our $4000 was ridiculous! Oregon records law needs more guardrails to prevent public officials who are simply bad actors.

Has anyone dealt with a lawyer who seems to find grievous insult in basically every conferral communication? Is that like a thing people try?

🚨🚨 Actual PPB training manual leaked !!! 🚨🚨

We are outraged at the news that PPA has been calling reformers like @councilorkanal.bsky.social "anti-labor" in the WWeek. We are shocked by reports in the Oregonian of police intimidation of @councilormorillo.bsky.social & and Councilor Kanal. These unconscionable actions must cease.

He imposed Shania Law

I voted for the sex worker, not this vile oil whore.

“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language