Gene Okerlund

Sure doesn’t taste like a functional democracy.

As I’ve said for decades and had in my profile here since nearly when I started the account — Gavin Newsom is not a viable politician. The man represents the past, not the future.

The NYT covers so many people this way. There are insane, evil people doing horrific things and they cover them as waffling figures simply trying to find their way in this world, just like The Rest of Us. It’s infuriating & hurting the nation.

I think I have to play contrarian on this one. Phishing is a major, growing cybersecurity problem at organizations everywhere. And a major part of the success is leaning into human emotion. This is a brilliant white hat email. This is what an actual hacker would do. I hope staff got their ring tho.

San Francisco is the most regressive of the progressive cities of the major west coast cities now. The tech money influence has been impactful. The lack of voting participation has always been a problem for the City. But now it’s allowed conservative ideology to take hold. Time to take the City back

Chuck & Hakeem should be afraid of the millions of people like me and they don’t. That’s a problem.

Chuck Schumer — one of the most powerful Democrats in the country — has not issued statements to the press or through his social media channels about the administration’s attack on Ilhan Omar, which critics have described as a five alarm fire for the state of democracy in the U.S.

A nice, long cruise of alumni for the last home game at Jefferson in North Portland before the big renovation closes it down. What up, D2! Overheard: “The new building is going to look like a data center.” lol @councilorkanal.bsky.social

The “crime scene” was so large so as to gift as many officers as possible some juicy, juicy overtime. Don’t hate the player, hate the game, right?

Bilal Mahmood selling out San Francisco in that fever dream of “any housing will get us out of the affordability problem.” Divis is about to have a “budget” slice of cheese pizza jump to $20. SF seems like it’s destined to crater into its own “success.”

Out here normalizing breaking the law. I need hair on fire democratic outrage. This frog boil is bullshit complicity.

SpaceX sides with Russian in the war in Ukraine.

Call it the Americans Overreacted Act. The Patriot Act & DHS were a costly mistake.

Oregon Connects added to my “evil companies bent on profits over humanity” list.

[hand over heart] My country tis’ shitty. Sweet land of exclusivity. Of thee I sing.

Kash is meeting with the Kremlin on last-minute election interference tips. Trust. Donald told Vlad he was worried, Vlad told him to send the FBI director for help, and the rest is the end of American democracy (Putin hopes). Guess we’ll see if we get J6 2.0.

Republicans: We’re doing live executions. Democrats: Can we compromise a bit here and put it in safe harbor hours? (I mock the Dems not because I want them to lose. I do it because I want them to act & stop being mockable.)

When democrats say they love free speech except when it comes to saying bad things about Israel & they believe in human rights except when it’s trans youth, you get the picture they’re not that different from Republicans. The degree is different, but the mission isn’t. And that’s a problem.

If this is how tons of ballots in SF are arriving, stands to reason that many will receive the same treatment if placed in the mail on return. And a shredded ballot might not get counted. Don’t trust the USPS with your ballot this year or 2028. It’s compromised.

This only works if the other party you’re dealing with is also taking you seriously. And that’s sort of the problem the country has been having for several decades on the national, political level. It forces a major reset like the New Deal to undo the harms of 🤫🤞 lunch chats. I pity the fool.

It’s everywhere. Politicians are afraid of local LE & we need to understand why. Threats? Political fallout? Fear of a crime wave? Step 1 is why. Step 2 is a solve. Step 3 is complete reform of local public safety.

Pretty telling that not one person or entity had a comment on this. This smells like old Portland back door business arrangements that we’re trying to root out. We’re coming for everyone in gov’t trying to turn that clock back. Let’s get this city truly representative.

Dear California, I don’t care if after Prop 40 passes the government takes the billionaires’ money and sets it on fire. Literally. Just take their GD money & normalize it.

Back in my day you could be arrested for just stumbling across a publicly exposed web directory that was meant to be private and downloading the files.

I supported Wilson out of the field. I got it wrong. I thought he would bring business acumen alongside Portland values. He did not. Keith Wilson needs to go. Not the worst, but not the answer.

I thought my heart was already pretty broken from all of this brutal, illegal ICE bullshit. And then a friend told me their sister was just kidnapped by the American government. There was deeper pain to be had. Greater fury.

I love our journalists who aren’t playing access politics as a career, but damn if I’m not disappointed in the “opposition party” that can’t seem to work in concert with their efforts. What are we doing?

San Francisco has no Democratic Party. Depressing to see what the City has become over the last 20 years. In my ideal world, their politics would be the new Republican Party and a truly progressive Democratic Party would emerge. Alas.

Get his ass, Streisand!

“What would you pay for the power of omniscience & omnipotence?” — Ketamine-fueled stock market valuation

Dot Com Crash: Huh. That’s was bad. We won’t fall for that again. 2008 financial crisis: Oof. Took it on the chin. Hard lessons were learned. 2026: Let’s mix the last 2 crisis together and see if it works out.

The irony of Mitch getting increasingly more attention when he was reluctant to even hold the presidency of city council isn’t lost on me.

Posters, stickers, etc disparaging a Democratic president in the firehouse are fine though, right SFFD?

I’m guessing the Portland Police Bureau’s next phase will be falsely accusing Mitch of a crime, territory they’re familiar with. I’m not running for office ever, so let me be clear. Fuck PPB/PPA/POA. It’s not serving its purpose for the people & it’s a money pit/grift. My life for a reformer.

“I will burn you, someone else, and everyone you know to the ground. For no reason. I’m insane!” — An American president that US intelligence knew for decades. Decades.

Zimmerman is freaking out here because he knows the truth of what’s happening and, in my opinion, doesn’t want it to stop. So he’ll use multiple levels of probable deniability to create fiction that slanders others. It’s disqualifying as a councilor & despicable as a position for a person.