When even the CDC, with even its new thresholds, says levels are "very high," that's a very bad sign. Fellow Oregonians, mask up if you can.
The PMC map gives county-level information, and shows Very High levels also in some parts of the states the CDC says are "low," like parts of New York, Vermont, and Wyoming https://pmc19.com/
The People's CDC explains more
https://peoplescdc.substack.com/p/peoples-cdc-covid-19-weather-report-ae0
RE: https://mas.to/@gleick/117417047354666899
And "sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia’s Police Department" . . . so, kind of like DHS, with the fake accusations?
Police violence in Portland in the summer of 2020 cost the city (i.e., taxpayers) at least $2.7 million in lawsuits and settlements.
That's the same police bureau later found in contempt of court for violating a June 2020 court order against the indiscriminate use of tear gas.
(text from Policing the Progressive City: Portland, Oregon, from Settlement to Uprising, by Kristian Williams)
The Fair Share Tax will raise an existing surtax on ultrawealthy corporations while also cutting taxes for small businesses, shrinking Portland's looming budget deficits and protecting the essential public services that Portlanders rely on every single day.
Follow the link to find out how to submit written testimony or sign up to testify in person or online on Thursday, October 8th at 9:30 am.
#PortlandOr #PDX #TaxTheRich
#FairShare
https://www.portland.gov/council/districts/4/mitch-green/fair-share-tax
RE: https://union.place/@ufwupdates/117374542214491363
heat deaths more likely as the climate warms
(Writing is thinking, and takes time)
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that the undergraduate essay has little relevance to the world beyond college. Nowhere are the jobs that require a paper, anywhere from five to 15 pages, written in isolation for an audience of one to prove that you have digested something you’ve read for no immediately practical reason. Nonetheless, the undergraduate paper as it has been practiced for decades did signal something, both in general and to future employers: the student’s willingness to engage in the slow consideration of another’s writing and ideas and then respond to them over many hours of targeted attention. Writing a successful paper means rejecting one’s cursory reactions and forcing oneself to take and defend a position that doesn’t even appear for the (at minimum) first 50 minutes of consideration.
"Papers are the lab work of the humanities. They are the crucible for ideas invented, discarded, reanimated, rearranged and revised into sentences that reveal something to the writer that they didn’t know before. Papers communicate in ways that a 10-minute conversation or a 30-minute wrestling match with loose leaf can’t, because writing and rereading and rewriting and rethinking is fundamentally not a 10-minute or 30-minute activity. Has every student always done this? No. But I challenge anyone to find me the undergraduate who has produced a worthwhile (or even just honestly passable) six- to 10-page paper in 50 minutes, or even 100.
"No longer will an English or history or philosophy degree deliver on the promise of dedicated thinking and working sustained over time."
#AI #Humanities #Thinking #Writing #AiAiAi
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2026/09/17/cures-ai-are-killing-humanities-opinion
On October 14 at 8 pm Eastern, join NSP, elected officials, and candidates in a virtual National Town Hall, as we declare our independence from the medical-industrial complex and demand the passage of improved H.R. 3069 (119th Congress), a comprehensive, universal, national Medicare for All, free from profit.
We will not settle for less.
#USpol #HealthCare #SinglePayer #M4A #MedicareForAll
https://nationalsinglepayer.com/declaration-of-independence/
![WE, THE PEOPLE, PROCLAIM THIS NATIONAL SINGLE PAYER HEALTH CARE
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE FROM THE
MEDICAL-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
* Drowning in co-pays, medical debt, rising premiums, expired ACA credits, & Medicaid cuts?
* Trapped in a job because you need health insurance?
* Is your paycheck stalled but health care giants cash in?
* Reject the medical-industrial complex!
* Demand tax dollars heal our neighbors, not feed war!
SIGN THE DECLARATION FOR
IMPROVED MEDICARE FOR ALL
FREE FROM PROFIT!
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We have been trying to acclimate Her Majesty to wearing the harness so she can go outside. She is not enthusiastic about this supposed tradeoff of different forms of 'freedom.'
Portland Police chief accused of violating state law by criticizing city councilor’s past tweets
by Alex Zielinski
Did Portland Police Chief Bob Day break the law when he criticized a city councilor last week? That’s a question several Portlanders are asking state officials to answer.
At least two people have filed complaints against Day with the Secretary of State’s office in the past week. Both alleged that Day used his position as a public employee to “promote or oppose” a person’s election campaign, in violation of a state law.
“Election meddling is what it looks like to me,” said Nate Haberman, a Portland attorney who filed one of the complaints against Day last Friday.
The Police Bureau declined to comment.
The complaints center on a press release Day issued from his office last week, condemning comments that Councilor Mitch Green had posted — and deleted — prior to running for elected office in 2024.
Green’s statements, posted to X, the website then known as Twitter in 2020 and 2021, were critical of police amid the racial justice protests spurred by a Minneapolis police officer killing George Floyd.
Day wrote that, because of these since-deleted statements, “I have a responsibility to say that I no longer have confidence that this Councilor is evaluating the Police Bureau reasonably and objectively.”
Green is running for reelection in November.
This is why Haberman and Portlander Jonathan Tasini, a labor advocate who ran for city council in 2024, each sent complaints to the secretary of state’s office. They believe Day violated the state statute.
“Because the harm of Chief Day’s apparent violation of ORS 260.432 is immediate—it has entered into the discourse of the upcoming election—I request the State conduct the investigation with the utmost urgency,” wrote Tasini.
A spokesperson with the secretary of state’s office told OPB that the department’s elections division has not yet determined whether they’ll investigate the concerns.
Haberman, who lives in Green’s District 4, said Day’s comments felt like a threat.
“So, am I going to get punished if I don’t vote for what Day wants?” asked Haberman, who said he plans to vote for Green. “Is my neighborhood going to get mistreated by police if we re-elect Green?”
Tasini is also a Green supporter; he donated to Green’s campaign in June.
Concerns about city employees’ politicking aren’t unusual. In fact, Green himself was the subject of a complaint last month, when several Portlanders claimed he had wrongly used his city Instagram account to promote his reelection campaign. The city auditor’s office formally dismissed this complaint.
Both Tasini and Haberman also filed complaints with the city’s Bureau of Human Resources, alleging Day violated a rule that prohibits city employees from participating in any kind of political activity. The city’s human resources office did not immediately respond to OPB’s request for comment.
Video on End Times Fascism by Astra Taylor & Naomi Klein
Can anyone recommend a program like SoundStudio for Mac but instead for Linux?
Am in the process of a slow migration from mac to Linux.
I have for years been using SoundStudio for audio editing--simple, no subscription, easy to use (simple, did I say that? I don't need a million complicated bells and whistles to make me anxious and confused). (Like, I found Garage Band and Audacity intimidating.)
But it turns out SoundStudio is only available for mac.
I am using the simplest linux for dummies (mint?). I am a luddite, anxious and stupid about technology, too old to learn any but the most basic of tricks.
So, does any kind person happen to know of a really simple audio program that works on Linux?
Thanks in advance.
DJT's offer of $5000 per vote reminds me of Buzz Windrip's plans.
#ItCantHappenHere
#ItIsHappeningHere
(see item #11 but don't miss #15)
RE: https://pouet.chapril.org/@dallo/117243917714565655
universal single payer free to access now
"Artificial Intelligence" is imtelligent the way "national socialism" is socialist.
RE: https://wandering.shop/@Archergal/117237585736406286
I had no idea that it's unsafe to shower (or connect with water or indoor electricity at all) during athunderstorm, but apparently so
Coming soon to PBS and worth seeing: "Ghost in the Machine":
"The film treats AI as a historical symptom. Its concern is not the machine dreaming in silicon, but the human appetite that built the machine and named the dream intelligence. Veatch connects the current AI boom to eugenics, colonial measurement, Silicon Valley mythology, militarized ambition, and venture-capital fever. The result is a severe, often angry film about hierarchy wearing the mask of progress."
#AI #GhostInTheMachine #Film #Documentary
Good review by Naser Nahandian:
https://gazettely.com/2026/06/entertainment/ghost-in-the-machine-review/
Poem: “Questionnaire”
By Wendell Berry
1. How much poison are you willing
to eat for the success of the free
market and global trade? Please
name your preferred poisons.
2. For the sake of goodness, how much evil are you willing to do?
Fill in the following blanks
with the names of your favorite
evils and acts of hatred.
3. What sacrifices are you prepared
to make for culture and civilization?
Please list the monuments, shrines,
and works of art you would
most willingly destroy.
4. In the name of patriotism and
the flag, how much of our beloved
land are you willing to desecrate?
List in the following spaces
the mountains, rivers, towns, farms
you could most readily do without.
5. State briefly the ideas, ideals, or hopes, the energy sources, the kinds of security, for which you would kill a child. Name, please, the children whom you would be willing to kill.
“Questionnaire” from Leavings: Poems. Copyright © 2010 by Wendell Berry. Reprinted with permission of Counterpoint Press.
Stop The Steal! Big Business is Colluding With the City Council Right-Wing to Rig Zenith Transfer Agreement
