Justin
@justinskolnick.bsky.social
Man I fucking hate politics
November 11, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Man I fucking hate politics
Building up shelter capacity as a pretext for arrest is predatory. Euphemizing sweeps as sanitation is eugenicist. Standing up community courts to assign arrestees uncompensated labor is slaver action. Standard issue Nazi shit
So now we're at Keith Wilson Is A Lying Nazi levels of derangement here on Bluesky
Hey Portland, dash off a quick message to your councilors ASAP denouncing Mayor Weasel Wilson’s lying Nazi email
November 11, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Building up shelter capacity as a pretext for arrest is predatory. Euphemizing sweeps as sanitation is eugenicist. Standing up community courts to assign arrestees uncompensated labor is slaver action. Standard issue Nazi shit
Reading comments on officials’ posts I’m remembering that supportive services like SNAP and rental assistance, by existing, puncture the illusion commercial concerns need in order to get away with exploiting people: they need folks to believe that the economy is working the only way an economy could
November 11, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Reading comments on officials’ posts I’m remembering that supportive services like SNAP and rental assistance, by existing, puncture the illusion commercial concerns need in order to get away with exploiting people: they need folks to believe that the economy is working the only way an economy could
Toni Morrison in 1993:
“If you can only be tall because somebody is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And my feeling is that white people have a very, very serious problem. And they should start thinking about what they can do about it.”
“If you can only be tall because somebody is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And my feeling is that white people have a very, very serious problem. And they should start thinking about what they can do about it.”
White People Have a Very Very Serious Problem - Toni Morrison on Charlie Rose
YouTube video by Alex Hyman
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Toni Morrison in 1993:
“If you can only be tall because somebody is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And my feeling is that white people have a very, very serious problem. And they should start thinking about what they can do about it.”
“If you can only be tall because somebody is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And my feeling is that white people have a very, very serious problem. And they should start thinking about what they can do about it.”
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November 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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A while back I ran into this Brian Owendoff on instagram because he was opposing housing solutions- he then tracked down my 📞 and CALLED ME. 😡
Told him off and blocked # but I ran into him again - soon as I realized it was him I blocked him on FB - he then tracked me down on LinkedIn.
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Told him off and blocked # but I ran into him again - soon as I realized it was him I blocked him on FB - he then tracked me down on LinkedIn.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
A while back I ran into this Brian Owendoff on instagram because he was opposing housing solutions- he then tracked down my 📞 and CALLED ME. 😡
Told him off and blocked # but I ran into him again - soon as I realized it was him I blocked him on FB - he then tracked me down on LinkedIn.
(1 of 2)
Told him off and blocked # but I ran into him again - soon as I realized it was him I blocked him on FB - he then tracked me down on LinkedIn.
(1 of 2)
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Please email Portland City Councilors directly to vote in favor of Morillo’s amendment. Testimony is great, but that direct outreach is really important right now.
Very excited to see @councilormorillo.bsky.social introduce an amendment to the fall budget adjustment to shift funding from sweeps to other critical city functions! That is half of one of our demands in our Finding Home petition linked in my bio.
Show up and support Morillo’s amendment!
Show up and support Morillo’s amendment!
November 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Please email Portland City Councilors directly to vote in favor of Morillo’s amendment. Testimony is great, but that direct outreach is really important right now.
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So apparently the sky is falling because Councilor Morillo wants to move $4.3 million from the camp sweeps budget to… wait for it… housing, food, and community support.
Here’s the deal: Portland spends about $17 million a year on the “Impact Reduction Program.”
Here’s the deal: Portland spends about $17 million a year on the “Impact Reduction Program.”
November 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Hey Portland, dash off a quick message to your councilors ASAP denouncing Mayor Weasel Wilson’s lying Nazi email
November 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Hey Portland, dash off a quick message to your councilors ASAP denouncing Mayor Weasel Wilson’s lying Nazi email
I’m going to say one thing about the mayor. It’s in his interest to resign now, before his missteps accrue, while voters still see him as Ted Lasso
November 10, 2025 at 4:36 AM
I’m going to say one thing about the mayor. It’s in his interest to resign now, before his missteps accrue, while voters still see him as Ted Lasso
One of my divinity school classmates who interned for Durbin in the late aughts said the senator doubted that voters’ personal religious views factored into their political views
Durbin said critics of his vote “need to understand how the Senate works”
November 10, 2025 at 4:32 AM
One of my divinity school classmates who interned for Durbin in the late aughts said the senator doubted that voters’ personal religious views factored into their political views
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Our amendment doesn’t cut those things.
Mayor Wilson could’ve called me to clarify and ask questions before blasting us in a newsletter, but of course he has to find a scapegoat when he doesn’t magically end homelessness on 12/1 by warehousing people.
Looking forward to clarifying this tomorrow.
Mayor Wilson could’ve called me to clarify and ask questions before blasting us in a newsletter, but of course he has to find a scapegoat when he doesn’t magically end homelessness on 12/1 by warehousing people.
Looking forward to clarifying this tomorrow.
The Impact Reduction Program also provides trash abatement, which is essential in maintaining clean, walkable sidewalks for all Portlanders. We shouldn‘t cut their budget.
November 10, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Our amendment doesn’t cut those things.
Mayor Wilson could’ve called me to clarify and ask questions before blasting us in a newsletter, but of course he has to find a scapegoat when he doesn’t magically end homelessness on 12/1 by warehousing people.
Looking forward to clarifying this tomorrow.
Mayor Wilson could’ve called me to clarify and ask questions before blasting us in a newsletter, but of course he has to find a scapegoat when he doesn’t magically end homelessness on 12/1 by warehousing people.
Looking forward to clarifying this tomorrow.
How many states is WFP in
November 10, 2025 at 4:24 AM
How many states is WFP in
Do you remember when Keith Ellison, who had made George Stephanopolis laugh in his face by suggesting that Donald Trump had a shot at winning in 2016, ran for DNC Chair and the party recruited another guy to run against him and then whipped votes against him
November 10, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Do you remember when Keith Ellison, who had made George Stephanopolis laugh in his face by suggesting that Donald Trump had a shot at winning in 2016, ran for DNC Chair and the party recruited another guy to run against him and then whipped votes against him
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Portland Mayor Wilson is specifically trying to gather pro-sweep comments from Portlanders to validate the camping ban enforcement.
I know it’s an extra task, but PLEASE take the time to send all city councilors anti-sweep comments! Especially your district’s representatives.
I know it’s an extra task, but PLEASE take the time to send all city councilors anti-sweep comments! Especially your district’s representatives.
November 9, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Portland Mayor Wilson is specifically trying to gather pro-sweep comments from Portlanders to validate the camping ban enforcement.
I know it’s an extra task, but PLEASE take the time to send all city councilors anti-sweep comments! Especially your district’s representatives.
I know it’s an extra task, but PLEASE take the time to send all city councilors anti-sweep comments! Especially your district’s representatives.
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The housing bureau is supposed to focus on the long term solutions to provide stable affordable housing that the market isn't providing, not become a homeless navigation center. If the mayor wants to change that core mission, bring an ordinance to council.
November 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The housing bureau is supposed to focus on the long term solutions to provide stable affordable housing that the market isn't providing, not become a homeless navigation center. If the mayor wants to change that core mission, bring an ordinance to council.
In the years before the crisis found federal expression, we debated whether private bigotries were knowable, whether they were innate, whether they were fixed, whether public acts and statements softened or negated them. Meanwhile here comes James Watson steamrolling any question of his own case
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
In the years before the crisis found federal expression, we debated whether private bigotries were knowable, whether they were innate, whether they were fixed, whether public acts and statements softened or negated them. Meanwhile here comes James Watson steamrolling any question of his own case
I wish I had training as a parent or schoolteacher and knew the right questions to ask, because although I’ve just about managed to convince myself that young girl went home from the store with the right people, my nerves haven’t gotten the message
November 9, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I wish I had training as a parent or schoolteacher and knew the right questions to ask, because although I’ve just about managed to convince myself that young girl went home from the store with the right people, my nerves haven’t gotten the message
Wild how much of US policy and culture exists to protect our power to cause other people harm. You want to eat? You’re working twelve hours. What do you mean how come? Because I said so. You want to cross the street? But I’m driving this street, heh, better hope I’m in a good mood when I get there
Just talked with a professor from France who informed me that they just don’t do evictions in the winter where he’s from and that that’s extremely normal. It would be a BATTLE to get a policy like that in Portland.
We’re honestly barbaric in the United States. It’s absurd.
We’re honestly barbaric in the United States. It’s absurd.
November 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Wild how much of US policy and culture exists to protect our power to cause other people harm. You want to eat? You’re working twelve hours. What do you mean how come? Because I said so. You want to cross the street? But I’m driving this street, heh, better hope I’m in a good mood when I get there
Heads up PDX budget fiends and protectors of the poor
November 8, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Heads up PDX budget fiends and protectors of the poor
Low fruit tree canopy shades a residential sidewalk. Soft leaf mulch underfoot and damp. The fragrance of cider
November 8, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Low fruit tree canopy shades a residential sidewalk. Soft leaf mulch underfoot and damp. The fragrance of cider
November 8, 2025 at 3:26 AM
With that zombie of the Wheeler administration, Portland Solutions, and the indirect subsidization of the city’s most active lobbying entity, Downtown Clean & Safe, each contracting with Central City Concern to ride these trikes, it seems the City has a prototype for in-housing sanitation services
Portland rolls out basic sidewalk cleaning service
Portland announces a basic sidewalk cleaning service along major business corridors and other high-impact areas. Crews on trikes and trucks clean up trash and biohazards from the sidewalks in busy loc...
www.portland.gov
November 8, 2025 at 12:17 AM
With that zombie of the Wheeler administration, Portland Solutions, and the indirect subsidization of the city’s most active lobbying entity, Downtown Clean & Safe, each contracting with Central City Concern to ride these trikes, it seems the City has a prototype for in-housing sanitation services
Like the Trump admin’s continued fight to drive SNAP recipients to starvation, capital sets and resets the conditions of the job and housing markets and then reckons the market’s losers as good as dead, and sweeps are the next step in the process of enforcing the judgment
City Council Mulling $4.3 Million Cut From Homeless Sweeps Budget
“We’re in a position right now, where people are going to end up being unhoused for the long-term, and we have to take action,” City Councilor Angelita Morillo said, explaining a proposal to divert fu...
www.portlandmercury.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Like the Trump admin’s continued fight to drive SNAP recipients to starvation, capital sets and resets the conditions of the job and housing markets and then reckons the market’s losers as good as dead, and sweeps are the next step in the process of enforcing the judgment
I keep many of my promises
November 7, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I keep many of my promises