Jonathan Ortiz
@ortizian.bsky.social
Professor of Chicano/Latino Studies at Portland Community College. Buyer of records, attendee of concerts. Father, husband, and son. He/Él
For those wondering about Portland. This is Dillon, the mascot of our collegiate summer baseball wooden bat team - The Portland Pickles. We’re going to be silly about most things, but so many Portlanders will show up when the need arises.
October 4, 2025 at 12:33 AM
For those wondering about Portland. This is Dillon, the mascot of our collegiate summer baseball wooden bat team - The Portland Pickles. We’re going to be silly about most things, but so many Portlanders will show up when the need arises.
I would choose to be Mexican again in every lifetime, come the Super Bowl, I will be one proud Puerto Rican.
October 1, 2025 at 3:29 AM
I would choose to be Mexican again in every lifetime, come the Super Bowl, I will be one proud Puerto Rican.
Ira Katznelson’s When Affirmative Action Was White is so good.
September 30, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Ira Katznelson’s When Affirmative Action Was White is so good.
September 28, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory?
Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
September 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory?
Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
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Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
September 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
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"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
September 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
This is the new energy I’ll be putting out. #Saffiyahkhan
August 29, 2025 at 5:58 AM
This is the new energy I’ll be putting out. #Saffiyahkhan
Sometimes I wish someone would try me, I’m ready to use these hands. But most of the time, like 98%, I really just want to go get some cafe de olla and a concha.
August 27, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Sometimes I wish someone would try me, I’m ready to use these hands. But most of the time, like 98%, I really just want to go get some cafe de olla and a concha.
“I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure”
August 26, 2025 at 9:32 PM
“I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure”
When they’re not fighting each other, they nap together.
August 26, 2025 at 12:52 AM
When they’re not fighting each other, they nap together.
Picked this up today. I’d been thinking about this record recently, but I couldn’t remember who put it out or the title. I just remembered loving this ca. ‘01/‘02. Looking through some used records at my favorite shop here in town and look what I found, priced just right too.
August 21, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Picked this up today. I’d been thinking about this record recently, but I couldn’t remember who put it out or the title. I just remembered loving this ca. ‘01/‘02. Looking through some used records at my favorite shop here in town and look what I found, priced just right too.
I swam two miles today. I don’t think three is on the horizon any time soon but I got two down today.
August 13, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I swam two miles today. I don’t think three is on the horizon any time soon but I got two down today.
This morning’s sounds, Ak’chamel.
August 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
This morning’s sounds, Ak’chamel.
An after dinner snack
August 8, 2025 at 2:33 AM
An after dinner snack
I finally watched King of New York; It was okay. I think if I had watched it in the 90s I would have loved it. Laurence Fishburne and Giancarlo Esposito are always great, Walken is almost always great. And the more I see Paul Calderón the more I like him. Robert LaSardo is also always good
August 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I finally watched King of New York; It was okay. I think if I had watched it in the 90s I would have loved it. Laurence Fishburne and Giancarlo Esposito are always great, Walken is almost always great. And the more I see Paul Calderón the more I like him. Robert LaSardo is also always good
I made dinner tonight. Had a lot of guidance from Natascha.
July 30, 2025 at 4:06 AM
I made dinner tonight. Had a lot of guidance from Natascha.
Finally getting to Whitehead’s Nickel Boys.
July 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Finally getting to Whitehead’s Nickel Boys.
Run the Jewels opening for Wu-Tang tonight. Went with the fam because Wu-Tang is for the children, and wife too.
July 2, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Run the Jewels opening for Wu-Tang tonight. Went with the fam because Wu-Tang is for the children, and wife too.
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The government’s own data shows that the real domestic threat to homeland security is white nationalism. No plans to expand the use of the national guard to control that.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday defended the Pentagon’s deployment of nearly 5,000 active-duty Marines and National Guard members to help the police in Los Angeles quell unrest — at an estimated cost of $134 million.
In House Testimony, Pete Hegseth Defends Deployment of Troops to Los Angeles
The defense secretary also suggested in his testimony to a House panel that the use of the National Guard for homeland defense would expand under President Trump.
trib.al
June 11, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The government’s own data shows that the real domestic threat to homeland security is white nationalism. No plans to expand the use of the national guard to control that.
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HAPPENING NOW: Protesters are not backing down in their clash with ICE agents over raid operations in the Los Angeles area
📍Paramount, CA
📍Paramount, CA
June 7, 2025 at 10:39 PM
HAPPENING NOW: Protesters are not backing down in their clash with ICE agents over raid operations in the Los Angeles area
📍Paramount, CA
📍Paramount, CA
The weekend’s readings
May 30, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The weekend’s readings
