Good morning, Portland. Here are some links to kick off your Memorial Day weekend.

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ICYMI, Gov. Kate Brown renewed a cease and desist order to Portland's notorious air polluter, Bullseye Glass.

Mayor Charlie Hales' chief of staff, Josh Alpert, is leaving to take a job with London-based nonprofit C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group.

The Oregonian has a good long piece on Oregon's complex civil commitment process.

Comic W. Kamau Bell's CNN show, United Shades of America, features Portland gentrification:

Much like lima beans on a child's plate, the black people of Portland are pushed from the center out to the edges, where there seems to be a childlike attempt to forget them. So in my M. Night Shyamalan movie about Portland, I'm walking around the well-laid-out streets muttering to myself, "I see no black people." And this is not an accident. The history of Oregon is partially the history of a state that legislated not wanting black people around.

The Tribune has a good piece on lobbying in Oregon.

In the New Yorker, a fun story on Korean pop star/anonymous Georgetown student Roy Kim:

Being Roy Kim is either remarkable or unremarkable, depending on the day, because Roy Kim is famous only in certain places. In South Korea, his face has appeared on billboards advertising Cass beer, and his fans, who call themselves Royroses, frequently propose marriage via Twitter. In Washington, D.C., he is an anonymous student, albeit an unusually handsome one, with perfect skin. On a recent spring day, he walked east into Georgetown the neighborhood from Georgetown the university, where he is a sophomore. He entered a café, ordered a coffee, drank it, and left, all without attracting attention. “In Seoul, or even in, like, Koreatown in L.A., this wouldn’t really be possible,” he said.

The New York Times goes inside recent TSA fuck ups.

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The biggest club soccer game of the year, the UEAFA Champions League final featuring Real Madrid and Athletico Madrid, kicks off shortly in Milan (coverage at 11 a.m. PST, kickoff 11:45).