The news is coming hot and fast this morning. Protect your face and neck.
Some of the aggrieved demonstrators who’ve spent the last two weeks marching through Portland streets, demanding justice for police abuses, will meet with Mayor Charlie Hales this afternoon. To what end? It’s unclear.
“We disagree with the tenets of the question. It does not deserve the dignity of a response.” Just one of the written answers City Commissioners Amanda Fritz and Nick Fish offered up to Portlanders very angry over the end of the city’s open-air drinking water reservoirs.
What do Portland and Vegas have in common? More than just a whole lot of slot machines. When the city sued popular rideshare service Uber yesterday, it took the same tack the State of Nevada used in September to halt the company’s intrusion.
Oregon’s GMO-labeling measure isn’t dead quite yet. Backers of Measure 92 have now sued, asking a judge to halt the recount process while they argue the state’s too loose in casting out perfectly valid ballots. The recount, as you might guess, didn’t look good for labeling.
Some guy keeps breaking into Northeast Portland’s Centaur Guitar via the roof. Hey, Centaur Guitar, maybe some alarm sensors on the roof?
As I write this, a Senate committee is about to make public an enormous report about the CIA’s torture tactics in the wake of September 11. That’s causing no end of heartburn, with Republicans—and Secretary of State John Kerry—warning the findings could lead to repercussions against Americans abroad. You can read the Guardian‘s live coverage here.
President Obama went on the Colbert Report last night, and signaled that the Keystone XL pipeline is, in his estimation, a bad idea. You know, because human-caused climate change exists and a massive oil pipe doesn’t help.
“AMEN!” says a drenched, imperiled Philippines.
Another thing the president needs to be focused on, his aides say: Some real, powerful sentiment around race relations in this country.
You’ve kept up with the talks around a new omnibus spending bill, so you know it’s expected to pass with minimal problems. Forget everything you know.
Here’s an interesting, long piece about three American teens who thought they’d run off and join ISIS.
I’m going to start including the time of the sunset in these things. It’ll be depressing for awhile, then hopeful and great, then depressing again. Like today.
Today’s sunset: 4:27 pm.
(Here’s the part of the day that’s hopeful and great. Sorry it’s so brief.)
Not to rehash this so long afterward but nobody has ever given me a satisfactory answer yet: Why is a voluntary “GMO-free” label not good enough?