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Good morning, Portland! Here are some things to know today:
Pedal Thru: You know what would make a Crunchwrap Supreme® taste better? IF YOU COULD ORDER IT ON BIKE. A new change to Portland’s city code allows bicyclists and pedestrians to access drive-thru windows—expanding the privilege of late-night snacks to those without a car. This also applies to any retail business that has an outdoor service window.
A Domestic Terrorist Comes Home Oregon’s own anti-abortion terrorist—known for firebombing local abortion clinics and trying to kill an abortion doctor in the ’90s—has moved from prison to a halfway house in the PNW. She’s shown no remorse. As her November release date looms, local abortion providers and advocates try to prepare.
For Those About to Rock (Please Get Off My Plane): A Delta flight from Portland to Atlanta made an emergency landing in Tulsa yesterday after an “unruly passenger” wouldn’t stop dancing in his seat and singing loudly along with his music. He told a flight attendant she “would regret it” if she continued to ask him to settle down. Yep, that’s when you land the plane.
Do Better, Amtrak: The parents of Aaron Salazar, the gay Portland State University Student found seriously injured alongside Amtrak rails in Northern California, say Amtrak’s investigation into their son’s trauma is a “smear campaign.”
Today in Public Schools Chaos: Portland Public Schools parents are pissed after PPS announced it’ll be squeezing two schools under the same roof, unfairly pitting gifted and talented students against low income/underserved students in Southeast Portland. Before a public school meeting last night, PPS parents filed a lawsuit against the district.
Today in Private School Chaos: A Portland private school has refused to let its students compete against another private school in athletics because the latter won’t enroll students with LGBT parents.
ACA is Here to Stay: Virginia is a fews steps away from becoming the 33rd state to expand Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act. Four state Senate Republicans crossed party lines yesterday to vote alongside Democrats in favor of the expansion—allowing 400,000 Virginians living on the edge of poverty to access health care (and sending a delightful “fuck you” to anti-Obamacare hardliners).
Premeditation in Parkland: Florida state prosecutors released cell phone videos yesterday of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
shooter Nikolas Cruz describing his plans to murder students and staff, taken before Cruz did just that. They’re unsurprisingly terrifying, which is why I won’t watch them—but you do you.
Things Trump and I Agree On: Donald Trump wants to make sure we know he made a terrible choice in picking Jeff Sessions to be his Attorney General.
….There are lots of really good lawyers in the country, he could have picked somebody else!” And I wish I did!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 30, 2018
Surprising No One: Texas’ Gov. Greg Abbott has decided the solution to school shootings is arming teachers and increasing local police patrols on campus. Oh, and screening students’ personal social media accounts. Good one, dude.
Tomato, Tomahto: You know what’s better than North Korea giving up its nuclear weapons? North Korea opening a Western hamburger restaurant in Pyongyang! Or, at least this is the deal Kim Jong Un is graciously willing to make.
And, Your Grand Finale: HARVEY WEINSTEIN HAS BEEN INDICTED on two counts of rape and one count of criminal sexual acts. If convicted, he faces up to 25 years in prison—a paltry sentence for his vile acts of manipulation and abuse, but… it’s something.
Now, here’s Miss Peanut.
THEY PUT OUR SCHOOL’S THERAPY DOG IN THE YEARBOOK pic.twitter.com/FYHMMcqddB
— Tinker Elle (@elle91) May 29, 2018
