Good morning, Portland. There are no weak links here.
Want to find a Twitter account that both liberals and conservatives rant at? Well, look no further than Mayor Ted Wheeler. We looked through @tedwheeler's Twitter mentions for the entirety of 2017 and, yikes, it's pretty terrible (he gets called a "cuck" pretty frequently). Here are the best/worst of them.
Our Josh Jardine interviewed the coordinator of the city's cannabis program about smoking in non-residential places in Portland.
Some news we reported yesterday afternoon: "A former Reed College student says he had a sexual relationship with his professor and that the school wasn't accommodating enough to him after his mental health allegedly deteriorated because of the professor's subsequent 'rejection of him as a lover' and 'rejection' of his work for her as a research assistant."
Speaking of lawsuits, a conductor and passenger sued Amtrak for the deadly December 18 derailment of a Portland-bound train in Washington, the Oregonian reports.
Fuck this guy: "Attorney General Jeff Sessions is rescinding the Obama-era policy that had paved the way for legalized marijuana to flourish in states such as Oregon, two people with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press. Sessions will instead let federal prosecutors where pot is legal decide how aggressively to enforce federal marijuana law, the people said."
Knock it off, earth. "A series of earthquakes struck near Mount St. Helens early Wednesday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey," the O reports. "A 3.9-magnitude quake first struck northeast of the famed southwest Washington peak at 12:36 a.m. People reported feeling the quake in Portland, Seattle and elsewhere."
In the Portland Tribune: "State auditors say that a backlog in permits and inspections at the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality 'endanger the state's air quality and the health of Oregonians.'"
Noted immoral asshole and Trump surrogate Sheriff David Clarke, this David Clarke, was invited by Oregon Liberty Alliance, a conservative group, to headline the 2018 Freedom Rally. He's really, really bad and dumb.
I should take time out of opening a can of tweet rear-end whoopinâ on the LYING LIB MEDIA and their liberal goons and thank them for that FAKE NEWS story they perpetrated on me. It RE-ENERGIZED me! As if I needed that.đ
My hat drives them bat-crap crazy! pic.twitter.com/agbjFWD9lz
â David A. Clarke, Jr. (@SheriffClarke) December 31, 2017
Everybody on Twitter will be talking about this today:
Wolff on Trumpâs aides: âmy indelible impression of talking to them and observing them through much of the first year of his presidency, is that they all â 100 percent â came to believe he was incapable of functioning in his job.â https://t.co/PNCuMmyFYt
â John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) January 4, 2018
This cease and desist letter to Michael Wolff and his publisher is a serious escalation in Trump's war against media outlets... https://t.co/ufc5DeDBL2 https://t.co/AL8o7hAAW0
â Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 4, 2018
This is so bad.
Tucker Carlson guest literally says he told a black woman who experienced racism that she should walk a mile in a white womans shoes before passing judgement
I just can't pic.twitter.com/5O6ybA8duj
â Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) January 4, 2018