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Good morning, Portland! Loving that cold weather? OPB says we might have just a ton of winter storms this year—but also we might not?
Anyway, here are the rest of the headlines!
(Rubs Hands Together) Now It’s Getting Good: The House will hold its first impeachment-related vote on Thursday, forcing each and every member of Congress to go on the record on the issue. They won’t actually be voting on whether to impeach yet; rather, they will be setting the terms for how the rest of the impeachment inquiry will play out. But it certainly feels like something.
Waldo Out: Rep. Greg Walden, Oregon’s only Republican in Congress, announced yesterday that he will not run for re-election in 2020. Walden, who represents much of Eastern Oregon, has a strong moderate record in DC. But he has so far stood by Trump during impeachment proceedings—perhaps he sees this as his most elegant exit option?
California Is Burning: Shout-out to the LA Times for suspending their paywall for fire coverage.
And in case you were wondering who is hit hardest by climate change:
Housekeepers show up to work in fire evacuation zones because their bosses neglected to tell them they evacuated https://t.co/p8SVvrGcXM
— Shani Olisa Hilton (@shani_o) October 28, 2019
In Santa Cruz, where power was out for days due to dangerous wind, Deseire Quintero was killed Sunday by a falling tree in the forest she moved to after organizing fellow homeless residents to fight eviction from their encampment. https://t.co/Fo6VeMjRQ9
— Lauren Hepler (@LAHepler) October 29, 2019
State Media Update: Fox & Friends, the morning news show that plays in the White House and in hell, recently ran a segment on homelessness in Portland—because, you know, it’s not like there are any journalists here doing smart, nuanced work on this issue. Anyway, it turns out Fox tricked a downtown shop employee into giving them the perfect soundbites for their simplistic narrative.
Halloween’s On Thursday! Some always-timely advice from NPR’s Code Switch: “If you have to ask yourself whether your costume is offensive, it likely is. And you don’t want to be the only one in on the joke.“
Legging Layoff: LuLaRoe, the multi-level marketing company scam that sells leggings by the truckload, plans to lay off 167 California warehouse employees. It’s nearing the end of a difficult road for the predatory, life-ruining company—if you want to learn more about the destruction these multi-level marketing schemes leave in their wake, I strongly suggest listening to podcast The Dream.
Sentence of the Day: “Despite being a memoir that rolls up its sleeves and digs into the finer points of intellectual property law, musician and activist Simon Tam’s prose has a fist-pumping, rock ’n’ roll romanticism that makes you wanna get up and kick things.”
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