nice demonic sojourn (2019)

 

Take the 75 to the end of the line

Walk like a civilized beast

There's dark horse comics

They really need some murals

But at least there's a few posters in Windows about hellboy

And the Wild Hunt

And escaping the cement labyrinth

And varied businesses to the river

Is easy if you

Have feet, wings, claws, dorsal fins,

Or a wheelymajig

The other end of the line is in st Johns

I can't recommend it

As strongly as there is no dark

Horse at which to apply

For an illustrious fantastical job

Nor is the river as clean

Being miles downstream and full of PCB

Demons 

"gypsy woman"

 "Gitane is a French manufacturer of bicycles based in Machecoul, France; the name 

 "Gitane" means gypsy woman.  

The brand was synonymous with French bicycle racing from the 1960s through the mid-1980s, " 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitane 

"Brunelière began making his own 0 in 1930, choosing the name Gitane (meaning "gypsy"  

 He added light motorcycles in the 1950s. The name changed to Micmo in 1960 but continued to sell Gitane bicycles. Nearly a third of Micmo was owned by Renault, the car-maker," 

"Riders on Gitanes included Lucien Van Impe, Bernard Hinault, Laurent Fignon and Greg LeMond, all winners of the Tour de France." 

****

"Gitane " 

is an album by American jazz bassist Charlie Haden and French gypsy jazz guitarist Christian Escoudé, 

 released in 1979. 

 Most of the album's compositions were written by guitarist Django Reinhardt." 

"Escoudé grew up in Angoulême and was of Romani descent on his father's side. His father was also a guitarist who was influenced by Django Reinhardt. 

 When Escoudé was ten, his father began teaching him the guitar, and he became a professional musician at age fifteen." 

"Charles Edward Haden

 (August 6, 1937 – July 11, 2014) was an American jazz double bass player, bandleader, composer and educator whose career spanned more than fifty years. 

 Haden helped to revolutionize the harmonic concept of bass playing in jazz, 

 evolving a style that sometimes complemented the soloist, and other times moved independently,

 liberating bassists from a strictly accompanying role." 

"the late 1950s, he was an original member of the ground-breaking Ornette Coleman Quartet." 

___

"Charlie's three daughters, triplets Petra, Tanya and Rachel, were born on October 11, 1971,

 and are all singers and instrumentalists. 

 All four children come from a previous relationship with Ellen David. 

Petra plays the violin, Rachel plays the piano and bass guitar, and Tanya, a visual artist, plays the cello.  

They have a band called The Haden Triplets and recorded their self-titled album in 2012. 

 Comedian, actor, and musician Jack Black is Charlie's son-in-law via Tanya." 

___ 

"The name Gitane, primarily a girl's name, has French and Spanish origins and is derived from the word "gitan," 

 meaning "gypsy" or referring to the Romani people.  

It carries connotations of a free spirit,

 wanderlust, 

 and a bohemian lifestyle, 

 often associated with flamenco and Romani culture. "  

"The name Gitana is a girl's name of Spanish origin meaning "traveller, Romani person". The Spanish travelling or Romani community are called Gitanos,

 and Gitana is the feminine word. The term evolved from the Old Spanish word egiptano "Egyptian" 

"In contemporary contexts, Gitane is used both as a name and as a cultural descriptor. It may appear in artistic expressions such as music, dance, and literature, often invoking themes of freedom and individuality.  

The term also exists in modern branding, particularly within the fashion and arts sectors, attracting those who identify with or romanticize the attributes historically attributed to the Romani culture. 

 However, the usage of Gitane can be contentious,

 as it necessitates sensitivity

 to the complexities of cultural appropriation

 and the diverse realities 

of the Romani people today."   

***

"The origin of the Romani people, to whom the name Gitane refers, is traced back to northern India. They migrated to Europe around the 14th century "

welfare state sharia oil/gas

 "Brunei has been led by Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah since 1967, and the country's unicameral legislature, 

the Legislative Council, is simply consultative and are all appointed by the Sultan.  

The country's wealth derives from its extensive petroleum and natural gas fields.

 Economic growth during the 1990s and 2000s has transformed Brunei into an industrialised country, with its GDP increasing 56% between 1999 and 2008. 

 Political stability is maintained by the House of Bolkiah by providing a welfare state for its citizens,  

with free or significant subsidies in regards to housing, healthcare and education. 

 It ranks "very high" on the Human Development Index (HDI)—the second-highest among Southeast Asian states after Singapore, " 

"In the country's full name, Negara Brunei Darussalam, darussalam (Arabic: دار السلام) means "abode of peace." 

"Areas comprising what is now Brunei participated in the Maritime Jade Road, as ascertained by archaeological research.  

The trading network existed for 3,000 years, 

between 2000 BC to 1000 AD." 

"Marco Polo suggested in his memoirs that the Great Khan or the ruler of the Mongol Empire, attempted and failed many times in invading "Great Java" which was the European name for Bruneian controlled Borneo." 

"In March 1578, a fresh Spanish fleet had arrived from Mexico and settled at the Philippines. They were led by De Sande, acting as Capitán-General. He organised an expedition from Manila for Brunei, consisting of 

 400 Spaniards and Mexicans, 1,500 Filipino natives, and 300 Borneans. 

The campaign was one of many, which also included action in Mindanao and Sulu

 The racial make-up of the Christian side was diverse since it were usually made up of Mestizos, Mulattoes and Amerindians (Aztecs, Mayans and Incans) 

 who were gathered and sent from Mexico and were led by Spanish officers who had worked together with native Filipinos in military campaigns across the Southeast Asia. 

 The Muslim side was also equally racially diverse. In addition to the native Malay warriors, the Ottomans had repeatedly sent military expeditions to nearby Aceh.

 The expeditions were composed mainly of Turks, Egyptians, Swahilis, Somalis, Sindhis, Gujaratis and Malabars. 

 These expeditionary forces had also spread to other nearby Sultanates such as Brunei and had taught new fighting tactics and

 techniques on how to forge cannons." 

"The British Malayan Petroleum Company (now Brunei Shell Petroleum Company) was formed on 22 July 1922. 

 The first offshore well was drilled in 1957." 

"The Japanese invaded Brunei on 16 December 1941, eight days after their attack on Pearl Harbor on the United States Navy.

They landed 10,000 troops of the Kawaguchi Detachment from Cam Ranh Bay at Kuala Belait. After six days' fighting, they occupied the entire country. " 

"Brunei gained its independence from the United Kingdom on  

1,  January 1984" 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunei 

October 2013, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah announced his intention to impose Penal Code from Sharia on the country's Muslims, which make up roughly two-thirds of the country's population. 

 This would be implemented in three phases, culminating in 2016, and making Brunei the first and 

 only country in East Asia

 to introduce Sharia into its penal code,

 excluding the subnational Indonesian special territory of Aceh. 

The move attracted international criticism, the United Nations expressing "deep concern". 

Myth

 "Born in Bodenwerder, Hanover, the real-life Münchhausen fought for the Russian Empire during the Russo-Turkish War of 1735–1739.  

After retiring in 1760, he became a minor celebrity within German aristocratic circles

 for telling outrageous tall tales based on his military career.  " 

The real-life Münchhausen was deeply upset at the development of a fictional character bearing his name, and threatened legal proceedings against the book's publisher. Perhaps fearing a libel suit, Raspe never acknowledged his authorship of the work, which was only established posthumously.

The fictional Baron's exploits, narrated in the first person, focus on his impossible achievements as a sportsman, soldier, and traveller; 

for instance: riding on a cannonball, fighting a forty-foot crocodile, and travelling to the Moon.  

Intentionally comedic, the stories play on the absurdity and inconsistency of Munchausen's claims, 

 and contain 

an undercurrent of social satire"   

"the Baltic German noble circles gentlemen tended to tell imaginative stories about hunting or war experiences." 

"rather than being considered a liar, Münchhausen was seen as an honest man.

As another contemporary put it, Münchhausen's unbelievable narratives were designed not to deceive, but "to ridicule the disposition for the marvellous which he observed in some of his acquaintances". 

"January 1794, Münchhausen married Bernardine Friederike Louise Brunsich von Brunn (1773-1839), a woman who was 

fifty-three years his junior. 

 Von Brunn reportedly became ill soon after the marriage and spent the summer of 1794 in the spa town of Bad Pyrmont, 

 although contemporary gossip claimed that she spent her time there dancing and flirting."

"At around the same time, English Review was less approving: "We do not understand how a collection of lies can be called a satire on lying, any more than the adventures of a woman of pleasure can be called a satire on fornication." 

According to an interview, Jules Verne relished reading the Baron stories as a child, and used them as inspiration for his own adventure novels. 

The Baron's notoriety is universal, his character proverbial, and his name as familiar as that of Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, or Robinson Crusoe."

Steven T. Byington wrote that "Munchausen's modest seat in the Valhalla of classic literature is undisputed",

 comparing the stories to American tall tales and concluding that the Baron is 

"the patriarch, the perfect model, the fadeless fragrant flower, of liberty from accuracy". 

Poetry is....Carl Sandburg

  

CHIPS, no bargaining

 " A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from  

withholding billions of dollars in transportation funds 

 from states that don’t agree to participate in some immigration enforcement actions." 

"wrote judge McConnell, adding that the states are “being put in a position of relinquishing their sovereign right to decide how to use their own police officers” 

 and are “at risk of losing the trust built between local law enforcement and immigrant communities”. 

My Way or The Highway, fascist GOP 

On every level, Fascist  

It isn't "agreement to participate", it's compliance with blackmail intimidation and racketeering, white house racketeering 

Asphalt, roads, pollution, trucks and Law

 "Paramount Petroleum Corporation was headquartered in Paramount, Los Angeles County, California.  It operated a refinery at that location, and was  

the largest seller of asphalt in California.  

Paramount also operated a refinery near Portland, Oregon, as well as several marketing terminals in the Western United States.  " 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_Petroleum

"Paramount had been a subsidiary of Alon USA, a publicly traded refining and marketing company (NYSE:ALJ), since 2006.

 The president of the company was Alan P Moret. 

The company was largely financed by two prominent multi billionaires of the United States.

Delek US acquired Alon USA in 2017."  

___ 

Industry:  Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing

Predecessor:   Petrofina, .

Alon USA Energy, Inc., 

 MAPCO Express, Lion Oil Company    

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delek_US 

"Delek US was founded in 2001 as a fully-owned subsidiary of 

 Israeli conglomerate Delek Group."  

Mergers

"May 2015: Acquired 33.7 million shares of common stock of Alon USA Energy, Inc, a subsidiary of Alon Israel Oil Co. Ltd. This represented approximately 48% of Alon USA shares outstanding in May 2015

July 2017: Acquired the remaining shares of common stock of Alon USA Energy, Inc. Operations included refining, retail, asphalt, and renewable fuel, including Paramount Petroleum."

"Fomento Económico Mexicano, S.A.B. de C.V., doing business as 

 FEMSA,  

is a Mexican multinational beverage and retail company headquartered in Monterrey, Mexico..

 It operates the largest independent Coca-Cola bottling group in the world  

and the largest convenience store chain in Mexico." 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delek_Group

Delek Group     (Hebrew: קבוצת דלק).

 is an Israeli holding conglomerate mainly operating in the petroleum industry. 

 Delek Group's largest subsidiary is Delek – The Israel Fuel Corporation,

 one of the largest chains of filling stations in Israel.  

Delek Group also owns E&P operations across the Levant,  

in the North Sea and in the Gulf of Mexico. 

 Beyond the oil industry, it also owns coffeehouse chain Café Joe as well as 70% of the Israeli franchisee of Burger King."

Delek Group was first founded as Delek – The Israel Fuel Corporation Ltd in 1951.

"In 2006 it introduced its United States subsidiary, Delek US, which owned the Tyler, Texas oil refinery and 349 retail stores, in the New York Stock Exchange..

 A decade later, Delek US merged with the U.S. subsidiary of another Israeli company, Alon Israel Oil Co."

"In August 2007, Delek Benelux took over marketing activities for Chevron Global Energy Inc. in Benelux, including 869 fueling stations, mostly under the Texaco brand.

 The same month, Delek Israel's Delek Pi-Glilot, a fuel storage and distribution company operating in Ashdod, Jerusalem and Beersheba, won a Government Companies Authorities tender to run the fuel storage facilities in Ashdod..

 A few months later in November, they announced the hiring of former police commissioner Moshe Karadi to run Delek Pi-Glilot. had recently resigned.  

Gabi Last, former commissioner and commander of the Tel Aviv Central District, has been chairing Delek Group for several years. On January 1, 2020, Idan Wallance became Delek's new CEO."  

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Involvement in Israeli settlements 

"On 12 February 2020, the United Nations published a database of 112 companies

 helping to further Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank,

 including East Jerusalem, as well as in the occupied Golan Heights. 

 These settlements are considered illegal under international law. 

 Delek was listed on the database on account of its "provision of services and utilities supporting the maintenance and existence of settlements" and  

"the use of natural resources, in particular water and land, for business purposes" in these occupied territories.

On 5 July 2021, 

 Norway's largest pension fund.

 KLP said it would divest from Delek together with 15 other business entities implicated in the UN report for their links to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank."  

 

"The conservative-dominated supreme court voted 

 by seven to two 

 to back a challenge by oil and gas companies, 

 along with 17 Republican-led states, 

 to a waiver that California has received periodically from the federal government 

 since 1967  

that allows it to set tougher standards than national rules limiting pollution from cars. 

"Moshe Karadi (Hebrew: משה קראדי; born 1960) is a former Israeli police officer and 

 general commissioner of the Israel Police between 2004 and May 1, 2007." 

____ 

"Liberal Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented from the decision".....but not Kentanji Brown.  She sided with pollution, Republicans, industry, fascism, and death to California breathers and citizens and Environment 

"While the supreme court has now clarified who has grounds to bring a challenge to court, the decision does not affect California’s bedrock legal authority to adopt pollution safeguards" 

Delek Group Israel Oil Company et al 

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* * * 

the nest gets bigger every day as the bird shaped movie star

takes every twig from the tree until only a toothpick

holds up the daydream he has made

a definition of unsustainability look like a cakewalk rigged with cakes

the cakes go every direction one can imagine

it is a real mirage

the nest glows with frosting, the diva has a party of one

its huge. he goes to work, and escapes as the salty sailor

he puts the nest in storage in a cloud

he finds the boat over where the water starts

he gets in the boat named after his favorite storm and grinds up the starter

his anchor is encrusted with valentine candy and seals

don't want to let go----they're heavy enough to sink us!

he reekingly cries in overstatement deluxe.

the actual Poseidon intervenes,

arriving on a seahorse named dolly with flames of nostril exhaust.

the sea lions consider taking on the lord of the sea

and say nope by flipping away with candy powered flops

the salty sailer gives Poseidon a hug

as the god recoils from his lacquerd smell of Land

as the ship clears the harbor the salty sailor swells up like a pufferfish

connected to a pneumatic machine run by ocean power

the sea says hello to the sailor

another day making dolphin jokes and carving narwhale trophies 

* * * 

sleeping in a sweet pile of kittens

a kitten so small

it got buried and lost

the mama found it and took it aside

with little licks

it was all better

it mewed and had milk

life made it happy

it slept and got carried

it never opened its mew in anger

it left it in the bottom

of the pile under the sweet sisters

and brothers it stayed warm with in their relativistic

digression toward modernistic analogies

involving non kitten philosopy

and cute trite tactical purrs

a kitten so small

it found a lion's share 

* * * 

angelfish eating daffodil salads, how random.

they're everywhere these days, the salad palaces we call them.

around every fishbowl on every street in american random.

raccoons try to say hello to the angelfish

but of course, don't get eaten or mauled was the golden rule

under the big dark rock. more dressing for the salad!

the bitterness calls for angel-honey

next time, give the raccoon a chance 

* * * 

skunk and toad and sallymander went on a rollercoaster

made of a a leaf stitched to a pine needle

it didn't work they waited to frolick to no avail

but had a great philosophical discussion

on the best kind of weather:    dry, or wet.

toad says i love windy weather when i'm around skunk

skunk says i love wet weather to keep toad from looking like a gross rock

sallymander says i love weather whether weather seems or knots

and made the rollercoaster real

it was called The Seasons in a dream before the machines took over

and grew the nature all down 

2017 

From stories for d'arte kids

tidbit teasers (2017)

 tidbit teaser

rabbit rode out on a train to meet the mallard delgates

there by the Of Course Lake

near a colosseum made of mallard wishbones

and wattle and daub assorted-styrofoam boat seats

they were convening to party like mockstar

quite frankly, and share grog of peat juice

their favorite coloboration

selling well in liverpool and quebec too

when along came fox in his auto mobile

wearing a scrappy smirk and a bib

"hey fellahs need a lift"

"quack off and bite my long ears" they told Fox

he puttered off over a cliff with no impact

and rabbit and mallard entered the great colosseum

filled with giant carrot sculptures and lilly pad sofas

it was a rollicking good party

they wagered and indian leg wrestled sealed handshakes in spit and hugged,

it was a partnership of groggy prominence

and unstoppable sales potential. at the end

rabbit hopped off home under the grounds of a thousand trees

and mallard took wing with hundreds of others

to galaxies of water and nibble fish and even muskrat

                                                              is nice on thursdays 

* * *  

tiny leopards do enormous leaps off an endless tree

they land so softly the ground signs a check

to mother nature, gravity makes marble dust freeze in time

                                                                    tiny leopards do that. 

* * * 

mice do their business down by the baseboard

under the sink and lick the dripwater and

do harvest dances wearing the regalia of their ancestors

and hold sunday school with free lunches and boxes of bellyjeans

mice form unions mice go sing bawdy songs mice

                                                             mice mice mice 

* * * 

terminator the worm gnawed a hole

thru the gas can and went to bed over a painted lovely sponge

there was moonlight thru the rustholes

he could hear cricket playing fiddle down in the bog

he could see the shadow of egret

he could be more still than an unrustable love

he could hope to go visit the full moon of no fear

or grow some wings if he was that kind of worm

and not the intergalactic robot kind

sent here to run for office, very slowly, and only

by rolling there in an okie-gypsy can 

* * * 

recall ye the salty old sailor and his unspeakable prowess

on the seas of most of his life never barfing

only barking orders thru waves of sloshy ocean stuff

at men men men used to taking it

with a smile and splinter remedy of octopi tears

they were setting net for the

gold mermaids however politically wrong that may seem now

recall the salty old sailor was a classic jerk

with insatiable prowess of which the gold mermaid

reluctantly and nervously dealt with

by stealing his sardines

what they were good at was ship wreck hoards, so

the salty sailor would sign them up

for the tycoons on land too busy with hunting or war or football

who would escort the mermaids in their own

submersibles of fortune hunting caricatures

the salty sailor wanted nothing to do with anything but the

sea, but ya gots to pay the piper he says and

the accordions go wild and stupid stunts land blows

they sleep like dogs in a pile of rocking boat water

mermaids prefer to swim alongside,

telling their romantic tales and warning of octopi fans

in the mall and around strange sturgeons

but the salty sailor he has told them the nightmare to boil ya in shivers

                                                                                 make yer eyelids go peely

                                                                  have ya a blister on the nose from

                                                   laughting up a tornado of slobber

                        while learning ya the betters

if ya'd only soak it in 

( thats a tough sell) but nature makes it. 

* * * 

they were tweenage minks, looking for trouble in rainbow land

they had a truck of hot candy at the ballgame

they sold it for a thousand gazillion double helix sand dollars

they bought mink coats for their friends

everyone was their friend

they all looked like

successful

minks, as you can imagine. slender, regal, and bathed in rainbows

they made music videos, they got old and wrinkled,

they became philosophers and said really odd things

but the rainbows had permanently colored their eyes

they were So Beautiful

that is why they became President. 

2017

From,  stories for d'arte kids

oil prices rose 15%

  

"turmoil could even prove helpful for Russia, at least in the short term.  

Russian oil prices rose 15% following the outbreak of the conflict.  

More critically, it distracts from the war in Ukraine, which has already been sidelined as Trump cancelled a June 17 meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to focus on the Middle East (profiteering opportunity"  )

https://time.com/7295939/russia-iran-israel-us-war-nuclear-catastrophe-trump-putin-khamenei/

Budget goes to Hive NationSkateparks

  

"The bureau is in a difficult place. More and more of its assets are aging and failing each year, and  

parks leaders ( crows, squirrels, people in suits with Range Rovers)

 have warned that if voters don’t approve a  

doubling of the existing Parks Levy  

on the November ballot, parks will be forced  

to slash a quarter of its programming  

and decommission even more of its assets." 

 

" We're going to log Forest Park."  

Lots of threats, zero information or expenditure facts.  

____ 

*Several new skateparks are planned or under construction in Portland, Oregon. The Steel Bridge Skatepark,  

a $15 million project, is planned for the Old Town neighborhood near the Steel Bridge. 

 Additionally, a new skatepark is being planned for  Creston Park in Southeast Portland, with construction anticipated to begin in Fall 2025.  

Berrydale Park in Southeast Portland is also undergoing a transformation that includes a new skatepark, with construction underway and completion expected in Summer 2025. " 

There roughly $25 million for an activity 

Ages 10-45. And upkeep, wear tear graffiti removal, drug tobacco alcohol use, and all the fine culture Skaters bring to the great outdoors 

Loud boom boxes; pines and fir trees love that.  

Just tear down the Burnside Bridge DIY skate Park in SE, Hive Nation will need parking for their cars cars cars down by the Hawthorne bridge. 

fir ever (2020)

 it's such the beautiful night

I'm glad you're here with me

to witness the silouette trees

and their stark bends

against city lights below

where a traffic hum

a mile distant washes this hammock 

in a solitude we share

now fir ever 

November 17, 2020

he tied an NFL record (with Paddy Driscoll) of 4 drop-kicked field goals in a single game.

  

'he tied an NFL record (with Paddy Driscoll) of 4 drop-kicked field goals in a single game."

  

"Bloodgood made his professional debut in the NFL playing two years with the Kansas City Cowboys in 1925–1926.  

He was listed as a back with jersey number 23. 

On December 12, 1926, against the Duluth Eskimos 

 he tied an NFL record  

(with Paddy Driscoll) of 4 drop-kicked field goals in a single game." 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Bloodgood

Michael Hurley, last Chance Barn dance, 2009

  

Michael Hurley 2009 Last Chance Barndance

  snock at last chance barndance

https://youtu.be/fARMYa_b4Hc

Michael Hurley

David Reisch 

Forest Bloodgood 

forest/bloggod  * note

I made the video, edited adding lyrics text

That appears as the song, Jocko, is sung

By Michael "Snock" Hurley 

I don't recall who exactly held my phone

To record/video as we played 

Maybe Jesse Spero 

Glad it got done 

RIP Hurley 

Trout Lake Washington 2009

Open arms fascist blowhole

  

'The Greedy stops here 

These neon slaves, meat for my fascist belly 

See my reach? Tiny hands, 

Constant consumption." 

___ 

Hong Kong 2

Singapore 1

Other 337 

 

Soon after the pic of Fascist, 

Other is digging my trash 

Yum, yum  

____ 

New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock social media profiles

"Diplomats to look for  

‘indications of hostility 

 towards citizens,  

culture 

 or founding principles of United States’ 

____ 

And Maga is the arbiter of that?

Gun Thug Ice Bigot Fascist Cowards

  

"At Downey Memorial Christian church on Thursday, officers reportedly arrested a man in the parking lot 

then pointed a gun at senior pastor Tanya Lopez

 when she questioned why they were arresting him.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/18/los-angeles-faith-leaders-ice-raid

The sanctuary status that churches have long held is increasingly under threat..

 In January, the Trump administration overturned a 2011 policy that limited migrant arrests at “sensitive locations” like 

 schools, hospitals and churches.  

A month later, more than two dozen Christian and Jewish groups sued the administration over the policy change, but 

 a federal judge sided with the president." 

Get a Leash, now

  

No more warnings: 

 Portland will issue tickets for off-leash dogs in on-leash areas 

Updated: Jun. 16, 2025,  

The party is over in Portland for dog owners who are used to letting their dogs off-leash in parks where they are required to be leashed.

Portland Parks and Recreation Park rangers have had the ability to cite people who allow their dogs off-leash in areas dogs must be on a leash since 2013, but those rangers have been required to issue a warning before the citation 

City Law requires dogs to always be on a leash except in off-leash areas, and their waste must be disposed of. Off-leash areas are designated by the city.

It’s the dogs roaming freely in places they shouldn’t be that causes a problem.

“Dog off-leash issues are a top concern for many community members all across the city,” said a press release from the parks department Monday. 

 “These policy changes will help keep our parks safe and clean for all park visitors, and make sure they are welcoming for everyone.”

According to the release, the new policy is already in effect, and rangers are working on  

According to the release,  

the new policy is already in effect,  

and rangers are working on educating the public."

fascist Ice Trump Nazis

  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/17/brad-lander-arrested-new-york-city-comptroller 

Lander appeared at 26 Federal Plaza to observe immigration hearings involving individuals marked for potential deportation.

He was arrested, 

 according to video footage of the incident, as he and his staff walked with an immigrant who was being seized by federal agents. Earlier in the day,  

the immigrant had their case dismissed pending appeal, per AMNY." 

___

"The people in charge don’t just fight Republicans, they fight anybody who challenges them,” Hornedo said.  

“That’s not democracy, that’s machine politics 

"When George Hornedo, 34, was still deciding whether to run in the Democratic primary for Indiana’s seventh congressional district against 

 longtime incumbent André Carson, a party elder looked him in the eyes and said:  

“You are gonna get hurt.”.

goon checklist

  

"Friends and former colleagues interviewed by The Associated Press described Vance Luther Boelter, the man accused of killing Hortman and her husband, as 

 a devout Christian 

 who attended an evangelical church 

 and went to campaign rallies for Trump. 

 Records show Boelter registered to vote as a Republican  

while living in Oklahoma in 2004 

 before moving to Minnesota, where voters don’t list party affiliation." 

 https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-lawmakers-killed-congress-violence-1e6a061c4265b0136ebb058a2777b85f

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"There’s no place for political violence ever. And the rhetoric — words matter.”  

devout=fanatical .

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"A journalist who lost his job at ABC News after describing top White House aide Stephen Miller as someone .

“richly endowed with the capacity for hatred”  

has said he published that remark on social media because he felt it was “true”.

“It was something that was in my heart and mind,” the network’s former senior national correspondent Terry Moran said Monday on The Bulwark political podcast.  

“And I would say I used very strong language deliberately.”

  

Rock School Decemberists

  

"In addition to drumming for the Decemberists, Blumberg was a member of many Portland-based indie bands, 

including Sissyface, Boycrazy, Norfolk & Western, the Minders (briefly) and M. Ward's backing band.

She spent most of 2007 lending her drumming and singing talents to the touring Omaha indie band Bright Eyes on the Four Winds and Cassadaga tour. 

 In 2007 and early 2008, she recorded new records with Norfolk & Western, M. Ward, and.

 Jolie Holland.

Blumberg has recorded with Providence, Rhode Island, band the Low Anthem and performed with Califone, Death Vessel, and Honeybunch. She has performed her own music under the monikers Manzanita and Arch Cape."  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Blumberg

In addition to drums and singing, she plays ukulele, banjo, accordion, piano, and other various stringed, electronic and percussion instruments.

Blumberg has taught for many years at Portland, Oregon's.

 Rock and Roll Camp for Girls 

 and its Girls Rock! Rhode Island offshoot 

"Blumberg makes music videos using stop motion animation and a variety of other techniques including 

 painting, collage, and puppetry.  

Notable videos she has directed include "Dry Town (Demo)" by Gillian Welch, and "Jules and Jim" by Nada Surf"  

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petra_Haden 

"She is the daughter of the jazz bassist Charlie Haden and Ellen David,  and is the  

triplet sister  

of bassist Rachel Haden  

(her bandmate in that dog.) and.

 cellist Tanya Haden  

(married to singer and actor Jack Black); 

 She is the daughter of the jazz bassist Charlie Haden and Ellen David, 

and is the  

triplet sister 

 of bassist Rachel Haden (her bandmate in that dog.) and cellist Tanya Haden (married to singer and  

actor Jack Black); 

Haden has been a member of That Dog, Tito & Tarantula,  

The Decemberists, and If by Yes.

"Over the course of her career, Haden has contributed to recordings by Bill Frisell, The Twilight Singers, Beck, Mike Watt, Luscious Jackson, Sun Kil Moon, Foo Fighters, Green Day, Weezer, The Rentals, Victoria Williams, Yuka Honda, The Gutter Twins, Sunn O))), Cornelius and the Nick Haywood Trio." 

2014, they released their first vocal album together, The Haden Triplets produced by Ry Cooder on Jack White's Third Man Records and it collects stripped-down, old-time country songs from the Carter Family, Bill Monroe, the Stanley Brothers, Webb Pierce, Kitty Wells, and the Louvin Brothers.

Magical Shit Display

 

  Sadistic Fascist GOP going to help cancer

Spread, eat your democrat blue 

Lungs, fought Vietnam for Coke inc.

Sadistic Republicans gonna let the VA deny

Dopes and babies who'd you vote for

sports bar palliative camo

   "I just felt like I needed to do it, para mi gente"

Finger on the pulse of progressive city,

Says middle bird is molting

Everyone looks the same not quite accurate

However poor look poor, homeless look shabby, sport fans look preppy, business reek of business, old school hippy look a bit of any at a given time

Stem the soul leaking away

Put an amazon barcode on the protest delivery

Music not all dead but tipping is

Everyone got a band or their kids band

Or is streaming free better glossy sounds

Jug bands threw the jug in the recycle

Bin lest they be humiliated 

Finger on pulse

Asks first

Lest it get ghosted blacklisted and doxxed

Didn't the clash say something apt, 

Know your rights 

Our soul has right to bleed out into 

Conformity, that why welcome arms california meets vermont meets texas 

Sports bar world crows top of heap

Uniting , however hunting democrats hunting

Immigrants or migrants, hunting intellectuals, hunting temporarily pregnant women, hunting hunters, none of this puts one on a proper footing for any future

There is a higher road

It leads back to water

Water leads to ocean past those dams

Build them, tear them down

String up a psycho killer

That's forever counterproductive 

This day and age, having leaned better 

Not that Thou Shalt Not Kill ever mattered

To team leader or

Their gang  

.

"International sporting events, spectacles of recreation designed to distract people from their day-to-day lives, are cultural and political branding opportunities for their hosts." 

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/jun/16/fifa-trump-club-world-cup

"Watch the Dodgers tell me I can’t sing the Spanish Star Spangled Banner that Roosevelt literally commissioned in 1945 – so I did it anyway.” 

 The video shows an apparent conversation with the Dodgers staff member. “We are going to do the song in English today, so I don’t know if that wasn’t translated – er, 

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/jun/16/nezza-national-anthem-dodgers communicated,” the employee says.".

Another Sunday salad

  " term "forest bloodgood" likely refers to the Bloodgood Japanese Maple (Acer palmatum \'Bloodgood\'), a popular cultivar known for its vibrant, dark red foliage and rounded, deciduous tree form. It's a popular choice for land fiddle and grifting, grafting, drifting, drafting.". Artificial Ignorance.  

 

two bags of spinach

One bag of sorrel 

One bunch of red Russian kale 

3.5 oz of organic sprouts  

Farmer's Market Fathers day bounty   

____ 

"Ridley has stated that while growing up, her favourite film was Matilda (1996), 

 referring to the titular character (played by Mara Wilson) as a role model. 

 While not a particularly strong Star Wars fan as a youth, she dedicatedly followed the Harry Potter series. " 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Ridley

Broke

  

"City Budget Office said that would break down to $27 million less for parks,  

$22 million less for sewer and stormwater, 

 $10 million less for transportation  

and $4 million less for water over the three years." 

But Parks will spend how many millions on skateparks, anyways. 

Break a leg, kids.

Hurt sales, World's largest Evil Lego

 "Boelter is also listed as the chief executive of the DR Congo-based Red Lion Group, whose website has since been taken down. Archived pages show the Red Lion Group’s involvement in various industrial projects, including  

 oil refining, glass production and logging." .

 

"Soldiers dressed in first world war uniforms.   $47 million in costumes."

https://www.pguards.net/leadership-team 

"Dr. Vance Boelter has been involved with security situations in Eastern Europe, Africa, North America and the Middle East, including the West Bank, Southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. 

 He brings a great security aspect forged by both many on the ground experiences combined with training by both private security firms and by 

 people in the U.S. Military. 

  He has worked for the largest U.S. oil refining company, . 

"Donald Trump salutes at the parade. He shakes, wipes, with same Nazi shit fingers "

the world's largest food company based in Switzerland  

and the world's largest convenience retailer based in Japan"  

(Go get Jenny and Todd)   

'Trump was reportedly warned by his agriculture secretary, Brooke Rollins, that farmers – a key Republican-supporting constituency – were concerned that 

 Ice enforcement would affect their businesses.

The Wall Street Journal reported last week that businesses were being hurt because sweeps of non-criminal foreign workers were driving changes in shopping behavior. .

The outlet cited a 3% drop in Coca-Cola’s sales volume over the first three months of the year, in part because of a pullback by Hispanic shoppers. 

 

 Hulk and Rocky Horror Socialist Girl.

Colgate-Palmolive, Modelo brewer Constellation Brands, and restaurant chains including Wingstop and El Pollo Loco have also said that decreased spending by Hispanic consumers had hurt sales.

“We have seen a huge decline in traffic,” 

Régis Schultz, CEO of JD Sports, the parent company of the Hispanic-targeting 

 Shoe Palace retail chain, told analysts in May. “You can see definitively the impact” of the immigration policy, he added."

amongst others

"Glyphid Praetorian, an acid-spitting creature in the cooperative first-person shooter video game Deep Rock Galactic"  

"Additionally, two Newberg vineyard workers were arrested by ICE on Thursday and earlier this month, ICE made four different arrests outside a Portland Immigration Courthouse.  

Two of those detainees were later released from ICE custody after lawyers with 

 the Innovation Law Lab filed a habeas corpus petition to challenge the arrests." 

"One of Boelter’s friends reportedly said that he opposed abortion and 

 supported Trump in the 2024 election" 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/14/ice-arrests-migrants-trump-figures

"Between early January, right before the inauguration, and June,  

there has been an

 807% increase in the arrest of immigrants with no criminal record."  

 

Murderer at large Trump agent cosplay

"As the Guardian reported this month, on 31 May, top Ice managers instructed officers throughout the country to  

“turn the creative knob up to 11” 

 to increase arrests. The internal Ice emails reviewed by the Guardian show officers were told to interview and potentially arrest “collaterals”, meaning people coincidentally present during an arrest."

Organizations are challenging the Trump administration’s increasing efforts to salute sex criminal rapists at immigration courts.

"Dope and Babies" shit finger kremlin tie.

"In Florida, Republican governor Ron DeSantis said that people could legally run over protesters with their cars if they were surrounded.  .

“You don’t have to sit there and just be a sitting duck and let the mob grab you out of your car and drag you through the streets.

"Last week, Innovation Law Lab, a legal organization that represents immigrants in civil rights cases, filed a suit against the Trump administration in Oregon to block the practice of courthouse arrest"

"Harvard’s Crowd Counting Consortium, which tracks political crowds, found that there had been three times as many protests by the end of March 2025 compared to 2017" 

 

"Officials said Brooklyn Park police arrived at Hortman's home around 3:35 a.m. and found a police SUV with emergency lights on. 

 The suspect then exited Hortman's home and exchanged gunfire with officers before  

fleeing on foot. " 

Bible old fat white man, huh.

No Kings

  

Birds and Bees

 Use your heart, mind, creativity

Draw on an endless source of caring

That got you here

You may feel a bit out of sorts

That's because you're good and world is not

If you're an artist use art

You can still find a living

Making food, being a caregiver, welding or cleaning something, fixing something 

The tool called a smart phone

That supercomputer

It did not exist 

There were birds and bees, then 

 

  

Where Mesa was born, SE Davis and 24th 

Kitten healing

 

 

Bro

 

 

 

Democratic-Farmer-Labor party

  

"Minnesota’s governor, Tim Walz, said in a statement on Saturday morning that he was briefed on the “ongoing situation” in the suburbs of 

 Champlin and Brooklyn Park, 

 both of which are in the Minneapolis metropolitan area."  

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"The DFL controls four of Minnesota's eight U.S. House seats, both of its U.S. Senate seats, the Minnesota Senate, and all other statewide offices, including the governorship, making it the dominant party in the state.  

Its main political rival is the Republican Party of Minnesota."

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The Guardian says:

The shootings took place at a time when political violence has become more commonplace in the US, though the vast majority of Americans do not support it,

However, if you support Trump, Maga, The GOP, Republican Party....you do support political violence, racial violence, violence against women, violence against the environment and Nature. Fascist violence .

_

'The Champlin area was first settled when Father Louis Hennepin, a Franciscan priest from whom Hennepin County gets its name, Michael Accult, and Peter Dulay were captured by Lakota Indians. An Indian trading post was later established in the area. Charles Miles created the first permanent settlement in what came to be named Marshall Township. 

In 1859, it was split into two towns, Champlin and Dayton.

Champlin's name came from U.S. Navy Commodore Stephen Champlin.  

He was active in the war against England and Canada in 1812 and in the establishment of the Canadian–United States boundary. 

 He died in 1870 in Buffalo, New York. "

"On August 30, 1853, Stephen Champlin's daughter, Eliza Ellen Champlin, married John B. Cook, a partner of Minnesota's Alexander Ramsey. Cook never resided in Champlin, but he was involved in real estate transactions there and in its incorporation. In 1947, part of the former Champlin Township was incorporated to form the village of Champlin, and on January 2, 1971, as the result of a petitioned order from the Minnesota Municipal Commission, Champlin Township and the village of Champlin consolidated to form the city of Champlin." 

____ 

"Two Minnesota lawmakers have been shot in their separate homes.

Local news stations identified the victims as state senator John Hoffman and state representative Melissa Hortman. Both are members of the  

Democratic-Farmer-Labor party. " 

Important members of the party have included Humphrey and Walter Mondale, 

 who each went on to be United States senators, vice presidents of the United States, and unsuccessful Democratic nominees for president;  

Eugene McCarthy, a U.S. senator who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968 as an anti-Vietnam War candidate; 

 Paul Wellstone, a U.S. senator from 1991 to 2002 who became an icon of populist progressivism; 

Amy Klobuchar, a U.S. senator who ran for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020;

 Dean Phillips, a U.S. representative who ran for the Democratic nomination for president in 2024;

 and Tim Walz, two-term governor chosen as Kamala Harris' running mate in the 2024 presidential election.[17]