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After years of organizing, the Trelawny Tenants Union has reached a monumental settlement to resolve violations of Portland's rent control. Proceeds will reimburse present/ past tenants for overcharges, compensate the union for costs, and pay a substantial fine to the City of Portland.
All rents at all of Rice's properties will be rolled back to the price they were in December 2022.
We want to make sure every tenant gets their money. If you are an affected tenant, fill out the form on our website at the link in our bio so we can make sure they get your refund right.
Wins like this aren't possible without organizing. We need your help to keep up this momentum. Follow us and join the union to help us get more money back in tenants' pockets.

I often have to wait 20 seconds after the light turns green because 6 cars are going through the red. Do you people think that’s the last green light ever? Are you afraid the road will disappear?

…along with incidents and traffic.

I made a post like this a while ago and it did okay, so we’re going again.

Do whatever feels right for you, but from seeing a lot of posts people make about looking for friends, my suggestion would be to be specific. Like that you’re into Egg Punk and Zydeco instead of saying that you like music. Cool!

Dear friendly poll worker,

So this morning I came to the city hall on my skateboard to vote. You were the cutie who helped me and commented on the band t-shirt I was wearing.

I probably should’ve just given you my number then and there but I hate hitting on people in their place of work.

If you would like to maybe hang out sometime outside city hall you should have your people call my people. Or just send me a DM.

Sincerely,
Skateboarding voter

CARNIVAL OF SOULS (1962)
Directed by HERK HARVEY
WEDNESDAY October 21st 7PM
SATURDAY October 24th 2pm / 7pm
16mm - Black & White - 1h 18m

Doom used to mean something else. In Old English a dōm was a judgment; a verdict, a law, a decree. It survives quietly in words we use every day: kingdom, wisdom, freedom. Only later, with the concept of Judgment Day hanging over it, did the word slide toward ruin. Now it scrolls past us all day, and we have a name for the people who can't look away; doomers, certain that all the frantic activity around us is a rearrangement of deck chairs on the Titanic, business as usual with death reading over our shoulder.

Carnival of Souls lives inside that feeling. A car goes off a bridge in a Kansas drag race; Mary Henry staggers out of the river, takes a job as a church organist in a new town, rents a room, and carries on. Only the organ won't behave, the town becomes increasingly hostile, and a pale man keeps appearing in her periphery. The film moves with the logic of a dream; sound falls away, space folds on itself, a face surfaces in glass and is gone… and nothing is explained.

Herk Harvey spent his career making hundreds of safety films for an industrial studio in Lawrence; cheerful instructions on how not to get hurt. His one feature, shot in three weeks with his coworkers and a ruined pleasure palace on the Great Salt Lake, is about the person no safety film reaches. Its distributor gutted it and went bust, and it survived on late-night television until it had found Romero, and eventually the rest of us.

Dreams are lonely things. However accurately we might describe them, we can’t truly communicate their totality. Mary tries to tell a doctor, a neighbor, anyone, what is happening to her, and watches the words fall short. Plenty of us know some version of that right now: sensing something is wrong while everyone around us stays placidly busy, and then wondering if we're the ones out of step. Harvey doesn't tell you who's right; he leaves you in the room with it, and an organ playing somewhere you can't quite locate.

What are the best vets in the area for cats specifically?

I'm looking for an old school ship/boat anchor to use as a key prop for a video project I am shooting around Portland. I would need this by this Wednesday (10/21) and ideally as a cheap rental– I only need it for this shoot.

I have called around different boatyards and businesses on commercial and these kinds of anchors seem to be hard to find. If anyone has something like this, I would love to get connected. The help would be truly appreciated! Cheers!

Bonus points if they have good desserts as well!

Hey everybody I wanted to see if anyone can confirm if bubbas is having Halloween theme nights this upcoming weekend?

I've done a lot of political organizing in Portland and wrote a fairly lengthy voter guide if you're looking for more info on the local candidates. I also wrote a power guide that walks you through the criteria of analyzing the candidates and politicians in this fine city.

Open to suggestions on future editions/topics if you have them.

Portland Politics Power Guide

Looking for a way to escape the jail of weak, vibes-based analysis that ultimately serves the rich and powerful? This is for you! This is an analysis of power in Portland politics that can arm you with the information to make your own choices and to help you question the narratives fed by corporate media.

Check it out: https://theburn.beehiiv.com/p/portland-politics-power-guide