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shawnjohnpdx 🚫🧊 @shawnjohn.bsky.social · Jan 12

This is super cool. The Blazers are the first professional sports team to provide OneCourt's haptic display at every home game!
This cutting-edge technology enables fans who are Blind or Low Vision to experience live basketball action in real-time, at no additional cost. #RipCity #Blazers

Fan wearing red blazers jersey holding device that allows real time haptics at Blazers arena.

Fan holding device that allows user to feel real time haptics at Blazers basketball arena

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)

For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary.

Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from).

The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe.

Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky.

Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat?

This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight:
* Waste of public resources on military theatrics.
* Fraud in the name of “public safety.”
* Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect.

Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation.

Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here.

When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness.

Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy.

A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control.

Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard.

Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.

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shawnjohnpdx 🚫🧊 @shawnjohn.bsky.social · 5h

I think you missed the joke.

shawnjohnpdx 🚫🧊 @shawnjohn.bsky.social · 6h

the BBC knows how to make a good series!

shawnjohnpdx 🚫🧊 @shawnjohn.bsky.social · 7h

Pretty sure I saw something similar on a sidewalk in Old town.

shawnjohnpdx 🚫🧊 @shawnjohn.bsky.social · 9h

This is the problem with social media.

shawnjohnpdx 🚫🧊 @shawnjohn.bsky.social · 9h

Oh I know Freeman is back. I just had t heard anything official about Fentress. I'm gonna keep it dignified and simply say we are very fortunate to have Freeman covering the team. He's top notch.

shawnjohnpdx 🚫🧊 @shawnjohn.bsky.social · 9h

If he does, that's great. He is a rookie in the NBA. Very few rookies come in and make a major impact. Mistake a few seasons to find their footing. I have no expectations for him other than to learn the way of the NBA.

shawnjohnpdx 🚫🧊 @shawnjohn.bsky.social · 9h

I actually agree for the most part with these takes. I think the wild card of the three is that Yang COULD make an impact on the team this season, but it's also possible he won't.

Brandon Mullen @brandonmullen.bsky.social · 14h

The legend @paulnavarre.bsky.social brings you three not-so-popular Blazers opinions (and backs them up!)

www.blazersedge.com/trail-blazer...

Three Portland Trail Blazers Opinions That Go Against the Grain

Not everyone has to agree on everything!

www.blazersedge.com

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shawnjohnpdx 🚫🧊 @shawnjohn.bsky.social · 9h

I think those are pretty valid opinions actually. I WANT the last one to be incorrect. I think it's realistic to come down from the hype and realize Yang may not really make a major impact this season. However, it is possible that he will. We shall see.

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shawnjohnpdx 🚫🧊 @shawnjohn.bsky.social · 12h

We do this all the time here. No one gets arrested. It's just kind of a thing in Portland.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 12h

I knew I should have invested in frog costume futures

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shawnjohnpdx 🚫🧊 @shawnjohn.bsky.social · 14h

Past lives are a thing

shawnjohnpdx 🚫🧊 @shawnjohn.bsky.social · 14h

I only make fun of another persons appearance if they are truly horrible. Usually the truly horrible are narcissists and that's an effective way to get at them.

shawnjohnpdx 🚫🧊 @shawnjohn.bsky.social · 14h

Anyone that would willingly kill a dog is absolved from any amount of respect from me ever. Fuck her and her horrible plastic surgery and apparent cadaver hair. 😬

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shawnjohnpdx 🚫🧊 @shawnjohn.bsky.social · 14h

I live in Portland. Unless you are at the ICE facility, nothing is happening. We are peacefully coexisting with one another. There are no fires. No violence. It's actually a pretty mellow place.

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shawnjohnpdx 🚫🧊 @shawnjohn.bsky.social · 14h

If a weasel could take human form it would be Mike Johnson.

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shawnjohnpdx 🚫🧊 @shawnjohn.bsky.social · 14h

a raccoon is sitting on the ground with its paws folded in prayer and smiling .

Alt: a raccoon is sitting on the ground with its paws folded in prayer and smiling .

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shawnjohnpdx 🚫🧊 @shawnjohn.bsky.social · 14h

AND it would melt ICE. That lady who kills dogs really doesn't like that phrase so imma use it. 😬

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shawnjohnpdx 🚫🧊 @shawnjohn.bsky.social · 15h

I like your style.

shawnjohnpdx 🚫🧊 @shawnjohn.bsky.social · 15h

I'm calling today's batch the "FUCK ICE PORTLAND PICKLES." Just because.

Contains: 5 Fatalli peppers, 3 Carolina Reapers, pickles, red onion, garlic, dill, sea salt/vinegar brine.

#Portland #FuckIce #Pickles

Large jar of pickles in brine with red onion, garlic and super hot peppers, red and yellow.

5 yellow Fatalli peppers amd 3 red Carolina reapers, whole, on a cutting board.

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shawnjohnpdx 🚫🧊 @shawnjohn.bsky.social · 15h

😂

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shawnjohnpdx 🚫🧊 @shawnjohn.bsky.social · 16h

Is Fentress off the Blazer beat?

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shawnjohnpdx 🚫🧊 @shawnjohn.bsky.social · 16h

Ha. Of course. My biggest apprehension would be riding in a crowd. Accidents happen and a multi bike crash with no clothing sounds horrible.

shawnjohnpdx 🚫🧊 @shawnjohn.bsky.social · 17h

Miller is running the show.

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shawnjohnpdx 🚫🧊 @shawnjohn.bsky.social · 17h

Bingo