Matt Chorpenning, MSW
@chorpenning.bsky.social
he/him. social work professor specializing in skilled complaining and applied anger. guitar player. abolitionist. Posts don't represent my employer's views even if they probably should.
Looks like it's a big PR problem now too.
Former Housing Director Says She Was Told Not to Disclose Millions in Unspent Funds. A memo Helmi Hisserich sent to city councilors says city administration viewed unspent funds as "a big PR problem."
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Former Housing Director Says She Was Told Not to Disclose Millions in Unspent Funds
The former director of the Portland Housing Bureau says she was ousted for trying to advance City Council’s social housing policy and was unfairly blamed for revenue that went unspent prior to her app...
www.portlandmercury.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Looks like it's a big PR problem now too.
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Sweeps do actually kill people. I watched it happen to houseless neighbors of mine. 5 years our neighborhood had zero issues. Each sweep they became more and more worn down.
Homeless Deaths Quadrupled — ProPublica share.google/c8RPXDH0D3mH...
Homeless Deaths Quadrupled — ProPublica share.google/c8RPXDH0D3mH...
Portland Said It Was Investing in Homeless People’s Safety. Deaths Have Quadrupled.
The city responded to an increase in homeless deaths by intensifying encampment sweeps and adding emergency shelter at the expense of permanent housing. Experts say this has perpetuated the problem.
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December 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Sweeps do actually kill people. I watched it happen to houseless neighbors of mine. 5 years our neighborhood had zero issues. Each sweep they became more and more worn down.
Homeless Deaths Quadrupled — ProPublica share.google/c8RPXDH0D3mH...
Homeless Deaths Quadrupled — ProPublica share.google/c8RPXDH0D3mH...
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Please help if you can? Also, sharing is free.
Welp it’s gotten real real if you can please help. If you can’t it’s really hard out here so share
gofund.me/a5ee0064
gofund.me/a5ee0064
December 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Please help if you can? Also, sharing is free.
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Tina “make pre-schoolers pay their fair share!” Kotek.
December 4, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Tina “make pre-schoolers pay their fair share!” Kotek.
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When all is done, the OU undergrad will have scored a 6 figure right-wing media contract, the higher ed press will still be talking about grading rubrics for conservative views, the trans grad student will still be getting death threats and have her life/job ruined. And everyone else will move on.
December 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
When all is done, the OU undergrad will have scored a 6 figure right-wing media contract, the higher ed press will still be talking about grading rubrics for conservative views, the trans grad student will still be getting death threats and have her life/job ruined. And everyone else will move on.
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And you can Make the Cuyahoga Flammable Again while you're at it!
Sean Duffy on slashing fuel economy standards: "This rule will actually allow you to bring back the 1970s station wagon. Maybe a little wood paneling on the side. We can bring back choice to consumers."
December 4, 2025 at 4:46 PM
And you can Make the Cuyahoga Flammable Again while you're at it!
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They aren’t stooges . They agree.
DHS is running a massive propaganda campaign, and journalists are serving as willing stooges. presswatchers.org/2025/11/dhss...
December 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
They aren’t stooges . They agree.
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this clip encapsulates so much of what has been wrong about MSM Trump coverage for the past decade -- treating Trump's lies and bigotry as a valid "side" of a debate instead of calling it out, because calling it out makes it seem as though you're biased
MSNBC reporter presents Trump's shameful racism towards Somalis as merely "a different view"
December 3, 2025 at 9:55 PM
this clip encapsulates so much of what has been wrong about MSM Trump coverage for the past decade -- treating Trump's lies and bigotry as a valid "side" of a debate instead of calling it out, because calling it out makes it seem as though you're biased
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While the Trump admin targets Somali communities in Minnesota with ICE raids, workers rally at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport in the freezing weather to say NO MORE DEPORTATION FLIGHTS. NO MORE RAIDS. workdaymagazine.org/no-more-terr... by Amie Stager
“No More Terrorizing Families”: Minnesota Workers Rally Against ICE Deportation Flights - Workday Magazine
Workers are demanding facilities for rideshare drivers and an end to the airport’s operation of deportation flights.
workdaymagazine.org
December 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
While the Trump admin targets Somali communities in Minnesota with ICE raids, workers rally at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport in the freezing weather to say NO MORE DEPORTATION FLIGHTS. NO MORE RAIDS. workdaymagazine.org/no-more-terr... by Amie Stager
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NYTimes euphemism thesaurus has a new entry for misogyny.
December 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
NYTimes euphemism thesaurus has a new entry for misogyny.
Tapping the sign here about how my posts don't reflect my employer's views even if they probably should etc and so on.
PSU shouldn't have punished Dr. Hanoosh who was clearly not speaking as a representative of the university, nor should it punish the asshole who said the asshole thing on the asshole app. But we should all call that asshole an asshole because fuck them & the bigoted horse they rode in on.
December 4, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Tapping the sign here about how my posts don't reflect my employer's views even if they probably should etc and so on.
Meanwhile, a different faculty member posted on X basically saying that if Palestinians could learn, they wouldn't be Palestinians. To my knowledge, that person is not on leave which might lead thinking people to question the university's lack of consistency in how it disciplines people.
The tort claim notice alleges the university violated Dr. Hanoosh’s legal rights, including state laws prohibiting discrimination based on national origin and the First Amendment.
PSU Professor in “I Am Hamas” Video Alleges University Violated Her Legal Rights
Joanna Hou
www.wweek.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Meanwhile, a different faculty member posted on X basically saying that if Palestinians could learn, they wouldn't be Palestinians. To my knowledge, that person is not on leave which might lead thinking people to question the university's lack of consistency in how it disciplines people.
It feels like a particularly lazy form of "pragmatism" to suggest that we can't help the worst off because it might upset the people who have the most.
December 4, 2025 at 12:14 AM
It feels like a particularly lazy form of "pragmatism" to suggest that we can't help the worst off because it might upset the people who have the most.
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Consider the following before adopting a Manticore for your family
December 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Consider the following before adopting a Manticore for your family
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Ice cold take but if I'm doing mushrooms, don't even talk about MrBeast. Don't even mention his name
December 3, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Ice cold take but if I'm doing mushrooms, don't even talk about MrBeast. Don't even mention his name
A colleague wrote this and it is pretty much 100% correct on all levels. lpeproject.org/blog/the-dar...
The Dark Doppelganger of Affordable Higher Education
In the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education, the Trump administration included a brilliant bit of faux-populism: a five-year tuition freeze. The proposal creates the illusion that the…
lpeproject.org
December 3, 2025 at 1:41 AM
A colleague wrote this and it is pretty much 100% correct on all levels. lpeproject.org/blog/the-dar...
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be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world
there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
December 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world
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I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.
December 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.
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The word "doomerism" is horribly abused on here. Some of you use it as code for "telling me what I don't want to hear" and it's childish.
December 1, 2025 at 4:56 AM
The word "doomerism" is horribly abused on here. Some of you use it as code for "telling me what I don't want to hear" and it's childish.
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PSA for the well-intentioned folks on here.
At the end of Native American Heritage month, remember every time you follow or share LakotaMan1, a colonizer gains a bustle. So, just don't do it folks.
www.dailydot.com/irl/lakotama...
www.dailydot.com/irl/lakotama...
Who is LakotaMan, the user behind one of the most popular Native American accounts on X?
John Martin is adored by white X users—but infamous among Native and Indigenous communities.
www.dailydot.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:32 AM
PSA for the well-intentioned folks on here.
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Just hear me out: maybe the Democratic Party’s problem is that the party leadership is full of people incapable of realizing that Matt Yglesias has terrible political instincts.
November 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Just hear me out: maybe the Democratic Party’s problem is that the party leadership is full of people incapable of realizing that Matt Yglesias has terrible political instincts.
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LSU is paying its previous football coach over $50 million NOT to coach there while likely guaranteeing Kiffin something approaching double that, all while having an academic hiring freeze and budget cuts across the board. What is the purpose of a university (rhetorical)?
SOURCES: Lane Kiffin is expected to accept LSU's offer to become the Tigers next head coach. Kiffin is set to meet with his Ole Miss team this morning at 9 AM CT. As we reported yesterday morning, LSU has been very confident it was going to land Kiffin. www.nytimes.com/athletic/684...
Lane Kiffin expected to take LSU job as Ole Miss sets team meeting: Source
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:06 PM
LSU is paying its previous football coach over $50 million NOT to coach there while likely guaranteeing Kiffin something approaching double that, all while having an academic hiring freeze and budget cuts across the board. What is the purpose of a university (rhetorical)?
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a children’s birthday party.
BREAKING: Four people are dead and 10 are hospitalized after a shooting at a banquet hall in Stockton, California, officials say.
4 killed, 10 injured in shooting during family celebration in California banquet hall
Victims ranged from children to adults, a San Joaquin County Sheriff's spokesperson said. No information about the gunman has been developed, she said.
nbcnews.to
November 30, 2025 at 6:06 AM
a children’s birthday party.
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Props to the protestors who the New York Times credits for foiling ICE’s intended raid in Chinatown earlier today.
So many people are showing they know what it means to be New Yorkers!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
So many people are showing they know what it means to be New Yorkers!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
Several Arrested as Protesters Block Federal Agents in Manhattan Garage
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Props to the protestors who the New York Times credits for foiling ICE’s intended raid in Chinatown earlier today.
So many people are showing they know what it means to be New Yorkers!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
So many people are showing they know what it means to be New Yorkers!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...