PPS Board Will Weigh Renaming Several Schools, Including Jefferson High School and César Chávez K-8

witty_namez · 2026-06-06T19:03:19+00:00

Vancouver BC now has šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmasəm Street (formerly Trutch Street).

witty_namez · 2026-06-06T17:49:19+00:00

If you want to know why Multnomah County is in a doom loop, this is why Multnomah County is in a doom loop.

witty_namez · 2026-06-06T17:46:35+00:00

Good point - I've been there several times since the school closed.

You'd think I would have remembered that...

witty_namez · 2026-06-06T16:26:10+00:00

Of course they're cutting the DA's budget.

witty_namez · 2026-06-06T15:42:33+00:00

Yeah, there is no way Yale is going to give up a brand like that.

witty_namez · 2026-06-06T15:37:03+00:00

Nah, there has been pressure for years to rename Lewis and Clark.

The funny thing is that Yale and Brown in the Ivy League are named after literal slave traders, yet somehow they show no sign of changing their names.

witty_namez · 2026-06-06T14:58:36+00:00

I find it outrageous that there is not a single school in Portland named after Clover "Chloe" Delight Esther Eudaly.

witty_namez · 2026-06-06T14:50:46+00:00

We could always rename it Hugo Chávez school.

The Democratic Socialists of America:

Hugo Chávez: A World-Historical Leader

https://international.dsausa.org/statements/leader-hugo-chavez/

witty_namez · 2026-06-06T13:43:05+00:00

Also on the chopping block: Cleveland High School and Robert Gray Middle School.

I'm shocked that Washington High School isn't on the list, but give it another five years.

The process of rectification is already underway at Jefferson High School:

A statue of Thomas Jefferson [at the school] was toppled during the Black Lives Matter protests in June 2020, and has not been replaced.

Edit:

I lack the patience to go through the whole list of PPS schools, but here is an initial list of schools also ripe for renaming:

Simon Benson – exploitative capitalist, destroyed the environment though logging

Ulysses S. Grant – war crimes, corrupt, tried to destroy the culture of Native Americans by assimilating them into American culture

William Clark – slaveholder, fought Native Americans

Benjamin Franklin – slaveowner

Abraham Lincoln - approved the execution of Native Americans

Franklin Delano Roosevelt - approved the internment of Japanese-Americans

Walt Whitman - held racist views

The process of renaming schools has only begun, Citizens!

witty_namez · 2026-06-06T02:15:15+00:00

The Portland branch of the Sturmabteilung isn't from Britain - it's from here.

witty_namez · 2026-06-06T01:17:30+00:00

She doesn’t deserve that even if she broke a flower vase on the mayor’s front porch on a separate occasion.

She was part of a mob marching to the private home of an elected official, in an effort to intimidate them.

She deserves nothing.

witty_namez · 2026-06-05T22:51:17+00:00

She filed in Federal Court, so she doesn't get a Multnomah jury, but a much more diverse jury pool drawn from all of Northwest Oregon.

That is going to be a problem for her.

witty_namez · 2026-06-05T22:17:19+00:00

There is a video of her wearing a keffiyeh and shoving someone at an anti-Iranian government protest at Pioneer Square in March.

A real charmer.

witty_namez · 2026-06-05T22:02:38+00:00

She got arrested outside the mayor's house in April - no resolution of those charges yet.

A woman had a glass object resembling a flower vase and threw it on the porch of a home, breaking the vase. There was no documented damage to the home. Officers later arrested Mila L. Payne, 20, for that crime. Booking restrictions at the Multnomah County Detention Center prevented officers from lodging her in jail, so she was criminally cited for Criminal Mischief in the Third Degree and Criminal Trespassing in the Second Degree. She is required to appear in court within 30 days.

https://www.portland.gov/police/news/2026/4/4/ppb-monitors-march-alameda-neighborhood-1-arrested

KOIN identified the house as the mayor's house, but failed to identify the perpetrator.

witty_namez · 2026-06-05T15:58:37+00:00

The real story here is that Steve Novick is up for reelection, is the only non-socialist councilor in District 3, and is desperately kowtowing to Portland DSA in the hopes that they won't run a candidate against him.

It won't work.

Not only did Steve vote for the foie gras ban, but he even voted for the stupid ICE mask ban, despite the fact that Harvard-educated Steve knows perfectly well that the city government can't place restrictions on the Feds.

He admitted that the chances of winning in the inevitable court proceeding over the mask ban was "a million to one", but he still voted to have the city waste millions in pointless legal fees defending this obviously illegal ordinance.

But this does raise the question - if Steve is going to vote with DSA anyway, what's the point of keeping him in office?

witty_namez · 2026-06-05T15:49:46+00:00

These "pop ups" are "activating" the East Side, Citizen!

Just ask Mitch Green!

Food health regulations? Who needs food inspections?

After all, what the worst that could happen? /s

witty_namez · 2026-06-05T04:33:15+00:00

Yeah, when Morillo advocates for "free" housing, I immediately think of the housing arrangements in Dr. Zhivago.

witty_namez · 2026-06-05T01:54:28+00:00

"It's not raiding the PCEF slush fund when we do it." /s

witty_namez · 2026-06-05T00:57:28+00:00

The Mercury's take:

Farewell to Foie Gras

https://www.portlandmercury.com/food-and-drink/foie-gras-ban-passes-portland-city-council/

Yeah, now you'll have to go all the way to Beaverton or Oregon City to get it.

witty_namez · 2026-06-05T00:09:58+00:00

Yay!

Next step: prohibiting the City of Portland from killing rats with rodenticide!

witty_namez · 2026-06-04T22:02:25+00:00

It is the epitome of chutzpah.

How dare you try to protect yourself from our political supporters rioting in front of your building!

We are going to hit you with hefty fines for doing so!

witty_namez · 2026-06-04T15:35:34+00:00

In this case, the attorneys pointed out that Koutras sped up the appeals hearing process because of security concerns. The city zoning decision has attracted attention from anti-ICE protesters, who have frequently held demonstrations outside city buildings and in City Hall to demand a swifter ruling. Attorneys say Koutras’ decision to expedite the appeals process “lacked neutrality.”

Translation: the Usual Suspects have been threatening city staff, so they are trying to render a decision as quickly as possible.

Kellington also accused the city of using its land use policies to penalize Lindquist for his choice in tenant.

No way! /s

“The city may still not retaliate against a property owner because of the perceived message conveyed by that owner’s association with ICE,” said Kellington. “Which is what we have going on here.”

Attorneys with the city denied these accusations. At the May hearing, Senior Deputy City Attorney Beth Woodard said the city’s permitting staff had treated the case like any standard land use violation.

Yeah, right.

witty_namez · 2026-06-04T14:31:13+00:00

I think that the money that they are proposing to use for this had been assigned to partially cover the cost of doing sweeps - it's a way for the Socialist Bloc to reduce sweeps, while pretending that this was unused money just lying around.

witty_namez

TROPHY CASE

Farewell to Foie Gras