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Cam Crowell @caminaction.bsky.social · 1d

Andy Pages you are forever a Dodger legend 🫡

Cam Crowell @caminaction.bsky.social · 1d

I was in Oaxaca when federal agents invaded Los Angeles, where so many people from Yalalag lived or had family.

A surreal week with some of the nicest people I’ve ever met, people obviously not met with the same hospitality in the States.

I can’t help feeling like the level of friendliness towards a gringo stranger feels unwarranted. That same week, Donald Trump had just sent in the National Guard to Los Angeles in an effort to quell anti-deportation protests and bolster the efforts of ICE. Protests were only escalating to combat aggressive ICE raids in early June. The majority Latino community had resisted La Migra, some throwing rocks and physically blocking ICE vehicles while the federal agents beat and even ran over protesters with their SUVs. It’s a city where nearly everyone I speak with currently has family or friends living. Multiple people tell me they have family that usually would attend this festival but are not because they are afraid they can’t return to the States after.

I chat with a handmade huarache shoemaker who sees my basketball shoes and asks if I would be willing to bring back a pair of Nikes to trade for one of his. I tell him I would try to bring some if I can make it back next year, and a guy walking by stops.

“Why are you here, gringo?” the man says.

“I wanted to learn more about your festival,” I say. “I play a lot of basketball back home and my friend wanted to show me how you all play here.”

“Well you can come here all you want, walk on our land, eat our food, and nobody stops you,” he pauses to spit. “But I can’t go to where you’re from. I’m not welcome.”

The man walks off towards the festival center without waiting for a response. The huarache maker tells me that the guy is just a crazy drunk, and apologizes profusely for him. I tell him it feels strange that more people haven’t said anything like that. He may be drunk, but he’s right.

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Cam Crowell @caminaction.bsky.social · 2d

I went to the mountains of Oaxaca 🇲🇽 for Yalalag’s Fiesta de San Antonio de Padua and saw how basketball brings together local indigenous communities every weekend. www.derange.co/p/basketball...

View of fog on the sierra nortes and the town of Yalalag built into the mountainside

Basketball player in a red jersey holds a basketball

Some children in basketball jerseys lean on each other and watch jaripeo

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Cam Crowell @caminaction.bsky.social · 3d

When you realize there are only 37 harvests left

Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · 3d

Apropos of nothing, Sec. Kristi Noem is currently praying over Burgerville with Portland ICE officials.

A screenshot of a video of Noem praying at a conference table with other people wearing suits. Fast food bags and water bottles sit on the table.

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Cam Crowell @caminaction.bsky.social · 6d

The lyrics in pop music really don’t matter. If you’re arguing about Taylor Swifts lyrics you’re basically the guy in line at the grocery store pointing at the cover of the National Dipshit asking the cashier, “is Rhianna’s baby really a tiny Bigfoot?”

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Cam Crowell @caminaction.bsky.social · 6d

Never in doubt

Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 6d

UCLA HOLY SHIT

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Cam Crowell @caminaction.bsky.social · 6d

jerry neuheisel

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Cam Crowell @caminaction.bsky.social · 6d

New galaxy brain ucla football strategy is to just go for the onside kick every time. What’s there to lose?

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Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · 6d

Not only does this story get a number of basic facts wrong, it doesn’t take time to actually explore why Portlanders elected these folks. Coming in with a pre-baked PDX story to fit a NYT narrative about NYC is harmful, especially at this moment.

What Happens When Socialists Are in Charge? Portland Offers a Glimpse.

www.nytimes.com

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Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · 7d

Read this thread from a great Portland reporter! The New York Times running this story today is absolutely calculated. It has been positioning Portland for years as a progressive villain. Also: why send a reporter from the Bay when the NYT has at least two reporters who actually live in Portland.

Taylor Griggs @taylorgriggs.bsky.social · 7d

This article has a lot more important problems so I feel stupid saying this…but umm…the Mercury wrote and published the first major article about the DSA councilors back in June. Of course it isn’t the local reporting linked or mentioned here.

What Happens When Socialists Are in Charge? Portland Offers a Glimpse.

www.nytimes.com

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Cam Crowell @caminaction.bsky.social · 7d

To put the @kellen.bsky.social NYT piece in Sacramento Kings terms. If Pre-School for All is stolen from the Portland people so the rich can get even bigger tax cuts, it will at best be remembered as the Tyrese Halliburton trade and at worst as drafting Marvin Bagley over Luka.

Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social · 7d

Waking up to some careless parachute journalism from the NYT. Really frustrating that @kellen.bsky.social chooses to write that "some top filers" have left Portland due to the Preschool for All tax but neglects to mention that the number of overall filers went up by many thousands in that period.+

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Cam Crowell @caminaction.bsky.social · 7d

Point 2 is such an under discussed fact. Literally everyone loved that block

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 7d

lot of problems with that piece but here's one: if anyone tries to blame "empty downtown" on anything other than

1) the pandemic
2) ted wheeler destroying the big food cart pod so his developer friends could build a hotel no one uses

they're either a moron or a developer

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Cam Crowell @caminaction.bsky.social · 8d

New diss track about Charli XCX is such a great power pop melody until in classic Taylor style there’s the worst bridge of all time

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Cam Crowell @caminaction.bsky.social · 8d

I saw it

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Defector @defector.com · 9d

The future of the sneaker business first requires a future: defector.com/the-future-o...

The Future Of The Sneaker Business First Requires A Future | Defector

PORTLAND, ORE. — Global capitalism begins with apparel. Slaves were brought to the American South from West Africa to do farm labor, and by the 19th century that largely meant cotton, a ubiquitous…

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Cam Crowell @caminaction.bsky.social · 8d

You know when you have a big cry on the playground, you going to be sleep at nap time 🤣🥱😴

Cam Crowell @caminaction.bsky.social · 9d

Fall weather got me straight up cozy, caffeinatedand, and in my lane ☕️🍂

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Cam Crowell @caminaction.bsky.social · 12d

Swag

Lady sitting on a walker with a “No Troops” poster in Portland

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Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 12d

I don’t want to hear anymore “Portland is dying” narrative or vague complaints about “ANTIFA” as the clarion call for action in the city. All of that led to Trump targeting us. Groups like People for Portland, associated right-wing media ecosystem, and political opportunists own this.

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Cam Crowell @caminaction.bsky.social · 12d

No offense but Dublin already has their own football, we don’t need to bring ours there (this is not because I had Warren on my fantasy team and couldn’t get him out of my lineup pregame)

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Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com · 23d

Anti-ICE protesters have spent months calling on Portland leaders to revoke a permit allowing ICE to operate in the South Waterfront. Today, Mayor Keith Wilson said ICE violated conditions of its land use permit by holding detainees longer than allowed.

ICE Violated Portland Policies with Detention Practices, City Leaders Say

When Portland gave Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) the green light to open a processing and holding facility in the South Waterfront in 2011, the city set conditions for the agency to opera...

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Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com · 25d

Following a recent trip to Israel and the West Bank, Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley says the US and its allies have a moral obligation to stop providing military aid for the war in Gaza.

Sen. Merkley: US Aid Fuels Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

Sen. Jeff Merkley isn’t mincing words on the complicity of the United States in the ongoing decimation of Gaza. “This is horrific, and we are complicit in it,” Merkley said in an interview last week w...

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Cam Crowell @caminaction.bsky.social · 25d

I wrote about the 30th anniversary of Jock Jams and the need for the Jock to triumph over our current tyranny of the nerd.

Jock Jams Vol. 1 at 30: Tracing Sport, Nostalgia, Hip-Hop Hitting the Mainstream, and the Fall of "YMCA"

Tracing sport, nostalgia, hip-hop hitting the mainstream, and the fall of Village People’s “YMCA.”

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Cam Crowell @caminaction.bsky.social · 26d

Is the Jerry Jones Dr. Pepper “Fansville” commercial a sundown town joke?

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Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com · 28d

Portland’s Sunday Parkways open streets program was inspired by similar events in Latin America. But the program is much more limited than the initiatives it was modeled after. @taylorgriggs.bsky.social argues that’s a shame, considering its potential to shift the paradigm.

Street View: Sundays Are For Open Streets

In the early 1970s, bike activists in Bogotá, Colombia convinced their city leaders to close two major thoroughfares to car traffic, giving the space to people riding bikes and walking for one day. Th...

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