Keone Stevans

@bostonradio Long before living color there was death, a band from Detroit who released some obscure albums in the early 70s that deserve recognition for being the first black punk rock. youtu.be/uAZ9R2t5Jd0

37 years ago tonight, April 1, 1989, Corey Glover and Living Colour performed “Cult of Personality”(1988) on NBC’s Saturday Night Live. The song peaked at #13 on Billboard’s Hot 💯.

@JNiedermey33251 Build the biggest sandcastle in your front yard. Use it as a publicity stunt. Then move it anyways, blame it on the wind.

Unelected state bureaucrats are destroying our family home of 50 years—voiding our ability to do basic and necessary maintenance on our own property. Let me explain. Every year, our property—along with other properties in Cannon Beach, Oregon—gets slowly inundated with tens of tons of sand from the beach. This accumulated sand necessitates a property dig-out once a year, in which we move accumulated sand back onto the beach. Without this, our property would slowly become buried in sand over the course of just a few years. This is a problem our family has been managing since the 1960s, and we are more than capable and willing to deal with it. Every year, we get a permit from the city to get an excavation team to move the accumulated sand. As such, for decades, we responsibly perform this routine dig-out ON OUR OWN DIME with permission of the city and the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department (ORPD) once per year. This is not new. This is not experimental. This is a tradition rooted in necessity, understood by the local community, and permitted for decades. One of the most important impacts of our long-standing dig-out is something many visitors never realize. On top of our own property, we dig out the local public beach access walkway ensuring that everyone has accessible and safe access to the beach. Our annual work has helped protect and preserve safe coastal access for everyone, including mobility-impaired visitors. Smoothing the sand next to our property has made it one of the most accessible routes to the beach and famous Haystack Rock. Meanwhile, other public access points have become steep, buried, or completely unusable. Our privately funded work has quietly created a public benefit for decades, at no cost to the state. But last year, everything changed without warning. Despite receiving another city permit to dig, the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, with direction from Oregon’s Department of Land Conservation and Development (DLCD), circumnavigated the City of Cannon Beach and denied our ability to dig—which now makes it a CRIME to dig sand out of our own property. From our perspective, this abrupt reversal defies logic and ignores the reality of the situation unfolding on the ground; it is a death sentence not only to our family’s home but to many other beachfront properties in Cannon Beach. Knowing that this was a matter of life or death for the house, and because we love this house, we chose to appeal and fight this inexplicable decision in whatever way we could. For the last 10 months, we’ve been in a legal dispute with OPRD over this issue, trying to regain our right to maintain our property. This legal dispute has been a nightmare. The back and forth with the state has been mired in incompetency. They’ve caused procedural delays and have offered shifting explanations, conflicting interpretations, and reasoning that does not align with our town’s established understanding of its own shoreline. Based on our experience, it feels like the agencies involved do not fully understand the unique coastal conditions or the decades of precedent behind this work. It also increasingly feels as though the state is dragging this process out as long as possible, hoping that we will simply give up under the financial and emotional weight of this fight. We’ve had to spend enormous amounts of money on legal fees to fight this battle in court, and it’s been dragged out so much that we’re running out of money. Their added obstacles and drawn-out process make it difficult to see this as anything other than an attempt to exhaust us. Deep down, we feel that they know the facts are not on their side. Meanwhile, the sand continues to climb. Our front yard is now buried, and if this keeps up, our home of 50+ years will be buried and rendered unlivable. This is also a precedent being set that could impact every homeowner along the Oregon coast. This is no longer a simple permitting issue. From where we stand, it has become a troubling example of state agencies overreaching and disregarding local expertise and common-sense solutions that cost the state nothing. All of this is happening while OPRD faces a $14 million budget shortfall. Instead of allowing responsible, privately funded solutions that improve accessibility for the public, they are spending taxpayer money (that they don’t even have!) to prevent a family from responsibly maintaining their property and local beach walkways. We need help. We need the public to understand what is happening before our home suffers permanent damage and before this issue spreads across Oregon’s coastal communities. We are calling for press coverage, public awareness, and help from Oregon’s leadership. Please help us shine a light on this. Tagging for urgent attention and help: @TinaKotek @OregonHouseGOP @ORDems @WeberforOregon @CyrusforOregon @ORSecretaryRead @KATUNews @Oregonian @fox12oregon @KOINNews @SenJeffMerkley

@NesaraGesara0 Pele is restless

@elonmusk Everything is free if you’re not a coward

Powerful words

@Andercot One should learn and master the art of over undering and using cable ties to tame the black spaghetti mess that those boxes often become.

every god-fearing generation of men maintain and uphold The Wire Box, a strategic reserve of technical entropy from which the anonymous will rise up and become the prophesied Chosen Wire in Our Time of Need.

@JohnLeFevre Say what you will about being a cook, but there are many examples of people like Anthony Bourdain and Guy Fieri who chose the foodservice trade as a vocation and went on to do bigger things. They may be outliers, and you may never get rich…but neither will you starve.

There are several billion people right now, who, regardless of intelligence or ambition, will toil in a lifetime of effective servitude or worse, with zero opportunity for upward mobility, regardless of what they do. Be grateful.

@TripCheckI_84A There is a large rock in the middle of the road I-84 westbound on banfield expressway near 102nd Ave off-ramp. Gave me a flat tire an hour ago. Proceed with caution.

@vegastarr It’s 60

Only the awakened mind sees the pattern. 🧠✨

@its_The_Dr Soy

Describe Portland Mayor Keith Wilson using only one word.

@TS10cil @RepYunker I took a road trip cross country recently and noticed the quality of roads in red states was consistently better than blue states…starting to think this is by design.

@RepYunker It’s not even an option for the majority of the state. Unless you’re around the metro area. The rest of the population will be tax burdened so heavily to appease the metropolitan area??? Trimet put themselves in the $300billon deficit they can sell off their unused properties

In the transportation committee meeting, Senator Pham just said the quiet part out loud. This tax increase is really about disincenting driving. Making driving more expensive. Making more people choose public transit.

@unknown_patriot The freeway on-ramp that I use daily developed pot holes and had loose gravel everywhere. I got fed up and called my district 3 rep. Aid answered on the first ring. Explained my concern. A month later there were crews fixing the road. Sometimes the system works as it should.

In Oregon, does contacting your representative get you anywhere?

@ShadowofEzra Thems some jowls

The Minneapolis Catholic Church sh*oter has been identified as Robin Westman. What do you notice about this person?

@PDXReal1 Graphic design must be their passion. Why are “make decisions” and “solve social problems” in a different typeface? Black fonts matter?

@PDXReal1 So you’re an assembly community that’s a community assembly…seems redundant to have those two words used twice in conjecture on the same flier.

The local anarchro-commies are planning their revolution. Who wants to go? Wear all black and face masks.

@RepYunker I recently drove from Oregon to Iowa and back for a family wedding and made an observation. Without fail the road conditions in red republican states are significantly better than in blue democrat states. I posit they hate automobiles and want to disincentive driving.

The governor just released her ODOT budget bill for the special session. This could cost the average Oregon family well over $500/year. We don't need more taxes. We just need to reprioritize! The bill: files.constantcontact.com/e9068abb901/52…

@pdxpragmatist They fund the gaps in the operational budgets of the legacy performing arts groups like the ballet, opera, symphony etc. without public funding those performances wouldn’t be affordable, since the production costs exceed the amount of private donations they’re able to raise.

The Portland Arts Tax must be repealed. It is and has always been a waste. Has the tax funded great works of public art? Statues? Fountains? Gardens? No. Because it's simply pocket padding for the nonprofiteers. Link in comment.

@ThrillaRilla369 Fuck yes

Do you agree ? Yes or No

@kevinvdahlgren @tarafaul503 Having been to several rainbow gatherings I can attest to the fact: It is absolutely possible to have massive long term encampments in the woods that are clean, sanitary, safe, with minimal impact to the environment, with functional kitchens, living spaces, and latrines.

I went to the infamous thousand acres dog park with @tarafaul503 and we stumbled upon one of the largest homeless mess we’ve ever seen. Millions of pounds of trash in our protected woods. This is an absolute visual representation of radicalized, progressive policies. More later

@MarioNawfal I was taught sticks and stones growing up. Bring it back

🚨THE PARADOX OF ABSOLUTE FREEDOM: WHEN SPEECH TESTS SOCIETY'S LIMITS Eight million views later, Kanye's controversial track forces us to confront an uncomfortable truth: Art is supposed to provoke, but at what cost? There's no denying this song makes people feel something—outrage, confusion, fascination. As Joe Rogan and Tom Segura noted, even critics can't ignore the production genius. Maybe that's the point. Art has always pushed boundaries, forced conversations we'd rather avoid. But here's the deeper question: Is this boundary-pushing creativity or exploitation of our spectacle-obsessed culture? When does artistic provocation become irresponsibility? The platforms can't agree—X keeps it up, Spotify pulls it down. Each decision reflects our collective uncertainty about where expression ends and harm begins. Perhaps Kanye knows exactly what he's doing: holding up a mirror to our celebrity worship, our hunger for controversy, our willingness to amplify anything that shocks. Or maybe he's lost in his own struggle, using art as a weapon against perceived enemies. The real tragedy? We're so busy debating the spectacle that we've forgotten to ask: What does it say about us that we can't look away? Source: @joerogan @kanyewest @tomsegura