Click to Follow JJJohnPDX

JJJohn

@JJJohnPDX

Fighting racism and injustice one tweet at a time. Black Lives Matter. Resist.

Portland, ORJoined September 2019

4,803 Following

2,507 Followers

JJJohn’s Tweets

Pinned Tweet

JJJohn

@JJJohnPDX

Apr 5, 2022

Replying to

@Eddie72J

@MyFateMyDestiny

and 3 others

If you click your profile pic, click settings and privacy, then accessibility display & languages, then accessibility, under web browser you can change it to “open links in reader view”. You can read most paywall articles without issue. Cheers.

Portland mayor,

is manufacturing a version of events where he feels justified using police to break up the strike that our union siblings in

@Liuna483

began yesterday. But the only reported violence has been picketers being targeted by strike breakers' cars.

Email from Mayor Ted Wheeler MayorWheeler@portlandoregon.gov sent 2/2/23 at 5:35 PM to Citywide All Employees Distribution List
Subject: Employee Safety
Dear City Employees,
We have received reports of illegal and sometimes violent activity in the beginning hours of the strike by Portland City Laborers. While I support the right of employees to exercise their right to strike legally, aggressive behavior and intimidation of any form is absolutely unacceptable. I will do all I can to ensure that our employees who are working, the public, and City property are protected and safe. I deeply appreciate all the employees of the City and especially those who are showing up to work to ensure our City continues to provide essential services.

Sincerely,

Mayor Wheeler.

email signature

read image description

ALT

I hereby denounce the horrors of the Portland Business Alliance

135

i used to be like “damn, why did they institutionalize the guy that discovered hand washing when hand washing literally saved lives” but now i get it. humans are disgusting

4,745

62K

Lots of ethical quandaries for staff at the City of Portland when it is run by the most conservative* city council in years *in the "we are targeting homeless people, reinstating bad cops, and rolling over for oil companies" meaning of the term.

wweek.com

Three City of Portland Lobbyists Depart Shortly Before Oregon Legislative Session Begins

105

HOW DID I MISS THIS? OMFG 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😅🤣😂🤣😂🤣

1:07

828.3K views

From

Sen. Cory Booker

222

1,646

4,624

Fuck the police And specifically FUCK THE PORTLAND POLICE ASSOCIATION

122

JJJohn Retweeted

Community Protection Bureau

@CPBWorks

Feb 3

“Capitalism is exploitation”. There, fixed it for you. 😐

Quote Tweet

President Biden

@POTUS

Feb 1

United States government official

Capitalism without competition isn’t capitalism. It’s exploitation.

I shall henceforth refer to oil train leaks, toxic emissions, and derailments in Portland as "Ryan-Rubio incidents"

Quote Tweet

Cassie

@Cassielcohen

Feb 1

Replying to @Ecosozialismus

First oil train leak of the year happened already right in Cathedral Park. DEQ apparently will release a press release about it sometime today

Using psychedeIics does not make you a better person than someone who uses meth or fentanyl

414

3,388

25K

hey

-- why did you delete your investigative report on Pastor Matt Hennessee's sexual abuse scandal? didn't want it showing up in search as

@tedwheeler

and

@PortlandPolice

reinstate him as a political mouthpiece? oregonlive.com/news/oregonian

Last week, The Oregonian published a story about former Portland Development Commission chairman Matt Hennessee's sexual abuse of a young girl starting when she was 12 or 13 in the early 1990s.

read image description

ALT

read image description

ALT

JJJohn Retweeted

Community Protection Bureau

@CPBWorks

Jan 30

Why is it that some yt folks got a statute of limitations on how long they’re willing to tolerate the discussion of race? Because the longer we talk about it, the image of “white civilized society” being a beacon of peace, prosperity, democracy, and freedom begins to crumble.

JJJohn Retweeted

Eviction Representation for All

@ERAtenants

Jan 31

People over profit

ft.com

Blackstone steps up tenant evictions in US with eye on boosting returns

Hundreds affected as one of biggest US landlords calls time on long period of pandemic forbearance

::UPDATE:: Tyre Nichols worked at FEDEX; allegedly having sexual affairs with officer Demetrius Halys's ex, and his baby's mother who also works at the same FEDEX. Get this; officer Haly was seen several times taking photos of Tyre after he was brutalized and sent them to her!

1,908

7,193

9,867

As of last year, Oregon was the largest shareholder in NSO Group: the Israeli spyware company known for Pegasus, the software linked to infamous murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi & the hacking of tens of thousands of journalists, activists, and gov officials' phones Action👇

110

288

Show this thread

JJJohn Retweeted

Bea | No cops in PPS.

@AbolitionBabe

Jan 29

We want abolish and defund on the way there. But we can’t even get basic police accountability. The Oregon’s legislature can’t even pass ending qualified immunity.

A community in need of some light honors Brandon Tsay during 2nd weekend of Lunar NY celebrations. The 26 yo computer coder disarmed the Monterey Park gunman during an attempted attack on a second ballroom dance studio in neighboring Alhambra.

0:18

34.6K views

303

1,836

The United States of America is a racist police state. Period.

206

1,110

5,733

The choice is clear. You can either vote for republicans who will continue to increase police budgets or you can vote for democrats who will feign solemnity and concern every time someone gets killed by cops and then continue to increase police budgets

202

6,274

39.3K

if someone is beating you with a stick and you say “stop please” and people are like “please articulate the details exactly how you want society to function without that guy beating you with a stick” you are under no obligation to answer.

6,864

42.8K

The more uniform black bloc is, the more effective. Straying from basic bloc makes it easier for authorities to cross-reference anything unique that can be traced to you. Exposed tattoos and unique shoes/backpacks are common failures of black bloc that tie charges to individuals.

300

“How can it be racist if the police are Black?” BECAUSE THE INSTITUTION OF POLICING ITSELF IS RACIST

5,581

28.2K

145.9K

Show this thread

JJJohn Retweeted

Community Protection Bureau

@CPBWorks

Jan 28

This bears repeating! Again, Black Trauma is NOT entertainment! We know what happened! Black people don’t need to be repeatedly subjected to this trauma.👇🏾

Quote Tweet

Olayemi Olurin

@msolurin

Jan 28

Media is not sensitive about this so let me say it in advance: If you’re going to have Black people on the news to discuss what happened to Tyre Nichols, do not casually replay the video over and over again. We do not need to be put through that to express a very familiar pain.

I ate rice with a spoon today. So I could experience life from the perspective of someone driven by greed and self-indulgence.

496

9,402

49.7K

Show this thread

JJJohn Retweeted

The Really Online Lefty League, #FreeRicci

@theleftyleague

Jan 27

In LAPD’s 2020 uprisings after action report they admitted that the department would not be able to handle a large amount of protests in different parts of the city. When ppl are in a general area, it’s easier for the cops to send all of their resources. Something to think about

127

284

JJJohn Retweeted

Joshua “Daddy Apron” Berwald

@joshua_boe

Jan 27

VINDICATION IS MINE.

331

8,882

74.5K

Taxpayers contributed to every aspect of COVID vaccine development. Now, Big Pharma wants to quadruple the price—after already making tens of billions in profit. A lack of competition in the industry enables these companies to cheat taxpayers and patients.

1:03

246.6K views

425

5,433

18.7K

epic!

1:36

110.7K views

661

2,602

Google had $66,990,000,000 in net income over the last 12 months with roughly 156,000 employees. If they kept half of those insane profits and split the rest, ALL employees could receive an EXTRA $220,000 a year. Instead they are initiating sweeping layoffs.

159

1,278

8,663

Replying to

Come to think of it, I’ve never seen George Santos and Hannah Montana in the same place, at the same time.

JJJohn Retweeted

tori

(future chicago resident era)

@Tori4ThePeople

Jan 20

Friends around the world: Memphis Police executed someone recently and apparently this one is *bad.* Really bad. Like, “local businesses are buying unrest insurance, politicians distancing themselves from the police, DoJ is investigating” bad. We’re waiting for the video.

157

8,926

51.6K

Thread: Seven years ago, Christy Dawn Varden became the first person since the rise of mass incarceration to win a federal lawsuit challenging the U.S. money bail system on equal protection and due process grounds. Her story is tragic, but important.

319

Most cities increased their police budget in 2021-2022. As a result, 2022 was the year with the most killings by police in any year in the past decade. Every elected official who isn't calling for defunding the police is complicit in these murders.

truthout.org

Police Killed Nearly 100 People a Month in 2022, Data Shows

A preliminary report finds police killed over 1,100 people last year, the most killings in any year in the past decade.

2,553

6,013

We have to abolish police. I don’t know what more people need to see to understand. We can have mental health units, car crash response units, rely more on tech for traffic safety… We have to begin the process of removing armed police from the streets

3,509

6,705

30.9K

Portland Oregon restaurant bans serial predator Chris Delia ahead of his upcoming show 🎉 love my home town!

170

4,156

123

306

100 years ago, a white mob completely destroyed the primarily Black town of Rosewood, Florida. The death toll is unknown and the story was erased from history for 70 years. No one was ever prosecuted for the crimes. We cannot continue to erase our history.

The following media includes potentially sensitive content. Change settings

View

117

2,478

4,786

JJJohn Retweeted

Allen Y. Tien MD MHS 田一彦

@allentien

Jan 8

Lack of political understanding or priority has increased our #CausalityCrisis and lack of effective #HumanReasoning to put in place effective policies and programs #SharedFacts

Community Action Needed — Contact Portland Public Schools Board and let them know unequivocally: No police officers at PPS schools. Email schoolboard@pps.net 1/

183

Show this thread