https://bsky.app/profile/raindropworkspdx.bsky.social Visit us on BlueSky while we navigate what happened on X The short of it is … we’re not sure. We’ve been openly discussing a story that is still going through secondary research before writing about local conservative activist couple RealPDX. Jeff Church, half of the group, was caught out lying about prior criminal […]
The docket and media files had to be stored seperate from the case summary. Please see those documents on our wiki at https://court.raindrop.works/wiki/20CV19618 This case is a long winding and at times confusing case featuring a broad variety of allegations against a number of individuals and organizations, with events starting in 2019 or earlier. Due […]
We wanted to get this out in advance of Tuesday’s sentencing hearing for Benjamin Smith, the Normandale shooter who pled guilty last month. We do plan to run a livestream for the hearing, however, due to a refusal by Judge Marshall to allow us to use the livestream from the courthouse, and no helpful way […]
Opacity, compartmentalization and self-dealing. SWNI seems to be focused on making themselves as insular as possible as the city looks to pay them for it.
To paraphrase a famous video game quote: SWNI. SWNI never changes. This story should have been out days ago, but the longer I’ve worked on this story, the more documents I get, and the more amazed and frustrated I become. In the course of a week I’ve received a distilled version of what many others […]
We’re closing down. Not everything. But our Twitter presence will indeed be shutting down, effective … well, immediately. This post is going to be fairly brief right now, but I will be coming back later and writing down more thoughts on how we got to this point and why. Old Handle New Location @RaindropWorkPDX (Official […]
All court media and documents we have available can be found on our information page here. Today was the first time Benjamin Smith, accused of a murder charge, four attempted murder charges and four assault charges was seen in court since his March indictment. Two previous status hearings had gone on without him due to […]
It’s time for taxpayer-funded organizations doing the public’s business to provide transparency and be recognized for what they are – outsourced government bureaus.
In a recent livestream I pointed out how the, previously unknown to me, Anarchy as Order Twitter account (@anarchyasorder) had apparently tried to align themselves with Raindrop Works and noted public records and rights lawyer Alan Kessler and heavily imply that we were working with them, a detail which only came to light as they […]