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 […]
This video was cc’d to Ted Wheeler’s office on July 1st. Content warning for extreme examples of racism, ableism, homophobia/transphobia and xenophobia
This is an editorial. All views and statements made are the personal words of the editorial staff. Please treat this accordingly. If you’re reading this page, most likely you know that the entire Raindrop Works network was offline for a few days this week, with a static front page with a letter from me trying […]
Normally, we don’t like dedicating a complete page to a single person, but with the complexity of this story and the varied threads, a lot of people have been confused about what’s happened when. The goal here is to try to create a cohesive timeline to help clear up confusion. My information comes primarily from […]
The headline is not hyperbole. I was one of them. This is my story. To start with, a bit of background on me. I have disabilities that necessitate me using a mobility device (a walker) when I leave the house for a period of time. I had eligibility through TriMet Lift that essentially gave me […]
As I said Friday night when I posted my last wrap-up, I was going to tackle the government transparency lawsuits separately because of just how much was going on. I promised Sunday, so here we are! The first case we look at is Buel v. Caballero, a case where the City Auditor is getting sued […]
It’s been a long month since I last did one of these, and things have definitely been busy. Enough so that it’s been hard to parse everything that’s happened on a local basis. That said, let’s just dive right in. Civil Cases Starting at the top of our list of cases to watch are the […]
In the early days of the protests of 2020, now retired Officer Groshong struck a protester with a vehicle during a declared riot. Because it was now an investigation involving the police, they called on the Salem police department to handle the investigation. Charges from a grand jury were handed down against him, and he […]
I was criticized in private by a member of the community for daring to use Mike Reinoehl and Alan Swinney in the same tweet as an example of how the justice system uses and hides charging documents (indictments and warrants) in certain cases. The claim was that I was comparing the two directly, and I […]
Almost eight months to the day after the death of George Floyd, and in an apparent Christmas win for the city of Portland, the city has finalized the first settlement of an individual allegedly injured by the police as a result of Black Lives Matter protests. The protests brought out people from all stripes of […]