News With My Fiancé - Thursday, May 29th 2025

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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/news-with-my-fiance/id1619744765
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/views-with-my-fiance/id1608863791
Intro music and Podcast edited by Kyle Gilmer of Residual Audio
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(1:00:27) Featuring interview with Donovan Scribes. Donovan Scribes is an award-winning writer, communications consultant, speaker and producer. He is the former vice president of the Portland NAACP.. The focus of the interview is “Black Out” a mini magazine in the Mercury commemorating the 5yr anniversary of the George Floyd protests. Read more at link below.
https://www.portlandmercury.com/blackout/2025/05/22/47798020/blackout-the-playlist
 Host Check In
- (27:32) Y’all, imagine being roasted by Wall Street!
- (3:02) NIMBYs Hold Blue Budgets Matter Rally In Portland
- (1:13:58) It’s Portland Book Week, baby!
LEAD STORIES RUNDOWN
NATIONAL
- (45:22) Deputy Mayor for AIPAC Takes A Plea
Playlist:
- So In To You - SWV
- At All - Kaytranada
- All I Want Is You - Miguel feat J. Cole
TEXTS FROM THIS EPISODE:
- Do men go through hormonal changes that wake them up weird times? 3am wake ups sound like perimenopause.. 
- It was my lady lol 
- What's your thoughts on the PPbcentralbikesquad ? The police ride around on bikes stop and frisk on bikes 
- It's true. Portland is still on fire. This mail be betting burnt. 🔥💌 
- Check out there IG ppbcentalbikesquad 
- Police a float haha. Now I'm envisioning a cop on a floatie on the river 
- It's like a glorified version of cops on IG. I feel like they can roll up on anyone on bikes without probable cause and antagonize homeless 
- Good morning. I think the idea of an aptitude test is good however it will likely lead to disenfranchising people even further unfortunately because who will create the test itself. Maybe AI lol. 
- Competency doesn't come from education 
- TOAST trump obviously ain't so tough 
- Fantastic rising. Bella says she could do that. She can do new things and think about it 2. She says, winning.!!! 
- She digs, this show too.. 
- Morning honeys 
- Just say, is it raining??? Can someone get a memo to mother nature?We don't appreciate this trump behavior. One day so dam hot, then Rain the next.. 
- What is soo good and u can have more then one! Tacos. Gonna make that for dinner though. 
- Hell yezzzzah!! 
- Dastardly... wow. 
- That bomb threat reminds me of the one at home depot, where a customer said he was fixing to blow it up, referring to the bathroom but the employee didn't understand that and called the police 
- Dam.. what a dush~bag?? like just don't go to the fucking meeting. 
- Also fucking pigs.. see how the plot. Like just to see. See how there minds work.. cops just setting and steering the, 👀n. 
- We are at 100 signatures on the EGC x PCL 2.0 petition 🥳🥳🥳 
- Ooh that song gives me NWMF nostalgia 😆 
- Lmaoooo the timing 
- Oh wow thanks for the heads up on the pressure. Gonna have so schedule a preemptive caffeine nap 🙃 
- The barometric pressure is a JAKEASS. it's not letting me out of bed. It's holding me down. blowing my head out. 
- Big love for the witch and the migraine!!! 
- The Merc not WW! - Don’t let the individuals distract you from the systems - Poverty is a policy choice - People Over Profits - Power to the People - None of us are free until we are all free