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2 months

Portland police union president: “We need to be honest and not gaslight Portlanders about what happened in 2020.” Full episode from @azcfilm ’s show NW Fresh here:

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@rationalinpdx

2 years

Nutcracker in Eugene, OR. Following the science by masking only the kid dancers while the adults smile and dance unmasked.

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1 year

Absolutely heartbreaking story. So glad this 14-year-old girl was rescued from a sex trafficking gang thanks to the tenacity of @lwoodhouse ; @ShellenbergerMD ; Former SFPD Gang Investigator Paul Lozada; and Vic Lacey, the Director of Investigations for the nonprofit Special

NewsNation

@NewsNation

1 year

A 14-year-old girl in California was rescued after being allegedly sold for sex by a street gang. She escaped with the help of journalist @ShellenbergerMD , who joins @ChrisCuomo to discuss the details. #CUOMO

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10 months

She was walking with a male friend. She never saw it coming. She is athletic and strong. She walks confidently and quickly. She has lived in big cities throughout the world, and she travels often for medical conferences. If this happened to her, it could happen to anyone.

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2 years

Kids in Portland Oregon eating lunch outside on asphalt on Home Depot buckets under the guise of public health. Meanwhile, Oregon’s governor….

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2 years

I’m downtown and everyone is boarding up. People like @PdxMot and @SusanGriffin530 (Susan lives downtown) emailed city hall begging for preparation for the political violence we know is coming. We want a plan. We want to know our downtown is safe. No one has heard back.

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@rationalinpdx

1 year

From a Portland contractor.

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10 months

She called 911. No one came. The perpetrator is a nondescript white male, late ‘20s-early ‘30s, 5’ 10”-6’ who ended up running away and, as far as we know, has not been caught.

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@rationalinpdx

5 months

An Oregon state agency that serves as the main pass-through of housing $$ from the federal government can’t account for a quarter of a billion $, and there are no receipts. For housing.

Oregon agency unable to verify if millions in rental assistance went to those who needed it most

Auditors said the Oregon Housing and Community Services has no way of knowing how much of $426 million in federal emergency funds went to renters.

www.statesmanjournal.com

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@rationalinpdx

2 years

@paulanoukas Eeevvvvery story links back to identity politics. They can turn a news item about bitcoin into a story about white supremacy.

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1 year

The “Death of Downtown” study placed Portland at No. 60 out of 62 cities. Only Cleveland and San Francisco were worse.

Downtown Portland has third-to-worst pandemic recovery, according to study

Downtown Portland Clean & Safe conducted a similar study last year, but used foot traffic analytics instead of cell phone data.

www.koin.com

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10 months

We went from the country’s least popular governor… To the country’s least popular governor.

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek’s approval rating at 42%; lower than any governor, poll finds

Only 42% of Oregonians approved of Kotek’s job performance, according to the poll.

www.oregonlive.com

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@rationalinpdx

5 months

Holy Schmidt. @VoteVasquez24 @People4Portland

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1 year

You could cut the tension with a knife at the Multnomah Co Comm budget meeting today where @SMeieran just voted “no” on the $3.5 billion budget and dropped truth bombs about the lack of transparency and failure to meaningfully address homelessness, drug addiction, and mental

Rational in Portland

@rationalinpdx

1 year

@SMeieran is 🔥🔥🔥 — she just literally blew up the Multnomah County budget meeting with a “no” vote due to lack of transparency and lack of funding for data-based programs to address mental illness, addiction, and homelessness.

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1 year

From Sellwood Middle School. I assumed it was received during sex ed. it wasn’t. I think that’s even weirder. So kids are expected to work on this instead of, you know, math/science/English…

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@rationalinpdx

10 months

Mary is OK. Other Portlanders have not been as lucky.

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8 months

Here’s what needs to happen in OR: 1. Prohibit public drug use. 2. Re-criminalize lethal drugs. 3. Require detox and rehab if necessary. 4. Revive drug court for addicts who commit misdemeanors. 5. Marijuana taxes go to prevention, detox/rehab. 6. ⬆️ penalties for drug dealing.

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@rationalinpdx

1 year

Downtown Portland has the weakest recovery in the United States. (paywall)

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1 year

“An overwhelming majority of Multnomah County voters say homelessness in the Portland area is “an out-of-control disaster” and people in crisis living on the streets should be required to undergo addiction or mental health treatment.” Mandated. Treatment.

Portland-area poll finds huge appetite for tougher tactics on homelessness

The crisis is “an out-of-control disaster,” according to 75% of likely Multnomah County voters.

www.oregonlive.com

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@rationalinpdx

1 year

Tony Blair said, “The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.” In an unprecedented move, Multnomah Co Commissioner @SMeieran exemplifies the art of leadership and votes “no” on the $3.5 billion county budget. This is a must-watch:

Rational in Portland

@rationalinpdx

1 year

You could cut the tension with a knife at the Multnomah Co Comm budget meeting today where @SMeieran just voted “no” on the $3.5 billion budget and dropped truth bombs about the lack of transparency and failure to meaningfully address homelessness, drug addiction, and mental

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@rationalinpdx

6 months

More than half of Portlanders would leave if they could. “About two-thirds of Portland voters say the city is on ‘the wrong track’ and more than half would leave if they could afford to.”

Majority of Portland voters say they’d consider leaving if they could as crime, homeless concerns...

Sixty-eight percent of people surveyed said Portland is “losing what made it special.”

www.oregonlive.com

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@rationalinpdx

2 years

Email from PDX Public Schools re enrollment drop of more than 20%: “Several factors led to the drop, including decreasing birth rates, enrollment patterns, school re-configurations and choices families have made.” 😂 “birthrates.” How about “because we were closed for 1.5 yrs.”

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@rationalinpdx

2 years

Now that OR Health Authority has enabled itself to permanently mask all Oregonians, it can exercise that authority at its whim. Forever. That’s why it quietly, without a press release, filed to make the mask mandate permanent and then announced that it would be lifted by 3/31.

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@rationalinpdx

1 year

Oregonians can’t stop yammering about the environment, but we’re real quiet when someone brings up the fact that we’re letting the homeless trash it into oblivion.

Willamette Riverkeeper Petitions State to Regulate Trash and Debris on the River’s Banks

www.wweek.com

Paul

@rudderlessboat

1 year

@rationalinpdx @kevinvdahlgren It’s crazy we have one class of people who are allowed complete freedom, to build and live as they please. And the rest of us have to beg the city and pay fees to let a professional contractor build a deck or add a window.

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@rationalinpdx

1 year

Is the decline of Portland due to the pandemic? Not according to @KevinBarton4DA , the District Attorney of Washington County, a suburban area of Portland. He says that: “COVID has become the great smokescreen that allows mediocre leadership to hide.”

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@rationalinpdx

1 year

I’m a lifelong pro choice Democrat who identified as a progressive just a couple of years ago. I find it abhorrent that my party is being so cagey in their propaganda for what they call the “Reproductive Health & Access to Care Bill”, which would allow kids 15 and up to sterilize

Oregon House Republicans

@OregonHouseGOP

1 year

#Throwback to when House Bill 2002 B's Chief Sponsor audibly gasped when government attorneys confirmed that this bill will allow 10-year-olds to get abortions. Who is wanting to hide the truth?

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@rationalinpdx

1 year

Oh. My. God. Apparently Multnomah Co has $68 million of our “homeless tax” dollars and it’s actually so much money, the county simply doesn’t know what to do with it. We have one of the worst homeless crises in the country. What a disgrace.

Multnomah County, already failing to spend millions on homeless services, to receive additional...

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler wants the unanticipated dollars to go toward funding the city's mass alternative shelter sites.

www.oregonlive.com

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@rationalinpdx

2 years

The political violence in Portland is absolutely out of control. Commissioner Ryan’s house was vandalized at least 7 times; our mayor’s condo building was set fire; our jail was set fire, putting employees and inmates in danger, and on and on. Will it ever be stopped?

Rene For Portland

@reneforportland

2 years

Sigh, after weekend of candidate working cooling center and doing a youth oriented pedalpalooza, our campaign office was vandalized. . . . At least we are in good company. Press release to follow.

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1 year

I just learned that REI announced this morning that they’re closing the store in the Pearl within 10 months with no plans to be downtown at all. I don’t think they’ve done a press release yet. @REI - tell us it isn’t true. Would be terrible for Portland.

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@rationalinpdx

1 year

WA sees what a disaster Measure 110 has been for Oregon. @TinaKotek the polling is clear—63% of Oregon voters want to bring back criminal penalties for drug possession. Time to end this drug experiment on Oregonians.

Brandi Kruse

@BrandiKruse

1 year

BREAKING: Washington state House and Senate vote overwhelmingly to keep drug possession a crime, avoiding de facto legalization on July 1.

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1 year

“In Portland, our tax money for homelessness is actually going to nonprofits whose directors are agitating for extreme political policies that most of us do not agree with.”

Don Courtney: The lawyer who advocated for the Lents neighborhood

Listen to this episode from Rational in Portland on Spotify. https://www.lentsneighborhoodlivabilityassociation.org/safe-rest-village-letterDispatch from Portland 2023: The Death Eatershttps://www....

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@rationalinpdx

2 months

Portland. Of course it is.

Ian Miles Cheong

@stillgray

2 months

“You’re going viral.” No woman, you are. Leftists are absolutely insane: the way they treat police officers is contemptible.

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4 months

One week after an arson in front of the home he shares with his family, @CommissionerRG was assaulted on public transit. City security asked him to stop using public transit. Let that sink in. It’s unsafe for a sitting commissioner to take public transit in his own city.

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@rationalinpdx

1 year

“Portland-based Coava Coffee is permanently closing its downtown cafe this week on three days’ notice”, citing “extreme violence and criminal activity on an almost daily basis for the last few years.”

Downtown Portland coffee shop announces closure, cites safety concerns

After six years at Southwest Jefferson Street and 12th Avenue, the cafe's last day is Thursday.

www.oregonlive.com

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@rationalinpdx

3 years

Things are so bad in Portland that our friends tried to take their kids camping for the first time and they cried and asked if they were homeless. They were confounded by the idea that they were paying to sleep in a tent.

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@rationalinpdx

1 year

Mayor Wheeler asks member of the Portland Utility Board why opposing rate increases for low income Portlanders is white supremacy.

Kim McGair

@kmcgair

1 year

@rationalinpdx @CommissionerRG Did you watch afternoon session today? Wheeler and Rene just said "I'm just done with being called racist every time we say something you don't like. Done." It was so great.

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@rationalinpdx

1 year

Oregon has the worst drug problem in the US. Meanwhile, according to the state audit, “we can’t tell” if Measure 110 is working.

KOIN News

@KOINNews

1 year

A new report by the National Drug Helpline shows Oregon as the state with the worst drug problems in the United States. Here's a closer look >>>

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@rationalinpdx

6 months

Portland Public School Board members Hollands and Brim-Edwards are being targeted by criminals, as if this will somehow meaningfully advance the agenda of the Portland teachers union. Portland has normalized crime in the name of politics.

Eric

@citizen_oregon

6 months

Despicable “A car & a house owned by two board members were vandalized overnight in apparent reference to the contract dispute.Board Chair Holland’s car was spray painted with the word,”shame,”the district said.A home owned by board member Brim-Edwards was also hit with graffiti”

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2 years

Update on the kid whose first play date in over two years is at our house: they are here. I have to run to the grocery store but the kid says they can’t go because they haven’t been to a store in two years, either. 🤯 PDX kids … 🙈

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1 year

A lot of people asking about Oregon HB 3501/SB 603, to give $1,000 a month to the homeless and people at risk. The bill didn’t get a work session, cannot move forward, and will not become law this session. Thanks to Rep. Dexter’s Chief of Staff for providing this info.

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@rationalinpdx

1 year

Want to know why Gov Kotek was the only gubernatorial candidate to support Oregon’s drug decriminalization Measure 110? Because she’s funded by the Drug Policy Alliance, the mastermind behind the Measure 110 campaign.

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2 years

Covid is over outside of Portland. In Beaverton running all over town on errands and it’s crowded and there are NO MASKS. Portland is a different planet. #maskoff

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1 year

In Portland, individuals making $125,000 or married couples filing jointly making $250,000 pay the highest taxes in the country. No one else in the US pays the top marginal tax rate at those income levels. “By comparison, the only New Yorkers paying the top rate there are those

SumMor

@ORrunnermom

1 year

@rationalinpdx I am so tired of being embarrassed by portland. For the amount of taxes we pay, it would be nice to feel proud of where you live. When I tell people we pay close to 20k/yr in property taxes, they are blown away. Then add in $$$$$ income/homeless tax.

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1 year

Even after electing someone new, Oregon continues to have the worst-ranked governor in the country. @TinaKotek could turn this around by using state resources and the OR National Guard to dismantle fentanyl trafficking and hold drug cartels accountable. @GavinNewsom is doing

FOX 12 Oregon

@fox12oregon

1 year

After her first 100 days in office, Oregon Governor Tina Kotek has the worst approval rating in the country. @GregNibler sat down with @horvick to talk about the data.

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2 years

Kaiser study: out of more than 52,000 Omicron patients, only one death and no ventilators. Why is this data not more widely known??

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5 months

Former Multnomah County Commissioner Jayapal is running for Congress. According to an audit, when Jayapal was at the county, she engaged in “outside influence” putting “undue pressure” on employees to award a $779,000 contract to a housing nonprofit.

Susheela Jayapal swayed Multnomah County to hire a nonprofit amid competitive bidding, auditor...

Jayapal, a former county commissioner, is now running for Congress.

www.oregonlive.com

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2 years

School outdoor mask mandate lifted today! I’ll take my crumbs and savor them. 🥳

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2 years

I spent a month in Cairo and never saw anything like what I see daily residing and working in the City of Portland. This is a humanitarian crisis.

Scott Ford

@GreatScottFord

2 years

It was heartbreaking to visit Portland, Ore., on my last and recent trip. I've never witnessed street persons in living conditions like this. All across Portland this is a common sight now. How did America get to this point? My old neighborhood

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4 months

Violent extremists have taken credit for setting a car on fire in front of the home that @CommissionerRG shares with his wife and children. Political violence interferes with democracy and is intolerable. Leaders in Portland must condemn this immediately. @reneforportland

Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈

@MrAndyNgo

5 months

A Portland Antifa blog has posted a claim of responsibility for the shocking arson attack at the home of moderate Portland mayoral candidate @reneforportland . The statement says they wanted to set more vehicles on fire & urged for more attacks. Read:

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1 year

Portland just paid Urban Alchemy $50 mill to run a “safe rest village”. Predictably, any optimism “has evaporated.” People say the city basically put an open air drug market and shooting gallery in their neighborhood.

New Safe Rest village in North Portland causing issues for neighbors

The Peninsula Crossing Safe Rest Village is barely one week old and neighbors are already noticing what they call concerning activity.

www.kptv.com

Gina_Mothers Against Drug Addiction & Deaths

@Gina_McDee

1 year

How long will @UrbanAlchemyUA go unchecked. @JeffKositsky - can we get some help here? One of our loved ones was assaulted and it’s not an isolated incident. The very people they are hired to HELP are being mistreated. @StopDrugDeaths

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3 years

So upset. A friend who used to be one of the most rational, measured people I know just screamed at a guy outside to “put a f***ing mask on”. The amount of judgment, vitriol, superiority, and self righteousness in PDX can’t be overstated.

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26 days

As the Multnomah County District Attorney debate started last night, the Portland State University library was being broken into and illegally occupied for the second time. Is anyone else sick of this garbage? @VoteVasquez24

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1 year

This is amazing. The hearing for Oregon HB 3501 - the “right to rest” bill, which would significantly worsen the open air drug markets on our streets, has been CANCELED. “A new hearing date is not been planned at this time.” Your voices were heard. @AZtoPacNW @People4Portland

Thad Fisco

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1 year

@rationalinpdx @BrandiKruse Just received.

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7 months

Got a UPS box because our mail has been stolen so many times at home and at work and was just informed the UPS store was robbed. There’s a lot of stuff that can’t be delivered via PO Box, which is why I picked UPS. Not really sure how to get mail in Portland anymore.

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2 years

Proof of vaxx mask required to get into Handel’s Messiah. In OR, that’s not surprising. What was surprising was that OR has sunk to fully masking the choir. Try singing the Hallelujah Chorus fully masked. The lunacy/idiocy of Oregon can’t be overstated.

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3 months

District Attorney Mike Schmidt’s biggest infusion of cash so far is from the out-of-state Drug Policy Alliance, which gifted Oregon the Trojan Horse that decriminalized all drugs. How many other District Attorneys have that honor?? @VoteVasquez24

Drug Policy Alliance Donates $30,000 to District Attorney Mike Schmidt’s Reelection Campaign

www.wweek.com

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1 year

I realized we were heading straight to hell when more than one person told me they moved here because they loved the show “Portlandia”. This was satire. It was ridiculing extremists. The show ended when the city became the joke.

Jennifer Sey

@JenniferSey

1 year

Much like the SNL skit about Levi’s Wokes in 2017, no way this would be made now. Pointing out the absurdity and excesses of wokeness is no longer acceptable by the Left.

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2nd and Washington, across from Mama Mia

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10 months

Update: the officers at @PPBCentral and major crimes are already on top of it, grabbing the 911 call, identifying potential witnesses, and securing video. A patrol car did come, but Portland’s central precinct is 41 square miles and our police are woefully understaffed. 🙏🏻

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Oregon Museum of Science and Industry about 60% masked today. Many parents were unmasked with cloth masked, vax-aged kids. An elderly woman took her surgical mask off in the bathroom, washed her hands, wiped them on her mask, and then put her mask on. It’s all so fascinating.

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1 year

@CommissionerRG says he is “so tired of the invocation of white supremacy and equity arguments on economic issues and I think it’s a bastardization of language”.

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2 years

In Oregon the gov wants to make the mask mandate permanent under the guise of “science”. When she’s away from OR she doesn’t wear a mask. When she’s here, guess what kind of mask she wears?

Justin Spiro, LCSW 🇮🇱

@Jusrangers

2 years

“Cloth masks are little more than facial decorations.” - Dr. Wen

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10 months

I don’t know how else to say it. If you pay taxes in @multco you just paid for pamphlets to teach fentanyl addicts how to put drugs up their a$$holes.

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@rationalinpdx

10 months

@JVPforOregon please explain why you and the @MultCoHealth spent public dollars on “boofing pamphlets”. “‘A harm reduction guide for boofing — that is, the holy act of putting drugs up your butt.’”

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1 year

Hatfield US Courthouse, Portland Does anyone else’s federal district court look like this at closing time?

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1 year

Hi, Portland: “San Francisco’s problems [] don’t bode well for other cities, long considered Democratic fortresses,” which are crumbling under the “fentanyl epidemic, homeless encampments, [] deteriorating school systems and high tax rates.”

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Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt’s job approval rating is at 22%. That seems high. Nathan Vasquez 2024.

Portland-area poll finds huge appetite for tougher tactics on homelessness

The crisis is “an out-of-control disaster,” according to 75% of likely Multnomah County voters.

www.oregonlive.com

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This has been ongoing since 2020 but we’re just now covering it as an alarming phenomenon in the news nearly 3 years later. What is the explanation for this? Did the news media orgs suddenly get kissed by Prince Charming and wake up from their comas?

Kyle Iboshi

@KyleIboshi

1 year

Portland's broken window epidemic: Who is behind the vandalism and what is going to stop it?

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1 year

Mayor Wheeler asks again how opposing 8% utility rate increases every year “for the foreseeable future” is “an act of white supremacy”. Response: “I don’t feel comfortable…” Wheeler: “And yet you felt comfortable suggesting that alternative is an act of white supremacy.”

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2 years

Why does OR still have a mask mandate? Not one life has been saved because I wore a mask. Why? It’s not only because my cloth mask is useless. It’s also because I’ve never had Covid.

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2 years

Portland Public School elementary kids eating on the ground in 45 degree weather (feels like 39 according to weather app) in January. Photo taken today at Duniway. Buckets might be an upgrade. Aaand it just started raining.

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10 months

In the homelessness conversation, we need to start making distinctions between those who are functional (couch surfing, living with friends/relatives, shelters, temporary housing, etc.) v. those who can’t care for themselves (end-stage addiction and/or severely mentally ill).

Willamette Week

@wweek

10 months

What factors correlate with homelessness? According to Gregg Colburn: High rents and low vacancies. “…In places that are expensive, homelessness is high, and in places that are cheap, homelessness is low,” Colburn says.

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5 months

Does anyone find it weird that the alleged champions of free speech are limiting comments on their Twitter posts?

ACLU of Oregon

@ACLU_OR

5 months

🗣️ ICYMI: Last Friday, we filed a formal complaint with the Oregon Secretary of State, alleging violations of multiple elections and transparency laws over several months by the “Fix and Improve Measure 110” campaign. 👉 Learn more on our website:

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Portland Public Schools closed for 18 months, its students are being shot and sold drugs outside their high schools, under 40% can read and under 30% can do math, but PPS is shocked that parents have finally had enough of its incompetence.

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1 year

Weird because we’re told over and over in Portland that the people in tents are functional and employed and and are a paycheck away from living in a beautiful townhome in Bethany.

Commissioner Rene Gonzalez

@CommissionerRG

1 year

Homeless deaths: It’s the drugs. “Substances contributed to about 60% of those deaths... mirroring trends seen across the country.” “'Polysubstance, meth & fentanyl are the key takeaways,’ said county health officer Jennifer Vines."

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2 years

#maskoff at Clackamas Target today. About 10 others. Unbothered.

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1 year

As in California, Oregon’s unsheltered homelessness crisis is not from a “lack of housing”. Oregon must correctly identify it as a drug and mental illness crisis. Until that happens, we won’t fix it.

Michael Shellenberger

@shellenberger

1 year

Rather than be honest about the problem, California leaders claim that the worsening crime and homelessness results from a lack of housing rather than a lack of police.

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9 months

Car on fire—downtown Portland parking lot under the Schmidt Show sign. @People4Portland

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3 years

The left wing version of Q Anon is everyone alone outside with a mask on.

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2 years

“Portland’s iconic ice cream business Salt & Straw may move its headquarters from Southeast Portland out of state, owing to frustration with crime, drugs and street camping.”

The Oregonian

@Oregonian

2 years

Salt & Straw co-founder says ‘I can’t stay here’ if Portland HQ employees aren’t safe

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3 years

@sarahbeth345 I left Pantsuit Nation almost immediately after I was added to it after this kind of crap. Now I feel like I do is delete requests to be added to Occupy Democrats. Gag.

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2 years

Scenes from downtown PDX one day after the mask mandate is lifted: people with masks outside, people with masks inside, and a sign on the downtown fire department door stating that playgrounds, skateparks, and sport courts/fields are closed.

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1 year

Homelessness continues to worsen in Portland. More money won’t fix it. Since 2015, the city of Portland has poured $1.7 billion into “homelessness”. This is NOT including state/county money or the Metro “homelessness tax”, expected to collect $2.5 billion in 10 years.

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1 year

If this sign weren’t up, OHSU would be a veritable antebellum South.

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6 months

The dismissal of this case involving violent felony charges is part of DA Mike Schmidt’s “restorative justice program”. Vote Nathan Vasquez for Multnomah County District Attorney if you want change. @VoteVasquez24

Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈

@MrAndyNgo

6 months

Update: Violent Portland Antifa member Alissa Eleanor Azar had her felony Multnomah County case dismissed by Judge Judith Matarazzo ( @DAMikeSchmidt / @MultCoDA also dropped other charges). The militant was originally charged with multiple charges of assault, riot, robbery and more

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2 months

“They literally boarded the doors of North Precinct shut with people inside and tried to light it on fire.”

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2 years

Like 15 people w no mask at Happy Valley Home Depot. I took mine off. No one said anything.

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11 months

“The Multnomah County Health Department will begin distributing tin foil and straws this month to fentanyl smokers at sites across Portland”. They’ll also distribute “glass pipes for smoking meth and crack as well as ‘snorting kits’.”

Multnomah County Will Distribute Tinfoil and Straws to Fentanyl Smokers

www.wweek.com

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4 months

@CommissionerRG @trimet I am so sorry. This is absolutely insane. This is why we need a strong mayor. Thank you so much for your service and for running for office again.

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1 year

The contrast between our weeklies couldn’t be clearer. Willamette Week is elevating investigative journalism in Portland. Meanwhile, the Mercury is looking more and more like a Snapchat run by underemployed Gen Zs out of a houseshare.

The Cascadian Wanderer

@AZtoPacNW

1 year

Holy Moses, the @portlandmercury is embarrassing.

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8 months

The Drug Policy Alliance sold Oregon the M110 drug decriminalization measure. Oregonians have heard quite enough from this out-of-state interest group and we’re tired of watching our family members, friends, and fellow citizens die on the streets of overdoses.

The Cascadian Wanderer

@AZtoPacNW

8 months

Gotta love it when a NYC group doubles down on destroying Oregon.

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3 years

Oregon has reached full blown absurdity with its outdoor mask mandate and has destroyed any shred of credibility OHA may have had.

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2 years

Why are people leaving Portland? 1) the homelessness crisis is out of control; 2) taxes (highest income tax in the country and still no resolution to reason #1 ); and 3) “Portland’s robust tenant protections” are driving out landlords.

Fleeing Portland? We Have Bad News About Home Prices in Surrounding Bedroom Towns.

www.wweek.com

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3 months

Bend, Oregon 😂

Clown World ™ 🤡

@ClownWorld_

3 months

1200 sqft 😳

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2 years

#maskoff Washington Square Nordstrom. Four others. Unbothered.

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2 years

Predictable.

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1 year

Wait till you see the @kevinvdahlgren video of the enormous, dystopian homeless favelas right on the Willamette river in Portland. And they all have boats. We are so completely lawless and off the rails, it’s hard to overstate what’s going on here.

'Dystopian' Portland homeless community boasts makeshift cabins with chimneys, solar panels

City declines to take responsibility for structures on prime riverside real estate with 'million-dollar' views of downtown

www.foxnews.com

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1 year

Of course, tent favelas, fentanyl, arson, and chasing old ladies down the street with hatchets will remain permissible in the zone. Just not gas-powered vehicles.

KOIN News

@KOINNews

1 year

Using funds from a $2 million grant, Portland plans to create a 16-block area in downtown where all deliveries must be made using zero-emission vehicles.

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7 months

Open fire in front of the bench that surrounds the downtown Portland public library. 8 am.

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