pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼

Today the Community & Public Safety Committee will hear my joint proposal with Councilor Novick to create a Data & Privacy Office to ensure that during a time of federal and corporate overreach, Portlander’s data is protected.

www.portland.gov/council/agen...

Filmed Transit Talks with @councilormorillo.bsky.social tonight and between questions a fellow rider jumped in to say that they were loving the conversation, hearing a city councilor talk about the need for transit investments. Transit is a pro-community, pro-democracy space.

Silk emerald dress and bejeweled shoes on the bus

Bus life ✨

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There are two parts to this policy, and the nuisance fee part applies to the Macadam facility immediately.

IF the permit gets revoked (based on evidence they violated their land use permit) the entire detention fee would apply to be Macadam facility.

Racking up wins for Portlanders before the year ends with my trusty comrade/co-sponsor @councilorgreen.bsky.social

Yeah I feel the same way. Like if I could wave a magic wand none of these systems would exist but I can’t.

For the love of God, please read and share this FAQ on what powers local government has over the ICE permit

Average folks kettled ICE

Thinking about the homeless woman on the bus today who was just riding the bus back and forth, carrying all her belongings with her, because she had no where to go until the shelter opened back up for dinner. Overnight only shelters don’t stabilize people.

There were points where Tiffany tried to cheer me up while I was crying. That’s what the footage was about.

Tiffany also lifted my screen as a kindness so people wouldn’t see me crying because they were telling the only immigrant on council I love ICE

They made so many smarmy faces at my staffer (who is good and a genius and extensively researched what’s possible at the local level) over this lol.

We gotta fund the schools. Reading comprehension is dead.

Interesting when anti-ICE social media account holders, the PBA, and Kevin Dahlgren all line up to attack socialist city councilors for trying to leverage city power against detention facilities.

I bet the Mayor thinks it is hilarious since it’s the administrative side that reviews the ICE permit.

Omg this is amazing

She's a nurse & grandmother who had been here for 30 years

She had a work permit

She was taken when she went to her annual ICE check-in

She was shipped to Ghana, where she was dragged on the floor.

She was then shipped to Sierra Leone, from which she had fled, and *despite a court order.*

November 18, 2025 Honorable Portland Council President Elana Pirtle-Guiney and Councilors, We write to express our opposition to the Detention Facility Impact Fee. While we understand your motivation for proposing such an ordinance, we write to ask you to consider the long-tterm implications and unintended consequences of this proposal. The Portland Metro Chamber (The Chamber) is greater Portland's Chamber of Commerce and represents the largest, most diverse network of businesses in the region. The Alliance advocates for business at all levels of government to support commerce, community health and the region's overall prosperity. We represent more than 2,100 members, from 27 counties, 13 states and virtually every industry sector. More than 80% of our members are small businesses We share your concerns with the current federal administration's antagonistic approach to our community, and we were grateful that half the members of this council joined over 175 elected officials and organizations signing on to our call to action for a unified voice of opposition to an unjustified federal troop deployment. For more than a century and a half-since before Oregon achieved statehood-Portland has been a city where civic expression, including protest, has played a defining role in our public life. Throughout this long history, the City has never required the subject of a protest to bear the financial burden associated with public safety, cleanup, or street closures. The proposal now under consideration would dramatically depart from that long-standing principle and create an avenue for targeted financial liability based solely on the political aims of others. This change would introduce significant long-term risks. Portland's political landscape has evolved over time and will continue to do so. A policy that allows elected officials to levy costs on entities that are the focus of protests-regardless of whether those entities organized,

1. Lack of Environmental Impact Evaluation To our knowledge, the City has never undertaken an environmental impact assessment of protest activity. If the environmental effects of demonstrations are a basis for new fees or restrictions, such analysis should be conducted before establishing a policy framework that selectively assigns financial responsibility. 2. Departure From Established Practice for Civic Events While the City routinely requires event organizers to cover public safety and right-of-way impacts for parades, marathons, and other permitted activities, this proposal would mark the first time a tax-paying business would be charged for costs associated with an event it did not host, sanction, or participate in. This is a significant shift in policy with far-reaching implications. 3. Risk of Creating a New Revenue Mechanism Targeting Businesses If adopted, this measure could establish a precedent enabling the City to levy impact fees whenever a business becomes the focus of a protest. Such a mechanism would send a chilling signal to the commercial real estate and broader business community. Portland competes with other cities and surrounding jurisdictions for investment; proposals that create unpredictable or punitive cost exposure threaten our competitiveness. 4. Absence of Protestor Accountability While the Chamber strongly supports the right to free speech and peaceful assembly, the current proposal places the entirety of the financial burden on the business being targeted-regardless of the actions of demonstrators. This raises a fundamental policy

Portland's success depends on fostering a stable, predictable, and fair business environment. We urge the Council to reconsider this proposal and engage stakeholders in developing a policy approach that honors our city's values, protects constitutional rights, and sustains the economic vitality that Portland depends on. Portland Metro Chamber Multifamily NW Oregon Smart Growth Home Building Association of Greater Portland Building Owners & Managers Association of Oregon

Welp, it looks like the Portland Metro Chamber’s solidarity with the community against ICE and a federal invasion ends at charging an impact fee to property owners who would rent their properties to detention facilities that harm neighbors & drain public resources.

Can’t say that we’re surprised!

Congress wrote into the law that someone who overstays a visa while applying for asylum is not considered to be accruing “unlawful presence,” but it didn’t explicitly say those people couldn’t be arrested and detained — because it was presumed that they wouldn’t be. Well, Trump is doing it.

Kevin Dahlgren, prominent critic of Portland area homeless services, admits to stealing from one of them He pleaded guilty to first-degree theft, aggravated identity theft, and first-degree official misconduct Tuesday afternoon.

Wait, THAT Kevin dahlgren??? www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/0...

Mitch cosponsored the impact fee.

Sameer worked on codifying sanctuary city status.

Ryan and Clark have been reticent to do ANYTHING on ICE.

No other city has revoked an ICE permit.

And yet the people shouldering all the blame according to these activists? The women of color on council.

I think it’s honestly disgusting and deeply unserious that the Revoke the Permit people have clipped videos of my women colleagues eating pizza at the dais as some kind of shaming tool, which is now being used by right-wing media to harass them in misogynistic ways. Congrats everyone.

It’s also not lost on me these same folks are praising my male colleague for clarifying the permit process for the ICE building while they’ve raked me through the coals for explaining it.

Genuinely hilarious.

Group of FRSO people next to me are waving down the women of color on council quote “to take ugly pictures on purpose” and making weird comments about them eating.

Actually wish these people were an Op

Trump, two summers ago: We're gonna deport the 30 million illegals let in by Biden

This woman, this March: My second sight is telling me ICE is going to be a big player here.

Laughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism

High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.

The teenager told officers he was a U.S. citizen, but an officer broke the car’s driver’s side window and detained him. In a video, the boy can be heard telling an officer that he is a citizen, to which the officer replies, “Get out of the car” and “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Too busy for that but you’re welcome to create a character of me and go ham lol

Like he amount of people who bullshit and lie in politics or who truly do not care about anything but their careers is astounding. The relief you experience talking to someone who will be straight with you is immense.

Yes Mamdani is charming but the reason someone like Trump can walk away feeling good about him after a conversation is because you can tell his politics is rooted in a deep love for the people and when communicated effectively, that’s disarming even for those who disagree. Sincerity is irreplaceable