Jo Michelle

Meanwhile, “did women ruin the workplace?”

yeah it's honestly so wild! to me that the new york times circa 2019 is writing articles about how the internet is making kids trans meanwhile their writers are emailing The World's Most Well Known Child Sex Trafficker like "heyyy buddy,,,, how's it goin friend!"

And sweeps disrupt whatever relational connections people have been able to establish. One of the many ways sweeps kill.

NWDA Emergency Meeting Inbox Todd Zarnitz 2:23 PM to me When the Mayor unilaterally decided to build mass shelters in our neighborhood, a lot of the support was driven by a compassionate argument: "Would you rather have people in shelters or on the street." My concern was simple: "We're going to end up with both." That reality is now rapidly becoming City policy... as Portland City Council will vote on Wednesday to strip funding from the "Impact Reduction Program," the initiative that cleans up dangerous, illegal, violent and criminal camping. As far as I can tell, we have a large group of City Councilors who need to see continued suffering, slow street deaths, and chaos on our streets in order to bolster an adolescent socialist housing plan, instead of the idea succeeding or failing on its own merits. Defunding a program to clean-up and maintain a safe and livable neighborhood is completely unacceptable... but the effort to do that is now an appalling reality, with full-throated support from at least one of our District 4 Councilors.

I don’t think people understand how organized pro-sweep turnout will be to wednesdays council meeting.

Register for item 8 ASAP. If you can’t make it, testify in writing:

www.portland.gov/council/agenda

Officials in the mayor's office said dumpsters don't work. The city installed a handful at the start of the pandemic, but quickly changed course after housed residents and business owners started using them to dispose of mattresses, tires and other trash, said Skyler Brocker-Knapp, the mayor's senior policy adviser. City officials also feared that placing dumpsters near camps could attract more homeless people, she said. "Every time we tried it, other community members dumped stuff there. The dumpsters really got misused," Brocker-Knapp said. "There's really no good way to make sure they're just used by the homeless community." But Hess said depriving people of needed services like dumpsters doesn't reduce homelessness, it simply makes people and their living conditions more miserable and is more likely to lead to environmental impacts.

The individuals neighbors complained about were not necessarily responsible for the trash itself. Unsheltered sites accounted for 26% of waste Metro cleared from public property in the past year, according to RID data. The same data shows residential dumping accounts for 59% of all sites cleaned by Metro and its partners in the past year. Even the proximity of trash to homeless encampments is a poor indicator of the source of that trash, according to RID. Barbra Weber, Ground Score co-founder and co-executive director, said it is not uncommon to see housed Portlanders or construction crews leave trash near encampments, including a recent instance of an apartment building renovation crew repeatedly dumping debris around an RV encampment Ground Score serves. Weber said it's unfair to assume a person living in a tent within the vicinity of a pile of trash is responsible for the trash in the first place. Resourceful people often take goods from illegally dumped piles, colloquially known as "free piles," to take back to a site, but a homeless Portlander is not typically the source of most trash. Furniture, couches and tires are the items most consistently removed by RID Patrol, according to RID data. "A lot of this trash isn't theirs, and they get blamed for all of it," Weber said.

Just leaving these two excerpts here. Completely irrelevant to anything happening

Mayor Wilson calling nonprofits to scare them with false information is really good insight into how he plays politics.

Katie Wilson is ahead by 91 votes

Seattle's Mamdani is winning by an absurdly small margin over our incumbent mayor, who once pulled a gun on a pregnant woman in a parking lot.

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1. It‘s shocking to people who grew up on American propaganda of the U.S. being the best. It seems worse because it’s here.
2. Some places have less access to hard drugs. So instead they self medicate with alcohol. Which is just as harmful & causes so much DV around the world.
3. We have more guns.

There are a lot of Portlanders who consider themselves progressive but turn reactionary when they see visible poverty.

The urge to just make poverty disappear from sight instead of working toward holistic solutions is why we don’t have nice things in this country.

Poverty is a social creation.

It really does just take a few minutes.

You can also write and call the counselors of your district, and the mayor's office.

I don't think you should be able to describe yourself as anti-fascist if you're pro-sweeps.

It’s insane how most of the people commenting on this view houseless people as a different species from them, rather than them after one year of bad luck.

Senate Democrats: what just happened under our current leadership is a total travesty

Also Senate Democrats: i have nothing to say about whether our current leadership may be part of the problem

The Freedom app works on both phones and computers. I’ve used it for years and love it.

It does cost money.

I’m not sure if it blocks specific apps on the desktop version, but it will block any or all websites for sure.

…. Speaking of. I should go activate it and get some creative writing done.

It’s wild to suggest this is a circular firing squad or something when it’s millions of citizen Democrats who hate it versus 47 elected Democrats who conspired to surrender for nothing.

We’re not fighting “each other,” we’re fighting you. There’s only a few dozen of you, but you hold all the power.

This is right. Democratic politicians complain about “circular firing squads” or “getting rid of litmus tests” because they don’t want to be held to account for their idiocy, corruption, and cowardice

REPUBLICANS: Democrats are antichrists and must be put against the wall.

DEMOCRATS: Let's work together with our friends across the aisle.

Oof. You’re not wrong there. 🫠

I need every moderate Dem voter who’s been radicalized by the fecklessness of establishment Democrats in Congress to understand; if you’re angry at establishment Dems for conceding to Trump once again, but you’re also giddy at the thought of voting for Newsom in 2028, then you’ve learned nothing.

We can't vote Schumer out until 2028 but we can make him being the senate majority leader a litmus test for 2026 candidates. Every single Dem senate candidate should be forced to go on the record and state they will not vote for him as majority leader.

Wilson is REALLLLY trying to fill Rene Gonzalez‘s shoes here, I see.

At this point, our city cannot afford anymore centrists.

Wilson, like Wheeler, has proven to be nothing more than a centrist, with no interest to course-correct our centrist policy failures.

Homelessness is a MASSIVE policy failure.

And HOUSING (NOT temporary shelter) is the ONLY solution.

And then they wonder why their base didn't show up to vote for them.

But hopefully with less huge payouts over lawsuits for breaking laws, like cops keep costing the city.

The true war on white people. It's me. I'm the white people and anything hotter than black pepper is my death. 😆

They've been trying to keep a low profile here -- quickly show up and run away. So most of the community organizing has been reactive.

They're also most active in the far westside - Forest Grove and Cornelius rather than the city core. (Also Gresham to the east)

Also, commerce doesn’t depend on capitalism, for commerce to function & flourish.

However, capitalism is 100% dependent on commerce.

We can absolutely live in a world with commerce, without capitalism to muck things up.

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Dang it, #Epic is so good y'all. How did I put off looking it up for so long?

A few of these songs have already become the main songs for a couple of my own characters. 😅 😭

#Ruthless
#odysseus
#Epicmusical

While I know I’m very late to the Epic: The Musical party, I’ve known the Fates had decreed my arrival at this party from the moment I heard it existed.

And so, instead of trying to hold back the inevitable, I am here. Playing the songs on repeat. As the Fates have willed. 😅😂

Wait. …. So, like. There are people for whom dopamine makes them get up and start a task?

And like, without the side of panic and fighting with doorhandles that grab them as they rush past?