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https://mobile.twitter.com/portlandmercury/status/1603139324576681984?cxt=HHwWgMDS7Zmuv78sAAAAquote:Portland homeless shelter providers were taken by surprise in October when Mayor Ted Wheeler and City Commissioner Dan Ryan unveiled a plan to open several large-scale outdoor homeless encampments across town. Many longtime organizations, several of which already ran outdoor shelters similar to the proposed camps, had expected the city to seek their input in the proposal. A lot of that sweet sweet non-profit money in homeless concentration camps quote:The nonprofit’s budget has grown 500 percent in under two years—and it has no intention of slowing down. According to an Urban Alchemy pamphlet shared with Wheeler’s office, the organization hopes to add three new urban areas to its portfolio by June 2025.
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HashtagGirlboss posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/portlandmercury/status/1603139324576681984?cxt=HHwWgMDS7Zmuv78sAAAA In 2020 they were a 10m a year org, almost all of their revenue (about 85%) comes from contributions, they basically exploded from like 35k to 8.7M in contributions in one year, so they have some kind of dynamite fundraising team or else were funded by like a city or something, which is kind of weird, they call themselves a social enterprise. they pay their CEO and COO weirdly low, which is sus, like if they are living in san francisco on 32k and 13k a year they are homeless themselves; so they are probably also drawing a salary from somewhere else or are independently wealthy or something. Their website is all about "cleaning up streets" and not "helping homeless people" which is sort of what you'd expect from Ted.
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That is interesting. My first thought was that it was some amount of non-profit C-suite grift where they’re getting paid big dollars off of public money. Which could still be the case further down the organizational chart but maybe they’re just true believers in human misery quote:Urban Alchemy’s approach is notably different from nonprofits operating in Portland.
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HashtagGirlboss posted:That is interesting. My first thought was that it was some amount of non-profit C-suite grift where they’re getting paid big dollars off of public money. Which could still be the case further down the organizational chart but maybe they’re just true believers in human misery gently caress, I hope Bruce Harrell and the KCHRA don't see that poo poo, they'd probably love to have a non-profit partner for their sweeps.
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sanctuary districts canonically start in SF and get exported elsewhere. we're trying to keep the timeline on track so we can get to the eugenics wars.
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Wayne Knight posted:Yeah seriously. Do you want the Bell riots? Because this is how you get the Bell riots. That depends. If we have Bell riots do we also get the scarcity-free space communism future?
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therobit posted:That depends. If we have Bell riots do we also get the scarcity-free space communism future? Maybe the real scarcity-free space communism is the friends we made along the way
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therobit posted:That depends. If we have Bell riots do we also get the scarcity-free space communism future? Yes, of course! Unfortunately we still have to get the nuclear near-annihilation first.
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star trek wasn't post scarcity communist utopia. it was regular space capitalism, all the problems were foisted off onto the colonies
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Laterite posted:Yes, of course! And the eugenics wars. And the second civil war. 30% of the human population dies before vulkans discover we're warp capable in 2063. In retrospect, the lack of climate change being a factor is rather optimistic.
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The Voice of Labor posted:star trek wasn't post scarcity communist utopia. it was regular space capitalism, all the problems were foisted off onto the colonies The colonies were the weirdos that didn't want to live in space utopia.
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Getting rid of SROs and the GVRT were the only real changes in Portland to come from months of protests GVRT was reestablished a while back Now it looks like SROs are back on the menu too https://www.koin.com/nwpolitics/ppa-portland-police-union-president-discusses-bringing-school-resource-officers-back-after-shootings/amp/ Honestly it’s infuriating how little the Floyd protest’s accomplished All that energy and rage and fight and then nothing
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HashtagGirlboss posted:Getting rid of SROs and the GVRT were the only real changes in Portland to come from months of protests The only thing that happened in Seattle was they split off parking from the cops, and they're putting them back together now. So loving frustrating.
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Ham Equity posted:The only thing that happened in Seattle was they split off parking from the cops, and they're putting them back together now. Seeing so much righteous anger and energy and enthusiasm come to absolutely nothing is so depressing I think it was when I realized that mass mobilization was incapable of creating change in the US
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down with SROs, up with SROs (cheap single room occupancy motel places where you used to be able to stay for like $200/wk)
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HashtagGirlboss posted:I think it was when I realized that mass mobilization was incapable of creating change in the US That’s not correct. It has to disrupt the functioning of society in a sustained way to create change. Mass mobilizing for a short period can’t create change. It has to meaningfully disrupt society for as long time and create a sustained violent reaction to work.
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Bar Ran Dun posted:That’s not correct. And my take away from the end result of the Floyd protests was that such disruption is currently impossible. The resources the state has to maintain the status quo by force exceeds any political will to mobilize Maybe if things get really bad in the upcoming recession that might change but from where I sit currently I’m not hopeful Regardless, bringing back SROs is disappointing but unsurprising Lazy_Liberal posted:down with SROs, up with SROs There’s still some around but I’m not sure what they cost these days
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last time i checked, there were still SROs renting for under $481/mo but there's not enough to meet the need obvi. and waitlists for adorable housing programs are traditionally hell.
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HashtagGirlboss posted:Maybe if things get really bad in the upcoming recession that might change but from where I sit currently I’m not hopeful. Things have to be intolerable to large parts of society.
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Lazy_Liberal posted:last time i checked, there were still SROs renting for under $481/mo but there's not enough to meet the need obvi. and waitlists for adorable housing programs are traditionally hell. Adorable housing programs 
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Posted this in the spam but I think it fits here better The wonderful blue progressives in Oregon will be appealing an exoneration to the USSC, thus allowing the conservative majority to greatly curtail the ability for federal courts to exonerate the wrongly convicted, over a case where all key witnesses have recanted and the family of the deceased supports the exoneration https://twitter.com/maxoregonian/status/1586081762723397632
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dori monson has kicked the bucket https://mynorthwest.com/3766071/longtime-kiro-newsradio-host-dori-monson-dies-at-age-61/
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Just dropping this here: https://www.communityfirstwhatcom.org/ Local ballot initiative campaign for a min wage increase and renters protections in Whatcom county (next to the border)
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https://twitter.com/stephentotilo/status/1640465809448534017?s=20 Cantwell going to bat for Microsoft, who thinks it's unfair that Japanese people don't buy Xboxes. They seem to be implying that platform exclusivity is anti-competitive...? Somehow, I don't think that will apply to Microsoft games. Also, they're probably just trying to shove the Activision acquisition down Japan's throat.
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Ham Equity posted:https://twitter.com/stephentotilo/status/1640465809448534017?s=20 It's a weird thing to harp on, since XBoxes have always done poorly in Japan (because xenophobia obviously). And the argument that Sony is anti-competitive only makes sense when viewed through the narrow window of "high end console gaming" that excludes Nintendo, who is eating Sony's lunch in Japan.
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Based on the comments it sounds like this is 12th-dimensional chess to expose the widespread illegal ballot harvesting tactics perpetrated by the Democrats. Good luck with that, buddy.
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wizzardstaff posted:Based on the comments it sounds like this is 12th-dimensional chess to expose the widespread illegal ballot harvesting tactics perpetrated by the Democrats. Good luck with that, buddy. Yet another case of conservatives saying their is voter fraud, nobody can find evidence, conservatives commit voter fraud, then say see voter fraud.
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What’s the consensus on BM 26-238? Been hearing an awful lot of people bitch about it because it apparently doesn’t have an exemption for home sale proceeds, but that feels pretty unconvincing to me because the proceeds from home sales already get massive tax exemptions Probably reflexively fill in the yes bubble unless somebody in here can tell me that I’m wrong, I don’t have the energy to really dig into this one
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https://www.heraldnet.com/news/everett-weighs-expanding-no-sit-ban-giving-mayor-more-discretion/ til the city of Everett has a "no sit, no lie" ordinance that makes it a crime to sit or lay down within a 10 block area of the Everett Gospel Mission, a homeless shelter with a couple dozen tiny homes and the usual social services. Now they want to expand this law to apply to all locations that offer social services. There are enough around that this could effectively cover much of the city, becoming a de facto homeless ban. In addition, it will be illegal to offer support (food, water and other supplies) to anyone violating this law without a permit.
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Freakazoid_ posted:https://www.heraldnet.com/news/everett-weighs-expanding-no-sit-ban-giving-mayor-more-discretion/ Just doin' some crimes against humanity. Y'know, like you do.
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