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therobit posted:Unfortunately we probably won’t know about the totals from Clackamas until late in the day. Our horseshit elections clerk decided that they wouldn’t announce totals between like 10 last night and this evening. Luckily one of the few races that is enough of a landslide to call from Clack is said horseshit clerk Sherri Hall losing to McCullen. There’s enough uncounted in Multnomah and Washington counties and the margin in Clackamas isn’t dire enough as it currently stands for me to see a path forward for Drazen. Although who knows
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Ham Equity posted:https://twitter.com/IdahoStatesman/status/1595012051746824192?s=20&t=YE15uC0csAt-om2CCMXMrg Boise’s been growing so fast it must be really weird seeing the institutions struggle to modernize but at least all the SoCal transplants have something familiar to look at when they see the local cops
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Nov 24, 2022 23:00
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therobit posted:It gave us this gem of a quote: “The people of San Francisco have spoken loud and clear: There is no place for killer police robots in our city.” In this house we believe
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JUST MAKING CHILI posted:Dallas PD exploded a guy with a robot a few years ago, who knew that cops needed explicit authorization to do anything - they just do the thing. Yeah I think the Dallas situation is the origin, but specifically this all came about because California passed a law requiring local police departments to inventory their military style equipment and draw up regulations for its use The SF city council’s draft regulations said cops couldn’t use robots for deadly force, SFPD drew a big red line through that requirement, and it blew up from there, with the city council initially looking like they’d bend to the police until I guess probably public pressure got them to reverse
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Ham Equity posted:It's just about guaranteed that the only reason the SFPD haven't used a robot to murder anyone yet is they haven't had the opportunity, and I doubt this is going to stop them when next the opportunity arises. They probably figured it wasn't worth the fight over something they're just going to do when they want to, anyway. It’s like the Washington law about high speed pursuits where they got up there and said “this law might prevent us from chasing after a kidnapper and their victim” Bullshit, everyone knows they’ll just chase whatever they want anyway and let people argue about whether the pursuit was legal after the fact
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Dec 10, 2022 19:58
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alnilam posted:That's not how this works at all... you mail the ticket based on the plate, and include the photo so they can push back in the relatively rare case that someone else was driving their car. Places with traffic enforcement cameras have been doing this for ages and there is no facial recognition involved. These tickets are funny because (at least in Oregon) they ask you to identify the driver so they can send them a ticket instead and it’s heavily implied from the way it’s written and worded that this is required but if you look closely at the fine print it’s not That said, last one I got was the red light on 99w in Sherwood, and 99% of my car was in the intersection and I thought they had a human review to prevent those ones from getting mailed out
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Dec 12, 2022 22:06
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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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pseudanonymous 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 quote:Urban Alchemy’s approach is notably different from nonprofits operating in Portland.
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Dec 16, 2022 20:04
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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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Dec 19, 2022 19:53
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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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Dec 19, 2022 21:20
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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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Dec 19, 2022 22:44
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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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Dec 19, 2022 23:00
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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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Dec 21, 2022 17:23
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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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May 1, 2023 17:14
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Oops there goes Shemia Fagan. Consulted on pit and resigned Gonna miss seeing the pictures with her cringe tattoo  Honestly I’m surprised she resigned though. Who does that anymore? I kind of thought she was going for a governor or senator trajectory but this probably ends that
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May 2, 2023 19:49
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Thaddius the Large posted:Cripes, I really liked her too, super friendly to labor when I was doing union stuff in Salem I had a mostly positive opinion of to date as well (or as positive as I can feel about any elected political player, they’re all varying shades of bad) but my lord that consulting contract was a very bad look and huge mistake But also it’s remarkable to me how quickly she resigned. Modern playbook is to grind it out and try to beat the controversy. I’m wondering if there’s more we haven’t seen yet
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May 2, 2023 23:49
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Fluffs McCloud posted:On the one hand, yeah, she's clearly in the wrong. It's a massive conflict of interest, if not outright corruption. Furthermore, I have never made 77k/year in my 20 years of adult(college grad) life, so as measly as that may be I would not expect your average person to have an ounce of sympathy. I understand that public servants are grossly underpaid, but they really hosed up on this one. An absolutely remarkably tone deaf thing to say, no doubt $77k/year is probably half if not less what somebody with her degree and connections could expect to make in the private sector, so that’s probably skewing her perspective, but just an absolute ridiculous and tone deaf thing to say Idk I will say that $77k/year seems very low for an office with the responsibility of SoS but somebody who is going to get on the graft train at $77k/yr is probably still going to get on at $150k/yr Still, she had a really high ceiling in state politics and I hope that sweet sweet marijuana money was worth giving that all up lmao But like I said a post or two up, it’s remarkable how quickly she resigned. How many other pols have had equally bad or worse scandals in the last few years and either fought it for months (Cuomo) or just weathered it until the next election with varied result (Loefler and Feinstein). Maybe she just doesn’t have the fight in her, maybe she has a guilty conscience and a sense of shame, maybe it’s even worse than it looks at first blush, idk but it’ll be interesting when a clearer picture emerges
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IM DAY DAY IRL posted:yeah, i dont have kids and as a result am woefully unaware of what the associated costs look like especially with a job that requires immense capacity. my point is that perhaps all the WOW $77K A YEAR ID LOVE THAT TYPE OF MONEY WHY CANT SHE JUST FIGURE IT OUT folks arent exactly the best arbiters of fiscal matters I do think $77k/yr is way too low for that office and I did think Fagan was a really bright spot climbing the OR dem machine, and like I said a few posts back the fact that her degree/connections could easily get her double or more that salary probably clouded her perspective, BUT… The consulting contract showed an incredible lack of foresight and then complaining about that salary being too low, however valid, was so incredibly tone-deaf and just not reading the room, so even if she had dodged this bullet I think she’s demonstrated that she doesn’t have what it takes to maneuver through the minefield that is public support for elected officials Maybe she’ll make a comeback in a few years or maybe she’s done, idk, but regardless of her politics, the choices she made are baffling in how obviously bad they’re going to come across in media
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