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  • Portland nurse describes grim conditions in war-torn Gaza

    05/24/2024 4:52:58 AM PDT · by mac_truck · 45 replies
    KATU ^ | 5/21/2024 | Barry Mangold
    PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — A Portland burn nurse returned home on Saturday after a 17-day mission treating patients in Southern Gaza. Monica Johnston said she first heard of the opportunity to provide medical help to civilians in Gaza last year through the organization Palestinian-American Medical Association. "I hear the word ‘help,’ and my ears perk up," she told KATU on Monday, adding that her experience in the burn unit of Legacy Emanuel Medical Center led to "an absolute need to be there." Johnston arrived in Gaza on May 1, planning to stay 13 days. She worked in the European General...
  • You're FIRED! Portland Voters Hand Soft-on-Crime, Soros-Backed DA His Walking Papers

    05/22/2024 8:38:48 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 43 replies
    Red State ^ | 05/22/2024 | Bob Hoge
    Portland, Oregon, is considered one of the wokest cities in the nation, yet even residents there have apparently had enough of watching silently as their metropolis descends into chaos and ruin. On Tuesday, they got rid of their disastrous district attorney Mike Schmidt and handed the job to his tough-on-crime challenger Nathan Vasquez.Never thought I’d see such sanity from Portland folks:BREAKING: Portland voters fire Soros DA Mike Schmidt by a landslide 15% margin.He infamously declined to prosecute the BLM and Antifa riots & allowed crime to flourish in Multanomah County.Soros DA Chesa Boudin (San Fran): OutSoros DA Kim Gardner (St....
  • Far-left Portland DA Mike Schmidt on track for defeat to tough-on-crime former Republican

    05/22/2024 11:31:19 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 18 replies
    NY Post ^ | 05/22/2024 | Ryan King
    Voters in Oregon were on the brink Wednesday of ousting progressive Portland DA Mike Schmidt and replacing him with one of his deputies who was once a Republican and has vowed to crack down on rampant crime and drug abuse. As of Wednesday morning, with about 63% of the vote counted, Schmidt was trailing Nathan Vasquez by 11.9 percentage points — a difference of more than 117,000 votes, according to the latest tally. “I am committed to fulfilling those campaign promises. I’m committed to ending the open-air drug use, to ending the open-air drug dealing that we have suffered from...
  • Mike Schmidt destroyed Portland and the left is willing to re-elect him (defeated last night!)

    05/22/2024 3:14:47 AM PDT · by cotton1706 · 28 replies
    New York Post ^ | 5/16/24 | Andy Ngo
    Mike Schmidt, the leftist prosecutor in Portland, Ore., is asking voters to give him the opportunity to serve four more years as head of the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office. In an interview with local media last October, he graded himself an “A” for his performance. But if the past four years of record homicides, decriminalized antifa rioting and surging street overdoses represent Schmidt as his best, Portland may not survive another four years with him at the helm. Schmidt’s re-election is being challenged by his subordinate, Nathan Vasquez, a senior deputy district attorney and moderate candidate who promises to...
  • Pelosi rebuked to her face during Oxford debate after condemning Americans clouded by 'guns, gays, God'

    05/11/2024 7:23:20 PM PDT · by Libloather · 42 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 5/11/24 | Kyle Morris
    Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was rebuked as an "elite" during a recent Oxford Union debate, where she argued that populism in the United States is a threat to democracy. Pelosi — a self-described "devout" Catholic — said during the April 25 debate that certain Americans, whom she considered to be "poor souls who are looking for some answers," refuse to accept the answers Democrats give them on particular topics due to their beliefs about "guns, gays, [and] God." Challenging Pelosi's position in the debate about populism, Winston Marshall, a musician who was once a part of Mumford and...
  • Walk-through of Portland State University’s library after three-night occupation reveals damage: ‘It’s ugly’

    05/03/2024 12:47:03 PM PDT · by jimtorr · 36 replies
    Paint splattered on floors. Spray-painted messages and screeds covering walls. Furniture moved and overturned. Security cameras disabled. Fire extinguishers missing and entrances blocked by stacks of chairs. “We’ve got our work cut out for us,” a facilities manager at Portland State University said Thursday as he examined the destruction left behind after a three-day occupation by pro-Palestinian protesters in Millar Library.
  • Police release names of 30 [masked] people arrested during PSU [Portland State University] protest

    05/03/2024 5:03:56 PM PDT · by grundle · 37 replies
    KPTV ^ | May 3, 2024 | Adrian Thomas and FOX 12 Staff
    ORTLAND, Ore. (KPTV) - The Portland Police Bureau has released the names of 30 people arrested Thursday as officers worked to clear out protesters who were occupying a library on the Portland State University’s campus. Pro-Palestinian demonstrators began occupying the Millar Library on the PSU campus Monday evening. Police moved in Thursday morning in an effort to clear protesters from the library and the park area out front. By 10:15 a.m. Thursday, police cleared out the library but protesters remained outside throughout much of the day. FOX 12 witnessed police leave the area outside the PSU library just after 5...
  • Suspected arson at Portland police training facility damages at least 15 patrol cars

    05/02/2024 8:24:52 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 13 replies
    kptv ^ | 05/02/2024 | Fox 12 Staff
    PORTLAND, Ore. (KPTV) - Over a dozen patrol cars were damaged or destroyed in a suspect arson attack at the Portland Police Bureau’s training facility early Thursday morning. Just before 2 a.m., Portland Fire & Rescue and Portland police officers responded to a fire at the training facility in the 14900 block of Northeast Airport Way. When crews arrived to the scene, police say they found at least 15 vehicles in a fenced training area were burning. Firefighters were able to quickly extinguish the flames. No injuries were reported. I understand people in our community are hurting, but in no...
  • 4 students took turns forcibly penetrating 3rd-grade girl in restroom, blocked her escape, got 1-day suspensions: Lawsuit

    04/06/2024 12:17:05 PM PDT · by Twotone · 73 replies
    The Blaze ^ | April 5, 2024 | Dave Urbanski
    A lawsuit claims four students took turns forcibly penetrating a third-grade girl in a restroom stall, blocked her escape, and received one-day suspensions, OregonLive reported. The lawsuit claims employees of both Portland Public Schools and a Multnomah County-sponsored after-school program operated by nonprofit Latino Network failed to protect the girl — who was 9 at the time — from being sexually assaulted, the outlet noted. The girl's family filed the lawsuit in Multnomah County Circuit Court last month; it seeks up to $9 million in damages on grounds including negligence, lack of oversight, and failure to protect a vulnerable person...
  • Waste of the Day: Report Shows Major Cities In Debt

    04/06/2024 5:57:11 AM PDT · by george76 · 24 replies
    Real Clear Investigations ^ | April 05, 2024 | Adam Andrzejewsk
    The 75 largest cities in America were collectively $288 billion in debt at the end of fiscal year 2022... 53 major cities that do not have enough money to pay their bills. Yet all of them claimed their budgets were balanced, as is required by law. That means lawmakers understated each city’s debt by not including future costs like employee pensions and healthcare ... New York City has a taxpayer burden of $61,800, the largest by far despite being the most populous. The city has only six cents saved up for every dollar it will need to spend on retiree...
  • You Didn't Think This Squatter Situation Just Appeared Out of Nowhere, Did You?

    03/25/2024 1:53:46 PM PDT · by Jonty30 · 32 replies
    https://pjmedia.com ^ | MARCH 25, 2024 | VICTORIA TAFT
    Private property isn't so private anymore. When normal Americans weren't looking, squatters became cult heroes. The left has been cultivating squatters' rights for years. Woke cities are giving them legal backup by consolidating COVID-19-era no-eviction rules into free housing for months or years. People seeking their piece of the American Dream are now the stars of the left's dystopian horror show. The property takeovers are all over the country in the nation's woke cities. The stories are legion. "The homeowner wouldn't talk with us on camera for fear of retaliation from those living on the property. When he asked them...
  • Insanity: Portland woman convicted of 'misgendering' a man trying to enter a woman's bathroom (Orwellian nightmare scenario)

    03/08/2024 6:16:58 AM PST · by NetAddicted · 34 replies
    Twitchy.com ^ | 3/8/2024 | Grateful Calvin
    Recently, the city of Portland, Oregon, exhibited a moment of sanity when city officials decided to reverse a law they had enacted in 2020 that basically decriminalized all drugs. The results of that law were extremely predictable (everyone did, in fact, predict it). Crime escalated, drug use became rampant, overdoses soared, and the city descended even further into chaos than it already had. But if you were fooled into thinking that Portland may have regained a modicum of common sense, you can rest easy: it has not. Yesterday, independent journalist Andy Ngô broke the news that a Portland area woman...
  • Oregon Democratic candidate vows to 'reclaim her sexuality' after footage of her working as a $500-per-hour dominatrix at Manhattan BDSM dungeon was leaked, leaving her 'hyperventilating and crying'

    11/18/2023 3:20:03 PM PST · by aimhigh · 47 replies
    UK DailyMail ^ | 11/18/2023 | MARTHA WILLIAMS
    A Democratic Congressional Candidate is 'reclaiming her sexuality' after a clip of her working at a Manhattan BDSM dungeon was leaked. Courtney Casgraux, 41, is a self-described 'international businesswoman' who is running for a seat in the United States House of Representatives for Oregon's first district. The single mother of a teenage son was exposed in a video leaked on Reddit for working as a dominatrix in Manhattan during hers 20s and 30s. Casgraux would charge clients $500 for playing the dominant role in BDSM activities. The California native returned to the BDSM industry when she began working at Donatella's...
  • A Portland Vietnamese Restaurant Has Closed Because a Neighbor Kept Complaining About the Smell

    03/01/2024 5:23:11 PM PST · by llevrok · 32 replies
    Eater Portland ^ | 2/28/2024 | Brooke Jackson-Glidden
    A Fremont Vietnamese restaurant has closed its doors due to a neighbor’s complaints about the restaurant’s smell. Pho Gabo, which operates three locations in the Portland area, has closed its Fremont and Northeast 73rd location indefinitely due to “the city’s and the neighborhood’s complaints about the smell of the food that we grill and the foods that we serve customers,” according to a sign posted to the restaurant’s door. Willamette Week reports that the restaurant has been hit with complaints since September 2022, five years after the restaurant opened. A presumed neighbor has been filing complaints with the city about...
  • Portland buys 100 new tiny home pods at a cost of $16,000 each

    02/27/2024 6:30:09 AM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 42 replies
    ABC News Local ^ | February 26, 2024 | by Shelby Slaughter
    PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Some of the city-sanctioned homeless camps are getting an upgrade. The city of Portland has purchased 100 new tiny home pods for the unsheltered at the Multnomah Safe Rest Village. Each one came with a $16,510 price tag. While the cost is a steep one, Savannah Eadens, a public information officer for the Temporary Alternative Shelter Sites, said the units come with everything a resident will need inside. This includes a bed, bedding, and a heater. The pods at Multnomah Village were paid for by federal American Rescue Plan (ARPA) money and Metro’s Supportive Housing funds.
  • Transgender killer smirks at relative of Portland cab driver she stabbed in unprovoked attack, after progressive DA gave her plea deal - then declares she WON'T apologize because her gender identity makes her 'vulnerable'

    02/22/2024 10:03:32 AM PST · by algore · 69 replies
    A transgender killer smirked at her victim's relatives and refused to apologize because her gender identity made her 'vulnerable', as she was sentenced to 22 years behind bars. Moses Jacob Lopez, 30, brutally stabbed cab driver Reese McDowell Lawhon to death in his car in April 2023 with bladed brass knuckles after suffering a mental health episode while on a night out partying in Portland. Lawhon had picked her up after a 911 operator suggested she call a cab home. Lopez senselessly stabbed him in the chest without provocation. At her sentencing on Wednesday, Lopez callously justified the murder by...
  • Hard Hit by the US Opioid Crisis, Oregon Reconsiders Decriminalization

    02/21/2024 12:20:18 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 36 replies
    Reuters ^ | February 18, 2024 | Deborah Bloom
    It's a common sight on the streets of downtown Portland, Oregon: people in front of stores, trendy restaurants and hotels, on sidewalks, corners, and benches, crouched over torch lighters held up to sheets of tinfoil or meth pipes. Some drape blankets over their heads, or duck behind concrete barriers. Others don’t try to hide. "All summer long, we were right out in the open. You didn't have to be paranoid anymore, you didn't have to be worried about the cops," said John Hood, a 61-year-old drug addict living on the streets of Oregon’s most populous city. Hood spoke to Reuters...
  • EXCLUSIVE: FBI arrests Oregon independent journalist David Medina on J6 charges

    02/18/2024 8:51:21 PM PST · by Red Badger · 39 replies
    Post Millennial ^ | Feb 18, 2024 | Katie Daviscourt
    Medina announced that he would be pleading not guilty and slammed the DOJ as a "two-tiered system of justice." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Friday, the FBI arrested an Oregon-based independent conservative journalist and content creator on charges related to the January 6 protest and riot at the US Capitol. David Medina, 34, of Sherwood, Oregon is the latest to be targeted by Biden's Department of Justice over alleged actions taken on January 6, 2021. He has been charged with felony obstruction of an official proceeding and several misdemeanors. The misdemeanors include destruction of government property, entering or remaining in any restricted building...
  • Oregon TV station apologizes after inadvertently showing racist image during program highlighting good news

    02/17/2024 4:38:14 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 24 replies
    Today ^ | Feb. 17, 2024 | Feb. 17, 2024
    KGW has a policy of thoroughly screening all content for standards and accuracy before broadcast, but failed to uphold it, the station said.A television station in Portland, Oregon, apologized Friday for inadvertently showing a racist image during a program aimed at highlighting positive stories. KGW-TV displayed the image Thursday evening during “The Good Stuff,” which includes a “Throwback Thursday” segment sharing “cheesy, silly, or memorable” photos submitted by viewers. “The image, seemingly from the 1950s, depicted children throwing balls towards a sign prominently displaying (a racial slur),” the station said Friday in a statement posted to its website. “We understand...
  • So much for an emergency! Portland piously sounded alarm on fentanyl crisis promising a crackdown - but the reality is junkies on every corner and paramedics taking over 20 minutes to respond to ODs

    02/10/2024 1:17:30 PM PST · by knighthawk · 21 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | February 10 2024 | LEWIS PENNOCK
    Within an hour of arriving in downtown Portland to investigate the city's newly-declared 'state of emergency' over its fentanyl crisis, I am on the phone calling 911. One of dozens of homeless drug addicts lining the sidewalks has just taken a hit from a piece of aluminum foil in open view and collapsed in a lifeless heap. In a county where overdoses caused more than 200 deaths in 2022 alone, I fear another might be about to happen right in front of me.