President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he was replacing the embattled Homeland Security secretary with Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma.
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President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he was replacing the embattled Homeland Security secretary with Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma.
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Scapegoating is the fast food of justice. It’s cheap, it’s satisfying for five minutes, and it leaves the actual problem untouched.
Real accountability is boring, technical, and structural. Not just blaming someone or some agency or some company. That’s lazy.
Safety Theater: We want to believe someone is in control. Admitting a failure was a "perfect storm" of minor errors is scarier than believing it was one bad actor.
The "One Bad Apple" narrative is a security blanket for adults. So grow up.
Brain-Efficient: Analyzing systemic decay is exhausting. Pointing a finger is instant. We trade accuracy for cognitive ease.
Quick Fix: If one person is the problem, the solution is just "get rid of them." If the system is the problem, we actually have to do the hard work of rebuilding.
When a system fails, our first instinct is to find a "Main Character" to blame. It’s a natural reflex, but it’s usually a lie. Here’s why we love a scapegoat:
(And we all fucking do it so don’t pretend you don’t)
The whole storefront window and junk started from businesses like TMT aka Vanessa Sturgeon and Society hotel aka Jessie Burke and got loud in 2020/2021.
Zimmerman got dressed in the dark today.
Love how she’s not answering Kanals question. He asked how many businesses. And she gave some weird fucking roundabout answer. No number. The report is based on perception and bias.
This war on the poor shit is getting old.
It’s always been bullshit and going on for thousands of years if you know history.
Seeing it with city council and who does what it wants what - and blames a population is simple and never gets to the roots. Nor does it even look at its own policies
so you can guess why it slants the way it does
PEMO is part of Portland Solutions and coordinates City programs and services
PEMO and Portland Solutions tend to overlap bc the complaints they collect are usually from people who blame homelessness as the root of crime or vandalism. I've seen emails and junk and attended a few PEMO and ugh, if you ever wanna get angry. just go to one
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Ryan tends to stick with his district and his "friends" and just called Avalos, "Councilor Smith" - then backpedaled... and is trying to needle his bs around. Avalos is not playing and I appreciate it so much.
This is the ENERGY WE NEED TO MOVE SHIT FORWARD
Half of Americans now support abolishing ICE, compared with just 39% who oppose eliminating the agency, according to a new YouGov poll.
t's the first time in YouGov's polling history that support for abolishing ICE has reached 50%.
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I have the good fortune of having 5 neighbors on my floor and we hang in the hallway sometimes between our apts and talk for hours.
Avalos is also expressing the frustrations I feel in meetings and favoritism and processes that sometimes get weaponized
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Avalos dropped some tea.
Avalos said “In the short term, we need to prioritize strategies that move people into stable housing faster and prevent homelessness in the first place, not just triage people in crisis...”
The city funded its rapid expansion of shelter and encampment sweeps over the last six years while gutting budgets for programs helping house homeless Portlanders.
There’s a strong correlation between which government is responsible for a given shelter and how many people it exits to housing.
The city is responsible for eight of the 10 worst-performing shelters in terms of exits to housing per bed. Urban Alchemy...manages five of them
redirecting some resources from shelter to housing would make shelters more effective and reduce homelessness.
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Yea and in the grand scheme of things - not a battle worth having. I’d rather have a play by play then just read the “passed” “not passed” stuff later.
late tuning in but grateful that @counciloravalos.bsky.social and her staff live post
Same
People love the fire, clarity, and unapologetic directness of women like jasmine crockett. Until that same energy is directed at them. It's funny how bold and refreshing suddenly becomes aggressive and mean. Maybe you're just too fucking sensitive. And let's talk about "collab" spaces dominated by white women. When you're not one of them tone gets policed, confidence gets reframed as hostile, and directness is called unsafe. It's a real dynamic and it's exhausting. Maybe the issue isn't the fire. Maybe the issue is who feels entitled to never be burned by it.
Tune into the podcast tomorrow.
$365m in state bonding going to the moda center pisses me off so much. like so on brand for this country for legislators to say we have no money to pay for housing development or eviction prevention, but we’ll commit millions in *debt* to pay for sports, or cops or killing ppl in the middle east.
PIRC Winter Coat Drive Please bring coats with working zippers, no holes, no or like new condition! Coats for all ages needed, from baby to adult sizes! Drop Off March 2 - 5th Monday - Thurs 10am - 4pm 1821 SE Ankeny St, Portland
Support PIRC's winter coat drive, going on now! 🧥
Drop off Monday March 2 - Thursday, March 5th
10am - 4pm
1821 SE Ankeny St
