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casey
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Grateful Dead fan, Portland native. Go M's!
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kchardmeyer.bsky.social
I'm just glad the person who took time out of what appears to be a work day to make a video like this has any hand in shaping city policy!
www.tiktok.com/@pnwpolicyan...
Are you guys suuuure you hate me? 💋
TikTok video by Angelita 👼
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November 11, 2025 at 3:51 AM
kchardmeyer.bsky.social
So now we're at Keith Wilson Is A Lying Nazi levels of derangement here on Bluesky
justinskolnick.bsky.social Justin @justinskolnick.bsky.social · 1d
Hey Portland, dash off a quick message to your councilors ASAP denouncing Mayor Weasel Wilson’s lying Nazi email
Screenshot of an email from Councilor Kanal’s office: To: me 9:44 AM RE: Mayor Wilson's email today Hi Justin, thank you for reaching out. Councilor Kanal has reviewed your message. We appreciate your willingness to engage around the Morillo Amendment, your feedback helps sharpen the conversation and encourages the kind of nuance that leads to better outcomes. Of the 45 emails we've received on the issue since yesterday, and you are one of the only constituents to denounce the messaging around sweeps. Thank you. You outline important concerns about conflating our neighbors with dirt and hazard. Councilor Kanal agrees that attacking the humanity of our unhoused neighbors is dangerous stereotype rhetoric.
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 AM
kchardmeyer.bsky.social
KGW will be covering @councilormorillo.bsky.social's proposed budget amendment to gut city clean up efforts tonight on The Story. Expect Wednesday to be a very contentious town hall. Portland voters have been burned by city council too many times and this move by Morrillo may be the last straw.
November 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
kchardmeyer.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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koriander.bsky.social
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
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.
November 10, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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garbanzomelon.bsky.social
The Impact Reduction Program also provides trash abatement, which is essential in maintaining clean, walkable sidewalks for all Portlanders. We shouldn‘t cut their budget.
November 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
kchardmeyer.bsky.social
Portland DSA city council members @councilormorillo.bsky.social + @councilorgreen.bsky.social & @councilordunphy.bsky.social are trying to defund Impact Reduction Program in response to @mayorkwilson.bsky.social enforcing camping ban. This means more camps, more garbage and more waste on our streets
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 AM
kchardmeyer.bsky.social
Portland is going to increase property taxes 3% for the Parks Levy. Portlanders continue to tax themselves like they live in thriving economic centers like NYC or San Francisco and not a city "ranked second to last in national real estate attractiveness ranking"
November 5, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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mayorkwilson.bsky.social
We can’t arrest our way out of homelessness, nor should we. But for too long, we have failed to enforce our existing laws on dangerous activities that hurt the community.
Mayor Keith Wilson addresses camping ordinance going into effect Nov. 1, 2025
YouTube video by City of Portland, OR
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October 31, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social
The position that people must be allowed to camp on any piece of public property in #Portland for as long as they want until we build a huge amount of social housing (even in the most optimistic timeline would take 25 years) is not sustainable and also not even socialism but extreme libertarianism.
councilorgreen.bsky.social Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 10d
I oppose the resumption of sweeps beginning tomorrow. They are costly, ineffective and cruel. At a time when our Federal government is literally starving our most vulnerable neighbors, we add to that by violently taking from them what little they have? My statement attached.
Councilor Mitch Green Portland City Council, District 4 1221 SW 4th Ave. # 240, Portland, OR, 97204 Media Contact: Maria Sipin, Chief of Staff maria.sipin2@portlandoregon.gov FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Councilor Mitch Green’s Statement on November 1st Camping Ban Enforcement Policy October 30, 2025 “We have seen ICE and the National Guard perform homeless sweeps in other cities where they've been deployed, and we’ve heard Trump calling for increased sweeps and even disappearance of unhoused people. It is a bad, cruel, and failed policy when the Trump administration does it, and it is a bad, cruel, and failed policy when the city of Portland does it. As we face the very real possibility of federal troops being deployed to our streets to target one group of vulnerable people, we absolutely cannot start using our own police to do their work for them by targeting another. Some will argue that sweeps are about safety and compassion, but the evidence is clear and overwhelming. Sweeps kill people. For far too long, Portland has pursued a failed policy of criminalizing poverty. As a result, we’ve spent hundreds of millions of dollars only to see the problem grow, and deaths among our homeless neighbors quadruple between 2019 and 2023. It’s time to change direction. We need to protect ALL Portlanders. We need to focus on programs that move people closer to housing and stability, not policies that punish and further destabilize. Programs like low-barrier jobs programs, direct rental assistance, food aid, and day shelters that provide hygiene, clothing, and case management. Programs like these are humane, cost-effective, and they work. They address the issue of visible poverty that neighbors and businesses are concerned about, but they do so by offering dignity, not displacement. They break the cycle of disappointment and depression—where people spend all day waiting in lines, worrying about their belongings, with no meaningful work. They are a hand up, not a sweep away. But at the end of the day, the only real, lasting solution to homelessness is to provide deeply affordable housing for all. Unless we stop the flow of folks onto the streets, we’re never going to make real progress. That is why we need to move aggressively towards a Social Housing model— high quality, permanently affordable housing that will serve the vast majority of Portlanders, from the unhoused to the middle class. The choice before us is clear. We can either align ourselves with the politics of division, of sweeps, of cages, and of death, or we can choose the politics of solidarity, of housing, of healthcare, and of life.”
November 1, 2025 at 10:25 PM