In the week since Mayor Wilson began enforcing the public camping ban, we are seeing MORE tents in East Portland. Those folks are just being swept into my district. I told the mayor that this is what would happen and asked him to bring extra resources to East PDX to meet the displaced. He did not.

Hey Casey, I can share at least one example - the program GLITTER is a peer-led trash removal service by people with lived experience of homelessness for people currently on the streets. That is a program that funds trash removal without displacement. Please advocate for GLITTER funding!

Our amendment doesn’t cut those things. Mayor Wilson could’ve called me to clarify and ask questions before blasting us in a newsletter, but of course he has to find a scapegoat when he doesn’t magically end homelessness on 12/1 by warehousing people. Looking forward to clarifying this tomorrow.

"We don't want people to go hungry or miss another paycheck. But we *are* okay with them dying a little more slowly, without healthcare." This is so bleak.

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.

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.

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.

Wole Soyinka lost his US visa after criticizing the Trump administration kidnapping and arresting immigrants. He pointed out he doesn’t want to come to the US, anyway, unless circumstances change: “I wouldn’t take the initiative myself because there’s nothing I’m looking for there. Nothing.”

The sheer chaos that Trump unleashes daily is an underdiscussed method of his presidency imo. Exhibit A: on 22 June—only 3 months ago today—Trump bombed Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility & Fordow enrichment plant. It was in the news for a day or 3. It feels like an eternity ago. Chaos assists impunity.

“Walmart was the top employer of SNAP recipients in five states and one of the top four employers in the remaining four states. McDonald’s was among the top five employers of Medicaid enrollees in five of six states and SNAP recipients in eight of nine states.” www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/w...

People are literally going hungry and struggling to pay rent on every level and this is the move?? God these people are villainous

Federal agents raided the WRONG HOME in Portland—no warrant, guns drawn on a family with a baby. ICE still arrested 2 people after realizing the mistake. ICE official on the aggressive tactics: "If people interpret that as aggressive, so be it."

I think what would help folks feel safe is the following: 1) Turn off KATU 2) Log Off NextDoor 3) Go Outside

Portland City Council issued the following statement in response to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling on the potential deployment of National Guard troops in Portland:

"The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit today overturned a temporary restraining order put in place by a federal judge in Portland – removing the legal impediment that was preventing the Trump Administration from sending National Guard troops to Portland."

Hey Portland, I want to clear up any confusion or questions about the recent ruling in the 9th Circuit. Today, on October 20th, 2025, a panel of judges ruled 2-1 to put a stay on the temporary restraining order (TRO) that blocked federalization of the Oregon National Guard. 🧵

9th Circuit in a divided decision lets Trump send National Guard troops into Portland reasoning the lower court judge that blocked the deployment “accorded no deference to the President’s determination that he could not execute federal laws with regular forces" 🎁 wapo.st/4o2e0Is

New developments in my 3 year Epstein investigation, this time regarding JP Morgan Chase and its CEO, Jamie Dimon. This is a long thread, but worth sticking around for.

1. ICE has sharply increased its spending on weapons in 2025, according to an analysis of federal gov't data by Popular Information. Records reveal ICE has increased spending on “small arms" — a category that includes guns, armor, chemical weapons, and explosives — by 700% compared to 2024 levels

No Kings protests, mapped by @theguardian.com

Inequality is a deep wound

❤️ Portland

🦄🦄🐸🐸🦖🦖🦕🦕 Portland Rocks! #NoKings #Portland

Folks, we have *Frogtifa* here in Portland at the #NoKings rally & march

A gaggle of beautiful beasts dancing at the drum circle here in Portland, Oregon at the #NoKings rally

We face authoritarian fear-mongering and lies with creativity and truth

Local resistance to federal authoritarianism

veterans set up encampment in memphis to protest national guard deployment to their city www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRxQ...

Oriana Korol, a clarinetist with the Unpresidented Brass Band, was arrested after a man and federal agents barreled into band members who were standing across the street from the ICE office and playing the theme from “Ghostbusters.” Read more: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

In this authoritarian order, brute force blots out the importance of first response for human health: Federal agents blocked an ambulance and threatened the driver.

Suggestions on ways to take action from @thenation.com

Members of the Unpresidented Brass Band were bull rushed & brutalized in the middle of playing "Ghostbusters." One was sent to the hospital and another tackled, arrested, and taken across state lines where she is still being detained. Read more about Sunday's protest in Portland here:

Armed federal agents want you to believe they were assaulted by a mom dressed as a banana playing the Ghostbusters theme on the clarinet

Please come through and show some support! It is needed more than ever as the rhetoric and tactics from the feds continue to escalate. Pull up after the No Kings march or instead of it, whatever works for you! Please share too!

What a fucking joke. What exactly did her parents do to get deported? Why the hell is ice on a base. No fucking respect for people in uniform.

🧵 Art & Protest. The Art of Protest. Faced with authoritarian uses of police and propaganda, we are — as the great Stereolab sang — “left to all the creativity we must find.” Portlanders are certainly finding it.

🧵 Art & Protest. The Art of Protest. Faced with authoritarian uses of police and propaganda, we are — as the great Stereolab sang — “left to all the creativity we must find.” Portlanders are certainly finding it.

"I trust her to be an ethical steward of power." Me too. I'm not in your district, but incredibly grateful you're a leader in our community.

😭❤️😭❤️😭❤️ thank you for putting your trust in me I will do everything I can to stop this with every tool available to me

Dinosaur huddle at protests outside Portland ICE

Lies to sow fear and police to impose will — these are two tenets of authoritarianism I’m zeroing in on through on-the-ground knowledge of Portland, and trusted sources from other cities …

Here in Portland outside the ICE facility amid an impromptu dance party with dinosaurs & cute pink beasts. Festive resistance in abundance. #PDX [📸 posted with permission]

Yes! They brought the good donuts!

Another reason for hate turned at light hearted protest: they want you on your couch, having your brain being turned into soup while you are comatose watching THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF BUMBLEFUCK or HARRY POTTER XXV. They resent a rabbit or a frog going “we make our own entertainment here!”

Pyjamas and pastries. bsky.app/profile/mkai...

Oregon knows how to show up rain or shine! With treats!

Sesame Donuts is better than Voodoo or Blue Star. Fight me if you want. Been a local here for 45 years & IYKYK The violence of the feds will never stop our sweetness here Portland will prevail. We always do #PDX

Peaceful Portland Resistance. This city rocks.

Some of the hate directed at light hearted protest is confusion. The US mind doesn’t know what to do w activity which isn’t for profit-commerce. Can’t compute how someone’s radical act of care in the face evil may be sharing coffee w others fighting the good fight (like church or AA coffee hr)