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Tim Dooley
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Now: public safety policy for Oregon Counties Then: policing manager & data nerd, firefighter / EMT MPA & MCJ from UCCS
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So yeah. It’s the wages, not the people, that are the problem.
When I got out of college, I rented a room in my buddy’s double-wide. He was a firefighter. I was a firefighter. I made $26,000 that year and had 0 kids. He had 3 kids, 2 jobs, rented out a room - and still needed food stamps to make ends meet and put good food on the table for the kids.
As SNAP hangs in the balance for nearly 42 million people, misinformation is rampant. Myths of laziness and fraud persist when we should be talking about too low wages for workers, income inequality, and our threadbare social safety net.

In this guest post, Adam Chandler sorts fact from fiction:
SNAP benefits feed essential needs while still leaving many hungry for more
Journalist and author Adam Chandler explains what so much of the conversation about them gets wrong.
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I can’t stress this enough: you cannot understand politics without reading this paragraph about why there’s no such thing as a 1/3rd pound hamburger
A similar case went to court a decade ago in Virginia, and the holding was something like that it was permitted because a deputy is an inherently political position that the Sheriff can fire at will. Blew my mind.
William Gibson called it “soul dislocation” in a novel once and I think that’s so apt.
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Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.
New Yorkers crack me up. So unbelievably confident that NYC is the center of the world, the only city that matters, but these masters of the universe are going to give that all up and move to the suburbs because of politics and keep a place in the city to see shows like a tourist. Ok. 🙄
They need an eternal flame outside Citi Field where the Mets front office just dumps a truckload of cash and lights it on fire.
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Report examining the employment history data of more than 3m finance & tech workers at companies that rolled out office mandates found that turnover among women is almost three times as high as that of their male co-workers, and that women are more likely to take a lower position if they leave
Women are taking pay cuts as companies mandate return to office
Researchers are identifying several key factors behind why gender pay gap – which had narrowed steadily over the years – has suddenly widened.
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They’ve also substantially shrunk their delivery area. My 83 year old mom lives up in Frederick now and has to get the Post mailed to her 1-2 days later because they don’t deliver there anymore. She’s not going to be a digital subscriber.
Tuesday is “blessing of the stuffies” day at kindergarten with the school chaplain. They were very explicit that said stuffy must fit in a backpack, so I can only imagine that there was a Goose-like (or larger) incident in the past to prompt said rule. 😂
Healthcare premiums (and pension costs) are eating local government budgets. At my last city, the full cost of my family plan was like $48k. I paid 5% of that. But between insurance, pension, and other benefits and payroll taxes, my total comp was close to 2x my salary. It’s not sustainable.
1/ Listen: the people who can’t afford ACA hikes or are getting kicked off Medicare are the priority. But…last year my company saw a 17% increase in healthcare costs. This year we are projecting 20%.

Every year for idk a decade has been at least 10%
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What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
Case in point, this delightful video of animals smashing pumpkins.

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let the gourd times roll
Cyberpunk is a warning not an instruction manual, episode 2475
Some parents are letting their kids talk to ChatGPT in the guise of characters. Some are using it to tell bedtime stories or create coloring books.

"My son thinks ChatGPT is the coolest train loving person in the world. The bar is set so high now I am never going to be able to compete with that.”
‘My son genuinely believed it was real’: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong?
Some believe AI can spark their child’s imagination through personalized stories and generative images. Scientists are wary of its affect on creativity
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Heck, in Oregon we have multiple counties that meet the Census definition of “frontier” - less than 1 person per square mile. These counties are also bigger than New Jersey, so…yeah, the West is big.
To be clear, I believe that *police* reduce crime. I’m not convinced that using soldiers as scarecrows is a crime fighting tactic.
Empty? No, but restaurant traffic dipped by a third, and there were 16k fewer people per day in the downtown biz district. That’s a reduction in available victims, which confounds the increased police presence as a reason for the crime drop, or the sole reason.
Foot traffic was also way down. Can’t have street crime if nobody is on the street. I don’t think that’s a good solution for civic life though even if it reduces crime.
I guess what I’m trying to say is that to steal a line (from you, I think) is that policing is a verb. Soldiers don’t police. They’re standing around. If this is proof of concept, then let’s massively invest in security guards, who are going to be way cheaper.
I’d like to see a geo breakdown before we start talking causality. The NG deployment as far as I know, never went east of the Anacostia. Ward 7 and 8 have more violent crime than Georgetown or downtown. Is there a spillover deterrent? Maybe, but I think we need more specific data.
I really appreciate this change for shooting data, even if I’m still salty about CJIS insisting on “cohabitant” when “roommate” was right there and less ambiguous.
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Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.
I miss the era where the idea of sending troops into American cities was the province of classic Onion articles and not real life cc: @bencollins.bsky.social

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