Greatest President of my lifetime.

There's 80 people signed up for testimony on the Fall TAO. How many friendly names do you see?

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If 2026 brings a record-setting progressive midterm victory, it's a tune we've heard before. The country shifted back 2-3 cycles later. A better question is: which direction is our political center-line that we oscillate around shifting, and how wild are the oscillations?

This is a good analysis for wonks, but this is playing much differently for the majority of the country. Democrats are getting hammered on both sides of the aisle right now. If they secure something big between now and January, they could flip the current narrative, but that’s yet to be seen.

The Mayor’s office is saying otherwise on OPB today:

“…Zajonc said that it would still impact the program’s trash removal efforts. That’s because much of the campsite removal money cannot be touched due to legal requirements, like warehouse leases and work contracts…”

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Key part: “…Zajonc said that it would still impact the program’s trash removal efforts. That’s because much of the campsite removal money cannot be touched due to legal requirements, like warehouse leases and work contracts…”

Two members of City government are making two opposite claims, and unsurprisingly so are their supporters. It’s foreshadowing that this is playing out similarly to cuts proposed during the spring budget process (which failed), and proponents for the cuts are now playing defense on IRP‘s merits.

It‘s best everyone wait to hear from program administrators on Wednesday. City Council‘s authority under the new charter isn’t direct administration over City Bureaus, let alone individual service areas, and we’ve yet to see how delimited the original budget was for IRP‘s various service areas.

Mayor Wilson said same thing as well.

“Perhaps most painful of all, we would be forced to lay off up to 100 workers, including those in successful workforce development programs that prioritize hiring workers with lived experience of homelessness or prior incarceration.”

We won’t know until Wednesday what the impacts of a 32% budget cut to IRP will be. We will probably learn about previous year splits on spending by IRP service areas as well as program administrators explaining which service areas would be impacted by the cuts.

Here’s an article on the City’s website from a year ago talking about the IRP providing funding to G.L.I.T.T.E.R.

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Cutting funds to the Impact Reduction Program would cut funds from local non-profits that provide workforce training and mentoring to the homeless community, like G.L.I.T.T.E.R. and Clean Start.

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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.

PPB has arrested almost half of the homeless people they’ve encountered so far.

A reporter did a ride along with Portland ICE today and captured harrowing footage of a chase and arrest that occurred in a neighborhood park.

Portland ICE briefly detained another Migra Watch motorist today, and you can see she was quite shaken during the encounter.

A reporter did a ride along with Portland ICE today and released a video showing how many people they detained. It's shocking.

They didn't waste any time.

"...officers have contacted over 100 people in the first five days...issued 83 warnings, and handed out seven citations...Forty people were arrested, mostly on outstanding warrants. Ten people were booked on new charges unrelated to the camping law."

Here's the preparator.