. @econbrkfst is seething a hole in the pavement as I type this.

Yes, it is a lovely meme. I'm glad you agree🍇

City Attorney Young also claimed to Officer Long that “he would be considering
applying for protection orders against some of the leaders in the protest groups that he felt were
especially threatening and intimidating

City Attorney Young claimed to Moore that he had been the victim of Intimidating
a Public Servant under RCW 9A.76.180, and sought criminal charges against Mr. Gibson.

City Attorney’s Office does not have lawful authority to file felony charges.
As Young did not himself have authority to file felony charges, he pressured
Moore to arrest Mr. Gibson on alleged felony charges so that Clark County Prosecuting
Attorney’s Office could file charges.

initiated an internal investigation into Sergeant Moore for
allegedly being sympathetic to “Joey Gibson” and allegedly being unsympathetic to Antifa

p. 43

On August 3, 2020, defense counsel for Ms. Carroll filed a motion to dismiss
charges filed by VCA, arguing that the charges were unconstitutional selective prosecution in
retaliation for speech in violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States
Constitution

Texas - WTF is this even - a very short reassurance thread:

1: The Texas "lawusit" against four other "battleground" states in the United States Supreme Court is legally stupid.* It is so legally stupid that I was reluctant to believe that even Ken Paxton would file it.

*My patience level is not ginormous today. Please don't try to explain to me why you think it isn't stupid for whatever other reasons because I'll be making liberal use of the airlock. Thx.

2: Yes, one state can sue another at the US Supreme Court. However, the Supreme Court gets to decide whether to take the case. One factor that they will **undoubtedly** look at is the factor of "injury."

Texas is claiming two things. First, that the states have a special interest in who becomes Vice President because of the tiebreaker. Second, that their electors are injured if their votes are "diluted" by electors from states that, in Texas's view, didn't obey their own law.

There is very little argument presented for "injury." Even less - barely a paragraph - was presented for how the defendant states caused that injury.

For lawyers, this is a signal that this is a performance of politics by "litigation" and not a serious effort.

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If you want to understand why housing the unhoused is so impossible in this county, please read this thread.



So, let’s get this straight.The guy who runs Housing for Clackamas County, not Multnomah County, is Vahid Brown. We’ll start this thread here. It's a long thread.

Vahid calls someone on the phone to offer them housing at the new St Johns iteration of Hazelnut Grove. This call wasn’t made due to an application to get into the new HG village. In fact, there are no applications for anyone to apply for housing at the new HG village. Why?

3/ I don’t know. How do I know? Because I called out Do Good Multnomah 2 months ago for seemingly having NO process for conducting fair and equitable admissions for this new village.
Our assumption that it was a “good ol’ boys” network has been proven true, yet again. @VoHpdx

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Do Good Mult has mislead unhoused folks in St Johns telling them that they could have a spot in the new housing, giving false hope to current SJ residents who have been residing in the area for years, many of whom were born here. @Advocacy5_PDX

5/ That Vahid used his privilege in such an egregious way, should result in his losing his job. If there is a process, it needs to be fair and open. When I spoke to DGM months ago, they lied to me about having a process to get into HG.