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EXCLUSIVE: I spent several years following Alex through a constellation of taxpayer funded homeless housing facilities in Seattle.
He eventually settled in the Downtown Emergency Service Center's North Star.
DESC is the poster child for "Housing First" in WA.
Politicians and far-left activists will also refer to this model as low barrier permanent supportive housing.
Alex showed me what he does all day:
-Wakes up
-Get's free drug supplies at front desk
-Takes bus to find his fentanyl dealer
-Comes back to his room in the North Star
-Smokes drugs all day
-Zero requirements to get into addiction treatment
-Zero requirements to find a job
-He rarely sees his DESC case manager
-Alex admits he has no purpose in life
-Rinse and repeat
After more than a decade of trying this failed public policy, the Trump administration is defunding "Housing First" and reallocating the money into treatment and recovery providers.
The homeless industrial complex is shook and now fear mongering, claiming more people will be forced onto the streets. That's a lie.
In response, WA Democrats have taken the bait from Homeless INC and are trying to prop up this failed model by potentially raising taxes to offset funding losses. This is a scandal. 🧵👇
NEW: Court documents show the Seattle woman accused of behaving like a cannibal lived in one of the the most crime-ridden homeless housing facilities in the city.
Yet somehow the Downtown Emergency Service Center continues to get a pass for all the bad behavior and chaos caused by its unhinged residents. How come?
In this Discovery Institute investigation, we scrutinized DESC's powerful connections to WA politics and examined how a network of power brokers in the region appear to be running cover for this controversial organization.
The usual suspects. And they always look the same.🙃
WATCH: Protesters chant “SHAME” outside a Turning Point USA event at Illinois State University on faith, immigration, and deportation featuring Joshua Haymes.
V/C: @TheNeoPopulist
@TPUSA
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Oregon Journalism Project got played.
But even more troubling, the official campaign of a Somali political candidate sent fake photos to spin the narrative. And it temporarily worked!
Many journalists in Oregon are deeply sick, unethical people. I saw it myself living there. They frame victims as villains in their propaganda.
This fake news organization is so ideologically captured that it immediately believed the lies of an unnamed Somali scammer (who is still being protected) rather than those involved in independent citizen journalism.
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Peggy Flanagan has a major credibility problem.
Minnesota’s Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Peggy Flanagan said she “graduated Phi Beta Kappa,” but records raise questions about the claim. 🔗 on.wsj.com/4ByFoFc
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The most colorful food stamp fraudster.
🚨 JUST IN: JD Vance announces Shawty Dred has been connected to SNAP FRAUD to the tune of millions of dollars
IMAGINE THAT.
"This is a man that we have connected to $4.4 million in fraud against the SNAP program. A guy who is quite literally taking food from the mouths of children so that he can enrich himself."
"The best part about Shawty Dred is that my amazing staff worried that I would be unable to pronounce Shawty Dred included a handy dandy phonetic spelling of Shawty Dred. But no, guys, I got it." 😭
He's one of 40+ people Vance's task force is going after today, in a $40 MILLION food stamp scheme
That brings the SNAP fraud the task force says it has uncovered to $641 MILLION
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Socialist Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson should follow San Francisco’s lead on homelessness.
Mayor Katie Wilson in Seattle talks about changing the status quo while doing the exact same thing on homelessness which is low barrier shelter and housing where drug use is allowed. 🤦♂️ @DiscoveryCWP
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Seattle Parks have been conquered by drug addicts.
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Why is the Pacific Northwest so dark and demonic?
According to my sourcing, federal investigators are seeking to confirm whether the 16-year-old Bend, Ore. school sh—ter (Griffin John), who killed four women and children, was radicalized by the 764 terror cult. This is a leading suspicion.
If this is confirmed, it would be the second Oregon school attack this year by a youth believed to be radicalized by the satanic terror cult. The 764 network is known for grooming teens to produce s—xual abuse content, carry out animal-killing blood rituals, and mass m—rder s—icides.
In August, a trans leader in the cult was sentenced to decades in prison for grooming underage girls to partake in abuse. See my report about the cult: ngocomment.com/p/trans-leade…
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🤣🤣🤣
Minneapolis restaurant that offered free meals to protest ICE raids announces closure trib.al/2yiOMrD
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We have an activist judge problem in WA. They’re endangering the community.
BREAKING: King County Superior Court judge Veronica Galvan has released the only suspect in custody for the Bite of Seattle shooting
Seattle police arrested the 15-year-old at the scene. Galvan is soft on crime and has a history of releasing violent criminals. She released him on electronic home monitoring to live with his father and stepmother
Reminder: other suspects are at large. They have not been named, and no descriptions have been provided
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Downtown Seattle Association CEO Jon Scholes:
“So this idea that we have a lot of service resistant people in our city I just think is a myth and is not a thing.”
Scholes is out of touch with reality.
Guy needs to leave his C-Suite once in a while.
H/T: Seattle has a new plan to end homelessness!
Downtown Seattle Association hired Community Solutions a 501(c)(3) with $183M in assets that got a $100M MacArthur grant in 2021 to tell Seattle’s Homeless Industrial Complex it needs to coordinate better and put people on a by-name list.
No public safety at the table.
No We Heart Seattle.
No Union Gospel Mission or Salvation Army. (or mention of faith based partners)
No clean-and-sober providers like The More We Love, Oxford, Weld, or Battlefield.
Jon (CEO of @downtownseattle ) says Service Resistant Homeless is a myth! That statement is widely used by Housing First Advocates.
Where was the criminal justice system?
More coordination without accountability or treatment isn’t a plan. It’s just more death, chaos, and wasted taxes dollars.
RT @LynnwoodTimes: Sen. Pedersen is trolling millionaire tax naysayers...Bravo Sir, bravo...
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Somali fraud at every level.
🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: President Trump hereby moves to DISQUALIFY ILHAN OMAR from office and calls for her IMMEDIATE RESIGNATION after it was confirmed that's her fake name — the real name is Ilhan Nur Said Elmi
"INFORM SPEAKER JOHNSON that the Democrat Party has conceded her seat. Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, her real name is openly admitted to fraud, she will not legally be allowed to be a member of that body any longer."
"She didn't know whether or not she married her brother. NOT LOOKING GOOD."
"She used Ilhan Omar to get elected to Congress. But it's an entirely different name."
"She used a fake name to be sworn in, I assume she must immediately have to resign from Congress."
Crowd members are chanting to THROW HER OUT 👋🏻
Good. Get armed. 2A fo’ life.
Hundreds of Bend residents apply for concealed handgun licenses following deadly school shooting
koin.com/news/oregon/hundred…
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Seattle leaders are doubling down on housing as the solution for our crisis population running our streets. This is infuriating and will cost more lives, more money, and decimate our shared spaces like parks and sidewalks. 🤦♀️
NEW: Socialist Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson admits the current response to the city’s homeless drug crisis isn’t working.
But she’s doubling down on the failed Housing First approach and working with the same players in the regions’s homeless industrial complex that presided over the past decade of failure. 🧵👇🏽
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The playbook will go something like this: 1) win back the House and Senate, and hopefully the Presidency in 2028; (2) admit DC and Puerto Rico as states, which doesn’t need a constitutional amendment, to gain 4 new Senate seats and cement control; (3) pack the Court, which only requires a change to the Judiciary Act of 1869, not a constitutional amendment; (4) eliminate the electoral college, which is unconstitutional, but not when you have a rigged court that finds the ‘loophole’; (5) flood the country with pliant migrants, swamp the natives, and hold power indefinitely.
NEW: WA Senate Majority Leader Jamie Pedersen with his latest video debacle.
That’s two minutes of my
life I’m not getting back.
Vote *Yes* on I-645.
