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Oregon teachers rank high in pay compared to the rest of America. Yet when it comes to actual learning, Oregon ranks literally at the bottom or near it.
It’s time to close a bunch of schools, dontcha think?
— Lars Larson (@LarsLarsonShow) October 6, 2026
https://t.co/O1uz75FuPb
I know that sounds shocking till you consider the context.
Government-run public schools have failed miserably, especially in Oregon.
The state funds schools very well. USA Facts has Oregon schools getting about 22-thousand dollars per student per year.
Oregon teachers rank high in pay compared to the rest of America.
Yet when it comes to actual learning, Oregon ranks literally at the bottom or near it.
Mississippi, spending about two-thirds as much money, ranks in the top ten.
It ain’t money… It’s leadership.
So, parents have abandoned the public schools and taken their kids elsewhere.
Yesterday, Portland Public Schools announced its plan to close up to 14 schools, and it can’t happen soon enough. Running empty buildings just to keep neighborhoods happy isn’t a winning strategy for kids.
But now, PPS says it will wait till almost Christmas to actually pull the trigger.
I would bet good money they opt for the “do nothing” option…which is included on its list.
And while they’re closing elementary and middle schools, no one has said whether the multi-billion-dollar program building massive new oversized high school building plan continues or not.Posted ·
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Silly, Silly Rabbits.
Did you see how fast they built that camp in the middle of nowhere?
3000 beds!
Went up in a couple days.
This got me thinking…
Agricultural Camps.
We can solve the lack of immigrants to do our farming by taking those Antifa fucks we have been mapping for a very long time, the violent ones that burn buildings, attack law officers, kill innocent men leaving prayer rallies, those creatures, assembling a hundred or two of these pop up camps and inducting them into these camps.
Laws were changed regarding destruction of property, statues and federal buildings during Trumps first term that if convicted make one as close to being a non-citizen as possible. A hairs width from deportation.
From this point they can earn their Citizenship back. Working from sun-up in the fields until noon or 100 degrees, whichever comes first and then participating in citizenship classes until 6pm, chow and evening prayers.
Should straighten those fuckers right up.
Bet they lose some weight and their complexions clear up too.
I’m a bad person. I know.
This is how I’d do it —
We have it all. If you have participated in any of the violence, riots, any of the Antifa shit, etc, etc, you have been monitored.
We live in a Police State remember?
So let’s say you participated in the destruction of the Thompson Elk Fountain a historic landmark in downtown Portland in 2020. From that point on you have been monitored and ‘mapped’. That means geolocation, phone meta data, possibly conversations, who you know, pretty much everything about you – for five fucking years.
WE OWN YOU.
And we are going to collect.
There is no escape.
It will happen fast.
Crying won’t help you, praying won’t do you no good.
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Oregon's affordable housing industrial complex is awash in billions in taxpayer money, federal tax credits, private investors...as well as serious questions surrounding lack of accountability and corruption.
Oregon’s affordable housing industrial complex is awash in billions in taxpayer money, federal tax credits, private investors…as well as serious questions surrounding lack of accountability and corruption.
And now the person who overseas the lion’s share of that system (Oregon Housing and Community Services – or OHCS), is facing a serious ethics review.
OHCS executive director, Andrea Bell, failed to disclose her husband’s employment with JH Brawner, a consulting firm involved in the multiple affordable housing projects that received 10’s of millions of dollars from her agency.
Bell only amended her financial disclosures once reporters began asking her questions.
But there’s an even bigger story here:
OHSC has distributed more than $1.4 billion in state housing subsidies over five years. That doesn’t include the enormous value of federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC) allocated through the agency.
Here’s how LIHTC works: Developers receive allocations of federal tax credits, which are then sold to private investors in exchange for capital. Investors then receive federal tax benefits over ten years, while developers receive financing for projects.
It’s an incredibly complex system that brings together government agencies (such as OHCS), private developers (such as Community Development Partners – or CDP), banks and financial institutions, and large investment firms. And the public deserves to know exactly where the money goes.
Nearly two years ago, we investigated Milepost 5, a Portland affordable housing complex that had descended into deplorable conditions (as affordable housing properties tend to do) despite millions in public subsidies and tax-credit financing.
Our investigation revealed that the investment entity CDP, a private California company that develops many affordable housing projects in the Portland-metro area, is a subsidiary of Aegon Group, an international hedge fund worth north of $300 billion.
Although OHCS awarded CDP $3.3 million for upgrades and repairs at Milepost 5, serious maintenance problems persisted, along with drug dealing, squatters, and repeated complaints from residents and neighbors. At one point, there was even a raid by Homeland Security Investigations at the property, in which they arrested multiple drug dealers who had taken up residence in the building.
CDP claimed that seismic upgrades consumed most of the $3.3 million, despite an earlier estimate of approximately $350,000 for the seismic work. According to CDP, this left insufficient funding to address many of the property’s other problems.
After contacting multiple people within CDP, OHCS, and local government, we were unable to obtain a satisfactory accounting of exactly how the $3.3 million was spent. Everyone involved just wanted the questions about the funds to go away.
In fact, a local whistleblower who lives near Milepost 5 was threatened with arrest after U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley’s office allegedly identified him as a man who had been behaving threateningly outside the senator’s office. There was just one problem: the whistleblower was out of town on a fishing trip at the time, and the man in question bore no resemblance to him. Nevertheless, the accusation reportedly led to an attempt to have the whistleblower arrested. Even after the mistaken identity was established, neither Merkley nor his office offered the whistleblower an apology. Senator Merkley needs to answer to this egregious behavior.
While OHCS did publicly admonish CDP for its failures at Milepost 5 at a meeting, two weeks later, the agency approved $43.6 million to CDP for the Julia West affordable housing project.
In a news story by ProPublica (see below) the publication exposed how Oregon law shields detailed financial information about subsidized housing developments from public scrutiny.
There are billions in state subsidies. Federal tax credits benefitting private investors. Complex ownership structures. Limited public access to financial records.
And now an ethics review involving the director of the agency responsible for overseeing much of it.
Both the Bell controversy and Milepost 5 raise fundamental questions about oversight, transparency, and whose interests Oregon’s affordable housing system is actually serving.
Because it doesn’t seem to serve the people who are unfortunate enough to have to live in places like Milepost 5 or any of the other dozens of affordable housing projects in this city that are constantly falling into disrepair. It seems to mostly serve out of state corporations and huge international hedge funds.
The state (i.e. Gov. Kotek) and local government tell us that affordable housing should be about providing safe, stable homes for the people who really need them – not for moving enormous sums of public money through an increasingly complicated financial industrial complex, one that appears to be rife with corruption.
Below are the articles from ProPublica and our article about Milepost 5.— PDX Real (@PDXReal1) October 10, 2026Posted ·
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Gawd
— Wtfportland (@Wtfportland1) January 9, 2023
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It's a good Twitter day
— Wtfportland (@Wtfportland1) November 21, 2022
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Portlanders gave our beautiful city away. Live in the filth you created fuckers.
But Portlanders stop short of asking what policies and politics drove the decline of their city. https://t.co/1ZZDBMqugl
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) December 13, 2023Posted ·
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I'm a bad person. I know. Fuck you Ted.
Best comment wins 😂 pic.twitter.com/SQXMkaRrzz
— Wtfportland (@Wtfportland1) December 29, 2023Posted ·
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President of @Portland_State says campus security won't enforce immigration law and won't allow immigrant enforcement actions on campus.
President of
Portland_State</a> says campus security won't enforce immigration law and won't allow immigrant enforcement actions on campus.<br><br>PSU is a public University.<br><br>Trump authorized ICE to operate at schools. The DOJ also said they will go after officials who get in the way of… <a href="https://t.co/RdwQeJV5hh">pic.twitter.com/RdwQeJV5hh</a></p>— Libs of TikTok (libsoftiktok) January 23, 2025Posted ·
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This FBI will not tolerate our great cities becoming victimized by violent crime. Here's just some of what happens when @FBI gets after it in @FBIPortland and crushes violent crime
This FBI will not tolerate our great cities becoming victimized by violent crime. Here's just some of what happens when
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) September 8, 2025FBI</a> gets after it in <a href="https://twitter.com/FBIPortland?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">FBIPortland and crushes violent crime
-Seizure of 1,200 grams of fentanyl, 9.5 pounds methamphetamine and $40,000 in currency during a…Posted ·
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