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Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 1d

I oppose the resumption of sweeps beginning tomorrow. They are costly, ineffective and cruel. At a time when our Federal government is literally starving our most vulnerable neighbors, we add to that by violently taking from them what little they have? My statement attached.

Councilor Mitch Green
Portland City Council, District 4
1221 SW 4th Ave. # 240, Portland, OR, 97204
Media Contact: Maria Sipin, Chief of Staff
maria.sipin2@portlandoregon.gov
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Councilor Mitch Green’s Statement on November 1st Camping Ban Enforcement
Policy
October 30, 2025
“We have seen ICE and the National Guard perform homeless sweeps in other cities where
they've been deployed, and we’ve heard Trump calling for increased sweeps and even
disappearance of unhoused people.
It is a bad, cruel, and failed policy when the Trump administration does it, and it is a bad,
cruel, and failed policy when the city of Portland does it.
As we face the very real possibility of federal troops being deployed to our streets to target
one group of vulnerable people, we absolutely cannot start using our own police to do their
work for them by targeting another.
Some will argue that sweeps are about safety and compassion, but the evidence is clear
and overwhelming. Sweeps kill people.
For far too long, Portland has pursued a failed policy of criminalizing poverty. As a result,
we’ve spent hundreds of millions of dollars only to see the problem grow, and deaths among
our homeless neighbors quadruple between 2019 and 2023.
It’s time to change direction. We need to protect ALL Portlanders.

We need to focus on programs that move people closer to housing and stability, not policies
that punish and further destabilize. Programs like low-barrier jobs programs, direct rental
assistance, food aid, and day shelters that provide hygiene, clothing, and case management.
Programs like these are humane, cost-effective, and they work. They address the issue of
visible poverty that neighbors and businesses are concerned about, but they do so by
offering dignity, not displacement. They break the cycle of disappointment and
depression—where people spend all day waiting in lines, worrying about their belongings,
with no meaningful work. They are a hand up, not a sweep away.
But at the end of the day, the only real, lasting solution to homelessness is to provide deeply
affordable housing for all. Unless we stop the flow of folks onto the streets, we’re never
going to make real progress. That is why we need to move aggressively towards a Social
Housing model— high quality, permanently affordable housing that will serve the vast
majority of Portlanders, from the unhoused to the middle class.
The choice before us is clear. We can either align ourselves with the politics of division, of
sweeps, of cages, and of death, or we can choose the politics of solidarity, of housing, of
healthcare, and of life.”

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s be clear, most EBT users are white. The reason he’s specifically lying about “weaves” and we’ve seen so many AI fakes of Black women ranting about food stamps is they need to make BW the face EBT because they know many Americans don’t care if Black people suffer, and some actually wish for it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

ROB SCHMITT: People are using SNAP benefits to get their nails done, to get their weaves and their hair. This is a really ugly program.

SEN. RON JOHNSON: That program needs to be dramatically reformed.

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 1d

A middle school kid just came to the door dressed as "An AI Overlord." I asked if she was good or evil. "Evil, of course." I laughed and said the future was in good hands, to which she replied, "No, it's not."

Protect these kids at all costs.

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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 2d

I can accept that Mayor Wilson feels he has a public mandate to enforce a camping ban, even if I think it’s a waste of money.

But it’d just be madness for the city to lose sight of a long-term vision for housing everyone, which has been Hisserich’s main focus

Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com · 2d

Shake-up at the Portland Housing Bureau: Mayor Wilson put director Helmi Hisserich, an "unparalleled expert" on social housing, on leave with little explanation Thursday. She has been in the role since early 2024.

Mayor Wilson Puts Portland Housing Bureau Director On Leave

Mayor Keith Wilson has put Portland Housing Bureau Director Helmi Hisserich on leave, effective immediately. City Administrator Michael Jordan sent an email to city councilors and city leadership on O...

www.portlandmercury.com

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Councilor Candace Avalos @counciloravalos.bsky.social · 1d

For a full list, check out this resource from MultCo:

Food Assistance in Multnomah County

We can help make it easier to get the food you need. SNAP/Food Stamps. Meal programs. Low-cost farmers markets. Food pantries.

multco.us

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Diana Urge-Vorsatz @dianaurge.bsky.social · 1d

Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport
www.economist.com/internationa...
"In London cyclists now outnumber cars in the City by two to one and in Paris, they outnumber motorists across the whole city. In Copenhagen bikes account for almost half of commuter journeys to work and school."

Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport

Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war

www.economist.com

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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 1d

🎃 Some lessons from Hallowe’en: 👻

Little kids should be able to walk in the streets, even at night, without worrying about cars.

People who are well-off are expected to give out more candy.

Candy is for anyone who asks — no means-testing.

Whatever else we are, we are each other’s neighbors.

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 2d

6 units with 16 bedrooms in a twinned point access block on ~75% of the floor plate area of this double loaded corridor w/ 9 units and 10 bedrooms. one of most compact i've ever seen

to get the same number of bedrooms in the double loaded corridor - it would have to grow by at least 2,400 sf

haltmeier kister's study for a twinned single stair building in zuerich

floor plan for an apartment building with a double loaded corridor in seattle

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Leon Simons @leonsimons.bsky.social · 2d

👻BOO‼️
I can't think of anything scarier than this.

The greenhouse gases we have added to the atmosphere now force over a billion Hiroshima bombs worth of heat into the Earth system every year.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

this might be one of the best videos i’ve seen all year and also one of the most terrifying things i’ve ever witnessed in my entire life

Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 2d

in my humble moderate opinion i think sam altman should be tried at the hague and everyone at openAI should be tried as an accessory

ChatGPT made me delusional

YouTube video by Eddy Burback

www.youtube.com

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Bentley @bigclimate.bsky.social · 4d

#ClimateChange is already killing us leahy.substack.com/p/heat-waves... #ExtremeHeat

Heat Waves Are Increasing and More Dangerous Than We Realize

The impacts of severe heat are badly underestimated by everyone.

leahy.substack.com

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 3d

Ugh. This is not a serious solution. It’s one thing if the device destroys CO₂ (it won’t), but if you have to collect a few kg of CO₂ from more than a billion cars, it ain’t gonna happen. Electric vehicles are fine. Stop trying to keep ICE around.

Mazda's carbon-capture technology could save the combustion engine | Auto Express

Could clever tech that removes carbon from exhaust gases before it leaves the tailpipe solve the CO2 problem?

www.autoexpress.co.uk

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dctrikemom.bsky.social @dctrikemom.bsky.social · 3d

"What about rainy days?"

Still more fun than driving! Staying active thru fall/winter makes me happier and healthier. #cargobike #bunchdc

dc trike mom on bunch bike with rain tent, rainbow lights and free dc sign

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pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 3d

I think I’ve slept like 4 hours the past few nights thinking about the loss of SNAP benefits. People are going to go hungry on a scale we’ve never seen in America before, their healthcare being pitted against their next meal. We have so much money in this country and it never goes to our people.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 3d

My three-year-old was listening to the Ezra Klein podcast when she turned to me gravely and asked "Daddy, why did the woke mob kill Charlie Kirk?" And when I told her "because he was practicing politics the right way," she started crying.

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John wasiutynski @jwashski.bsky.social · 3d

Not cool coyote! Seriously not cool!

Wildlife officials warn residents of coyotes after child was grabbed in Portland

Officials are warning people to be on the lookout for coyotes after a 9-year-old was grabbed by one in Portland’s Alameda neighborhood. The child escaped with minor injuries.

www.opb.org

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 3d

President Trump could have spent the past year making hundreds of millions from crypto. Instead, he selflessly let his sons make hundreds of millions from crypto, limiting his own income to bribes, media shakedowns, and a free plane. Will the press acknowledge this sacrifice?

by Hugh Hewitt

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

Friends a small bit of good news.

Portland mother freed, reunited with children after four months in immigration detention

Her release surprised family and advocates, frustrated that Merlos remained behind bars despite an immigration judge terminating the government’s deportation case on Oct. 14.

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pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 3d

These teachers are angels.

Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · 4d

In Hillsboro, which has seen a surge of ICE arrests in the past week, elementary school staff are spending early mornings on neighborhood watch to ensure families/students feel safe coming to school. By @hbarth.bsky.social:

www.opb.org/article/2025...

‘This community is not the enemy’: Hillsboro teachers form neighborhood ICE watch

ICE arrested a parent near Eastwood Elementary School last Monday. Teachers and parents have been patrolling the neighborhood every morning since.

www.opb.org

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Bob Danley @imagewildlife.bsky.social · 4d

Not only scary looking, but deadly poisonous. Conifer False Morel contains gyromitrin which affects the action of vitamin B6, controller of cell processes. Liver and kidney damage may result (Trudell & Ammirati 2009). Found across our continent.

Conifer False Morel can grow to a six inch height. The burnt orange, lobed, convoluted, brain-like cap can be three inches in width. The stem is thick, irregularly smooth usually trending to buff in color. Forested habitat deciduous or conifer duff.

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 4d

looking at the full rose lane vision map and thinking: damn www.portland.gov/transportati...

rose lane vision map showing bus lanes on almost all major inner portland arterials

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cassie @wilsonxcassie.bsky.social · 4d

They’ll be too busy trying to find parking when we daylight every corner in the city

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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 4d

"According to his running club, the man, who is a U.S. citizen, was returning from a team run when agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding"

US citizen, 67, ‘has six ribs broken’ by Border Patrol agents, his running club says

The incident unfolded Saturday in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood, where residents say federal agents disrupted a children’s Halloween parade

www.independent.co.uk

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cassie @wilsonxcassie.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah if the Portland left could stop harassing women of color on council that would be soooo cool

Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 4d

The people who run the Revoke the Permit IG account hate Angelita Morillo more than ICE.

I’ve seen some wild shit on the Portland left but I can’t remember anything this absurd.

Loser shit. Absolute waste of time.

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John wasiutynski @jwashski.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, but what about the drivers

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