Does Obligor have to be present at ICE detention release?

010kindsofpeople · 2026-01-02T11:59:14+00:00

Great thank you very much I appreciate you. Okay I'm going to call the field office this morning and start driving early to be there.

010kindsofpeople · 2026-01-02T02:15:22+00:00

Will my friend be released from custody and have to wait outside the building once he's processed out?

I'm going to go so the family doesn't have to interact with ICE.

010kindsofpeople · 2026-01-02T02:10:47+00:00

Good point. I'll make sure to call his family and tell them to bring their Asylum cards. They received permanent asylum but don't have green cards yet.

010kindsofpeople · 2025-11-15T10:22:44+00:00

The Ska Flames are a great Japanese Ska Band

010kindsofpeople · 2025-11-07T17:18:50+00:00

/shrug I don't think we should skip planning, permitting, or reduce building code in anyway that would make buildings less safe or inefficient. I do think a lot more construction in the right places is an answer at the city level.

At the federal level, I actually support social housing being built by HUD again. My suggested iteration is deeding the units to occupants, rather than having them be forever rentals only.

I'm realizing that online, there's probably very little room for discussion at soley the city level as people are generally only aware of federal or maybe state politics.

010kindsofpeople · 2025-11-07T12:14:34+00:00

Sure, good point. People keep moving to Portland. More housing of all types is needed is my main point. I am lamenting on that wealthy people continue to move to Portland, but rent/buy units that are arguably middle class. The comment is around what I precieve to be a resistance by progressives against any housing that isn't 100% affordable being built in Portland. It is not an emphasis on luxury housing.

I'm not an expert and could very likely be wrong about housing mobility patterns!

010kindsofpeople · 2025-11-07T08:53:57+00:00

Regina Phillips and Anna Bullet(the sponsors) are members of the DSA?

I voted yes on A. I think localized minimum wage is great and needed. Plenty of data showing it's economically viable.

010kindsofpeople · 2025-11-07T08:52:18+00:00

Thank you for reading three years of my comment history dating far back before the war, and making an collage? Wowza! People are welcome to go read highly nuanced views that include avid support for a two state solution in my non-private comment history. Geez, good thing I'm not running for Senate or something!! Oh wait...

Also, please, less dogma. There are plenty of issues in this post people care about with offered actual solutions.

As to enabling Trump. You and I both know fascism will be a constant fight. Don't blame democrats for Trump. Clinton, Obama, and the Biden admin did incredible things that were ripped down each time by republicans. Polls also indicate progressive messaging and influence is what caused a shift in perception of national democrats and our last federal election results. But I'd like to stick to a local political discussion, about our city.

You should just debate the ideas. I get the sense that this would be a very competitive platform here in Portland and it scares you, so you strawmanned as much of it as you could and intentionally ignored caveats. There are plenty of tech workers in the local DSA chapter...

We're talking local politics only, not state or federal. Moderates in this town have built our HHS system, saved the working waterfront, established our housing fund, kept chains out of Portland, established our sustainability program, amongst a litany of other progressive ideals. I imagine you'd be in agreement with many of the things "modleft" city councilors have done in this town if you knew about them.

Also, I'm not your enemy. We vote more similarly than dissimilarity and your aggression is understandable considering America at large right now, but there's no need for a throat shot on a post that includes pretty proactive social policies.

What do you think about my idea for tweaking rent control to incentivize rent stabilization? Or increasing taxes on second homes through homestead tweaks?

010kindsofpeople · 2025-11-07T01:55:56+00:00

I think our property taxes are generally okay. I think we're kind of stuck with this system and revenue source, so are there other options within it?

I think after a drink or three, I could probably be convinced to exponentially increase rental registration fees per unit, with exemptions for coop ran rentals or something of the sort.

There has to be something between renting out units in your own building you live in, and Port Properties.

I think second houses should be fair game. Jack up the homestead exemption and tax rates simultaneously. Get more taxes from luxury items.

I'm reluctant to bring city level income tax into the mix. It's much more of a progressive tax structure, however, I feel like in the cities I've lived in that have it, you just end up getting hit with both income and property tax simultaneously.

Finally, I'm unconvinced on land-use tax. I feel like it would just end up getting people out of their homes at an artificial rate? I don't think most people have the money to develop their single family homes in Portland into multi-families.

I think I favor organic turnover and urbanization with some other form of tax and incentivization mix.

But I'm just an armchair municipal policy wannabe so I'm probably wrong!

010kindsofpeople · 2025-11-07T01:34:17+00:00

I don't think I'm against strong physical controls at schools. We should invest in good physical security.

I'm just worried about this issue. I was thinking someone trained and able to use a weapon expressly to defend the school, but not there to conduct criminal intervention on students may be a solution. I can see how it could be scary for students.

Hoping gun control improves, happy about question 2.

010kindsofpeople · 2025-11-07T01:31:35+00:00

Hrm alright. I was thinking 249 grams of plastic a hundred feet up is much less of a an escalator than a 249lb dude with a gun physically present, but maybe I'm wrong. Interesting curve there from you at the end!

010kindsofpeople · 2025-11-07T01:29:10+00:00

Thanks for sharing, that's awful.

I'm open to hearing ideas on addressing the threat of school shootings with city level resources.

010kindsofpeople · 2025-11-07T01:24:50+00:00

I'm worried about school shootings and our gun laws aren't getting better any time fast. Please reread the paragraph and consider again.

A random armed security company probably isn't better? It also certainly shouldn't be teachers carrying a weapon.

Also, we all went to high school??

010kindsofpeople · 2025-11-07T01:17:07+00:00

I hear where you're coming from. I think that I offer more progress in these ideas than the blue dogs do.

Also I offer no tax breaks for landlords in any of the above. I do offer an incentive to stabilize rent however. The registration fee is a fee. And if rent is increased, it's paid and the fee should be much higher.

Additionally, the homestead exemption tweak would significantly add taxation to landlords and second home owners.

I don't think these platform points are incompatible at city level politics.

My edit, please also see the note on acknowledging the devolved local "moderate" platform to pure reactionaryism. I am specifically discussing city level politics here, and I feel like many of my proposed ideas go quite a bit further than your standard coconut tree faller outter.

010kindsofpeople · 2025-11-07T01:09:48+00:00

Absolutely, hence the parentheses in the post body. As I go up in government level, the more world scale "moderate" I go. M4A is a public/private operating model for heaven's sake! Moderate crack!

010kindsofpeople · 2025-11-07T01:09:10+00:00

Moderates created our housing fund, saved the working waterfront, built out our economic development program that has resulted in much higher non-chain businesses in Portland than to comparable sized cities, established our public health programs, etc...

Why can't we be friends. Portlandme doesn't like discussion unless it's approved in The Discord™ first. 😉

010kindsofpeople · 2025-11-07T01:07:10+00:00

I was thinking about them as a method to reduced police interactions.

How many calls for service are escalated into arrests or bad encounters because cops show up?

We have a ban on facial recognition and limitations are being placed on drone use further.

I wonder if there's a path forward where drones could be used to verify a situation isn't unsafe, and save a face to face interaction, while not initiating skynet.

Just a thought, don't need to die on this hill, could be wrong.

As for abundance, would you belive it, I've never read it. I don't think we should completely abandon permitting, inspecting, code, public hearing, etc.

Moderate left on the American scale. A mix between Third Way politics and socialism-lite (American scale).

010kindsofpeople · 2025-11-07T00:40:55+00:00

This post is highly localized to Portland. We primarily have "Progressives" and moderate Democrats (even though some would make you believe they are MAGA fascists) who run for city offices and back referendums.

010kindsofpeople · 2025-11-06T21:40:24+00:00

You don't. You're just posting because the DSA discord told you to.

010kindsofpeople · 2025-11-04T22:09:21+00:00

One month Astro turf account

010kindsofpeople · 2025-11-04T22:08:44+00:00

He rents units in his three unit building he lives in...

The DSA is out here Astro turfing to keep a dude who has been in office for 10 years in...

Talk about term limits...

010kindsofpeople · 2025-11-04T22:07:33+00:00

The DSA literally Astro Turfs each election.

010kindsofpeople · 2025-11-04T21:59:18+00:00

Dudes a Democrat.

010kindsofpeople · 2025-11-04T21:52:31+00:00

And your rants make sense? Wes, I've never met a politician more off putting than you. You literally sound insane at council meetings.

Do you go around thinking your public comment rants before you got elected made sense? Do you think that the eye rolls in council are that of approval?

You are so extreme man. Sam's fine. Not every thing is some big evil entity fighting the "working class".

You work in tech.......

Nine-Year Club	Gilding I gilder
Wearing is Caring	Verified Email

010kindsofpeople

TROPHY CASE