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Good Morning, News: Homeless Shelter Bureaucracy, Sex Toys for Xmas, and an Omicron Surge Is Coming – Blogtown
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IN LOCAL NEWS:
• Three out of doors, metropolis-sanctioned homeless shelters that had been shortly arrange on the high of the pandemic had a number of preliminary success… that’s till the town determined to take the leadership of the sites away from the residents. Don’t miss this glorious and very academic lengthy-learn from our Alex Zielinski!
What occurs when a brief-time period emergency homeless village transitions right into a longterm mannequin? It’s not tidy. https://t.co/2UlOhY0Y2P
— Alex Zielinski (@alex_zee) December 14, 2021
• TriMet’s new Safety Response Team was speculated to be an reply to the cries for racial justice in public transportation, designed to deescalate conditions quite than resort to pressure. Unfortunately the crew’s new members are being employed and trained by the same private security firm that ran TriMet’s former (and not-so-nice) transit safety. Our Isabella Garcia has extra!
• Very a lot associated: Clackamas County is being compelled to pay $45,000 to a household after one in all their white deputies pinned down a Black 12-year-old putting his knee on his neck. Sound acquainted?
Snow accumulations will stay restricted to the very best hills this AM besides within the Columbia River Gorge the place some snow will stick at river degree. You should see snow combine with rain elsewhere this AM, however accumulations are unlikely beneath 500-1000′. #pdxtst #pdxtraffic #orwx pic.twitter.com/gAZv75U4wG
— NWS Portland (@NWSPortland) December 15, 2021
• On the heels of a damning investigative report about fairness, two OHSU employees have filed a class-action lawsuit that allege the establishment has handled individuals of shade unfairly.
• Pardon me, however listed below are two articles about belongings you like very a lot: Holiday treats and intercourse toys! Check out my overview of Sellwood’s ab-so-fucking-lutely delicious Holler Treats, AND a lineup of incredible new sex toys you may both give or obtain this vacation season from our friends at She Bop!
IN NATIONAL/WORLD NEWS:
• You in all probability noticed this coming, however the CDC is warning that the US may very nicely see a massive surge in Omicron variant cases as quickly as January.
Republican governors assail $1.9 trillion of stimulus cash as Biden’s inflation tax, however they have not turned their share away.
They’re planning spending sprees and tax cuts and taking credit score for finances surpluses.
On the GOP’s reduction cash gymnastics:https://t.co/A26Sb1lTZd pic.twitter.com/xDFCocFzvS
— Alan Rappeport (@arappeport) December 15, 2021
• The House has voted—alongside get together traces, ‘natch—that criminal contempt charges be leveled in opposition to Trump’s former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows for refusing to cooperate with the January 6 panel investigating the home terrorist assault on the Capitol… and what the White House needed to do with it.
• Related: Gross Fox News hosts are maaaaaad that the January 6 congressional panel had the AUDACITY to reveal their panicky texts with former chief of staff Mark Meadows, begging him to beg Trump to name off the home terrorist assault. (Even although they clearly supported the attackers afterward.)
• Today in “Oh for FUCK’S SAKE”:
In his by no means-ending quest to be extra MAGA than another Governor, Desantis this morning proclaims his ‘Stop WOKE Act’ to create a non-public proper of motion, modeled after TX abortion legislation, to sue colleges in the event that they catch them educating CRT. pic.twitter.com/1M9a2Ns3tM
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) December 15, 2021
• Disgraced former officer Derek Chauvin—who murdered George Floyd by kneeling on his neck till he suffocated—has pleaded guilty to separate federal charges that he violated Floyd’s civil rights. This may tack on an extra 300 months of jail time along with his present homicide sentence.
• Right on model: Antivaxxers take over an NYC Cheesecake Factory.
A gaggle of 30 + antivaxxers claiming to be doing a “sit in” refused to examine in on the host stand, skipped ready clients, and sat themselves throughout a number of tables in a Cheesecake Factory in NYC.
They at the moment are arguing with police. One antivaxxer in contrast the police to Nazis. pic.twitter.com/elFKOoTZ98
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) December 15, 2021
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• You wish to discover the right reward whereas additionally supporting native companies, sure? YES! Then do not miss the Mercury‘s Holiday Gift Guide, that includes solely the best items and the place to search out them… regionally!
• And now… THE WEATHER REPORT: Expect another rainy day with a excessive of 42.
• And lastly… good morning! It’s time to start out your “morning pages.”
Trying to get my mind to do morning pages pic.twitter.com/iQQzoTzbll
— Chelsea Pope (@chelseathepope) December 14, 2021
