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A Portland Democrat who once called for homeless individuals to be given housing suffered an ironic and cruel twist of fate last week. As The Oregonian reported, 51-year-old homeless man Vashon Locust was arrested on Tuesday after starting a fire that torched Portland City Councilor Candace Avalos’ townhome and car. He faces charges of reckless burning, second-degree mischief, and trespassing. These are all misdemeanors. According to a police affidavit obtained by the paper, Locust snuck into a shed near Avalos’ home on October 26 and attempted to use an electric outlet. When that failed, he set a fire to stay...

At La Imperial Bakery in Hillsboro, October typically brings a rush of customers eager to celebrate Día de los Muertos, the Mexican Day of the Dead. They buy bags of pan de muerto, conchas and other pastries galore. Not this year. Over the past few weeks, as the federal government has ramped up immigration enforcement and agents have seized people from cars, streets, apartment buildings and parking lots across the Portland metro area, sales at the family-owned bakery have plummeted by at least 40 percent, said owner and lead pastry chef Moises Pineda. “The clients are not coming,” Pineda said....

(CN) — A divided Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday agreed that Oregon Right to Life had made a sufficient showing that its beliefs are religious and sincerely held to proceed with a lawsuit to avoid having to provide health insurance coverage to its employees for abortions and contraceptives. In a split decision, the three-judge panel overturned a district judge’s dismissal last year of the anti-abortion organization’s complaint as well as her denial of the nonprofit’s request for a preliminary injunction. “ORTL put forth significant evidence of its religiosity, and there was no conflicting evidence against ORTL’s claim that...

Former Clackamas County Commissioner Melissa Fireside Credit: Fireside Campaign/Daily Mail A former Democrat lawmaker from Oregon has apparently taken advantage of soft criminal laws her party has passed over the years and escaped justice. As The Daily Mail reported, 44-year-old Melissa Fireside crossed the U.S. border with her young son after her former partner discovered she had taken the 9-year-old out of school last Wednesday. She then booked a flight from Mexico to Amsterdam. It’s unclear whether she is residing in the Dutch city. Fireside, who served as a Clackamas County Commissioner, is accused of trying to scam her mother’s...

Judge Immergut decided that the president did not meet the merits to federalize the National Guard under Title 10 section 12406. US District Court Judge Karin J. Immergut ruled on Sunday that President Donald Trump likely lacked the authority to federalize the National Guard and surge troops to protect the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Portland, which has been the site of constant "unlawful" demonstrations since June 7. Judge Immergut, appointed by Trump, extended the preliminary injunction, deciding that the president would likely not meet the merits to federalize the National Guard under Title 10 section 12406,...

Former Clackamas County Commissioner in Oregon Melissa Fireside has reportedly fled the country ahead of her theft trial, where she has been charged for allegedly stealing from a resident at an assisted living facility. According to court filings, she used false identification and an Austrian passport, taking her young son with her. On Friday, the Oregon Department of Justice said it had moved to reverse Fireside's conditional release after she was no longer at the home address she stated to the court, which had been in Lexington in Morrow County. Fireside is facing charges of aggravated first-degree theft, using a...

“PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Oregon leaders and immigration advocates are holding a press conference after they say more than 30 people were arrested by ICE agents in Woodburn on Thursday. The presidents of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) and Pineros Y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (PCUN) spoke at the event….”

Seven Democrat states have pledged tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer funds to prop up Planned Parenthood amid federal defunding under Congress and President Donald Trump. The move is drawing sharp condemnation from pro-life advocates who say the states are propping up the nation’s biggest abortion company. The taxpayer-funding commitments from New York, California, Oregon, Washington, Illinois, Massachusetts and Hawaii come in response to a one-year moratorium on Medicaid reimbursements for nonprofits that kill babies in abortions, enacted as part of Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” signed in July. The law bars such organizations from federal funding if they received...

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals will rehear the Trump administration’s appeal to deploy and federalize the National Guard to Portland, OR. The “majority of nonrecused active judges” voted to rehear the case en banc. En banc requires the approval of a majority of the judges of the 9th Circuit. In this case, the panel will consist of eleven judges. Last week, a three-judge panel froze a lower court order that stopped President Donald Trump from sending the National Guard to Portland. U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut placed two restraining orders on Trump: no federalization of the Oregon National Guard...

A new report sheds light on the mysterious organization called Rose City Antifa which is one of the most active and destructive rioter organizations in America. An insider was able to find out who is operating the organization and it turns out that it stretches all the way to Sweden. See Andy Ngo post and video at article.

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - A Portland woman has been charged in federal court after allegedly hitting a federal officer with a tambourine outside the ICE facility in South Portland. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon, 56-year-old Lisa Miyamoto was arrested on Sunday, October 19 after she reportedly struck a federal officer with a wooden tambourine dear the ICE facility’s driveway. Officers had been deployed to clear the driveway for a car to exit when the Alleged assault happened. According to court documents, the federal officer pushed Miyamoto away from the driveway with one hand and...

A federal appeals court on Friday temporarily blocked President Trump from deploying Oregon National Guard troops to Portland after a judge issued a Temporary Retraining Order (TRO). The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily reinstated Judge Karin Immergut’s TRO on Friday after it halted an order issued by a three-judge panel from the court earlier in the week. President Trump previously called up hundreds of California National Guard Troops to Portland to circumvent the judge’s order blocking Oregon National Guard Troop deployment. Trump also activated up to 400 Texas National Guard troops for deployment to Oregon, Illinois and other states...

The City of Portland assisted a controversial anti-ICE organization in securing a vacant office space on the ground floor of an apartment building directly across the street from the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility, which has been under siege by demonstrators, many of whom are involved with Antifa networks, since early June. The Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition (PIRC), a taxpayer-funded non-governmental organization (NGO), is known for conducting trainings on how to disrupt ICE operations, as well as providing guidance to illegal immigrants on the best practices to evade apprehension by federal authorities. [snip] According to a letter obtained...

SNIP SOURCE A three-judge panel for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted 2-1 to stay a district court order that had prevented the deployment of National Guard troops to the city. The majority opinion found it was likely that the president had lawfully exercised his statutory authority.(Via Politico) – A federal appeals court panel has backed President Donald Trump’s authority to send National Guard troops into Portland, Oregon, concluding that though the president’s claims on social media “may exaggerate” the violence in the city, he may still have had a valid basis for the deployment.The 2-1 ruling, endorsed...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Monday that President Donald Trump has the authority to deploy the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, reversing a decision by a district judge earlier this month. It was the second time the Ninth Circuit — despite its reputation as a liberal bastion — overruled lower courts and allowed Trump to exercise his constitutional powers as commander-in-chief; the first case was California. National Public Radio reported: A divided federal appeals court for the 9th Circuit today overturned a temporary restraining order put in place by a federal judge in Portland –...

A federal appeals court ruled on Oct. 20 that President Donald Trump may deploy National Guard troops to deal with violence directed against federal immigration facilities in Portland while the case works its way through the lower courts.

It takes a considerable amount of hubris to smugly confess multiple felonies to your adoring online fans—and everyone else, but it's Oregon, where people so certain of their righteous beliefs believe there will be no repercussions for their lawbreaking. Such is the case with this Hillsboro couple, Kiley and Karim Delgado, who own The 649, a tap house and restaurant. The 649 name is a slang term that means everything from taking shots of booze to taking a chance on the lottery. The couple identifies multiple times as "Antifa" on their Facebook page and not in the humorous way the...

Thanks to allegedly nonexistent Antifa, every day is No Kings Day at the ICE facility in moonbat-infested Portland. Here’s what it looked like yesterday: video on link Someone has to pay all these guys to stand around defending ICE facilities from treasonous vermin who want to prevent the enforcement of immigration law. If you pay taxes in the USA, that would be you.

ICE all over the non-Portland areas in Oregon. Many helicopters flying over most of the day. ICE finally came in to the illegal alien criminal GUTS of Oregon. They picked up numerous cartel members, dealers, pedophiles and child traffickers while raiding apartments, etc. Demonrats are wetting their pants over it and soiling their briefs and filing lawsuits according to news sources. So much for “all king’s day.” LOLOLOLOL! Thank you ICE!! Thank you Trump and administration!!

The first nine months of the second Trump administration have seen extraordinary litigation efforts by opponents of the government seeking to block its initiatives of every sort. This page at Lawfare Media tracks some 190 active cases challenging Trump administration actions; and I don’t think that that list of 190 is comprehensive. The cases cover subject matter areas ranging from spending reductions to employee terminations to migrant deportations to regulatory actions, among many others. Those following these litigations, or some of them, have undoubtedly noticed a pattern whereby a District Court judge, usually in a blue state, enjoins the administration’s...