Purple Reign

Newsom is done. He's not going to politically survive this. The feds are going to send him to prison, because the paper trail is going to clearly show he knew.

🚨 She is OUT. Now THIS is leadership. Marco Rubio on the deportation of IRGC General Soleimani’s niece who is now in ICE custody: “Until recently, Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter were green card holders living in lavishly in the United States. Afshar is the niece of deceased Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani. She is also an outspoken supporter of the Iranian regime who celebrated attacks on Americans and referred to our country as the "Great Satan." This week, I terminated both Afshar and her daughter's legal status and they are now in ICE custody, pending removal from the United States. The Trump Administration will not allow our country to become a home for foreign nationals who support anti-American terrorist regimes.” I expect any other relations to Terrorist regimes should worry too. Real leadership here. And Keir Starmer is still refusing to proscribe th IRGC as a Terrorist Group.

Due to the Muslim population, German schools will no longer have musical education.

Portland’s city government has spent the last decade growing fatter while the city itself shrinks and rots. We had steady growth through the 2010s — roughly 621,000 residents in 2014 climbing to a peak of over 653,000 by 2020. Then the bill came due. People started voting with their feet. Consecutive years of decline, and by 2026 we’re down to an estimated 627,040. That’s not a “soft landing.” That’s thousands of productive residents bailing on the metro area while private-sector jobs evaporate and the only thing still expanding is local government employment. Meanwhile, the bureaucracy went on a decade-long shopping spree with your money. The adopted budget more than doubled — $3.44 billion in fiscal year 2013-14 to $7.1 billion in 2023-24. Seven thousand city workers now. That’s not “investment in services.” That’s an empire of desks, consultants, and six-figure salaries paid for by the shrinking number of those of us still dumb enough to stick around and pay the tab. And what’s the return on that explosion of spending? Recent community surveys show nearly half of Portland residents flat-out admit their quality of life has gotten worse over the past three years. Parks and natural areas still get decent marks. Solid waste pickup too 💩 because even the most incompetent operation can manage to pick up the trash twice a week. But everything that actually touches daily life? Cost of living through the roof, traffic that makes you want to scream, streets that look like a third-world war zone, violent criminals, Fentanyl zombies on the loose, and the overwhelming sense that you’re getting absolutely zero value for the taxes and fees you’re forced to hand over. This isn’t mismanagement. This is the predictable result of ten straight years of progressive “vision” (Jo Ann Hardesty is so proud) More staff, more budget, more studies, equity czars, and excuses — while the basics collapse, the homeless situation explodes; anyone with options packs up and leaves. City Hall keeps telling us they need even more money to fix what they broke. The data says the opposite: the more they grow, the worse it gets for everyone still living here. We’re not “evolving” or “reimagining” anything. We’re watching a city get professionally mismanaged into the ground by the same people who keep promising utopia if we just give them one more billion of our hard-earned cash.