You know, Seattle gets all the good Antifa, progressive, narco-zombi buzz anymore. And I get it. They’re flashier, work harder at it – and work at it constantly – and never misses a chance to fling poo of Molotov cocktails at the feds downtown if things have slackened coverage-wise.
It’s how they roll.
Their less flashy but no less pathetic experiment in progressive governance sister city would be Portland, Oregon, right down the road.
The city has its issues with crime and should be ashamed that it’s second only to Memphis in that ‘property crime’ stat column.
Portland has one of the highest property crime rates in the U.S.
Property crime in major U.S. cities dropped 8 percent last year, but it remains relatively high in some of the cities recently targeted by President Trump’s threats of federal intervention.
While violent crime is relatively low in the West Coast cities of Portland and San Francisco, both cities rank significantly higher among major cities when it comes to property crime.
“Every American deserves to live in a community where they’re not afraid of being mugged, murdered, robbed, raped, assaulted, or shot,” Trump told reporters last week.
Portland has the second-highest property crime rate in the U.S. Only Memphis, Tenn. has a higher rate.
The city recorded 5,526 property crimes per 100,000 people in 2024, the FBI reported, including 4,532 reports of burglary.
Police say crime has dropped 17 percent year over year through June, with an 11 percent drop in property crimes specifically.
And that’s after the decrease.
YOICKS
The city had its own outbreak of ICE raid-influenced protests and handled it as well as any day ending in ‘y’ in Seattle. This week the city and police were formally notified that they’re facing a $10M lawsuit from conservative independent journalist Nick Sorter for arresting him during the October Antifa scrums.
This is Sorter at a Trump roundtable with independents and cabinet members telling about the events that befell him that night.
After being arrested while covering the Portland violence, conservative commentator Nick Sorter explains how backwards and corrupt Portland’s politicians have become. pic.twitter.com/UgMV9uW8Ky
— Tea Party Patriots (@TPPatriots) October 10, 2025
He explains he was actually pretty safe in the Portland jail, as authorities there don’t seem to arrest Antifa ot other violent offenders – just conservative journalists.
This is a problem, obviously.
🚨 BREAKING: My legal team has just notified the City of Portland that we’re filing a $10 MILLION federal civil rights lawsuit for their REPEATED targeting of conservatives, resulting in my unconstitutional arrest
The City of Portland wants to COVER UP their Antifa ties. We will… pic.twitter.com/IVcc7S8nA5
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) December 9, 2025
Discovery is going to be BEAUTIFUL.
In September of 2024, the state of Oregon embarked on another ambitious social engineering program, which has only exacerbated issues the police can’t or won’t address. They recriminalized drug possession,
One big ‘oops,’ right?
The efforts to return to a nearly normal state of enforcement a year later were being called ‘a work in progress’ by the local public station.
One year ago, Oregon’s law recriminalizing drug possession went into effect. In the months since, counties across the state started to stand up drug deflection programs aimed at driving more people towards treatment resources or risk criminal penalties.
The situation in Oregon has shifted within the past year: overdose deaths appear to be decreasing, arrests for drug possession have spiked, and there’s been a documented effort to get people into treatment.
Still, state officials say it’s too early to make sweeping statements or draw definitive conclusions about whether the state’s county-by-county approach, or its nascent programs, are helping connect drug users with treatment in ways that have met Oregonians’ expectations.
Some issues of the decriminalization law had citizens upset even before they pulled a 180. Oregon legislators hustled to make public drug use a misdemeanor.
…In 2023, a coalition of powerful business and political leaders announced an effort to “fix” the law by prohibiting drug use in public spaces and making possession illegal again. Facing shifting public sentiment and the threat of another ballot measure that would repeal Measure 110, Oregon lawmakers recriminalized drug possession, creating a new misdemeanor charge for it.
Obviously, the slap on the wrist had little effect, and it could be seen in ‘public places’ like the Portland Central Library.
This is outside. Isn’t it cheery?
The Multnomah County Library tried and failed to stop me from taking this photo.
The interior of the Central Library is something like daycare for the homeless and mentally ill. The area surrounding the library is a campsite and open-air drug market. pic.twitter.com/JmduzFacYe
— Oregon Raw (@oregonraw1859) April 26, 2025
This is what library employees have been exposed to, drug-wise. No one’s even talking about the disease and filth.
1/3 of employees at the downtown library in Portland operated by Multnomah County had fentanyl exposure. Those of us living in Portland know the downtown library has been an established open air drug market for many years. pic.twitter.com/iVQ51PFpH0
— andy chandler (@azcfilm) May 23, 2025
Tara Faul, who takes almost Gothic portrait pictures of the homeless in the area, caught this outside last year.
The Portland central library is a hub of drug dealing and using. Used fentanyl foil litters the sidewalk. People are lighting it up on the benches around the building
I would hesitate to take my kids into the beverly Cleary room inside the building pic.twitter.com/GLEUxagwOq
— ghost Tara Faul (@tarafaul503) April 8, 2024
According to one news report, it’s pretty dicey between the bookstacks, too, as it’s a safe space for all the addicts and deviants when they get done doing their dirty deeds in the street.
They come into the library for a break.
If one of them is holding you captive, you can check in, perhaps not even of your own free will.
A Portland man was arrested from the Central Library on Saturday after a teenage girl he was with reportedly escaped and told police he had sexually abused her.
Nicholas Matthew Hall Tull, 23, appeared before a judge Monday on three counts of first-degree rape, three counts of first-degree sexual abuse, first-degree unlawful sexual penetration, attempt to commit a Class A felony, coercion, and luring a minor.
According to court documents obtained by KOIN 6 News, Tull allegedly met the 15-year-old girl on Dec. 3 outside the library. The documents say she had been living on the street for three weeks after running away from home when Tull approached and offered a safe place to sleep in exchange for sex.
Over the next three days, the girl said Tull sexually abused her repeatedly. She told investigators that she informed him she was only 15, but he was undeterred.
“It’s OK, no one has to know,” he told her, according to the court documents.
The head librarian is apparently no Marion.
NEW — A 15-year-old girl escaped from the Portland Central Library after days of rape and abuse by a homeless man who’d taken her.
Just months ago, Metro Chamber blamed Multnomah Chair Jessica Vega Pedersen for violence at the library. She said her “top priority” was safety…
— oceanplot (@oceanplot) December 10, 2025
Tragedy abounds on the Portland Library grounds.
This is a fascinating and tragic scene. Her fiancé is dying of an overdose and is about to be sent to the hospital. She is mad because her drugs were in his pocket and she wanted to keep using. He died and so did her last fiancé. Filmed in front of the library in Portland. pic.twitter.com/PjxKopxOG8
— Kevin Dahlgren 🥾 🥾 (@kevinvdahlgren) November 1, 2025
Progressives ruin everything.
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