Jonathan Choe

Discovery Institute Senior Journalism Fellow. NEWS TIP: [email protected], *Vids branded "DI" represent Discovery Institute. Other views expressed are my own.

[Jonathan Choe @choeshow]

EXCLUSIVE: I spent several years following Alex through a constellation of taxpayer funded homeless housing facilities in Seattle.
He eventually settled in the Downtown Emergency Service Center's North Star.
DESC is the poster child for "Housing First" in WA.
Politicians and far-left activists will also refer to this model as low barrier permanent supportive housing.

Alex showed me what he does all day:

-Wakes up
-Get's free drug supplies at front desk
-Takes bus to find his fentanyl dealer
-Comes back to his room in the North Star
-Smokes drugs all day
-Zero requirements to get into addiction treatment
-Zero requirements to find a job
-He rarely sees his DESC case manager
-Alex admits he has no purpose in life
-Rinse and repeat

After more than a decade of trying this failed public policy, the Trump administration is defunding "Housing First" and reallocating the money into treatment and recovery providers.
The homeless industrial complex is shook and now fear mongering, claiming more people will be forced onto the streets. That's a lie.
In response, WA Democrats have taken the bait from Homeless INC and are trying to prop up this failed model by potentially raising taxes to offset funding losses. This is a scandal. 🧵👇

[Jonathan Choe @choeshow]

NEW: Court documents show the Seattle woman accused of behaving like a cannibal lived in one of the the most crime-ridden homeless housing facilities in the city.
Yet somehow the Downtown Emergency Service Center continues to get a pass for all the bad behavior and chaos caused by its unhinged residents. How come?
In this Discovery Institute investigation, we scrutinized DESC's powerful connections to WA politics and examined how a network of power brokers in the region appear to be running cover for this controversial organization.

[Jonathan Choe @choeshow]

Texas could elect a mentally ill liar into office.

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Ohio mental hospital CONFIRMS James Talarico was discharged from the facility earlier this week

The “flu” thing was a BIG FAT LIE

Following reporting by @SaraGonzalesTX and @CarolineWren, a hospital employee told @RheinAmacher and I that Talarico had in fact been a patient at the Lindner Center of Hope near Cincinnati, Ohio, which specializes in around-the-clock mental health treatment.

While I sympathize with those dealing with mental health crises, this man is CLEARLY not suited to become a US Senator representing over 30 MILLION TEXANS.

The job doesn’t get easier after being elected — it only gets MORE stressful.

And Talarico clearly can’t handle it.

I pray he gets the help he needs, but Texans need a real representative they can rely on.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

As I keep telling you: the DSA are all just undeservedly wealthy, self-loathing malcontents with no scruples, who can lie as effortlessly as they breathe. It’s not an ideology. It’s a religious cult. Socialism is a mind virus.

[Jonathan Choe @choeshow]

Bring in the feds. Seattle needs a cleansing. 🇺🇸🔥

[Brandi Kruse @BrandiKruse]

This entire thing needs to be investigated by the feds. Who is the woman working with? What was she going to do if Lam’s actually gave her a crate of SPAM? Sell it? Return it? Eat it? Has she been in before? What happened during those transactions? The only ones who can answer that are investigators with the power to issue search warrants.

[Brandi Kruse @BrandiKruse]

This entire thing needs to be investigated by the feds. Who is the woman working with? What was she going to do if Lam’s actually gave her a crate of SPAM? Sell it? Return it? Eat it? Has she been in before? What happened during those transactions? The only ones who can answer that are investigators with the power to issue search warrants.

[Ari Hoffman @thehoffather]

This is insane

Rather than investigating fraud, the Seattle Times is going after Nick Shirley for exposing the fraud

CANCEL YOUR SUBSCRIPTIONS

[T Wolf 🌁 @Twolfrecovery]

It's an honor to have earned a seat at the table as we seek solutions to combat homelessness and the drug crisis in our country. Thank you. @HUDgov @ONDCP @HHSGov

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

@jockowillink Our country is being looted by foreign fraudsters all across America.

[Jonathan Choe @choeshow]

Deranged anti-ICE activists accost citizen journalist Matthew Adams in Tacoma, WA.

[M. Adams @AdamsUnchained]

TACOMA ICE: I had to blow my ICE Whistle because I was swarmed by ANTIFA today outside the ICE Facility and they were getting physical with me.

This is the "Tolerant Left" or "What's Left" who have been in control of the political decision making in Washington State for decades.

I am the fascist?

Stay Tuned for the FULL VIDEO!

[Jonathan Choe @choeshow]

Incredibly proud of Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Tom Wolf.
My colleague is being featured by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for his incredible insight on America’s homeless drug crisis.
More importantly, Tom is proof lives on the streets can be saved and restored.

[Department of Housing and Urban Development @HUDgov]

The Trump Administration is working across the government — from the White House to HHS to HUD — to address the homelessness epidemic by putting Treatment First.

Tom Wolf, an American with lived experience, shares his message to vulnerable Americans who may be struggling on the streets:

[Jonathan Choe @choeshow]

For the 100th time, Housing First is cooked. Seattle’s homeless industrial complex better pivot now or risk being defunded. You’ve been warned.

[Department of Housing and Urban Development @HUDgov]

Today is World Homelessness Day.

The Trump Administration is ending the failed Housing First policies that perpetuate this crisis.

Meet individuals with lived experience who found recovery and self-sufficiency through Treatment First, faith-based organizations, and wholistic care. ⬇️

[Jonathan Choe @choeshow]

Seattle must follow San Francisco’s lead on addressing the homeless drug crisis.
Otherwise more people will die.

[New York Post @nypost]

SF mayor admits city 'lost its way' by embracing ultra-left ideology https://t.co/MXTDSDiejv

[Lily Tang Williams @Lily4Liberty]

I hope New Yorkers to elect @sarithaforny as their Attorney General if they want safe communities.

[T Wolf 🌁 @Twolfrecovery]

Hi @seattletimes, please don't feign ignorance with SNAP (Food Stamp) fraud. This is a widespread common thing that's been happening for years in San Francisco, Seattle, LA, etc. C'mon. @nickshirleyy

[Jonathan Choe @choeshow]

Getting someone "housed" should no longer be the standard for success.
We should be trying to transform, heal, and get people back into a life of self sufficiency.

[Jonathan Choe @choeshow]

RUNNING SCARED: Plymouth Housing CEO Karen Lee bolted out of the Bellevue Chamber event when she saw me coming.
Lee has been dodging me all year and her PR team never returns my calls.
I just wanted to ask her about the drug dealers, pedophiles, and wanted felons living in her taxpayer funded facilities in the Seattle area.
Federal authorities are starting to crack down on anyone harboring these criminals.
Look out for my next big story on waste, fraud, and abuse in the region's homeless industrial complex. Here's a preview. 🧵👇

[Jonathan Choe @choeshow]

Where’s Talarico?

[Jonathan Choe @choeshow]

Olympia’s hell hole.

[Jonathan Choe @choeshow]

Minnesota is the land of 10,000 Islamic terrorists. Does anyone care?

[Jonathan Choe @choeshow]

This is how Seattle deals with fentanyl zombies. 🙃

[Jonathan Choe @choeshow]

This is demonic. Why is Portland allowing this madness?