There is big money in fighting immigration law in courts- I bet he sees your work as a threat against his income source, would explain why he is so pissed.
We know this guy likely isn’t a dude that has a big heart. People get big mad when you mess with their easy money, don’t they?
The big money in fighting immigration law is likely a factor in why there is a public defender crisis in Oregon-we don’t have enough attorneys going into work as public defenders - because fighting immigration law pays better, every case takes a lot of time to dodge around federal law , and there is a big job market for it in blue states.
In Oregon early 2026 up to 1,465 cases were dropped against people with charges - scot free- bc there were no public defenders assigned to these cases to represent them, and under the constitutional right to a free and fair trial- without legal representation, the courts couldn’t proceed - and every case that had gone past 90 day mark got dismissed by the judge.
I almost wonder if it was a ploy to let the agitators who did get charges down at the waterfront back in September/October 2025.
Hundreds of thousand of felony cases have been affected at this point too and dismissed. These states prioritize politics over public safety in so many ways.
NYC has a robust ecosystem of immigrant legal aid providers that are heavily funded by city/state/private sources. Many partner with Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs (MOIA) and receive city/state contracts.
NYC and NY state have allocated big bucks from public dollars to fight the federal government-this doesnt include the counties or levies or individual bills with funding either :
Budgets:
NYC- $74.7 million PUBLIC TAX DOLLLARS (up $50 mil from recent years)
NY state- $64.2 million PUBLIC TAX DOLLARS (2026) $74.2 million (2027)
One 501c3 in this ecosystem:
Legal Aid Society : yearly revenue ~$415 million.
Urgent immigration/deportation help/ NYIFUP for detained individuals.
There are over 30 primarily publically funded immigration legal support centers/providers in NYC and hundreds of non profits offering some level of legal help.
I bet if you interviewed our fellow struggling American citizens who have faced legal troubles and had zero resources for representation and have suffered loss- I bet they’d have something to say about this.
You were a preschool teacher before you began occupying the legislature 33 years ago. 😂
Ms Lane- brandished with her J.D. 2017, 9 years post grad term working in law and assisting in cases and working alongside judges in the courts. It takes YEARS to be a lead trial attorney, same as it takes an MD YEARS to be a surgeon. They are still doctors and they still do surgeries.
Patty- you think everyone should just be able to change their sex on their birth certificate vital records and that people who don’t agree are automatically hateful?😂
Katie’s team defended Montana dept of health and human services in a case where they sought to uphold a law on Montana books that says surgery is required to change legal sex in a lawsuit filed against. The plaintiffs represented by ACLU sued and the federal judge wanted to bypass the state law - which was unconstitutional. She upheld state’s rights. No contempt of court was filed against her.
Go back to preschool, Patty.
You can’t even deliver a full speech of these half a$$, unsupported arguments without cutting the video a million times and then piecing it together to give the illusion that you have any semblance of a fluid argument or public speaking abilities. You can’t polish a turd, Patty- your videos &your arguments are🐂💩.
@GovTinaKotek Your blanket laws block patients from being able to bring lawsuit re:medical malpractice against providers prescribing them these “treatments”. Argument can be made that the research guiding these “treatments” is biased, overly politicized, not thorough & not patient centered.
@SenWarren Look Elizabeth- I can’t stand you- you can’t stand DT(we get it, that’s your entire platform)- but even people we don’t like- in the USA all citizens, Trump family included -are afforded civil rights. Full stop. People deserve facts over fear mongering, Senator.
@arizman2@RepJeffries Political hack with an empty sack.
Balls in a jar.
He’s gone too far.
Self serving politician.
He’s got singular ambition-
His cause is not for the people-
Hakeem Jeffries is gaslighting and evil.
Honestly, I don’t hate the idea. If you consider him to be the opposite of you, well- that’s a good thing. He knows banks and he knows the structure of property finance at the federal level as the current director. It’s a temporary position. In a temporary national security role, he can investigate the financing in housing that goes to foreign agents- and the government officials who are their comrades and haven’t acted to represent the American citizens in these business transactions- but have acted to dish out policies that pave the way for foreign interests, and the money hungry politicians, who have been killing the American dream of family home ownership.
Marco Rubio and his team are engaged and fully up to date on national security where foreign powers are concerned.
Housing security and protecting land assets for future generations is domestic national security.
This is a temporary assignment apparently- and if you hate it, so much Hakeem- well - I’m curious why. Everything you’ve done has prioritized your own interests and those of your party over American citizens.
I’m curious who is hiding behind the veil in that champagne commie caviar class you frequent, Mr Jeffries. DNI can look into a few more layers and help lift that veil further- because we the people want answers about why our nation has been in such decline for decades.
By 2050, it's predicted that the world will need to dispose of two million tons of wind turbine blade waste every year. In the UK alone, the volume already exceeds 🚨100,000 tons per year.🚨
🚩Windmill blades can be longer than a Boeing 747 wing — more than 300ft — and weigh up to eight tons, so these have been sawn into three pieces with a diamond-encrusted industrial saw.
They come with a hidden environmental cost that is rarely mentioned: they don't last for ever: only 20 to 25 years, in fact. If they are installed offshore- they become obsolete trash at a faster rate- and they will remain in our Oceans.
🚩Production generates massive pollution on the front end, and the blades, built from a 'composite' of fibreglass and resin that can withstand hurricane-force winds but be light enough to turn, cannot easily be crushed, let alone recycled.
Scientists are looking for ways to separate the resins from the fibres or grind chunks of blade into small pellets that can be used in other products, but they're struggling to find any process that works on a large scale.
🚩Amid the zeal to recycle, there's no small irony in the fact the main sources of renewable energy cannot themselves be renewed when they reach the end of their life.
Windmills disrupt the ecosystem in more ways than one.
Windmills kill birds. They disrupt sea life. The trash piles up on land and on ocean floors.
Building the infrastructure is a costly endeavor, pipelines dredged onto the ocean floor to send unreliable power to the grid - that doesn’t yield the output needed to sustain life- makes energy scarce, and drives up costs for consumers at every interval.
“Green Energy” only benefits the politicians who push these absurd policies for kickbacks. There is significant monetary incentive to push “climate” policies that cripple industry and independence. “Green Energy” keeps people dependent on the grid when all other options are eliminated.
WA Gov. Ferguson, OR Gov. Tina Kotek, CA Gov. Gavin Newsom- they all sit at the round table with energy companies, big pharma, large scale property developers, and insurance companies. They are “invited” to have direct discussions about planning and policies with the members of the “Western Governors Association”.
We are tired of the lies.
I think there are actors on all sides working to make the American people wage slaves for their state governments. Pramila is working for the party, she’s not working for the working class. If she was working for the people, she wouldn’t continue to parrot these well funded narratives. Politicians who push “Clean Energy” are either lying completely through forked tongue or are intolerably IGNORANT. These energy policies are anything but “Clean” and the only “Green” is the money that lands in the pockets of those who push them onto good hearted citizens who really do care about the environment -who have been lied to.
Western Governors Association: https://t.co/FiSYpgYwF0
Fiscal Sponsors: https://t.co/SLXruqt1Es
WGA sponsorships include:
Invitations to regional lunches with individual Western Governors,
Biennial conferences, weekly and monthly communications,
workshops, webinars.
WGA Sponsorships:
• BP (Diamond Sponsor) — British multinational, headquartered in London, UK (1 St James’s Square). One of the traditional “supermajors” in oil & gas.
“Clean” Energy is big business with Gold/Silver top tier donations to WGA:
• AES Clean Energy
• Arevia Power
• Arevon Energy
• Basin Electric Power Cooperative (includes significant “renewables”)
• BluEarth Renewables
• Edison International (major renewables developer)
• Invenergy (renewables)
• National Hydropower Association
• NextEra Energy Resources (leading renewables/utility)
• Orsted (offshore wind) Large producer, UK is its primary market.
• Salt River Project (utility with renewables)
• Alliance for Sustainable Energy
• American Clean Power
By 2050, it's predicted that the world will need to dispose of two million tons of wind turbine blade waste every year. In the UK alone, the volume already exceeds 🚨100,000 tons per year.🚨
🚩Windmill blades can be longer than a Boeing 747 wing — more than 300ft — and weigh up to eight tons, so these have been sawn into three pieces with a diamond-encrusted industrial saw.
They come with a hidden environmental cost that is rarely mentioned: they don't last for ever: only 20 to 25 years, in fact. If they are installed offshore- they become obsolete trash at a faster rate- and they will remain in our Oceans.
🚩Production generates massive pollution on the front end, and the blades, built from a 'composite' of fibreglass and resin that can withstand hurricane-force winds but be light enough to turn, cannot easily be crushed, let alone recycled.
Scientists are looking for ways to separate the resins from the fibres or grind chunks of blade into small pellets that can be used in other products, but they're struggling to find any process that works on a large scale.
🚩Amid the zeal to recycle, there's no small irony in the fact the main sources of renewable energy cannot themselves be renewed when they reach the end of their life.
Windmills disrupt the ecosystem in more ways than one.
Windmills kill birds. They disrupt sea life. The trash piles up on land and on ocean floors.
Building the infrastructure is a costly endeavor, pipelines dredged onto the ocean floor to send unreliable power to the grid - that doesn’t yield the output needed to sustain life- makes energy scarce, and drives up costs for consumers at every interval.
“Green Energy” only benefits the politicians who push these absurd policies for kickbacks. There is significant monetary incentive to push “climate” policies that cripple industry and independence. “Green Energy” keeps people dependent on the grid when all other options are eliminated.
WA Gov. Ferguson, OR Gov. Tina Kotek, CA Gov. Gavin Newsom- they all sit at the round table with energy companies, big pharma, large scale property developers, and insurance companies. They are “invited” to have direct discussions about planning and policies with the members of the “Western Governors Association”.
We are tired of the lies.
I think there are actors on all sides working to make the American people wage slaves for their state governments. Pramila is working for the party, she’s not working for the working class. If she was working for the people, she wouldn’t continue to parrot these well funded narratives. Politicians who push “Clean Energy” are either lying completely through forked tongue or are intolerably IGNORANT. These energy policies are anything but “Clean” and the only “Green” is the money that lands in the pockets of those who push them onto good hearted citizens who really do care about the environment -who have been lied to.
Western Governors Association: https://t.co/FiSYpgYwF0
Fiscal Sponsors: https://t.co/SLXruqt1Es
WGA sponsorships include:
Invitations to regional lunches with individual Western Governors,
Biennial conferences, weekly and monthly communications,
workshops, webinars.
WGA Sponsorships:
• BP (Diamond Sponsor) — British multinational, headquartered in London, UK (1 St James’s Square). One of the traditional “supermajors” in oil & gas.
“Clean” Energy is big business with Gold/Silver top tier donations to WGA:
• AES Clean Energy
• Arevia Power
• Arevon Energy
• Basin Electric Power Cooperative (includes significant “renewables”)
• BluEarth Renewables
• Edison International (major renewables developer)
• Invenergy (renewables)
• National Hydropower Association
• NextEra Energy Resources (leading renewables/utility)
• Orsted (offshore wind) Large producer, UK is its primary market.
• Salt River Project (utility with renewables)
• Alliance for Sustainable Energy
• American Clean Power
The “savior complex” which you adopt from that cloud you assume in government is your vibe. Vibe check- the reality is that criminals will ALWAYS be able to arm themselves. Responsible citizens should be able to arm themselves in defense of our lives, the lives of our loved ones, and ourselves. You’ve crippled law enforcement to the degree that the good ones left are overstretched dealing with the excess violence from the drugs you let free along with the people who have become addicted to them who become criminals to supply their habit; law endocement officers are people too- and you don’t support them in ways that create a healthier department. Your policies exacerbate the problems you create with soft policies that are popular with the Ivy League graduates that have never lived in the hood. You’re far removed from the reality and you are now trying to push narrative to take rights away from responsible law abiding citizens - the right to protect ourselves in our homes that are becoming increasingly unsafe as the streets are overrun with the criminals you shield with soft on crime policies. A firearm is just a chunk of metal until someone takes action with it. Criminals will always take action to arm themselves - they do not follow the laws. Citizens have the constitutional right under the second amendment for this reason- the second amendment gives us the means to defend our lives.
Your echo chamber is so filled with your hot air- it’s creeping out and choking those of us on the outside and affecting our lives too- and you need a gas-X badly.
Place blame where it belongs… with hateful, ignorant people who harm others.
Without them- a firearm is just a chunk of Metal.
Criminals will always be able to arm themselves- responsible citizens should be allowed to do the same.
I’d like to take your words at face value- but everything is an agenda with you- and I’ve seen your local media on the payroll pushing stories daily about firearm incidents from Kentucky or wherever else- and we know
You would just love to position yourself as some kind of hero progressive pale savior and take our 2A.
I’m a survivor , and I deserve to keep surviving and live in the safety of my own four walls. Your cartel homies are out all hours of the night popping shots but you REFUSE to do anything and you won’t even let PD pull them over - because if they’re brown it automatically makes the law enforcement individual a racist and guilty of hate crime. 🙄 You and your buddy Kayse Jama did that. For votes. Children cannot ride bicycles anymore in our streets of East Portland because of the mess you two have created.
Your soft on crime policies are the biggest threat to life because they propitiate the cycle of violence. It’s your job to “govern”- instead- you speak words from a podium like the politician you are - and you stand there as a move to take more money from us for “gun violence prevention” or to
Take our second amendment rights . Those grantees- they don’t teach sh*t. The way you reduce violence- is to not be a l*mp d*ck politician who let our justice system go
To sh*t and let drugs and trafficking run our f*cking streets.
There is a lot more money to be made fighting the federal government for Tina and Jama and y’all’s “workers relief fund” - innovation law lab- racket. So much money it makes your eyes spin. Where tf does it all go? Oh yeah- not to making our court system work by hiring public defenders so we can prosecute- but instead funnels lawyers away from those proceedings and pay them very well to work for Tina Kotek’s Migrant INC. - a political move- a fight to shield illegals no matter what, to the point of keeping rapists and murderers in our borders. F*ck you, Commie Kotek. You don’t know a thing about the pain of growing up in the poor ‘hood. This sh*t doesn’t work.
Your foster care system is a travesty- it’s no wonder we have so many criminals in our streets- those are the adults that YOU failed when they were children under custody of your state. Now you’re just using them as a plug for more money. You do nothing to get to the root of things.
@NotTinaKotex@SenJeffMerkley Federal Bureau is the only law enforcement that can coordinate across all of the states in the USA- and the transnational gangs don’t stay in borders. It’s ridiculous to keep information in a silo from the one agency that can shut it down!
https://t.co/51XgISTfAQ Healthcare Fraud Unit Secures Six Trial Convictions Involving over $1.1 Billion in Fraud In Under Three Weeks: Convictions Span five Federal Districts & six Distinct Categories of Healthcare Fraud👀 Wow! No wonder health care is so expensive. https://t.co/EwHLGvVu6b : fraud - every day there are indictments - and - it goes YEARS back across the nation. No wonder health care and costs are sky high! The American people have been defrauded since the beginning of LBJ’s war on poverty it seems.
@MartinMartian72@PattyMurray https://t.co/raYt7ax5Jw
Ayala was charged with embezzling/stealing (later determined ~$1+ million) in funds meant for foster care services. She also had criminals as employees, no background checks done, who were supposed to be taking care of children but abusing them.
https://t.co/vkMxH9sU2D
2024 (still under Biden for much of the period): 193 defendants (including 76 medical professionals) in 32 districts for ~$2.75 billion in intended losses (~$1.6 billion actual). Notable: $900+ million amniotic wound graft scheme; telemedicine/lab fraud (> $1.1 billion); addiction treatment; opioid schemes; and adulterated HIV meds.
https://t.co/AKugznCWMO
2021: Charges against 138 defendants (including 42 doctors, nurses, and licensed professionals) across 31 federal districts for ~$1.4 billion in alleged losses. Major categories: ~$1.1 billion in telemedicine fraud (e.g., kickbacks for unnecessary DME, genetic testing, and pain meds via sham telehealth); $29 million in COVID-19 schemes (e.g., misusing expanded telehealth rules or Provider Relief Fund); $133 million in sober homes/substance abuse treatment fraud; and ~$160 million in other opioid distribution and traditional fraud.
@MartinMartian72@PattyMurray https://t.co/7oAnqEK7Jl Healthcare Fraud Unit Secures Six Trial Convictions Involving over $1.1 Billion in Fraud In Under Three Weeks: Convictions Span five Federal Districts & six Distinct Categories of Healthcare Fraud. 👀
https://t.co/51XgISTfAQ Healthcare Fraud Unit Secures Six Trial Convictions Involving over $1.1 Billion in Fraud In Under Three Weeks: Convictions Span five Federal Districts & six Distinct Categories of Healthcare Fraud. - Senator Merkley, this seems corrupt too! I wonder if fraud is why there are so many chiropractors and dental offices and clinics and mental health care centers? And I read an article that those shady looking massage parlors up and down 122nd are high risk for sex trafficking too! Say- you worked in East Portland a lot- what do you think? Why do I hear gun shots all the time? And that affordable housing group you managed- Reach and Our Just Future right? What do they think? Surely they are bummed people are stealing money from people who need it! Anyone who really cares would be sad… right? Are you sad? You just seem mad all the time.
https://t.co/YlcQSGzsQD In the Southern District of Ohio, four defendants were charged in connection with an over $30 million behavioral health scheme. Two defendants owned and operated behavioral health services organizations that claimed to provide therapeutic behavioral services and psychotherapy to children and young adults attending summer camps, church groups and recreational programs. In connection with these charges, the Department seized three bank accounts with $469K in funds and 14 vehicles worth $800K, including six Mercedes Benz, a Bentley, a BMW, a Jaguar, a Maserati, two Land Rovers, a GMC, and a McLaren. 🚨