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Connecting the practical truths of economics with the perennial truths of ethics.

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🚨 Low-barrier shelters bring chaos into the neighborhoods they inhabit and do little to restore the homeless to lives of health and purpose.

Take the Madison Valley neighborhood in Seattle as an example. Open-air drug use, psychotic behavior, violence, and criminal activity, all originating from a low-barrier homeless shelter opened in 2018, have turned this picturesque community upside down.

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🇺🇸 SKID ROW ON JULY 4TH: One of America’s most impoverished neighborhoods still showed pride in the country.

Despite living in some of the worst conditions in Los Angeles, residents told @choeshow they would never leave America — especially as concerns grow over the rise of communism.

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🚨SEATTLE: This is what tourists are walking into near the Space Needle.

Visible drug encampments remain steps from one of the city’s most iconic landmarks as Seattle welcomes visitors from around the world.

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🚨SHOCKING: Kent resident, Salfrando Butler, found dead on sidewalk.

HE HAD 34 ARRESTS AND STILL DIED FROM A FENTANYL OVERDOSE.

The system knew who he was. The question is why dozens of encounters with police and the courts never stopped the addiction that killed him...

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🚨SHOCKING: Seattle Police Officers SPOTTED by @choeshow patrolling the crime riddled streets of Seattle.

Mayor Katie Wilson received immense backlash after being accused of pushing homeless drug addicts out of tourist areas for the World Cup.

Residents appear to be relieved to see SPD patrolling their communties.

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🚨 SEATTLE RESIDENTS ERUPT: Mayor Katie Wilson was nowhere to be found at a North Seattle anti-violence march as neighbors demanded action on Aurora Ave N. @choeshow

Residents blasted Wilson as a "coward," accusing her of ignoring the human trafficking crisis, open-air prostitution, and violent pimp wars that have plagued the corridor for years.

"If the mayor won't show up, who will?"

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🔥HEATED EXHANGE between Spencer Pratt and Seattle mayor, Katie Wilson who claims that housing costs (not drug addiction) is fueling the STAGGERING homeless/drug crisis across the US.

This comes after more than a decade of failed Housing First policies adopted in major cities across the US after the federal push in 2013.

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Sacramento isn't an outlier. It's a warning.
What happened there is happening across California and increasingly across the country.
When accountability is removed from homelessness policy, human suffering, public disorder, and environmental destruction inevitably follow.

Read the article here https://t.co/z8vDYXrdtU

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🚨BREAKING: Homelessness increased by 40% in California after the state adopted a HOUSING-ONLY approach with no sobriety, treatment, or work requirements, according to a new Fox News report.

🧵Here's what happened:

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Sacramento has become a case study in what happens when government spends billions addressing symptoms while refusing to confront the root causes of addiction, mental illness, and chronic dependency.

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Is NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani winning the fight against homelessness?

@SIXSEVENSTORIES took to the streets of NYC and asked residents, business owners, and homeless individuals themselves.

Despite promising to end encampment sweeps, Mamdani has brought them back.

What do you think? 👇

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🚨JUST IN: @kevinvdahlgren captures RAMPANT shoplifting at a Whole Foods in San Francisco, where employees say they can be punished for trying to stop thieves.

California’s soft-on-crime policies allow repeat offenders to keep stealing/reselling while businesses suffer.

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Seattle spends $349.5 million annually on affordable housing (5x more than in 2019) per NCHStats.

Yet the city still ranks 3rd worst in America for homelessness.

Something isn’t working.

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🚨SEATTLE: In less than a month, Seattle will host FIFA World Cup matches with thousands of international visitors expected to flood the city.

Just minutes from the stadium, homeless drug addicts continue to take over parts of Seattle’s Chinatown International District.

@choeshow captured a fentanyl addict nearly burn himself after passing out in the middle of the street.

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NEW: After exposing taxpayer-funded drug paraphernalia classes and open-air drug use in Seattle, journalist @choeshow says the far-left activist with the People’s Harm Reduction Alliance has now filed a temporary protection order against him.

Critics say this is another attempt to silence reporting on Seattle’s worsening drug crisis.

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🚨 BREAKING: Seattle Public Library under fire after taxpayer-funded classes connected to the People’s Harm Reduction Alliance reportedly taught participants how to use drug paraphernalia. Journalist @choeshow visited the Capitol Hill branch where free Narcan and needle kits were being distributed with little oversight and easy access to minors.

When staff noticed cameras rolling, the information session was suddenly canceled. What were they trying to hide?

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🚨SHOCKING: @nickshirleyy and @choeshow walk through the horrifying reality inside Seattle’s Little Saigon.

Open-air drug use, stolen goods markets, and homeless drug addicts have completely taken over public spaces and have made it impossible for local businesses to operate.

Police drive by without intervening, while critics say Seattle’s leadership is attempting to hide the crisis unfolding in broad daylight.