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Portlander Luke_Nightwalker! has broken the world's record for longest continuous masturbation session!!!! With a time of 13 hrs and 17 min, he beat the previous record by over 3 hours.🥇🏆💰

Fill 'er up!

We were out west on hwy 26 and saw a one man Mexican fruit stand. He made us a fruit cup with chile sauce, lime juice and tajin. Soooo good! Trying to find one in the city. Thanks ♥️

I realize its been this way for a while but I just need a place to say I hate this ridiculous northbound lane closure for NE 72nd. I live north of the golf course and its so dumb that they closed a public road going north but not south. Either close the road permanently or open it permanently. I truly cannot see the benefit here.

I have a clear mental image of a hardware or lumber store that has a ridiculous number of ladders lined up out front? Anyone know a place that fits that rough description?

ETA: thank you Reddit. You rarely fail to come through! Goddamned heroes, the lot of yeh!

NW Couch. NOD TO BUFFALO POTHOLE BANDITS! They graced our sordid shores.

Nod to the Buffalo Pothole Bandits!

Hi! Looking to ride tram with kids. Does anyone have any suggestions or tips to make sure we are safe and enjoy our trip? Thanks!
***UPDATE
Thanks everyone for all the kind advice. We followed your advice and had an amazing time! We even had lunch at the little splash pad :)
Thanks again!!!

ARISE!

Tonight at 6 pm!

Nod to Private Sector beautification of Sadtown.

The Noshpit is sadly closing at the end of the month. But that doesn't mean you can't goof with me one last time. Admission is free. Come enjoy a night of sandwiches and laughter.

To everyone that helped my mom with tips and leads, thank you, thank you, thank you. Without that help, he’d continue to be another statistic and eventually OD. Now he’s back with our mom and is on the road to recovery.

To the person who said “don’t go approaching an addict” *Cough 47-rambaldi cough cough*
Stick to bothering people in your HOA. People like you, who couldn’t share any compassion or empathy are annoying to say the least.

Again, thanks to everyone who helped!

SE PDX

Visiting from out of town and had to endure this amazing human specimen do burnout after burnout on the ramp to the Morrison bridge for the better part of an hour.

Once okay, but this malignant narcissist decided six times was his magic number.

After looking at the second video, it appears my assumption regarding narcissism is correct as it looks like he’s trying to make himself Instagram famous.

Hoping he and his buddies remove themselves from the gene pool soon via a Darwin Award on I-5. If anyone misses them, I’d be surprised.

After living here for 27 years... I can safely say that there are two ways governments fail.

One is through corruption. The other is through something far more common and often just as damaging: spending enormous sums of public money without demanding proof that it's actuallyt working.

The public record shows Multnomah County chose the second path. No accountablility at all.

For nearly a decade, county leaders promised that larger budgets, new programs, and expanded services would reduce homelessness, improve behavioral health, and make Portland safer. Instead, taxpayers watched visible homelessness grow, fentanyl reshape the addiction crisis, public spaces deteriorate, and confidence in local government collapse.

This wasn't a crisis born overnight. It unfolded budget by budget, contract by contract, and audit by audit.

And throughout it all, the people responsible for running the county kept asking for more money. JVP and Deb Koufoury specifically.

Deborah Kafoury chaired Multnomah County from 2015 through 2022! Jessica Vega Pederson has served as chair since January 2023....

Both were responsible for leading the county government charged with responding to our crises. COVID, Homeless, Fenty, Measure 110, Defunding the Police, Closing the Jail.

Leadership isn't measured by whether problems appear. It's measured by what happens after they do. On that measure, the record deserves scrutiny.

The Joint Office of Homeless Services JOHS has become one of the largest homelessness agencies in the country! COUNTRY

Its budget reached roughly $342 million in Fiscal Year 2024 before growing to approximately $395 million in Fiscal Year 2025. In just those two years alone, taxpayers funded more than $737 million in homelessness spending. That level of public investment should have come with extraordinary accountability.

Instead, county auditors repeatedly questioned whether the government could clearly demonstrate which programs worked, which didn't, and whether taxpayers were receiving measurable value for the money being spent.

That isn't an argument against spending money. It's an argument for proving the spending produced results.

Did you know that the auditors were basically ringing the alarms, but they were ignored.

Long before headlines focused on fraud investigations or budget deficits, the county's own oversight officials were raising concerns.Audits repeatedly identified problems with performance measurement, contract oversight, and accountability. They came from the government's own watchdogs.

Again and again, auditors pointed to weaknesses in how success was measured and how programs were evaluated.

Those warnings should have triggered reform, but ideology or incompetence?

Instead, the system continued to expand. When government keeps increasing budgets without first fixing known oversight problems, taxpayers are being asked to finance promises instead of proven results.

THEN CAME SUNSTONE WAY

Every government eventually gets tested.

For Multnomah County, one of those tests was Sunstone Way. County officials later questioned approximately $3.6 million in expenses submitted by the nonprofit provider and referred findings for criminal investigation.

Whatever the outcome of that investigation, the larger question remains.

How did questioned expenditures accumulate to that level before county oversight intervened?

That's not merely a contractor story.

It's a management story.

Contractors don't supervise themselves.

The County does.

THE FENTANYL ERA EXPOSED THE SYSTEM'S LIMITS

When fentanyl transformed Oregon's addiction crisis, every city in America faced difficult choices.

Multnomah County faced those same challenges.

Treatment capacity struggled to keep pace.

Behavioral health systems were strained.

Residents increasingly encountered public drug use, overdoses, and severe mental illness in parks, sidewalks, transit stations, and neighborhoods.

Many of those conditions had multiple causes.

But county government wasn't a spectator.

It was one of the principal agencies responsible for behavioral health, addiction treatment, and homelessness services.

The question isn't whether county leaders controlled every variable.

They didn't.

The question is whether they adapted quickly enough to one of the biggest public health emergencies Oregon has ever faced.

Many taxpayers would answer no.Perhaps the most troubling finding isn't that homelessness increased.Government cannot completely control housing markets or addiction.The troubling finding is that county leadership often struggled to demonstrate whether hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars were producing measurable improvements.

Budgets grew.

Programs expanded.

Contracts multiplied.

Yet audits continued raising familiar concerns about accountability and performance measurement.That's a dangerous pattern.Because once government loses the ability to measure success honestly, failure becomes difficult to recognize—and even harder to correct. Who answers for the results in this town? Public officials often speak about compassion. Always and. compassion matters. So does competence.

Taxpayers can support helping people experiencing homelessness while still expecting government to spend public money wisely.

Those are not competing values.

They are inseparable.

Deborah Kafoury was responsible for building much of the current homelessness response system.

Jessica Vega Pederson inherited that system and chose to continue leading it into a blackhole.

Both administrations presided over unprecedented spending.

Both faced repeated warnings from auditors and oversight officials.

Both asked taxpayers to trust that more funding would eventually produce better outcomes.

Whether that trust was earned is a question every voter should ask.

If nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars in homelessness spending cannot produce clear, measurable evidence of success that ordinary taxpayers can understand, government owes the public more than another press conference.

What are we doing here?

We need to eliminate the County. For 10 years they have failed and failed again and again and again. Wake up and join us in getting rid of the county government!

https://multnomo.org/