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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. 🧵👇
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.
San Francisco is holding NGO’s accountable.
But in Seattle, the homeless industrial complex continues to get sweetheart deals under socialist Mayor Katie Wilson.
The circle-jerk of homeless service providers getting millions from far left city governments to do the same thing "but different" continues in Seattle while San Francisco is requiring every NGO to re-apply for funding. Elections matter. @weheartseattle @DiscoveryCWP
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The circle-jerk of homeless service providers getting millions from far left city governments to do the same thing "but different" continues in Seattle while San Francisco is requiring every NGO to re-apply for funding. Elections matter. @weheartseattle @DiscoveryCWP
NEW: Socialist Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson admits the current response to the city’s homeless drug crisis isn’t working.
But she’s doubling down on the failed Housing First approach and working with the same players in the regions’s homeless industrial complex that presided over the past decade of failure. 🧵👇🏽
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I am releasing my full documentary titled: Paris 3 Days Later... I dropped everything to go to Paris because it was clear from the footage that this is could be coming to America next.
I couldn't believe my eyes, just burned up upside down cars lying on the street. The crazier part was just seeing people walk around it like it was nothing.
In the video you'll see interviews I did with an anarchist and a communist that justified the riots. You'll hear from a woman who feels unsafe going home after work every night. Most of all you'll actually see that the majority of the people in the city do not want their city to burn.
I will continue my reporting here and be at the next riot.
The best way to support my reporting is to subscribe on X.
More Somali fraudsters pleading guilty to all kinds of hustles in Minnesota.
ANOTHER GUILTY VERDICT: FoF fraudster Muna Fidhin guilty all 9 counts of wire fraud, bribery & money laundering. She owned a Burnsville biz, M5 cafe, billing the gov't nearly $1M to feed hungry children. Instead, paid off a mortgage, bought a Lexus SUV & wired $$ overseas. @FOX9
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Seattle Mayor's Plan to Solve Homelessness: "Hire all the same people to do all the same things, but BETTER."
NEW: Socialist Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson admits the current response to the city’s homeless drug crisis isn’t working.
But she’s doubling down on the failed Housing First approach and working with the same players in the regions’s homeless industrial complex that presided over the past decade of failure. 🧵👇🏽
Downtown Seattle Association CEO Jon Scholes:
“So this idea that we have a lot of service resistant people in our city I just think is a myth and is not a thing.”
Scholes is out of touch with reality.
Guy needs to leave his C-Suite once in a while.
H/T: Seattle has a new plan to end homelessness!
Downtown Seattle Association hired Community Solutions a 501(c)(3) with $183M in assets that got a $100M MacArthur grant in 2021 to tell Seattle’s Homeless Industrial Complex it needs to coordinate better and put people on a by-name list.
No public safety at the table.
No We Heart Seattle.
No Union Gospel Mission or Salvation Army. (or mention of faith based partners)
No clean-and-sober providers like The More We Love, Oxford, Weld, or Battlefield.
Jon (CEO of @downtownseattle ) says Service Resistant Homeless is a myth! That statement is widely used by Housing First Advocates.
Where was the criminal justice system?
More coordination without accountability or treatment isn’t a plan. It’s just more death, chaos, and wasted taxes dollars.
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Mega market meltdown in Seattle.
Failed Democratic policies are destroying this city.
The data don't lie.
Seattle's office apocalypse continues...
A prime 120K sq ft office building in Seattle is heading to auction and will likely sell at a MASSIVE discount
Here are the details:
-Starting Bid: $2 million ($16 per sq ft)
-Last sold for $33.6 million in 2016 ($280 per sq ft)
-Size: 120k sq ft
-Occupancy: 62% leased
Recent office deals in Seattle have sold close to a 90% 'discount' to their last transaction price
We're truly living in unprecedented times...
Stay tuned for more updates on the office market meltdown
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The government bounty program for fraud, waste, and abuse is live!
🚨 WOW! President Trump and JD Vance are launching a $25 MILLION fund to pay Americans who expose fraud, to be revealed in the OVAL OFFICE today — Fox
It's called the "Fraud Whistleblower Incentive Program," and it'll be run by the DOJ 🔥
Minnesota's Feeding Our Future scheme alone stole about $250 million meant for kids. Imagine how much faster that gets caught when people who KNOW are incentivized to blow the wistle
This sends shivers down the spine of fraudsters! 🇺🇸
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Axios just got played by Somali fraudsters. 🤣
When are you going to issue a correction @axios?
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HAPPENING NOW: An Asian grandma with a wad of $20's just got a fantastic deal on stolen vitamins in Seattle's Chinatown-ID.
It's the worst kept secret, but Asian elders are helping fuel the black market of stolen goods and the drug crisis.
Cops know it. Politicians know it. But no one wants to call this out because it could potentially be interpreted as "racist."
The Asian seniors are treated like royalty out here.
Zero fear of whacked out drug addicts or criminals.
In fact, they get the red carpet treatment because they have the cash!
And as Nick Shirley exposed last month, Asians are also running food stamp hustles.
As more Asian mom & pop businesses flee the CID, others in this community are clearly taking advantage of this economic crisis.
When is the crackdown coming? Is it time to call in the feds?
@SeattlePD |@MayorofSeattle|@nickshirleyy
BREAKING: Two more small businesses have ejected from Seattle's Chinatown-ID.
Henry's Taiwan and Seattle Herbs & Grocery officially closed this month after being long time staples at the corner of 12th Ave & Jackson St.
The owners blame socialist Mayor Katie Wilson's inability to handle crime and homeless drug encampments in the area.
Property values are also plummeting, threatening to further destroy the core identity of this Asian American community.
I'm working on another update. Stay tuned. @MayorofSeattle
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HAPPENING NOW: Seattle food stamp fraud investigator Nick Shirley representing all independent journalists trying to expose the truth! 🇺🇸🔥💵
"You worked every single day to provide for yourself, your family, your loved ones, to send your tax dollars to the state of California, to the federal government to do what? To pay for people that are robbing us blind, that are looting us, pillaging us, plundering us."
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller unloads on alleged fraudsters, accusing them of taking advantage of hardworking Americans who show up every day, provide for their families and pay their taxes.
Miller singles out California and the federal government as he questions where taxpayers' hard-earned money is going.
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BOUNTY PROGRAM: Somali daycare fraudsters and Asian senior center hustlers better watch their backs.
If you are stealing from taxpayers, we are coming for you.
American citizens will now be financially incentivized to report any funny business.
.@nickshirleyy: "Finally, people have an incentive to actually go out and expose fraud — and when you expose fraud, you help save America."
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NEW: In response to the White House bounty program, I fully expect WA Democrats to push a "Stop Nick Shirley" bill during the next Legislative Session.
The progressives will accuse citizen journalists of being "racist."
The vast majority of daycares and autism centers accused of fraud have been run by Somalis and other minorities.
🚨 JUST IN: Nick Shirley just dropped this line in the Oval Office flanked by President Trump, and it's PURE GOLD
"I want people to think about what is happening right now...me as a 24-year-old, I went out and exposed the fraud. I just was concerned about the well-being of our tax dollars. And right now, I'm standing next to the President of the United States." 🔥
"There's never been an incentive for anyone to ever expose fraud [until now]...when you expose fraud, you help save America. People understand that these fraudsters take from the poor needy who actually need the services that we all work hard to pay for, and we take that, and they then buy Mercedes!" @nickshirleyy
WELL-DESERVED FOR NICK.
A year ago, legacy media mocked him as a right-wing propagandist
Today he walked into the Oval Office with the first check for exposing fraud that the media IGNORED!!
Camera, microphone and passion for saving America. Let's freaking go.