Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 4/30

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EXCLUSIVE: In Cities Across America, Homeless Services Are Doled Out Based on Race and Sexual Identity

https://freebeacon.com/america/exclusive-in-cities-across-america-homeless-services-are-doled-out-based-on-race-and-sexual-identity/

The homelessness crisis in Multnomah County, Oregon, is among the worst in the country. Home to deep-blue Portland, where the deaths of homeless people quadrupled between 2019 and 2023, according to data from the county health department, Multnomah has a per-capita homeless rate of 1.3 percent, and some shelters are closing due to budget problems.

That means that there is more demand than ever for the county's public housing resources. Multnomah allocates those resources using a points-based system, which refers those with the requisite number of points to public housing. The county considers factors such as how long a person has been homeless, whether he or she is survivor of domestic violence, and, if applicable, the age of his or her children.

It then weighs those factors against some less conventional criteria: whether the person is a minority, a non-native English speaker, or "LGBTQIA2S+."
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The rubric, obtained by the Washington Free Beacon through a public records request, is "designed to prioritize … BIPOC households, LGBTQIA2S+, [and] people with disabilities," according to a Frequently Asked Questions pamphlet. It awards 1 point for "interest in LGBTQ services," 2 points for "English as a second language," and another 2 points for "interest in culturally specific services," a catch-all term for Portland's race-based housing programs.
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The Free Beacon identified five states and dozens of cities that have incorporated racial preferences into their housing programs. The preferences operate through various mechanisms, including grant requirements and funding formulas, and could jeopardize the funding of any publicly financed projects subject to antidiscrimination laws. Several use points-based rubrics similar to Multnomah County's, giving race more weight than poverty or unemployment.

In at least two states, Maryland and Minnesota, race appears to be the single largest factor in allocating certain forms of rent relief.

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Oregon Forced to Clean Almost 20% of its Voters Off the Rolls Because They Are Ineligible

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/04/30/oregon-forced-to-clean-almost-20-of-its-voters-off-the-rolls-because-they-are-ineligible-n3814456

Do you ever wonder why so many Blue states refuse to hand over their voter rolls to the federal government?

After all, there is a federal law that requires certain measures to ensure ballot integrity, passed in the wake of the 2000 Florida debacle. It requires, among other things, that states clean their voter rolls of ineligible voters.

But these states refuse to do that, and they refuse to show that they aren't breaking federal law.
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Judicial Watch, an invaluable conservative organization, sued the State of Oregon for its practice of mailing ballots to its "eligible voters" without ensuring that the voters were, indeed, eligible. Rather than face the lawsuit and the inevitable discovery proving their intention to cheat, the state settled it, agreeing to clean 800,000 ineligible voters off its rolls.

800,000. In a state of 4.3 million people, with only 3.4 million registered voters. That's about one out of four voters on the rolls. And those are only the ones we know about.

Those 800K ineligibles are a wide open gate for election manipulation.

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Catholics in the Crosshairs

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/04/30/catholics-in-the-crosshairs-n3814453

But the fact is that the Democratic Party and the left have been at war with Catholics for a number of reasons, mostly having to do with gender ideology and especially abortion.

The FBI famously worked with the Southern Poverty Law Center to label conservative Catholics "domestic extremists," and federal prosecutors imposed outrageously long and disproportionate sentences (twice what they imposed on liberals violating the same laws), and prosecuted cases that they knew were losers just to impose a "process" punishment on pro-lifers.

The FBI and Biden administration insisted there was no bias. It's just that nobody is above the law, and how could anybody think that Joe Biden, a performative Catholic, could be anything but utterly fair?
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WASHINGTON — Justice Department prosecutors in the Biden administration discussed their desire to target Catholic nuns, text messages shared with The Daily Wire show.

Communications obtained by Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) show Joseph Cooney and Molly Gaston texting one another in February 2021 as they scoured media coverage of January 6. The texts specifically reference a New York Times photo of religious sisters who attended the “Stop the Steal” rally, wearing traditional habits and veils, as well as big Trump scarves around their necks.

“I would like to take a special assignment of finding and prosecuting them,” Gaston wrote to Cooney.

“I’m with you,” responded Cooney. “Although I’d like to prosecute any nun who still wears the head habit.”

“Hahaha,” his fellow DOJ prosecutor responded.

The Justice Department provided the communications to Grassley as part of his investigation into Arctic Frost, an FBI investigation into Republicans and conservatives. Both Cooney and Gaston went on to serve as top deputies to Special Counsel Jack Smith throughout his Arctic Frost investigation. They now head “Gaston & Cooney PLLC,” and Cooney is running for Congress in Virginia.

The idea that Catholics who pray their rosary multiple times a day and who attend daily mass are a threat to the country is simply absurd. But they vote and advocate against Dems' sacred cows.

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Musk Gets Apology in California SpaceX Settlement

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/elon-musk-lawsuit-califonia/2026/04/29/id/1254645/

California regulators apologized to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk this week as they settled a lawsuit that claimed a state agency showed political bias against the rocket company and its chief executive.

As part of the settlement, the California Coastal Commission acknowledged its members made "improper" statements about Musk's political beliefs at a 2024 hearing on SpaceX's Falcon 9 launch program.

"The commission agrees that it may not consider irrelevant factors in performing its function and specifically agrees that it will not take into account the perceived political beliefs, political speech or labor practices of SpaceX or its officers in considering any regulatory action concerning SpaceX," the commission said in federal court documents filed Tuesday.

SpaceX had sued the commission over its opposition to expanding the launch schedule for Falcon 9 rockets from Vandenberg Space Force Base on the Southern California coast near Santa Barbara.

The company's lawsuit accused the coastal commission of engaging in political discrimination by refusing to sign off on a U.S. Air Force proposal to boost the number of launches at the busy base owned by the federal government.

The CCC should have been nuked 50 years ago, metaphorically, of course. It was designed to be a walking talking bypass of the USC Amendment's "Takings" clause to end private property.