#EXCLUSIVE: After he tried to dodge me TODAY, I confronted Dr. Dat Nguyen, owner of building that could be home to controversial #Lynnwood OPIOID CLINIC. Biz owners in area including his tenant are asking Nguyen to reconsider deal w/Acadia Healthcare. @WADeptHealth@GovInslee🧵👇🏽
MASSIVE PROTEST: After multiple pleas with @WADeptHealth, Acadia Healthcare, and even City of #Lynnwood, coalition of neighbors and community stakeholders are protesting on Saturday. This will be one of many according to organizers. They are promising a PR nightmare. @GovInslee
LATEST FROM DOH: @WADeptHealth sent out response to community concerns over proposed #Lynnwood OPIOID CLINIC that would be few hundred feet from Alderwood Boys & Girls Club. DOH being put on BLAST by neighbors. @LynnwoodTimes about to drop more details!
MAJOR SUPPORT: Protest organizers say @KCGOP, #Lynnwood Council Members, and other allies are mobilizing against OPIOID CLINIC. But even @WADeptHealth, Acadia Healthcare, and those advocating for clinic like @laurendavisWA have been invited to rally. Unclear if they will show.
IN YOUR FACE: Tense moments during Monday's #Lynnwood council meeting. Residents confronting Acadia Healthcare rep telling him not to open controversial OPIOID CLINIC. @WADeptHealth+state leaders also being called out. Wild! @GovInslee
@WADeptHealth@GovInslee PUT ON BLAST: On Monday, #Lynnwood Council Member George Hurst personally calling out @WADeptHealth, accusing agency of bungling communication over OPIOID CLINIC saying,"It was a deliberate attempt to tamp down public comments." @GovInslee
MASSIVE FIGHT: #Lynnwood council gave Acadia Healthcare+@WADeptHealth an out. Don't open OPIOID CLINIC. Otherwise, residents plan on launching FEROCIOUS FIGHT and it will become a PR disaster and mess for state officials.@GovInslee
DID HIS HOMEWORK: #Lynnwood neighbor Yucong He laid out case against Acadia Healthcare w/company's history of fines and settlements. This is citizen journalism in action. Neighbors now asking @WADeptHealth to carefully scrutinize this corporation.
MAJORITY OF COUNCIL AGAINST OPIOID CLINIC: Council Member Patrick Decker making argument earlier this month against Acadia Healthcare and CLINIC near Boys & Girls Club. Opponents frame company as greedy corporation. @GovInslee@WADeptHealth
WHAT IS ACADIA HEALTHCARE? Nation's largest operator of "behavioral health" centers. If allowed to come in by @WADeptHealth, officials say it would be #Lynnwood's only clinic providing METHADONE. City treatment centers DO NOT provide this drug.@GovInslee
FRAUD SETTLEMENT: Like other massive corporations, Acadia Healthcare has run into issues in past. Company paid 17 million bucks to West Virginia, largest healthcare fraud settlement in the history of state. @WADeptHealth@lynnwood@GovInslee#Lynnwood justice.gov/usao-sdwv/pr/u…
#LYNNWOOD COUNCIL CONSENSUS: Council agrees treatment is vital for addicts. But debate is over LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION. City council is 100% against this clinic coming into office building at 2322 196TH ST SW. @WADeptHealth
CONFUSION AND FINGER POINTING: @WADeptHealth held public input meeting during holidays when people were out. Once #Lynnwood's Alderwood community found out, fight was on. It's now on DOH. Opioid center is scheduled to open end of Jan. Will it be delayed?
OVERWHELMING RESULTS: @WADeptHealth deciding on future of OPIOID clinic scheduled to open next to Alderwood Boys and Girls Club later this month. While #Lynnwood council’s power to stop it is limited, community is planning MULTIPLE PROTESTS. @GovInslee
BOMBSHELL: #Lynnwood issues Certificate of Occupancy for opioid treatment center. City staff being accused of bungling communication and failing to disclose this vital piece of information. Unclear how this impacts @WADeptHealth decision to permit or not. lynnwoodtimes.com/2023/01/11/lyn…
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#EXCLUSIVE: An Eastside mother was brutally assaulted Monday morning by a mob of Issaquah High School students during an anti-ICE classroom walkout.
She says it was totally unprovoked and the cops just watched it all go down without intervening.
This victim fears retaliation so she didn't want me to use her name for this interview.
But this mom is speaking out now to warn parents and school leaders about the massive safety risks around these unsanctioned pop-up protests. 🧵👇
@IssaquahPolice|@IssaquahSchools
Last week a Seattle middle school student fell into a lake during an anti-ICE classroom walkout.
#BREAKING: Parents say a 12-year-old Hamilton International Middle School student fell into the water during an anti-ICE protest.
This incident happened Thursday afternoon in Seattle along W. Green Lake Way N. near the Aqua Theater.
Authorities say the boy struggled to make it out of the water but was eventually taken away on a stretcher.
Unclear if any teachers or parents were present during this classroom walkout.
Once again, student safety has been compromised for the sake of activism.
@SeaPubSchools has some explaining to do. 🧵👇🏽
Here is the narrative from Seattle Fire.
Students ended the protest and are now heading back to the school.
NEW: Bellevue parents better wake up. A communist group is trying to infiltrate several public high schools in WA and is now mobilizing students for a direct action against ICE officers.
None of this is student led or organic. 🧵👇🏽
According to social media posts, a group called Puget Sound Revolutionary Youth is the mastermind behind this Eastside social unrest.
These far-left activists are trying to indoctrinate the next generation with commie propaganda.
NEW: University of Washington Professor Ann Ishimaru is leading the charge against ICE raids in her Seattle neighborhood. The woke educator wants other parents to join her cause and it appears she's organizing on Signal chat groups. 🧵👇
@UW|@EROSeattle|@DHSgov
Ishimaru is getting the word out through the Hamilton International Middle School Parents Facebook page.
This Seattle public school is in the Wallingford neighborhood.
According to her post, she got activated after recent reports of ICE agents near schools.
The UW professor says there are "whistle kit parties, trainings, and plans."
NEW: Seattle Mayor-elect Katie Wilson(@wilsonformayor) has an Islam problem on her hands. Or if you ask the Muslims, she has an LGBTQ+ crisis in her city.
Egypt and Iran are blasting the so called "Pride Match" next year when the FIFA World Cup comes to Lumen Field. 🧵👇
Mehdi Taj, the president of the Iran Football Federation: “Both Egypt and we have objected, because this is an unreasonable and illogical move that essentially signals support for a particular group, and we must definitely address this point.”
Iran and Egypt argue that the Pride event contradicts their cultural and religious values. Both countries criminalize gay relationships and in Iran it is punishable by the death penalty.
In some instances, they throw homosexuals off rooftops.
NEW: The Trump administration is cracking down on Antifa criminals and going after their covert network of funders. But investigators are also being urged to scrutinize the underground subculture where militants plan, recruit, and hide in plain sight. 🧵👇
@DrKarlynB and I infiltrated the Bay Area Anarchists Book Fair over the weekend. You get more than a good read if you show up. Look at some of these panels.