A single federal agent with a long gun just walked through the crowd, slipped on the ice on his way under the police tape. Dropped his loaded clip.

This absolutely wrecked the morale of Portland cops in 2020. They were getting heckled and flipped off everywhere. Lots of them quit PPB.

BREAKING: Dan Ceisler, the new sheriff of Pennsylvania's Bucks County, just announced he has terminated his county's 287(g) contract with ICE. Ceisler defeated GOP sheriff who'd joined the ICE program in November, & ran on quitting it; we reported then:

NEW: Portland Councilor Loretta Smith allegedly fired a staffer for union organizing. An unfair labor practice complaint, filed today, claims Smith showed increasingly hostile behavior to the worker following the union announcement, culminating in his termination last week.

note to the right wing of city council: pretending not to be a caucus doesn't make you not a caucus. it just makes you less honest and transparent.

In India, people are driving together, continually beeping their horns to send signals of relative position to one another. In the U.S., drivers are each others’ mortal enemies in armed opposition, competing for scarce finite road resource; the only communication is using the horn for aggression.

It's a real shame that Brian Owendoff already got run off this site. Wish it could happen a second time

Betar US is one group who provided a "deport list" to the Trump administration when they were first illegally kidnapping Muslim students and pro-Palestinian activists for their protected speech. www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

This lame grifter did this in Portland. He helicoptered in, got detained for an hour, then helicoptered out & raised like $130k off it while locals had a hard time raising anything for real charges. Don't fall for it again in Minneapolis. Only donate to the community.

The CLEAR Clinic invites you to join our free Train the Trainer Session: Employer Preparedness for Immigration Enforcement. Date: Thursday, January 15th Time: 2:00 - 4:00 PM Location: Remotely - Follow up email with the meeting link will be shared within three days after registration.

These peaceful observers I spoke to had ICE show up at their homes in what they see as attempts at intimidation. ICE has somehow been accessing Minnesotans' private data in likely violation of state law, according to privacy advocates. share.google/J00lpWzPzOu2...

Just saw them and Frank is correct!

I just watched a cover band of middle aged guys playing the music of my youth- Minutemen, Husker Du, The Replacements and Operation Ivy. I think i have reached some sort of middle aged milestone

In Minneapolis

It's violence like this that makes cops fear for their lives when confronted with unarmed civilians.

It's pretty great to see the huge swell of people getting on board with the push to abolish ICE. I hope we can keep up this momentum

Church full of white people in the Midwest literally singing “we will abolish ICE” and guys like Chuck Schumer can’t bring themselves to say they will maybe possibly not give them another million dollars

“Home Depot and Lowe’s are using AI-powered license plate readers and feeding this data into law enforcement surveillance systems accessible to ICE. Their parking lots are also regular sites of ICE raids targeting day laborers.”

Two Portland Police officers are facing scrutiny after one was caught on camera repeatedly punching a protester while another was reassigned after he was filmed defending the deadly shooting of Renee Good by ICE agents in Minnesota.

Got inspired

Oregon health officials are investigating two cases of measles in Linn County, and are warning people who might have been exposed to the virus to contact their health provider.

We are in the 12th COVlD wave of the U.S. Current transmission is higher than 68% of all days since the pandemic onset in 2020. 🧵 3/4

Got out to Wahclella Falls today to do some low level trail clearing including removing a log that impaled itself into some footbridge stairs.. There's enough damage that it won't be open til spring or later

It would appear that uncritically funding the people that hate us so much that they mint coins commemorating body counts instead of listening to the people who said that the institutional rot within the police is so deeply engrained that they represent a danger to us all has mysteriously backfired.

Worth noting that people’s “gang affiliation” is often that they are in danger for trying to leave them.

Someone please explain to me how some Portlanders' response to all of this is to announce the premiere of the "Original Portland Frog Dance" tomorrow night.

i don't care to theorise about why i'm a man or why i'm not a woman. not anymore, not my focus of study. someone else can do that, it might benefit them. i hope to grow and learn forever but the presumption that a trans man is perpetually new to his own life is garbage basura no thank you

Nothing is ever surprising but fucking hell- our new police cheif parroting the lies of the feeds like this is disgusting

expanded my thinking on manhood(s) and sex/gender as an inside-out proposition into a blog, happy with how this one turned out

Big news for 2026, I'm back to having a column in @pastemagazine.bsky.social! Alt-rock Department is about grocery store radio rock, and my experiences working in a grocery store, in the mid to late 90s. The first one is here, it's about Possum Kingdom. www.pastemagazine.com/music/alt-ro...

Our mayor is demanding ICE out of Portland but what exactly is he going to do about it? My guess is nothing...

ICE has murdered THIRTY TWO PEOPLE in detention centers. Four in the last week. www.msn.com/en-us/news/c...

Bend City Council has decided to turn off four AI-powered license plate cameras and not renew the city’s contract with the company, Flock Safety.

A statement from Councilor Avalos, @councilordunphy.bsky.social, and Councilor Smith on the ICE shooting of two people in the Hazelwood neighborhood:

ICE has shot two people in Portland today. The escalation is incredibly fucked up katu.com/news/local/i...

Iranian’s have set the first gov building on fire in Tehran

PIRC's next Migra Watch training is a virtual one on 1/14. This is a training for people living outside of PDX, specifically looking for people in McMinnville, Woodburn, Forest Grove, Oregon City, Salem,Happy Valley, Tigard, Eugene, Gresham, Beaverton, Lake Oswego us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

DSA and PSL in Portland seem to be in full collaboration at this point and are co-organzing events here

In the fall, a group called Literary Portland for Palestine asked Portland Book Festival to divest from Wells Fargo sponsorship funding. They've since grown into a collective working to raise awareness. And because they're a literary organization, they're doing it with poems.

An Oregon lawmaker is warning of ICE agents posing as utility workers. NW Natural and Portland General Electric have published guidance in several languages on how to tell if a person is actually one of their employees.

This is a vetted fundraiser for the family of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

NEWS ALERT The Interstate Bridge Replacement team has known the cost of the project has doubled since August, but didn't tell legislators at September/December committee meetings The IBR now is projected to cost more than the entire pricetag of HB 2025, last year's statewide transportation package

This is the agent who murdered Renee. Share his image as widely as possible. I want to be able to put a name to this face.

PIRC's next Migra Watch training is a virtual one on 1/14. This is a training for people living outside of PDX, specifically looking for people in McMinnville, Woodburn, Forest Grove, Oregon City, Salem,Happy Valley, Tigard, Eugene, Gresham, Beaverton, Lake Oswego us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

This is a good time to learn about what sort of clothing you might want to wear to a demonstration, how to protect yourself and others from chemical weapons, proper digital security and security culture, direct action tactics, etc. Resources about all that and more: crimethinc.com/ActionResour...

Always amazed by the profiles of weird engagement farming accounts on this site. Today's was "every patriot is antifa"

Every law enforcement officer is trained to act with violence first at this point, it's why they kill so many people. They are trained that everyone is a threat. Abolish the whole system

Mayor Wilson continuing the decades long tradition of absolute shit mayors in Portland