📽️ WATCH: We reviewed 700+ videos, hours of footage from ICE protesters and counterprotesters in Portland. Trump justified the deployment of National Guard troops by calling the city "War ravaged," with an ICE office under siege. That's not what we found. 🔗 Full story: https://propub.li/43fRCmF

Oregon’s most diverse county, Washington County, declared a state of emergency this week because of increased immigration enforcement that has cloaked much of the community in fear over the past few weeks.

President Trump claimed the National Guard was needed in "war-ravaged" Portland. But a @propublica.org review of protests in the months leading up to his claims -- including more than 700 (!!) videos -- show a different reality. via @robwdavis.bsky.social and Steve Suo

Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.

Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."

someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives

Well, an acquaintance who relies on the ACA marketplace for insurance just received a notice explaining that their fee for coverage will be rising. Right now they pay $180 a month. The new price? $2733.15 a month.

I think most of us knew that it was way more than 7 million.

I gotta be real, I did not suspect we would reach "roving mobs of white folks chanting "shame" at ICE" within 9 months, and it really feels like a sign of how much more horrifying it must be on the ground than those of us not there can even imagine.

Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming. Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Portland Parks & Rec faces loss of nearly half its budget, which would force closures and eliminate programs for those who need them most. Please vote on the Portland Parks Levy this November! Ballots are due Tuesday, November 4! #Portland footage: bsky.app/profile/teja...

👋 I teach an herbalism program, and it’s open for registration. Tell your Portland-area friends!

HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.

I keep saying this but the reason members of congress want to stay in office until they die is they can't buy that kind of elder care anywhere else, even if they are rich

A brief history of attacks against Zohran Mamdani: 1) who? 2) He's a communist 3) Ten thousand questions about Israel 4) His rent is too damn low 5) The rich are all gonna move to Florida 6) Why is this mf always smiling 7) 🚨MUSLIM MUSLIM MUSLIM🚨BROWN🚨9/11✈️🏢🏢 8) Fuck it, let's just arrest him

Ok in fairness to the media, "Man has extremely normal life experience, yet wants to become mayor of New York City, a job fit only for madmen and sex offenders" kinda is a story

Misread this as “natural phenomenon” for a sec and my whole worldview was briefly questioned

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style. Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness) As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

I understand why they had to stop him but I don’t agree with imprisoning him in the phantom zone

Lmfao I was just listening to someone talk about how this happened in Greece during 2008 Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Steve Bannon insists that Trump *will* serve a third term, despite the clear wording of the 22nd Amendment. "At the appropriate time, we'll lay out what the plan is. There is a plan," Bannon says. via The Economist

The crowd did not disperse, an instead started playing Tubthumping by Chumbawamba — I get knocked down, but I get up again.

Beat your Ring camera to death with a bat

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”

Dozens of clever signs & costumes made it onto my camera roll, but there were thousands upon thousands more! Way to bring the creativity, Portland.

ChatGPT gave a significant portion of my students the wrong answer to an easy quiz question that everyone used to always get right I had two groups of students turn in annotated bibliographies that were ChatGPT generated - not a single citation actually existed

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

This is the absolute best

🚨The war on Antifa has begun, with the FBI canvassing informants for insights on the group, scrutinizing financial records and gathering intelligence on left-wing affinity groups, sources tell me: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/inside-the...

Appalachian coal workers suffer from black lung, an incurable respiratory disease killing its victims slowly & painfully. @kimkelly.bsky.social reports on how the Trump administration is delaying a life-saving safety rule, while claiming to stand with miners.

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet" www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Solidarity is the only way

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Really sweet resistance scene outside ICE in Portland of coffee, donuts and morning.

The Portland thing gives me some hope because we, as a society, glorify violence because our government IS violence. But the cycle of retaliation can never stop without some really intense problem solving and big picture work. To see de-escalation with frog suits, of all things.

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning: www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

Portland 🔥

I can’t believe an inflatable frog is my hometown’s symbol of resistance, and yet of course since I am from here I absolutely can this is old school homegrown “rioting over the airport changing its carpet” Portland freak shit. it transcends the Portlandia mythos. writers would not think of this

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking? Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

🐸🐸🐸 ↙️↙️↙️ 🚫🧊🚫

World Naked Bike Ride organizers and other local groups are getting on bikes in the buff to protest the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in South Portland. The demonstration is planned for Sunday Oct 12 at 2:30 pm; now we know the starting spot is Oregon Convention Center Plaza.

Portland frogs remind me of "everyday antifascist" tactics from a few years ago, when activists dressed as unicorns & poop emojis & bananas, dancing to a brass band during a Portland Proud Boys rally. All meant to disrupt the group's “toxic masculinity riot porn” www.huffpost.com/entry/proud-...

LA: we will fight you. Chicago: we will fight you. PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

Worth listening to!

Portland 🖤