if you’re a visual learner i made you some maps of where the people quoted in this article as supporting portland being occupied by troops live

Read this instead of that www.portlandmercury.com/news/2025/06...

The new CDC guidelines recommend COVID vaccines under “shared clinical decision-making,” meaning people should first consult a medical professional. But this doesn't mean you need a doctor’s appointment, pharmacists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners and registered nurses can do this too.

CEI Hub: Portland’s Ticking Time Bomb @ecosozialismus.bsky.social kboo.fm/media/129605...

As Judge Immergut noted, "The President’s determination was simply untethered to the facts" storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

“No one I know has Long Covid” johnsnowproject.org/primers/no-o...

Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary

In full public view, a top deputy to Stephen Miller chatted on Signal about plans to send the 82nd airborne division into Portland. Deployed in both world wars, Vietnam & Afghanistan, the 82nd is an elite unit that specialises in parachute assaults & forcible entry operations

“Fuck them kids.” That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other. abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

This week, the Global Sumud Flotilla tried to deliver food and other life saving necessities. Now, more than 461 people have been illegally detained by the Israeli military. The forced starvation of Palestinians in Gaza must end and those who have been detained must be freed.

[Translated from French] COVID ages women’s blood vessels, according to a study Radio-Canada October 2, 2025 By Marie-Pier Mercier stillcoviding.ca/en/news/la-c... #COVID #CovidIsNotOver #research

"All Guard troops deployed across the country on Wednesday were among the 2 million active-duty troops working without pay due to a government shutdown." abcnews.go.com/Politics/gua...

ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...

Primeval tylenol www.sciencealert.com/study-traces...

With Chicago in the ICE crosshairs right now, here are some independent and nonprofit media orgs to read, follow and support. Unraveled: @unraveledpress.com Block Club Chicago: @blockclubchi.bsky.social Chicago Reader: @chicagoreader.com The TRiiBE: @thetriibe.com WBEZ: @wbez.org

🩸Thrombotic events doubled since 2020, reinfections increase risk of Long COVID 👃 Olfactory dysfunction occurred in people after SARS-CoV-2 infection 🧘‍♂️ A behavioral trial is assessing a vague “mindfulness intervention” for Long COVID. This week's #LongCOVID research: bit.ly/4mHhIpj

I really dont wanna sound like conspiracy jones, but im feeling more and more like the repeat covid infections may be cognitively catching up with a lot of people... Like, yeah there are other things, but i feel like this is probably a big factor in a lot of *widelt gestures*

Even if we survive every one of those events with every ability intact, we are all only temporarily able-bodied. It may take hours. It may take years. But before we die, we will lose every ability we have. So, when you fight for disability rights, you fight for everyone, including you.

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

"Butt Cracks and Beer Bellies: Is Trump Failing on Immigration because ICE Creates Negative Spectacle?" On the value of filming & posting the incompetent buffoonishness of the ICEcapades, driving out their propaganda w/ evidence they can't even keep hold of their weapons youtu.be/XTlY5hSuuTI?...

The people who need to read this thread won't. I appreciate the effort so much. We are fighting for those with the most to lose

The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries. He said this out loud.

This shouldn't even be a partisan issue. This is a national security emergency. The response should be all hands on deck from every branch of government and every single check and balance option in history should be being desperately pored over. Anything else is an abdication of duty.

NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka. I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws. Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

In August 2024, I covered this farce of a health policy conference at Stanford organized by future NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya. The event featured a ton of fringe voices including anti-vaxxers. At the time, I and others noted it seemed like tryouts for the second Trump administration.

Frankly, I blame that on our political leaders and media sorta just moving past and memory-holing COVID even as the virus continues to circulate and kill. Bhattacharya and Makary and Prasad etc. were all a COVID story and nobody wanted to talk about COVID except the Right.

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If you’re still wearing a mask… thank you. Thank you for recognizing that disabled people aren’t expendable. Thank you for showing solidarity with us. Thank you for caring about your health & the health of those around you. It’s a powerful act of community care & it’s never too late to start!

Reporters not just arrested but going to trial for doing their jobs. www.cjr.org/news/madelin...

Here are some of our top on the ground outlets and journalists in Portland: @portlandmercury.com @taylorgriggs.bsky.social @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social @streetroots.bsky.social @jeremiahhayden.bsky.social pols: @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social, @drmitchpdx.bsky.social, @kanalforportland.bsky.social

A total about-face by Metro Chamber and allies, trying to repeal the portrait of Portland crime they drew up during the post-COVID years, when it seemed politically advantageous. Now, the crime narratives are “outdated,” because the people who constructed them decided so. Sleight of hand.

Did you know that more 10,000 Portlanders lived in social housing on the site of today's CEI [email protected] @councilordunphy.bsky.social @councilormorillo.bsky.social @councilorgreen.bsky.social

Nine months later and apparently the State no longer minds being seen brutatlizing the domestic population.

The past week has shown us something scary — the concrete and specific outlines of a durable authoritarian state in America. Here's what this state would look like, and the precise policy levers Trump is pulling to get there from here. www.vox.com/politics/462...

2020 is on the line, should I say you're here

The US is a police state that is rapidly militarizing and expanding surveillance capacity. This is happening alongside environmental destruction for the purposes of building police training centers, AI data centers, and prison complexes. The issues are not separate.

Trump has ordered troops to Portland to fight residents who don’t like ICE deportations. There will be a mass protest response as the entire state sees this for what it is: a fascist military invasion.

tl;dr: Fascism, in a very literal sense, is for dead-end losers.

Spread the word! Stop militarized takeover in Portland.

Portland Mayor Keith Wilson’s statement about Trump sending militarized troops to Portland.

“The president’s fixation with Portland . . . The White House views Portland as a useful example in its law-and-order campaign — a city Trump officials can elevate to push forward their message on everything from immigration to crime to far-left violence. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

“War ravaged” Portland ICE driveway just now. Chicken suit guy was super nice.