Despite Alligator Alcatraz’s shocking conditions and rampant “psychological warfare,” copycats are popping up around the country—everything from the “Cornhusker Clink” to the “Speedway Slammer”

Does anyone I know (or who wants to say hello) locally in PDX have a vinyl cutter for a quick project before this weekend's No Kings march?

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE. It’s time to cancel your account.

#Antifa 👍

#resist #pdx #ice #fucktrump DONT BRING YOUR CELLPHONES TO PROTESTS Fake cell tower may have surveilled protesters at Portland ICE facility share.google/FxbRdCoWWMqs...

The Irish arriving did not usually have apostrophes in their names. That’s a fada, an accent mark, and things like Ó Connell became O’Connell at Ellis Island. Authority is irrelevant. They did it because of their typewriters.

Lots of us have great-grandparents names who were absolutely changed when they came here, and when people say otherwise, they're assuming your great-grandparents name was in the Roman alphabet.

There isn’t another side to the argument. Every actor in the system—from defense attorneys to Justices on the Supreme Court—recognizes what is happening. The only question is how the criminal justice system should respond.” open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...

Exactly right.

Demonstrating once again that, by holding that partisan gerrymandering is a nonjusticiable “political question,” SCOTUS set up a situation in which voters and their representatives are essentially punished in Congress if they choose to run their own states fairly.

Yes but this photo has huge “sprichst vous español” energy. Maybe something by an indigenous artist would have been a better choice.

people in the desert don’t live in tipis. totem poles are a tradition in the pacific northwest. tribes that wear headdresses don’t live in the desert. and it’s Indigenous Peoples Day. @markhamillofficial.bsky.social there is so much amazing art by Indigenous people. why not post that?

Columbus wasn't on a mission to expand scientific understanding. Nor did he "find" a new world. And far from progress, Columbus brought enslavement, genocide, and mass rape. Finally, “Columbus Day” is only 88 years old, it isn't some ancient American tradition. www.qasimrashid.com/p/indigenous...

Anyone saying they’re not racially profiling is unserious

Tainted Love by Soft Cell Also, Tainted Love by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes The first is a cover of Gloria Jones's 1964 recording, and the second is a grandcover.

Again, every time this happens, we literally have no idea if the masked, plainclothes people are actual government agents, or private citizens acting in party-affiliated paramilitaries. The whole point of IDs & uniforms & no masks is that we know these things.

My latest for the print edition of @theprogressivemag.bsky.social - in September a group of veterans took to the National Mall and gave info to the National Guard on how they could refuse illegal orders. That group's tent at Union Station has now been removed. progressive.org/magazine/tak...

I might not find some political activism that compelling but I try to keep in mind Kwame Ture's point: "You don't criticize somebody who's doing something when you doing nothing."

I hope people remember that the @nytimes.com has actively worked to try to sabotage Mamdani at almost every single turn. ACTIVELY. They've been the NY Post.

I am so sorry for the students. Their parents, not at all.

If Portland were an actual war zone, would the Geneva Convention apply? If it does, it's important to remember that it has a few things to say about gassing people. They are not nice things.

Name an Italian more worthy of an American holiday than Columbus #IndiginousPeoplesDay

Once they understand that it is an unelected bureaucrat carrying out a coup, who knows.

ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital. "We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU" www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Time for a thread of all the things that Stephen Miller and his band of morons are doing to make enemies of state/local authorities. Let's start things off with some spice for the CPD.

BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.

That's the procedure. Why aren't we doing it? Because Republicans do not care who is president, they just want to roll out their agenda. The fact that Donald Trump is a human jellyfish and dumber than one, works to their advantage. Tell him Portland is on fire! He's doing their bidding.

You know when there's a pattern in the back of your mind, something you've been subconsciously noticing for a while but haven't quite been able to catch the gestalt? This brilliant thread crystallized one of those for me, after 30 years in Portland. She's so right my bones feel it.

This really fucking sucks!!! I’m not even paid to be here by an outlet, so doing this is just fucking me personally!

Old CBS would’ve probably spelled the guy’s name right, too.

The point of this isn't the actual question people. I know that immigrants don't steal American jobs I'm not a fucking idiot. The question points out that we are tricked into accepting something that actually hurts us while worrying about something that doesn't because of rich people propaganda.

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

That the third in line for the presidency has no idea what extra-constitutional actions a president from his own party is up to is obviously grounds for removal—his or the president’s. Or both. Obviously.

I am appalled at the accuracy 😂. #pdx #Portland #AbolishICE

Portland holding it down!! #FuckIce #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

Trump’s Lies About Portland: An Excuse to Create a Police State

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Every single person I grew up with is a little bit strange - a thing I grew up believing was a compliment. To be weird was to have a crystalline sense of your own identity and resist the imposition of others, which is why half the people I went to high school with are gurus and capoeira masters.

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread: I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong. So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

The US federal attack on Portland has resulted in the best advertisement for a city that I have ever seen. Round-the-clock joy, community solidarity and silliness that much of the West has lost and longs for.

Emergency naked bike ride is just a really funny idea

This should be a big story. ICE threatening to kill an ambulance driver in Portland.

Hundreds of Portland, Oregon, residents rode their bicycles in the nude to protest U.S. President Donald Trump’s continuous threats to send the National Guard to the city.

🚨 AHORA: Activistas de izquierda en Portland están bloqueando calles mientras realizan un “NUDE DIE-IN” para protestar contra ICE. Como era de esperarse, las autoridades de Portland permiten la desnudez pública total.

For real.

THE WARNING SIGNS OF FASCISM WE STAND UNITED MISSOURI

my father (a retired white engineer who has been in oklahoma for 40 years) is my weathervane for what normal people who just watch the news periodically think, and he was like “so, they want to call the guard out on a bunch of kids wearing frog suits? is that true?”, the admin is losing the PR war

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.