A little project I'm working on, coming up on January 28th! oregonblackpioneers.org/black-histor...

A nice story in the latest Oregon Humanities magazine about Portland freeways for which I was interviewed. oregonhumanities.org/rll/magazine...

Zira for the timeline cleanse. Happy Friday!

No Kings!

No Kings. - Portland, OR this Saturday 10/18. Portland Indivisible and 50501. We Say NO KINGS! · No Kings share.google/0Y0WMKsGKD0t...

With all this talk about Portland and plywood, this ad seemed oddly fitting.😀 Oregonian 9/25/1966

We’re eight days away from No Kings Day, and we have 2,500 protests planned in all 50 states and across the world. October 18 is going to be the biggest day of nonviolent protest in US history — and we want to see you there. Find your local event: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

"Portland police are antifa" is the funniest collection of words I've ever read

This piece is just an essential, important and excellent intervention as Coates' Vanity Fair essay was. One NYT column isn't that important, but an accommodationist mindset has spread in center-left elite circles. And it should be rejected forcefully. democracyamericana.com/posts/c5d024...

My neighborhood today.

Seventy (70) years ago today Portland’s Exposition-Recreation Commission selected Delta Park as the site for what we now know as Memorial Coliseum. My book on the site selection process will be out in the spring. Until then, here’s a primer I wrote back in 2017. mikeaorr.medium.com/portland-mem...

Sales for Hellfire Club tees ought to be going through the roof Portland! www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

IT’S OFFICIAL: We now have more protests planned for October 18 than there were back in June. It’s not even October yet but you’ve already put 2,100 events on the No Kings map. We hope to see you at the largest day of peaceful protest in American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

Said goodbye to dear sweet Clio tonight after 10 wonderful years. 😪

There is no insurrection. There is no threat to national security. There is no need or legal justification for military troops in our major city. www.klcc.org/politics-gov...

Thanks to all the folks from around the country speaking out in support of Portland. Out here on the front lines, the most dangerous place might be the Goodwill bins.

Jesus Christ, how are you so unbelievably bad at this? A deeply unpopular president is recklessly destroying our government, wrecking our democracy, covering up pedophilia and now threatening to use military force against our own citizens but you're tsk-tsking about protecting healthcare?

I encourage all the media outlets who are about to send people to ”war ravaged” Portland to think twice. Some of the strongest extremism reporters in the country live in this region; journalists who understand the culture of the Northwest and the history of activism here. Do it right this time okay?

My office is reaching out to the White House and Homeland Security for more information. We have been provided no information on the reason or purpose of any military mission. There is no national security threat in Portland. Our communities are safe and calm.

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

I hear the President has decreed that it is possibly a crime to refer to Americans as "fascists," but "fascism" is a word that has a relatively clear meaning that's worth understanding. Here's how an official publication of the US Army defined "fascism" in 1945.

Oregon Journal and Oregonian July 16, 1953. The first mention of an arena complex at the bridge site. Sneaky release of a plan by Councilman Nate Boody

Help Put Portland Ahead! via Portland City Archive, 1954 AD/22455

Where can I find a Sandwich Rebellion T-shirt?

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

RIP 🙁 "Feels so Good" always does.

If you’re in office—and you don’t call this out—you’re choosing a side. Silence is compliance. And “oops, I didn’t notice the dictatorial threat” won’t cut it.

"Strength and beauty come from us - not from tyranny" Keller Fountain, Downtown PDX

#nokings Portland www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

Turn out on No Kings Day to protest the thuggery of the Trump regime.

Thrilled that the National Register nomination I worked on for the Port Orford City Jail was recently accepted by the National Park Service. Fans of the Southern Oregon coast or the "State of Jefferson" might find this an interesting read. Link: heritagedata.prd.state.or.us/historic/ind...

Anyway, the idea that it's Marxism when anyone suggests that white Christians should share the country and its public institutions as equals with people who don't fit that description goes way back.

Reminders: "Concentration camps" aren't the same as "extermination camps." Both were/are horrific. Most Nazi camps were *outside Germany*, away from the eyes of German citizens. Those trains? Were to, uh, deport the category of people whose lives were deemed unimportant. Never again is now.

The whole point of social security is that people shouldn't have to live and die in abject poverty. Is it perfect? Of course not. I'd prefer it was more generous. But it is better than nothing and speaks to our (often aspirational) values.

It's time once again for the annual Peep inspection. 13 years old and still doing well!

This funny 'American Pie' parody bites hard — from a comedy show that went out a few days ago in the UK

This reminds me of the old Flintstones gag where Wilma reads the want ads. It was something like "wanted, someone to put cotton into little bottles", followed "wanted, someone to take cotton out of little bottes". This is what the broligarchy wants our workforce to become.

In DC:

One person who was excited about the Populist Party in 1992 was Walter Huss, the former chair of the OR GOP who'd soured on the GHWB GOP because he thought it had capitulated to "the New World Order" run (to his mind) by Communistic Jews, i.e. "globalists." sethcotlar.substack.com/p/walter-hus...

"so bad even introverts are here" #handsoff Portland today. Thousands of people turned out to march.

Heading to the Portland #Handsoff event.

Busted me doing research at the bar.

They always tell you what they're doing or going to do. "a fraudster always makes the loudest noise, screaming and yelling and complaining”

I believe the Soviet version was "suffer now for a better tomorrow"

"the days of rule by unelected bureaucrats is over" um, what about that doggie a-hole?

Lies, lies, lies. So many lies.

Donald Trump: “America is back”

Resign and we'd all cheer!

"Stroke out, stroke out, stroke out!"