It’s complicated but far as I know it’s being poor/ill-suited for anything but farming and one of the following: Irish, Scots/Irish or German.

How does tear gas impact our bodies, environment, and wildlife? How can the judicial system help? Come to our Tear Gas Action Night. Film + City Councilor Kanal + Panel 2/25, 6:00-8:00pm, 3639 N Mississippi More here: 350pdx.org/event/tear-g... 📸 Irene Tejaratchi Hess @tejaroxxy #portland

If this happens, WE WON’T SEE ANY MORE ELECTIONS. Yes, I am yelling.

Can be hard to know that "NAVSUP RFP Seeks New Contractors for $55B WEXMAC 2.2 TITUS" means "the military is looking for companies to build concentration camps all over the United States"

I listened to it while biking to work this morning, and it was a great way to pedal more angrily. I got downtown in record time. They’re 100% correct and there is no floor for the right wing.

David French: This is not a drill www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...

All the bad things are combining into one bad thing

A reminder that the Kennedy Center is the literal and legal and congressional designated presidential memorial to JFK. This would be like Trump tearing down the Lincoln Memorial to build something “better.”

Wish more developers ditched installing gas in new subdivisions. We don’t need it. gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/c...

Are we sure the Yes Men aren’t behind this?

We were a little farther back, so my 9-year-old didn't need to get a face bath - just a few coughs www.opb.org/article/2026...

This is tear gassing protesters just for protesting. There is no threat, and the only danger presented is ICE behaving recklessly. There is no provocation; this is just straight up assault.

if you’re tear gassing little kids you lose your job, you get arrested, tried, and jailed simply no other option in a civilized society, these goons must face consequences

I join my City Councilors in calling for prosecution of ICE for this flagrant violation of city and state law. This is illegal, and if ICE does this to families and children on a sunny peaceful daytime protest, I shudder to think what they do without that kind of daylight and public scrutiny.

@meidastouch.com At a peaceful protest organized by Unions in Portland, OR that marched past an Ice facility. Without warning or provocation launches tear gas and flash banks into the crowd. I had just observed a family with an infant and ~ 3 year old near where gas was deployed

People peacefully protesting ICE violence…were met with more ICE lawless violence. I’m deeply grateful to the community members who helped people wash their eyes and get elderly, children and other folks to safer air. Tear gas is incredibly damaging and I'm deeply worried about long-term impacts.

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.

Our friends in the Portland Teachers union got gassed today. It’s scandalous that our government sees these peaceful protesters as a threat. I see ICE and their leaders as in the last gasps of clinging to scant power.

A Mt. Scott-Arleta / Lents walking around night: Red Castle Games, the Old Gilbert Road Tavern for a cheeseburger, now J.West Bottleshop.

I'm so old, I remember January 2025 when this racist letter circulated in Lincoln County, OR encouraging people to report on their neighbors who are undocumented. The letter ended by saying this would bring houses prices down. What was condemned as racist vigilantism last year is now gov't policy.

Using a little time this afternoon to file our taxes and get my money back from the federal government to the maximum extent that's legal. Because *expletive deleted* ICE.

This is who runs this account:

It’s only useful as a future metaphor, when it either collapses from poor engineering or we tear it down.

Not sure anyone has fully reckoned with the extent to which Trump's handlers are dismantling federal expertise and institutional knowledge. Whenever we send them packing, we'll need an army of dedicated experts ready to rebuild and expand the government's capacities to serve its citizens.

BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps. This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall. But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"

So what I'm hearing is that, in the last five days, two Black Members of Congress have been assaulted in apparent support of the regime's deportation diktat (Rep Frost, punched at Sundance & told he'd be deported; Rep Omar at an ICE townhall) & the regime has arrested four Black journalists. Huh.

24 hours later: Trump has two journalists arrested

This is fascism, folks.

Don Lemon is not the only reporter who was arrested by federal agents overnight — local independent journalist Georgia Fort just went live on FB to say federal agents were also at her door to take her into custody over her protest coverage in Minneapolis.

Corruption:

Finally reading @susanorlean.bsky.social’s “The Library Book” and damn, I want justice for Mary Jones, who was ousted from her LA library leadership job in 1905 in favor of a bolero-wearing (male) poet, because she refused advances of one of the board members. This book is so fantastic.

We’re just not a free country. Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.

Since we published this, Pam Bondi's X account has started posting mugshots of Minnesotans arrested for impeding ICE/CBP. Sharing a defendant's photo publicly in this way is forbidden under DOJ rules

the takeover of the nursing home/rehab center industry by extraction capitalists is a story that deserves much more coverage than it gets it’s only going to get worse until we make it get better

For context, this is the 100 mile border zone.

The DOT just confirmed what we long suspected – the govt is replacing skilled civil servants with unreliable AI tools to draft regulations impacting the health, safety, and rights of millions of Americans. It's not just lazy, it's dangerous. We'll continue shining light on these actions.

literally Trump is not the President. his TV calls the shots

This is one of the things that I find is most shocking to people outside Minnesota who don’t realize it yet—the scale at which everyone who isn’t white has been forced into a spectrum of hiding. Very good article drawing out the Tahrir Square comparison.

Wrote myself a pep talk to get back to work tomorrow. It helped me. Hope it helps you.

As someone who donated ten years of my limited spare time on public placemaking and neighborhood events, a lot of people can’t comprehend how much a couple women with determination and an excel spreadsheet can do with our own money and time.

This is Minneapolis: I was at a small event today for my kids & the facilitators asked everyone to introduce themselves & let the facilitators know if they have any needs/accommodations for the planned activity. An 8yo said their need for the day was to "make ICE leave our city." ❤️💔

M. Gessen has lived it, they know: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...

Federal agents have murdered another person in Minneapolis. Action must be taken by Congress. Impeach Kristi Noem. Impeach Donald Trump. Defund ICE. Republican lawmakers must stand up for their communities and the rule of law. Stay Loud.

A new video contradicts the Trump administration's account of the Minneapolis shooting

the regime considers all resistance violent resistance. you chanting while holding a sign and carefully remaining on the sidewalk is as worthy of the death penalty to them as someone throwing a Molotov.

Murray is the chief Democratic appropriator. She negotiated the DHS funding deal. She needs to present a new plan now