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Jul 26, 2020 40 tweets 9 min read Read on X
There are so many people in Alberta Park for the 2 month anniversary of the murder of George Floyd 7/25 #portandprotests #BLM
And we are marching!
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“How do you spell racist? PPB”
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“ACAB! All cops are bastards!” Image
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And now we are moving past the north Portland precinct
“What do we need? JUSTICE!”
The march is heading south on MLK
I have no clue where this march is heading
We are still marching South on MLK. Current chant “No cops! No Prisons! Total abolition!”
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If anyone was curious we are still marching
Flag burning on MLK and Multnomah
The march
The protesters are taking the Steel Bridge
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As we head south on third I can already see fireworks and gas
#fuckthefeds in flowers on the fence
The #WallofMoms and the shield wall are becoming one
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Even with the occasional tear gas & impact rounds vs firework fight there are thousands in the parks and spilling out into the surrounding streets down third and main and salmon
“The people power, power to the people. Black power, Brown power Queer Power Women power” Image
The scene on salmon feels surreal with so many different groups in gas masks and blocked colors. People taking google breaks while medics assist others and a group practices with hockey sticks. Like a block party met Mad Max and the Warriors
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At the fence everyone is ready, the doors are open but I do not see the feds
There is so much energy in the crowd that is just . . . waiting for the feds? I am curious how this momentum is going to be channeled to further the movement
And the fence is down. This feels more like a battle than last night it’s more people on the don’t lines
Feds in 4th and salmon
The feds rush into this cloud of gas between 4th and 5th on salmon and arrest 4in the cloud
One arrest
The rest of the arrests
Police and fed cars racing down the street
So I hid in 7/11 tonight. As soon as the fed rush was over PPB declared a riot and pushed Protesters and press and NLG back to 405. @hungrybowtie was maced and now I am out of downtown

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Apr 30, 2022
Just leaving this here for when we need it later. Polítical compass with the Tankie Quadrant marked “everyt
Updated to account for centrists: Same chart, but with the x-y axis intersection point labeled
We here at the Brigade would like to

1: express our confusion that this blew up,

2: wish y’all happy mayday, &

3: remind readers that Property & the State are silly stories that can only be told in tandem, & get people killed.

Everything for Everyone, Nothing for Ourselves.
Read 4 tweets
Apr 28, 2022
Doesn’t take much imagination to figure out why two white dudes are running to unseat Hardesty- she’s the only Black lady to ever serve on city council, and the only PPB critic of the bunch.

So save your imagination for the question of “what is Vadim hiding in his mouth?” Vadim makes a weird faceHe makes it in every picture.The difference is always ho...
look at those eyes. That’s not a smile. That’s not what he’s doing with those teeth.

He might be trapping a small, feebly struggling rodent in there, but he’s definitely not smiling.
Could be worse: he could have zero public experience and the enthusiastic endorsement of the Portland Police Association wweek.com/news/city/2022…
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Aug 29, 2021
As school starts in a few days, it’s easy to get mad at PPS for their safety protocols, because they are BAD.
However the bigger problems are the directives from the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) and the Oregon Department of Education (ODE). So let’s take a look:🧵
First, we have the PPS “Swiss Cheese Model,” which PPS diagrams as shown. It’s a system that relies on a series of nested and hopefully redundant layers. But if only a few layers are holding up the whole mess, then it’s going to fall apart, and there’s going to be outbreaks. 1/
The big thing to know about the PPS Swiss cheese model is that, however insufficient each layer of protection is in this plan, ODE has also removed a bunch of allowed layers, & PPS’s covid plan is bad precisely because it only meets the state’s minimum covid safety standards. 2/
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Aug 28, 2021
Once upon a time, Perdue Pharma spent decades convincing doctors that the best medical science supported getting the whole country hooked on opiates.
Anyway now people don’t trust doctors when they say “this new vaccine is the only thing that helps covid, don’t take horse paste.”
Weird how a Byzantine medical system of grotesquely unethical for-profit firms, with wildly unequal access & outcomes, where life-saving care is regularly and arbitrarily withheld, would engender this kind of mistrust in the midst of a devastatingly mismanaged pandemic.
It sure doesn’t help that the main website that the Horse Paste People are getting their info from looks as legit as the Mayo Clinic or WebMD, or that it links to a bunch of seemingly legitimate medical studies that are difficult to parse or evaluate without a medical degree.
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Aug 20, 2021
So I decided to tune into the “choose love” press conference by Ted Wheeler. So far singers are singing about choose love and following god.

I wonder if the mayor will address the concerns about far right extremists coming into Portland to fight people
Here are some of the groups asking for action this morning:
Apparently Ted would like to address the multitude of problems facing Portland by asking residents to “Choose love”. I’m not shitting you. That’s his opening speech.
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Jun 3, 2021
Just to be clear: 1 year after George Floyd's murder & the burning of the 3rd Precinct, after the mayor vowed to permanently preserve George Floyd Square as a memorial & city council voted to disband MPD, the city cleared George Floyd Square & shot someone dead on the same day.
Correction: City of Minneapolis is ATTEMPTING to clear George Floyd Square.
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