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15 Jan, 13 tweets, 4 min read
After being repeatedly admonished by pal and colleague alike for not posting this in 2020, here is a thread of some of my official protest coverage over the years:
You may have heard of this one: vice.com/en/article/v7g…
Occupy Ice Part One:
vice.com/en/article/a3a…
Occupy ICE Part Two: Electric (Let's Not) Boogaloo
vice.com/en_us/article/…
Proud Boys show up to fight people, Portland police attack Portland citizens. My photog and I were roughed up by the heat as well and I went and testified before the Police Review Board about the incident. That was a joke. pastemagazine.com/politics/polit…
Different year, different photog, same deal: roughed up by the police during a kettle. We were so young back in 2017 I had to describe what a kettle was in the piece. PPB successfully kettled my photog and took a picture of his ID. (Not legal.)
vice.com/en_us/article/…
I know people like to be jaded about it but the Women's March that first year was a rare beam of light.
pastemagazine.com/politics/prote…
The bloc is hot...
vice.com/en_us/article/…
... but antifascism also includes a tremendous amount of non-bloc work by folks who are very simply your neighbors, as this article delves into: playboy.com/read/antifa-mo…
A deeper dive into what's it's like in black bloc: vice.com/en/article/8x5…
Ah yes, the beginning of my years-long affair with PTSD:

pastemagazine.com/politics/portl…
Pre-Trump protest: pastemagazine.com/politics/how-t…
And I'm adding this because it's protest-adjacent and the headline makes me chuckle. Oh how I miss writing scathing op-eds for @PasteMagazine's Politics section (RIP). I tried to tell y'all back on 9/1/16:

pastemagazine.com/politics/alt-r…

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9 Jan
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I guess he’ll just jump from account to account for the next few days. Pretty pathetic.
Already gone. Hilarious. Don Jr is probably next to get 86’d. Image
He's just running around the White House grabbing people's phones. Amazing. What a poster.
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I've been monitoring 4chan and 8kun (formerly 8chan) since yesterday and there's a lot of disappointment in Trump, Lin Wood and Q interspersed with this sort of thing: a discussion of the efficacy of millions of white people storming the government and taking over it from 8 kun. Image
This anon counters with a mention of the Christchurch shooter who was radicalized on 8chan. In 2019 alone 8chan users murdered over 80 people in mass and Q-related shootings. This was part of the reason they had to rebrand as 8kun after being called before Congress. Image
Amidst the constant racism and anti-Semitism, you also have this genre of forboding "next time" post: Image
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7 Jan
I'd like for it not to get lost in all this that @tedcruz was fundraising during the attack on the Capital today. Not only was the Senator fundraising, but he was claiming he needed funds to continue the insurrectionist fight against these United States. Seems rather seditious.
"Just like you, I've been angered by how we've seen election officials act outside their Constitutional authority to rewrite voting laws." - @tedcruz today, during an attack on the US Capital.
In his own words, he is a leader of today's movement: "I'm *leading the fight* to reject electors from key states unless there is an emergency audit of the election results." - @tedcruz today, during an attack on the US Capital.
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20 Aug 20
In the parlance of my homeland I am fixin’ to be in SW Portland at our old pal the ICE building for another evening of first amendment expression at the #blacklivesmatter protests here in Portland’s
Here’s something I wrote during the protesters last visit, which ended up lasting quite a while: vice.com/en_us/article/…
... and I also wrote this piece later in occupation: vice.com/en_us/contribu…
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25 Jul 20
I am once more headed down to beautiful downtown Portland tonight (7/24) to the demonstration to cop my fair share of abuse. As always I implore you to reach out if I've missed something, you think the press needs to know something, or you need assistance. Stay righteous.
Again just an amazing, festive and wholly diverse crowd that is absolutely massive.
How sad the @pdxnaacp bought the Trump line about white anarchists being behind all this. It’s impossible to even consider that narrative if you’ve actually been down here.
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