#PDXProtestPlotPoints, a summary {with references, even}:

- LE has been shifting gears to focus on targeted arrests for a while, which we've seen {can't find source but they may have stated}

- LE wants us to know they're watching streams, which has already caused some dissent - Copaganda has been STRONG lately {shields portrayed as violent, some sus af "recovered" weapons, etc}

- Feds don't want us picking up munitions more than ever

- Increase in severity of reactions to gas, new symptoms, new chemical smells, plant damage, new munitions

Portland Protest Gothic: A Thread

This is the 5th warning. This is the 89th warning. This is the 2nd warning. You await the final warning.

The voice speaks. The crowd raises their leaf blowers in anticipation. The gas comes. Unbudging, they disperse the gas west. It is the Elk. It is a stag, but it is the Elk and also the Stag.

You are in line for food, the Feds push into the park. The crowd scatters. The line reforms, exactly as it was.

Any fence put up must be dismantled before sunrise. It is a sacred duty, holy work.

There are an awful lot of headlines about the #PortlandProtests that clearly need fixing.

Behold, a thread providing this service, beginning with this gem, sent to me by my own mother.

Fixed: Local Leaders Cast Themselves in Role of 'Good Cop' to Feds' 'Bad Cop' Fixed version: Volunteer Medics Say They Join Protesters to Keep People Safe, Paid Police Say They Joined the Police Force to Keep People in Danger

Hello here's your daily reminder that focusing on Wayfair ignores how actual trafficking occurs.

If you care more about a conspiracy theory with no substantiated evidence and were silent on trafficking before Epstein, you're not qualified to really have an option on this. You don't actually care about trafficking, you care about leaping to stories of niche cases that blame corporations and the elite {who should be held accountable, btw}.

Why?

Because this distances you from being complicit in the realities of trafficking. It distances you.