Portland has always been thus. Article mentions the “Little Beirut” moniker, but not how we got it. A partner at my old law firm introduced me to the vomit guy, who was apparently a former client. www.wweek.com/culture/2016...
I live in Portland, and I and all my homies love it. I think it’s just you. Yeah, shit is terrible right now, but you’re gonna lose your mind if all you do is dwell on the awful. Even in shitty times, most of us still need to find joy.
I do wish the President would explain why it’s so expensive to live here and why Portland has a huge housing shortage when it’s a crime-ridden warzone. Seems odd that people keep wanting to move here.
I often struggle with puzzles that are like 2/5 difficulty, but puzzles like this that are 5/5 difficulty are a breeze. So, I guess I am that very particular kind of person.
Q: There's compelling proof that antifa did infiltrate on January 6 dressed up like Trump supporters and incited violence. Is that something you'd like the new J6 committee to look at?
TRUMP: Well I've heard that. Yeah. We will be acting on some of that.
You would think law enforcement would be on a high alert for civil rights violations when confronting a man whose surname is Miranda. But then again, it’s ICE, so I guess we shouldn’t be surprised.
Out here in Portland, I’m very, *very* cautiously optimistic that our National Guard will do the right thing, mostly because of this testimony before the Oregon Legislature from Brigadier General Gronewold. www.tiktok.com/@jaws.90/vid...
![Suit-wearing Reed students swallowed colored food dye and vomited red, white and, unintentionally, green.
This was just one of four protests that greeted Bush and Quayle. The first, in 1989, was "the only [protest] that disrupted [Quayle's] schedule," the vice president's press secretary David Beckwith bragged to The Oregonian.
And yet, the Little Beirut legacy lasts—it's unlikely Trump will dare get any closer than Vancouver.
It may be 25 years in the past, but many of the city's residents have embraced the nickname with T-shirts, bumper stickers, a compilation of Portland punk called Anarchy in Little Beirut and the group B.E.I.R.U.T. (Boisterous Extremists for Insurrection against Republicans and other Unprincipled Thugs)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vb522w3jeh4efzptmxuplss5/bafkreie7rnjver62yckamuf7cbitxzvmnvqe7pghrblh4cte6uhc4qicsa@jpeg)
