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David Beffert @dbeffert.bsky.social · 31m

This is a great conversation with Phil and Ned, especially focusing on nuts and bolts issues around recruitment etc #RCTID

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Ep. 107 - Onward! Live! From Legends at the Axe & Rose - A conversation with Coach Phil Neville and General Manager Ned Grabavoy — Onward! A Rose City Podcast

Welcome to “Onward! A Rose City Podcast”; a place for all your Portland Thorns, Portland Timbers, 107IST, Timbers Army, & Rose City Riveters news, along with stories of our club and culture’s history ...

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David Beffert @dbeffert.bsky.social · 3h

Now is an excellent time to make a pot of coffee or some tea and read Jeremy’s assessment of the summer transfer window. #RCTID

Jeremy Peterman𓅪 @jeremypeterman.bsky.social · 8h

A recap of Portland's summer transfer window with a look ahead into the near future. #RCTID

2025 Portland Timbers Secondary Transfer Window Review

The Portland Timbers entered the summer transfer window with one goal in mind: add the necessary reinforcements to power the team into the playoffs. Congratulations to the Portland Timbers, who have m...

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David Beffert @dbeffert.bsky.social · 3h

I wonder what he thinks about people who wear sunglasses inside during television interviews?

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David Beffert @dbeffert.bsky.social · 4h

Love to see the Port of Portland enforcing the Hatch Act.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 4h

A video in which Homeland Security Secretary Kristine Noem blames congressional Democrats for travel delays during the federal government shutdown is expected to play at airport security checkpoints across the country — but not at PDX.

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David Beffert @dbeffert.bsky.social · 4h

You could not have scripted this better. 🍿

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Nottingham Forest: Sean Dyche considered if Ange Postecoglou sacked

Nottingham Forest could turn to former Everton and Burnley boss Sean Dyche if Ange Postecoglou leaves the club.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 13h

The couple in costumes said they wanted to bring joy to the protests and show that demonstrators are "fun loving people."

Unicorn bride marries Kenny from South Park at Portland ICE protest

The couple in costumes said they wanted to bring joy to the protests and show that demonstrators are "fun loving people."

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 8h

PORTLAND, Ore. — A small group of federal agents in camouflage and face masks watched from atop the immigration processing center Thursday night as a unicorn, peacock, dinosaur and raccoon danced to Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Costumed protesters in Portland defy description of the city as a 'war zone'

Dancing frogs, peacocks and unicorns outside the federal immigration building present a joyful contrast to the Trump administration's portrait of the Oregon city, they say.

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David Beffert @dbeffert.bsky.social · 9h

Indeed. Why should I be so ambivalent? Why should I await it with dread?

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David Beffert @dbeffert.bsky.social · 9h

As is the chicken suit guy

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An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

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David Beffert @dbeffert.bsky.social · 19h

I’m not watching the Mariners but I am seeing a lot of surprise that the game is still going. Part of me is not sure any baseball game has ever finished. What if each game is its own infinite time loop? That seems to be the subjective experience of a viewer anyway.

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David Beffert @dbeffert.bsky.social · 22h

Love it when the league is cheering against my team

NWSL @nwslsoccer.com · 22h

MARTA MARTA MARTAAAAAAAAA

David Beffert @dbeffert.bsky.social · 22h

Too many

David Beffert @dbeffert.bsky.social · 22h

When you make Marta erupt in rage
while defending you are doing something right

David Beffert @dbeffert.bsky.social · 22h

Watching the USMNT and Thorns matches at the same time. Big takeaway: these Ecuador kits are 🔥

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

UPDATE: Judge Perry issued an opinion explaining why she blocked the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago.

She begins with Alexander Hamilton’s rejection of a “preposterous” idea that the Constitution lets a President deploy a State’s militia to a different State for political retribution. 🧵

OPINION AND ORDER
Since this country was founded, Americans have disagreed about the appropriate division
of power between the federal government and the fifty states that make up our Union. This
tension is a natural result of the system of federalism adopted by our Founders. And yet, not even
the Founding Father most ardently in favor of a strong federal government believed that one
state's militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution, calling such
a suggestion "inflammatory," and stating "it is impossible to believe that [a President] would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs." But Plaintiffs contend that such
an event has come to pass, and argue that National Guard troops from both Illinois and Texas
have been deployed to Illinois because the President of the United States wants to punish state elected officials whose policies are different from his own.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

We just taped Stephanie Ruhle’s 11 pm MSNBC show tonight and I am pleased to report that my MVP for this week (a Friday segment) was the inflatable frogs of Portland.

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David Beffert @dbeffert.bsky.social · 1d

October 10, 4:40 pm, Portland Oregon. Opens shops. No plywood

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Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 1d

My read is that fascists in the Trump Admin had Portland central to their martial law plan — 100% confident they could poke us & get visuals they wanted — and we, incredibly, have denied it to them in the funniest way possible.

It’s honestly an incredible achievement. So proud of Portlanders.

Genderless Rodent, but Halloween Themed @genderlessrodent.bsky.social · 1d

Okay, so I am 100% for animal costumes, dancing, music, or whatever other way people want to protest against ICE, Trump, fascism, or similar.

I think saying that it's "effective" because people dunking online makes me wonder what the fuck people think the end goal of it is.

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David Beffert @dbeffert.bsky.social · 1d

I went for a run in a park, got my teeth cleaned, and picked up some Sichuanese take out. Horrifying stuff

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 1d

Those are three people in inflatable frog suits.

@MrAndyNgo
Now that the local and national press have started to cover the Portland ICE area round-the-clock in reaction to the President, Antifa have devised a plan where they are encouraging one another to come in animal costumes.

The costumes serve the function of masking the violent extremism to make the direct action appear like a family-friendly gathering on camera, and to whitewash the past ultraviolence.

In 2019, Antifa devised a similar plot by giving out free "milkshakes" at a protest. But they couldn't contain their bloodthirst and nearly killed me when they saw me. In 2020, they mobilized a fake "Wall of Moms" where female Antifa supporters and members wore yellow shirts to act as human body shields while violent rioters behind them hurled projectile weapons.

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David Beffert @dbeffert.bsky.social · 1d

This is great discussion also diving into politics in the Premier League

Libero @liberopodcast.bsky.social · 1d

New Libero

Is the Premier League Margaret Thatcher’s greatest legacy?

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Libero: Libero 060: The Premier League: Thatcher’s Greatest Triumph

Hated, adored, never ignored, Margaret Thatcher is one of the most important figures in the history of the country that is home to the world's wealthiest domestic league – this cannot be a coinci...

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David Beffert @dbeffert.bsky.social · 1d

Tangentially, are you in the Timber Review discord? It’s for the best Timbers discussion imo

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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David Beffert @dbeffert.bsky.social · 1d

LFG!

CalyxWorks @calyxworks.com · 1d

Turns out we are ALL #PortlandFrog!

Shirts, hoodies and mugs now available.

Profits to Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition. ✊

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Portland Frog Little Beirut » Calyx Design

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