Solipsism as a service. www.wsj.com/tech/persona...

There's one huge difference between the 2025 Portland protests & the ones in 2020. Today, the ~100 anti-fascist protesters at the ICE facility are sandwiched between the feds who have MAGA-friendly media embedded w/ them, and ~15 MAGA-friendly content creators/counter-protesters out in the crowd.

To revive and paraphrase a classic Richard J. Daley quote, "DHS and ICE aren't there to stop disorder; they're there to CREATE disorder."
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“Saw 8 people out front and couldn’t even get one of them to flip me the bird,” he wrote. “Very low energy.”

A day-by-day report showing just delusional Trump's assault on Portland is. And read the comments to realize how fantasy fact-averse the MAGA trolls are.
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“I never thought that renowned puppy-killer Kristi Noem would be so afraid of protesters wearing frog costumes and chicken costumes, but here we are,” said one local Portland official. #portland
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Portland is toadily opposed to the violent cruelty of the Trump Administration.

Illegally firing the CDC experts while he gets the latest COVID vaccine is really beyond the pale.
Marie Antoinette level of vibes.

It’s hard to square Donald Trump’s braggadocio about peacemaking with his martial rhetoric against “war-ravaged” cities at home, @sbg1.bsky.social writes.

It’s an insane world where militarizing your own civilian streets and ordering extrajudicial murders on the high seas doesn’t get you a prize.

Meanwhile in #Portland

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Hello? 👀⚖️

It really feels like they’re trolling our autocrat.

This was true of January 6. There were videographers and documentaries crews and their film was subpoenaed and used in court cases. #j6 #video 👀⚖️🎥

Huge, huge swathes of *Trump voters* will effectively have no health care available except for emergency ER.

It is simultaneously a) the worst way to maintain public health and b) the most *expensive* way to do it.

Idiocy from moral degenerates. That's our country now.

All this because a man in a chicken suit and an inflatable green frog make fun of the small dick energy gestapo cosplayers who hide their identity behind masks? Really?

All this because a man in a chicken suit and an inflatable green frog make fun of the small dick energy gestapo cosplayers who hide their identity behind masks? Really?

Best consideration deadline, Friday Oct 10:

#SCIMaP (scienceimacts.org) seeks to hire a Research Communications and Media Outreach Specialist at U-Maryland to facilitate public engagement related to federal investment in science and health research.

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As another alumn of the Duke Poli Sci department, this is also Miller doing what every insufferable douchebag in the international security seminars I took did: wildly misuse a term of art confidently. Only then, there was a professor to correct him.

The historically volatile Texas grid was entirely stable this summer, despite extreme temperatures. Grid operators never once had to ask Texans to conserve energy or shut off their air conditioners.

Why? Solar & batteries. Want a stable grid? Try solar & batteries.

The even crazier part, is that Oregon Republicans who regularly shop and dine in Portland will hear him say this and nod in agreement. "Thank you sir, for giving me permission to disbelieve my lying eyes."

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

Portland has elevated protesting to an art form.