Barry Cochran
@barrycochran.bsky.social
Barry Cochran is a fourth-generation educator, exploring, meditating, bicycling, writing and adventuring in Portland, Oregon. ALL EM-DASHES ARE COMPOSED AND WRITTEN BY ME, A HUMAN BEING.
Clicking that box in Microsoft products "Check here to not be asked for your password for 60 days" has about as much result as pressing an elevator Close Door button or the pedestrian button on a traffic light, doesn't it?
December 28, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Clicking that box in Microsoft products "Check here to not be asked for your password for 60 days" has about as much result as pressing an elevator Close Door button or the pedestrian button on a traffic light, doesn't it?
What, a single page in 72-point font reading "people are stupid" wasn't publishable?
The D.N.C. Is Killing Its Autopsy of What Went Wrong in 2024
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
What, a single page in 72-point font reading "people are stupid" wasn't publishable?
This line from the NYT morning newsletter: "At least two of the Brown University students who were on campus when a deadly shooting unfolded there have survived school shootings before." What have we become?
December 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
This line from the NYT morning newsletter: "At least two of the Brown University students who were on campus when a deadly shooting unfolded there have survived school shootings before." What have we become?
"You won't be able to wear that mask in your mug shot, Son."
Oregon's Attorney General and Portland area DAs just told the feds they'll prosecute excessive force by federal agents in the state—citing evidence from the trial that shut down Trump's National Guard plan for Portland.
Oregon to Feds: Rein in Your Officers or We'll Prosecute
Prosecutors in Oregon are warning the US justice department to rein in federal agents who’ve repeatedly used excessive force on protesters, immigrants and even local police. A joint letter from Oregon...
www.portlandmercury.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 AM
"You won't be able to wear that mask in your mug shot, Son."
One thing Portlanders like is lining up. This is the line outside the opening of the renovated Portland Art Museum because another thing Portlanders like is anything free.
November 24, 2025 at 1:49 AM
One thing Portlanders like is lining up. This is the line outside the opening of the renovated Portland Art Museum because another thing Portlanders like is anything free.
Portland police, like so many others, are right now learning that cooperating with fascists in the short term (2020) will never buy safety from them in the longer term (2025)
October 4, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Portland police, like so many others, are right now learning that cooperating with fascists in the short term (2020) will never buy safety from them in the longer term (2025)
I don't know what those federal troops are trained for, but I doubt it's brunch lines. So any marching through our streets will have to wait until after late-afternoon on Sunday anyway. Those brunch lines have destroyed far more welcome tourists than they are. #WarRavagedPortland
September 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I don't know what those federal troops are trained for, but I doubt it's brunch lines. So any marching through our streets will have to wait until after late-afternoon on Sunday anyway. Those brunch lines have destroyed far more welcome tourists than they are. #WarRavagedPortland
Here's my #WarRavagedPortland photo. I could have posted something objectively stunning, as many are doing: the sunrise from my commute yesterday morning, for example. But this one is just simple and clumsy street beauty—
September 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Here's my #WarRavagedPortland photo. I could have posted something objectively stunning, as many are doing: the sunrise from my commute yesterday morning, for example. But this one is just simple and clumsy street beauty—
Sadly relevant again.
September 27, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Sadly relevant again.
This headline is itself a contextually helpful reminder that humans like those presumably writing at the
@oregonian.com are fully capable of writing formulaic exposition that includes counterfactual hallucinations.
@oregonian.com are fully capable of writing formulaic exposition that includes counterfactual hallucinations.
August 31, 2025 at 3:50 PM
This headline is itself a contextually helpful reminder that humans like those presumably writing at the
@oregonian.com are fully capable of writing formulaic exposition that includes counterfactual hallucinations.
@oregonian.com are fully capable of writing formulaic exposition that includes counterfactual hallucinations.
Trump's probably not dead, right? But the fact that these rumors go round like we're some kind of North Korea or U.S.S.R. or Vatican tells us something about the nature of the system we're living under now. (Spoiler Alert: It's not a democracy with a healthy media.)
August 30, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Trump's probably not dead, right? But the fact that these rumors go round like we're some kind of North Korea or U.S.S.R. or Vatican tells us something about the nature of the system we're living under now. (Spoiler Alert: It's not a democracy with a healthy media.)
Reposted by Barry Cochran
It's amazing what 24 hours will do to the temperatures here in the Pacific Northwest.
@koin6.bsky.social #Portland #ORwx #WAwx
@koin6.bsky.social #Portland #ORwx #WAwx
August 14, 2025 at 1:22 AM
It's amazing what 24 hours will do to the temperatures here in the Pacific Northwest.
@koin6.bsky.social #Portland #ORwx #WAwx
@koin6.bsky.social #Portland #ORwx #WAwx
When I look at my bank account and see the "FDIC - Backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Government" banner, I gotta say, that just doesn't hit at all the way it used to.
August 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
When I look at my bank account and see the "FDIC - Backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Government" banner, I gotta say, that just doesn't hit at all the way it used to.
Union Station, Portland, Oregon #TransitTuesday
July 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Union Station, Portland, Oregon #TransitTuesday
16 bus to Union Station #TransitTuesday
July 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM
16 bus to Union Station #TransitTuesday
Seems like somebody could use some HR-ordered DEI training.
Trump asks Liberian president where he learned to speak English 'so beautifully'
YouTube video by Associated Press
www.youtube.com
July 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Seems like somebody could use some HR-ordered DEI training.
If this year's are to be the last American fireworks, we had a good finale in Portland, Oregon
July 5, 2025 at 6:12 AM
If this year's are to be the last American fireworks, we had a good finale in Portland, Oregon
Reposted by Barry Cochran
I have literally never seen a graph like this once in all my years of being an election sicko
18-24 always lags, always, it’s just a natural law of politics
and this is the guy they want to throw out of the party?!
18-24 always lags, always, it’s just a natural law of politics
and this is the guy they want to throw out of the party?!
June 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I have literally never seen a graph like this once in all my years of being an election sicko
18-24 always lags, always, it’s just a natural law of politics
and this is the guy they want to throw out of the party?!
18-24 always lags, always, it’s just a natural law of politics
and this is the guy they want to throw out of the party?!
Seems timely for a reminder that Portland, Oregon successfully kept an objectionable person out of office through a ranked-choice voting campaign not to rank Rene Gonzalez.
June 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Seems timely for a reminder that Portland, Oregon successfully kept an objectionable person out of office through a ranked-choice voting campaign not to rank Rene Gonzalez.
Portland, Oregon #nokings #nokingsday
June 15, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Portland, Oregon #nokings #nokingsday
Scenes from Portland, Oregon #nokings #nokingsday
June 15, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Scenes from Portland, Oregon #nokings #nokingsday
One thing sci-fi was right about: people really do wear jumpsuits in the dystopian future.
May 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM
One thing sci-fi was right about: people really do wear jumpsuits in the dystopian future.
The "first they came for" poem was never meant to be a freaking checklist.
May 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The "first they came for" poem was never meant to be a freaking checklist.
