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Exploring Portlandia and beyond for good coffee and memorable assemblages of photons. Reality based and ai free.
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire
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The term “law enforcement” should not be used by media, except perhaps in quotations. It has sadly become an Orwellian term that is used to magically sanctify violence. Language matters. Be specific. Describe individuals with names and ranks. Say exactly what they did. Don’t repeat fascist hocum.
January 24, 2026 at 10:59 PM
The term “law enforcement” should not be used by media, except perhaps in quotations. It has sadly become an Orwellian term that is used to magically sanctify violence. Language matters. Be specific. Describe individuals with names and ranks. Say exactly what they did. Don’t repeat fascist hocum.
The monsters don’t lurk under the bed, they just work for ICE now.
They're arresting kids who need medical care in Oregon.
ICE detains family seeking emergency care for child at Portland hospital
The Venezuelan parents and their 7-year-old daughter entered the U.S. legally.
www.oregonlive.com
January 23, 2026 at 7:03 PM
The monsters don’t lurk under the bed, they just work for ICE now.
We need more open windows and fewer closed doors.
January 23, 2026 at 6:35 AM
We need more open windows and fewer closed doors.
White nationalism in action, this time state sanctioned.
January 23, 2026 at 6:20 AM
White nationalism in action, this time state sanctioned.
Pure dystopia that no republican will say the emperor had no clothes.
January 23, 2026 at 4:53 AM
Pure dystopia that no republican will say the emperor had no clothes.
This is the New York Post, so take it with a grain of salt, but if it proves true that is one hell if a choice of neighborhoods here in PDX. Like something out of a Chuck Palahniuk novel. 😂
Secretary of Labor takes staff to a strip club while on official travel in Portland and they go to some tiny club in Lents aka "Felony Flats", 102 and Foster? Close to a freeway exit I guess but if you're gonna break bad on TDY, break big
January 19, 2026 at 11:13 PM
This is the New York Post, so take it with a grain of salt, but if it proves true that is one hell if a choice of neighborhoods here in PDX. Like something out of a Chuck Palahniuk novel. 😂
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oh it's going to be a Recession recession
January 18, 2026 at 10:56 PM
oh it's going to be a Recession recession
Recharging on the coast. Clam diggers at sunset.
January 18, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Recharging on the coast. Clam diggers at sunset.
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Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
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They don't seem to realize that the video of them abusing a legal observer is probably worse than whatever video the legal observer had already obtained of them.
New video shows ICE agents detaining a US citizen legal observer in Minneapolis.
The agents smashed his car window, dragged him out, and placed a knee on his neck.
The agents smashed his car window, dragged him out, and placed a knee on his neck.
January 13, 2026 at 4:28 PM
They don't seem to realize that the video of them abusing a legal observer is probably worse than whatever video the legal observer had already obtained of them.
Narvavägen Boulevard in Stockholm last month, a decidedly *not* fascist country where I felt most welcome as a foreigner. Foxtrot Delta Taco.
January 13, 2026 at 3:35 AM
Narvavägen Boulevard in Stockholm last month, a decidedly *not* fascist country where I felt most welcome as a foreigner. Foxtrot Delta Taco.
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Did ICE have a bring your child to work day?
January 12, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Did ICE have a bring your child to work day?
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I can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade.
The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.
January 10, 2026 at 4:29 PM
I can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade.
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"One was an open paramilitary wing of an openly fascist political party, the other is an unaccountable government force operating without clear uniforms, identification, or transparency... for an openly fascist political party."
ICE Is Nothing Like the Brownshirts, Because the Brownshirts Actually Identified Themselves
Let’s get this out of the way: Immigration and Customs Enforcement is nothing like the Sturmabteilung, a.k.a. Hitler’s Brownshirts. Your main clue ...
buff.ly
January 10, 2026 at 2:20 AM
"One was an open paramilitary wing of an openly fascist political party, the other is an unaccountable government force operating without clear uniforms, identification, or transparency... for an openly fascist political party."
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Celebrating the solstice with homemade sausage rolls. Forgot to arrange them in the shape of Stonehenge. 😂
December 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Celebrating the solstice with homemade sausage rolls. Forgot to arrange them in the shape of Stonehenge. 😂
Caligula in the house.
SCOOP: Sources tell me Donald Trump's name was added to the exterior of the US Institute of Peace building ahead of Thursday's peace agreement signing between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which will be held inside the building. Confirming if it's been officially renamed.
December 3, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Caligula in the house.
I feel the momentum shifting, hopefully it’s not too late. Foxtrot Delta Taco.
October 29, 2025 at 2:13 AM
I feel the momentum shifting, hopefully it’s not too late. Foxtrot Delta Taco.
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Took refuge in the old familiar this weekend and made some comfort food. Coffee and whiskey were poured, but no cigarettes.
October 6, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Took refuge in the old familiar this weekend and made some comfort food. Coffee and whiskey were poured, but no cigarettes.
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NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka.
I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws.
Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”
I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws.
Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”
September 30, 2025 at 2:05 AM
NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka.
I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws.
Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”
I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws.
Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”
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Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"
September 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"
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Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?
September 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?
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