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Local Area Newsie @localareanewsie.bsky.social · 4h

"Couch Street"

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 12h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Local Area Newsie @localareanewsie.bsky.social · 4h

Really? Him? lmao

Local Area Newsie @localareanewsie.bsky.social · 4h

The new Andy Ngo drop on the "founder of antifa" has me cackling.

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Big Chungus Bus Factory, MSW (NOT A MAN) @acabcalloway.bsky.social · 8h

Join the antifa. Make Trump mad: dsausa.org/join

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Jonathan Choe to Trump: "Another group right now that is behind antifa and working with antifa very closely based on the research that we have right now that we're gonna give to you and your team are the Democratic Socialists of America."

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 12h

Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.

A screenshot of C-Span showing Jack Posobiec speaking during a panel on "Antifa."

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Local Area Newsie @localareanewsie.bsky.social · 8h

Folks we don't even have stores any more :(

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 1d

I want to tie myself to train tracks and let a train run over me every time someone says that they like Gavin Newsom because he trolls Trump

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Local Area Newsie @localareanewsie.bsky.social · 20h

People may recall that we threw a very fun family friendly milkshake party. We still got called terrorists.

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Local Area Newsie @localareanewsie.bsky.social · 20h

I hate to say it but antifascist protests in PDX have had this for 10 years. We had DU's Sunflowers, the Banana Brass Band, hell I've seen that unicorn before.

These tactics aren't new and are only effective if the overall media wants to cover it. Usually they ignore it to call us terrorists

Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 1d

Mascot rave actually seems like an incredibly effective tactic. There's absolutely no way to spin that the dancing unicorn was threatening.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 1d

Maga influencers have been descending on Portland's small but persistent protest outside an Ice office to pick fights and glean content. So naturally, the cabinet member Trump cast for her on-screen presence showed up today with a trio of influencers in tow www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Kristi Noem tours Portland Ice facility with Maga influencers in tow

Oregon governor, Tina Kotek, accuses Ice of antagonizing protesters with teargas and by inviting influencers to film

www.theguardian.com

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Sliver Rider @sliverrider.bsky.social · 1d

Kirsti Noam praying over burgerville meal text dear lord please bring back walla walla sweet onion rings

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Jon Hance @jhance.bsky.social · 1d

Ok, this is just funny.

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Is Portland Burning?

No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.

isportlandburning.com

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Butt Praxis @buttpraxis.bsky.social · 1d

Romcom in which an aging pop star wishing to prolong her wild popularity makes a contract with a sports league losing viewers to “date” a player of their choice in exchange for a certain amount of publicity and then falls in love with his massive hog

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static klinger @jessespector.com · 2d

this is the face of a man who stopped masturbating thanks to kellogg’s corn flakes

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 2d

You just got beat by a time traveler from the 1910s

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Local Area Newsie @localareanewsie.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao found the Swiftie

Local Area Newsie @localareanewsie.bsky.social · 2d

Like are we singing about segregation? Are we singing about being a polygamist with sister wives? Does Taylor want a whole neighborhood to herself and her future 20 kids? I have to know

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Local Area Newsie @localareanewsie.bsky.social · 2d

Look I just want to someone to ask Taylor Swift what she means when she sings that she wants to "live on a block where all the kids look like Travis Kelce"

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 2d

Greta Thunberg, deported to Greece, says the targeting of the Sumud Flotilla is "not the story" @teenvogue.com — instead, she says:

"Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”

Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law

“I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.”

www.teenvogue.com

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joan @joanbybike.bsky.social · 2d

Folks I follow in Portland engaging with obvious troll accounts was bad on Twitter, and I see folks doing it here too. I can’t make people not do this, but I guess I ask you all to consider not responding to the needling accounts. Block and move on

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🫘 👻 Spooky BEAN YEAR soup 🥣 season🎃 @billhookunion.beanyear.com · 2d

People think Portland has been leftist when really the local gov/businesses has been socially tolerant, you can be and love however you want, as long as you don’t question the existence of landlords

That recent hyperbolic NYT article about our new minority left-bloc highlights the distinction

🫘 👻 Spooky BEAN YEAR soup 🥣 season🎃 @billhookunion.beanyear.com · 2d

I’ve long been suspicious of US mass media and news, it’s all propaganda, but how wrong they are about what I am personally experiencing is even more eye opening

Which makes it more absurd that major news outlets are spending so much time focused on a minority left-bloc of our city council

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Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 2d

Amidst everything going on with Trump's attack on the cities like Portland, I don't want to miss the very important and urgent need to condemn Israel's interception of the Sumud Flotilla and call for the immediate release of Paul Reid and Stephen Wahab, two Portlanders held hostage.

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Portland DSA @portlanddsa.bsky.social · 3d

Extremely powerful rally happening at City Hall right now.

@councilorgreen.bsky.social and dozens of US military veterans are denouncing illegal actions of the Trump Administration and encouraging National Guardsmen to refuse to follow illegal orders.

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mitch (he/him) @drmitchpdx.bsky.social · 3d

nobody should serve any of these goons. not a slice, not a cup of coffee. if they want to eat they can eat MREs. they’re not welcome here. if The Noid knew we were selling them pies he’d be pissed

Ingrid @itlz.bsky.social · 4d

saw some feds taking advantage of the amazing portland food scene at the domino’s on 21st and division today

photo taken outside of a domino’s pizza showing two federal police officers exiting the domino’s carrying probably 15 pizzas, and heading to their ugly police SUV.

close up of two federal police officers exiting a domino’s location, carrying approximately 15 pizzas

close up of the front passenger side of a police SUV outside a domino’s. passenger side door reads “federal protective service” “POLICE” and “Homeland Security”

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Portland DSA @portlanddsa.bsky.social · 3d

The Oregonian editorial board is a mouthpiece for Portland’s wealthiest and most powerful institutional and political actors.

Their goal since 2020 has been to weaponize and exaggerate deteriorating social conditions as a way to advance a right wing political project.

They are running from it now.

Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 3d

The Oregonian editorial board linked this post in their Trump editorial today because they know it’s true and that they are partially responsible for promoting the idea that Portland is a crime ridden hellscape.

They want to pretend it never happened when confronted with their own complicity.

Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 10d

I don’t want to hear anymore “Portland is dying” narrative or vague complaints about “ANTIFA” as the clarion call for action in the city. All of that led to Trump targeting us. Groups like People for Portland, associated right-wing media ecosystem, and political opportunists own this.

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Local Area Newsie @localareanewsie.bsky.social · 4d

A heart felt thank you to the judge who obv saw my skeet about just wanting to play Frostpunk 2 without worrying about world historic events happening where I live

Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 4d

Federal judge blocks Trump from deploying Oregon National Guard to Portland oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/10/04/f...

Federal judge blocks Trump from deploying Oregon National Guard to Portland • Oregon Capital Chronicle

This is a breaking news story and will be updated. A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump from federalizing and deploying Oregon National Guard troops to Portland following a c...

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