Matt Chorpenning, MSW (@chorpenning) — Bluesky Profile

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Well it makes sense now that we know both Brian Owendoff and Laurie Wimmer were brain washing my colleagues into thinking “the race card” move was a tactic.

We’re all the same style of progressive though, no real difference among people politically lol

www.portlandmercury.com/news/2026/03...

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1 day ago

There are zero unregistered immigrants in the Epstein Files.

There are 27 billionaires in the Epstein Files.

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In the Shadows: Records Show Labor Leader’s Campaign to Influence City Councilors Labor Council Secretary Laurie Wimmer privately suggested councilors sue the city to stop “MAGA of the left” from choosing council president.

New public records give insight into a Portland city councilor’s idea to sue the city, let the mayor break a tie, and decide the council’s president in January. A longtime labor leader told the Mercury she was “an observer,” but public records starkly contrast her laissez-faire, big tent narrative.

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1 day ago

They truly want you to believe this shit is inevitable and actually better than human endeavor but the one surefire thing that can stop it is not agreeing to the first two things. That’s all! That also means not willingly feeding it. It’s not difficult to avoid using it!

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Like, you shouldn't be surprised or upset that workers don't wanna be in coalition with the folks who will get paid overtime to crack our skulls when we have to go on strike.

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Hey this is the same "labor leader" who scolded my Union's executive council because a bunch of us don't want cops in NOLC.

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parties cannot reach agreement within 21 days, each party may submit its own proposal, and each side may respond to any other party's proposal within 14 days thereafter. The Court will then resolve any disputes on this issue and appropriately supplement this Order of Preliminary Injunction.
6. In the interest of justice, Plaintiffs need not provide any security, and the Court
waives all requirements under Rule 65(c) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
7. Defendants shall promptly provide individual copies of this Order of Preliminary
Injunction to each Enjoined Person who currently is assigned duties at or in the vicinity of the Portland ICE Building. Within 28 days of the date of this Order of Preliminary Injunction, Defendants shall file with the Court written confirmation of their compliance with this provision.
In addition, Defendants shall promptly provide individual copies of this Order of Preliminary Injunction to each Enjoined Person who in the future is assigned duties at or in the vicinity of the
Portland ICE Building.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
DATED this 9th day of March, 2026.

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Screen shot of introduction of case:
Michael H. Simon, District Judge.
In a well-functioning constitutional democratic republic, free speech, courageous newsgathering, and nonviolent protest are all permitted, respected, and even celebrated. In an
authoritarian regime, that is not the case. Indeed, a democracy is only as strong as its tolerance for dissent. As Benjamin Franklin wrote:
Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins.'
Our nation is now at a crossroads. We have been here before and have previously returned to the
right path, notwithstanding an occasional detour. In helping our nation find its constitutional compass, an impartial and independent judiciary, operating under the rule of law, has a responsibility that it may not shirk.
' Benjamin Franklin, "On Freedom of Speech and the Press," Pennsylvania Gazette, Nov. 17, 1737. Fifteen years earlier, Dr. Franklin wrote: "Whoever would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation, must begin by subduing the Freedom of Speech." Benjamin Franklin, Silence Dogood, No. 8, as printed in The New England Courant, July 9, 1722.

otherwise, it is HEREBY ORDERED THAT:
1. The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and all agents and
employees of that Department, including all persons acting under the direction of or in active concert or participation with the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security or any
of its agents or employees (collectively, the "Enjoined Persons") are hereby prohibited and enjoined from engaging in, directing, or encouraging others to engage in or direct any of the
following actions at or in the vicinity of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE")
building located at 4310S. Macadam Avenue, near the corner of Southwest Moody Avenue and
Southwest Bancroft Street in Portland, Oregon ("Portland ICE Building"):
No Enjoined Person may direct or use chemical or projectile munitions,
including but not limited to kinetic impact projectiles, pepper ball or paintball guns, tear gas or other chemical irritants, soft nose rounds, 40mm or 37mm launchers, less lethal shotguns, and
flashbang, Stinger, or rubber ball grenades, unless the specific target of such a weapon or device
poses an imminent threat of physical harm to a law enforcement officer or other person.
No Enjoined Person may fire any munitions or use any weapons described
in subsection (a) at the head, neck, or torso of any person, unless the officer is legally justified in using deadly force against that person.

No Enjoined Person may use pepper spray, oleoresin capsicum spray, or
other aerosol restraint spray (collectively, "OC Spray"), unless the specific target of that weapon exhibits, at a minimum, active resistance. For purposes of this Order, and by way of example and illustration only, trespassing, refusing to move, refusing to obey an order to disperse, and "going limp" (or "going dead weight") are merely acts of passive resistance, not active resistance. In addition, no Enjoined Person may use OC Spray indiscriminately against groups of people where bystanders foreseeably would be affected. OC Spray, however, may be used against specific individuals actively engaged in violent unlawful conduct, actively resisting arrest, or as reasonably necessary in a defensive capacity.

2. Nothing in this Order shall prevent an Enjoined Person from making an otherwise
lawful arrest if there is probable cause to believe that a crime has been committed and that the person being arrested has committed that crime.
3. Nothing in this Order shall prevent an Enjoined Person from using proportional force, including less lethal weapons, on any individual who poses an imminent threat of physical harm to a law enforcement officer or other person.
4. Defendants shall not be liable for violating this Preliminary Injunction if a person is incidentally exposed to a crowd-control device, provided that such a device is deployed in a manner that is fully consistent with this Order of Preliminary Injunction.
The parties shall promptly confer regarding how the Enjoined Persons who perform duties at or in the vicinity of the Portland ICE Building can place conspicuous and
unique identifying markings (using numbers and/or letters) on the uniforms, vests, and/or
helmets of the officers and agents deployed at the Portland ICE Building so that they can be identified at a reasonable distance and without unreasonably interfering with the legitimate law
enforcement needs of these personnel. If the parties agree on a method of marking, they shall submit the terms of their agreement in writing to the Court, and the Court will then issue a Supplemental Order of Preliminary Injunction that incorporates the parties agreement. If the

Preliminary Injunction granted in the Portland, Oregon-based lawsuit against the Fed's brutal response to non-violent protests at the ICE facility.

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1 day ago

Where are our philanthropic rich people Portland? You know the ones that care about the greater good of the city….never mind they are all busy complaining about the preschool for all tax.

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you don’t hate rich people enough

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Many pundits, journalists, and some professors helped legitimate the basic canard here—that DEI is reverse leftist discrimination. Arbitrary, purely ideological censorship was the inevitable result. In my view, they should engage in serious reflection on professional ethics and accountability.

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It's not overstating it to say that this country fucking hates higher ed right now, and mostly not for the reasons it should. And Oregon has been leading the pack on disinvestment in public education for decades.

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Portland State declares financial crisis, reveals plan to cut or reduce 19 departments Portland State’s announcement Monday lays the groundwork for a process that could result in a massive restructuring of the university.

I know this seems bad, but at least the legislature took the time to allocate millions of dollars to a sports stadium remodel.
www.opb.org/article/2026...

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lol

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Thread

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2 days ago

maybe I'm focusing on the wrong thing here but this is the wildest shit I've ever heard a white South African say and I study racism for a living

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2 days ago

Trump gets the most generous press of any American in history and there’s no close second

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2 days ago

oh people don’t want to be out in the streets? the streets that are being bombed? those streets?

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3 days ago

there is no opposition party in the U.S.

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2 days ago

Nothing says “we are liberating you from a bad regime to give you a better life” like bombing desalination plants and oil refineries

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2 days ago

I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation

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2 days ago

I think a lot about how actual marginalized people are never acceptable, but weird stand-in (controlled) versions are and what that says about just marginalizing people more under a false guise of access.

Shinier chains are still chains.

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2 days ago

It's about protecting women and girls in sports, y'know

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😵😵🫠🫠💩💩

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2 days ago

AI is a non consent machine , “solving” problems of elite comfort all the regressing towards the means of slavery

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3 days ago

Having some of the most thoroughly redacted thoughts of my life.

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Text that reads "People the world over have been led astray trying to engage in the rationale of nations and states in order to try to fit into frameworks that don't serve the colonized and enslaved. The examples are endless, but it is essential to understand that we're still directly negotiating with the violence of the colonial state form, whether through inclusion, reform, or the seizure of this class instrument designed to control populations (not free them). We do not seize the state; the state seizes is. Furthermore, it changes us by reshaping our struggles into a format that monopolizes violence and capitalizes on behalf of a ruling elite or Party. To think it does anything different at a point in time when a few people control the majority of the world's wealth is nearly a fantasy."

William C. Anderson in the latest issue of The Funambulist. Anderson is one of the best anarchist thinkers I have ever read.

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3 days ago

I see lots of arguments like this on the internet and I never once, not ever, see any sort of data to back it up. I want to see actual evidence that people being mean to Democrats depresses voter turnout or that people opposing genocide cost Harris the election.

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3 days ago

However much you hate them you do not hate them enough

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4 days ago

1. The Moda's just another piece of public infrastructure the government neglected, like the sewers, bridges, streets, and the power grid. Yet we've decided this one's precious.

2. There's no loyalty in sports above the fanbase. It's a grave mistake to paint a fickle franchise as too big to fail.

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