Dan Schum

@meidastouch.com
At a peaceful protest organized by Unions in Portland, OR that marched past an Ice facility. Without warning or provocation launches tear gas and flash banks into the crowd. I had just observed a family with an infant and ~ 3 year old near where gas was deployed

This was a couple blocks away. Glad I had a mask but my eyes were messed up

I was there. They were indiscriminately firing multiple canisters into a huge peaceful crowd. Fucking cowards

I was a couple blocks away and could barely see my eyes got so messed up

They tear gassed the hell out of us though after the march got to the ICE building

Huge anti ICE protest today in Portland OR! Thousands of people

I’m there

Oh interesting. I lost my younger brother to suicide after his battle with mental health. My college roommate was an English major and loved infinite jest and based on him loving it I would never touch it. But now maybe I should

Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

so much volume in $IVRO lately

looks like Zeff has been buying a lot of $SPRS www.otcmarkets.com/filing/html?...

@tressiemcphd.bsky.social this quote is really sticking with me. Thank you.

“it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination.”

www.nonamestocks.com/search/label...

I keep checking my account for the cash but not there yet. I’ve held for a little over 10 years. Buying many times along the way

Got the $MRCR buyout documentation the other day. Super happy with the $5.59 price. They are “holding back” $0.51

Portland drag club recognized in the National Register of Historic Places In Portland, drag queen Darcelle is celebrating recognition of her club by the National Register of Historic Places. Darcelle might also be the oldest performing drag queen in the world.

here's a story on Darcelle www.npr.org/2021/11/20/1...

I'd never worked on a piano before. So many little parts in there. The bottom screws had broken which dropped the pedals adjustment out. A key damper and one other part whose name I do not know had fallen off.

I volunteer as a handyman at a local LGBTQ community center, the PDX Q center, and my most recent task was fixing their incredible piano. They got it from Darcelle who was a famous Portland drag queen

here's me fixing the mixer with super pro Jim advising

Fixing what's broken: At Portland's Repair PDX, community mends more than just busted toasters At Repair PDX, volunteers are fighting a throwaway culture one free repair at a time — and building community along the way.

One of the places I volunteer, Repair PDX, was featured in a local news story and they caught me fixing a kitchen mixer. So fun! www.kgw.com/article/news...

It’s way better here

This really nails it. 2025 is when the state broke my heart.

I started to volunteer a lot. Im the maintenance dept at the PDX Q center. I repair tools at the tool library. I help fix peoples things at a repair clinic. I’ve done habitat for humanity. I took a day off work to pick weeds in a park. I’m signing up to shop for elderly neighbors

I love it

This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

Even the animals hate ICE. Portland bringing in the cavalry

#nokings
Portland frog brigade

#NoKings