Ben Waterhouse

Wondering what’s going on with National Guard in Oregon? Here’s a quick timeline of the legal developments over the past week.

NOTE: This information is current as of Monday morning, October 6. We’ll continue to share updates as the situation evolves.

And yet that's the most active part of downtown.

In what sense did Ted Wheeler destroy the parking lot owned by the Goodman family who were active participants in the development of the Ritz?

DOJ: CA NG is already federalized

Judge: You are an officer of the court. Do you think this is an appropriate way to deal with my order? Appropriate way of dealing with ruling you disagree with?

DOJ: Well, I'm not a policy maker

Judge: You're a lawyer

Ingersoll’s calls for violence are in line with the official Republican position. John Gillette, a Republican state representative for Arizona, called for Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) to be hanged on his X account. Two Kansas Republicans alluded to — “joked” — about shooting a former Democratic colleague on the floor of the Kansas House. Louisiana Republican Clay Higgins threatened to jail the mayor of Denver, while Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna threatened to refer him for criminal charges. Arizona Republican Paul Gosar shared an anime video depicting him killing Ocasio-Cortez and attacking then-President Joe Biden. Denaturalization is another favorite Republican threat. Republican Andy Ogles of Tennessee said that New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani should be stripped of his citizenship and deported; Ogles later demanded the same for Rep. Delia Ramirez of Illinois. Texas Republican Brandon Gill, Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, and South Carolina Republican Nancy Mace have called for Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, a naturalized US citizen, to be deported.

I feel like we've gotten numb to these threats but it really is something to stack them all next to each other www.theverge.com/policy/79051...

DHS claims around Portland ICE facility protests appear to not reflect reality Although federal officials claimed there were over 100 protesters, KGW on-scene reports and resident interviews showed otherwise.

Although federal officials claimed there were over 100 protesters, KGW on-scene reports and resident interviews showed otherwise. www.kgw.com/article/news...

In November of 2025 the NW Museum of Cartoon Arts plans to open a Pop-Up Museum at 322 NW 8th Ave on the N Park Blocks.

Their long-term goal is to build the first ever brick and mortar Cartoon Arts Museum in Portland.

More details at their gofundme: www.gofundme.com/f/help-launc...

Our city should not be a testing ground for political stunts. Portland is our home.

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Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

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Photo evidence of my commute. Kids in the urban arrow rain cover , big kid singing to high school musical (current obsession), 1 year old dancing along. The protected lane make this possible (thanks @pbotinfo.bsky.social )

No car seat tantrums or drop off lines.

#cargobike #bikesky #urbanarrow

Portland will not bend to Trumpism. We will not be shocked into compliance with his overtly racist, and violent attacks on our most vulnerable neighbors. We must get organized and refuse to allow his authoritarianism to be normalized in our city. Use your voice, be smart and safe, and stand strong.

‘It makes me want to cry’: Four Portland siblings struggle to adjust after ICE detains their parents (video) Four Portland siblings now live with family friends after their parents were taken to a detention facility, leaving them to communicate through glass barriers.

Four Portland siblings now live with family friends after their parents were taken to a detention facility, leaving them to communicate through glass barriers.

Those who are curious about SUPERNATURAL TALES by IRISH WOMEN need to look no further than our ongoing work.

We have repopularised writers such as Dorothy Macardle, L. T. Meade, Rosa Mulholland, Katharine Tynan, B. M. Croker, Clotilde Graves, and others.

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This is a VERY well crafted lawsuit.
1) Plaintiff is natural born.
2) He was detained 2X in a fast-growing part of Alabama, not in a city that Brett Kavanaugh could be easily duped into believing was all migrants.
3) Unwarranted detentions were on private property.
4) He showed Real ID both times.

The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries.

He said this out loud.

YouTube video by Oregon Public Broadcasting Resistance through celebration: the history of Woodburn's Fiesta Mexicana | Oregon Experience

"I think it's important that we always have Fiesta, no matter what happens. Because when other people or the government tries to oppress you, what they want is to dim your light, they want to quiet you, they want you not to speak up. And if you allow that, you are allowing them to diminish you."

A few other lovers of East Portland and I are starting up a local news source called @eastportlandvoice.bsky.social. We are still warming up, so please subscribe, share, and engage! <3 #eastportland #portlandoregon #localnews

Trump’s deployment of troops to Portland is a dangerous escalation of authoritarianism. Now is the time to find our own ways of standing up and fighting back to preserve our democracy. Fellow vets: we need you to muster. And those serving: you can refuse an unlawful order as you may receive it.

I'm really curious where they think Portland's city center is. Mt. Tabor?

I checked Flightradar. It was night training by the Hillsboro Aero Academy. Also a medical flight between Portland and Roseburg. And the Portland Police Cesna was up for a few hours.

you probably need to be of a certain vintage to understand the absolute hilarity of ken starr being in the epstein files

Batman looks out over a balcony and thinks “This computer nonsense is getting out of hand!”

The Brave and the Bold #152 (1979) #batman #dccomics

A flyer that reads "Hollow Press Presents How to Bake a Breadling Reading Book Release Party/Signing with Brad Hock (Bardo Bread) Friday October 3, 5-7 pm Floating World Comics 1223 Lloyd Center, Portland"

I need 500 words on my beaurtiful breadling son

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Whewwww

Billions in Taxpayer Dollars Have Become Virtually Untraceable The Trump administration’s aggressive approach to overhauling the executive branch has obscured how federal dollars are actually being spent — even for the members of Congress.

We’ve been stymied for months trying to trace what’s happening to taxpayer dollars.

No matter how hard we tried, we kept hitting dead ends.

I’m not alone. Even members of Congress are in the dark. Even the nerdiest budget wonks.

So we wrote about why.

Wild Transit Meg Wade writes about how transit makes outdoor adventures possible.

"What if part of rewilding is remembering how to migrate from village to mountaintop, not in isolation, but in community? What if the most wild way to show up in the woods is not in a 4x4 truck, but on a bus?"

Buses in the backcountry: a solution to many problems. Transit's not just a city thing.

Knobs are essential. The biggest problem with most induction stoves on the market is that they use touch controls that don't work when your hands are wet.

I switched to an induction cooktop three years ago and I would never go back to gas.

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