Barry Cochran

Oh, lord, they look like stuffed animals. Protesters won't be able to resist tickling them for long.

Portland police, like so many others, are right now learning that cooperating with fascists in the short term (2020) will never buy safety from them in the longer term (2025)

I don't know what those federal troops are trained for, but I doubt it's brunch lines. So any marching through our streets will have to wait until after late-afternoon on Sunday anyway. Those brunch lines have destroyed far more welcome tourists than they are. #WarRavagedPortland

Our public school is diverse, and many people were frightened. We didn't see anything that night, but the struggle's still young. We'll be out here, connecting with and supporting our neighbors, because that's how everyday anti-fascism actually works.

This is my town, and I took this picture last week while we stood watch at the elementary school's Back-to-School night. Our neighborhood group @worthfightingforsj.bsky.social had been asked for support since there had been ICE kidnappings nearby.

(human-written em dash) the local elementary school's community garden, backgrounded by a street mural on the back wall of a local restaurant. The trees of Forest Park peek over the buildings way off on the horizon.

Local elementary school's community garden, backgrounded by a street mural on the back wall of a local restaurant. The trees of Forest Park peek over the buildings way off on the horizon.

Here's my #WarRavagedPortland photo. I could have posted something objectively stunning, as many are doing: the sunrise from my commute yesterday morning, for example. But this one is just simple and clumsy street beauty—

I just showed this post to my spouse because it verified a point. We were deciding which team to support in a WNBA game and I said, "Well, Portland has more in common with Minneapolis."

July 2020 protests, "FED GOONS OUT OF PDX" projected on building, llama in foreground. Photo taken by Barry Cochran.

Sadly relevant again.

That's awesome. We can definately use the Portland version!

I've rarely seen a quiet Portland city councilor in my time in this town, and @candaceavalos.bsky.social thankfully isn't one!

Headline: "Portland city councilor quietly uses AI to help craft her public pronouncements"

This headline is itself a contextually helpful reminder that humans like those presumably writing at the
@oregonian.com are fully capable of writing formulaic exposition that includes counterfactual hallucinations.

Trump's probably not dead, right? But the fact that these rumors go round like we're some kind of North Korea or U.S.S.R. or Vatican tells us something about the nature of the system we're living under now. (Spoiler Alert: It's not a democracy with a healthy media.)

It's amazing what 24 hours will do to the temperatures here in the Pacific Northwest.
@koin6.bsky.social #Portland #ORwx #WAwx

When I look at my bank account and see the "FDIC - Backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Government" banner, I gotta say, that just doesn't hit at all the way it used to.

Union Station, Portland, Oregon

Union Station, Portland, Oregon #TransitTuesday

St. Johns bridge, Portland, Oregon seen through the front window of a bus

16 bus to Union Station #TransitTuesday

Cover of "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy," by Douglas Adams

Post a book you love from the 1970s.

YouTube video by Associated Press Trump asks Liberian president where he learned to speak English 'so beautifully'

Seems like somebody could use some HR-ordered DEI training.

If this year's are to be the last American fireworks, we had a good finale in Portland, Oregon

I have literally never seen a graph like this once in all my years of being an election sicko

18-24 always lags, always, it’s just a natural law of politics

and this is the guy they want to throw out of the party?!

Graphic sowing ranked choice process in Portland OR 2024 mayoral race that resulted in Rene Gonzalez not being elected

Seems timely for a reminder that Portland, Oregon successfully kept an objectionable person out of office through a ranked-choice voting campaign not to rank Rene Gonzalez.

Portland, Oregon #nokings #nokingsday

Reading the Declaration of Independence in front of sign reading "Worth Fighting For St. Johns"

Signs, including one reading MAGA: Mexicans Ain't Going Anywhere

Signs at protest, one reading "Billionaires Are Moral Failures"

"Dragon" (like from Chinese New Year parades)

Scenes from Portland, Oregon #nokings #nokingsday

That's a good point. I always thought the red flag was him complaining about getting friendzoned by the seventh woman, but your point is solid.

One thing sci-fi was right about: people really do wear jumpsuits in the dystopian future.

The "first they came for" poem was never meant to be a freaking checklist.

YouTube video by Led By Donkeys TANK VS TESLA

Mood:

Q: What we gonna do this weekend, Brain?
A: Same thing we do every weekend, Pinky. Try to keep Trump from taking over the world.