Chad Lykins

#WarRavagedPortland

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

I don't think these are empty threats.

I think Trump's plan in Illinois, and the rest of America, is to create a single-party military dictatorship.

He's openly threatening to arrest governors & mayors and promising to crush any opposition with the US military.

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Demand a Safer Portland! Stop the CEI Hub Time Bomb! Tell City Hall to Choose Public Health and Safety Over Corporate Profits at the CEI Hub Portland faces a historic choice—one that will determine our city’s safety and environmental legacy for generat...

Everything is stupid and dangerous right now, *but* we have an opportunity to make a least one thing less stupid and dangerous.

Please submit a comment to the PDX city planners asking them to prevent any further expansion of liquid fuel storage at the CEI Hub and mandate a fuel drawdown.

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84YO woman who was peacefully protesting on 10/4 when, in her words, "Feds rushed out in a phalanx and pushed us down, sprayed us with chemical and I was hit in the head with a projectile....4 Portland police officers came to her and were very caring." (She wants this shared).

Oregon Republican Party posts fake images in attempt to provoke military invasion of Portland.

Highlights For marginalised street users mode separation is the key to human-scale movement. Streets conducive to walking and cycling have functional, safe and accessible design. Professionals must approach street design, regulation and user behaviour holistically. Combinations of influencing factors persuade people to either use or avoid a street. There are no easy fixes to the public realm that will work for all non-drivers.

"The single most important behaviour, design or regulation for creating streets conducive to walking and cycling, was physical separation between the modes"

We've got a new study out, learning from a broad mixture of street users, planners and designers

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“Two years ago today, Hamas carried out a horrific war crime, killing more than 1,100 Israelis and kidnapping 250 more. I mourn these lives and pray for the safe return of every hostage still held and for every family whose lives were torn apart by these atrocities. In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war: adeath toll that now far exceeds 67,000; with the Israeli military bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into rubble. Every day in Gaza has become a place where grief itself has run out of language. I mourn these lives and pray for the families that have been shattered. Our government has been complicit through it all. This must end. The occupation and apartheid must end. Peace must be pursued through diplomacy, not war crimes, and our government must act to end these atrocities and hold those responsible to account. These last two years have demonstrated the very worst of humanity. We must answer it by modeling the very best: a relentless pursuit of our higher ideals and an unwavering commitment to universal human rights.”

My statement on the two year anniversary of October 7, 2023.

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Opinion | This Is What Autocrats Dread

Monday morning inspiration.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Late tonight, a federal judge issued a sweeping new order prohibiting the president from deploying any National Guard forces—from any state or DC—to Oregon.

The president cannot keep playing whack-a-mole with different states’ Guard units to get around court orders and the rule of law.

In case the first link doesn't work, try this one.

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If Portland's hour of greatest need, a PAC founded by perennial candidate Vadim Mozyrsky is feeding the Trump disinformation machine by running AI-generated slop on local media.

Want to know who the biggest funders are? 👇

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“I never thought federal officers could behave this way. I really didn’t,” she said. “I always thought people must be provoking them or something, that they would never do this unprovoked. Obviously, I was wrong.”

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Yup!

Second of two reposts today on traffic cameras: They generate revenue.

While you can't totally fix by enforcement what you bungle by design, you can at least use the mistakes of prior engineers to fund future improvements. Unless that money goes to your police department.

S.F. speed cameras are generating mountains of tickets and fines. Here are the totals so far August was the first month that San Francisco’s automated speed cameras generated citations with a fine. One camera accounted for a quarter of all the tickets, according to data.

The fact that SF cameras have already caught thousands of people going more than 15 miles over the speed limit is a perfect illustration of why these cameras were needed in the first place. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s...

First of two reposts today on traffic cameras. They keep kids safe!

Citing Porous Methods in Previous Search, City Attorney Releases 400 Additional Pages of Peacock Chat Records In an explanatory memo provided to WW, the city said the missing records were due to a porous search system and the fact that the city had never been asked to produce a Teams chat before.

"But their texts" is the new "but her emails."

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I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?

If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?

Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

Tracing the roots of anti-university rhetoric (opinion) Bradford Vivian writes that growing anti-university sentiment can be traced to pro-authoritarian movements abroad.

This is such a good article on how the undermining of universities is part of an anti-democratic movement:

“Anti-university rhetoric is the language of an international pro-authoritarian movement opposed to centers of learning that model liberal-democratic values”

Live from "war ravaged" Portland

Stay strong, Ray. It looks like food supplies are running short as people appear to be bargaining for heirloom vegetables.

Black lab in front of window with picture of black lab.

Took my pup to the vet yesterday just a few blocks from the ICE facility in #WarRavagedPortland.

Secret photo shows that Portland has already established an autonomous free zone! They're going to call it the Portland Saturday Market!
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From the Battle of the Japanese Garden. Unspeakable carnage.
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Oh my goodness, giant puppets and happy music in the park downtown in Portland. Save us from all of this enjoyment… #warravagedportland