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A tired and confused George W Bush gave a speech condemning Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in which he blundered into what’s been described as an “epic Freudian slip” by describing the “wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq, I mean of Ukraine”. This was met with laughter as he literally shrugged off the mistakeContinue reading “Ask Not for Whom the Shill Trolls”

Moral revulsion is untenable in an amoral time. So please excuse me for forgoing that traditional genuflection when considering the case of the Buffalo shooter and his manifesto. The possibility of any given attack being a “false flag” is vanishingly small–diminishing to nothing when a live suspect is captured. But the manifesto reads as ifContinue reading “The Manifesto”

Portland is rolling out its long-planned “Safe Rest Villages” scheme to house the homeless in pods, led by city councilman Dan Ryan. Today homeless are moving into a “queer affinity” SRV in the city’s southwest that’s already lost the support of its “housed neighbors” who’ve said their concerns about conditions around the park haven’t beenContinue reading “PDX Roundup Monday May 16”

A Rolex ad towers over the large multi-retail building that stretches over a city block downtown. It’s been vacant and fenced off for years, periodically swept by graffiti and painted over. “Yo you need something?” One of a pair of homeless men lying in an alcove says as I pass. “You need something?” At firstContinue reading “PDX Diary May 11: Fourth and Washington”

A man was captured on camera vandalizing a mosque and a synagogue in Portland last week as part of a string of similar attacks. On Saturday he was arrested when he turned up at a local news station and demanded to talk to a reporter. Mike Bivins had been working as a freelance videographer documentingContinue reading “PDX Dispatch May 9: Toke and Mirrors”

Warning: gendered abuse ahead. Joe Biden’s new Ministry of Information Czarina has the look of the crazed, of course, because most of us look at least a little like what we are, but she also has somewhat masculine features. That look of oblivious self-satisfaction doesn’t help soften things either. I was trying to place whatContinue reading “Mannish Girl”

Shit Show A tiny political rally for Oregon gubernatorial candidate Stan Pulliam, Republican and police supporter, was attacked by antifa with small explosives and water balloons allegedly filled with feces. BREAKING: Antifa black bloc attacks Republican volunteers in Oregon, explosion goes off as the militants fan out waving flags pic.twitter.com/9koZhNfQCf — Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec)Continue reading “PDX Dispatch March 2”

From Portland’s ABC affiliate KATU: PORTLAND, Ore. — Just past the “Entering Oregon” sign on the Interstate 5 Bridge over the Columbia River is one of the first things people see, and it is not a very pleasant welcome to Oregon. At the base of the Interstate Bridge on Hayden Island are two old military vesselsContinue reading “PDX Dispatch April 27: Pirates of Portland”

Oregon’s first-in-the-nation 1987 “sanctuary” law shielding illegal immigrants from federal immigration law, the Sanctuary Promise Act, was expanded in 2021 allowing anyone to sue public officials for reporting immigration violations to federal authorities, providing “an option to hold accountable individuals and entities that violate this policy”. That should not be read to include, just yet,Continue reading “PDX Dispatch April 25: Snitches Get…Snitches”