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Countless crimes and assaults have gone unrecognized in the chaos of the summer of Black Lives Matter riots. We can expect those that such as Portland’s progressive District Attorney is forced to acknowledge will be quietly settled with light sentences as the establishment covers its tracks further. Adam Haner was savagely beaten on August 16Continue reading “Security ‘tards”

Jo Ann Hardesty is the first-term Portland city commissioner leading the effort to defund police. In the heady days of early summer the city coughed up 15 million in cuts immediately, with radicals demanding 50 million, to be transferred over to anti-cop activist groups. The elections were a refutation of defunding efforts and the riots,Continue reading “Let’s go, the Easy Way or the Hardesty Way pal…”

What antifa does now that Trump is likely defeated and they’ve served that purpose, in the eyes of their elite enablers, will demonstrate how much autonomy and independence they have. The movement faces a crisis of success and opportunity. They’ve brought amateur and professional journalists under control along with their own livestreamers; raw footage ofContinue reading “Ch-ch-ch-changes…”

Antifa, too, must adapt to the new post-election reality. Demonstrations and energy have waned with the election’s passing and it remains to be seen if passions will revive. Antifa continues small-scale “direct actions” such as besieging the home of a new city councilman to pressure a vote for defunding police and breaking the windows ofContinue reading “Stand Down for Black Lives”

I passed through bland, peaceful fields of unknown crops on my way into Salem; they grew smaller before blending into the outer business district of trucking outfits, processing plants, train tracks; then the tacky outposts of the budding immigrant colony begin to appear like road signs: carnicerias, immigration lawyers, some advocacy organization with a depressingContinue reading “Larp and Ruin”

On Tuesday Portland voters refuted Portland rioters, taking back at the ballot box much of what antifa/BLM gained on the street through a long summer of organization and hard work. The election was bound to be a referendum on the Summer of Georges (Floyd and Soros), and came as the only relief and recourse availableContinue reading “Meet the New Normal, not the same as the Old Normal”

Last night National Guard troops joined local law enforcement to put down a riot in downtown Portland, after governor Kate Brown used the pretext of right wing violence to quietly activate them the day before the election under a “unified command” with Portland police and others: Oregon Gov. Kate Brown on Monday put the NationalContinue reading “Crunch Time”

Don’t mention the riots. Businesses are abandoning downtown Portland: Businesses want out of downtown Portland, as soon as possible. The amount of space available for sublease in downtown jumped by 36% in the spring as tenants sought to vacate offices and storefronts in the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, according to data provided byContinue reading “Siege Notes October 7”

Antifa/BLM continues to nightly mount some form of demonstration or “direct action”, normally now outside of downtown Portland, with organized black bloc groups in the hundreds assailing police precincts, the police union hall and Mayor Wheeler’s divorce-necessitated condo, which he’s since abandoned because of Antifa harrassment (driven from a second home by female braying?). InsurrectionistContinue reading “Trouble in Socialist Paradise”

A perfect storm is forming as rightwing patriots and antifa prepare to square off in Portland this Saturday, where the patriots plan to rally in a North Portland park. It’s not quite a month since Aaron Danielson was executed on the street after the last confrontation, when the patriots’ pro-Trump car caravan invaded downtown. TheContinue reading “Working for the Weekend”