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Yesterday over Portland the sun looked smaller, like a glowing red pearl in watery clam sauce. The state still has dozens of fires. The wind has calmed and it’s cool here as well, and the mist seems to hold less smoke, judging by its color and the absence (I think) of the faint scent ofContinue reading “Fi-yuh”

Michael Reinoehl went out in a hail of federal lead. This is shortly after giving an exclusive interview to Vice, through an antifa-allied Portland journalist, where he claimed self-defense (notably, acknowledging guilt against the advice of “lots of lawyers”). Vice teased the videotaped interview but have yet to release it complete. Whether Reinoehl’s end causesContinue reading “Siege Notes September 4: Going Down the Reinoehl”

Child gangs still scourge the blocks around the ill-starred 7/11 on Fourth and Taylor. The other night I gingerly navigated around one group of precocious black thugs, early and maybe pre teens, trading threats with a similar group a half a block away. There I thought I saw the same furious hispanic kid who’s alwaysContinue reading “Siege Notes Portland: Justice for Fun and Profit”

“You like Trump?” She sounded surprised. I had tried to give a discreet thumbs up, sitting on my bike at the curb, when she hoisted a Trump flag out the passenger window of a late-model American car pulling up to a red light. She did this with the cheerful defiance of a high school prankster.Continue reading “Siege Notes August 31: Murderlarping”

A twenty year-old man was arrested for assaulting a federal employee yesterday at the US District Court: A Portland man has been charged for forcibly assaulting and intimidating a federal worker near the Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse, U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams announced. On August 24, Dakota Kurtis Means allegedly began following an employeeContinue reading “Mean Mr Means”

I was struck by how small the antifa kids looked crouching behind their wall of shields placed side-by-side and resting on the ground, as they squared off against their right-wing counterparts on Saturday. It’s a defensive posture they take up when police have to clear them from the street. Forcing cops to go heavy it’sContinue reading “Lawlessness and Larping”

Marquis Love has turned himself in to police: Marquise Love, 25, turned himself in on Friday morning, police said. Love is facing a felony charges of 2nd-degree assault, coercion, and a count of riot.   Second degree assault is a Class B felony and appears to carry a maximum of ten years. Federal office buildings areContinue reading “Siege Notes August 21”

If not for two or three independent livestream journalists on the ground* recording it and 4 Chan identifying a suspect, the savage beating of Adam Haner in downtown Portland might have never come to the broader public’s attention. Despite a camera in every hand and no shortage of antifa sympathizers claiming press status (you haveContinue reading “Love on the Lam”

Antifa’s presence downtown has shrunk to dozens hanging about the jail and federal courthouse at night. Last time I checked on the after-midnight crowd the night before last I saw not even a dozen hanging about the old Elk Fountain. In the two blocks north of antifa territory–those park blocks are ghostly and threatening inContinue reading “Siege Notes, August 17: Lost Boys and Larpers”