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Seth Caddy 🎃👻 @gingercaddy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Never forget that Christine Drazan wanted Donald Trump to use military force against Oregonians.

Mara Gross @maragpdx.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Thank you to @westernstatescenter.org and all 240 members of the Unity Pact for standing with @splcenter.org against politically motivated prosecutions.

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 21/02/2026

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

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Mara Gross @maragpdx.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

It’s snowing up by the Zoo in Washington Park. So pretty.

Snowflakes falling in front of a pine tree. World Forestry Center Discovery Museum

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Blake PDX @pdxblake.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Teargas and flash bangs used against the march in SW Portland today with many kids in attendance, about 1/4 miles from the start. #FuckICE #ChingaLaMigra #ICEoutofPortland

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

The Gravamen of the Disclosure

4. The gravamen of the disclosure is as follows:
a. By memorandum dated May 12, 2025 (“the May 12 Memo”), Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons authorizes ICE agents to forcibly enter into certain people’s homes without a judicial warrant, consent, or an emergency.

b. Specifically, in the May 12 Memo, the Acting ICE Director authorized ICE Agents to rely on Form I-205 (which is not a judicial warrant) to enter the residence of an alien subject to a final order of deportation, without consent, including by “a necessary and reasonable amount of force.”2c. While addressed to “All ICE Personnel,” in practice the May 12 Memo has not been formally distributed to all personnel. Instead, the May 12 Memo has been provided to select DHS officials who are then directed to verbally brief the new policy for action. Those supervisors then show the Memo to some employees, like our clients, and direct them to read the Memo and return it to the supervisor.

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Mara Gross @maragpdx.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I’m scheduling a four week car rental and have often used Enterprise. Not this time. #AbolishICE

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Jessica Vega Pederson @jvegapederson.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Today the MultCo board unanimously voted to extend an emergency declaration in response to the harmful impact of ICE activity in our neighborhoods. We are united in standing with our immigrant and refugee communities. A summary of our response & available resources can be found at multco.us/federal

multco.us

Federal Impacts

Resources for the community and information on Multnomah County's response to shifting federal policies on immigration enforcement and safety net programming.

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Dr Yannick Veilleux-Lepage @yveilleuxlepage.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

So when authorities say “she tried to run over an officer,” that is not a neutral description. It is a claim of intent that can be used to justify lethal force after the fact. When the state kills first and invents the threat afterward, it is not policing, it is death squad behavior. /end

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Mara Gross @maragpdx.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Where are my “extreme political activists and social media warriors” at? Also DSA members, since the Portland Metro Chamber apparently thinks it’s a slur. This was sent by Jon Isaacs, VP of Public Affairs.

“community stands behind you. It has long been an axiom of Portland politics that even the perception of working with business is broadly opposed by Portlanders. This message is delivered daily by Portland's deep well of extreme political activists and social media warriors. After seven years at the Chamber,
I can confidently say that, in fact, the exact opposite is true.
At City Hall last month, Democratic Socialist Councilor Angelita Morillo…”

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

AUTHORS!! Remember that case where a bunch of authors sued AI for stealing their work? And WON? Well, the settlement money has been announced. Each WORK that got thefted will be compensated $3k (split 50/50 bw publisher + author). So authors will be compensated $1500 per WORK stolen. More here:

anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

Homepage | Bartz v Anthropic Settlement Site

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 01/11/2025

A horrific mass murder is unfolding in Sudan, where no one can see it. The RSF are murdering civilians in El Fasher, having finally defeated the Sudanese army forces holding out in the city. The BBC has managed to speak to some who escaped www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7fC...

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Sudanese survivors of el-Fasher siege tell the BBC about RSF brutality | BBC News

YouTube video by BBC News

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Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield @agdanrayfield.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Meanwhile, we will be filing a brief in the Ninth Circuit later today urging the court to hold an en banc hearing on the motion to stay our first TRO. This means that, for now, National Guard troops still cannot be deployed in Oregon.

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Mara Gross @maragpdx.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

The gathering crowd in #Portland. So many people, so many costumes, so much good energy #NoKings

Thousands of people, many with signs, surrounded by trees in early fall colors. At Tom McCall Waterfront Park, taken from the Morrison Brisge.

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Julia Shumway @jmshumway.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Immergut's second order, given from the bench, will prohibit the relocation or deployment of any federalized national guard to Oregon.

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Portland District 2 Neighbors Indivisible❌👑 @indivisiblepdx.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

We will be gathering at our waterfront tomorrow to be present with each other, care for each other, and remind those that seek to occupy us - we out number you.

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Mara Gross @maragpdx.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

In addition to hearing the sound of helicopters, I’m smelling something acrid in the air, like burning rubber or something. anyone have info? NE Portland, a few miles from downtown and ICE hq.

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Mara Gross @maragpdx.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Portland is terrifying. The tiny thorns as I cut back my raspberry bushes today … you don’t want to even know.

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iain @maccoinnich.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

If you’re in Portland and pissed off about the cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel, here’s a good guide as to what you can do. Our local Sinclair station is KATU, and the post includes a list of last night’s advertisers. www.bojack2.com/2025/09/acti...

bojack2.com

Acting locally about Kimmel

I'm interrupting my current blog hiatus (which has been quite positive; I'll write about it soon) for what I consider a public service. Any...

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 30/06/2025

The White House has ordered the US Dept. of Justice to prioritize denaturalization: voiding the citizenship of US citizens. Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important". Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary. substack.com/redirect/169...

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Mara Gross @maragpdx.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

It appears that ICE is arresting US citizens in Portland, Oregon. This parent doesn’t know where her kid was taken. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8rmkp9k/

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#portland #iceprotest #ICE #cowards

TikTok video by susie5clops

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Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com · 15/06/2025

Following today's massive "No Kings" march in Portland, federal agents have begun firing tear gas and less-lethal munitions at a crowd of roughly 500 people at the ICE facility on Macadam Avenue. Stay tuned to the Mercury for the latest.

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Following Massive Daytime Downtown "No Kings" March, Protesters Gassed at ICE Facility

An estimated ten thousand Portlanders joined the national "No Kings" march today in downtown Portland—for a look at what transpired, check out the Mercury's Bluesky account. As the march came to an en...

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Amy Siskind @amysiskind.com · 06/06/2025

Three small victories (we'll take it!) on the immigration front: * Trump regime returned a Guatemalan man, known as O.C.G., who was wrongly deported to Mexico, marking the first instance of the regime following a court order.

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Breach Collective @breachcollectiv.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Now more than ever, we need our leaders to fight for climate justice, not walk away from it. So why is #MultCo considering cuts to climate and sustainability programs? Join us this Thursday for a #HandsOffClimateJustice rally! 🗓️ Thurs. 5/29 2pm 📍501 SE Hawthorne Blvd Wear red❗ #ClimateJusticeNow

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Mayor Melanie Kebler @melaniekebler.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Release Mayor Baraka immediately, along with everyone else who has been illegally arrested by ICE. www.usmayors.org/2025/05/09/s...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Masked agents of the state are now comfortable arresting citizens, including election officials, who challenge their operations

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Steph Routh (she/they) @stephrouth.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I think the special sauce of the Planning Commission is to be a public forum of ideas. It turns out our city and region is home to a lot of phenomenal folks who are asking important questions and suggesting thoughtful solutions. Here have been some that have stuck with me:

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BikePortland @bikeportland.org · 02/05/2025

Signals would become stop signs. Crosswalks would waste away. No one would respond to your neighborhood street safety requests. Cars would take over plazas. City budget heating up! Time to focus and learn what's up.

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PBOT eyes elimination of key programs and services as they await budget fate

Have we hit rock bottom? We can only hope so.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

boosting because good and we need more good

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Mara Gross @maragpdx.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

You can stop asking where the mass opposition is. It’s everywhere.

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 05/04/2025

Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING #handsoff

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

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PFLAG National @pflag.org · 31/03/2025

Trans & nonbinary folks have ALWAYS existed, and ALWAYS will. This Trans Day of Visibility, we’re sending a loud reminder to all of our trans and nonbinary loved ones: we are here, we love you, and we are fighting for you and your right to be your authentic, incredible selves. 🏳️‍⚧️ Visit pflag.org/TDOV

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Mara Gross @maragpdx.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

"A commitment to the rule of law is nonpartisan. All government officials, regardless of their party or ideology, must obey the Constitution and laws. Indeed, the very core of the rule of law is that no one is above the law." Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean at UC Berkeley Law

Full page of text, plus photo of law dean and quote. Here's as much as alt text will let me post: "Upholding the Rule of Law

As a law school, we have a special responsibility for the rule of law in our society and in the world. A commitment to the rule of law is nonpartisan. All government officials, regardless of their party or ideology, must obey the Constitution and laws. Indeed, the very core of the rule of law is that no one is above the law. Now, more than ever, UC Berkeley Law must be a force for upholding the rule of law and for using law to make people's lives better.

I have spent a great deal of time thinking about how as a law school we can respond to events that are occurring in Washington that are clearly in violation of the law: firing agency heads, inspectors general, and civil ser- vice employees in violation of federal statutes; closing agencies created by federal statutes; refusing to spend money appropriated by federal law; threatening to revoke visas for those who express particular views; and planning to move United States prisoners and detainees to El Salvador.

Part of our response is to hold a series of programs, in conjunction with our new Edley Center on Law & Democracy, to educate our students and our community. One of those events took place a week after the November election as to what the Trump administration will mean for the law, with six professors speaking to a packed lecture hall.

This semester, we are having a series of programs focused on specific issues: the environment, immigration, federal workers, reproductive justice, DEi, and others. We'll be hiring an executive director and have begun raising
funds for the center, which I see as a core part of our efforts gqing forward. Also, it is very important to provide information to those in our community
who might be affected by new policies. For example, we have provided detailed information about what students and their families can do in response to actions of the Immigrations…

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Mara Gross @maragpdx.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

What keeps Jews safe in the US are First Amendment freedoms - freedom of speech, religious freedom - not attacking universities for protecting those rights, and not deporting a green card holder for exercising them. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP82S6Hed/

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Words Donald Trump doesn't like are still protected by the First Amendment. #CrookedMedia #PodSaveAmerica #MahmoudKhalil

TikTok video by Crookedmedia

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Mara Gross @maragpdx.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Cheers to Georgetown Law for standing up to the AG’s threats. Academic freedom and the First Amendment are good things.

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Mara Gross @maragpdx.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

The overtime pay for the top earners in the Portland Police department is jaw dropping.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

It is not Zelensky and Ukraine that should be thanking the West. It is the West that should be thanking Zelensky and Ukraine.

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Mara Gross @maragpdx.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Thank you, Paul K. Martin. You shined a light on the immediate impact of freezing USAID funds, knowing you would get fired for it.

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Jamie Carter @jctheresistance.demcast.com · 12/02/2025

In case this won't be reported, Senate Dems are holding the floor for 30 hours to try to stall the RFK Vote! Here's the press release from Wyden's office.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.

ABA
It has been three weeks since Inauguration Day.
Most Americans recognize that newly elected leaders bring change. That is expected. But most Americans also expect that changes will take place in accordance with the rule of law and in an orderly manner that respects the lives of affected individuals and the work they have been asked to perform.
Instead, we see wide-scale affronts to the rule of law itself, such as attacks on constitutionally protected birthright citizenship, the dismantling of USAID and the attempts to criminalize those who support lawful programs to eliminate bias and enhance diversity.
We have seen attempts at wholesale dismantling of departments and entities created by Congress without seeking the required congressional approval to change the law. There are efforts to dismiss employees with little regard for the law and protections they merit, and social media announcements that disparage and appear to be motivated by a desire to inflame without any stated factual basis. This is chaotic. It may appeal to a few.
But it is wrong. And most Americans recognize it is wrong.
It is also contrary to the rule of law.
The American Bar Association supports the rule of law. That means holding governments, including our own, accountable under law. We stand for a legal process that is orderly and fair.
We have consistently urged the administrations of both parties to adhere to the rule of law. We stand in that familiar place again today. And we do not stand alone. Our courts stand for the rule of law as well.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Courts *ordered* the Trump admin to stop its spending freeze Yet ProPublica found place after place where $ is still frozen -hot meals for elderly and disabled -groceries for those in need -maternal & child health services -a clinic that serves the poor www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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The Courts Blocked Trump’s Federal Funding Freeze. Agencies Are Withholding Money Anyway.

Agencies continue to suspend funding, despite multiple court orders blocking the federal freeze. Experts say the Trump administration’s actions set the stage for challenges to Congress’ authority — an...

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