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Independent Journalist in Portland. Cut our teeth doing protest coverage, now navigating legal journalism and public transparency when disabilities allow Check us out at raindrop.works

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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 20/02/2026
Nah, it's not that. SWers are allowed to say 'no'
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 20/02/2026
Well, this is a blast from the past. Wish it had stayed in the past.
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 05/02/2026
DHS’s account of two Venezuelans shot by border patrol falls apart in court: ‘a smear campaign’ | US immigration | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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DHS’s account of two Venezuelans shot by border patrol falls apart in court: ‘a smear campaign’
Immigration officials said agent shot two ‘vicious gang members’ in Portland, but records obtained by the Guardian reveal US prosecutor contradicted claims
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 31/01/2026
Also further pops the 'Patriot Prayer did nothing wrong' claims, even if Gibson's defense did an amazing job of blocking evidence and killing the criminal case against him personally.
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 31/01/2026
Me!
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Juan C Chavez @inafutureage.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Up the punx, we won! $760,007 in total. Press release later. We drink cider now.
A picture of the caption of the verdict form for the case Cider Riot v Kramer. Also being held by a hand is a bottle of Cider Riot 1763z
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 31/01/2026
Geez, I didn't even realize there was a civil case from that
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 28/01/2026
With everything else I have going on right now, I haven't had the energy to deep dive into much with his record, but I'll definitely be doing more research in the coming weeks
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 28/01/2026
He used it a few times, but then again, I would be interested to know if they got permission to record the video of that ...
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 27/01/2026
Portland, and 'radical leftists'. The court had a public defender to assist for arraignment purposes, which he tried to claim didn't speak for him. Defense has already raised concerns about his ability to aid and assist, suggesting potential concerns about mental health. He is held for time being.
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 27/01/2026
Sitting in on Oelker's arraignment, he's gone full conspiracy theorist route, claiming the entire court is unconstitutional, that, 'Trump's coming. Military's coming with him', claims of 'illegal neurotransmitters used against white Christians', apparently by the state of Oregon, the city of
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 27/01/2026
I mean, I still remember when they got owned by a wall of moms and one old navy vet who was just willing to stand in front of them and tell them they were violating their oaths as they broke his arm.
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 27/01/2026
The article later as proof that he was right. He literally makes his own news
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 27/01/2026
Those of us who are laughing are laughing because it is Andy's specifically saying it. He tries to claim he's independent while being an editor for a traditional styled online media outlet that routinely takes his musings, repost them as fact because he said they were, and then let's him reference
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 27/01/2026
Which is it when I have the capability to use ear plugs?
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 27/01/2026
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a cartoon pikachu is standing in front of a wooden wall and says `` this is true '' .
ALT: a cartoon pikachu is standing in front of a wooden wall and says `` this is true '' .
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 27/01/2026
It's a slightly more algorithm friendly way of referencing people with interactions with kitty corn
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 26/01/2026
Well, at least until a certain strong arm salute giver sent my account to the shadow realm for *checks notes* reporting on a PDF file enjoyer that just happened to share similar views as him on other things ...
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 26/01/2026
KATU has provided a livestream of a press conference of PPB working with US Marshals to arrest Oelkers as the individual wanted in connection with last weeks shooting of PPB officers. www.youtube.com/live/Jep2OMU...
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LIVE UPDATE | Suspect caught nearly a week after shooting of 2 Portland Police officers
YouTube video by KATU News
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 26/01/2026
Well, getting word that PPB just had a press conference where they confirmed. Trying to get confirmation of the confirmation www.youtube.com/live/Jep2OMU...
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LIVE UPDATE | Suspect caught nearly a week after shooting of 2 Portland Police officers
YouTube video by KATU News
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 26/01/2026
I -knew- the name was familiar. And damn, the web of all those names we knew from 2020 coming back together again ...
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 26/01/2026
Also, as we were writing, this story was first broken by our long time colleague bsky.app/profile/just...
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 26/01/2026
But if it is him, just ... have to point out he's had a long term history of far right behavior, connections, and the like. So for those who were quick to jump to 'some leftist shot those cops' ... there's a reason I didn't assume the ideology of whoever it was.
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 26/01/2026
tampering with a witness (2005, Salem), as well as felon in possession of firearm charges (2010, Washington County). Obviously, this is a developing story, even if the murder charges he's facing are not actually in connection with the attacks against PPB officers last week.
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 26/01/2026
antifascist business owner), 'Tiny' Tusitala (convicted of ... numerous things, including the Parkrose Neighborhood incident), and others, all sharing similar circles with Oelkers in the same time frame. In the years before these three cases, he'd also faced resisting arrest charges (2004, Salem),
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 26/01/2026
in the 2020 social justice protests as an anti-Antifa activist, including connections to known protest problems such as Chandler Pappas (convicted in the Salem capitol attack), Alan Swinney (convicted of pointing gun at protesters), Dixie Bailey (stalking order upheld after harassing a local
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 26/01/2026
is also facing contempt of court complaints for violating a restraining order against him by Audra Price after claims of numerous instances of domestic violence. The claims for the restraining order were never disputed, and while we normally don't release victims names, Price was a notable voice in
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 26/01/2026
Consolidated Community Credit Union near NE 20th and Sandy, with a bulk in his jacket, where he claimed he had a gun, and demanded cash from a locked drawer. Again, in this case, he failed to appear to a scheduled court date in December 2022, resulting in a warrant for his arrest. In addition, he
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 26/01/2026
research that needs to be done on the case as there appears to have been numerous warrants for failing to appear, the last one resulting in a missed trial date in November 2022. May 2022, he was charged in Multnomah County on bank theft charges, with police reports stating that he entered the
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 26/01/2026
neo-Nazi and antisemitic content online, he later received charges in Salem, Oregon of damaging a window of "Epilogue Kitchen", with an additional bias crime charge based on the perceived race of the owner during the 2020 pandemic. www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/c... There is significant
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Salem police arrest two men in connection to attack on police, restaurant
Salem police arrested two men in downtown Salem Thursday afternoon during a rally to protest the presidential election results.
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 26/01/2026
after appearing with Patriot Prayer, led by Joey Gibson, during with several attacks on antifascist May Day celebrations. Oelkers was not charged from anything that day, and while Gibson did face charges, those were dismissed by a judge at trial several years later. After a broad history of posting
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 26/01/2026
We do not have confirmation yet, but the nature of the charges, combined with photos released by Portland Police, give a strong indication that he was the individual wanted in connection with the shooting of two Portland cops last week. In 2019, Oelkers first made waves in the Portland protest scene
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 26/01/2026
A birdie dropped a note of Eric Oelkers being arrested earlier today in Multnomah County on attempted murder charges per MCSO booking. He already had numerous warrants outstanding in Marion, Multnomah and Washington counties from cases dating to 2021 per court records. apps.mcso.us/PAID/Home/Bo...
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Booking
Click on each court case number to expand the display and see the charges.
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 24/01/2026
Sure looked more like an execution.
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 12/01/2026
Circling back on this now that the woman has been indicted, still trying to process everything, including that a co-defendant should be due for arraignment today that I haven't seen yet (to my knowledge), but can absolutely confirm this had no connection to the alleged video threats.
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 11/01/2026
have more on the shooting that Fox 12 referenced their arrest being related to, but I'm waiting at the moment to get more information before making anything I have public www.kptv.com/2026/01/11/w...
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Woman at ICE protest arrested in connection with unrelated SE Portland shooting, police say
A woman at a protest outside the ICE building on Saturday was arrested on a warrant in connection with an unrelated shooting, according to the Portland Police Bureau.
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 11/01/2026
Crawling out of the woodwork briefly to debunk another Andy tweet. The Bitgood arrest yesterday was related to a sealed indictment earlier this month that appears to have been partially unsealed. I can confirm this arrest has nothing to do with alleged threats against ICE agents. I -do- appear to
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 09/12/2025
www.koin.com/news/oregon/... - KOIN reporting on the case (at the time of posting, KOIN is only mentioning one minor as a witness, where the state named five distinct minors in the charging information)
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 09/12/2025
Uh, yeah ... so a birdie just told me about a felony DV case coming out of Clackamas County, apparently the result of a Thanksgiving weekend strangulation allegedly perpetrated by an active duty PPB officer, in the presence of five different minor witnesses. Arraignment set for Thursday afternoon.
Docket header for case 25CR67998, State v Jimmy Pryce, listing first charge of a Class C Felony: Strangulation Constituting Domestic ViolenceText of second charge:
Assault in the fourth degree constituting domestic violence
Count 2 (ORS 163.160)
Class C Felony
The defendant, on or about November 29, 2026, in Clackamas County, Oregon, did unlawfully and intentionally, knowing and recklessly cause physical injury to <VICTIM NAME REDACTED>, and the assault was committed in the immediate presence of and was witnessed by defendant's minor child, defendant's minor stepchild, the minor child of the above named victim, the minor stepchild of the above named victim, and a minor child residing within the residence of the victim.
The State further alleges this act constitutes a crime of domestic violence.
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 17/10/2025
I just have to appreciate that now we know where he's bringing all the heat from.
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 17/10/2025
You dared to observe protests in 2020 to document police brutality. That was enough for them. Sometimes I miss those green hats.
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 16/10/2025
Opinion on things as sort of a sanity check. Plenty of times that it's come across something that I forgot or was looking right past, but at the same time plenty of times that I've had to correct it
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 16/10/2025
I will say that it has been useful as a tool. But only a tool. Everything that it puts out needs to be verified before actually being used, but I have definitely found it useful for a way to put in a lot of information about something and help me organize it to better use it, or to give me a second
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 16/10/2025
It's not to be trusted
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 16/10/2025
If this is the one that I think it was he got torn apart by the judge cuz it pulled like three different cases that didn't exist and another two or three that didn't say anything close to what they actually said. The lawyer claimed it was the first time he'd ever used GPT and he didn't know that
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 16/10/2025
Not familiar with that case, but at least that sounds like a real case. As opposed to the lawyer who got sanctioned for a judge for letting AI write their entire filing, and it pointed to cases that don't even exist. I think it was this one www.youtube.com/live/T5YaGAC...
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The ChatGPT "Fake Cases" Sanctions Hearing
YouTube video by Lawful Masses with Leonard French
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 14/10/2025
Oh boy ... so much for 'let's focus on it hallucinating'. Not kidding at all, last night I had it insist three times that a legal statute did not exist, while using the legal statute's link that I was giving it as evidence that the statute didn't exist.
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 12/10/2025
That said, vxtiktok.com appears to successfully be able to strip the tracking info from links (just add vx in front of any tiktok link you send), it's also used on services like Discord to fix embed functions.
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 12/10/2025
the person on Discord saw them click the link. And link cleaners won't catch it because they have to open the link and wait to find the ultimate destination to get a cleanable link. That's about as anti-user privacy a move as I think can exist.
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Raindrop Works @raindrop.works · 12/10/2025
Hey, so people who share from Tiktok, there' a massive privacy stealing measure they have. Any links you share from t.tiktok.com or tiktok.com/t/ are actually shortlinks embedded with your user tracking data. Found out when sharing one from Discord to another app caused a friend to get DMd from
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