[Maru]

Antifa planning an attack tonight they said, whatever that means.. could mean against the building or the other protesters...

Also their local NBC just went live (no feed yet), so looks like Kristi Noem is popping by the facility...

Youtube video

Edit: lol They closed the road finally and all the Youtuber people are bitching they can't get close enough...

Edit2:

[Maru]

Portland police give public safety update after meeting with Kristi Noem
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/...001512259.html

...

When asked what the tone of the meeting with Noem was like, Day said there were clearly some differences of opinion between her and local law enforcement. However, they remained professional and discussed different ways of reducing conflict and dissonance near the Portland ICE facility for the sake of public safety.

Day said police have the surrounding streets cordoned off near the ICE facility, which he said is standard practice for visiting dignitaries. However, he could not say how long the area would remain sectioned off.

Chief Day acknowledged there had been crimes taking place, including property destruction and assaults, outside the ICE facility during protests, particularly during the month of June. Day said police responded by making a number of arrests, nearly 40 since June, and continue to remain actively engaged. However, he said the unrest and crime had declined significantly in the past few months. Only in the past 10 days has the “energy level” gone up, once again, during protests, Day said.

...

[Maru]

They had one person last night flee from an assault on one of the right-leaning agitators. He fled towards the river, but they supposedly caught him at some point.

Also, I'd saw on a stream briefly a truck had run into a fire hydrant and was releasing water into the sky. Not 100% sure it was Portland as it might've been Chicago. It looked like a proper waterfall.

They also had a drowning:

I'm glad they're cracking down on this as they should on all of this, but there's a growing movement of people making money grifting off the backs of "protests" like this also... anyone can be a journalist in 2025.

[Maru]

So much self-promotion

[Maru]

Youtube video

Live w Trump...

[Maru]

Portland PD finally removing the Antifa camp so neighbors can get some peace and quiet, at least for a little while... this screaming goes on all night long, btw...

Area walk-through:

Youtube video

[emseateng2014]

lol lol those reporters from the indies are most likely from the right wing media

lol its like anybody from the indies news can be at the white house heck maybe even the peeps on this big brother forums who posts the news coverage of the real life stuff can even be at the white house

Originally Posted by Maru

So much self-promotion

[Maru]

Originally Posted by emseateng2014

lol lol those reporters from the indies are most likely from the right wing media

lol its like anybody from the indies news can be at the white house heck maybe even the peeps on this big brother forums who posts the news coverage of the real life stuff can even be at the white house

There's nothing wrong with being independent media and they exist across the spectrum. More that it's very easy to just pick up a camera and make all kinds of claims to grift. But thankfully there are enough people being honest at these protests that it doesn't seem to be a problem. Well, except the grifting... there's dysfunctionality amongst this crowd eeking out an existence by aggravating crowds and the people filming it are making a small profit by televising...

Though I guess it's not terribly different than what happens in traditional media.

[emseateng2014]

crazy thought that the trumpers in office has invited podcasters and indie media to the white house

whats next trumpers in office also invites high school reporters

Originally Posted by Maru

There's nothing wrong with being independent media and they exist across the spectrum. More that it's very easy to just pick up a camera and make all kinds of claims to grift. But thankfully there are enough people being honest at these protests that it doesn't seem to be a problem. Well, except the grifting... there's dysfunctionality amongst this crowd eeking out an existence by aggravating crowds and the people filming it are making a small profit by televising...

Though I guess it's not terribly different than what happens in traditional media.

[Maru]

As mentioned before, Antifa established a new camp further down the road from ICE in Portland and have come back with 4-5x the costumes now... they're trying to appear more harmless so maybe that produces bad imagery if the feds do come through...



Antifa are still walking up to people, antagonizing and threatening to harm them, Charlie Kirk them, etc. There's other non-Antifa people there also who are agitators.

They totaled a Charlie Kirk supporter's ("Tommy") 's car supposedly and got his work address, so now he claims he had to quit his job to "do what was right". I think he just wants to do the grift full time, personally.

This was the same guy that had been arrested walking around the street on a megaphone. He has a grift where he walks around on his camera while doing Lives and personally insulting/agitating them for reactions. Then actively bragging about how their reactions were making him "so much money" because his chat loved it. If they get in his space, he's threatened to "flatten them". So it's not like this is someone who goes for simply 1st Amendment reasons. He knocked out an Antifa member less than a week ago who he claimed was trying to rob him, which they had been doing to other protesters. They've gone back and forth between them assaulting him and issuing death threats. Most of this is caught on video, but it's not like he's there to discourage it either....

Allowing this to just fester and continue attracts criminality, including grifter types, who have their own history. So why they don't just shut it down to bring peace back to the neighborhood when violence and disorder is daily occurrence, I really don't understand...

[Maru]

Local News coverage about the cartoons and "Tommy" (Allen in the news story), the guy I was talking about before:

Youtube video

I was watching a video where it was said by someone who regularly films with him that he didn't read his own court paperwork (common) about needing to stay a certain distance away from the ICE building. He was warned before his arrest by police that he wasn't allowed within 200 ft despite having the right to arrest him. He kept up anyway so they picked him up... judge let him go the next day with the same warning.

[emseateng2014]

its like 2020 again during the pandemic via blm protests

[Maru]

The soft propaganda with the costumes is working. (They are fun to watch, though). Media have been eating it up and using it to re-frame Antifa as a disorganized non-entity that is somehow able to manage a highly organized costume festival...

Youtube video

Have seen the froggy costumes in particular circulating on social media and seeing memes and comments along the lines of... "How could anyone see such childishness as a serious terror threat!?"... it's really effective.

Meanwhile, there's now proof Antifa have been moving supplies in and out of the warehouse directly next to the Ice Center. Not sure if it's a storage unit or of it's part of that company and they broke in... wouldn't be unusual, they usually go for abandoned areas and some were saying the waterfront business in particular had to vacate because they couldn't operate with everything else going on.

There's not many streams going right now and I'm really not interested in following this twit screaming at Antifa members all night long. Most of the people with live feeds are not very good at documenting...

I saw the Ghostbusters Pillsbury Doughboy marching around when I checked a stream a bit ago. And yes, I bet they have had no shortage of costumes with it being this close to Halloween and all...

[Maru]

Chicken suit is the one that Kristi Noem was yelling at from the Ice roof...

Kristi Noem praised for ‘staring down’ Antifa. It was a dozen reporters and a guy in a chicken suit
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b2841736.html

[Maru]

Oh boy.

Appeals court allows Trump administration to deploy National Guard in Portland
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/20/us/tr...gal-battle-hnk

A Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling Monday will allow the Trump administration to deploy National Guard troops in Portland, saying it is likely to succeed on its appeal of an order that blocked the deployment.

The appellate court ruling — an important legal victory in a showdown over presidential power that’s happening on multiple fronts — grants the administration’s motion to stay the lower court’s order blocking the deployment while the appeal plays out.

The three-judge panel weighed in after US District Judge Karin Immergut last week ruled to extend her temporary restraining order barring the deployment of federal troops to Portland.

Even if Trump exaggerates the severity of Portland’s protests on social media, “this does not change that other facts provide a colorable basis to support the statutory requirements,” the majority said in the ruling.

[emseateng2014]

Originally Posted by Maru

Oh boy.

Appeals court allows Trump administration to deploy National Guard in Portland
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/20/us/tr...gal-battle-hnk

and the meltdowns from the left will begin while the celebrations from the right starts

[Maru]

lol

Seattle just made this lady their mayor

Katie Wilson — a 43-year-old socialist who still lives off parents’ money — wins Seattle mayoral race
https://nypost.com/2025/11/13/us-new...-mayoral-race/

Self-proclaimed socialist Katie Wilson — who is still financially supported by her New York parents at 43 years old — will be the next mayor of Seattle, overseeing a budget close to $9 billion.

Wilson, whose campaign was likened to that of fellow Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani in New York City, secured the lead over incumbent Mayor Bruce Harrell on Wednesday.

Unlike the New York City race, however, the Seattle election went down to the wire, with Wilson squeezing just enough votes to win and avoid an automatic recount.

“This campaign was driven by a deep belief that we need to expand the table to include everyone in the decisions that impact their lives,” Wilson said in a victory statement. “That is what we will be working to do every day as we set up this new administration.”

Wilson secured her win by advocating for progressive proposals, including introducing city-run grocery stores and taxing the rich. She also vowed to “Trump-proof” the city.

“Yes, I am a socialist,” Wilson said earlier this year.

“I’m not out here waving a socialist flag, because I’m not a super ideological person. I’m also not sure that label will help me in the general election. But yes, I’m fine with being called a socialist,” she added.

The 43-year-old, who moved to Seattle in her 20s with her now-husband, admitted last month that she relies on her parents, both New York professors, to help with childcare expenses.

The money goes toward day care for Wilson’s 2-year-old, which costs $2,200 per month, she told KUOW.

Wilson also dropped out of college just six weeks before graduation — but debt-free, thanks to her generous parents, the outlet said.

The money goes toward day care for Wilson’s 2-year-old, which costs $2,200 per month, she told KUOW.

Wilson also dropped out of college just six weeks before graduation — but debt-free, thanks to her generous parents, the outlet said.

She attended the elite University of Oxford in England.

She will now lead the major US city, overseeing 41 departments and a budget of nearly $9 billion.