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Chris Rifer @chrisrifer.bsky.social · 1d

I’m curious when teams are going to learn that forcing people to take down critical or unwanted signs just amplifies the message. Genuinely wild to see the exact same mistake repeated over and over and over and over.

If they just leave the sign there, Ryan’s probably not writing about it.

Ryan Clarke @ryantclarke.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Hear from the guy who brought a “Fire Barnes” banner into Reser Stadium on Saturday, then had it confiscated.

“There are a growing number of fans who want him out.” #GoBeavs

He brought a ‘Fire Barnes’ banner to an Oregon State game. Then security took it away

The man behind the confiscated banner speaks out.

www.oregonlive.com

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Chris Rifer @chrisrifer.bsky.social · 1d

Ow. #RCTID

Portland Timbers @timbers.com · 1d

Run that back 🔁

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Chris Rifer @chrisrifer.bsky.social · 2d

Ha, that’s probably a better analogy to the show.

I think the Medium Place is so dangerous because it lulls leadership into not making changes. There’s always a semi-plausible spin to put on the season. “We finished 7th! We made the playoffs! With one or two fewer injuries…!” and so forth.

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Chris Rifer @chrisrifer.bsky.social · 2d

The Timbers are pretty firmly in the Bad Place.

They’ve settled into a consistent pattern of mediocrity—each of the last four seasons they’ve finished with 43-47 points—in which they’re not competitive for anything but there’s little pressure on the front office to make meaningful changes. #RCTID

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Chris Rifer @chrisrifer.bsky.social · 5d

It’s actually even worse than he’s saying.

Just this past Wednesday a whole bunch of store owners just put up tents in a park by my office and were selling things there. I bought some flowers for my wife and some green mole enchiladas. It was awful. Delicious and really pleasant, but awful.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Chris Rifer @chrisrifer.bsky.social · 8d

Today’s dispatch from the front lines. Stay safe out there, Comrades.

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Chris Rifer @chrisrifer.bsky.social · 9d

I’m confused. Hasn’t he been pretty good against lefties for a good long while now—basically since his bad start?

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Chris Rifer @chrisrifer.bsky.social · 10d

“Class, remember we talked about Pizzagate last week? This was similar except instead of a deranged incel with an AR-15, the Governor of Texas sent the National Guard to invade Oregon.”

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Chris Rifer @chrisrifer.bsky.social · 10d

Future historians are going to have a hell of a time explaining that time Texas tried to invade Oregon because Texas believed an internet hoax.

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Chris Rifer @chrisrifer.bsky.social · 10d

Trump is either lying repeatedly and shamelessly to justify an attempt to militarily occupy an American city or he’s completely lost touch with reality. It seems like a worthwhile journalistic endeavor to figure out which and inform the American people.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10d

The protests are on one block. Nothing is burning down. His justification for sending in troops is all based on lies.

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Chris Rifer @chrisrifer.bsky.social · 11d

Just cooked to perfection. 👩‍🍳💋 #BAONPDX

Our Game Magazine @ourgamemagazine.bsky.social · 11d

Olivia Moultrie.

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Chris Rifer @chrisrifer.bsky.social · 11d

They Liv’d, it turns out.

This Thorns team isn’t great. They’re plugging holes with duct tape and bubble gum. But they’ve got two bona fide match winners in Moultrie and Coffey, and they’re bought in from top to bottom.

A legit accomplishment to be in the playoff hunt. #BAONPDX

Chris Rifer @chrisrifer.bsky.social · 11d

It’s Liv or die for the Thorns attack right now. Genuinely impressive that they’ve made it this far given the plague of injuries, but I think the camel’s back is officially broken. #BAONPDX

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Chris Rifer @chrisrifer.bsky.social · 11d

A red card challenge from a Sounder and ten sets of shrugged shoulders from Fernandez’s teammates. Absolutely brutal. #RCTID

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Chris Rifer @chrisrifer.bsky.social · 11d

Man. Nobody on the Timbers reacting to that really bad tackle from Rusnak is not good. They’ve quit. #RCTID

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Chris Rifer @chrisrifer.bsky.social · 11d

It’s Liv or die for the Thorns attack right now. Genuinely impressive that they’ve made it this far given the plague of injuries, but I think the camel’s back is officially broken. #BAONPDX

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Chris Rifer @chrisrifer.bsky.social · 11d

Yeah honestly I wasn’t going to say anything because of the omen, but it’s basically the same outfit.

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Chris Rifer @chrisrifer.bsky.social · 11d

Extreme Sonny Corleone vibes from Rob Gale tonight. #BAONPDX

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Chris Rifer @chrisrifer.bsky.social · 11d

Model journalism that exposes the lies the Trump Administration is using as pretext to occupy PDX.

I’ve been so impressed by Portlanders’ response to date. Firm, unequivocal, and characteristically whimsical without giving in to Trump’s desire to manufacture violence. Keep it up and we’ll win this.

Bill Oram @billoram.bsky.social · 11d

So impressed by the work of my colleagues @oregonian.com who teamed up to show what a full day outside of Portland's ICE facility really looks like.

Is this what "lawless mayhem" looks like?
www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

24 hours outside Portland’s ICE facility: Is this what ‘lawless mayhem’ looks like?

President Trump said conditions continue to deteriorate. Here’s what the newsroom saw.

www.oregonlive.com

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Chris Rifer @chrisrifer.bsky.social · 12d

Let me see if I have this right.

During a government shutdown, the administration can find the money to fly multiple helicopters and airplanes over the locus of Trump’s lies about Portland but not to hit “Send” on the already prepared monthly jobs report?

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Chris Rifer @chrisrifer.bsky.social · 14d

The overwhelming majority of people don’t have direct personal knowledge about most things he talks about—including his lies about Portland. And the experience of having that personal knowledge about this particular lie but seeing it nonetheless cast into the world has been eye-opening.

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Chris Rifer @chrisrifer.bsky.social · 14d

Trump’s lies about Portland have really driven home that the information environment is even worse that I thought. Trump’s lies are just that—pure fantasy. They’re not misleading or exaggerated or anything like that. Yet his tweets are still just neutrally reported like “This is a thing he said.”

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Chris Rifer @chrisrifer.bsky.social · 17d

#FrontLineDispatches

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Chris Rifer @chrisrifer.bsky.social · 17d

Surely somebody out there can make a Portland pun based on E.B. Sledge.

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Chris Rifer @chrisrifer.bsky.social · 17d

If you’re an aspiring filmmaker in Portland it’s your civic duty to make a Ken Burns-style documentary about the heroism and sacrifice of Trump’s invasion.

Yorktown
Gettysburg
Normandy
Guadalcanal
Elephant’s Delicatessen

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Chris Rifer @chrisrifer.bsky.social · 18d

Get a beautiful latte? Send a dispatch from the front lines.

Riding bikes with your kids to the park? Dispatch from the front lines.

Find a cozy place to read a book? Dispatch from the front lines.

Mocking them exposes the abuses while depriving them the pretext they want to attack our city.

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