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Ian Hell Damnskin @innuendostudios.bsky.social · 7h

no kings except His Imperial Majesty Norton I

Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico, in his finery: feathered hat, coat with epaulettes, decorative sword.

argle-bargle @locraen.bsky.social · 2d

I mean, assuming that any of these misanthropes have children, which doesn’t seem super likely.

argle-bargle @locraen.bsky.social · 2d

Shit just got real.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 3d

The fight here with Gorsuch and Kav vs Nelson is whether the "use" of race automatically means "discrimination" on the basis of race.

That's interesting to me, because it's basically the white folks telling on themselves. They cannot see a "use" of race that isn't synonymous with discrimination.

argle-bargle @locraen.bsky.social · 4d

Have I got good news for you, buddy. Most states do this once a year, and it’s coming up on Nov. 2!

But the bad news is that most of us hate it!

argle-bargle @locraen.bsky.social · 4d

Yikes. Guess I’m gonna stop buying their watermelons.

argle-bargle @locraen.bsky.social · 4d

Fascists gonna fash. Fuck this clown. In addition to the criminal charges, I hope this woman sues Harold Smith into financial oblivion.

Court docs: ICE counter-protester punches woman in the face as she tries to leave protest

A Portland man is charged with 4th degree assault after he allegedly punched a woman trying to leave a protest at the Portland ICE facility over the weekend.REA

argle-bargle @locraen.bsky.social · 5d

Damn. This one is a toughie.

argle-bargle @locraen.bsky.social · 5d

Great thread. Was making a sort of similar point about a week ago.

argle-bargle @locraen.bsky.social · 16d

Portland has always been thus. Article mentions the “Little Beirut” moniker, but not how we got it. A partner at my old law firm introduced me to the vomit guy, who was apparently a former client. www.wweek.com/culture/2016...

Sometime during these protests, a member of George H.W. Bush's administration dubbed the city "Little Beirut." When, exactly, is hard to say—every time Bush or Vice President Dan Quayle came to Portland, protests erupted.

The most intense protest—and the one that's the most famous today thanks to being described by Chuck Palahniuk in Fugitives and Refugees—was in September 1990.

Quayle came to Portland for a $2,500-per-person Republican fundraiser at the downtown Hilton on Monday, Sept. 24. While the vice president was raising money and support for Republican representative Denny Smith (not re-elected) inside the hotel, 300 protesters gathered outside. Flags were burned. A man took a shit on a photo of Quayle.

Suit-wearing Reed students swallowed colored food dye and vomited red, white and, unintentionally, green.

This was just one of four protests that greeted Bush and Quayle. The first, in 1989, was "the only [protest] that disrupted [Quayle's] schedule," the vice president's press secretary David Beckwith bragged to The Oregonian.

And yet, the Little Beirut legacy lasts—it's unlikely Trump will dare get any closer than Vancouver.

It may be 25 years in the past, but many of the city's residents have embraced the nickname with T-shirts, bumper stickers, a compilation of Portland punk called Anarchy in Little Beirut and the group B.E.I.R.U.T. (Boisterous Extremists for Insurrection against Republicans and other Unprincipled Thugs)

argle-bargle @locraen.bsky.social · 6d

I live in Portland, and I and all my homies love it. I think it’s just you. Yeah, shit is terrible right now, but you’re gonna lose your mind if all you do is dwell on the awful. Even in shitty times, most of us still need to find joy.

argle-bargle @locraen.bsky.social · 6d

My city is the best city.

It just is.

Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 6d

There were so many naked bike riders @bikeportland.org reports in the thousands of riders.

argle-bargle @locraen.bsky.social · 8d

Every night it’s burned to ashes, and every morning it’s reborn as a plywood taco palace.

argle-bargle @locraen.bsky.social · 8d

I do wish the President would explain why it’s so expensive to live here and why Portland has a huge housing shortage when it’s a crime-ridden warzone. Seems odd that people keep wanting to move here.

argle-bargle @locraen.bsky.social · 8d

I often struggle with puzzles that are like 2/5 difficulty, but puzzles like this that are 5/5 difficulty are a breeze. So, I guess I am that very particular kind of person.

Connections
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argle-bargle @locraen.bsky.social · 8d

Hawthorne Blvd., Portland Oregon. 3:35 PM, Friday, October 10, 2025.

There appear to be…buildings? And stores? And they are not made out of plywood. Weird.

Hawthorne Blvd., Portland Oregon. 3:35 PM, Friday, October 10, 2025.

argle-bargle @locraen.bsky.social · 8d

Was just asking about 13 Songs, yesterday, as it was the anniversary of its release. bsky.app/profile/locr...

argle-bargle @locraen.bsky.social · 9d

The best to ever do it.

13 Songs isn’t even one of my top 3 Fugazi Albums, and it’s still better than 99.99999999% of all albums (punk or otherwise) ever released.

argle-bargle @locraen.bsky.social · 8d

Sadly, the my state’s CCB mandatory mediation program is so bad, the AI arbitration might actually be better.

argle-bargle @locraen.bsky.social · 9d

The best to ever do it.

13 Songs isn’t even one of my top 3 Fugazi Albums, and it’s still better than 99.99999999% of all albums (punk or otherwise) ever released.

argle-bargle @locraen.bsky.social · 9d

My city is the best city, and though I’ll never fully understand why, it makes Republicans so, so angry.

argle-bargle @locraen.bsky.social · 9d

Yeah, “Seeds of Love” is almost certainly their worst album, and yet…it’s still less annoying.

argle-bargle @locraen.bsky.social · 9d

Probably unpopular opinion: Roland Gift’s voice drives me crazy and I can’t help myself voting for Tears for Fears.

For almost 40 years Gift’s vocal stylings have been like nails on a chalkboard for me.

argle-bargle @locraen.bsky.social · 9d

It sure doesn’t. Was only able to listen to a little bit of the hearing, but what I heard fucking sucks.

argle-bargle @locraen.bsky.social · 10d

Lmao. So, let me get this straight. Antifa infiltrated J6, committed violence, and then he…pardoned them? Make it make sense.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d

Q: There's compelling proof that antifa did infiltrate on January 6 dressed up like Trump supporters and incited violence. Is that something you'd like the new J6 committee to look at?

TRUMP: Well I've heard that. Yeah. We will be acting on some of that.

argle-bargle @locraen.bsky.social · 10d

I would certainly bet on it.

You would think law enforcement would be on a high alert for civil rights violations when confronting a man whose surname is Miranda. But then again, it’s ICE, so I guess we shouldn’t be surprised.

argle-bargle @locraen.bsky.social · 11d

That’s just being competitive, and it’s not easy to turn on and off.

Shit, I argue calls in my over-40 men’s league, and those games are way more meaningless than NBA preseason!