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Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com · 10h

POV: You’re at the Emergency World Naked Bike Ride in Portland, OR.

Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 14h

ERO/ICE agents crossed the street into the crowd to grab this protester. Agents on the roof shot pepper balls at the crowd.

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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 14h

Portland Police are using a sound car the advise the crowd against blocking S Moody Ave. They’re warning about using “crowd control munitions.”

The road is clear right now—PPB bike police did a lot of crowd control when the ride arrived, but have since left the intersection.

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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 14h

ICE agents in South Portland cleared the facility driveway for no discernible reason. Agents on the roof shot pepper balls at protesters.

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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 15h

Portland’s Emergency World Naked Bike Ride arrives at ICE

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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 16h

A few people speak before the protest commences. The crowd is so large, it’s difficult to hear everything. This one is clear: When Portland is under attack, what do we do? Stand up; fight back!

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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 16h

Portland Emergency World Naked Bike Ride turnout is huge, easily hundreds. Folks are amped that the Unipiper is here.

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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 16h

It stopped, the sun broke through the clouds, and then the Unipiper arrived. It’s been wild (good).

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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 16h

Both sunlight and the unipiper have arrived at the Emergency World Naked Bike Ride.

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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 16h

Emergency World Naked Bike Ride in Portland, OR—getting ready to go.

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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 18h

I love being the person with an upside down broom clearing the flooded corner of my street.

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iain @maccoinnich.bsky.social · 2d

Now that I know baseball can last five hours, I am against the MLB2PDX effort

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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah "there you go, you big baby" vibes.

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Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com · 2d

World Naked Bike Ride organizers and other local groups are getting on bikes in the buff to protest the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in South Portland. The demonstration is planned for Sunday Oct 12 at 2:30 pm; now we know the starting spot is Oregon Convention Center Plaza.

Portland's Emergency World Naked Bike Ride Organizers Confirm Time and Location

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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 3d

TODAY IN RESTORATIVE JUSTICE

Zane @zane.bsky.social · 3d

‘Dew’ process lets Portland suspect resolve case with one Baja Blast soda

The judge approved the “smoking hot agreement” in the case of a hot-wired car.

www.oregonlive.com

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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 3d

Still hoping anyone can corroborate the claim that they arrested the girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa 🙏

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 3d

President Donald Trump held a roundtable on Wednesday, which featured prominent administration officials and independent journalists, billed as a “Roundtable on antifa.”

Here are seven claims made during the roundtable event, and a fact check of those claims.

Trump’s antifa roundtable made some wild claims about Portland. Here’s the truth about 7 of them

Portland was mentioned repeatedly during the roundtable event.

www.oregonlive.com

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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 3d

For fans of noir stories, femme fatales, and sharply dressed jazz men, Portland Playhouse's 'Paradise Blue' does all that and captures fleeting moments before a highway paved over a place people called home.

Theater Review: Portland Playhouse Tells a Story of Community Displacement as Noir

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Ned Lannamann @nedl.bsky.social · 3d

For our @vinylcut.net newsletter, @robertham.bsky.social and I went long on this week's #vinyl reissues. There's Dr. Dre, Tom Petty, Patti Smith, a new all-analog jazz series from Verve, and lots more. Read and subscribe!

New vinyl re-releases: October 10, 2025

There are so many records to tell you about right now. What with Record Store Day’s Black Friday around the corner, the near-assaultive Rhino ROCKtober campaign, and the regular barrage of reissues th...

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Mike Baker @mikebaker.bsky.social · 4d

I'm seeing a lot of people sharing an image of troops eating Voodoo Doughnuts in Portland. But it appears to be an AI or Photoshop that's based on an image published in years past.

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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 5d

I can’t believe Courtney went back to South Portland to bring us this literal unicorn chaser

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 5d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 5d

Sorry, it is pretty nasty over there. He continued “we all know that there’s a lot of support for Secretary Noem in Oregon, as we all have seen and we all have showed.” I’m perhaps too heavy into cutting stuff that seems long winded and repetitive. But I don’t want to leave people wondering.

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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 5d

If someone changed that “Long live the wildcards, misfits, and dabblers” mural to “long live the person standing by KATU’s news camera blasting ‘Yakety Sax’ while they filmed Kristi Noem” I would find it appropriate.

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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 5d

You can go watch the rest on his account. It's on X, just search his name.

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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 5d

I'm out of South Portland.

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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 5d

Right-wing influencer David Medina was picked by DHS to cover Secretary Noem’s Portland visit. He shows his audience “like maybe five or ten protesters,” seemingly supporting what Oregon leaders have been saying about the ICE protests: unremarkable unless ICE officers use riot control agents.

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