Laura Jedeed (Misanthrophile)

"Move at 8" has been a lie each and every time, and also tonight. My money's on 9:00, as in the days of yore More people trickling in. It's a small group tonight

New (to me) chant: "I don't wanna say another motherfucking name!"

I regret to inform you that a terrible crime has taken place This water bottle, just thrown, splattered on the pavement at least 100 feet from any police vehicle, never mind cop Won't someone put an end to this violence?

We got WAP playing again: quickly becoming a protest staple The chorus has been altered to "Weak-Ass Police" Twerking had occurred

New (to me) chant: No good cops in a racist system! No bad protesters in a revolution!

The police are tweeting but not announcing anything directly to the protesters The police also can't figure out how to do a tweet threadhttps://twitter.com/PortlandPolice/status/1308263835199971330?s=19 …

A group of bloc'd up protesters run out from the MSCO property, liberated traffic cones in hand Immediately, DJ LRAD rings out. While he respects our right to protest we'd better not come on their property or else "OC Munitions" Tear gas is banned for PPB. OC is not

OC munitions are pepper balls and it is my well-researched objective journalistic opinion that they suck ass

"Sir," DJRAD blares at Richard, who is standing 10 feet inside the property with both middle fingers up, "We know your name. Please move off the property" He does, at his leisure

An activist is upset at press for NOT recording protesters. This is a new one on me Respectfully, I'm gonna continue to err on the side of not recording protesters without permission

The concert continues. Tough to live-tweet a concert, so if you wanna see it I recommend @Cascadianphotog/@PhrenologyPhun and @R3volutionDaddy

Sorry for the extended absence! The protest is still going. The music portion has ended "You look like you wear high top crocs!" @MildlyAutistic shouts at the cops This is an extremely mellow night Famous last words, I know. Still, feels like things are gonna stay chill

I've been chatting with some activists about where things go from here Gonna discuss/analyze for a second while nothing's happening The Portland protests have ebbed and flowed. We're in a bit of an ebb right now

The MO right before the fires was: go out, face down the police, drain their resources. But they were doing those mass arrests and that drains the protesters' resources. Fiscal and emotional. Even with the DA throwing out charges, it takes a human toll

Protests have mellowed post-forest-fire. ICE on Friday was a shit-show obviously but the next three days have been incredibly chill. Dance parties, marches, not much direct action Less casualties. But is it bothering anyone? Is it putting pressure on the city?

Some people think protests of federal buildings is the way. Feds have a hair trigger, they'll come out over nothing and show the whole world they're fundamentally opposed to free speech Big headlines. Big attention. Big pressure

But some of those headlines could backfire. An excuse for Trump to impose martial law pre-election seems real dangerous to me. For sure it'll role up his base and scare law-and-order centrists. Is that the way to go?

It feels like there should be other options. Other way to express that the social contract is broken, that we won't put up with it, that we need massive structural changes to how we look at policing and justice in Portland and beyond

What's the answer? No idea Worth thinking about, I think. It feels like we're at a bit of a crossroads, like we were at the end of July

A big confrontation. The gentleman is an asshole. I'm not gonna run down the whole thing, but my God this fellow is an asshole. He was mean to Richard He's also super fucked up And his super cute dog is off leash So it's not great

For some reason activists are trying to have a conversation but he's unable to form coherent sentences so it's very confusing to me. They have more patience than I do I'm getting dumber listening to this