I read this appeal was for the first ruling only and they haven’t appealed the second so does that mean they still can’t be deployed at this stage?

These people are terrified of everything!

He sees it with his own eyes. He’s not wrong, but man that’s depressing! Propaganda is not new obviously and manufacturing consent has always been a thing but this past week the stark disconnect between the admins narrative (amplified via media) and life on the ground in Portland has been jarring.

The numbers do fluctuate, some days there’s a small handful and occasionally a couple of hundred but they’re protesting peacefully. I drove past earlier and agents were shooting tear gas and pepper balls from the roof, the helicopters were circling. It’s totally disproportionate aggression.

There’s one large drone I’ve spotted twice circling over the Southwest Waterfront and surrounding neighbourhoods in conjunction with the helicopters. It was out last Saturday and last night.

It’s wild. I live within 2 minutes of the ICE facility in question and pass it almost daily. The South Waterfront, especially that section on Macadam is really out of the way so this disconnect in narrative vs reality is so blaring for anyone living here.

This whole scenario is so delusional and not based on any type of reality on the ground.

Growing up in New Zealand, we didn’t grow up with a broad gun culture but also believed that guns were really inaccessible. That was obviously untrue as proven by the Christchurch mass shooting and the way we processed, grieved and reacted collectively really threw my wife who is American.

It feels part and parcel with their narcissism to want to live forever.

Yeah, “Anti-American” is so coded for said anything bad about their supreme leader and I can’t think of anything more Anti-American than that!

I do miss those sometimes!