PORTLAND, Ore. — Donald Trump’s forces have tear gassed a public school into submission. Or at least into fleeing its longtime campus. The local Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) complex in Portland has become a near-nightly flashpoint this summer for local activists demonstrating against the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign …
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Scenes of “law enforcement” that look like lawlessness are unfolding, daily, on the streets of America. Masked agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agencies jump out of unmarked cars. They wear masks and are often irregularly uniformed, in a slapdash assemblage of jeans and security vests. …
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T he man at the West Burnside Street bus stop looks stone dead, sprawled out on the sidewalk with his eyes rolled back. Lucky for him, he overdosed on a weekday, just five blocks from the downtown Portland, Oregon, fire station, where the quick-response unit is on duty, and they’re …
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Courtney Barnett, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, and Durand Jones lead the dozens of artists set to perform at the 2024 Pickathon festival, taking place on a picturesque farm outside of Portland, Oregon in August. Geese, Vacations, Jess Williamson, MSPaint, Water From Your Eyes, Elephant Revival, Ratboys, Cocorosie, and Chance Peña are …
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W hen Emily* showed up to her callback audition for a new film titled The Policeman starring Vincent Gallo, she knew it would be intense. In The Policeman, Gallo, who has a reputation for acting in controversial and edgy projects, plays serial killer and rapist Joseph James DeAngelo, also known …
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In the 1979 film Stalker, the eponymous Stalkers are informal, illegal guides to a blighted Zone somewhere in Eastern Europe. In the middle of the Zone, it is said, there is a room that grants the true heart’s desire. And we learn, secondhand, about the tale of one Stalker named …
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J uly 19, 2003: It’s well after midnight in San Francisco, and the Exploding Hearts — Adam Cox, Terry Six, Matt Fitzgerald, and Jeremy Gage —are ready to play for a packed house at a bar called Thee Parkside. The show is a “last-minute thing,” Six, the band’s guitarist, remembers. …
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When far-left activist Michael Reinoehl was shot dead by law enforcement in a hail of bullets in September 2020, then-president Donald Trump infamously cheered his death as “retribution,” and Attorney General Bill Barr touted the killing as the “takedown” of an “admitted Antifa member.” Reinoehl’s estate is now suing in …
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Tucked away among the trees deep in the Portland suburbs, a group of emerging professionals, on the cusp of completing their formal education and transitioning into a highly competitive work environment, are attending an event where they’ll work to sell themselves to executives; titans of their industry. Elite law schools …
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On Tuesday, Benjamin Jeffrey Smith was identified as the suspect in Saturday’s deadly shooting at a Justice for Amir Locke rally in Portland, Oregon, and charged with murder and attempted murder. As details of his online persona began coming out— according to those who know him, he is openly antisemitic …
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