So to let you know how the leftist uprising is going in Portland

• After the election there was like three days of street noise squelched
• The council besides Hardesty and the local media aside from the cranky millennial alt-weekly are clearly ready to close ranks around moving on
• One straight-outta-1981 leftist gadfly lawyer (seriously, he looks like the Tom Tomorrow bearded caricature) is raising donations to recall the mayor and one councilor
• I think his snottiness will raise enough to show off with some shitfiling but not generate enough signatures
• Minor points work their way through the courts but after-the-fact and the Oregon judiciary is honestly pretty deferential to establishment imperatives
• There’s a lot less energy and morale coming through in tweets
• Street energy is now up in the cross-river suburb of Vancouver, WA re: a fatal police shooting of a black guy but they aren’t really sustaining conflict (in a less indulgent culture) or generating momentum
• Also there’s apparently some drama over the relative authority of black-as-anti-antiblack and Jewish-as-anti-far-right leadership?
• Some are instead pivoting to housing issues
• So far they have failed to stop several homeless encampment sweeps
• Currently they are failing to stop the eviction of the I-guess-anarchist-squat that’s become a movement HQ in the last few months