{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "So to let you know how the leftist uprising is going in Portland\nAfter the election there was like three days of street noise...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/636960405006237696/", "html": "<p>So to let you know how the leftist uprising is going in Portland</p><ul><li>After the election there was like three days of street noise squelched</li><li>The council besides Hardesty and the local media aside from the cranky millennial alt-weekly are clearly ready to close ranks around moving on</li><li>One straight-outta-1981 leftist gadfly lawyer (seriously, <a href=\"https://mobile.twitter.com/alankesslr\" target=\"_blank\">he looks</a> like the Tom Tomorrow bearded caricature) is raising donations to recall the mayor and one councilor</li><li>I think his snottiness will raise enough to show off with some shitfiling but not generate enough signatures</li><li>Minor points work their way through the courts but after-the-fact and the Oregon judiciary is honestly pretty deferential to establishment imperatives</li><li>There&rsquo;s a lot less energy and morale coming through in tweets</li><li>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&rsquo;t really sustaining conflict (in a less indulgent culture) or generating momentum</li><li>Also there&rsquo;s apparently some drama over the relative authority of black-as-anti-antiblack and Jewish-as-anti-far-right leadership?</li><li>Some are instead pivoting to housing issues</li><li>So far they have failed to stop several homeless encampment sweeps</li><li>Currently they are failing to stop the eviction of the I-guess-anarchist-squat that&rsquo;s become a movement HQ in the last few months</li></ul>"}