Letters from War Torn Portland

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What has Fox News been saying? I’m sure that they’ve been breathlessly covering the carnage and destruction wrought by crazed hordes of tree-huggers. How could you have missed this?

I’ve seen several reports that Fox News ran a story on Portland that mixed in one our clips of violence in 2020 with footage from 2025. After declaring war on Portland, Trump said he saw burning buildings in Portland on TV.

Fox did the same thing in 2020 in a story on Seattle, splicing footage of fires in another city into a report on Seattle.

Good ol’ Fox News. They seem to be one of those “media ecosystems, and political campaigns (that) have been built on smearing opponents” that Whiskey was warning us about.

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Finally! The Enemy revealed!

This is an actual picture of the savage horde of evil leftists laying siege to Portland, thus initiating the Trump Administration’s authoritarian push to ‘retake the city’.

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War-ravaged Portland gets a 10-minute break from Trump’s weird authoritarian tantrum:

Judge issues new broader order barring any National Guard from relocating to Oregon

A federal judge Sunday night issued a new broader order barring any National Guard members from being relocated from any state for federal service in the state of Oregon.

During an unusual, late-night hearing by phone, U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut said she was troubled to learn that the Trump administration had already sent about 200 California National Guard members to Oregon and that Texas National Guard members were now authorized by the defense secretary to be transferred as well to Oregon to protect federal property and officers.

She found that the Trump administration was directly violating her prior order issued Saturday, in which she found no justification for federalized military to serve anywhere in the state.

Sometime after midnight early Sunday, 101 California National Guard members landed in Oregon at the Portland Air National Guard base, and another 99 were set to arrive between 4 and 5 p.m., after Immergut Saturday night had blocked Trump from deploying Oregon National Guard members at Portland’s ICE building on the South Waterfront.

“It is not appropriate to bring federalized military into Oregon at this time,” she said. “I’m troubled by the direct contravention of my (prior) order.”

Immergut grilled the federal government’s attorney Eric Hamilton, asking how he can circumvent her prior order based on her earlier finding halting any Oregon National Guard mobilization to Portland.

“You’re an officer of the court,” she told him. “Do you believe this is an appropriate way to deal with a judge’s order that you disagree with?”

Hamilton said the federalized California National Guard members were sent to Oregon to protect federal property and personnel, and argued that the state of California did not have authority to challenge the transfer since its Guard members already were under Trump’s command and control.

“Mr. Hamilton, you are missing the point,” Immergut responded.

“There is not a legal basis to bring federalized National Guard members into Oregon,” the judge said. “You have to have a colorable claim that Oregon conditions require it, but you don’t, so why is this appropriate?”

The state of Oregon and City of Portland added the state of California on Sunday to a new amended suit filed against the Trump administration, and sought the new emergency order to block California National Guard troops from mobilizing at Portland’s ICE facility.

They asked the judge to block the deployment of the California National Guard members, or in the alternative, prohibit the Trump administration from sending any National Guard members from any other state under his command to Oregon once they learned late Sunday that Texas National Guard troops were also being mobilized to Oregon.

Immergut quickly scheduled the evening hearing.

“It feels like we’re playing a game of rhetorical Whack-a-Mole,” said attorney Scott Kennedy, representing the Oregon Department of Justice. “We need to broaden this relief to prevent this gamesmanship from persisting.”

After the state of Oregon filed a motion Sunday afternoon for a new temporary restraining order to halt the deployment of California National Guard troops, the state received a memorandum from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth federalizing members of the Texas National Guard to serve in Oregon.

Immergut, in a sweeping 31-page ruling filed in court about 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, found that there was no “threat of rebellion” or any credible legal justification for the deployment of National Guard members to Portland.

Title 10, Section 12406, allows the President to “call into Federal service members and units of the National Guard of any State in such numbers as he considers necessary,” to either repel an invasion, suppress a rebellion or ensure federal laws can be executed.

Attorney Jane Reilley, representing the state of California, argued that California would face immediate harm if the judge did not intervene.

“What we’re seeing here is California soldiers being unwilling participants in an unlawful federalization mission, and that does harm not only to our sovereign rights as the standard commander chief of these forces, but also does damage to the morale and reputation of our National Guard troops,” she said.

The state of California also would face a significant hurdle if it needed to call on these National Guard members to respond to a natural disaster or emergency in the state, she said.

On Sunday night, Immergut issued the broader second temporary restraining order based on the findings she made in her prior ruling: There’s no threat of rebellion in Portland. Local and state police are able to handle protests that erupt outside the federal immigration building and federal agencies have not been prohibited from enforcing federal immigration or other laws.

She prohibited the “relocation, federalization or deployment of any National Guard,” under the president’s command within the state of Oregon.

The judge, who was nominated to the federal bench by Trump in 2019, found the reassignment of National Guard members from California and Texas appeared to violate both federal law and the 10th Amendment, which says that powers not delegated to federal officials are reserved “to the States.”

The U.S. government is expected to ask the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to put a hold, or stay, on Immergut’s second order, as they have requested a hold on her prior order.

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, Attorney General Dan Rayfield and Portland Mayor Keith Wilson praised Immergut’s latest order.

“The court affirmed what common sense tells us: if Portland does not need federal troops from Oregon, then we do not need federal troops from California – or anywhere else,“ said Wilson in a statement. ”Our local police officers are focused on protecting Portlanders’ right to protest peacefully and keeping our community safe. Federal troops will not make our community safer, period.”

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Trump's war on "Democrat cities" is just more evidence of his lying lunacy and disrespect for our constitutional government.