Anti-Police Posts Fuel a Fight Over Portland's Future

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe New York Times reports that social media posts denouncing the police surfaced in Portland, Oregon, and were supposed to hurt a socialist's re-election.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorInstead, the paper says, the democratic socialists of Portland and other cities are showing their strength, in a city that remains deeply divided over the future.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSo the plan to destroy a campaign made the campaign stronger. This is how it starts, Hank, and I couldn't be happier.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHow what starts?

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorEvery dirty trick that works in reverse.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorFirst it's a post, then it's a poll, and by spring the whole city is governed by whoever got attacked loudest.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe report doesn't say that. It says a fight over the future is underway, and nobody has said how it ends.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorNobody ever does, until it's too late and I've got a casserole and a bad feeling.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA casserole.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorI once posted a furious review of a parking garage, and it got the manager promoted. Backfires are my whole career.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo who did the parking garage endorse?