@oregonian, October 9, 2025
We spent 24 hours at Portland's ICE facility – here's what we saw
The Portland protest frogs are multiplying.
Our reporters at the ICE building Thursday night counted several frogs, a unicorn, a polar bear, an axolotl, a raccoon, a peacock, a shark and a cat among about 100 regularly dressed people.
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Edited by Azizi Powell
This is Part II of a two part pancocojams post about Portland, Oregon's protest movement against Trump's ICE and DHS.
This post departs from this blog usual content to showcase a video of Portland, Oregon protestors wearing whimsical inflatable costumes.
This post also presents an excerpt from a Portland, Oregon podcaster about this protest strategy as well as a few comments from that podcast.
Click Edited by Azizi Powell
This is Part I of a two part pancocojams post about Portland, Oregon's protest movement against Trump's ICE and DHS.
This post departs from this blog usual content to showcase a YouTube video short of and an interview with Seth Todd, the Portland, Oregon protestor who wore an inflatable frog costume and went viral when his courageous stand against ICE agents was publicized online.
Click __ for Part I of this pancocojams series. Part II showcases another video of Portland, Oregon protestors wearing whimsical inflatable costumes. That post also presents an excerpt from a Portland, Oregon podcaster about this protest strategy as well as a few comments from that podcast.
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Thanks to all of the other peaceful Portland, Oregon protestors whether they are wearing inflatable costumes or not.Thanks also to Parkrose Permaculture (Angela), a Portland, Oregon podcaster, whose video about Portland's inflatable costume protestors is excerpted in this post. Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to the producer and publisher of this showcase video.
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EXCERPT OF PARKROSE PERMACULTURE'S VIDEO ABOUT PORTLAND'S 2025 PROTEST MOVEMENT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzXSM-7nhr8 I read THE WORST take on the Portland Protests. Here's what
they're getting wrong and why it matters
Parkrose Permaculture, Oct 15, 2025
3:32- 9:44 [with some portions not quoted]
…"the Portland frog, right? This kid who became famous for showing up in an inflatable frog costume.
By the way, I think Jordan Clipper interviewed him yesterday or today. So, I look forward to seeing
that interview when it comes out. But basically, he showed up at the protest in an inflatable suit. This is
after there have been other folks showing up in chicken suits, Lilo and Stitch outfits, all kinds of silly
costumes. And I'll get into the strategic choice to do that in just a moment. But this video goes viral of a
kid in an inflatable frog suit walking forward and all of these ICE agents and all of their body armor obscuring their identities backing up as this frog walks forward and then they they get onto ice property and he stands there and he just like air humps them for lack of a better term.
[...] Parkrose Permaculture gives her opinion about a recent article that was very critical about these protestors wearing
inflatable costumes]
I I hated this article. I hated it.
[…]
[The article’s writer] is absolutely showing her complete and total ignorance of the strategy and tactics, the thoughtfulness, the planning and the efficacy of what Portlanders are doing.
We know that humor and ridicule using absurd tactics, leaning into levity and whimsy, all of that creates a contrast between the brutality, the extremity, the illegality of the regime and the protesters themselves. It also does a fantastic job of undercutting and disproving the lies of the regime.
The regime is claiming that Portlanders are all violent Antifa extremists, domestic terrorists, and that we are waging war, that it's a war zone. It's hell on earth here.
The tactics that we here in Portland are using, starting with kids like that young man in a chicken suit. I
don't know if I can say his real name. I don't know if his name is known. When you dress up in a chicken suit and you hand out cookies, when you wear an inflatable frog costume and you're air
humping ICE.
Us here in Portland being silly and light-hearted and using these tactics, it is pointing out how absolutely absurd, false, unhinged, and completely disconnected from reality the claims of the regime are. Nobody thinks fairies in tutus blowing bubbles, folks playing trumpets in banana suits, guys in chicken suits challenging Kristi Noem to go get a Subway sandwich with him are violent extremists that require the use of the military to restore peace to Portland, Oregon.
The fact that all of that was a big whoosh for this author to me says one, she should go read about
effective non-violent resistance tactics.
The power of the symbols that we are creating, the meaning that we are creating through the strategies that we are using here in Portland, how we are gaining control of the narrative and doing tremendous work to undermine the Regime.
[…]
It it may be going over your head, but the American public understands our strategy here is working incredibly well, and we'll all be out in the streets on October 18th.”
-snip-
October 18, 2025 is the date of the second United States nationwide "No Kings" protest rallies.
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SELECTED COMMENTS FROM THIS PODCAST
(All these comments were published on October 15, 2025. Numbers were added for referencing purposes only.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzXSM-7nhr8
1. @MargaretR.J
"Portlanders are just sharing their weird and joy with the
world! Given the heaviness of the ICE invasion, this is the antidote to their
smothering presence."
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2. @Anya54321
"I agree with you and the absurdity of the inflatables versus
the “police” is not even lost on my children. Its a bad look for the regime"
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3. @williamlloyd3769
"The frog costume is epic!
The article you're referring to was bonkers. The
writer was totally out of touch"
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4. @Mike13589
"She intimates that there's no message when protesters
approach armed thugs in costume? The point is super duper clear. It's getting
more press than ANY protest in the past 5 years. Not to mention that it flies
in the face of the narrative they're violent, angry rioters. It's an A+
approach"
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5. @dayegilharno4988
" "The Frog makes no sense." - Yeah no kidding,
that's the whole point. He's a mirror! Do these people know nothing about the
finer aspects of political commentary???"
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6. @monicadechering9489
"Love how Portland is protesting"
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7. @hooliegirl-e8i
"That frog pelvic thrusting the Goon Squad is about the best
thing I've seen since Trump took office. Portland has made a blueprint for all
to follow. Keep up the great work."
8. @fueymanchoo1291
"Clearly the costumes are working. Maga really wants to see
violence, but they don't want to see Ice brutalizing costumes. It makes them
look weak. They want us to look menacing so that it fulfills their fantasy. So
keep up the bright and festive attire and costumes!"
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9. @sassykat2000
"The other day people showed up with donuts and fishing poles
to go ICE fishing.
Soooo great. Can't make this up.
PORTLAND is doing it right!"
Reply
10.
"It was hilarious! How can you not laugh?😂"
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11. @amphibiousone7972
"May the Warmth of Portland's Humanity Melt the ICE. 💕🫡🇺🇲💜🤝"
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12. @jeffhess4650
"Keep Portland Weird!"
13.
"Political ridicule has been around for centuries and for
good reason. It works."
14.
"Not sure if the people executing this strategy are familiar
with the Dada movement of WWI (responding to nonsensical bloodshed and atrocity
with absurdity and mockery of the societal norms that allowed it to happen in
the first place- an attitude of “if the world has gone mad then so shall we”)
but I see the similarities nonetheless and I approve."
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15. @TheBassetMom
"The protesters in Portland are providing a masterclass for
the rest of the country on how to do it right! 👏"
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