Portland’s second wind in the face of Federal officers abusing and abducting protesters—and in the face of press coverage of being a city under siege by protester violence—now includes the Wall of Moms, and they’re heading back downtown again tonight. Portland takes a lot of flak, much of it warranted, but it also knows how to lean into a certain kind of whimsy as part of doing serious work. Bonus read: get a load of this Navy veteran who went down to try to talk to the jackboots and just stood there taking baton blows.