Remember the Portland of 2015? It was the golden age of weird events, the height of the “Keep Portland Weird” era.

Former Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan lost a Senate race to J.D. Vance in 2022. Now, he can confirm, Vance is weird. And maybe wears mascara.

New labels are applied – Protest, Populism, Common Sense. There are strange things happ’nin’ every day, as the old spiritual goes.