My guest for a roundup of the week’s events is the brilliant Shari Dunn—former mainstream journalist, attorney, and author of the book, “Qualified,” now based in Portland by way of Milwaukee.

Shari and I discuss about the current situation in Portland, Oregon—a city in the Trump administration’s crosshairs. Shari laid out the history: Oregon’s white-utopia origin story, summers when Proud Boys rolled in from out of state to provoke fights, and how local antifascists emerged as a community pushback—not as a shadowy organization, but as residents who refuse to be bullied.

From there, we talk about Columbus Day’s roots in anti-Italian violence, and how immigrants learned to access whiteness by distancing themselves from Blackness.

We closed with the latest on SHRM’s platforming Robbie Starbuck—an activist with no HR credentials, and plenty of anti-DEI rhetoric.

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