One froggy evening....

I was going to save the Portland frog until my Saturday night post, but there's just too much of it, and its just too funny.

It started with just a guy in Portland wearing an inflatable frog suit, and it has spread across the United States, wherever Americans are gathering to protest what Trump is trying to do to their country.
The inflatable frogs, and other costumes, have become the perfect reply - as ICE and Homeland Security get all official and black-suited and masked and bullet-proof vests, the frog costumes demonstrate how ridiculous these wanna-be storm troopers look, how unnecessary it is, how ashamed they are about what they are doing, how silly the whole thing actually is:

The Frog is the best thing to happen to American politics all year, but the fact that politics has devolved into Posting is ultimately a bad thing. www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

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— Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li (@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com) October 12, 2025 at 12:28 PM

"It is borderline hysterical. It would be funny if it wasn’t so f**king serious to think that this is in fact a war zone needing federal intervention, much less federal troops prepared to use all force." — @timdickinson.bsky.social

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) October 16, 2025 at 9:58 AM

“Operation Inflation” is offering free inflatable costumes to Portland ICE protesters. Bravo and Brava!👩🏻‍🍳💋

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— ✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ (@the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social) October 15, 2025 at 6:57 PM

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Even Joe Rogan seems to realize that he's been had:

Everyone should listen to this. It’s easy to blame Rogan for understanding the situation far too late, but the important thing is that he’s using his platform-with his millions of listeners-to talk about it now. This one show will reach more normal GOP folks than we ever could.

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— Angry (@angrystaffer.bsky.social) October 16, 2025 at 7:53 AM

Also, this is worth noting- the more visible the ICE Gestapo are, the less intimidating they appear:

One of the things that I think the internal politics of ICE/CBP is probably grappling with and didn't quite get when all this kicked off is that the fact that the surveillance state could be turned back on the secret police in a way that makes it very hard for anything they do to be ignored.

— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) October 12, 2025 at 12:34 PM

I think part of the derangement of things is the fact that every single member of the secret police knows that there is a decent chance that literally anything they do will be filmed and put on the internet. And if their face is showing, they'll be identified within minutes.

— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) October 12, 2025 at 12:35 PM

To the point, ICE is now trying to threaten people who videotape them, because they're probably reeling at how easy it is for who, what, when, how to be disseminated among action networks almost instantaenously. Speaks to things getting fraught, I would guess.

— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) October 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM

And just in case you're not familiar with Michigan J Frog: