Naked bike riders demonstrate against federal troops in 'quintessentially Portland' protest

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By JENNY KANE and CHRISTOPHER WEBER
Updated 7:22 PM CDT, October 12, 2025
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Protesters rallying against the Trump administration in Portland put the city’s quirky and irreverent reputation on display Sunday by pedaling through the streets wearing absolutely nothing — or close to it — in an “emergency” edition of the annual World Naked Bike Ride.

Crowds that have gathered daily and nightly outside the immigration facility in Oregon’s largest city in recent days have embraced the absurd, donning inflatable frog, unicorn, axolotl and banana costumes as they face off with federal law enforcement who often deploy tear gas and pepper balls.

The bike ride is an annual tradition that usually happens in the summer, but organizers of this weekend’s hastily called event said another nude ride was necessary to speak out against President Donald Trump’s attempts to mobilize the National Guard to quell protests.

Rider Janene King called the nude ride a “quintessentially Portland way to protest.”



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[SheltieLover]

1. Magat heads will explode!

to Oregon!

[Wednesdays]

2. A most effective protest tactic since Lady Godiva. Bravo! nt

[RandySF]

3. That's an annual event in San Francisco.

[murielm99]

4. My youngest daughter used to participate in that.

But I don't think it was in San Francisco. Probably Chicago.

[samnsara]

9. seattle as well

..that was one of the first things my grand daughters saw when they moved from Tennessee to their hometown of Seattle...

[The Grand Illuminist]

5. Makes our side look stupid.

Terrible idea.

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. ...

[pnwmom]

7. Makes our side look fearless.

The fearful ones are the guys holding semi-automatics and wearing masks.

[Timeflyer]

8. Agree 100%.

[DenaliDemocrat]

17. My grandfather was at the Ludlow Massacre

Those miners were fearless.

This is just dumb. It’s why they laugh at us.

[pnwmom]

18. The worst thing we could do is offer an excuse for violence. This does the opposite,

while succeeding in taunting Trump.

[DenaliDemocrat]

19. Well getting naked and riding a bike

Is clownish behavior. A sit in forcing them to violence, an hones-to-God labor strike, a boycott- those send a message. Riding a bike naked is just dumb.

[samnsara]

10. i disagree..

I think its a great idea and when trumps teeny weeny gang comes to Seattle they will be greeted with the same...

[hunter]

13. I find this perspective a bit perplexing. The metaphor is obvious.

They are telling the Trump administration and Republicans leaders in general, "Hey, I've got nothing to hide, how about you?"

Everyone in the Trump administration has something to hide.

How about those Epstein files? is just a small sampling of what they hide.

I think we are beyond the point of offending voters who may still be "on the fence." If they are still on the fence they are lost souls and the best we can hope for is that they will abstain from elections instead of voting for Republicans.

Personally, I don't worry much about nudity. Half of why I wear clothes is environmental -- I sunburn very easily and I don't like to be cold. The other half is that I pay attention to social norms, however arbitrary and inexplicable those might be.

Plenty of people have seen me naked, photographed me naked, and drawn or painted me naked, for the most part in social contexts where nudity is generally accepted within our society. ( And most of that was before the internet could turn the most innocent sorts of casual nudity or art into a scandal. )

If newly minted ICE agents or young National Guard soldiers from "conservative" U.S.A. are shocked by naked bike riders, maybe this is a good thing. Maybe they'll secretly wish they were hanging out with those interesting people. The U.S.A. is not Iran (yet?) where they'd have license to beat naked protesters bloody and haul them away to prison, possibly to die.

[Zambero]

14. It's about as "transparent" as one can be!

Cloaked in secrecy (a-la Epstein files) it ain't!

[GenThePerservering]

15. Mind you don't hurt yourself clutching those pearls nt

[travelingthrulife]

11. I remember that naked woman from 2020. She sat down in front of the line

of grotesquely armed goons and spread her legs wide. I swear those goons nearly wet their pants and started crying for their mommies.

[Talitha]

12. I remember it, too - she was very effective in making their heads explode.

Your choice of which head I'm referring to.

[GenThePerservering]

16. Quarter inch of rain fell that day, and it was in the low 50s

I'm sure ICE and the sad group of counter-protestors with Charlie Kuck's picture were whining about the weather. Obvs the protestors themselves weren't so weak.