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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 4h

They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 18h

I don’t understand why every city he says this about doesn’t immediately slap on 25 live cams all over the place and say “look for yourselves.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 18h

As evening fell on the site of an ICE abduction at Lincoln and Foster, a lone protester held a vigil.

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 10h

Can I get a ribbit

Inflatable frog protesters in Portland holding up a sign that says frogs together strong

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12h

It's a little more obvious that this video is fake in the longer 10-second version that's been going viral on Twitter. (Which I've posted below)

The 8-second video posted above cuts before the AI anchor just resumes into a news story in a very unnatural way.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12h

This video is AI.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 22h

Masks. Armed. No insignia. No names. No warrants. But they will come up to an American citizen on the street and threaten him with arrest for peacefully exercising basic American rights.

I'd challenge historians of the American Revolution to articulate how things were worse than this in April 1775.

In a Chicagoland Suburb, Berwyn, IL, multiple ICE agents and a cameraman surround a resident who blew his horn and walked down the street in his own neighborhood. They demand his ID and they threatene...

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 22h

Honestly think these need to be the symbol of resistance to fascism

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 1d

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22h

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 21h

Network news could put this guy on the air during like Lester Holt or the Sunday shows but they don't because they know stories like this would help stop the administration and then the big bet they made on fascism would be for nothing

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ @bltsofttaco.bsky.social · 11h

A MAGA kills Democrat lawmaker, her husband, and their dog. Pam Bondi finally mentions it in a national press conference . . . only to claim the killer was antifa.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ @bltsofttaco.bsky.social · 11h

If he didn't say it to her, he obviously REALLY REALLY wanted to.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Trump: "The person who actually got the Nobel Prize called today, called me, and said 'I'm accepting this in honor of you, because you really deserved it.' A really nice thing to do. I didn't say 'Then give it to me, though.'"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Trump: "The person who actually got the Nobel Prize called today, called me, and said 'I'm accepting this in honor of you, because you really deserved it.' A really nice thing to do. I didn't say 'Then give it to me, though.'"

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 19h

A demonstrator wearing a frog costume stands outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility on Tuesday

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 19h

"there are fires all over the place"
~the president of the united states with absolutely zero clue what is going on

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ @bltsofttaco.bsky.social · 12h

Trump will be propped up for as long as the real grifters running the government can do it. Trump couldn't find his way out of a wet paper bag. Miller, Hegseth, Noem, Bondi, Bessent, the Cabinet, the Ambassadors, the billionaires are all pursuing their own goals for as long as they can.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 18h

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 18h

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 15h

This is a flex.

He know his rubes will believe any shit he tells them and he wants to see how far he can take it.

Next week he'll tell them everyone in Portland lives in caves now and eats brontosaurus ribs like the Flintstones.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 15h

Amazing thing about this isn’t even that none of it is true (none of it is), but that on Sunday morning, every news show will have Republicans on to soft-pedal some similar fiction to cover for the fact that ICE is literally kidnapping people in the streets and Republicans shutdown the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ @bltsofttaco.bsky.social · 21h

Funny how Trump isn't requiring 10% of Argentina or outright saying they should be a State now.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23h

Pete Hegseth is Gob Bluth.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 22h

I wish lying wasn't just accepted and allowed because there's no way that happened. Sorry but no producer is ever doing that. Ever. Just not something that happens. And I'm referring to real producers like Ms. Brockman here and not a "producer" on Timcast

CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 23h

UPDATE: In emailed statement to me / @reason.com, DHS alleges that WGN-TV producer Debbie Brockman "threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer."

Screencap of email from DHS public affairs: Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin:

“U.S. Border Patrol was conducting immigration enforcement operations and when several violent agitators used their vehicles to block in agents in an effort to impede and assault federal officers. In fear of public safety and of law enforcement, officers used their service vehicle to strike a suspect’s vehicle and create an opening. As agents were driving, Deborah Brockman, a U.S. citizen, threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer.

“This incident is not isolated and reflects a growing and dangerous trend of illegal aliens violently resisting arrest and agitators and criminals ramming cars into our law enforcement officers. These attacks highlight the dangers our law enforcement officers face daily—all while receiving no pay thanks to the Democrats’ government shutdown.”

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 22h

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22h

CHICAGO — WGN News editor/producer Debbie Brockman grabbed by Trump’s ICE goons.. who then intentionally ram a bystander’s car as they peel away.

More: www.fox32chicago.com/news/wgn-new...

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Andrea Chalupa @andreachalupa.bsky.social · 23h

Why a Qatari airbase in Idaho? Trump and the terrorist states like Qatar and Russia that bribe him want to see the US destroyed in a civil war and seize what they can. Qatar will back Trump. The airbase is an invasion to ensure US chaos and destruction.

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