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Josh Manning

@joshmanning.bsky.social

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Iraq War vet. Former intelligence community Russia then counterterrorism analyst. Now: middling flak. MI —> MT —> WA. Warren-Occupy core. Social justice warrior. Opinions, quirks mine. Words: LA Times, Foreign Policy, Newsweek. Face: MSNBC, Al Jazeera

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Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 26d

So here is what I think is happening, because I had a front row seat to Mike Flynn doing this sort of thing at DIA … The agencies are collecting intelligence from bad sources or dictating what they want their sources to say so it ends up in raw reporting. They can then weaponize this intel.

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 26d

Personnel from a U.S. warship boarded a Venezuelan tuna boat with nine fishermen while it was sailing in Venezuelan waters, Venezuela’s foreign minister said on Saturday, underlining strained relations with the United States.
https://to.pbs.org/46hft5R

Venezuela says U.S. warship raided a tuna boat as tensions rise in the Caribbean

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Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 49m

No, we just hate monarchies and authoritarians. You know, MAGA and Speaker Johnson.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13h

Mike Johnson is now calling #NoKings a "hate America rally"

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Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 50m

Good lord.

Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 50m

Cal for MVP!

Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 53m

Congrats, @mariners.com. That was a game for the ages.

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Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 2h

It’ll go to the 20th and Cal will pitch three strikeouts and hit in the winning run and baseball analysts will be like “yeah but his name isn’t Aaron judge.”

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Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 4h

So feudal.

Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 4h

Peasants are undeserving.

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Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 4h

Kerry Clemente!!!!!

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Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 4h

It’s quite fun to poke them.

Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 5h

Yes, totally.

Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 5h

*** Narco Sapo Terroristas

Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 5h

Yes. Portland specifically has a long history fighting right wing movements. It’s no doubt on a lot of maps for retribution by their folks now in leadership.

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Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 5h

Trump: “Portland — I saw these big frogs there. Big ugly frogs. You know some frogs are poisonous if you lick them. You know that? Some people, they think that’s a drug. Frogs are dangerous drug thugs in an anarchist-led hellhole. We’re going in there. Gonna get rid of those frog drug traffickers.”

Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 5h

He’s on the other coast, and being fed a steady diet of disinformation by Stephen Miller.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

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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Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 5h

He’s on the other coast, and being fed a steady diet of disinformation by Stephen Miller.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

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Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 5h

Sixty (60!) percent of the GOP is okay with it or ambivalent about it. Sixty! They need a major reckoning.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 5h

40% of Republicans & 85% of Democrats say Trump has improperly encouraged federal investigations of political opponents.

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Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 5h

Bingo

Fucking

Bango

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👇🏼

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 17h

This video is everywhere because it's a hilarious visual refutation of Portland being on fire. You can't get a mass movement going without convincing the masses

so yes, this does do something actually

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This literally does nothing. You are not beating fascism by dressing up in inflatable suits and dancing

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Portland is leading the way. This is how you (non violently) beat Fascism. Humor and ridicule are key.

Stillframe from a video of Portland protesters dancing in inflatable suits

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Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 6h

LONG history here.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 17h

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Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 6h

Game five, 🐅!!! LFG!!!!!

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Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 8h

Plastic surgery disasters.

Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 9h

Surprising no one. Wasn’t held accountable for SignalGate (twice!) then gets to war crime as much as he wants and he gets to be called Secretary of War. How could a guy already at level 10 Full of Himself go off the rails when it gets turned up to 11? What could go wrong?

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 9h

“The defense secretary underwent a round of cosmetic injections last month.” One insider: “He’s always been full of himself, but lately his ego has been off the charts.”