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Trantifa Prime

@shredybettymtb.bsky.social

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Rabble rouser, internally displaced trans refugee, shooter of guns, builder of wooden objects, restorer of boats, printer of bespoke plastics. Always anti-racist, eternally antifascist Emma Goldman/Peter Kropotkin Enjoyer John Brown Did Nothing Wrong

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Trantifa Prime @shredybettymtb.bsky.social · 8d

This pinnned post is for Palestinians to drop links to their fundraiser on.

If you’ve got some extra cash and want to help save a life, stroll through the replies and pick someone to do some mutual aid for!

The ones I post directly are ones I’ve personally verified.

#FreePalestine

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Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 11h

Massive escalation at the Portland ICE facility. Worst I’ve ever seen. More pepper balls than I can count. Teargas in the middle of crowd. Violent arrests. Some type of either noise or rubber bullet shotgun fired into the air then later aimed at protesters chests/heads at near point blank range.

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Trantifa Prime @shredybettymtb.bsky.social · 10h

Who even posts like this? Why are you weird?

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The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 1d

Being against Ms Rachel feels like being against Mr Rogers

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Trantifa Prime @shredybettymtb.bsky.social · 10h

Cc @jaredlholt.bsky.social @michaelehayden.bsky.social, you are being paged.

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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 10h

Cosmetician With Cancer Beautifies Displaced Cancer Patients During War on Gaza [Vertical]

Forcibly displaced and suffering daily from breast cancer, Samar Al-Jaal finds joy in beautifying her cancer-ridden campmates using cosmetics.

Full video available in quoted post.

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The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 10h

Most media are glossing over Israel soon releasing 1,700 Palestinians it abducted and held without charge--in other words, hostages they kidnapped. And they're not releasing all of them.

Double Standard for Israeli and Palestinian Hostages

Most media are glossing over Israel soon releasing 1,700 Palestinians it abducted and held without charge--in other words, hostages they kidnapped. And they're not releasing all of them.

mitchellplitnick.substack.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

vought's view is that the president is an elected dictator and lo and behold he is seizing outright the power of the purse

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 19h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Trantifa Prime @shredybettymtb.bsky.social · 12h

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 18h

I saw myself as maybe all in for J.B. Pritzker

But I am losing faith, rapidly.

Police state fascism in America is bigger than Trump. It's backed by Democrats just like Republicans. And it's not going anywhere

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 18h

Note: it's not even curfew yet.

State police just started pushing people off the business park corner. Here in the road, a brave group of demonstrators are attempting to hold their line.

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 17h

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 18h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Trantifa Prime @shredybettymtb.bsky.social · 12h

It’s good, so makes sense!

Trantifa Prime @shredybettymtb.bsky.social · 12h

Well….

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 16h

I prefer “anti-fascist“ for a host of reasons and this is a nice practical one.

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 17h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 16h

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 17h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Trantifa Prime @shredybettymtb.bsky.social · 13h

Gentle reminder the Salvation Army is also rabidly anti-queer.

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 16h

don't forget! fuck the salvation army

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 18h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 14h

gotta burn this motherfucker down folks

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 15h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Trantifa Prime @shredybettymtb.bsky.social · 18h

Fun fact: Alfred Nobel created the Nobel prize as an attempt to easy his conscious for creating dynamite, which was then immediately used to kill people (he was a pretty big arms manufacturer). So it tracks they there a list milkshake fucks winning his milkshake duck prize.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

There is a whole category of Milkshake Duck Nobel Prize winners

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

The Nobel *Peace* Prize winner is cool with murdering civilians on boats

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 1d

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

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Trantifa Prime @shredybettymtb.bsky.social · 19h

They were saying the same stuff in 2018 though… and they still voted for Trump a second and third time.

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 1d

This doesn't seem great.

“The limits to FPS's authority off federal property are the edges of the constitution on one side and necessity on the other.”

"There is simply no legal barrier to FPS taking action off federal property where a reasonable nexus to protecting that property exists."

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d

EXCLUSIVE — DHS Acting General Counsel sent out a memo Wednesday to all Federal Protective Service staff (the sub-agency that guards federal buildings) letting officers know they could take any action necessary "in the vicinity" federal property to protect themselves.

The Handbasket reports:

DHS top lawyer says 'no legal barrier' to actions officers can take to defend federal property

In a memo obtained exclusively by The Handbasket, Federal Protective Service (FPS) officers were given free rein.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 1d

Members of Congress should be on the streets of DC—where many of them live! —putting their bodies between these law-abiding citizens and ICE. Congress should be demanding names, and promising ICE will be prosecuted when US democracy is re-established.

But they are not—b/c they think it polls badly.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Trantifa Prime @shredybettymtb.bsky.social · 19h

Hey Jim, you should Google crime clearance rates real quick…

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 1d

guards ignore—but are trained—that withdrawal is a life threatening condition, and ignoring someone in withdrawal is both deliberate and indifferent

the fact that they were *wrong* about this person’s emergency doesn’t make their conduct any less deliberate or indifferent

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Being mad at Ms Rachel is a pretty good tell that you're just mad that people care about Palestine at all— many such cases actually but in that context these people will die mad because people will always care

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Trantifa Prime @shredybettymtb.bsky.social · 19h

Unless they’re queer and undocumented, then you’ll just let them get black bagged by masked thugs and not do a goddamn thing…

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 23h

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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