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Alissa Azar

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أليسا 🧿 Syria📍PDX Journalist• Antifascist • Covering police & right wing violence in the PNW • She/They [email protected]• https://linktr.ee/azarpdx we-will-free-us.ghost.io 🖤 بذور الجنة تنتظر نيران الثورة 🖤

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 1d

Accounts getting taken down on Nextdoor?

Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 1d

meta suspended my instagram account today, no reason given, just directed to look at "Community Standards"

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Uzza @uzzamodea.bsky.social · May 29

This assault by TPUSA "reporter" Jonathan Choe needs more attention. Journalists I'm looking at you. His victim was arrested.

He also punched a defender of a migrant center multiple times last year. publicola.com/2024/04/19/h...

Also an accusation from 2023 www.thestranger.com/news/2023/11...

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s an angle for a journalist looking for a fresh take on the White House “Antifa” roundtable — most of the people who participated are employed by or have a direct financial connection to Turning Point USA. I think that’s pretty telling, no?

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 1d

Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.

A screenshot of C-Span showing Jack Posobiec speaking during a panel on "Antifa."

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

She's Canadian, you wouldn't know her.

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 1d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 1d

Is that what that smell was last night?

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I'm Margaret! I'm the best! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 2d

There’s a lot in here that deserves a pull quote, but this is the most egregious. I need people to recognize the gravity of the situation here in Chicago;

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"The ones that are getting out are coming home to no home," Watson said.
According to her, after the raid occurred, building management stole or threw out residents belongings, including visas and important documents.

ICIRR is still trying to determine the identities of all the people detained in the raid. Castro said that the organization usually can do that by following up with family members or loved ones. "In this instance, there was nobody left to work with," she said. The only detainee name they're sure of is that of a person who passed their Venezuelan passport to a neighbor as they were being taken away.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 2d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 2d

Noem has with her right-wing social media personalities David Medina, Benny Johnson and Nick Sortor (who was arrested for fighting outside the ICE facility, Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office not pursuing charges). No news conference or opportunity for press to ask questions.

Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 2d

Noem appears to have arrived? Not sure how long we’ll be blocked from the street outside ICE processing facility. I can say unequivocally she did not witness anything she claims is happening at this facility, as she entered the facility…

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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 4d

For those lucky enough to not know this is a neo-Nazi meme normally found on TRS and the Daily Stormer being shared by the official DHS account.

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 3d

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

a guy in a frog costume standing facing a line of police and ICE agents in Portland

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The Provost / سيدة الفتنة @msentropy.bsky.social · 2d

Please amplify, those with a bigger platform than me.

It’s horrifying that the person running the US Homeland Security Twitter uses — and clearly knows — the exact same aesthetics, memes, and propaganda from fashwave, accelerationist, and Nazi Telegram.

It says everything about where we are.

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 1d

the way she’s pretending to analyze everything and responding so seriously like there is any kind of active threat too… so unserious lmao

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 1d

omg the horror

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 2d

Portland 🖤

Sign at a bar says “we love dogs. Noem go home”

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 2d

He threatened to shoot someone for standing next to him, and later walked thru a bunch of protesters threatening to mace them for no reason

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 2d

I believe this photo is from Canada. Definitely not portland and ICE

Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 2d

I think I know the clip you’re talking about. Iconic.

And for some unrelated reason the image of the person walking away with a cheesecake also comes to mind. I love seattle so much lol

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Nik Streng @nikstreng.bsky.social · 2d

The Feds are giving right wing influencers and media outlets special privileges to the ICE building in Portland. They’re lying about local media getting the same access.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Feds grant ICE building access to conservative media, influencers, ignore local Portland press

Not all news organizations have been granted the same access to the ICE facility and the people who work there.

www.oregonlive.com

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LEFT COAST RIGHT WATCH @lcrw.bsky.social · 2d

The goal of these groups—and they’ve said this at press conferences I went to—is to incite state violence against people they consider their enemies.

Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 2d

On Friday, Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio announced on his podcast that because "it seems like [the] Portland Police Bureau is not doing their job," "the Proud Boys will be coming back to Portland" in "one capacity or another."

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TheBlueMeeple @thebluemeeple.bsky.social · 2d

I mean... even the Oregon GOP is on the "baffle them with bs" wagon: 🤦‍♀️👇🤬

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 2d

Oregon republicans are using photos from Ecuador in 2008 and Brazil in 2017 to manufacture consent 😭 they will use whatever lies they want with zero consequences

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

www.theguardian.com

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