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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 10h

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 · 11h

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 · 9h

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 · 2h

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 · 4h

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 · 4h

This video is AI.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 11h

A rat ran across the table at Al Jazeera during a broadcast 🐀 😬

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 13h

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 · 13h

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

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 15h

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 · 13h

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 13h

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 · 15h

"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 · 3h

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 · 13h

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 · 3h

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

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

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 · 11h

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 · 10h

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 · 10h

"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 · 11h

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 · 3h

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 · 9h

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 · 11h

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 · 9h

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 · 11h

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 · 6h

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 · 11h

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 · 6h

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 · 11h

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

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 · 14h

Pete Hegseth is Gob Bluth.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 14h

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 · 14h

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 · 14h

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h

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 · 15h

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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Micah @rincewind.run · 19h

this is absolutely my favorite protest innovation of 2025

"my opponents are violent antifa extremist terrorists"

"your opponents are dressed as giant inflatable frogs"

solid fuck you to the pepe crowd too

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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