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drf5n.bsky.social @drf5n.bsky.social · 13h

A $50 inflatable costume looks like it protects folks from the rubber bullets, pepper balls and pepper spray pretty darn well.

Maybe I’ll dress as a frog this Halloween.

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PORTLAND FROG is Back after being "Pepper Sprayed In the Vent"

YouTube video by FREEDOMNEWS TV - NATIONAL / SCOOTERCASTER

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drf5n.bsky.social @drf5n.bsky.social · 19h

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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."

drf5n.bsky.social @drf5n.bsky.social · 19h

Maybe this puppet could compare Stormy Daniel's mushroom recollection with what he's seen?

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drf5n.bsky.social @drf5n.bsky.social · 20h

WTF is a 650% discount?

If I buy something that costs a dollar, do you pay me back $6.50 or what?

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drf5n.bsky.social @drf5n.bsky.social · 20h

Article I, Section 9, Clause 7 imposes accountability on Congressional spending:
No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.

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drf5n.bsky.social @drf5n.bsky.social · 20h

How do we tell these alleged federal police officers from white supremacist militia groups?

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drf5n.bsky.social @drf5n.bsky.social · 21h

The president said there was violence--"Portland burned to the ground" "they don't have any glass, its all plywood" etc... Can you show where Portland burned to the ground?

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drf5n.bsky.social @drf5n.bsky.social · 21h

They did stupid DOGE-like layoffs without shutdown, back when they were doing the original DOGE-like layoffs.

They are shutdown for the sake of doing a shutdown.

drf5n.bsky.social @drf5n.bsky.social · 21h

Done.

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drf5n.bsky.social @drf5n.bsky.social · 22h

I'm writing my rep to ask if he voted to appropriate funds for this $20 billion foreign bailout and why.

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drf5n.bsky.social @drf5n.bsky.social · 22h

"Wait a minute, this situation is going to end. She’s going to get better, and we’re going to go back to New York, and then what? Then what? That’s the emotional and physical, literal place where the film started from." -- from the article

drf5n.bsky.social @drf5n.bsky.social · 22h

"...It got better."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6rW...

Monty Python and The Holy Grail' She Turned me Into a Newt! It Got Better

YouTube video by Mark S. Rooks

www.youtube.com

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drf5n.bsky.social @drf5n.bsky.social · 22h

A couple more videos of Debbie Brockman's abduction in this thread:

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drf5n.bsky.social @drf5n.bsky.social · 22h

A third video of WGN's Debbie Brockman being ineptly handcuffed by slobs--She was on her knees before they pushed her onto her face:

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

WGN News employee detained by federal agents on Chicago's North Side, videos show

Videos show a WGN News employee being detained by federal agents Friday on Chicago's North Side.

www.fox32chicago.com

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drf5n.bsky.social @drf5n.bsky.social · 22h

And the first videographer, Josh Thompson, has a video of the thigs pushing her into their van and then allegedly ramming Debbie Brockman's car.

Maybe they yanked her out of her car, cuffed her, abducted her, and then rammed her car?

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5.6K views · 49 reactions | Alderman Matt Martin - 47th Ward Alderman Vasquez 40Th Ward WGN TV WGN Showcase Studio-Tribune Tower Chicago Here is the video of them ramming their van into this ladies ...

Alderman Matt Martin - 47th Ward Alderman Vasquez 40Th Ward WGN TV WGN Showcase Studio-Tribune Tower Chicago Here is the video of them ramming their van into this ladies car. I have this entire...

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drf5n.bsky.social @drf5n.bsky.social · 22h

A third video of WGN's Debbie Brockman being ineptly handcuffed by slobs--She was on her knees before they pushed her onto her face:

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

WGN News employee detained by federal agents on Chicago's North Side, videos show

Videos show a WGN News employee being detained by federal agents Friday on Chicago's North Side.

www.fox32chicago.com

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drf5n.bsky.social @drf5n.bsky.social · 22h

In the X video, they had her up on her knees before they pushed her down on her face.

drf5n.bsky.social @drf5n.bsky.social · 23h

There's another video here:

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

WGN News employee detained by federal agents on Chicago's North Side, videos show

Videos show a WGN News employee being detained by federal agents Friday on Chicago's North Side.

www.fox32chicago.com

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drf5n.bsky.social @drf5n.bsky.social · 23h

The prone handcuffing position is for the most combative suspects. (Or if you want to risk positional asphyxia and do torture.)

www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtua...

USE OF HANDCUFFS | Office of Justice Programs

www.ojp.gov

drf5n.bsky.social @drf5n.bsky.social · 23h

What then happened to the Antifa parts of the Weimar Republic?

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

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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drf5n.bsky.social @drf5n.bsky.social · 1d

And Republicans control the filibuster. They just flexed on that last month:

www.cnn.com/2025/09/11/p...

GOP goes nuclear in Senate, changing rules to speed confirmation of Trump nominees after negotiations with Democrats collapse | CNN Politics

Republicans jammed through a change to Senate rules on Thursday that will allow them to more quickly confirm many of President Donald Trump’s nominees.

www.cnn.com

drf5n.bsky.social @drf5n.bsky.social · 1d

You mean when he wanted to appoint a slate of judges without the 60 vote threshold?

www.cnn.com/2025/09/11/p...

GOP goes nuclear in Senate, changing rules to speed confirmation of Trump nominees after negotiations with Democrats collapse | CNN Politics

Republicans jammed through a change to Senate rules on Thursday that will allow them to more quickly confirm many of President Donald Trump’s nominees.

www.cnn.com

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drf5n.bsky.social @drf5n.bsky.social · 1d

I'll vote for all of that stuff

And I'll vote against the concentration camps, masked secret police, the assaults and abductions they do, that felon-dude in the Epstein files, and all his minions.

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drf5n.bsky.social @drf5n.bsky.social · 1d

It runs from the current GOP leadership all way down to the masked assaulters, and all the way back past the founding. Remember these?

boingboing.net/2009/05/05/l...

Liberal hunting permit

A few conservatives kindly pointed out that the entry about the Republican Clown College was not fair and balanced. So, in the interest of fairness and balance, here's a little…

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drf5n.bsky.social @drf5n.bsky.social · 1d

This was the big red flag for me:

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There's no way you can deport 21 million people/6% of the US population without concentration camps and all their attendant problems.

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · Apr 30

Host: The law requires that every person who is going to be deported gets a hearing first. Do you acknowledge that?

Trump: I'll have to ask the lawyers about that. Do you think we can give 21 million trials? Is that what you want us to do?

Host: The law is the law, sir

drf5n.bsky.social @drf5n.bsky.social · 1d

If they’re gonna call me a terrorist for voting against the felon-puppet and his fans, I’m gonna call the Pro-concentration camp folks fascists and be anti-fascist.

You can’t deport 21,000,000 people, 6% of the USA, without concentration camps, etc…

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · Apr 30

Host: The law requires that every person who is going to be deported gets a hearing first. Do you acknowledge that?

Trump: I'll have to ask the lawyers about that. Do you think we can give 21 million trials? Is that what you want us to do?

Host: The law is the law, sir