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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 2h

The more coverage our costumed friends like the #PortlandFrog get, the more it collapses the regime's narrative that protestors against its fascist actions are violent or burning cities to the ground.

The only aggressors are masked & armed goons paid on the public dime.

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 4h

This frog will need to get the Nobel peace prize … and the Presidential Medal of Freedom some day. 🙏🏼🐸

“I’ve definitely had spicier tamales,” says Portland ICE protest frog that feds pepper sprayed - per the Oregonian.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1h

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧

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invinaveritas.bsky.social @invinaveritas.bsky.social · 1h

No, no we don't.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Pritzker: "If the Constitution means anything -- and I guess we all are questioning that right now -- the Insurrection Act cannot be invoked ... they just want troops on the ground because they want to militarize especially blue cities in blue states."

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invinaveritas.bsky.social @invinaveritas.bsky.social · 4h

Well, random interviewer, I don't think...
Imma stop you there, here's the clips
Well, I think you are taking this out of context...
Here's the full unedited clip.
Well, he is working very hard...
Here's the number of days he's gone golfing. Just this month.

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invinaveritas.bsky.social @invinaveritas.bsky.social · 4h

You're a black woman, dafuq is *wrong* with you???

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invinaveritas.bsky.social @invinaveritas.bsky.social · 7h

We'll...we'll...look at...stuff...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7d

Portland

Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 8d

Massive escalation at the ICE facility. Federal agents made multiple arrests (at least 4), threw out gas, and shot tons of pepper balls.

Heard one of the people arrested screaming minutes later. Not possible to get a visual.

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invinaveritas.bsky.social @invinaveritas.bsky.social · 7h

Trump has dementia, there may be moments after sundown when he doesn't know who the POTUS is today.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 9h

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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invinaveritas.bsky.social @invinaveritas.bsky.social · 7h

This is a feature, not a bug. Trump policy is to let us all die in the streets.

Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 18h

“CDC will have lost its ability to detect outbreaks and respond to them. It will no longer be able to track diseases, in America and around the globe. That includes infectious threats like flu, foodborne illnesses, and Ebola, as well as chronic diseases and injuries.”
time.com/7325192/cdc-...

CDC ‘Not Functional’ After Trump Administration Orders Mass Firings

The layoffs targeted leaders in departments related to respiratory diseases, chronic diseases and global health.

time.com

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 8h

Hannah Arendt distinguished totalitarianism “from other forms of political oppression known to us such as despotism, tyranny and dictatorship” in that totalitarianism seeks to subjugate civil society and private lives, not just political opponents, using psychological, not just physical, repression.

The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 9h

I saw the new George Orwell documentary last night. It’s called 2+2=5. I have been a little bit squeamish about applying the word totalitarian to Trump and the Republicans. Not anymore. We are experiencing a totalitarian movement. There’s no question.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 8h

The US is a straight-up police state, more egregious than the vast majority of ‘totalitarian regimes’ we (in the Global North) grew up being warned about.

Picture the Feds took with supposed Latin Kings leader (whose wife says he’s being framed) is 100% inspired by the IDF

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 8h

The deportation order derives from the crime of which he has now been exonerated.

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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invinaveritas.bsky.social @invinaveritas.bsky.social · 22h

The U.S. is a fascist police state.

Susie Madrak Ω @susiemadrak.bsky.social · 23h

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

invinaveritas.bsky.social @invinaveritas.bsky.social · 22h

Healthcare is a nonissue in a fascist police state where innocent people are black bagged off the street, kidnapped to 3rd world gulags, out of schools in front of their kids who are abandoned, where priests are getting shot. This isn't 2010. The stakes are the destruction of the country.

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jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · 1d

do not forget to feed your troops

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invinaveritas.bsky.social @invinaveritas.bsky.social · 23h

But this is America, where capitalism means "value" and "worth" are entirely made up numbers by billionaires that just like to own things and boast about how much they paid.

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invinaveritas.bsky.social @invinaveritas.bsky.social · 1d

The U.S. is a fascist police and the POTUS is, not incidentally, a pedophile.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

Manly men brutalize, terrorize a teen girl

Redsky @redsky.pirhoo.com · 1d

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

Link | Subreddit

invinaveritas.bsky.social @invinaveritas.bsky.social · 1d

WGN-TV Producer Arrested By ICE For No Apparent Reason

Debbie Brockman was thrown to the ground, handcuffed, and driven away at a high rate of speed, only to be released without charges a few hours later.

crooksandliars.com

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invinaveritas.bsky.social @invinaveritas.bsky.social · 1d

Section 8 #47, he has dementia, he's hallucinating most of his waking hours.

The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmileusaid.bsky.social · 1d

The sound of insanity.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

At least we no longer have to hear about freedom being in Americans' DNA or whatever. Turns out we love to eat shit and bow to some bloated halfwit like any other people throughout history

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

the idea that freedom is in our DNA is just a misinterpretation of the fact that we’re a nation of finicky whiners who don’t like to be personally inconvenienced

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

At least we no longer have to hear about freedom being in Americans' DNA or whatever. Turns out we love to eat shit and bow to some bloated halfwit like any other people throughout history

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invinaveritas.bsky.social @invinaveritas.bsky.social · 1d

Very much like Greg Abbott immediately ran for the Texas legislature to sponsor and pass tort reform laws that would ensure that no Texan every again got a multi-million dollar lifetime court judgement like the one that bought his gold-plated wheelchair.

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invinaveritas.bsky.social @invinaveritas.bsky.social · 1d

Very much like Greg Abbott immediately ran for the Texas legislature to sponsor and pass tort reform laws that would ensure that no Texan every again got a multi-million dollar lifetime court judgement like the one that bought his gold-plated wheelchair.

Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 1d

After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.