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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 5h

Law and order www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Nearly half of FBI agents in major offices reassigned to immigration enforcement

Data shows stunning shift in law enforcement priorities that has raised public safety concerns

www.theguardian.com

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Nick Kodama 🌲👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 5h

Anyways, a lot of people react to fear with violence and aggression, and maybe the nuke community should take that into consideration before we try to scare the shit out of the public to raise "awareness."

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Nom de Plume Brett @maverickbrett.bsky.social · 6h

The rug game out of Idaho is going to be lit.

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Nom de Plume Brett @maverickbrett.bsky.social · 9h

Look if no one ends up in a brig for the comments they make I will be very disappointed. (As far as I remember no one in the CG did last time but that was more a function of most stations where to busy working multiple jobs to stick someone in a jail cell)

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Nom de Plume Brett @maverickbrett.bsky.social · 10h

For public record, I just purchased a frog.

hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 12h

Those are three people in inflatable frog suits.

@MrAndyNgo
Now that the local and national press have started to cover the Portland ICE area round-the-clock in reaction to the President, Antifa have devised a plan where they are encouraging one another to come in animal costumes.

The costumes serve the function of masking the violent extremism to make the direct action appear like a family-friendly gathering on camera, and to whitewash the past ultraviolence.

In 2019, Antifa devised a similar plot by giving out free "milkshakes" at a protest. But they couldn't contain their bloodthirst and nearly killed me when they saw me. In 2020, they mobilized a fake "Wall of Moms" where female Antifa supporters and members wore yellow shirts to act as human body shields while violent rioters behind them hurled projectile weapons.

photo of three people in inflatable frog costumes

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 12h

Leo Atreides with the face of an emoji frog says, "Here, in Washington, we have ruled with memo power and appropriations power. In Portland, we will need to cultivate popular power" but over "popular power" in bright green letters it says "FROG POWER"

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13h

"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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Nom de Plume Brett @maverickbrett.bsky.social · 10h

TR2OP does not flow off the tong as well tho.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 10h

i think "TACO" now is actually totally wrong. it's not that Trump chickens out. it's that maintaining a tariff regime requires object permanence

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Nom de Plume Brett @maverickbrett.bsky.social · 10h

- Border patrol liked that idea so much that’s where they learned it from.

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Nom de Plume Brett @maverickbrett.bsky.social · 10h

You can literally see it says border patrol, all reporting has said border patrol you have no excuse for identifying the wrong agency.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h

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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Nom de Plume Brett @maverickbrett.bsky.social · 10h

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Treats Hog (Good) 류강 대™🪨🕯️ @karnesmellagio.bsky.social · 10h

Imagine a situation where Maduro’s dream of using Cuban military might to oppress his people and American economic investment to keep his country afloat get implemented…..

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Nom de Plume Brett @maverickbrett.bsky.social · 11h

To re-emphasize @uticaeric.bsky.social point there is a direct line between the terrorism stand down and this where performance of values replaces actual action.

In this case we are lucky in the latter we laid the foundation for this.

VoteVets @votevets.org · 14h

Is this the military or is this kindergarten? What's next, demanding your mommy sign a note explaining why you didn't eat your entire MRE?

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Nom de Plume Brett @maverickbrett.bsky.social · 11h

The weird thing is would we rather prefer these levers in private actors hands or in the Fed governments hands right now and one of these is clearly better by a smidge.

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 11h

i don't think it's a good thing that our electoral infrastructure is dependent on companies like this who, in turn, have to accommodate absurd and bad-faith claims but there's nothing i'm seeing right now that is setting off alarm bells for the end of the Republic. it's bad in a more mundane way.

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Travis Reese (One of Many-Gravity's Rainbros) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 12h

Not only is this despeerate misdirection on the #NoKings rally, but its clear they are trying to link their willingness to disrupt government & fire workers to a "they" and agitate their followers to counter-protest. This is a dog whistle version of "stand back and stand by" all over again.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Nom de Plume Brett @maverickbrett.bsky.social · 12h

The hinterland which society has declared should not be governed as we would demand other cities.

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Nom de Plume Brett @maverickbrett.bsky.social · 12h

Also border patrol unlike ICE is trained for patrolling (although since we don’t believe in the 4th amendment applying near the border it is a bit more of a wash) and in crowd control.

Now if you want to talk about imperial bomber rang BP being used in the interior and not

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Nom de Plume Brett @maverickbrett.bsky.social · 12h

Border patrol is “well trained” in the context of police training in the US.

Now are they trained in a weird as fuck training camp in New Mexico? Yes, yes they are. Making FLETC at Glenco look normal and like their training was not designed last century.

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Nom de Plume Brett @maverickbrett.bsky.social · 12h

Russians… like all plants that handle or produce energetics are dangerous but also their is an active and persistent near peer adversary who has conducted sabotage ops in allied countries targeting similar.

apnews.com/article/tenn...

Blast at a Tennessee explosives plant leaves multiple people dead and missing, sheriff says

An explosion at a Tennessee military munitions plant has left multiple people dead and missing. The blast occurred Friday at Accurate Energetic Systems, about 60 miles southwest of Nashville.

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Nom de Plume Brett @maverickbrett.bsky.social · 12h

So I feel like the 1st amendment to the US constitution has something to say about that.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Mike Johnson: "This hate America rally that they have coming up for October 18? The antifa crowd, the pro-Hamas crowd, and the Marxists, they're all gonna gather on the Mall. It is an outrageous gathering for outrageous purposes ... all this has gotta come to an end."

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Nom de Plume Brett @maverickbrett.bsky.social · 13h

Sorry, I got distracted playing everyone’s favorite game of spot the FBI CI surveillance equipment looking at the PRC consulate.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 14h

james madison screaming from hell 'we put the capital in a swamp for a reason you dumb <slur>'

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Nom de Plume Brett @maverickbrett.bsky.social · 14h

Yes it’s great! (The Phoenix metro then gets good food imported)

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Gina Fiore @marsecgina.bsky.social · 14h

Just for that I’m going to protest for free

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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