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A sPoOkY cat like that 👻 @onesparkfire.bsky.social · 5h

The press only thinks they're the referees. No, those are the judges.

The press is in a sports metaphor is the radio broadcaster. They don't call balls and strikes, they report them. If a stuck out hitter ignores the umpires and runs around the diamond anyway, you wouldn't report a home run.

Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 6h

In other words, the lie and all the ills the lie is fashioned to justify has to be the frame of this story. If you're going to try to stay in referee mode, this is at least a useful use of framing to create an informed public rather than one that frustrated by competing claims about faraway cities.

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 7h

This isn’t just garden variety politicians bending the truth. He is claiming a city is on fire and describing it as war-torn. That is a vivid image in the public imagination that is harrowing if true, but also one being used to justify a whole host of oppressive military actions.

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 7h

The news is not an argument about reality if one party’s claims are provably false. It’s an asymmetric discussion that requires different tools than a policy disagreement. It requires calling a lie a lie, to describe the liar as untethered from provable reality, and to ask what this means.

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 7h

But the underlying claim serving as justification is *not* true. The media knows this. So we have military occupation and oppression without a truthful justification, and the public should at the very least be told this clearly over and over if journalists aren’t going to call it fascism.

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 7h

A neutral press can only offer a conflicting account to a public habituated to treat competing information with equal weight. But if the goal of journalism is to give non-Portland citizens what they need to decide, is a neutral press what we need? Or ought a pro-citizen press do more?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

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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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 15h

They are not planning "a violent crackdown" on 10.18. What they are doing is sending a signal to their shock troops to try to cause havoc. But those shock troops will be vastly outnumbered. Go out and protest freely. Do not be cowed.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 8h

Hot new item. Flying off the shelves.

Silence 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @b-dogood.bsky.social · 9h

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9h

“.. Frank Miranda, 46, filmed ICE agents confronting him before work on Oct. 2, demanding that he answer questions about where he was born. When he refused, agents threatened him with a dog ..”

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 13h

There is no need to editorialize. Just quote.

“Why don’t we tattoo a Star of David on the forehead of every terrorist we have to release?” - My daughter

Proud father.

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A sPoOkY cat like that 👻 @onesparkfire.bsky.social · 6h

That's "we're gonna lose the next election" talk. They love shutdowns because they don't give a shit about Americans getting paid or getting services. But they know Democrats do. They have routinely taken the country hostage for concessions. Just end the filibuster. You're in charge. Make the call.

ringwiss @ringwiss.bsky.social · 9h

“And that’s why we nuked it twice in the past month.”

A sPoOkY cat like that 👻 @onesparkfire.bsky.social · 7h

What happened to Melissa Hortman that morning was the direct result of the same kind of hysterical hand ringing that is going on right now from every corner of Republican Party about these protests. There was no violence at those protests. The right killed democratic lawmakers.

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 7h

You know, I really do think he is this disconnected from reality. It's not a bit. His staff treat him like a mushroom, and run with the outputs.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

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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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11h

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 · 11h

"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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A sPoOkY cat like that 👻 @onesparkfire.bsky.social · 7h

It's not enough that they killed Melissa Hortman, her husband, even her dog. They have to kill her memory too. Over and over and over again. She didn't do a goddamn thing to them except embarrass them by getting murdered by one of their own.

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A sPoOkY cat like that 👻 @onesparkfire.bsky.social · 7h

You know what the truth is?

Alex Jones emphatically warned his audience for weeks that the left was launching the civil war on June 14th, and one of his avid listeners made a preemptive strike.

Listen to his show from those days, listen to what he said. He even brought up Minneapolis as a target.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

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."

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 3d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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A sPoOkY cat like that 👻 @onesparkfire.bsky.social · 12h

They were just trying to scare us. Other SecDefs weren't as dumb as Hegseth and didn't brag about it.

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12h

Hegseth sucks. The Qataris suck. But we aren’t giving Qatar an airbase in Idaho. It’s building dorms etc. at an existing base to train them on F-15s we sold them, just like Singapore already has there. Common arrangement we have with lots of countries. This one was already being planned under Biden.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 13h

Three key points:
1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February
2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty
3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise

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The RIFs have begun.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13h

Family says Border Patrol agents shot and killed their dog after being given permission to search the house for undocumented immigrants.

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El Paso family claims Border Patrol killed their dog during search, CBP reviewing incident

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says they are reviewing a "use of force incident" in El Paso, after a family says a Border Patrol agent unjustifiably shot...

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 14h

Trying to scare people. But it won't work. No one looks scared to me anymore. And it's power in numbers. All the TV hits in the world won't change the fact that when Americans see the sheer number of people out there, absolutely no one will believe anything these guys say.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

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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A sPoOkY cat like that 👻 @onesparkfire.bsky.social · 13h

They're trying to get peaceful protesters killed. Just call it what it is. They're giving the brownshirt volunteers permission to show up with their guns and use them.

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 13h

Republicans are softening the ground for violence against unarmed peaceful protest.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

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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A sPoOkY cat like that 👻 @onesparkfire.bsky.social · 14h

The last protests were completely peaceful. The only violence was from a conservative Infowarrior Alex Jones listener who was told, by Jones and his guests all that week, that the left was beginning the civil war that day, and so he murdered Democratic leaders.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

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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A sPoOkY cat like that 👻 @onesparkfire.bsky.social · 14h

Bet.

Watch me out tea party these American hating fucks who call our country a hellhole.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

The House Majority Whip is also insisting that a peaceful "No Kings" demonstration is in fact a "hate America rally" held for the "terrorist wing" of the Democratic Party.

Really feels like they're trying to manifest a violent reaction to it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Jay @rogueaiconstruct.bsky.social · 15h

It’s because of these assholes that I’ll be attending my first No Kings rally on October 18. I value my rights so much I’m doing what I think is the best course of action to preserve them, which is the opposite of “hating the country”.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

The House Majority Whip is also insisting that a peaceful "No Kings" demonstration is in fact a "hate America rally" held for the "terrorist wing" of the Democratic Party.

Really feels like they're trying to manifest a violent reaction to it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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