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Andrew Sweet @andrewsweet.bsky.social · 2h

#PortlandWarZone

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Andrew Sweet @andrewsweet.bsky.social · 3h

I get that we have a lot to deal with rn. But I think its important to remember the price *the world* has paid for Trump's billionaire tax cuts.

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Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Andrew Sweet @andrewsweet.bsky.social · 12h

Honestly, we haven't overthrown a tyrants in a while. A bit out of practice, but we're remembering...

MS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · 16h

Dear Retired & Fired Generals,

Please consider leading the REVOLUTION against the Mad King. You have an ENTIRE army of citizens and denizens who will follow. I PROMISE.

Love, America

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 12h

All these headlines saying “Bondi Goes on the Attack.” Really? She wasn’t in the octagon, she’s a public servant who was at an oversight hearing. Her job was to answer questions. She refused to do her job. Stop glamorizing and whitewashing this moronic, performative bullshit.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 13h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 15h

Here’s video of the incident

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Andrew Sweet @andrewsweet.bsky.social · 12h

Hey, thanks! Didn't know about this.

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🌸Norma Jeen🌸 @normajeen.bsky.social · 13h

I'll say his name... David Rose, HERO!
RIP 🩵💔
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Andrew Sweet @andrewsweet.bsky.social · 12h

Remember your oath!!!

Aut. Stuart Miller 📖✍️🤓 @authorstuartmiller.bsky.social · 16h

Posted about 23 hrs ago
Credit: @btnewsroom.bsky.social

"btnewsroom: In response to the announced deployment of 200 National Guard troops & 150 🧊 agents to Portland, a group of military veterans gathered in front of City Hall, calling on service members to remember their oath to the Constitution"

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Andrew Sweet @andrewsweet.bsky.social · 13h

Just a reminder: "they" only have the power we give them. The people can't be merciful and patient, as we have been.

But don't mistake our proclivity for peaceful protests for weakness.

We know who really has the power.

It's us.

And it will always be us.

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 15h

I agree, a defining moment of our era. What is ICE? This is ICE.

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 16h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16h

Update from the war zone in Portland.

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Iraq War Vet @corgwynmom.bsky.social · 13h

HOOAH

Fight Like a Girl – Satirical Rock Protest Against Hegseth’s “Male Standard”

YouTube video by John D. Cundle

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Andrew Sweet @andrewsweet.bsky.social · 13h

See you in the streets.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 18h

@merovingians.bsky.social gets it.

Go to a No Kings protest. Make connections on the ground. Join or form a group, whether it’s 50501 or something more obviously leftist.

Use those connections for mutual aid and to organize anti-ICE action, boycott, prep strikes and more.

See you in the streets

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 3d

this is why leftists dismissing 50501 and such as a bunch of useless libs is so unserious. 50501 is mustering protests across the country without a major provocation. it's a dress rehearsal and we're really fucking rusty.

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DEMSEC @demsec.bsky.social · 22h

Stephen froze like a deer in the headlights and pretended to have connection issues because he unintentionally gave away the game plan.

“Plenary authority is complete, absolute power over a specific area or issue, with no significant limitations."

Show people this clip. This is an insane slip up.

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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 21h

Pam Bondi is simply no match - intellectually or ethically - for Adam Schiff.

Watch this must-see clip as he dissects and exposes her pathetic performance today.

When she realizes how badly he is rolling her, she tries to interrupt. But it’s to no avail. She knows that he has her dead to rights.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

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Andrew Sweet @andrewsweet.bsky.social · 17h

Lesson? Bear witness. Always be recording around the goon squad...

Madz @madz123.bsky.social · 18h

Y’all! The woman in Chicago who was shot by ICE after allegedly ramming agents with her car didn’t do it.
Body-cam footage shows the opposite. The ICE agent rammed her then jumped out, and started shooting. Video posted on social media forced them to release their footage.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 18h

Chicagoans are calling it "Operation Butterfingers."

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lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 1d

I guess I shouldn't be *surprised* but it is making my head spin that the feds have shot two people, with live rounds, killing one of them, in Chicagoland in recent weeks, and in both cases they were very clearly found to be lying about what happened, and essentially nothing is happening about it.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 21h

This is Adelita Grijalva.

She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

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Andrew Sweet @andrewsweet.bsky.social · 21h

My kids are fine. And...as importantly, not assholes.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

I guess they’ve moved on from Cracker Barrel.

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Thomas (TJ) Lawrence @bidder13.bsky.social · 1d

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

In the last few weeks we’ve watched ICE:

Pepper spray the Portland frog
Tear gas members of Chicago PD
Zip tie children
Grab Chicagoans from their beds in dead of the night
Open fire on a civilian in her car

Yet they say immigrants are the threat.

Protesters are the threat.

We know better.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

What's happening in Chicago is not normal.

The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Q: Why do you say some federal workers should not get their backpay?

TRUMP: Well, you're gonna have to figure that out. Ask the Democrats

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