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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 14h

What the actual fuck??? This is a really scary situation. This family is already facing death threats which is why they are leaving.

Because Dr. Bray is a scholar of anti-fascism.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 15h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 1d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

This made me laugh so hard. Second screenshot is of the video posted by Benny Johnson of the event.

Benny Johnson « @bennyjohnson
X.com
BREAKING: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem stares down army of Antifa and a guy in a chicken suit from the rooftop of the ICE facility here in Portland.
Noem says:
"Hey; Guy in the chicken suit. You can do better.
Too bad they are uneducated and ill-informed."
Noem isn't chicken: [chicken emoji]

A view from the roof of the building. There are about 15-20 people visible in total, several of whom appear to be reporters. Most are holding signs. They aren’t even taking up the whole sidewalk. One guy is wearing a chicken suit.

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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 2d

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

The picture from
The article with a picture of an armed men standing in front of a burning donut shop. You must click through to read the caption “
Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992.
The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city.”

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Celeste Ramsay @celesteramsay.bsky.social · 3d

As far as I can tell, I'm still subscribed to the lists and their owners can still add accounts to the lists, but you can't share them anymore. I think the word "bigot" in the description is the biggest trigger, so that should tell you something.

Celeste Ramsay @celesteramsay.bsky.social · 3d

All of my block lists besides the one for annoying FB meme posters have been hidden. Out of all the block lists that I subscribed to, most are hidden now except for the content scrapers. There's almost no point in trying to make a moderation list you intend to be public.

Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 3d

bluesky: community moderation! we're all about community moderation! we want you to moderate yourselves! we are giving you the tools to do it yourself!

one of the biggest and longest running community mod lists:

Vergil @ ✊🏽🏳️‍⚧️ @vergiliaux.art · 3d

BSky hid @asukafield.xyz's transphobia mod list. 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

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merritt @merrittk.com · 3d

it remains really funny that this site was spun up to be a crypto/rationalist platform and then old time weird twitter people and others started moving over here in spring 2023 and ever since management has been mad they're successful but not in the way they wanted

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Celeste Ramsay @celesteramsay.bsky.social · 3d

Didn’t Zoom have a similar origin? They were developing some office suite with video conferencing that was public beta when COVID shutdown started and everyone needed a free download to WFH. Now they are a video conferencing biz and don’t seem that mad about it.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 3d

Immergut: I'm handling this on expedited basis, but defendants haven't provided new info.

SHE RULES FROM THE BENCH: I grant the plaintiffs motion for a second TRO based on reasons stated in previous order...

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 3d

The feds, meanwhile, have not only their own (presumably paid) videographers creating content for them, but also an army of right wing activists (many with admin ties) churning out selectively shot and edited video to present the pro-government side of the situation. bsky.app/profile/seth...

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 5d

Update: Just opened up Twitter and this was the first thing in my "for you" feed. Two of those "local journalists" covering the protests at the ICE facility who somehow were able to get a picture of themselves on the roof of that facility. Surely ICE had nothing to do with this, yes?

Katie Daviscourt
@KatieDaviscourt • 47m
On top of the roof at Portland ICE with @hunnybadgermom!

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Celeste Ramsay @celesteramsay.bsky.social · 3d

Helicopters in the evening, then some guerilla rave down by the Springwater Trail thumping until 5AM, then about 7AM the cheering for the marathon started, and power tools will be running all day as we finish some home repairs. Is there any escape, from noise?

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Ingrid @itlz.bsky.social · 4d

saw some feds taking advantage of the amazing portland food scene at the domino’s on 21st and division today

photo taken outside of a domino’s pizza showing two federal police officers exiting the domino’s carrying probably 15 pizzas, and heading to their ugly police SUV.

close up of two federal police officers exiting a domino’s location, carrying approximately 15 pizzas

close up of the front passenger side of a police SUV outside a domino’s. passenger side door reads “federal protective service” “POLICE” and “Homeland Security”

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Celeste Ramsay @celesteramsay.bsky.social · 4d

This one not from town but doing a good job of coverage. www.youtube.com/live/FW8ZfMb...

LIVE: Portland ICE Protest- Portland, Oregon

YouTube video by Mercado Media

www.youtube.com

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 4d

MORE: Immergut issued a stark warning that the efforts by Trump to make a bad-faith justification to call up the guard risked plunging the country into a form of unconstitutional military rule.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Celeste Ramsay @celesteramsay.bsky.social · 4d

The judge did seem a little skeptical when the US attorney could only point to social media posts from the president as to why this would be needed. GTFO

Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 4d

Trump-nominated federal judge grants Oregon' request for a temporary restraining order to block federalization of Oregon Nation Guard and deployment to Portland storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 4d

Trump-nominated federal judge grants Oregon' request for a temporary restraining order to block federalization of Oregon Nation Guard and deployment to Portland storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Celeste Ramsay @celesteramsay.bsky.social · 4d

I'm glad the PDX folks down at the ICE headquarters got my memo and they're blasting Stevie Wonder and Zamfir, Master of the Pan Flute at them.

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Celeste Ramsay @celesteramsay.bsky.social · 4d

I’m about a mile away over the river and my windows are closed and we both started coughing and itching soon after this incident.

Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 4d

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.

Celeste Ramsay @celesteramsay.bsky.social · 4d

Nick might have even been closer to the ground, and he’s completely unmoored from Portland.

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Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · 4d

Read this thread from a great Portland reporter! The New York Times running this story today is absolutely calculated. It has been positioning Portland for years as a progressive villain. Also: why send a reporter from the Bay when the NYT has at least two reporters who actually live in Portland.

Taylor Griggs @taylorgriggs.bsky.social · 4d

This article has a lot more important problems so I feel stupid saying this…but umm…the Mercury wrote and published the first major article about the DSA councilors back in June. Of course it isn’t the local reporting linked or mentioned here.

What Happens When Socialists Are in Charge? Portland Offers a Glimpse.

www.nytimes.com

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 5d

i think i would prefer it if bluesky leadership was honest with how much they loathe having a large social media app that they never wanted, spun it off into separate company, and then went back off to Protocol Land where they never have to think about the opinions of plebeians ever again.

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Celeste Ramsay @celesteramsay.bsky.social · 5d

JFC, they wanted to send paratroopers to Portland.

taber @kvetch.gay · 5d

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 10d

bsky corp is coiners, rationalists and neoreactionaries, atproto is full of stuff you'd only think was a good idea if you were a coiner, they got a fucking NFT grifter as an investor and board member, they chose Jesse Singal over the filthy queers waving handfuls of dollars at them, etc etc etc

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Celeste Ramsay @celesteramsay.bsky.social · 5d

And again.

Celeste Ramsay @celesteramsay.bsky.social · 6d

Fucking helicopters are back over the ICE office in Portland.

Celeste Ramsay @celesteramsay.bsky.social · 5d

Solid primer and timeline with an entertaining trip down memory lane to 2019 Portland in the middle. @michaelehayden.bsky.social even remembered that antifa made Andy drop his fruit.

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 10d

New Posting Through It: What the Hell Is Antifa? — with @letsgomathias.bsky.social

The three of us breakdown the decade long disinfo campaign around antifa that led us to this objectively insane moment.

Grab it here and anywhere podcasts go!👇🏽
www.patreon.com/posts/139790...

040: What the Hell is Antifa? feat. Christopher Mathias | Posting Through It

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