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Malcolm Nance, Leading Resister @malcolmnance.bsky.social · 4d

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE:

This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.

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Advocacy Arena with Dee @desia.bsky.social · 4d

Collection of Season 1 highlights, revisit moments that moved us — words that challenged, inspired, and reminded us of the impact we each can make. Until next time, keep listening, keep learning, and most of all, keep connecting.

#AdvocacyArena #ConnectionsAndConversations
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Advocacy Arena's "Connections & Conversations with Dee Batiste" Season 1 Finale

YouTube video by Advocacy Arena Network

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 4d

Don't look away.

Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 4d

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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Eliza 7777777🌟🥄 @eliza7777777thstar.bsky.social · 4d

Sorry, I knew what you meant & was just laughing at how nutty it sounds & wondering if she got it from MAGA.

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Chiweenie Fella @chiweeniefella.bsky.social · 4d

I'm reading about how Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia broke free of the old Soviet Union by SINGING and HOLDING HANDS.

It's very inspiring.

Singing Revolution - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Parkrose Permaculture ❌👑 @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 4d

Old hippies in Eugene, Oregon do not come to fuck around.

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Eliza 7777777🌟🥄 @eliza7777777thstar.bsky.social · 4d

Exactly exactly!!! They are out of line FULL STOP & I really want to stop them. 🤬

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Pffftht @m22-5.blacksky.app · 4d

Criminal or not, there was no warrant. These dudes are acting out their wet dreams of authoritarianism without training or legal backing.

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Eliza 7777777🌟🥄 @eliza7777777thstar.bsky.social · 4d

She might just have some screws entirely loose with some of those takes. 🤨

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M E L L Y med @mel-med-larson.bsky.social · 4d

THEY ARE TAKING DIRECT ACTIONS 2 DRAW BLACK PEOPLE TO THE STREETS

IN ORDER
2B ARRESTED
AND KILLED

WHITE

PEOPLE

WHAT

ARE

• WE •

GONNA

DO

ABOUT

IT?

This will be the follow up to 2020 & George Floyd.

You get that right?

altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 4d

ICE tear gassed an elementary school in Chicago.

These people need to be in a jail and locked away from civil society!

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Eliza 7777777🌟🥄 @eliza7777777thstar.bsky.social · 4d

FYI but yes, what ARE we going to do?!??

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Eliza 7777777🌟🥄 @eliza7777777thstar.bsky.social · 4d

It looks like the above photo is a fake.

Be skeptical of people using the fake *PHOTO* to discredit people pushing back on *REAL ABUSE.* Family separation, racial profiling, & unlawful kidnapping/imprisonment/deportation is still inhumane & horrific. A fake photo doesn’t make it fake reality.

Jacqueline S... • @js... • 8h
This is not ICE. This is fake news. It's some kind of joke video that has been going around TikTok since last October and in July was added to a fake video claiming it was ICE.
www.tiktok.com/t/
ZP8AYLxHt/
Baby in diaper gets arrested by dad
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From: https://factually.co/fact-checks/justice/ice-raid-chicago-children-zip-tied-dd0752

1. How the explosive claim surfaced and who is repeating it
A graphic account that children were zip-tied and placed into a U-Haul in the middle of the night appears in an Atlanta Black Star article that quotes residents describing zip ties and U-Haul vans during a Border Patrol operation in Chicago's South Shore 1! The Chicago Sun-Times parallel reporting emphasizes overnight forced entries, separated children, and children taken away in U-Haul vans, capturing neighbors' descriptions of trauma and images of chaotic scenes; however, the Sun-Times pieces vary in whether they detail zip-tying specifically
[2]
131. The most formal allegation comes through a court filing by immigrant-rights groups that documents use of flash-bangs and excessive force but does not uniformly catalogue zip-tie claims across every arrested person
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From: https://factually.co/fact-checks/justice/ice-raid-chicago-children-zip-tied-dd0752

3. Eyewitness accounts vs.
contemporaneous reporting: where they align and where they diverge
Eyewitness reports relayed to Atlanta Black Star and the Sun-Times describe
children separated from caregivers, people pulled from beds, and transport in large vans described as U-Hauls, with neighbors using visceral language about zip ties and inhumane treatment 1|12. Other
Sun-Times pieces covering the same operation document similar forceful entries and the use of flash-bangs but do not consistently mention zip ties or specifically identify every transport vehicle as a U-Haul, suggesting inconsistency in granular details between sources and the possibility of varying recollections or emphasis across interviews (31141.

Eliza 7777777🌟🥄 @eliza7777777thstar.bsky.social · 4d

Yes! But also FYI about that photo (but the incident is real, just not the image being shared):

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Eliza 7777777🌟🥄 @eliza7777777thstar.bsky.social · 4d

I’m not deleting my post because the ACTION of terrorizing children & separating families is *ABSOLUTELY REAL.*

The below photo turned out to be from an innocuous silly video of a dad pretending to arrest his baby.

Beware of things like this being used to discredit REAL abuse. Broadview is real.

Eliza 7777777🌟🥄 @eliza7777777thstar.bsky.social · 4d

This was always the plan.

Because as we all know, Jesus said, “zip tie the little children” & “don’t love thy neighbor if you can racially profile & torture them instead.”

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Eliza 7777777🌟🥄 @eliza7777777thstar.bsky.social · 4d

Is that really an argument MAGA is making? 🥴

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Improbable Joe @improbablejoe.bsky.social · 4d

Ummm... ummm. Ummm? Gun control? WTAF?!?!?!??!

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Eliza 7777777🌟🥄 @eliza7777777thstar.bsky.social · 4d

Exactly.

And even if it turns out that “all” they did was break into non-criminal homes & terrorize families in the middle of the night that’s ALREADY way the fuck too much.

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 4d

If you want something to happen outside of the legal system nothing is preventing you from doing so!

But if the plan is to get every elected Dem thrown in jail, then you'd suggest what you're suggesting now.

Watch Andor I beg of y'all.

utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 4d

It is an incomprehensible moral failure to suggest we can wait until midterms. It is a servile cowardice by reprobates.

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 4d

Why? Y'all have spent the last 8 years screaming about how much better y'all are at getting people on board with your ideas than Normie elected Dems.

So go do it!

utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 4d

I am happy the no kings protest is happening but it is fundamentally insufficient. This isn’t something solved with a civil mass protest once every 3 months. It needs to blow up into something bigger and we need national democratic leadership to organize with these movements and local groups.

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Eliza 7777777🌟🥄 @eliza7777777thstar.bsky.social · 4d

White people are having a learning experience that I wish we’d had before so many people had to suffer & die.

The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 4d

Like this. People assume there must be some serious provocation, but there’s not.

“I never thought federal officers could behave this way. I really didn’t,” she said. “I always thought people must be provoking them or something, that they would never do this unprovoked. Obviously, I was wrong.”

Federal agents knock down elderly couple during Portland protest

An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.

www.oregonlive.com

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Eliza 7777777🌟🥄 @eliza7777777thstar.bsky.social · 4d

Yikes.

Bemused stick figure drinking a beverage meme

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Eliza 7777777🌟🥄 @eliza7777777thstar.bsky.social · 4d

Oh yeah, that’s egregious & profoundly unhelpful.

a close up of a cat 's face sitting on a table looking at the camera .

Alt: a close up of a cat 's disapproving face sitting on a table looking at the camera .

media.tenor.com

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Eliza 7777777🌟🥄 @eliza7777777thstar.bsky.social · 4d

I’m not deleting my post because the ACTION of terrorizing children & separating families is *ABSOLUTELY REAL.*

The below photo turned out to be from an innocuous silly video of a dad pretending to arrest his baby.

Beware of things like this being used to discredit REAL abuse. Broadview is real.

Eliza 7777777🌟🥄 @eliza7777777thstar.bsky.social · 4d

This was always the plan.

Because as we all know, Jesus said, “zip tie the little children” & “don’t love thy neighbor if you can racially profile & torture them instead.”

A sweet little kid that can’t be older than 2 years old wearing pajamas and green sneakers has arms zip tied behind their back while an ICE agent holds them. It looks like the child is crying.

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Eliza 7777777🌟🥄 @eliza7777777thstar.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah, I just heard about it not being a photo from this incident, too.

Wish people wouldn’t try to get public sympathy for a real thing using a fake photo. It makes me wonder if it was done to discredit the people trying to draw attention to these horrors.

Eliza 7777777🌟🥄 @eliza7777777thstar.bsky.social · 4d

It looks like the above photo is a fake.

Be skeptical of people using the fake *PHOTO* to discredit people pushing back on *REAL ABUSE.* Family separation, racial profiling, & unlawful kidnapping/imprisonment/deportation is still inhumane & horrific. A fake photo doesn’t make it fake reality.

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Eliza 7777777🌟🥄 @eliza7777777thstar.bsky.social · 4d

FYI:

Eliza 7777777🌟🥄 @eliza7777777thstar.bsky.social · 4d

It looks like the above photo is a fake.

Be skeptical of people using the fake *PHOTO* to discredit people pushing back on *REAL ABUSE.* Family separation, racial profiling, & unlawful kidnapping/imprisonment/deportation is still inhumane & horrific. A fake photo doesn’t make it fake reality.

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Sarah Birnbaum ❌👑 @sarahvb.bsky.social · 4d

It definitely happened! But that footage is something different and unrelated.

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Eliza 7777777🌟🥄 @eliza7777777thstar.bsky.social · 4d

It looks like the above photo is a fake.

Be skeptical of people using the fake *PHOTO* to discredit people pushing back on *REAL ABUSE.* Family separation, racial profiling, & unlawful kidnapping/imprisonment/deportation is still inhumane & horrific. A fake photo doesn’t make it fake reality.

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