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melissagiragrant.com
i feel like am losing my mind—not just a sheriff but this sheriff at the DNC? newrepublic.com/article/1611...
THE NEW REPUBLIC Members of one such organization, called the Covenant Rescue Group, roll out in a vehicle they have promoted online as the #boogaloomobile. The Boogaloo are the overtly violent, "extremely online" group that also stormed into the Trump-enabling vanguard of the hard right in 2020. "The mission of Covenant Rescue Group is to make sure those on the front lines in the fight against human trafficking are equipped to do their job," reads an August Facebook post from the group. "Always sharpening the tip of the spear." That month, the group was in Genesee County, Michigan, and reportedly assisted in an operation with the sheriff's office to "rescue" youth from sex trafficking. On its "rescue" youth from sex trafficking. On its own Facebook page in August, CRG shared a photo of a pickup truck with an RV attached, commenting, "Bad guys don't know what's coming...... #boogaloomobile #readytoroll." The photo, posted by The Shooting Institute, was captioned with coronavirus denialism and featured anti-sex trafficking hashtags. "With everyone freaking out about this overrated Chinese Virus we decided to stay away from hotels." They were "[looking forward to linking up soon" with "@covenantrescuegroup to help fight human trafficking." Covenant Rescue Group was founded by Jared Hudson, a former Navy SEAL, according to a Michigan NBC affiliate's story. Hudson is also, according to a story on the website of the Air Education and Training Command (part of the U.S. Air Force), the CEO of TSI, "a company made up of former Navy SEALs, special operations, and law enforcement individuals that travels around providing expert level firearms and tactical training." Both groups were in Genesee County assisting local police. Genesee County Sheriff Chris Swanson started his own rescue operation after going on one with OUR, he said when reached by phone. His first operation was around five years ago, and his second was in Haiti. "That's where I met Jared Hudson, who was instrumental in forming Covenant Rescue Group." (Ballard has said that OUR has been "in the field" with Swanson; he called him a "true brother" in June.) Swanson called his domestic version of OUR the Genesee Human Oppression Strike Team (or GHOST), and it launched publicly in 2019.
August 23, 2024 at 1:38 AM
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courtneymilan.com
I love being high on hope being handed to me in giant armloads instead of having to search through the broken glass for nuggets to feel hopeful about.
July 23, 2024 at 7:58 PM
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naomikritzer.bsky.social
I am not usually a top-of-ticket donor but I think "cool, obviously it's Harris" is a message super worth sending to, you know, anyone with thoughts like "but what if we nominated Chris Evans? he's white, he's male, he played Captain America! kids love him!"

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I just gave to Kamala Harris!
Pitch in to help deliver four more years in the White House.
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July 21, 2024 at 6:44 PM