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Josh Manning

@joshmanning.bsky.social

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Iraq War vet. Former intelligence community Russia then counterterrorism analyst. Now: middling flak. MI —> MT —> WA. Warren-Occupy core. Social justice warrior. Opinions, quirks mine. Words: LA Times, Foreign Policy, Newsweek. Face: MSNBC, Al Jazeera

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Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 24d

So here is what I think is happening, because I had a front row seat to Mike Flynn doing this sort of thing at DIA … The agencies are collecting intelligence from bad sources or dictating what they want their sources to say so it ends up in raw reporting. They can then weaponize this intel.

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 24d

Personnel from a U.S. warship boarded a Venezuelan tuna boat with nine fishermen while it was sailing in Venezuelan waters, Venezuela’s foreign minister said on Saturday, underlining strained relations with the United States.
https://to.pbs.org/46hft5R

Venezuela says U.S. warship raided a tuna boat as tensions rise in the Caribbean

www.pbs.org

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Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 3h

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

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Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 3h

Her silver spoon moment still lives with me.

Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 3h

Wait, pee pee boy has thoughts on a philosophy?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 3h

You got it.

Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 3h

Totally get it. This is meant to provoke. Don’t give in. Find your local community and bond together. It’s what they fear most. And make it local. What works in Chicago, what works in Portland, what works in wherever next … make it yours. They don’t understand community. They only understand self.

🎃 Fiona "Fi" Webster 🎃 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 4h

Kristi Noem compared antifa to MS-13, Hamas, Hezbollah & the Islamic State, calling the loosely affiliated network of antifascist street activists “just as dangerous” as designated terrorist organizations.

WTF? This is making me lose my cool...

Kristi Noem compares antifa to MS-13, Hamas, Hezbollah and the Islamic State

Homeland security secretary calls loosely affiliated network of anti-fascist street activists ‘just as dangerous’

www.theguardian.com

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Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 4h

*Bono voice over a crowd* Richard Spencer stole the frog. Now we stealin him back! *guitar wails*

Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 4h

Is our frog called Epep? Because I feel a balancing here.

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 4h

So… young folks on paddle boards? If that’s what they are doing in Venezuela, I guess that’s the plan here? Avoid public lakes and rivers!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Bondi: "Bondi: "Just like we did with cartels, we are going to take the same approach, President Trump, with antifa -- destroy the entire organization from top to bottom. We are going to take them apart."

Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 4h

Last couple day. It’s so beautiful to see.

Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 4h

I welcome the new, inflatable overlords.

Microplastics Spookmelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 4h

portland has fallen

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Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 4h

The Inflatables have taken the city.

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Microplastics Spookmelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 4h

portland has fallen

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Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 4h

Initial signs are good.

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Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social · 6h

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

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Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 5h

Our American Idiocracy

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 9h

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 5h

Yessir.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 8h

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 9h

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 5h

Next to my Soros bucks.

Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 5h

Goodluckwiththat!

Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 5h

NEW: Russian President Vladimir Putin remains committed to his theory of victory, which holds that Russia can outlast the West and Ukraine in a war of attrition, and his demand for Ukraine’s full capitulation. (1/

Read the full update: isw.pub/UkrWar100825

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Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 5h

I feel like that makes it more special.

Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 5h

Classic.

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Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 5h

Right? Nine months in! But also, I guess nine still gives some lead time for them to see more of the red flags everyone has been waving since … well, 2016.

Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 5h

Hey yo, @schiff.senate.gov

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Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 5h

Ya think?!?!?!?!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Schiff: "You begin to wonder -- do they believe they have the authority by putting some groups on a list, even domestic groups, to use lethal force against them, with no trial, no due process, no nothing? The reality is we can't rule that out."

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