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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1h

...I get that we sound like crazy people to anyone not online enough to know who Posobiec is, to know what QAnon is, to know what Pizzagate is. People who don't watch press conferences and roundtable and the insane fucking fascist shit being spoken out loud across the internet. I get it.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 4h

had never before considered that the inflatable costumes offer pepper ball protection

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 2d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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onion person @junlper.beer · 5h

it always blows my mind when these people act like “the left just calls everyone nazis” these days and it’s like no. we’re calling nazis nazis! there just happens to be a lot of them in and around the government these days!

Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 6h

More history from this Nazi adulated by the Trump team. These are explicit, proud Nazis who scream and cry and call every referee they can find when you quote their Nazism back to them.

Multiple tweets from Nazi Jack Posobiec in 2016 making "jokes" involving the Nazi code "1488."

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 7h

Jack Posobiec is at Trump’s “Antifa roundtable” at the White House today. Last week we reported about Posobiec voting in a state he didn’t seem to live in.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

SORTOR: I took this flag from the man that was burning it in the street

TRUMP: Do you know who he is?

SORTOR: Oh yeah

TRUMP: So why don't you give it to Pam. Give it to the attorney general and we'll start prosecutions

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onion person @junlper.beer · 7h

this is an explicitely nazi administration and anyone who still supports them should be viewed as such

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 7h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1h

I am so fucking proud of the place I lived for ten years. This is the best of the city, this is the heart and the goodness of it and I'm so glad

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 12h

Dance party protests might be one of the best moves right now.

These make fascists look ridiculous, counter the "Portland is dangerous" narrative, and showcase joy and community at a time when those things are in short supply. Keep it up.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson: "This president is unstable, unhinged, a double-minded individual that quite frankly is a threat to our democracy. It's certainly not the first time that Donald Trump has called for the arresting of a Black man unjustly."

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 7h

Hi, actual journalist here! I would never "rescue" a flag of any type from a protester at an event I was covering. Because I'm a journalist, not an activist.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

SORTOR: I took this flag from the man that was burning it in the street

TRUMP: Do you know who he is?

SORTOR: Oh yeah

TRUMP: So why don't you give it to Pam. Give it to the attorney general and we'll start prosecutions

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Accountabilabuddy @accountabilabuddy.bsky.social · 1h

It's impossible to debate or even discuss policy with people who refuse to live in reality.

They've simply decided to live in a fairy tale world in which they get to murder anyone who points out they're full of shit.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 6h

feels like it should be a big deal that the president is directing the invasion of american cities based on what are almost certainly AI videos shown to him by his staff

maybe one of our ostensible news organizations could track down exactly what it is that he's seeing

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 2h

We are at this stage, apparently

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 4h

“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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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 4h

“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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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 2h

oh jesus christ

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 9h

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 2h

godspeed, it's worse than usual

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 5h

One of the reasons they're having trouble concocting a Left Wing Terrorism epidemic is basically nobody in this country has ever met a left wing person. You might as well say we're being invaded by the smurfs

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 3h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Eryq Ouithaqueue @eryq.bsky.social · 3h

Jesse Watters will soon be interviewing a woman in an ANTIFA balaclava who looks suspiciously like Robert O'Neill in a pink wig

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 2h

Oh jesus fuck that's either fantastic or terrible news, people will either see that nothing is fucking happening or they'll see something fucking happen

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 2h

oh thank god it's over

I mean it's been over for hours but I'm done watching it

Now I can either go back to working on this article about tech billionaires or drink myself to death, jury's out on which

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 2h

I'M SORRY DID TRUMP JUST IIMPLY HE'S CONSIDERING GIVING THESE FIFTH-RATE PROPAGANDISTS THE PRESIDENTIAL MEDIAL OF FREEDOM

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 2h

Yep! Kristi was like "We haven't been talking about that" and ilke yes, Kristi, I believe nobody talked about it with you, that might be the only true thing anyone's said at this meeting

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 2h

If I had any common sense or a working self-preservation instinct I'd be on a plane out of this country right fucking now

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 2h

Oh and now they're going to designate Antifa a FOREIGN TERROR ORGANIZATION

You know, in case the domestic terror designation doesn't give them enough leeway to kidnap and torture people, which -- mark my words -- is where this is going

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