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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 12h

I remember Tarrio’s snitch revelations to be particularly earthshattering back in 2021

Woulda thought they’d kick his teeth in faster lol

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 12h

This is mostly unrelated, but it’s absolutely wild to me that Tarrio wasn’t immediately jumped into an early grave upon his release after it was revealed that he was a federal informant

Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 17h

On Friday, Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio announced on his podcast that because "it seems like [the] Portland Police Bureau is not doing their job," "the Proud Boys will be coming back to Portland" in "one capacity or another."

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 19h

Born and raised in Omaha—Schmaderer’s tenure as police chief has sucked for pretty much all of it, and his handling of the 2020 protests was ass. Not surprised he still can’t keep a grip on the racist assholes in his department. I’ll be surprised if those chucklefucks are actually fired

Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 1d

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 19h

Oh my god YES

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 19h

Absolutely fucked, man, what the hell

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 21h

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 20h

Hey chat is it cool when an elected official uses the word “cleansing” to refer to uprooting a class of people

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Schmitt: "Let's just call it out. We need a cleansing here. Let's just be truthful about what's happening. This left-wing political violence is not a both sides thing. It's not."

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 20h

His works on antifascism in the US were and still are some of my most returned-to texts that I pick up every year. This fucking sucks, man

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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 20h

The attack on Mark is another stunt by right-wing grifters to victimize a random person in an effort to use MAGA fear mongering to justify their existence. It should go without saying we should do anything possible to support his family.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 20h

Mark Bray is a brilliant scholar and by all accounts a caring and wonderful educator, and is now moving to Europe because the fascists doxed him and his family

Feels pretty huge that he’s forced to do this—the harassment was bad in ‘16 but I don’t think he’s ever felt compelled to leave the country

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 1d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 1d

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April Verrett @seiupres.bsky.social · 4d

After a decade of relentless organizing, gig drivers in CA just made history. With #AB1340 signed into law, drivers now have the RIGHT to form a union, bargain with Uber & Lyft, and win real power on the job. This is what worker-led change looks like. #Unions4All #CAgigunion

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 1d

lmao, I took notes! Copious amounts of them! Listened to this DOJ lawyer go "We take issue with opposing council saying we're racially profiling" and then advocate for racially profiling people

It was breathtaking, man. At this point I'd rather the gov just fucking own their racism

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 1d

I literally sat in a federal courtroom in Los Angeles and listened to the DOJ make the case for racial profiling...to a federal judge. I heard it with my own two ears, man! They appealed it all the way to the Supreme Court!

The spin here is amazing

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

DHS's Tricia McLaughlin: "It is a disgusting smear to say there is racial profiling going on."

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 1d

yes lol

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 1d

yeah I know lmao

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 1d

getting to the bottom of it, one dollar at a time

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 1d

amazing question

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 1d

Provocative! Looking forward to seeing this shit cited in later legislation banning rescue inhalers to "save the climate"

Meanwhile a Chevron oil refinery blew up in El Segundo last weekend and spewed toxic smoke into the atmosphere for 12 hours, and Chevon's response was "we're reworking protocol"

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh

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Twilight Greenaway @twyspy.bsky.social · 1d

Farmworkers in the Coachella Valley work in intense heat 8 months a year. Air conditioning is essential to their recovery at the end of each day. But it's expensive!

I visited on a sweltering day to document an effort to bring costs down for one family. 🌞
insideclimatenews.org/news/0410202...

Farmworkers in the Hottest Part of California Find State Funds to Cool Their Homes and Save on Energy - Inside Climate News

California allocates $20 million a year for energy efficiency upgrades for low-income homeowners, and supporters of the farmworkers program want $10 million added.

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 1d

❤️

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 1d

lmao BRETT

Honestly understandable, owls are amazing

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 1d

Took me at least two days to unclench my jaw, it was nuts. I really had to just stop everything and shuffle around my apartment for multiple days just to feel like I was able to think properly

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 1d

Taking time off and away from The Internet was absolutely needed, I feel like my brain is finally breathing again.

Back on shift at the Writing Factory, good shit to come soon :D

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 1d

NEW — Today, Illinois and Chicago jointly filed a federal lawsuit, asking a judge to block Trump’s efforts to federalize and deploy troops to Illinois, and to declare the actions unlawful.

The lawsuit includes a history of Trump’s “animus” toward a Chicago, as well.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/live...

LIVE: Illinois, Chicago sues Trump to block National Guard deployment; Pritzker and Johnson to speak at presser today • The TRiiBE

The plaintiffs are asking a judge to block Trump’s efforts to federalize and deploy troops to Illinois, and to declare the actions unlawful.

thetriibe.com

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