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Kathleen Clark @kathleenclark.bsky.social · 4h

Eboni (Ebony?) Watson sure sounds like a hero:

‘As Watson questioned agents about warrants and the legality of their raid, neighbors pleaded with her to be quiet for her own safety. She refused to back down.
"You claim you have warrants, but do you have a warrant to seize the entire building?”’

Eboni Watson, a neighborhood resident who filmed the hours-long raid of the apartment building, told the Weekly she had just gone to bed and closed her eyes when she heard a loud
'bang', followed by the distinct buzzing of drones, a sound she had come to recognize after noticing them hovering near her home for the past three or four weeks.
A moment later, Watson's phone lit up with a notification from the Citizen app that said there'd been a car accident outside. The buzzing grew louder. She grabbed the phone and got out of bed to look out the window.
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As Watson questioned agents about warrants and the legality of their raid, neighbors pleaded with her to be quiet for her own safety. She refused to back down.
"You claim you have warrants, but do you have a warrant to seize the entire building?" she asked the agents. "Do you have warrants to detain the entire building?" According to Watson, two federal agents told her that they were taking all detainees' photos to check them against databases for visas or warrants.

When Watson walked around the block to capture footage of the ongoing raid, she noticed federal agents were using the parking lots of Excel South Shore Academy—a CPS contractor school-to load residents into vans. In them, Watson saw Black U.S. citizens, women, and children. Grabbed from their beds, they hadn't been allowed to dress themselves before they were zip-tied and brought down to the waiting vans.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 57m

Unironically, you can see how these guys’ Twitter brainrot has progressed to this stage where they have trouble remembering that you’re supposed to talk about the Nazis as the bad guys. It’s not a winking nod to neo-Nazis so much as them genuinely forgetting which way is supposed to be up

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1h

"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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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 2h

It's interesting seeing the different ways resistance has formed in different cities. Los Angeles Organized, Chicago Radicalized, and Portland Got Weird as Fuck. All 3 have had success unifying their respective cities.

I guess my point is there are multiple paths to ungovernability.

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Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield @agdanrayfield.bsky.social · 47m

LAWSUIT UPDATE RE: NATIONAL GUARD IN PORTLAND: The Ninth Circuit just granted an administrative stay preserving the status quo: the Oregon National Guard remains federalized but the president cannot deploy them.

We'll share more updates as we have them.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 20h

"We separate people from their kids. Tackle as many of them as possible. Zip-tie their toddlers and grandparents. And stand around looking tough. We look so tough. Increasingly, we also really need to take dumps."

Please Let Our Warfighters Use Your Restroom

By now, you’ve noticed our brave patriots—ICE, the National Guard, police officers, select local mall cops, rando bodyguards, weird little incels, ...

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Malaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social · 2d

“When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you... to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle is non-violence and humor." - Lennon

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 3d

wizard frog is insane

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 7h

Mike Johnson’s position is young pregnant American women shouldn’t have to wait before being turned away to die in the parking lot from an ectopic pregnancy the hospital is afraid to treat

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 10h

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Homeland Security @DHSgov

We're having an All Night Revival

Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row

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Mock @mock541.bsky.social · 5h

Aggressive driving is much worse since covid and road rage incidents specifically with firearms are way up

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Mock @mock541.bsky.social · 5h

A lot to unpack here but weak and mealy mouth to be sure, with a side of cops are the real victims.Not only won't condemn ICE violence,which is not only on video but condemned by the city attorney!Says local police can't arrest feds which is not true.Painful to listen to on several fronts.

Portland Police union president: Conflicting opinions on handling protests, 'caught in the middle'

YouTube video by KATU News

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Mock @mock541.bsky.social · 6h

Little surprised white blue eyed Jesus is not in here somewhere

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Travis Mason-Bushman @snarkranger.bsky.social · 7h

Twice now they've let Russ Vought throw out "punish the feds" trial balloons (threatening RIFs then back pay) and both times they've immediately hung him out to dry in the media. He's looking like Charlie Brown with the football at this point.

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 7h

when police unions expressly equivocate, another word for this is "lying"

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 7h

it should be a tell about what's happening in the media now that most mainstream commentators seem openly frustrated that polling does not blame democrats for the shutdown

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Mock @mock541.bsky.social · 6h

Pro life ..motherfuckers

Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 6h

This is not only amazingly racist but deeply anti-Christian. Fuck this shit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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clyde bruckman's ghost's final repost says free link @ultralaser.bsky.social · 15h

fucked up that this is all just landlords swatting their own buildings to get rid of all the working class residents so they can raise the rent or sell to a developer who'll flip them into high end condos or w/e

like it's a real estate scam! it's a fucking land grab! a fire for the insurance money!

I'm Margaret! I'm the best! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 19h

There’s a lot in here that deserves a pull quote, but this is the most egregious. I need people to recognize the gravity of the situation here in Chicago;

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"The ones that are getting out are coming home to no home," Watson said.
According to her, after the raid occurred, building management stole or threw out residents belongings, including visas and important documents.

ICIRR is still trying to determine the identities of all the people detained in the raid. Castro said that the organization usually can do that by following up with family members or loved ones. "In this instance, there was nobody left to work with," she said. The only detainee name they're sure of is that of a person who passed their Venezuelan passport to a neighbor as they were being taken away.

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Mike Duncan @mikeduncan.bsky.social · 9h

All brought to you by the same group that in a previous episode staged a riot inside the national capital to disrupt and prevent the legal transfer of power to their political rivals after losing an election

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 20h

I know it’s easy to get inured to this stuff but imagine a podcast ep where @mikeduncan.bsky.social is telling you about this happening in some other country at the same time that a crisis in parliament has shut down the national budget.

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 21h

Presidents have federalized a state's own Guard to use over its objection, most famously desegregation. And sometimes regular military has been used. But taking one state's soldiers and putting them in another state? This is a completely unprecedented breakdown of what the Union fundamentally is.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

David Medina, texting to a friend from DC on 12/12/2020. “The proud boys are currently beating the fuck out of BLM right now in DC so that kinda gives me hope.”

Medina was charged by the DOJ for his actions in DC on January 6.

Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile Noem allowed local social media streamer David Medina to ride in with her.

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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 1d

Noem appears to have arrived? Not sure how long we’ll be blocked from the street outside ICE processing facility. I can say unequivocally she did not witness anything she claims is happening at this facility, as she entered the facility…

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 8h

Good summation of the propaganda assault on Portland that is accompanying the Trump administration’s political/military assault on the city. open.substack.com/pub/goodpoli...

Sordid Sortor

A dust-up in Portland reveals the dangerous degree of Trump administration overlap with the right-wing marketplace

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