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Paul Barrett ❌👑 @paulthedogman.bsky.social · 2h

Glimmer of Hope Dept.: Oregon's National Guard general says HIS troops are being trained to protect PROTESTERS against ICE thuggery. Hell, yes: We the People, massive peaceful protest, and the guys with guns protecting the Americans exercising their rights. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Oregon general’s testimony that National Guard troops ‘will be protecting any protesters’ gains traction online

Brigadier General Alan R. Gronewold made the comments to state lawmakers Sept. 30, and they drew notice on social media this week.

www.oregonlive.com

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Paul Barrett ❌👑 @paulthedogman.bsky.social · 2h

Grim indeed. I fear we are heading toward some serious mass violence. Kent State x 1,000. How will We the People react to that? If there is unprecedented massive peaceful resistance, then I think we will turn the tide.

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Paul Barrett ❌👑 @paulthedogman.bsky.social · 2h

By sending in federal storm troopers and National Guard, the Bozo Fascist heightened tension and intensified conflict, which he then used as a justification for the fascist intervention. Fabricating emergencies as an excuse to suspend the rule of law is Fascism 101. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Before Trump Ordered in Troops, Federal Officers Called Portland Protests ‘Low Energy’

www.nytimes.com

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Paul Barrett ❌👑 @paulthedogman.bsky.social · 2h

Yes, reposted on that separately. Not stopped, exactly. He said that someone somehow had managed to cancel his airline tickets. Amazing. Horrifying.

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Paul Barrett ❌👑 @paulthedogman.bsky.social · 2h

A Rutgers expert on anti-fascism received death threats after being targeted by Charlie Kirk's fascist youth group. The Rutgers prof is fleeing w/ his family to Spain. This is how fascism destroys society. (Kirk assassination was heinous; Kirk himself was heinous.) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

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Paul Barrett ❌👑 @paulthedogman.bsky.social · 2h

Chicago, stand strong. Resist massively and peacefully. People in the street can stop the Bozo Fascist Regime and all of its storm troopers, flying monkeys, and Little Joseph Goebbels and Carl Schmitts.

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 5h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 3d

I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 6h

“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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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 6h

Adelita Grijalva won her election fair and square.

Now House Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to swear her in because she would be the final signature to release the Epstein files.

Mr. Speaker, respect democracy. Obey the law. Swear Representative Grijalva in immediately.

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LisaLisa @lisalisa42.bsky.social · 1d

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Democratic Women of South Orange County @dwsoc.bsky.social · 6h

Chicago protests rising tonight. 10/8/25. Listen to this protester explain why they are out tonight.

Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 6h

Chicago protester: The National Guard is not welcome here. Crime is under control. Military occupation doesn't make our cities safer. Resources and investment in community makes our city safer. My family left Eastern Europe because of the pogrom.

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Paul Barrett ❌👑 @paulthedogman.bsky.social · 6h

I stand with Justin.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

“I’m proud to be one of US… I’m ready to fight for US… the 🇺🇸 House of Representatives must be centered on US…”

MEMPHIS Rep. @Justinjpearson’s campaign for Congress launch video👇🏽 (which mentions #MedicareForAll as a policy priority 🏆 )

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

It's a rambling mess of bullshit, capped off by "we'd like to make Obamacare better" from the same asshole who repeatedly tried to kill it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump: "Democrats want to approve healthcare for illegals coming into our country, many of them coming from prisons and mental institutions and drug dealers. We don't want that for our people because that's gonna destroy the healthcare that we already have. We'd like to make Obamacare better."

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Paul Barrett ❌👑 @paulthedogman.bsky.social · 6h

Unfortunately, Trump and Noem WANT a Kent State tragedy -- as an excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act and impose martial law. It sounds crazy, but that's what's going on. WE the People must respond with unprecedented peaceful mobilization. STOP THE FASCISTS!

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 6h

This is well said. Trump and Noem need to back off before we have another Kent State tragedy.

Tweet from Aaron Reichlin-Melnick quoting Laura N. Rodríguez Presa.
Aaron’s comment: “DHS is an escalation spiral; the more they do things like this, the more people on the ground push back... and I'm deeply worried what the ultimate result will be.”
Laura’s tweet reads: “A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them... Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents ICE activity, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.”
Attached photo shows a federal agent inside a vehicle pointing a rifle out of the driver’s side window.

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Paul Barrett ❌👑 @paulthedogman.bsky.social · 6h

Why do people love Julie?

Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 8h

Me to TSA agent: Thanks for working today.
Agent: You’re welcome!
Me: I hope you get paid soon.
Agent: [big laugh] Me too!!!!
All smooth so far at Newark.

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Paul Barrett ❌👑 @paulthedogman.bsky.social · 6h

Ciattarelli STRUCK OUT trying to make an issue of Mikie Sherrill's Naval Academy record. He alleged she's hiding something. She answered that she refused to rat out cheating classmates and went on to an honored career as a combat helicopter pilot. Nothing to hide. newjerseyglobe.com/governor/nav...

Navy classmate defends Sherrill in new digital ad - New Jersey Globe

Responding to questions about her role in the 1994 U.S. Naval Academy cheating scandal, Democrat Mikie Sherrill uses a friend from Annapolis in a new

newjerseyglobe.com

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Paul Barrett ❌👑 @paulthedogman.bsky.social · 6h

KNOCK OUT. Mikie puts Ciattarelli on his ass in the debate. He came off as a Trump apologist obfuscating how the Bozo Fascist's policies hurt NJ, endorsing MAGA cruelty and demeaning public service. Plus his business was built on minimizing the harms of opioid painkillers. www.nj.com/politics/202...

Ciattarelli often touts his ‘Main Street’ business on the campaign, but it was no mom-and-pop operation

His company was paid more than $12 million to produce continuing education materials leveraging his ties to the pharma industry.

www.nj.com

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Paul Barrett ❌👑 @paulthedogman.bsky.social · 6h

Mikie Sherrill hits Jack Ciattarelli hard in the debate for his role heading a medical publishing business that obfuscated the dangers of opioid painkillers. Thousands of New Jersey resident have died from opioid overdoses; many more have suffered from addiction. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkEr...

NJSDC - Opioid

YouTube video by NJDSC Response

www.youtube.com

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Paul Barrett ❌👑 @paulthedogman.bsky.social · 6h

Sherrill gives a strong answer on immigration, calling for secure borders combined with humane immigration reform. Ciattarelli endorses Trump's indecent, lawless immigration policies and ICE violence. abc7ny.com/post/watch-l...

LIVE: Watch the New Jersey gubernatorial debate

Democrat Mikie Sherrill and Republican Jack Ciattarelli will face off in their second debate on Wednesday, Oct. 8, on WABC-TV and wherever you stream ABC 7 New York.

abc7ny.com

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Paul Barrett ❌👑 @paulthedogman.bsky.social · 6h

Mikie Sherrill is kicking Jack Ciattarelli's ass in the governor debate. Jack gives Trump an "A" grade; Mikie says "F" and backs it up well. Trump wants to cut the Gateway infrastructure improvements; Ciattarelli meekly goes along with it. abc7ny.com/post/watch-l...

LIVE: Watch the New Jersey gubernatorial debate

Democrat Mikie Sherrill and Republican Jack Ciattarelli will face off in their second debate on Wednesday, Oct. 8, on WABC-TV and wherever you stream ABC 7 New York.

abc7ny.com

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Paul Barrett ❌👑 @paulthedogman.bsky.social · 11h

Little Kash Patel and Rabid Pam Bondi have reassigned 25% of the FBI to chasing immigrant landscapers and restaurant employees, rather than real national security threats, white collar criminals, and violent Russian gangsters. Making America Unsafe Again. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

A quarter of FBI agents are assigned to immigration enforcement, per FBI data

Nearly a quarter of FBI agents are currently assigned to immigration enforcement, with the number climbing above 40 percent in the bureau’s largest field offices.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Paul Barrett ❌👑 @paulthedogman.bsky.social · 14h

Watch this forkin' video RIGHT NOW. This is brilliant, important stuff.

SayItToMyFace🚫👑 @sayittomyface.bsky.social · 18h

I follow @emmanueljamir.bsky.social here on Bluesky but I see no recent posts & this video from TikTok is extremely well acted & produced! Well done Emmanuel! This is an important discussion for us all to have with our friends & families! Not being into politics IS a political stance!

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Paul Barrett ❌👑 @paulthedogman.bsky.social · 14h

Sadly, Professor Bill McGuire is airing a dirty little secret about the higher education industrial complex - true in the U.S., as well, apparently, as in the U.K. Still...we must resist the Trump Regime's attempt to crush higher ed along with the rest of civil society.

Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 15h

Universities are now fully incorporated into the business sector

Forget education, their main purpose is research and bringing in the cash

Teaching undergraduates is bottom of the pile, and something they can't get out of doing - yet

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

www.theguardian.com

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Paul Barrett ❌👑 @paulthedogman.bsky.social · 14h

This is a beautiful/sickening illustration of the endless MSM appetite for "counterintuitive" takes. Rather than dig into corruption and depredation in plain sight, explaining how it works and who stands to profit, tell readers that it ain't so bad or that Charlie Kirk "did politics the right way."

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 6d

I’ve been looking around for the most credulous mid-campaign piece about Trump’s obviously fatuous Project 2025 disavowal, and I think it might be this one from Politico. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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Paul Barrett ❌👑 @paulthedogman.bsky.social · 14h

The Bozo Fascist President's buddy Vlad is a diabolically effective propagandist and corrupter of pathetic conservative Western politicians, like this idiot from Wales and like...the Bozo Fascist President.

Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 5d

This story is now big news all over the world... except in the UK.

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