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Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

This is great. The absurdity of this moment captured. Make it go viral.

"Body-camera video of a Border Patrol agent involved in the shooting of a woman who was allegedly chasing agents in Brighton Park over the weekend shows an officer saying, “Do something, bitch” before pulling over and shooting the woman 5 times, the woman’s attorney said in federal court Monday" omg

“.. it appears to justify an open-ended war against a secret list of groups, giving the president power to designate drug traffickers as enemy combatants and have them summarily killed without legal review.”

@cnn.com
www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/p...

Nope

We really need to retire "contrarian" as a descriptor for Weiss immediately.

The reason she is getting this job right now is because of her *non-contrarian* sensibilities.

She espouses views that the US's current power structure likes.

Back in the land of reality, here's what one of the Black people whose home was smashed into during the apartment raid last week said about his Venezuelan neighbors: "They were cool people."

Mr. Jones, a U.S. citizen, was dragged out in handcuffs and held outside for hours.

Mike Nellis (@mikenellis) Here’s the CBS News report about ICE making bogus 911 calls and filing false police reports in Chicago. These people are out of control.

ICE caught making false police reports. substack.com/@mikenellis/...

Link

Pure rot.

the stupid continues apace

【LIVE】 Live Cam Portland - Oregon | SkylineWebcams View from Alphabet District in Portland, Oregon Live cam

Here's a live webcam of Portland.

It's not yet dawn there as I post this, but the cityscape seems to be pretty clear of massive infernos and open battle sites. Maybe they're on the other side?

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“…we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

Kevin Roberts president, Heritage Foundation, July 2024

Beachfront home of South Carolina judge, ex-senator burned to ground, injuring 3 Ex-senator Arnold Goodstein, along with two additional people, were rescued by several neighbors and paramedics from a marshy, remote area behind the home after jumping from the fist floor.

No indication yet from major media that the FBI has any interest whatsoever in investigating this apparent attempted assassination of a well-known judge openly targeted on social media by the far-right activist—Harmeet Dhillon—currently calling herself Assistant Attorney General of the United States

As a conservative, I’ve always advocated for a government small enough that it could militarily occupy several American cities at the same time, against the stated wishes of local elected officials. It should also be small and nimble enough so that it can zip tie children together at 1AM.

a scraped knee and a scraped hand got a full write-up on the News

This is outrageous.

For so much of the world, including for many, many American Jews, Israel has completely and forever lost its credibility.

Not only does the genocide need to end, but Netanyahu and others need to face human rights prosecution and the apartheid must be abolished.

Fascists have the same rhetoric no matter what country they’re from.

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

DHS says an operation last week in which agents raided a Chicago apartment building, rappelled in from helicopters, broke down doors and detained numerous residents, resulted in the arrest of two suspected gang members.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Charlie kirk gets killed by a white man, HBCUs get bomb threats.

White man shoots up a white church, people talk negatively about the Black Panthers.

People get mad about alleged latin american drug cartels, a predominately Black apartment complex gets raided at 2 am

I'm seeing a trend

In many ways the Border Patrol can be thought of as the vestiges of an era of policing that had been stamped out in many major police departments nationwide - the era predating efforts to create a more “professional” police force.

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

Oop I guess I have to sign in yet again

Farmers: sell no soy, get $0.00 in revenue, get $10B bailout

The PRC: buys no US soy, pays $0.00 in tariffs, buys ARG soy

ARG: gets $20B in subsidies from the US Taxpayer, then sells soy to PRC

US Taxpayer: gets $0.00 in soy tariffs, but pays $30B to farmers and ARG

From ALISA WRITES Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez @alisavaldes Ex-Boston Globe & LA Times staff writer. Award-winning, bestselling author of 16 published novels. Named one of Time's 25 Most Influenti...

Please listen to me. 3 to 4 of every 10 cars on the roads in New Mexico now have out-of-state plates. This is NOT normal. The plates come from a variety of states, but mostly Texas, Arizona, Florida, Colorado, Missouri, Indiana, Oklahoma. Many have "fleet" tags. They appear to be registered to private military contractors. Today, in Walmart in Albuquerque, I was in line and heard two young black men in line behind me with strong Southern accents, talking about how weird they find New Mexico. They did not know each other until that moment. They quickly bonded over the fact they both had been recruited to work for a private company contracted to ICE. Different companies. One said he had been offered early prison release in exchange for an agreement to do whatever ICE asked of him. The other said he was ex military and they enticed him with a huge incentive signing bonus.

These were both poor men, marginalized, also fucked over by the system. That's who they're ordering to attack us all on behalf of white billionaires. Which means that if Americans defend themselves against the coming violence, they will be killing people the administration won't miss. What we are seeing in Chicago the past 24 hours is a mere prelude. The official numbers of agents is nothing compared to the prisoners private contractors are releasing to kidnap, disappear and kill their fellow Americans. This suggests the covered faces are less about protecting the contractors and more about hiding from the public that prisoners are being used for this. Armed and set loose upon their fellow denizens on our streets. I suspect it won't be one city at a time when they begin the next phase, but everywhere at once. If you can leave the country, leave. Leave now.

Criticizing Charlie Kirk is a fireable offense that incites domestic terrorism. But calling political opponents "the party of hate, evil, and Satan" is proper and good. Got it.

screenshot from linked to article that reads (in part): Jun 18, 2018 – Katherine Cross on Singal sending her an email “swearing a storm at me because I tweeted something he disliked that he felt was untrue.” Jun 18, 2018 – Cat Fitzpatrick mentions Singal threatened to sue her for politely disagreeing with him. Jan 15, 2019 – Singal levies legal threats against two writers who mention that they personally know trans women who’ve had bad interactions with him. Jul 7, 2020 – the day the Harper’s Letter (which Singal was a signatory) was released, Singal instigated pile-ons of multiple people. I captured him initiating the pile-on of Jennifer Finney Boylan as it was occurring in this thread (both up & down from linked-to tweet). Emily VanDerWerff reacts to Singal’s pile-on of her here and, two days later, discusses the aftermath of that pile-on (which included “Death threats, rape threats, invitations to commit suicide, constant misgendering, etc”). Ari Drennen took screenshots of Singal targeting Aja Romano. Because Singal’s attack on Emily VanDerWerff was premised on his false presumption that she was trying to get one of her employers fired (which she has denied), lots of other writers began coming forward with stories of Singal contacting their employers and editors because he disliked what they wrote. Here are some of those instances: Jul 7, 2020 – Katelyn Burns on Singal “repeatedly emailing my employer until they fired me” is found here. A week later a co-worker corroborated that story. Jul 7, 2020 – Noah Berlatsky shares: “also Jesse emailed me to demand I save DMs from Katelyn and others and investigate them for him, implying he would sue me otherwise.” Jul 7, 2020 – Katerine Cross shares: “Back when I wrote for Feministing, he repeatedly badgered the editors trying to get a critical post that mentioned him briefly changed or taken down.” Jul 9, 2020 – Harron Walker shares how Singal “emailed my editor many times after this was published seeking correction....o…

just learning now that "waffles" is about Jəsse Singəl, so I will re-up this piece that chronicles his long history of harassing primarily trans women (+ other trans ppl & allies) online... juliaserano.blogspot.com/2017/12/my-j...