TERRORISM EXPERT HERE:
This statement is a clear example of what is known as βState Terrorismβ: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.
05.10.2025 04:37 β π 13587 π 5833 π¬ 834 π 330
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05.10.2025 04:40 β π 11 π 3 π¬ 1 π 3
Don't look away.
05.10.2025 04:43 β π 208 π 82 π¬ 2 π 0
Sorry, I knew what you meant & was just laughing at how nutty it sounds & wondering if she got it from MAGA.
05.10.2025 05:12 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
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I'm reading about how Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia broke free of the old Soviet Union by SINGING and HOLDING HANDS.
It's very inspiring.
05.10.2025 04:28 β π 15 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
Old hippies in Eugene, Oregon do not come to fuck around.
05.10.2025 04:24 β π 222 π 34 π¬ 7 π 4
Exactly exactly!!! They are out of line FULL STOP & I really want to stop them. π€¬
05.10.2025 04:59 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Criminal or not, there was no warrant. These dudes are acting out their wet dreams of authoritarianism without training or legal backing.
05.10.2025 04:52 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
She might just have some screws entirely loose with some of those takes. π€¨
05.10.2025 04:58 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
THEY ARE TAKING DIRECT ACTIONS 2 DRAW BLACK PEOPLE TO THE STREETS
IN ORDER
2B ARRESTED
AND KILLED
WHITE
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WHAT
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β’ WE β’
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This will be the follow up to 2020 & George Floyd.
You get that right?
04.10.2025 20:23 β π 9 π 6 π¬ 0 π 1
FYI but yes, what ARE we going to do?!??
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05.10.2025 04:56 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Yes! But also FYI about that photo (but the incident is real, just not the image being shared):
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05.10.2025 04:55 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Is that really an argument MAGA is making? π₯΄
05.10.2025 04:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Ummm... ummm. Ummm? Gun control? WTAF?!?!?!??!
05.10.2025 04:19 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Exactly.
And even if it turns out that βallβ they did was break into non-criminal homes & terrorize families in the middle of the night thatβs ALREADY way the fuck too much.
05.10.2025 04:50 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
If you want something to happen outside of the legal system nothing is preventing you from doing so!
But if the plan is to get every elected Dem thrown in jail, then you'd suggest what you're suggesting now.
Watch Andor I beg of y'all.
05.10.2025 02:39 β π 48 π 8 π¬ 1 π 0
Why? Y'all have spent the last 8 years screaming about how much better y'all are at getting people on board with your ideas than Normie elected Dems.
So go do it!
05.10.2025 02:38 β π 71 π 12 π¬ 3 π 3
White people are having a learning experience that I wish weβd had before so many people had to suffer & die.
05.10.2025 04:06 β π 27 π 5 π¬ 2 π 0
Yikes.
05.10.2025 04:02 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0
Iβm not deleting my post because the ACTION of terrorizing children & separating families is *ABSOLUTELY REAL.*
The below photo turned out to be from an innocuous silly video of a dad pretending to arrest his baby.
Beware of things like this being used to discredit REAL abuse. Broadview is real.
05.10.2025 03:56 β π 10 π 4 π¬ 1 π 1
Yeah, I just heard about it not being a photo from this incident, too.
Wish people wouldnβt try to get public sympathy for a real thing using a fake photo. It makes me wonder if it was done to discredit the people trying to draw attention to these horrors.
05.10.2025 03:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
FYI:
05.10.2025 03:49 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
It definitely happened! But that footage is something different and unrelated.
05.10.2025 03:44 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Jacqueline S... β’ @js... β’ 8h
This is not ICE. This is fake news. It's some kind of joke video that has been going around TikTok since last October and in July was added to a fake video claiming it was ICE.
www.tiktok.com/t/
ZP8AYLxHt/
Baby in diaper gets arrested by dad
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From: https://factually.co/fact-checks/justice/ice-raid-chicago-children-zip-tied-dd0752
1. How the explosive claim surfaced and who is repeating it
A graphic account that children were zip-tied and placed into a U-Haul in the middle of the night appears in an Atlanta Black Star article that quotes residents describing zip ties and U-Haul vans during a Border Patrol operation in Chicago's South Shore 1! The Chicago Sun-Times parallel reporting emphasizes overnight forced entries, separated children, and children taken away in U-Haul vans, capturing neighbors' descriptions of trauma and images of chaotic scenes; however, the Sun-Times pieces vary in whether they detail zip-tying specifically
[2]
131. The most formal allegation comes through a court filing by immigrant-rights groups that documents use of flash-bangs and excessive force but does not uniformly catalogue zip-tie claims across every arrested person
[3]
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From: https://factually.co/fact-checks/justice/ice-raid-chicago-children-zip-tied-dd0752
3. Eyewitness accounts vs.
contemporaneous reporting: where they align and where they diverge
Eyewitness reports relayed to Atlanta Black Star and the Sun-Times describe
children separated from caregivers, people pulled from beds, and transport in large vans described as U-Hauls, with neighbors using visceral language about zip ties and inhumane treatment 1|12. Other
Sun-Times pieces covering the same operation document similar forceful entries and the use of flash-bangs but do not consistently mention zip ties or specifically identify every transport vehicle as a U-Haul, suggesting inconsistency in granular details between sources and the possibility of varying recollections or emphasis across interviews (31141.
From: https://factually.co/fact-checks/justice/ice-raid-chicago-children-zip-tied-dd0752
4. Patterns in broader enforcement strategy that contextualize the incident
Reporting and advocacy materials place this raid within a broader federal campaign-"Operation Midway Blitz"β
that includes targeted sweeps, deportation drives, and revived family separation tactics, according to multiple articles documenting arrests and administrative strategy in Chicago 14115.
Coverage on evolving federal policies highlights a pattern of aggressive enforcement and family separations, which makes claims of children being separated and moved during nighttime operations plausible within the larger operational context even if specific mechanisms-zip ties, brand of vehicle- are not uniformly documented across every account 15116.
It looks like the above photo is a fake.
Be skeptical of people using the fake *PHOTO* to discredit people pushing back on *REAL ABUSE.* Family separation, racial profiling, & unlawful kidnapping/imprisonment/deportation is still inhumane & horrific. A fake photo doesnβt make it fake reality.
05.10.2025 03:47 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 0 π 3
1. How the explosive claim surfaced and who is repeating it
A graphic account that children were zip-tied and placed into a U-Haul in the middle of the night appears in an Atlanta Black Star article that quotes residents describing zip ties and U-Haul vans during a Border Patrol operation in Chicago's South Shore 1! The Chicago Sun-Times parallel reporting emphasizes overnight forced entries, separated children, and children taken away in U-Haul vans, capturing neighbors' descriptions of trauma and images of chaotic scenes; however, the Sun-Times pieces vary in whether they detail zip-tying specifically
[2]
131. The most formal allegation comes through a court filing by immigrant-rights groups that documents use of flash-bangs and excessive force but does not uniformly catalogue zip-tie claims across every arrested person
[3]
+
4. Patterns in broader enforcement strategy that contextualize the incident
Reporting and advocacy materials place this raid within a broader federal campaign-"Operation Midway Blitz"β
that includes targeted sweeps, deportation drives, and revived family separation tactics, according to multiple articles documenting arrests and administrative strategy in Chicago 14115.
Coverage on evolving federal policies highlights a pattern of aggressive enforcement and family separations, which makes claims of children being separated and moved during nighttime operations plausible within the larger operational context even if specific mechanisms-zip ties, brand of vehicle- are not uniformly documented across every account 15116.
So my caveat is them calling it βfake newsβ instead of the PHOTO being from something else. There are eyewitness accounts reported in 2 papers of the zip tied kids & family separation.
Even if it turns out kids werenβt zip tied Iβd be resistant to label it βfake news.β Theyβre still out of line.
05.10.2025 03:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 3 π 0
This is just fucking ridiculous.
05.10.2025 03:29 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
CPD has 20+ injured on duty this afternoon, most/all from federal use of gas. Related: no arrests by CPD, no documented uses of force by CPD. (I wasn't everywhere / didn't see every skirmish. And possibly some late-entry TRR forms to come.) Saw two federal arrests, saw one on video didn't witness.
05.10.2025 01:26 β π 386 π 191 π¬ 5 π 27
This was always the plan.
Because as we all know, Jesus said, βzip tie the little childrenβ & βdonβt love thy neighbor if you can racially profile & torture them instead.β
05.10.2025 03:23 β π 33 π 14 π¬ 2 π 2
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