This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!! Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison. Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

#ResistanceRoots “Sometimes it seems like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I’ll fall five-feet four-inches forward in the fight for freedom.” — Fannie Lou Hamer

Portland never stops being Portland.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

Read the Martin Niemöller poem. We are living it.

“In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism #BookSky

This is so indefensibly insane: Speaker Johnson is refusing to seat Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva because she'll be the 218th vote to release the Epstein files. Johnson swore in Rep Walkinshaw (VA) w/in 24 hours. Johnson is abandoning his job to instead protect a convicted child sex predator

what most people want at this moment is a fix for fascism that keeps the tone and power imbalances in tact and that's not gonna work

We are watching it in real time!

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ARREST MY ENEMIES, MAKE SINKS COST MORE, NO MORE WINDMILLS, BRING ME MY GENERALS, GOLF GOLF GOLF, BLOW UP SOME BOATS, ARE DONKEYS REAL OR MADE UP, COUCHES ARE TOO CHEAP, ESCALATORS ARE SCAR

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

#Florida Gov. Ron DeSastrous & FL Surgeon General Joseph "Quack" Ladapo, after announcing end of vaccine mandates, dodge questions about whether they or THEIR kids get vaccinated. floridapolitics.com/archives/757...

Concerning …

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Prepare yourself for the most epic ROAST you’ve probably seen in a long time. AOC BURNS RFK Jr so badly, I’m amazed he doesn’t have smoke coming out of his ass.🔥🏆🥊😆 Part 1 of 2

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Police can question you and — even if you say nothing — they're allowed to testify about your "demeanor" and "body language" during questioning. Most judges will allow this as a form of expert testimony. That's why STFU is not enough. You need to explicitly say "I invoke my 5th amendment rights"

If all he had to do was sign a piece of paper, why didn’t he do it nine years ago?

How about some basic rules? --All law enforcement officers should wear identification --No law enforcement officers should be allowed masks --All law enforcement officers should wear and use body cams ...oh and... --All law enforcement officers should understand, respect & follow the law

The rule is simple: if opposition requires bravery, then it’s not a democracy. Period.

THIS.

It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts

funny how yall were like "a humanities degree?? so employable 🤭" and now you're explaining to me how a machine that can compose vaguely correct-sounding sentences is critical to our economic future

This excuse didn’t work at Nuremberg. 👨‍✈️ #KnowYourHistory

Here’s a close up view. I hope they all pay for their reign of terror. bsky.app/profile/thej...

The Trump administration hired a company to open an ICE facility in Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said they needed permits There's a sordid history of for-profit businesses holding immigrants under inhumane conditions So the mayor went to inspect And they arrested him NEVER STOP FIGHTING FASCISM

If you are also worried about tariffs and supply chain shortages, and have the financial means to prepare, here is what I have stocked up on and plan to buy soon, plus what I would get if I had kids, a car or a larger home, based on reporting I've read or done myself in the last several months (🧵):

Old person here to say that ICE did not exist before 2003 We opened this door after 9/11 and can close it again

”Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes… Families are torn apart: men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find their parents have disappeared.” – Anne Frank

I didn’t give a wit about new pope coverage, but the first American pope being a man with Black ancestry born in Chicago by way of New Orleans by way of Haiti. Names his self after the pope who condemned slavery? In the Trump era? Oh, baebae, I am HERE for it. www.wwltv.com/article/news...

My godmother is an elder New Orleans Creole nun. I cannot *wait* to talk to her about Pope Leo. I know she is tickled.

“God loves everyone.” -Pope Leo XIV

Pontiff got Creole in him www.blackcatholicmessenger.org/pope-leo-xiv...

“God loves everyone. Evil will not prevail.” — Pope Leo XIV.

When Pope Leo rebukes Trump, and he will, his message will resound through American Catholics like never seen before.

Best possible endorsement of Pope Leo

This is America being great?

Hey, at least they’re giving the land a vote in their maps—finally, representation for dirt and trees!

"[T]hey can’t fire everyone who doesn’t want the same things they want. They can’t detect all acts of resistance to tyranny." "How to be Sand in the Gears of Tyranny" open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...

International Day for the Abolition of Slavery: #Abolition has a long history as a cause, including in Canada. Enslavement of Black people was practiced until the 1830s. 1/2 thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/a...

People's susceptibility to misinformation is not just about sensitivity (ability to discern true from false info) but also their threshold for believing information. This has implications for misinfo interventions & education. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

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