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Portland is not "war ravaged." This is delusional and dangerous. Sending troops into American cities doesn't make our communities safer — it just stokes fear and stirs up chaos. Trump is plunging further into authoritarianism every single day.

i really hope we get some good Portland whimsy in response to this. i am thinking marching band & Dillon the Pickle. we should take this threat very seriously. but also this man is a clown. he should know we see it.

This morning President Trump threatened to deploy additional troops to Portland, allowing them to use "full force, if necessary"—even though federal agents have been caught on video instigating violence against protesters. Here's what to expect if Trump follows through with his plan.

Portland sees the steepest DROP in homicides in major cities and Trump wants to send troops to do what exactly? More performative nonsense wasting taxpayer dollars from a weak dictator.

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

Happening now in war ravaged Portland: the city's Parks and Recreation Department (the most subversive of all government entities, is giving away trees.

My neighborhood farmers market. The horrors.

Trump's Portland 'war' zone is really one driveway in front of an ICE facility that has been the site of violent frederal overreation for months: share.google/bhVYxRssA5qj...

Trump's assault on Portland is not just a fascist power grab, although it is certainly that. It is frothing at the mouth, howling at the moon, eating bugs and bats for breakfast lunacy. But it's also a sign of weakness, not of strength. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

Clear grounds for removing Trump from office. He’s sending America’s military against a domestic terror organization that does not exist fighting a war that is not happening. He’s gone completely and dangerously mad.

Donald Trump is lying. I was at the ICE facility two days ago and saw a few peaceful protesters, not a “siege.”

begging democrats to fight right now like portland is as important as jimmy kimmel

Just FYI: Portland as a war zone is horseshit, and deploying federal troops is horseshit.

Democrats should never vote to fund a government that's waging war on its own citizens and firing officials *because* they insist on following court orders instead of breaking the law. Let Senate Republicans nuke the filibuster. None of this is normal and it shouldn't be treated as such.

I actually don’t think we should victim blame protestors for what the feds are going to do. We’ve seen them do it to perfectly peaceful protestors. People need to be wise, use discretion, and center those most impacted, and I truly detest this rhetoric.

I agree w @councilormorillo.bsky.social that “don’t take the bait” is not a great message. While true all Trump wants is a reaction, that msg will make it easy for ppl to blame folks who have legitimate reasons to fight back. We need a msg that says we’re not f’ing around and will defend our city.

Local leaders need to call this out for the theater it is and stand up to Trump once and for all. He’s a bully charlatan wannabe dictator snowflake & he needs to be handled like one. This is totally absurd & a test for Kotek/Wilson. We’ll find out what they’re made of in coming days/weeks.

Continued escalation from Trump this morning. I need to hear a forceful response to this from Gov. Kotek, assuring Oregonians we will not tolerate this level of illegal intimidation. To service-members: remember you do not have to follow an unlawful order such as implied below.

Troops. In an American city. Using full force. Your now-regular reminder that Republican members of Congress are letting this happen.

Trump just basically directed the military to shoot some Portlanders. Stay safe friends.

Comms Hub’s @dturnbull.bsky.social: We need to be deploying as many messengers through as many mediums as necessary #nycclimateweek

Btw very important to say that the FCC has not at all said what Kimmel said that was so objectionable! This is classic chilling effect - there are no rules so everyone stops talking www.theverge.com/news/780471/...

Continue to shock myself by sharing Bill Kristol columns...but the guy ain't wrong. www.thebulwark.com/p/yeah-its-f...

First Colbert, now Kimmel. Last-minute settlements, secret side deals, multi-billion dollar mergers pending Donald Trump's approval. Trump silencing free speech stifles our democracy. It sure looks like giant media companies are enabling his authoritarianism.

Vague, open-ended designations of "terrorism" are a signature of authoritarian regimes. Antifa isn't a group but the label can be attached to whomever the regime disfavors.

This is literally @jimmykimmel.com's most recent post here.

The fact that Jimmy Fallon will eventually be the last late night guy standing is the most powerful indictment anyone could make of him

Just so everyone is clear, this right here is what an actual violation of the First Amendment looks like. When the head of the FCC says a company needs to do something about someone who displeased the administration or lose its license, that’s no joke unconstitutional

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

If I'm a late night TV show host, I don't know how I could possibly go on the air tonight...but if I did go on the air it would be to protest the regime. But that's just me.

anyway, if you had any doubts as to whether Colbert's cancellation was exactly what it looked like, lemme tell you that Kimmel's "preemption" is also what it looks like slate.com/technology/2...

The actual story is not reflected in the headline: ABC cancels Kimmel after threats to its business from Trump administration.

this one's going around again

I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...

Sorry I was late to your wedding, my flight was canceled because my pilot posted a Charlie Kirk quote verbatim in the comments of an Instagram Reel.

The Cybertruck illegally parked in the middle of my kids' school driveway blocking the way and making it unsafe for children and parents walking and biking home...is just a bit too on the nose.

The @sundayofaction.bsky.social may not be until the weekend…but for the Turnbull household sun day is today!!! Gettin’ those subsidies while the gettin’s still good.

Oh a forced sale to regime allies? Shocker.

The 19-page Van Hollen-Merkley report here "The Netanyahu Government is Implementing a Plan to Ethnically Cleanse Gaza of Palestinians. America is Complicit. The World Must Stop it." www.vanhollen.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

Q: Do you think it would've been fitting to lower the flags to half staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota House Speaker, was gunned down by an assassin? TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?

Fascism, y'all. The real thing. Armed crackdowns. Arresting of political dissidents. Right here, in the US. Everything is heading in that direction & there's barely any pushback. It's happening. Buckle up.

So do I have this right: the Extremely Online head of the FBI missed that all the evidence on the bullets were 4chan memes, the suspect's social media is full of groyper memes, and he was only caught because his LEO father taught him how to shoot but not about STFU Friday?

Donald Trump has a history of making national tragedies worse. So here's a quick side by side of how one president responds to a national crisis versus how another does.

internet culture desks aren't just for cute meme trend stories. ever since gamergate, understanding how and why info moves online is critical to seeing how we got *here*

Too bad the GOP effectively criminalized studying how information moves online and news orgs laid off and demonized all the reporters who covered the burgeoning online accelerationist performative death cults. All of that work was somehow "censorship" that needed to be stopped. Now we're here.

Online brain rot + readily available guns. The formula is extremely dangerous and uniquely American.

My name is in there somewhere!

Everything they're doing makes it more and more believable that he was up to his eyeballs in the entire Epstein horror show. Everything.

No one would be confused about what is happening here if they saw it in another country.