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brandonfriedman.bsky.social
Founder, Rakkasan Tea Company • MSNBC columnist • Dallas Police Oversight Board • Former Obama guy • BJJ • Once a soldier Dallas, Texas rakkasantea.com @rakkasantea.bsky.social
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Jesus fuckin Christ federal agents invading cities en masse to terrorize the people isn't a fuckin distraction it's a policy
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Re-posting this every day now, as I slowly pull my hair out
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The words “Republican,” “right wing,” or “Christian nationalist” aren’t uttered. The “political extremists” aren’t defined. If you can’t name the enemy I don’t see how you can fight it, or beat it. bsky.app/profile/hake...
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They are often the difference between a city run by cops and a police department run by the city, working for its residents.
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If Democrats don't change their longstanding approach and begin casting Republicans as toxic enemies of the Republic, then nothing will change and the protests will be quickly forgotten. The people did their part yesterday. Now Democratic leaders need to do theirs.
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I intend to stick to my limit of saying this only once per day, but CNN is normalizing and ushering in fascism in a much more dangerous way than Fox. If you're watching Fox, you're already gone. Whatever. But CNN is trying to push people off the fence.
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Now that I'm googling more and people are replying with other estimates, looks like it could actually be 12 million to 80,000 — which makes the Washington Post look even worse
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From the scanner right now: LAPD is taking rubber bullets from LASD. I am not joking. (They're in each other's crossfire, it's a clusterfuck that they've largely brought on themselves)