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fergdawg.bsky.social
Retired Internet Engineering & Technology Flunky, U.S. Army Cold War Veteran, Avid Hiker, Enthusiastic Traveler, Amateur Photographer, Informed Voter. Tacoma, WA.
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Trump's gestappo is going to kill an unarmed person on camera. It's inevitable.

President Trump, who is itching for things to escalate, keeps posting incendiary messages.

The US National Academy of Sciences, established by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, is completely independent & non-partisan, created to give scientific advice to the nation. Trump is cutting $40 million in research grants forcing as many as 300 layoffs. www.statnews.com/2025/05/23/n...

This was the cover of the German magazine Der Spiegel five years ago.

Can these be considered official presidential orders? What's the authority to do this?

TONIGHT SFPD arrived in force at the anti-ICE protest in San Francisco. Several hundred protesters were in a standoff w/dozens of police for 40 min. SFPD declared unlawful assembly, but it was hard for crowd to hear.

American cossacks

Give the photographer the Pulitzer Prize

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

Governor Newsom calls President Trump’s takeover of the National Guard an “illegal act” and announces Trump’s order will challenged in court tomorrow: Under his executive order, it notes they have to coordinate with Governor, they never did

It is really infuriatingly remarkable. The evidence of police department lying is miles high, but their accounts are STILL treated as “just the facts” and taken at face value. It’s such a toxic, but reflexive, habit in how the press treats them.

Remember. www.axios.com/2022/05/02/m... “Former Pentagon chief Esper says Trump wanted to shoot protesters”

Major General Randy E. Manner, former Acting Vice Chief, National Guard Bureau statement to Fox News: "This is an inappropriate use of the National Guard and is not warranted.”

Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)

meanwhile, down under... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

DAMN what a photo. By Frederic Brown of AFP.

Newsom: "Arrest me. Let's just get it over with, tough guy. I don't give a damn ... Tom, arrest me. Let's go."

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

Shocked that all it took was a fascist stunt for Trump to get Elon kissing his ring again.

The entire plot of Andor S2 is about the Empire creating a bloody civil disturbance and then blaming the resulting violence on the previously peaceful protestors.

I look forward to the circuit court decision holding that it has never been clearly established that being shot specifically with a rubber bullet specifically in the leg specifically from twelve feet away violates civil rights.

With the escalating attacks in Los Angeles on our free speech rights & right to assemble/protest, I am sharing some resources. First, our protest rights guide @freepress.bsky.social in English & Spanish! www.freepress.net/sites/defaul... www.freepress.net/sites/defaul...

You got it. That's their plan.

Lots of old videos from past unrest are being shared. Including by Sen Ted Cruz whose family hates him. Anyway. Don’t be fooled.

Despite protests already being managed by the Los Angeles Police Department, President Trump is escalating the situation by threatening to deploy roughly 500 active-duty Marines to the streets of Los Angeles. Los Angeles: Remain peaceful. Don’t fall into the trap that extremists are hoping for.

not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates

This is literally how the movie Don’t Look Up ended

My dad, who has lived under a dictatorship, knows one when he sees one. His first text this morning is that we are now officially in a dictatorship. It is all pretty grim.

In the midst of the alien invasion...

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Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

LIVE: Switching video feed to ABC News Live, carrying KABC-TV coverage of the Los Angeles protests. [ABC News Live]

Pay attention to what he’s doing. Immigration is not an invasion.

Look at all those violent invaders. So scary.

Once again Bill Kristol speaking with more clarity and force than many elected Democrats. Sigh.

This is a fever dream. The city is not under migrant occupation. This whole thing kicked off because ICE began an intense operation across the city to raid Home Depots and nail salons and places where random undocumented immigrants might be going about their day working a job.

"Mass deportation" is the excuse and trigger for authoritarianism. As it was always intended to be.

Ukrainians must take every air raid alert seriously in the coming days — Zelensky said, without providing further details

Stephen Miller got caught repeatedly trafficking in white nationalist rhetoric and conspiracy theories and an ABC News reporter got suspended for calling Miller hateful

These fascist dipshits keep claiming there is all kinds of violence in Los Angeles right now. At this very moment, even! Weirdly, every single local channel is running regular programming, instead of this BREAKING NEWS EVENT. It's like ... it's like the dipshits are lying, or something. Weird.

June 8, 1992: "Even Flow" from the legendary Pinkpop Fest performance.

If a member of the US military ends up shooting a US citizen dead on the streets of America, this nation may never recover from the chaos that will ensue.

🥵☀️😎 Early June Heat Wave!! Highs across Western WA will reach the mid 80s to low 90s Sunday (left) and Monday (right), cooler coast & north of Seattle, hotter in mountain valleys. Eastern WA in upper 90s-mid 100s! Stay safe & hydrated…and remember the waters are COLD! #wawx