mblackberry.bsky.social
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I like cozy audiobooks while I lay in bed and relax before sleeping. I like them when I'm doing crappy, boring chores that take forever but don't have a big wow factor when I'm done.
I like intense stuff when I'm able to respond to it, getting mad or excited or scared when I can feel the feels.
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There are weapons experts, former DOD, who have questions about US statement on bomber runs.
They also say Israeli statements suspect bc video is questionable.
We may find out next week that today was oversold.
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In 1970s self-defense classes women were taught to yell fire instead of help bc people ignore help.
We stood in a circle yelling fire over and over again until we rattled the windows.
Maybe we could send Dems?
Fire would be better than nothing.
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Grandpa always said we elected Franklin Roosevelt because the alternative was millionaires hanging from light posts.
We may have made a mistake back then.
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I am so glad you're willing to do all the yelling. I used to be able to walk around the house screaming out the window, but I don't even know what to say anymore. I know it isn't always easy to be on here, but you're doing a lot of good. Sorry about being emotional, but this shit is just exhausting.
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first, put all your eggs in one basket and then launch war against everyone on your Amazon Wish List simultaneously
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Organizers in LA are raising money to do tamale buyouts from local tamale vendors who are unable to safely vend on the street due to ICE kidnapping vendors. The tamales will be distributed to unhoused neighbors. Please consider donating — I personally vouch for this one: venmo.com?txn=pay&audi...
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The proud boys were the local IDF of Portland.
Literally on a roof with sniper rifles while LEO told them positions, clothing of certain protestors during George Floyd protests.
Yes, guns were loaded and they locked on target but they didn't shoot anyone was cop defense in not arresting them
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If the money hose is no longer aimed at you it could be aimed at your challenger?
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It's a bit past right procedures now, encouraging people who don't understand policy distinctions between asylum seekers, student visa, green cards, etc to begin asking questions.
I think it's like seeing civil rights violence on TV, it changes people. Maybe this summer will change them, IDK
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In the shadows, yes, but some of it touched some of us. I summered with relatives on a reservation, offered sanctuary to SA victims of torture. I grew up knowing the rules my black friends followed in public. We were quiet, stayed off the street, wore backpacks to indicate youth. I know a bit.
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Portland was practice. I'm sure they've learned from their mistakes. They might be more subtle now. The marines have fire discipline that ICE lacks, having neither discipline or honor.
I'd actually feel safer with them.
I worry about who will get hurt, perhaps some will die at the hands of wannabes
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He was pinned against a wall, driven to the hospital by friends.
Some women are still suffering from the effects of expired teargas.
The city has been under federal supervision for abt. 15 years now for excessive force deaths and injuries.
Feds kidnapping people without cause, well, they survived.
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I never meant to imply you were maga.
Many people in Portland are still suffering.
One died while police refused to allow paramedics to treat her after she was shot.
One young man took a canister in the forehead, again denied treatment, so he was carried off the scene.
Another was murdered when 1/
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Yes. Until then the crimes committed by the US stayed safely in the shadows. If you looked for them they were everywhere. We destroyed South America, funding cartels and despots instead of allowing them to chart their own path.
After 9-11 our country turned against us, using methods perfected abroad
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Not in your earlier tweet you didn't.
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One reason for the curfew is to keep people away from National Guard & Marine units who don't have rules of engagement written yet.
Soldiers are more careful when 30 yo white people are there with the punks.
I think that's why the ridiculous every force in the state was there, showing off.
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Be ungovernable.
Be unpredictable.
Make them work for it
Portland was practice, but all the agencies there had no central command.
They really did give up, declare victory and leave.
Portland exhausted them.
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They picked people up to make a map of connections between people. Tried to find leaders in a group without leaders. Mostly they copied people's phones. Once they had some info they passed out pictures for snatch and grab arrests.
No way to prove this, it will happen in LA and you won't believe it
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I remember when reports came out of those unmarked van abductions off the street in Portland, a bunch of MAGA types sneered at us as paranoid for crediting wild tales some activists had probably made up.
Now it’s “Yeah, we did it, let’s do more of it, and warrants and probable cause be damned.”
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I think the world was lost the day the towers came down. Afghanistan, Homeland security, TSA, torture, war crimes, lying, spying. And nobody ever got in trouble. So every year it got worse until we ended up here. Maybe we could have stopped it that first month but we didn't.