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Nevertheless, She Persisted @educatedrants.bsky.social · 15h

Illegal

What Trump is doing is flagrantly illegal.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 18h

If a random guy in a mask grabbed someone and threw them in a vehicle—we'd call that a kidnapping. Until an alleged ICE agent identifies themselves, that's what this is.

For all we know they're a rapist murderer stalker looking for their next victim. Indefensible. Dem leadership must act NOW.

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Nevertheless, She Persisted @educatedrants.bsky.social · 18h

$Screenshot from the article:\ "Liz Huston, a White House spokesperson, rejected the idea that Trump’s rhetoric had anything to do with the chat members’ language. “Only an activist, left-wing reporter would desperately try to tie President Trump into a story about a random groupchat he has no affiliation with, while failing to mention the dangerous smears coming from Democrat politicians who have fantasized about murdering their opponent and called Republicans Nazis and Fascists,” she said. “No one has been subjected to more vicious rhetoric and violence than President Trump and his supporters.”"$ Screenshot of the chat in question:

"AD - Yea I had some back and forth with the VC in Michigan, current chair is a deer in headlights. We have a call Wednesday.

PG - Many agree.

AD - He did say “My delegates I bring will vote for the most right wing person”

PG - Great. I love Hitler.

Texts and reactions by: Alex Dwyer, Peter Giunta, Rachel Hope."

Screenshot of the chat in question:

"AD - Yea I had some back and forth with the VC in Michigan, current chair is a deer in headlights. We have a call Wednesday.

PG - Many agree.

AD - He did say “My delegates I bring will vote for the most right wing person”

PG - Great. I love Hitler.

Texts and reactions by: Alex Dwyer, Peter Giunta, Rachel Hope."

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

Senate is back in session today.

1/ So a quick 🧵on where things are at on the shutdown.

You get a lot of propaganda and spin thrown at you, so I want to give you the real, behind-the-scenes tea.

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Nevertheless, She Persisted @educatedrants.bsky.social · 1d

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 1d

tim burton characters in famous art: thread

Jack and Sally in American Gothic by Grant Wood.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 1d

There were at least two ceasefires under Biden! In which more than five times as many living Israeli hostages were released in exchange for 240 Palestinians! Has everyone forgotten this?

Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 1d

Also, ceasefires have happened under prior Presidents! The day he gets Palestine their own country he can be told he's the most special boy deserving of a shiny prize.

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Nevertheless, She Persisted @educatedrants.bsky.social · 2d

The cruelty is the point

ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

Trump promised free plane tickets and $1,000 “exit bonuses” to immigrants who opted to self-deport.

ProPublica spoke to a dozen Venezuelan immigrants who said they followed the president’s instructions, yet never received the promised assistance.

“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America

Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates. Those dates hav...

www.propublica.org

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 2d

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

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Nevertheless, She Persisted @educatedrants.bsky.social · 2d

This is a perfect encapsulation of what is so maddening right now. We can all see reality, but the lies are painted as having legitimacy behind them when that’s so visibly not the case.

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“The piece also refers to “dueling versions of reality.” But this isn’t a case of one side genuinely seeing things one way (as “comparative calm”) and the other side genuinely seeing them differently (as a “hellscape”). It’s a case of one side (law enforcement, local journalists) trying to faithfully depict what’s really happening, and the other side (MAGA) concertedly lying about it to serve corrupt ends that are comprehensively, even intentionally disconnected from facts on the ground.”

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Nevertheless, She Persisted @educatedrants.bsky.social · 2d

They’re so proud of this arrest, they’ve got their backs to the camera.

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Nevertheless, She Persisted @educatedrants.bsky.social · 2d

When that aid is used to bait people in order to mow them down, intent comes back into play

www.npr.org/2025/07/23/n...

Israeli forces have killed over 1,000 aid-seekers in Gaza since May, the U.N. says

More than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since May while trying to get food in Gaza, mostly near food sites run by an American contractor, the U.N. human rights office said.

www.npr.org

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Nevertheless, She Persisted @educatedrants.bsky.social · 2d

This feels “not vibes” based:

www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...

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“The United Nations first defined genocide in 1948 in the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. The treaty outlines five acts that can constitute genocide if they are done "with the intent to destroy an ethnic, national, racial or religious group":

1. Killing members of the group

2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm

3. Deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the group's physical destruction in whole or in part

4. Imposing measures intended to prevent births

5. Forcibly transferring children”

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Nevertheless, She Persisted @educatedrants.bsky.social · 2d

I agree. There’s a few competing factions.

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Nevertheless, She Persisted @educatedrants.bsky.social · 2d

I think it’s a blend of 2 and 3, with 2 only being possible because he has people like Stephen Miller around who are laser focused on it. Trump is mostly bumbling along as a carnival barker playing out via 3.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

The omniforce is accountable only to Trump: they ignore state and local guidance, or court decisions. Forget about knowing the identity of the official. Now you may not know which agency he works for, or even if he is an agent of the state.

two men wearing American flag facemasks and tactical gear.
Look at the picture above. One of these is a member of a private militia that supports the President and was involved in an violent effort to overturn the election, the other is an agent of the state. Can you tell the difference?

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

If you remember the Iraq war, you will remember The Surge: massing troops into key cities to establish control.

Trump is describing American cities as if they are Baghdad in 2007.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

The merging of the omniforce is happening via different mechanisms.
First, ICE has become a black hole consuming resources from other agencies. Those agencies are being told to send their people to support ICE. For example, nearly half of FBI field agents work on immigration enforcement.

According to an analysis by the Cato Institute, more than 28,000 law enforcement officials have been sucked into performing ICE’s mission. ICE has trained or is training more than 10,500 state and local police who are part of a task force that allows them to make arrests. In addition, “one in five US marshals (650 of 3,892), one in five FBI agents (2,840 of 13,700), half of DEA agents (2,181 of 4,620), over two-thirds of the ATF (1,778 of 2,572), and nearly 90 percent of Homeland Security Investigations (6,198 of 7,100).”

More recent data suggests that these numbers are increasing, with nearly half of FBI agents in major field offices, and about one-quarter of all FBI agents, now working on immigration enforcement.

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Nevertheless, She Persisted @educatedrants.bsky.social · 3d

How do we know they’re federal agents??

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Nevertheless, She Persisted @educatedrants.bsky.social · 3d

#PortlandStrong

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d

To Be or Not to Be (Lubitsch, 1942)

TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social
LA: we will fight you.
Chicago: we will fight you.
PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.
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Nevertheless, She Persisted @educatedrants.bsky.social · 3d

Democratic Senators calling it like it is:

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 3d

They are building a Propaganda State.

They are cooking the books on job creation.

Now they are rigging death numbers so no one knows how many people die because of their attacks on vaccines and science.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Nevertheless, She Persisted @educatedrants.bsky.social · 3d

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Nevertheless, She Persisted @educatedrants.bsky.social · 4d

picture of Trumo's ankles swollen so big they are the same thickness as his meaty calves

Picture of Trump's bruised right hand that he has been seen with repeatedly over the last several months

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Nevertheless, She Persisted @educatedrants.bsky.social · 3d

When eugenics is the goal…

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Nevertheless, She Persisted @educatedrants.bsky.social · 4d

It’s ok, Trump bailed out Argentina instead

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Nevertheless, She Persisted @educatedrants.bsky.social · 4d