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Alissa Azar

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أليسا 🧿 Syria📍PDX Journalist• Antifascist • Covering police & right wing violence in the PNW • She/They [email protected]• https://linktr.ee/azarpdx we-will-free-us.ghost.io 🖤 بذور الجنة تنتظر نيران الثورة 🖤

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 1h

Here is an example from 2020

Each time the same thing: I go to take a vid, things seem normal.
Within a few seconds my screen would go black, video would continue to record anywhere from 3-5 seconds, then stop on its own. The video files in my gallery are always a black square that's not viewable

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 1h

In 2020 the camera app that comes on the phone was blocking me from the ability to take video each time the feds were out or if 1 was near certain federal buildings.

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 1h

Over the last few weeks especially I have noticed my phone doing some weird things, very reminiscent of the weirdness I experienced in 2020 when the feds were out.

If any journalists want to chat, especially if you're on the cyber security / surveillance tech beat, feel free to reach out.

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 1h

Great article with some onsite analysis of cellular signals indicating the use of cell-site simulators at ICE protests in Portland, Oregon

Exclusive: Fake cellphone tower may have surveilled protesters at Portland ICE facility

Law enforcement officials may have deployed a secretive cellphone surveillance technology last weekend at Portland’s ICE facility.

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 3d

Accounts getting taken down on Nextdoor?

Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 3d

meta suspended my instagram account today, no reason given, just directed to look at "Community Standards"

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Uzza @uzzamodea.bsky.social · May 29

This assault by TPUSA "reporter" Jonathan Choe needs more attention. Journalists I'm looking at you. His victim was arrested.

He also punched a defender of a migrant center multiple times last year. publicola.com/2024/04/19/h...

Also an accusation from 2023 www.thestranger.com/news/2023/11...

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s an angle for a journalist looking for a fresh take on the White House “Antifa” roundtable — most of the people who participated are employed by or have a direct financial connection to Turning Point USA. I think that’s pretty telling, no?

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 3d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 4d

Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.

A screenshot of C-Span showing Jack Posobiec speaking during a panel on "Antifa."

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

She's Canadian, you wouldn't know her.

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 4d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 4d

Is that what that smell was last night?

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I'm Margaret! I'm the best! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 4d

There’s a lot in here that deserves a pull quote, but this is the most egregious. I need people to recognize the gravity of the situation here in Chicago;

SOUTH SIDE WEEKLY
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"The ones that are getting out are coming home to no home," Watson said.
According to her, after the raid occurred, building management stole or threw out residents belongings, including visas and important documents.

ICIRR is still trying to determine the identities of all the people detained in the raid. Castro said that the organization usually can do that by following up with family members or loved ones. "In this instance, there was nobody left to work with," she said. The only detainee name they're sure of is that of a person who passed their Venezuelan passport to a neighbor as they were being taken away.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 4d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 4d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 5d

Noem has with her right-wing social media personalities David Medina, Benny Johnson and Nick Sortor (who was arrested for fighting outside the ICE facility, Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office not pursuing charges). No news conference or opportunity for press to ask questions.

Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 5d

Noem appears to have arrived? Not sure how long we’ll be blocked from the street outside ICE processing facility. I can say unequivocally she did not witness anything she claims is happening at this facility, as she entered the facility…

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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 7d

For those lucky enough to not know this is a neo-Nazi meme normally found on TRS and the Daily Stormer being shared by the official DHS account.

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 6d

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

a guy in a frog costume standing facing a line of police and ICE agents in Portland

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The Provost / سيدة الفتنة @msentropy.bsky.social · 5d

Please amplify, those with a bigger platform than me.

It’s horrifying that the person running the US Homeland Security Twitter uses — and clearly knows — the exact same aesthetics, memes, and propaganda from fashwave, accelerationist, and Nazi Telegram.

It says everything about where we are.

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 4d

the way she’s pretending to analyze everything and responding so seriously like there is any kind of active threat too… so unserious lmao

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 4d

omg the horror

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 4d

Portland 🖤

Sign at a bar says “we love dogs. Noem go home”

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 4d

He threatened to shoot someone for standing next to him, and later walked thru a bunch of protesters threatening to mace them for no reason

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 4d

I believe this photo is from Canada. Definitely not portland and ICE

Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 5d

I think I know the clip you’re talking about. Iconic.

And for some unrelated reason the image of the person walking away with a cheesecake also comes to mind. I love seattle so much lol

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