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Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @andrewtravler.bsky.social · 1h

I think they were mad that some of the ones deployed looked straight out of Chicago.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 5h

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
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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.
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Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @andrewtravler.bsky.social · 1h

We really do need to bring back much more severe social consequences for lying.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2h

Also lying:
- your own eyes
- every bit of video evidence
- the fabric of reality itself

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 2h

“I … met with the governor, met with the mayor, met with the chief of police, and the superintendent of the highway patrol. They’re all lying, and disingenuous, and dishonest people,” Noem said, because they wouldn’t back up her baseless claims that the streets were overrun with terrorists.

ICE Barbie Says an Entire State’s Worth of Officials Are “Lying”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is convinced, against all evidence, that Portland is a war zone.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 3h

“The Israeli govt has committed several war crimes over the past two years and also at the same a non-trivial portion of criticism of “Israel” is also just antisemitism” is just an extremely bad discursive problem to have, and I don’t see any way that it doesn’t get worse. Pretty bad!

Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 3h

I sit down in my BlueSky captain's chair and furrow my brow authoritatively.

"Damage report, Mister Scott."

"Ma'am, the Nazi gumbo meme has breached containment and..."

"I've heard enough. Load the torpedoes, set phasers to kill, and burn the planet. No survivors."

"Aye, captain."

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Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @andrewtravler.bsky.social · 1h

It infuriates me to no end how much these people lie and distort basic facts. I think it would literally kill these people if they told the truth.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8h

Oh so it's illegal for the president to have opinions now? The woke left is making opinions illegal?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

WELKER: Is the DOJ acting on orders from the president to prosecute his political opponents?

JD VANCE: No ... You know who we haven't prosecuted? Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton ... he's allowed to have opinions about law enforcement

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Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @andrewtravler.bsky.social · 1h

Is the sky blue? Is the grass green? Is water wet? Who's to say, George? Who's to say it isn't the woke media making up things?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h

Vance is having an incredible morning on the Sunday shows doing "oh so now it's illegal to [mundane thing]?"

A real quote when Vance is asked about whether Tom Homan kept the $50,000 he got in a fast food bag: "Is it illegal to take a payment for doing services?"

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Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 3h

There’s not a tradition of masked police in America,

Ds saying “this is not right; we will hold those responsible & those participating accountable” is the message.

It is a kitchen table issue.

It is inflation.

It is schools.

It is the price of gas.

It is Support The Troops.

It’s the shot.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 6h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 7h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 4h

Gov. Pritzker on Adelita Grijalva: "Mike Johnson won't swear her in. Why is that? … She'll be the 218th signature forcing a vote to release the Jeffrey Epstein files."

"Trump and Mike Johnson are working awfully damn hard to keep a sexual predator's files from being released. Makes you wonder why."

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 5h

look, this whole thing is awful but can we also acknowledge that it's extremely funny to sign off your sex crime e-mails with your full title and your status as a Knight of the Garter.

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Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @andrewtravler.bsky.social · 7h

I want whatever he is smoking cause my God this dude is out of his mind.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 11h

lmao

In his last lecture, Thiel also responds during the Q&A portion to a question about potential 2028 presidential candidates and whether they are antichrist or katechon. When asked about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Thiel says that he worries about there being a “woke American pope”– Pope Leo XIV – and a “woke American president”, creating a “Caesar-Papist fusion”. He goes on to talk about Ocasio-Cortez in relation to Thunberg:

One of the ways these things always get reported is, I denounce Greta as an antichrist. And I want to be very clear: Greta is, I mean she’s maybe sort of a type or a shadow of an antichrist of a sort that would be tempting. But I don’t want to flatter her too much. So with Greta, you shouldn’t take her as the antichrist for sure. With AOC, you can choose whether or not you want to believe this disclaimer that I just gave.

Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @andrewtravler.bsky.social · 7h

The ease with which these people lie is astounding.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

STEPHANOPOULOS: Trump said Pritzker should be in jail. Do you think he has committed a crime?

VANCE: I think Pritzker has certainly failed to keep the people of Illinois safe

S: It's a yes or no question

V: I certainly think he has violated his fundamental oath. That seems pretty criminal to me

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Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @andrewtravler.bsky.social · 17h

And I'm as flexible as an Olympic gymnast.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 21h

This is just so very, very illegal. And Republicans in Congress aren’t the least bit interested in controlling the purse. They’re just employees of trump org at taxpayer expense. This is a dictatorship.

Task & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 23h

Pentagon moves $8 billion from research to pay troops trib.al/G0HMywT

Pentagon moves $8 billion from research to pay troops

Left over R&D funds will be used to pay military members on Oct. 15, the Department of Defense said, following orders from President Trump.

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Krasnovian Commando @krasnoviancommando.bsky.social · 18h

Who was president in 2020? Remains the defining question of our era.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 18h

“The Biden FBI”

Who was President on January 6?

Donald J. Trump * © @reaDonaldTrump • 1m
THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

If you're going to write headlines like this, why even have newspapers?

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 22h

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 23h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Louis Mirante @louismirante.bsky.social · 21h

It’s so funny to hear people describe Portland as a war zone because they obviously sound like fascist losers whose children won’t call them back, but they also sound like massive weakling cowards.

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 1d

PORTLAND, Ore. — A small group of federal agents in camouflage and face masks watched from atop the immigration processing center Thursday night as a unicorn, peacock, dinosaur and raccoon danced to Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Costumed protesters in Portland defy description of the city as a 'war zone'

Dancing frogs, peacocks and unicorns outside the federal immigration building present a joyful contrast to the Trump administration's portrait of the Oregon city, they say.

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 1d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 20h

RAMIREZ SECURE THE BASS PRO SHOP PYRAMID

ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 21h

We're sending squad-sized elements to secure the Bass Pro Shop

Screencap of an AP article

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — National Guard troops patrolled in Tennessee’s second-largest city for the first time Friday while soldiers in Illinois were engaged only in planning and training after a judge handed a loss to the Trump administration and blocked their deployment to the Chicago area.

At least nine armed Guard members began their patrol at the Bass Pro Shops located at the Pyramid, an iconic Memphis landmark, about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from historic Beale Street and FedEx Forum, where the NBA’s Grizzlies play

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Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @andrewtravler.bsky.social · 19h

If I had a priest saying this about me I think I would just walk into the wilderness never to be seen again.

Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @andrewtravler.bsky.social · 19h

It's like @sky.skymarchini.net said, the most powerful person at a protest is a person of the cloth.

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Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @andrewtravler.bsky.social · 19h

See folks, this is what Christ calls upon Christians to do!

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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