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Ewepinko @scdemandred.bsky.social · 15m

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 3h

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 5h

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Alex Mack 10 🇯🇲 @chillarybanks.com · 5h

Happy Indigenous People’s Day.

A beautiful Indigenous woman holding her middle finger up with a caption that says, “Fuck Christopher Columbus.”

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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 5h

I know it's a rhetorical question but the reason anger against immigrants is encouraged is that the ruling class needs the working class to be infighting along lines of race, ethnicity and gender because if we are united we'll be too powerful

Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 14h

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.

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Ewepinko @scdemandred.bsky.social · 3h

Well, good thing I didn’t overreact

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Ewepinko @scdemandred.bsky.social · 3h

I was trying to view the post and your account kept disappearing from the screen…. Really weird behavior, but maybe just a glitch in the matrix

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1d

It's amazing how public officials who willingly go on TV to talk about these issues can claim ignorance about the very things they've come on to talk about, and it's treated like a legitimate answer.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Jim Jordan after he's played clips from videos of ICE brutalizing people, including American citizens: "I don't know the specifics of those examples you gave. What I do know is these ICE agents are under tremendous pressure ... I think they're doing a good job."

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Jacob Graveison @jacobdavison.bsky.social · 1d

Not to be that guy, but Luffy's straw hat isn't red and it does not look like Jesus' crown of thorns. Thiel is just projecting his christ/anti-christ analysis on literally everything he watches because he's a wacko.

Luffy with his straw hat that doe not look like a crown of thorns and has a red sash around it but is not red.

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Chris “Chance!” Brown @chancesecond.bsky.social · 1d

“Did you actually listen to the things Charlie Kirk said, or are you just parrot-“
Nope, listened to them all, he was a piece of shit
“Are you sure that you’re not just falling to propa-“
What part of I did unnecessary homework about a trash human do you not understand

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HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 1d

I read Peter Thiel’s essay on Alan Moore’s Watchmen and it unquestionably proves that piss poor media literacy is foundational to this recent rise of fascism.

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Mr. Spookytime Grift @djdunclive.bsky.social · 1d

Really is one of the details that gives me solid hope that it all falls apart once Trump kicks the bucket.

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 1d

Lol. Even the media can't handle how much of a shit Vance is.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 22h

Www.hidinginplainsightbook.com

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 20h

I really wouldn’t be shining lasers at helicopters if I were you. It’s illegal and could cause an aircraft to crash - and that could kill a LOT of people, in the air and on the ground.

And the ICE goons appear to be *salivating* at the chance to claim people that they arrest were doing this:

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Alexia 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇲🇽👩🏻‍💻 @thealexiaelise.com · 19h

That’s a long winded way of saying they have the reasoning of a 12 year old.

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Chris Blackton @chrisblackton.me · 18h

Perfection

Sign from Portland's emergency naked bike ride that reads "CANNOT SILENCE DEEZ NUTS"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 20h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 20h

the inflatable costume thing is an extremely smart tactic

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 20h

my father (a retired white engineer who has been in oklahoma for 40 years) is my weathervane for what normal people who just watch the news periodically think, and he was like “so, they want to call the guard out on a bunch of kids wearing frog suits? is that true?”, the admin is losing the PR war

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

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Mac Smiff @macsmiff.com · 17h

I laughed audibly at the reality that the president of the USA is discrediting the Mayor of Portland, all of City Council, several county chairs, a dozen mayors from across the state, the Metro Chamber, several US senators, his own judge & all 48 protesters just to believe Andy Ngo & his 6 friends.

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Chris Blackton @chrisblackton.me · 17h

It's spreading!

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 17h

Spirit Halloweens across the country may not close on November 1st

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 16h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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alboo @captainacab.airbud.website · 16h

gotta say i can’t help but pay attention to the protesting frogs in portland. the story is so ribbeting

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Ewepinko @scdemandred.bsky.social · 12h

Thank you SO MUCH. The moment I saw Brassica in my timeline, this comic popped into my brain.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 14h

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

www.10news.com

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