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Gemma Webster
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Writer, rower, dog butler.
Lighthouse Writers Workshop Book Projecteer. Contributing editor
at FictionUnbound.com. Story curator
for Mortified Live! Denver. Also have a day job in accounting & bookkeeping. She/her
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Fascism wants you to believe that you are alone. That you are isolated. That the feelings you have are yours and nobody else has them because everybody is too afraid to speak.

But love is stronger than fascism. Community is stronger than fascism.
February 4, 2026 at 2:51 AM
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I've never had tear gas launched at me straight from over my head until now. That's also what happened to these unmasked, normie daytime protesters. ICE is shooting the tear gas up in the air so it arcs and falls way across the street and into the next block.
When I heard that the march had been tear gassed, I ran down to the ICE building to do some reporting; I arrived about an hour and a half after the first gassing, and was immediately tear gassed myself. The people from earlier in the day had long since dispersed; the protesters who were there now were, like myself, wearing gas masks. Even the Portland Chicken was wearing a full-face gas mask inside of his chicken costume. About 40 minutes later, I watched glowing munitions arc over my head and fall toward me. I ducked and held my helmet over my head; once again, tear gas billowed all around me. Some of the protesters had been collecting the spent munitions from the ground, and let me look through the bucket of sludgy, dented canisters. I found approximately 20 spent munitions in the bucket.
February 3, 2026 at 2:38 PM