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Wes
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Psychology, politics, philosophy, technology, larp, psychedelics, ADHD.

Portland, OR.
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Looks like it's just surrendering passports.
Screenshot of the court document saying defendants have to surrender and not replace passport and other foreign travel documents.
January 23, 2026 at 10:08 PM
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The actual NYT headline is even worse, and the article doesn't just center the admin's narrative, but explicitly dismisses anyone else's.
Headline: Detention of 5-year-old by federal agents incenses Minneapolis A photo showed a boy with an oversized hat and Spider-Man backpack being held next to a vehicle as his father was detained. A Homeland Security spokeswoman said the man had fled and left the child.
January 23, 2026 at 1:49 AM
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Don't need tools against ICE if there is no ICE
January 22, 2026 at 9:01 PM
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I remember when pepper spraying peaceful protesters just once dominated the news for days. UC Davis hired a PR firm to (fail to) scrub it from search results!

Now it's just a regular Wednesday. nbd.

#DarkestTimeline
An officer casually pepper spraying a row of students sitting on the ground peacefully.
January 21, 2026 at 9:46 PM
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This is what the European financial sector is waking up to.
Reuters headline: Stocks wobble, dollar dips as Trump-Fed feud deepens
January 12, 2026 at 6:57 AM
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The victims called for help 3 miles away from where they were shot.

Border patrol does not appear to have told Portland police anything until they showed up to investigate gunshots.
Map of Portland showing the location of the shooting vs. where the victims called for help.
January 9, 2026 at 12:11 AM
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Is anyone able to confirm this? I'm not finding anything to contradict it...
it's probably worth noting that for all of the right-wing narrative around Minneapolist being unsafe, there has only been *one* homicide in the city so far this year. it happened today and was committed by a masked ICE agent. -sam_d_1995 on X
January 8, 2026 at 5:57 AM
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I have questions.
A YouTube video advertisement declaring WE'RE F*CKED by a picture of an alleged ex-AI "scientist"... tagged as an "AI upload"
January 1, 2026 at 3:22 AM
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Maximizing the profit potential of genocide.
"Will the IPC classify Gaza as experiencing famine this year?" read the wager from this past summer. The bet was eventually settled in the affirmative after the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) did indeed declare famine in Gaza on Aug 22. The more overtly cynical Polymarket, a rival of Kalshi that's backed by right-wing multibillionaire Peter Thiel, allows for even more obscene wagering, permitting users to bet on whether Palestinians will be ethnically cleansed. "Gaza mass population relocation in 2025?" reads one of its many Gaza-related bettering markets. You can also bet on when Israel will bomb Gaza, bomb the West Bank, or annex either. One cannot, of course, wager on when or if Hamas will attack Israel since, in polite circles, Israelis are considered fully human and Palestinians are not.
December 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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"How to woo a woman, step one" over a picture of Rick Flair in a gaudy robe captioned WOOOOOOOO!!
November 22, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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My $72 product from Germany gets an extra $23 in tariffs.

Fuck you, Trump.
Screenshot of a receipt with $72.80 subtotal and $23.66 in duties.
November 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Seen in Portland.
A row of posters with a frog face saying "DON'T OBEY"
October 16, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Near the ICE facility in Portland.
A rack of colorful costumes on a sidewalk with a FREE sign.
October 16, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Claude is better, though not by much.
A screenshot of claude.ai fumbling around trying to figure out that there's no seahorse emoji and failing.
October 16, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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The "live map" isn't up any more, but the site still has the data. Choose the appropriate election and select by congressional district.

www.atlasizer.com
Map of the NY 8th Congressional District with voting results showing 44.15% of the vote to Mamdani and 41.23% to Cuomo.
October 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Did it?
Screenshot of a table of results by congressional district showing Mamdani winning the 8th district (where Jeffries won his election).
October 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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In the words of Hakeem Jeffries...
A tweet from Hakeem Jeffries saying "Trump is the existential threat poisoning America. Vote BLUE (no matter who)."
October 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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The fascist project requires the suppression of human virtue, which means showing virtue is anti-fascist.

www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of...
There's a picture from the early days of the Trump regime that has lived with me ever since: A man at FBI headquarters painting over words on a wall. Each word is a human virtue. The man is covering them all with a large paint roller; overwriting fairness and compassion, leadership, diversity, integrity, respect, responsibility, leaving nothing but a blank plane of grey. The man could be anyone. He's not extraordinary. They told him to paint over human virtue and he did it, as if human virtue can be eradicated with a bit of paint. There can be no better picture of the fascist project. From www.the-reframe.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Observing who someone chooses to celebrate tells you something about their values.
Chat: I'm watching a movie about America's first serial killer Reply: Christopher Columbus?
October 13, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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ANTI-ANTIFA on a hoodie worn by one of a group of right-wing thugs with the caption: ok now reduce your fraction
October 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Wow. This is some powerful writing.

And the footnotes are *so good*.
Judicial text: Small wonder then that our bastions of independent unbiased free speech -- those entities we once thought unassailable -- have proven all too often to have only Quaker guns. Behold President Trump's successes in limiting free speech -- law firms cower, institutional leaders in higher education meekly appease the President, media outlets from huge conglomerates to small niche magazines mind the bottom of the line rather than the ethics of journalism.
September 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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This is a disgusting amount of left-behind trash.
A city street with piles of trash and debris everywhere and a caption: This is a picture of "war ravaged" Portland. Just kidding, this is a picture of Glendale, Arizona after the Charlie Kirk memorial.
September 29, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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So the only two white actors in Black Panther are Martin Freeman, who played Bilbo Baggins, and Andy Serkis, who played Gollum. So I guess that means... they're the Tolkein white guys. Post by Marvel.
September 25, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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This gives me the impression that Brendan Carr is fully aware that he's a fascist now. Especially with the ton of other receipts in the 🧵.
Brendan Carr says "The debate over free speech and censorship is a very good proxy for the broader contest between freedom and authoritarianism. When someone tells you where they stand on free speech, they've told you just about everything you need to know about their position on government power." Dated Sept 1, 2024.
September 20, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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This one escaped bsky and came back to me.

I can see why.
Starting a conversation with "how are you" is wild like whoa that is a third margarita question these days my friend bsky post by Jonathan Edward Durham @thisoneOverhere
September 18, 2025 at 7:46 PM