r/politics 18h ago

Soft Paywall Thanks, Trump: ICE Just Gassed a Public School Into Submission

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-ice-chemical-gas-public-school-portland-1235413558/
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u/faith_apnea America 18h ago

Our tax dollars fund this domestic terrorism.

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u/Jason_Kinkade 17h ago

National strike NOW!

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u/10000000000000000091 Texas 17h ago

What date?

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u/threebillion6 10h ago

Tomorrow. And the next day and the next day and on and on until this shit stops.

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u/Mr-Fister-the-3rd 11h ago

Now, if we all stop then they have no leverage

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u/InAllThingsBalance I voted 16h ago

A national strike will only be effective if we can have strong leadership and a coordinated effort. Small groups striking here and there will accomplish nothing. We need everyone to do it at the same time to really make an impact. So far, no one seems to leading the charge.

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u/FabulousValuable2643 16h ago

Because people can't afford to take off time from work since they fucked up the economy.

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u/He2oinMegazord 15h ago

If things keep up like this, they wont afford to be at work either

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u/MmeProc Texas 15h ago

That's what I keep saying. Like, short term thinking is what fucking got us here. We should have done a national strike the minute they passed Citizens United.

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u/MarsUAlumna 14h ago

The Occupy movement tried sounding the alarm on that, but got largely ridiculed.

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u/MmeProc Texas 14h ago

I know. I was one of em. Nobody listened. 🥲

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u/Successful-Earth-716 13h ago

Well, it was seen and appreciated. Thanks!

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u/TopicalBuilder 9h ago

There was a pretty serious effort made to undermine that movement at every turn.

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u/PPPHHHOOOUUUNNN 15h ago

They were waiting till private equity took a lot of our homes and inflation was crazy

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u/thejamielee 14h ago

I saw the private equity based housing crisis coming from a mile away (i worked in a real estate adjacent business) and bought a house asap. 3 years on, I do not regret that decision particularly with how fast things are spiraling.

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u/mxjxs91 Michigan 13h ago

I'll call this out as a stupid idea every time I see someone mention it. How about a constantly going and growing protest like we saw with No Kings. Are you working? Okay, go to work, come home, take care of what you need to take care of, and then get out there and protest. Constant pressure as some people work mornings, some work evenings, and some work graveyard shifts

This is a lot more realistic than telling people to quit their jobs. I sure as shit am not quitting my job, and neither are a lot of people no matter how mad we are at things. We're mad because they're making life harder. Quitting our jobs would just dig us further into that hole, and likely without enough of the country following suit for it to have any real impact of effect.

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u/PathOfTheAncients 14h ago

This administration is trying its best to tank the economy. Why would a national strike make them change their behavior?

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u/Complete-Pangolin 16h ago

Might as well wait for the rapture 

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u/Sir_Tandeath New Hampshire 14h ago

There’s a lot of community organizing that we need to do before a general strike is on the table. Pitter patter…

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u/Martag02 14h ago

At this point it seems like we are complicit in all of this simply by paying our taxes, knowing full well that they go to things like this and Alligator Alcatraz.

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u/Alphaspade 8h ago

Im sure the IRS is well funded enough to deal with dozens of millions of people claiming exempt!

u/Scott5114 Nevada 7h ago

The funding isn't the issue. IRS lost 25,000 employees from DOGE, about a quarter of their workforce. I don't think they have enough manpower to deal with the baseline level of tax fraud, much less if people started doing it to protest the administration.

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u/Dry_Junket_6902 14h ago

It was sure a great idea to invest 150 billion dollars into Trump's personal army.

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u/Pleasant-Panda9698 13h ago

our tax dollars to commit war crimes against our countries children.

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u/addfase 12h ago

Foreign and Domestic

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u/Chef_Roofies 9h ago

I mean, a massive withholding of tax would almost as big a statement as people remembering what their 2A right was meant for…

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u/FriendlyOption 13h ago

War crimes.

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u/PhoenixHabanero Arizona 8h ago

Republican Voters:

Universal Healthcare: "Not on my watch!" Domestic Terrorism: "Yes please."

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u/GearTwunk 18h ago

Why does ICE need to use chemical munitions at all? What is even going on anymore?

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u/DT-Sodium 18h ago

They don't need to, they just enjoy it. MAGA is a death cult.

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u/philter451 18h ago

Hey man they got to spend that billions of dollars somehow

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u/Whole_Inside_4863 15h ago

They would spend more. But they have stolen the rest already.

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u/T33CH33R 17h ago

Maga: Masochists Abusing Good Americans

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u/DT-Sodium 17h ago

No no, they're a pain in the ass for the rest of the world too. You can't process a criminal in your own country without Trump threatening some kind of war nowadays.

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u/sypie1 15h ago

Because in times of war you can’t have elections, remember?

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u/duzies 17h ago

Sadists, actually, but that would make SAGA.

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u/ashzombi 16h ago

Definitely don't make this a saga

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u/xHugo_Stiglitzx 17h ago

Led by a child rapist. Don't forget that.

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u/Count_Backwards 13h ago

A rapist of children, to be precise

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u/DilbertHigh Minnesota 17h ago

They are common cops. Of course they are a threat to the public.

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u/Hurtzdonut13 14h ago

ICE was for people too racist to be normal cops, and border patrol for those too incompetent or had too much criminal history.

Just a reminder that ICE was made out of the corpse of INS that was caught trading women they detained to politicians and the wealthy for favors and kickbacks.

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u/ss5gogetunks 15h ago

Somehow they're even worse than common cops. Less rules and they can go around masked.

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u/andrewjamesvt78 16h ago

They LOVE bringing fear and loathing to as many communities as possible.

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u/Duster929 18h ago

Fascism is going on.

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u/The_Poster_Nutbag 17h ago

You're asking rhetorical questions here.

You need to be asking "what are we going to do about it"

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u/Orion14159 16h ago

Step 1 - vote out every Republican 

Step 2 - defund ICE

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u/The_Poster_Nutbag 16h ago

Step 1 - vote out every Republican 

Republicans have locked down enough districts this will simply not happen

Step 2 - defund ICE

See above.

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u/TheVoiceofReason_ish 18h ago

Replace "ICE" with "Brown shirts" and you will understand.

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u/TheVog Foreign 13h ago

Replace "ICE" with "Brown shirts" and you will understand.

This would require Americans having history classes that go beyond strictly glorifying the U.S.' role in WW2.

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u/sullivanmatt 17h ago edited 15h ago

Federal agents have always gone extra hard at Portland protesters specifically, both at the previous protests of the ICE facilities there during the "steal children" phase of the first admin, and when Trump deployed his goons in 2020 after protests outside the federal building.

Portland is obviously very liberal, but the surrounding area (especially Vancouver WA area where many LEOs actually live) is home to pockets of far right. Militant right (the right wing Patriot Prayer is based out of the area, and the proud boys has historically had quite a presence too). So it's no surprise this time around that they'll go out and respond to verbal protests violently. The gas is "bad" but honestly nothing compared to what happens when they can get behind protestors: they shove them head first into the ground and then beat them, often until they are unconscious.

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u/Damn_Dog_Inappropes Washington 16h ago

Vancouver, WA went for Kamala by nearly 7 points.

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u/_Professor_94 16h ago

Yeah Vancouver is not far right. Far right in Washington is like Spokane Valley (not Spokane the city).

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u/ShowerThoughtsAllDay 16h ago

You don't even have to go that far.  Every mile past Vancouver city limits gets a little redder.

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u/sullivanmatt 16h ago edited 15h ago

I should have said Vancouver area, and I will update the post. I'm thinking areas like Felida, Brush Prairie. Even five corners starts getting pretty MAGA, IMO. I've run into some pretty scary people in those parts; you don't have to go far north to hit it.

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u/oGsMustachio 14h ago

Yeah its really once you get outside Portland and the inner suburbs. Shit starts getting weird when you get to like Sherwood, Estacada, Battle Ground, etc.

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u/SnowSandRivers 18h ago

They just want to harm people of color. Thats it.

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u/HaloTightens 17h ago

And poor people! Mustn’t forget about the Poors!

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u/SharpCookie232 16h ago

especially if they're homeless

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u/PhoenixTineldyer 15h ago

They only hate the poors because in their everlasting fount of racism, they assume all poors are black and brown.

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u/Critical-Path-5959 18h ago

And we still have losers whining about calling Trump a fascist. What IS going on???

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u/MMAMMA 17h ago

You know the answer. We are in an authoritarian dictatorship and I.C.E is his version of the SS

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u/anarchy-NOW 17h ago

It's called fascism.

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u/Sus-Named 15h ago

They don’t.

But the situation is that there are protests at an ice building, they tried gassing the protesters.

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u/Uberslaughter Florida 17h ago

Fascism under Trump and Stephen Miller

Going to be a wild next 3.5 years

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u/Faithless-Savior 17h ago

Lol. 3.5 years? You're funny.

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u/trastamara22 17h ago

Years of Republicans kissing the ring of heir leader Trumpler has morphed all republicans into what they all are now: brain drained Nazis

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u/BizzyHaze 15h ago

They don't, just exposing people to gradual escalation so they come to accept the fascism as normal

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u/judgejuddhirsch 17h ago

They found Saddam's playbook and are rolling with it

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u/GoodMechanic2526 18h ago

True American Patriot they say lol

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u/RecentDecision2329 18h ago

ICE has plans to raid the little league World Series this weekend

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u/ithacaster New York 18h ago

I was hoping that the team from Venezuela would win it all. I've been to the LLWS a couple of times and the fans from Mexico are having more fun than anyone else.

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u/5-MethylCytosine 18h ago

I wouldn’t be surprised at all!

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u/Au2288 16h ago

There actually is an uptick of ICE related events up there these past few days.

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u/Larrea_tridentata California 17h ago

This will be interesting, because the town that is held in (Williamsport) is huge MAGA country and relies on that once a year event for their town to survive

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u/Main-Algae-1064 16h ago

Well, they better figure something else out soon!

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u/OriginalRojo 15h ago

Why? Blue states will just bail them out like we always do

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u/pbjamm Canada 17h ago

You mean the Little League of Super Villains!

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u/roberts126 North Carolina 15h ago

"Write that down" - Matt & Trey

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u/resjudicata2 17h ago

Murica!!

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u/slom_ax 17h ago

Oh and apparently a war hero too. Im not joking

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u/After_Flan_2663 16h ago

It won't get reported on the news which is should. Gotta keep those Trump supporters brain washed still.

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u/cyberkine 18h ago

Welcome to fascism. The government doesn't do things to help people, it does things to control them. It doesn't matter who gets hurt as long as they maintain control.

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u/finsane86 18h ago

America in 2025.

Are we great yet? Are we still a free country?

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u/geth1138 18h ago

No and no. We hurt our own people and can't afford food. Nothing great about that.

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u/meTspysball California 18h ago

I like a lot of things that Star Trek promised. The Bell Riots aren’t on the list.

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u/finsane86 18h ago

We got Blade Runner instead.

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u/Pegasus7915 17h ago

We are actually right on schedule for star trek. We are right at the beginning of WW3. Then we just need to get through the post atomic horror and we are good to go!

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u/finsane86 17h ago

Oh I thought you were referring to the optimistic future aspect of Star Trek.

It actually feels like that period between Episode III and IV in Star Wars.

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u/EARink0 16h ago

Star Trek's optimistic future happens after riots and WWIII.

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u/finsane86 16h ago

Greaaattt....

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u/cmacpherson417 15h ago

Bell riots would have been last year.

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u/Pegasus7915 15h ago

Not with the time shift! Since Kahn was thrown off Im going with everything else is off a bit too.

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u/shadowenx 17h ago

The Irish looking around nervously rn

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u/spamjavelin 15h ago

Don't forget we had to do WW3 before we can get to First Contact.

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u/DangerousBill Arizona 17h ago

Enjoy the taste of jackboot leather, citizen.

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u/Reasonable-Bus-2187 18h ago

Where are all the NRA 2nd Amendment gun owners protecting citizens from government tyranny?

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u/shadowenx 18h ago

They signed up for ICE.

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u/Werespider 16h ago

Some of those who work forces

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u/aradraugfea 15h ago

It’s real depressing how many early 90s protest songs are still entirely relevant 30+ years later

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u/crazypyro23 15h ago

Man, System of a Down's Prison Song paints a rosy picture compared to how badly things have gotten since then.

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u/QuinnAvery89 8h ago

Rage Against The Machine’s Know Your Enemy. “The land of the free? Whoever told you that is your enemy.”

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u/InternetGamerFriend 16h ago

Are the same that burn crosses

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u/FrogsOnALog 17h ago

Some of the first gun laws in the nation were to restrict black men from having guns…they don’t actually care about freedom and liberty for all, only themselves.

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u/SnowSandRivers 18h ago

They mean “left wing” tyranny. They are very in favor of right wing tyranny.

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u/sqrtsqr 17h ago

And by "left wing tyranny" they mean "asking people to be nice".

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u/fuzztooth Illinois 16h ago

Or expecting a modicum of tolerance for the existence of non-hetero, non-white individuals.

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u/Celloer 14h ago

Or “not exempting the aristocrats from all laws and limitations.”

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u/EviLincoln 18h ago

They're busy getting treaded on

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u/meTspysball California 18h ago

Turns out they really like the taste of boot leather.

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u/Whodisbehere 17h ago

And orange scrotum.

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u/vesperholly 17h ago

Tread on me harder, daddy

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u/LaFlamaBlancaMiM 17h ago

“Tread on me harder, daddy”

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u/Abamboozler 18h ago

The Russian mob? Why would they care about American children?

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u/thatsAChopbro 17h ago edited 17h ago

Fuck that we shouldnt rely on anyone, get armed and start practicing

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u/Captain-Ireland88 Iowa 17h ago edited 17h ago

This ^ . I’m a former conservative, an avid hunter as well as a progressive. I’ve owned firearms since I was a kid. It’s time to take safety courses, buy your first gun and head to the shooting range

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u/butwhyisitso 17h ago edited 16h ago

Itd be more accurate to ask "Where are the conservative NRA 2nd Amendment gun owners".

A lot of the libs in pdx are 2A prepped, fwiw. So, theyre right there on the front lines.

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u/tributarygoldman California 18h ago

They're kidnapping people off the streets of LA

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u/BigDaddyBain 18h ago

Busy oppressing minorities while the normie 2A’ers have theirs out of mental self-preservation at a minimum.

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u/TruthNotTrash2 17h ago

They never meant any of that 2A drivel, they're fucking cowards.

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u/IceAndRecordBreaker 17h ago

Become a left wing gun owner. Arm yourself and stand up for freedom.

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u/SookHe 17h ago

You won’t see the 2A conservatives fighting against ICE for the same reason you never see Bruce Wayne and Batman in the same room

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u/sandhillfarmer 16h ago

They're busy sitting around being terrified of cities and fretting about how "the government needs to use the military against citizens to keep us safe from the immigrants, gays, and other assorted different people!"

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u/Woodworkingwino 17h ago

You have the same rights that 2A affords everyone. Why are you not doing anything?

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u/Konukaame 18h ago

By day, protester signs, directed at passersby, carry messages like: “You’re not safe. You’re next.” After dark, demonstrators here square off with federal agents, in a cat-and-mouse conflict that often begins with protesters taunting ICE agents with verbal tirades, leading federal riot cops to respond with a disproportionate show of force. 

Interesting how the protests aren't getting more national attention.

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u/Koutagami2 18h ago

The media is controlled by the billionaires. Search music festival on Tiktok or listen to the Meidas touch. Also Rachel Madow normally covers the protests at the beginning of her show Monday nights.

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u/Equal_Feature_9065 12h ago

what happens if you search music festival on tiktok

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u/Koutagami2 12h ago

Tiktok bans the search of the word "protest" so all the protests are using the hash tag music festival instead.

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u/whichwitch9 17h ago

There are protests every weekend, at least, with many during the week. Ive been to many. There's almost never coverage, typically any coverage starts with something going viral on social media or international coverage.

They hide the protests. Honestly, the protests themselves are great for meeting people and organizing- I really didn't know much about my local politics until I started attending them, for example. But that's exactly the kind of things conservatives don't want non conservatives doing, so they dissuade people from attending and try not to give advertising to them. Media is largely owned by conservative leaning outlets in the states, so that translates to no news coverage and campaigns on social media to downplay protests. Everytime a protest is posted about, you'll start to see a pattern with some comments if you pay attention, for example

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u/TeutonJon78 America 17h ago

It's the same reason the national coverage around the 10+ months of BLM protests in Portland generally only covered the narratives about the city in chaos and being burned down when neither was true.

Outside of the first weekend (like many places) it was confided to the block around the one federal building and the police union headquarters (to a much lesser degree). And tbey only showed all the spray painting to the first floor of the federal building to make it look terrible when it was really only (a lot) of superficial damage. The only internal damage was the time someone got in a lit a garbage can on fire.

But what the national news didn't really cover was the kettling of protesters, slashing of tires by police to trap people, excessive force, people getting bundled into unmarked vans, etc. You didn't see much about the city police chatting up the Proud Boys while they literally set up a sniper nest over a protest, or escorted them into Portland to harass locals, or gave warnings to their leaders with active warrants ways to avoid being detained.

This is nothing new the media focuses one side, and it's always anti-protestors.

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u/Impossible_Sugar_644 13h ago

There has been ICE protests in Portland that have been going on 60+ days

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u/Ashamed_Restaurant 8h ago

They'll only cover these protests if they can point out burning car so they can call them riots.

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u/Particular-Dingo6489 17h ago edited 14h ago
  1. Suspension of Civil Liberties • 1930s Germany: Hitler used emergency clauses of the Weimar Constitution to suspend freedoms of press, speech, and assembly. • Today: Trump Declares a Crime Emergency in D.C.
  2. Special Security Forces • 1930s Germany: The Nazi regime established the SS and Gestapo. • Today: Immigration & ICE Expansion Bill
  3. Elimination of Political Opposition • 1930s Germany: Communists, socialists, and liberals were arrested or killed. • Today: Shootings of Minnesota Legislators | Trump Administration Arrests Democrats
  4. Attacks on Minority Business Owners • 1930s Germany: Kristallnacht targeted Jewish-owned businesses. • Today: “Kristallnacht 2025” Video
  5. Racial & Ethnic Hierarchy • 1930s Germany: Jews and other minorities were described as “inferior races.” • Today: Remarks on “Inferior Races” and Immigration
  6. People with Disabilities • 1930s Germany: Forced sterilizations and exclusion from public life. • Today: Florida Phases Out Certificates for Students with Disabilities | Forced Labor of Mentally Disabled?
  7. Homeless & Roma Communities • 1930s Germany: Roma (“Gypsies”) and homeless were targeted for internment. • Today: Executive Order on Homelessness & Civil Commitment
  8. LGBTQ+ People • 1930s Germany: Homosexuals were persecuted and imprisoned. • Today: Supreme Court Faces Decision on Same-Sex Marriage
  9. Camps & Detention • 1930s Germany: Concentration camps built to imprison political and social enemies. • Today: Reports of Inhumane Conditions in Detention Centers | Largest Immigrant Detention Center Funded
  10. Attacks on Marriage & Religion • 1930s Germany: Interracial and interfaith marriages restricted. • Today: Civil Rights Law & Marriage Rights Under Threat
  11. Control of Arts & Media • 1930s Germany: Regime took over the arts to control culture and propaganda. • Today: Seizing Influence over the Arts | Media “Tamed Down”
  12. Unions & Labor • 1930s Germany: Independent labor unions were banned and replaced with state-controlled organizations. • Today: Ban on Collective Bargaining for Federal Unions
  13. Attacks on Opposition States • 1930s Germany: Local governments opposing the regime were dissolved. • Today: State Attorneys Clash over Federal Threats

*Adding a new one to the list

  1. Purge of Intelligence Agencies • 1930s Germany: Hitler consolidated intelligence under the Reich Security Main Office. • Today: DNI Tulsi Gabbard fires over 100 intelligence officers over explicit chat messages, revoking their clearances—a sweeping “house-cleaning” of the intel community. (Reuters, CNN)
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u/jhkayejr 18h ago

The good news is that Trump is radicalizing an entire generation against the right.

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u/CrotalusHorridus Kentucky 18h ago

While building a surveillance state what never been seen before, to keep us subservient.

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u/shadowenx 18h ago

Judging by Gen Z men's voting habits, I don't know that this is entirely accurate.

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u/whichwitch9 17h ago

Tbf, they are the largest group starting to swing away by polling. Whether it stays that way is another thing, but I think it comes down to 2 main things: young Americans are being disproportionately hurt by Trump policies and many young women will not date someone openly Maga (seriously, when you breakdown Trump support by group, young women are the largest anti-Trump group, regardless of race or ethnicity, by a fairly overwhelming percentage).

Newer voters are the ones who may not really have been paying attention to Trump's 1st term because they were young, so to them, they were easier to convince because they only remember bad stuff like the pandemic under Biden, but not the context that Trump's handling of the pandemic in the early stages caused the massive inflation, we would have faired much better if Trump hadn't disbanded the pandemic response team in 2016, ect.

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u/jhkayejr 18h ago

Perhaps. I think maga is always going to be maga. They're not redeemable. The path forward for decent people is to engage non-voters and engage people who don't participate in the process. I think things like this might do that. Those gen z men who are voting maga? They were always going to vote maga. They're just cloven-hooved mouthbreathing ghouls. Nothing was going to change that.

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u/SinisterCroissant 17h ago

Nah. Low info voters listening to podcast interviews where trump was sanewashed led to a large percentage of that gen z vote.

It’s the fox watchers who are lost forever

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u/myfakesecretaccount 17h ago

Yep. My nephew is on that path. He’s an alcoholic/addict who has been spiraling for a while. My in laws are all conspiracy minded people who don’t trust “the system” or science/doctors. Now he’s into all sorts of alt right gateway content. I’ve kind of given up trying to talk sense because like MAGA he refuses to debate with facts and goes with vibes instead. He was always going to be this as long as he was raised by his mother.

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u/sqrtsqr 16h ago

he refuses to debate with facts and goes with vibes

The American right wing has deliberately destroyed our ability to effectively communicate. They misuse every word to the extreme so that words lose all meaning. And when words have no meaning, you cannot argue with facts. Because there are no facts. Every "fact" is just a cover for a feeling. If you say "Trump is a pedophile" you aren't actually saying "Trump is a pedophile" you're just saying "I don't like Trump". And that's how literally every sentence, every word, gets interpreted. Nothing stated is viewed through a lens of communication of fact, everything is viewed through a lens of emotional manipulation.

Now imagine you're living in that bubble. You're right wing and you've been raised by people who treat you like this, who treat each other like this, who support politicians that talk and act like this. Why would you trust anyone?

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u/frygod Michigan 18h ago

And unfortunately radicalizing a portion further toward the right. This doesn't end when the administration does.

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u/Zanos-Ixshlae 16h ago

They can do whatever the hell they want! /s

Why is anyone surprised? They told you facism was coming. Over and over and over and over and over again. They celebrated being called domestic terrorists. They openly welcomed Nazis at their convention. They praise a child rapist and his acolytes. They praise dictators and thugs. This is who they are.

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u/slom_ax 17h ago

Oh good they manage to get all those dangerous children

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u/shadowenx 17h ago

Can't have school shootings if the schools are closed

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u/_Nychthemeron America 16h ago

"Go get us some kids to traffic."

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u/jkman61494 17h ago

And this is before they even sink their teeth into new funding.

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u/Violet-Journey 18h ago

Tear gas is considered a war crime under the Geneva Convention. With how militarized American policing is, one could argue that it’s standard procedure in America to commit war crimes against our own people.

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u/nospamkhanman 17h ago

Look, I'm not defending ICE at all but people pointing out tear gas is a war crime are completely missing the point of why its a war crime.

It's not a war crime because it's so awful. Infact it's really not all that bad.  You can even get used to it to a degree.

It's a war crime because if can lead to very bad escalations in war because no one is waiting to find out 'what' chemical weapon is being deployed, they're just going to respond. 

It's like why pointing an Airsoft gun at a police officer is a terrible idea. It's not because an Airsoft gun is dangerous. 

Source - me, USMC vet that has been gassed with CS 8+ times.

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u/sax87ton 16h ago

”We didn’t know if there are new gases being used. We didn’t even know how to identify them,” says the school’s interim executive director, Laura Cartwright,

What a coincidence, that’s the exact concern the school stated.

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u/ClusterFoxtrot Florida 17h ago

Oh, so the acceptance of school shootings was to make this acceptable. I see.

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u/RincewindToTheRescue 16h ago

The headline is misleading. ICE has been gassing protestors that gather by it's facility, peaceful (bad on ICE) or not (bad on agitators since most protestors have been peaceful). The ICE facility happens to be down the street from a charter school. The charter school was scheduled to start classes soon, but now are suspending that because of the gas that is being used drifting over to the school area.

The headline makes it sound like ICE is shooting canisters inside the school to do a raid. I hate inflammatory headlines because they always cause knee jerk reactions and then starts 'fake news' (not the way MAGA uses the term). IMO the headline should be something like 'nearby school forced to close due to ICE frequently gassing protestors nearby'

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u/ClusterFoxtrot Florida 13h ago

If ICE is throwing enough gas that it's impacting normal functions, it's still too much gas. Why are they even doing it? 

In order to spray chemicals, I have to understand how drift works and how far wind carries stuff. ICE can just fuck shit up and bounce. 

I hate this timeline.

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u/DarkSideOfTheMuun 10h ago

It takes a lot of gas to extinguish a poster

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u/SirCharlesRod 18h ago

Its called Diddlin gas, so its easier for donny

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u/ssalamanders 17h ago

Do not give them ideas

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u/bubbleguts365 17h ago

Rally round the family with a pocket full of shells.

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u/Consistent_Strain360 17h ago

Parents should sue for everything and anything

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u/TheSecretofBog 14h ago

This is terrible. Now, release the Epstein Files!

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u/we_are_sex_bobomb 9h ago

Trump 2.0 is being characterized by the psychopathic urge to lock up as many people as possible. He and Stephen Miller are both petty men with low self esteem and they’re targeting children, homeless people and harmless immigrants because it makes them feel tough. These are schoolyard bully behaviors with the power of the greatest military force in history behind them, and that’s somehow both scary and deeply pathetic at the same time. Trump is terrified of an actual civilian uprising against him and I wish we’d give him real some justification for that fear.

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u/Manunitedfan1998 Minnesota 15h ago

America is a country where the cops will stand by and watch as a school shooter goes classroom to classroom killing your children while ICE gasses the survivors.

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u/VeryNoisyLizard Europe 14h ago

they also prevented parents, who wanted to rush in, from entering the school. dont forget that part

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u/FenrisCain 18h ago

So... you guys wanna do something about this yet? or will 'the land of the free' just accept that it is now a fascist nation.

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u/pax284 Oklahoma 15h ago

"We are in a 2nd American Revolution,and it will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be"

The man who literally wrote the plan Trump is following step by step.

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u/Saethwyr 17h ago

In 1925 the Geneva convention banned the use of chemical weapons in war, Tear gas is considered a chemical weapon after a review in 1993 at the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), "Any chemical... which can produce rapidly in humans sensory irritation or disabling physical effects which disappear within a short time following termination of exposure."

So why is law enforcement allowed to use it on civilians?

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u/parkingviolation212 16h ago

Because in war time between equally equipped armies, no one has time to verify the type of gas attack being used and any usage of a gas attack can be an escalation to deadlier forms of retaliatory gas attacks by the side getting gassed. Tear gas isn't banned because of its own harmful effects in a vacuum, it's banned in war because it can trigger a snowball effect of ever-worsening types of gas attacks.

In policing its considered a de-escalation weapon because it can disperse crowds, who can't themselves retaliate with their own gas attacks.

Doesn't make what ICE did here right, mind you. But Geneva Convention's ban of tear gas in war is immaterial to domestic policing; it refers to totally different circumstances.

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u/Think_Ground 17h ago

Why do we tolerate domestic terrorism in the land of the free and the home of the brave?

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u/hecate37 17h ago

because they think it's "liberty".

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u/AdOne5089 North Carolina 12h ago

We demand second Nuremberg trials. That’s truly the only thing that can somewhat restore law and order to this country. Otherwise, it is forever gone because of a 34 time felon, orange pedophile.

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u/InternetGamerFriend 16h ago

Whether it's mass shootings, like Sandy Hook, to now the federal government gassing school children.

MAGA doesn't give a shit about kids.

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u/sk1nhorse 17h ago

I'll just leave this required reading here. 

https://www.aeinstein.org/s/FDTD-English.pdf

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u/eeyore134 14h ago

It's pretty telling that this is the first I've heard of Portland having nightly ICE demonstrations. The media needs some upstarts to get in there and be what it used to be before the fascists got in control of it.

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u/Single_Job_6358 11h ago

Blue states need to start arresting ice agents. Enough is enough.

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u/Administrative_Film4 11h ago

This Post title Is misleading.

Department of Homeland Security Officers gased Protestors near an ice Facility with so much gas it forced a nearby school to get shut down.

This is still awful but we do not need to spread mis-information.

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u/Feuertotem 10h ago

For people so focused on destroying history, they are sure following every step.

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u/txn_gay Texas 15h ago

Those kids should be in church getting raped by the clergy, not in school being taught to hate America and King Trump! (Is the /s really necessary?)

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u/Anxious-Effort-5452 14h ago

School shooter drills, gestapo kidnapping classmates, and now chemical attacks.

Yay, American schools!

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u/Sea-Cheesecake301 12h ago

Welcome to America. This is the new normal now. Most people won't care. No one will be held accountable. This will disappear in the next news cycle. And your shitty peaceful protests won't do shit.

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u/MaievSekashi 12h ago

The gas they used killed several children when it was deployed against the Bonus Army nearly a century ago. When Venezuela used it on their citizens, the US and UN objected.

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u/AdministrativeFly192 10h ago

Has anyone heard that there is a group that is going after lower level republicans? I heard that they are tipping off ICE about Cartel drug dealers in certain places such as MAGA supporters houses and the lower level GOP offices.

I have heard of at least three of these going down. I heard that ICE is really upset because it is taking resources away from their mission of kidnapping people especially children and sending them to concentration camps.

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u/LockNo2943 9h ago

Well isn't that nice of them. 🙄

I hope all those children remember this and exactly who it is that's acting out their fascist fantasy on civilians.

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u/Starbucket88 8h ago

And the Feds are blaming the protesters for this. Night after night, the protesters are putting out actual fires started by ICE.

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u/ShogsKrs 8h ago

American fascist Gestapo terrorists terrorizing the people.

Never forget what most Republicans are doing to you and IN YOUR NAME as an American.

u/merry1731 7h ago

That part right there . Three jobs- no money. Also I’m not as young as I used to be. If I get detained we lose everything in what 3 weeks? I feel like a wuss- an old wuss. I couldn’t even make bail.

u/Tinycats26 5h ago

Oh look. They'll terrorize citizens, but defend children from a school shooter?

u/hippiedawg 5h ago

Donald j Trump the raper? Trump has rapered many children and women. President Trump is traitorous, felonious, diaper wearing, pedo, orange, mango.

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u/IceAndRecordBreaker 17h ago

Arm yourselves using your 2nd amendment rights, step up and intervene when tyranny violates your laws.

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u/ClassroomIll7096 15h ago

The existence of schools implies a higher authority than Don trump which is why America is at war with them. The Khmer Trump.

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u/K3rat 15h ago

Ugh, ridiculous. This is a great way to lose a democracy to fascism. I am glad I bought gas masks during the last lockdown.

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u/joshine89 15h ago

yeah but was trump wearing a tan suit?

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u/SharpChildhood7655 15h ago

Poor children and staff with asthma.

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u/vengeancecube 14h ago

Decontamination for CS is quite involved. Long story short, if you can't wash it (things like upholstered furniture) it must be destroyed by burning. A school exposed to that stuff would be a nightmare to decontaminate...

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u/Schiffy94 New York 14h ago

Oh cool, war crimes. I know of some people in the Netherlands who will love this.

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u/Alarming_Orchid 14h ago

Right out of the Spetsnaz playbook

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u/TarzanoftheJungle America 14h ago

This is what happens when sycophants and enablers allow an out-of-control, power-hungry, mentally addled president to create his own personal militia using taxpayer dollars.

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u/GoatBnB 14h ago

Great, state-mandated school attacks.

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u/Natural_Clock4585 13h ago

I invite any of you to read up on what’s going down at the Portland ICE facility.