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Prosper Portland Executive Director Awarded Three No-Bid Contracts to His College Friends

The contracts have a combined value of $456,000, but the scope of work for two of them is a secret.

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I am entirely serious when I say that this should be seen as a moderate position. It specifically and surgically dismantles institutions that did not exist pre-9/11 and assigns their functions much as they were assigned pre-9/11.

Truthout@truthout.org · 6h ago

Rep. Delia C. Ramirez has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the DHS altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.

Very little girl: "Why do they have their hands wrapped up behind their back?" Mom: "Go in the kitchen, honey" Girl: "Mommy!" This is the March immigration arrest of a Latino tree-service worker by local cops in West York Borough, Pa., who turned him over to ICE They are breaking our communities

Up to 300 far right activists and skinheads will descend on Blackpool on Saturday night for a Oi gig with known nazi bands and musicians. Billed as The Main Event, this Oi gig is nothing more than a nazi jamboree.

every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing

I don't think this sort of casual lawlessness is a distraction at all, I think it's the whole enchilada. ICE and HSI are thuggish scofflaws regularly deployed on American soil to terrorize nonwhite people so the president can make his allies in the right-wing press show black & brown suffering on TV

Senator Chris Van Hollen@vanhollen.senate.gov · yesterday

Trump's continued attacks on @repilhan.bsky.social the Somali American community, & our Muslim neighbors are a heinous attempt to distract from his complete & utter failure as president. Every American should be chilled to the bone: these are the actions of a dictatorship not a democracy.

Here's one of the new Portland Police Bureau recruits. He's anti-"woke" and think "woke" is anti-god. He's also a proponent of the Christian Nationalist "7 Mountain Mandate" and believes Christians are called to take "dominion" over all areas of society.

Cleta Mitchell back in the news. I wonder if anyone’s seen her sister, Ladon Jean Deatherage who spent 2016-2020 rallying with neonazis and white nationalists and pedophiles and Andy Ngo to attack Portland and was the progenitor of the “concrete milkshakes” lie?

WIRED@wired.com · yesterday

Cleta Mitchell, the Election Integrity Network’s founder, cited as evidence a case in Wisconsin from 2020 in which a sheriff alleged that eight residents in a care home had their votes filled out for them. The Wisconsin Election Commission rejected the claims.

A 29-year-old neo-nazi has been jailed for 20 years for orchestrating an international network of child sexual exploitation, torture and blackmail involving victims from Britain, Europe and America. Read more here:

20 year sentence for leader of neo-nazi cult that tortured girls online | Searchlight

A 29-year-old neo-nazi has been jailed for 20 years for orchestrating an international network of child sexual exploitation, torture and blackmail involving ...

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Naming your insane Rights Removal psyop after students murdered by the Nazis for resisting is a deliberate and repulsive choice.

Susan Rinkunas@susanrinkunas.com · 3d ago

The START of this clip made me do a double take: new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia sits on the board of White Rose Resistance, an organization that wants to *prosecute abortion patients for homicide* www.ms.now/opinion/abor...

The Defense Department first awarded the consulting firm Alvarez & Marsal a $67 million deal shortly after George Kollitides started at the Pentagon. Then came a bigger, no-bid contract for the firm: $281 million working with Kollitides’ office.

The Pentagon Gave $350 Million in Contracts to a Firm Closely Tied to a Senior Defense Department Official

The top Pentagon official left Alvarez & Marsal Capital after ProPublica started looking into his financial ties. The contracts with a related company are another example of firms close to the Trump a...

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🧊✈️ SEATTLE: A girl in chains boards an ICE-chartered GlobalX airplane (tail: N630VA) at Boeing Field, to be transported south to Arizona 👀

It is **highly** unusual for WLM OR to publicly advertise the location of a get together like this. It could very well be an attempt by them to do some counterespionage, gather faces and license plates and what not, so bear that in mind today.

Antifascist Art PDX@antifashpdxart.bsky.social · 3d ago

"white lives matter" meeting today at 4:00pm at Boulevard Taphouse. The venue was notified yesterday. We go where they go! No safe space for racists!

Just Ted Cruz recirculating racist far right propaganda from a French white nationalist and disseminator of the great replacement bullshit theory.

The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes.

Jared@jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 5d ago

Things got more insane just about as soon as I posted this last night. DHS is now arguing that we cannot even put the names of ICE officers in our lawsuit against those officers. Their position is that, if a defendant works for DHS, they cannot be named in a lawsuit. Never seen anything like it.

The other important thing to know about Rhodesia (and Ian Smith) fandom in the US is that it has a long history on the radical (and not so radical) right. Here’s the American Conservative Union, the people behind CPAC, stanning Rhodesia in 1978.

Philip Bump@pbump.com · 4d ago

If you praise the Confederacy, everyone knows what you're doing. If you praise Rhodesia, though, you still get that little frisson of naughtiness, the little tingle of rebelliousness that can power you through the drudgery of your eight-hour shift at your dad's car dealership.

This is just a fucking carjacking. How the hell was he supposed to know it was a state sponsored carjacking. what the fuck are we doing here.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4d ago

The NYPD just released surveillance video of the ICE shooting (which occurred off camera). Two men in civilian clothes run up to a car with guns drawn. One second later, one man begins smashing the butt of his gun into the driver’s side window. The driver appears to panic and hit the gas.

Very grateful to go on @onthemedia.bsky.social to discuss Chris Rufo, his “Indian Question,” and why Rufo deserves more of the media’s scorn and disdain, and less polite sit-down interviews on New York Times podcasts www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

Polarization Is Not Our Biggest Problem | On the Media | WNYC Studios

During an I.C.E. operation in New York City, officers shot a man in a car while a child sat in the back seat. On this week’s On the Media, coverage of I.C.E. has decreased since the s...

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this isn't who we used to pretend to be

85% of people who are joyfully telling you there’s going to be a civil war look exactly like this.

SometimesPDX@sometimespdx.bsky.social · 4d ago

Just a reminder that all these people standing on the Proud Boy stage were speakers at The Gathering of the Eagles, along with Douglas Frank, the guy who's been touring in Oregon and the country trying to gain support to overthrow this election for Trump and MAGA Jesus.

Just a reminder that all these people standing on the Proud Boy stage were speakers at The Gathering of the Eagles, along with Douglas Frank, the guy who's been touring in Oregon and the country trying to gain support to overthrow this election for Trump and MAGA Jesus.

Alex Kaplan@alkapdc.bsky.social · last mo.

In a presentation newly uploaded to YouTube, election denier Douglas Frank — who once spoke at one of Trump's rallies — predicted & hoped that Trump is "gonna declare a state of emergency" for elections, claiming that Trump "has nothing to lose."

They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.

NEW: Footage from Thursdays shooting shows an ICE agent in a construction vest brandishing a rifle. His name is Brenden Cuni. Federal judges have found multiple arrests involving Cuni unlawful. He has been accused of repeatedly Tasing a handcuffed man and tackling a pregnant woman in Minneapolis.

ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests

Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.

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The man shot by ICE in NYC yesterday has disappeared after he was admitted to the hospital, and his lawyer reportedly doesn’t know where he is. www.courthousenews.com/ice-shot-a-m...

ICE shot a man in New York City; his lawyers can’t find him

The agency claims Oscar Belgal "weaponized his vehicle” against agents in the Bronx, prompting them to fire seven shots at his car.

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Andrew Couts@couts.bsky.social · 5d ago

NEW: ICE agent in a high-viz vest holding a rifle at the scene of shooting near the Bronx has a history of allegedly lying, using excessive force, and courts have found his arrests unlawful. @dmehro.bsky.social @awinston.bsky.social, @regret.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-ag...

“During a pro-democracy and anti-fascist student demonstration from the Federal University of Sergipe (UFS) tonight, a Bolsonaro supporter got out of a car and fired shots into the air, causing panic among those present.”

Personalescrito (@Persona@todon.nl)

Attached: 1 video Urgent: During a pro-democracy and anti-fascist student demonstration from the Federal University of Sergipe (UFS) tonight, a Bolsonaro supporter got out of a car and fired shots in...

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🚨 Latest from the border wall blockade: tree sit is still up, one land defender is locked down to machinery, Border Patrol has wrapped a Mylar blanket around them and is running the truck and pumping the blanket full of exhaust to try to gas them out, potentially killing them.

Max Granger@maxgranger.info · last wk.

Happening now! Border Patrol amassing forces after land defenders re-established a tree sit on the Mexican side of the border in La Noria, Sonora, this morning, stopping wall construction the day after DHS killed the Grandmother Tree.

Tonight in Lochiel, AZ, Border Patrol agents tied the legs together of a person who protested the building of the border wall by tying themselves to the truck. Then they let the driver drive away with them tied to the truck. No word on their condition. www.instagram.com/rally.forthe...

Lmao they love them cars 🤷‍♂️

Humanoid𝚇𝙼𝚃𝚁🏴@humanoidxmtr.bsky.social · 5d ago

Here is a Protest The Protesters clip from 2021, when Emily and failed politician Ashley Ramos traveled over 110 miles to Milwaukee to Stop The Steal. She has so much in common with Jake Lang 😆 She never returned to Milwaukee.

it’s whatever they’re mad about. always has been. it doesn’t mean anything to them, it’s just a place to store bad feelings.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d ago

Q: How do you define socialism personally? JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports

PDX Let Dante's know that they've lined up a white genocide conspiracy band And they should cancel that shit

wiley cope@wileycope.bsky.social · last mo.

Punk venues cancel The SoapGirls over racist lyrics and conspiracy posts. Band says tweets were faked; the Internet Archive says otherwise. Then the band’s booking agent came for the critics. My latest for @lcrw.news with words from @katmabu.bsky.social leftcoastrightwatch.org/articles/soa...