Please amplify the Portland story of tyranny any place, any way you can.

[Grasswire2]

This should be the top story everywhere today.

News isn't catching up fast enough to make our horror known.

I'm begging you, because it's coming to other cities as well, soon.

This is the beginning of the overt putsch.

Be the one who carries the news and spreads the alarm.

[tableturner]

1. K and R......

[lunasun]

2. What are the best sources for info? It's so bizarre I can't get a handle on what's real or maybe hyp

I’d like to let people know with more than just a tweet. My apologies if this has been discussed already . I’m just checking in here today and I haven’t seen anything in main stream media
Thanks

[Nevilledog]

4. Here's the original story

https://www.opb.org/news/article/federal-law-enforcement-unmarked-vehicles-portland-protesters/#.XxD9y_CwH4w.twitter

[LeftInTX]

15. They sound like a private militia

[Fiendish Thingy]

18. No evidence to support that, and shouldn't be speculated without evidence

All reports state they are a combination of federal agents, including US Marshall’s and BORTAC, CPB’s SWAT team.

[LeftInTX]

24. I agree now

Was sitting on this waiting for more clarification on the story.

Good Gosh...CBP arresting US citizens, who are protesting????

[Mike 03]

5. Here is a DU thread from a couple of days ago that includes people we can follow

on Twitter who are ex-Border Patrol and other interested parties.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213756303

[Leghorn21]

6. New Mother Jones article:

https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2020/07/federal-agents-portland-border-patrol-chad-wolf-statues/

[lunasun]

8. Thank you all for the links !

[Leghorn21]

3. G2, I followed this last night as it spread across the web --- it was still gaining traction this

morning as ripples expanded, AND, WaPo just broke the story an hour or so ago—

Hang tough, this story’s got LEGS

[2naSalit]

7. I sent a plea to

RMS to please cover this story via the "send it to Rachel" link on her website a couple hours ago. I gave the link to Charlie Pierce's article.

[LizBeth]

9. I am doing my part. Have a thread going on my FB and another site. Adding articles and statements

as I come across them here. Thanks all.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Here's a 20 second twitter video showing anon thugs taking down bicyclist cycling with signs

Link to tweet

[vapor2]

22. any link for this video so I can post on FB??

[yaesu]

11. It may be time for a march on Washington in support of Portland

watch bunkerboy soil some depends.

[shanti]

12. Nicole Wallace

talking about it right now.

[bucolic_frolic]

16. Yes, Brian Williams was on too

as was a reporter in Portland who's been covering it for I think they said PBS for over a month.

He reported someone who was snatched at 2 in the morning, taken to a federal building for a couple hours, read his rights, and asked for a lawyer. At that point, he said, the interview stopped and he was released with no paperwork of the detention. The reporter said he didn't know who detained him, or if he has been charged with anything, and doesn't know who to identify as responsible for the incident.

Crazy. Nicole Wallace says they'll be on it, and Brian Williams at 11pm also.

[Lonestarblue]

13. Trump's gestapo in action.

Does anyone know the specific federal law(s) that give Trump the authority to send federal police forces to a state against a governor’s orders? I thought the feds had to be invited in.

[Fiendish Thingy]

19. Apparently his EO on protecting statues is being used as justification nt

[certainot]

14. how many radio talk shows are getting calls from rw think tanks or the kremlin hating on protestors?

calling for 'clean up'?

[erronis]

17. Excellent analyses usually done pretty real-time

Rayne at EmptyWheel: https://www.emptywheel.net/2020/07/16/trumps-rump-coverers-other-mission-militarized-voter-suppression/

Heather Cox Richardson: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-16-2020

[BadgerMom]

20. K/R

[cayugafalls]

21. This is a test. It worked, and now it will spread to other cities.

Unless something drastic happens to make them stop, this is the beginning of the end. They are executing their plan in broad daylight.

There can be no more peaceful protest if you are on the left. We have been demonized and animalized to the point that our rights are no longer valid.

Trumps call for 2A activist to swarm dem controlled state government buildings recently was a test to see if he could gather forces quickly for help if needed from his base. It worked.

When trump loses, expect it to get much worse. Hell, expect it to get much worse over the next month.

There are no checks and balances anymore. The scales of justice have tipped.

I hope I am wrong.

[Grasswire2]

23. Timothy Snyder tweeting today. When you see paramilitary on the street, the end game is nigh. nt

[SiliconValley_Dem]

25. i agree! this is Nazi bullshit, and Barr/Trump and gang need to be tried

for treason. fuck these pigs

[Hotler]

26. I was hoping madam Speaker would have issued a harsh ....

statement by now. There should be outrage from all our democratic leaders.