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Andrew Weissmann @weissmann.substack.com

How is this a good use of law enforcement? Once again we are seeing showy display in lieu of meaningful substance.

aug 11, 2025, 2:31 am • 869 212

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reitwoman.bsky.social @reitwoman.bsky.social

and…is that a signature on the flag pin?

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aug 11, 2025, 3:17 am • 1 0 • view
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Oeishik @oeishik.bsky.social

This is Donald Trump's attempt to enforce his executive order that rounds up homeless & mentally ill people. It will be ugly & inhumane. youtu.be/2b1cPgsYe9E

aug 11, 2025, 2:33 am • 11 5 • view
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🫘Desireé Owen @oweninthefirst.bsky.social

We all know the FBI is an elite police force focused on special crimes. Now they have become the secret national police. Chapter 2 isn't going to be any fun for anyone.

aug 11, 2025, 4:40 am • 0 0 • view
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Katherine @kathrose.bsky.social

He’s always putting on a tv show.

aug 11, 2025, 1:31 pm • 0 0 • view
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ksrnow @ksrnow.bsky.social

What if DC just happens to have everyone call out sick? 👀 👀

aug 11, 2025, 2:34 am • 0 0 • view
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fiercelady.bsky.social @fiercelady.bsky.social

It’s crap. (Forgive my language)

aug 17, 2025, 2:57 am • 0 0 • view
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Ez👁️ @ezlove.bsky.social

We have to stop thinking this makes sense to anyone. Anyone who’s doing it apparently has no sense.

aug 11, 2025, 2:50 am • 0 0 • view
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Itgetzbybuckner @itgetzbybuckner.bsky.social

Its a test run. He will be going deeper and broader with each instance where he deploys military and DOJ resources to patrol in places he doesnt like. By 2028 they will be in place like chess pieces for when he declares martial law, and suspends elections.

aug 11, 2025, 3:17 am • 3 0 • view
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K_L_Cooper @kleytoncooperr.bsky.social

🖕🏼 C-L-U-E-L-E-S-S❗️

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aug 11, 2025, 3:11 pm • 0 0 • view
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normalleigh53.bsky.social @normalleigh53.bsky.social

So they can remove those violent, dangerous, homeless criminals from the streets? Flex for me.

aug 11, 2025, 2:34 am • 1 0 • view
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TAX THE RICH! @craigtoppers.bsky.social

It's beginning....... Ready to do anything yet?.... No?.... Well.. Don't say you haven't been warned

aug 11, 2025, 6:02 am • 0 0 • view
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ads2jls.bsky.social @ads2jls.bsky.social

We're seeing supercharged distraction.

aug 11, 2025, 2:35 am • 0 0 • view
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geraldroman.bsky.social @geraldroman.bsky.social

Titler having flashbacks of his base turning on Mike Pence. RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!

aug 11, 2025, 2:41 pm • 0 0 • view
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Daphne_du Maurier @daphe.bsky.social

Considering this latest action is likely another distraction from the Epstein files it’s a terrible use of the FBI agents

aug 11, 2025, 2:37 am • 16 2 • view
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🫘Desireé Owen @oweninthefirst.bsky.social

The first mistake is believing it is just a distraction. This is the goal.

aug 11, 2025, 4:41 am • 0 0 • view
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Bill Green @mtlb.bsky.social

He’s chumming the waters for his base. It’s all he or they care about.

aug 11, 2025, 1:32 pm • 1 1 • view
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Boudicasal @boudicasal.bsky.social

I think it is worse than that. This is a trial balloon for the Yarvin fever dream of tech bro city states they want to rule. It’s nuts.

aug 11, 2025, 3:35 am • 2 0 • view
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momny.bsky.social @momny.bsky.social

Cost of this ???

aug 11, 2025, 3:01 am • 0 0 • view
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Mr. Bill (not that one) @mrliam.bsky.social

Do they have to wear their white dress shirts and neckties?

aug 11, 2025, 2:55 am • 0 0 • view
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Kris Weinschenker @krisweinschenker.bsky.social

Just another sign of the times....

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aug 11, 2025, 2:10 pm • 0 0 • view
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Blue Skies In Utah @papabear333.bsky.social

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aug 11, 2025, 3:49 am • 2 1 • view
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sbbennett999.bsky.social @sbbennett999.bsky.social

This is the beginning of the manufactured crisis Trump needs to declare Martial Law. Trump just lit the fuse that will metaphorically burn down the Reichstag and immigrants and Democrats are going to be the metaphorical Dutch Communist. Under Martial Law there are ZERO civil rights. ZERO!

aug 11, 2025, 4:13 pm • 0 0 • view
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VVNinja @vvninja.bsky.social

The real goal here is to create a lock down barrier between this admin and anyone coming into the city so they have a handle on everyone. It shuts down protesters, and creates an impenetrable military wall..bc he knows what comes next will cause much anger.

aug 11, 2025, 3:34 am • 2 2 • view
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alvin-tostig.bsky.social @alvin-tostig.bsky.social

Just beta testing the national martial law rollout.

aug 11, 2025, 2:39 am • 4 0 • view
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NonProductiveCitizen @elsiepiano.bsky.social

Just another brainy idea the boys came up with after another coke-filled all nighter. I wonder if these guys have any idea the number of voodoo dolls with their faces are floating around out there in the world.

aug 11, 2025, 6:14 am • 2 0 • view
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Goldpup @goldpup.bsky.social

This is just part of Trump’s pledge of “Retribution”! It has no practical purpose

aug 11, 2025, 2:35 am • 4 2 • view
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Chrisser @chrisser64.bsky.social

On homelsss people…the FBI…?

aug 11, 2025, 2:40 am • 0 0 • view
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Just A Tinker @john-gardi.bsky.social

What you're seeing is training exercises for marshal law, also intended to weed out the 'weak' and 'woke'. The Gestapo was created by Hermann Göring in 1933 by combining the various political police agencies of Prussia into one organization. Sound familiar? Just a game theorist's point of view. 💁

aug 11, 2025, 3:42 am • 1 0 • view
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Freedom fighter😢❤️😢 @ble1212.bsky.social

Trump wants to take over Wah DC because he lost the DC Bar election. If DC is federalized the DC Bar might lose its separate entity status, correct?

aug 11, 2025, 5:31 am • 0 0 • view
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Chirp @chirp0403.bsky.social

An absolute waste of resources.

aug 11, 2025, 2:36 am • 3 0 • view
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Adi Weiss @adiweiss.bsky.social

You’re right. And I wonder where he’s planning to send the homeless.

aug 11, 2025, 12:13 pm • 0 0 • view
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Steve in Chicago @spsnomad.bsky.social

That's my big concern, especially as he's about to activate a bunch of National Guard soldiers, who will be basically sent into DC and whipsawed between whatever priority Trump and Stephen Miller feel is important on any given day and he mentioned homeless people in his Truth Social post...

aug 11, 2025, 1:32 pm • 1 0 • view
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Steve in Chicago @spsnomad.bsky.social

In California, Trump activated the guard, Newsom fought him on it in court and they wound up with the guard "protecting" Federal officers and buildings but not making arrests outright. With DC's unique status as a city under Federal control, there's no governor to stand in his way...

aug 11, 2025, 1:37 pm • 1 0 • view
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Steve in Chicago @spsnomad.bsky.social

My guess is that, for the most part, the National Guard will initially wind up "guarding" Federal buildings that are already adequately protected and this will be readily apparent as a waste of time and money and he'll look for something else for them to do to justify it...

aug 11, 2025, 1:39 pm • 2 0 • view
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Steve in Chicago @spsnomad.bsky.social

My big concern is that this will turn to ordering them to clear homeless encampments, throwing away their possessions and leaving them without shelter, and I'm wondering if his authority extends to that in DC because of its unique status.

aug 11, 2025, 1:45 pm • 1 0 • view
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Reegis Philbin @reegisphilbin.bsky.social

It’ll be the 1930s debacle of the USArmy (led by MacArthur w his aide Young Ike) breaking up the Bonus Army So many of the homeless are vets

aug 11, 2025, 5:34 pm • 2 0 • view
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Adi Weiss @adiweiss.bsky.social

Very likely.

aug 11, 2025, 6:05 pm • 0 0 • view
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Steve in Chicago @spsnomad.bsky.social

As always, he's likely to just do whatever he wants and wait for a court to stop him and he can do a ton of damage before that happens, if it happens.

aug 11, 2025, 6:16 pm • 1 0 • view
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Karl @kaffiend75.bsky.social

This how “policy” decisions are made in our new dictatorship. Trump sees something while driving home from the golf course, everyone falls in line. Until he needs another distraction on Wednesday if not sooner.

aug 11, 2025, 2:34 am • 0 0 • view
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smithjohnny.bsky.social @smithjohnny.bsky.social

I’m predicting a lot of racial profiling is about to happen.

aug 11, 2025, 2:34 am • 1 0 • view
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Marc Ash🇺🇦🇺🇸 @marcashrsn.bsky.social

I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing. Tell me what Kash Patel would have had them working an otherwise. We know it wouldn't have been what they are trained for, and it might not have been lawful.

aug 11, 2025, 4:04 am • 0 0 • view
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carlglo.bsky.social @carlglo.bsky.social

WTF?

aug 11, 2025, 3:02 am • 1 0 • view
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Allan Schlosser @allanschlosser.bsky.social

Who better to preside over a White House news conference on crime than a felon convicted on 34 counts?

aug 11, 2025, 1:27 pm • 0 0 • view
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Gordon Vincent He/Him @gordonvincent.bsky.social

What you see is terrorism.

aug 11, 2025, 1:53 pm • 0 0 • view
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heishalley.bsky.social @heishalley.bsky.social

Speaking of showy displays… Also not a good use of your tax dollars Good thing eggs are free

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aug 11, 2025, 2:46 am • 1 0 • view
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Sharon Eaton @sharoneaton.bsky.social

Better than that, eggs are down in price 500%. Trump's math, not mine. ;-)

aug 11, 2025, 3:12 am • 1 0 • view
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Mares ☸️⚔️ @mb-mares.bsky.social

all a distraction from the Epstein files and the tariffs that are crushing American business and tax payers

aug 11, 2025, 12:27 pm • 1 0 • view
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saabstory.bsky.social @saabstory.bsky.social

Trump got his massive iCE increase, distrusts other federal law enforcement, and hates FBI. All the nonsense work FBI is getting may be just another demoralization campaign on an organization the Project 2025 guys hate - because FBI investigated Trump. They want agents to quit.

aug 11, 2025, 3:19 am • 2 0 • view
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DDrae🇨🇦 @ddrae.bsky.social

Brown people better stay out of Washington because the fbi and the guard will Protect iceraids. Stepping it up daily. Closer to autocracy.

aug 11, 2025, 3:17 am • 0 0 • view
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DDrae🇨🇦 @ddrae.bsky.social

And crime has dropped and now metro police and mayor don’t get credit cause he lies.

aug 11, 2025, 3:16 am • 0 0 • view
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ecstaticpixel.bsky.social @ecstaticpixel.bsky.social

So “ big balls “ 🤣🤣🤣 gir his ass kicked by children and now trumps gonna look tough by sending the FBI to patrol streets? And on that note what was el Grande cojones doing out at 3 am anyway? Doesn’t he have some pensioner’s to rob or something?

aug 11, 2025, 3:09 am • 4 0 • view
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felinesareperfect.bsky.social @felinesareperfect.bsky.social

Big Balls was buying crack and wanted to give a bj. Things went south. DOGEshit in action.

aug 11, 2025, 3:55 am • 2 0 • view
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ecstaticpixel.bsky.social @ecstaticpixel.bsky.social

Sounds about right

aug 30, 2025, 2:59 pm • 1 0 • view
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MichaelGSmylie (Mensch) @mgsmylie.bsky.social

This is all about the republican party taking violent control of communities that have elected democratic party governments.

aug 11, 2025, 7:33 am • 1 0 • view
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SK Lindsey @sk-lindsey.bsky.social

Andrew, and now....what about THIS?? Would love to hear your take..

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NaNaNaNa ™ ❌💩👑 @heyheygoodbye.bsky.social

#EpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles

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aug 11, 2025, 6:31 am • 0 0 • view
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Raisins @youlikeraisins.bsky.social

And agents have to be so distracted from paying attention to their regular duties. I fear it’s only a matter on time before something is missed.

aug 11, 2025, 2:42 am • 0 0 • view
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hana martin @nitramanah.bsky.social

"The reassignment of FBI agents has further demoralized some agents in the Washington Field Office" + The 'nice guy' quote reminds me of this (about protecting the head when putting someone in the police car): www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

aug 11, 2025, 11:05 am • 0 1 • view
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FNU LNU @mop-fautneddy.bsky.social

Criminally incompetent.

aug 11, 2025, 3:21 am • 0 0 • view
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mikamom.bsky.social @mikamom.bsky.social

Andrew although not a president doing it but yes the national guard was called out… remember Kent State? We need to be reminded of that tragic loss! I was in college in Ohio when it happened.

aug 11, 2025, 11:00 pm • 0 0 • view
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desert hazard @amasaback.bsky.social

Isn’t that the point?

aug 11, 2025, 3:40 am • 1 0 • view
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mungonna8.bsky.social @mungonna8.bsky.social

he trying to take control of DC away from the Mayor and congress. ?

aug 11, 2025, 2:36 am • 0 0 • view
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COOLJEN @cooljenim.bsky.social

IT'S A FUCKING DISTRACTION FROM EPSTEIN JUDGE SLAP DOWN!!!

aug 11, 2025, 3:38 pm • 0 0 • view
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Frank Lynch @fplynch.bsky.social

Worse: these agents had other things to do. There are opportunity costs.

aug 11, 2025, 2:34 am • 0 0 • view
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bibliofiend2123.bsky.social @bibliofiend2123.bsky.social

How can he use FBI agents for this? I wager most of the crimes aren't federal.

aug 11, 2025, 3:22 am • 0 0 • view
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Langdon Grant @langdongrant.bsky.social

Trump's DC stunt is giving heavy Bear Patrol vibes. From an episode that was, appropriately enough, about a politician scapegoating undocumented immigrants to distract from his own incompetence and corruption.

aug 11, 2025, 2:11 pm • 0 0 • view
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Rudely Van Gelder @rudelyvangelder.bsky.social

Now who’s gonna Sharpie out Trump from all those Epstein files?

aug 11, 2025, 2:43 am • 3 1 • view
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Peggy Camp @pacamp.bsky.social

The Trump admin isn’t capable of making policies or laws with positive outcomes! He’s all about the chaos!

aug 11, 2025, 4:03 am • 3 2 • view
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felinesareperfect.bsky.social @felinesareperfect.bsky.social

Now Trump and Crazy Eyes have FBI agents as beat cops???? Those idiots really don't know WTF they are doing.Unbelievable.

aug 11, 2025, 3:51 am • 1 0 • view
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Kim Nead @kimnead.bsky.social

It isn’t a showy display - it is the meaningful substance of creeping (galloping) dictatorship.

aug 11, 2025, 2:42 am • 2 0 • view
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esherry13.bsky.social @esherry13.bsky.social

This is NOT a good use of law enforcement. It’s another step closer to complete authoritarian dictatorship. His next step will be to arrest Dems. (Then one has to ask, when will we all receive big tattoos with the letter D followed by a number?)

aug 11, 2025, 2:35 am • 6 0 • view
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mem01.bsky.social @mem01.bsky.social

It’s not, he’s ridiculous and dangerous.

aug 11, 2025, 2:56 am • 0 0 • view
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MarkJMal @markjmal.bsky.social

Deployed in the streets or around the White House?

aug 11, 2025, 3:01 am • 0 0 • view
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some-marc-guy ॐ @some-marc-guy.bsky.social

the show is everything to them, and sadly, much of society. Unless they don't see something happening, "They" must not be doing anything. Gone are the days when people did their jobs and it was ok for most people not to notice.

aug 11, 2025, 12:25 pm • 0 0 • view
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Stephen Calhoun @artistscc.bsky.social

Trump believes all there is is showy display.

aug 11, 2025, 2:55 am • 0 0 • view
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memphismanatee.bsky.social @memphismanatee.bsky.social

I think we all know it's not, but the goal is to distract from the economy, genocide, Ukraine, and last but not least his friendship with Epstein.

aug 11, 2025, 3:47 pm • 0 0 • view
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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social

It’s completely enraging so it’s good Epstein-distraction fodder.

aug 11, 2025, 5:45 am • 4 1 • view
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SterlingC69 @sterlingc69.bsky.social

Another trump DISTRACTION.

aug 11, 2025, 2:46 am • 1 0 • view
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A Virginian @avirginian1.bsky.social

Why are federal agents on the beat to look for carjackers? It's insane.

aug 11, 2025, 2:32 am • 1 0 • view
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Jim Van Allen 🇨🇦 @jimvanallen.bsky.social

Using the FBI to crackdown on homelessness, is not anything close to an appropriate use of a federal investigative agency. Trump is a lying moron.

aug 11, 2025, 8:44 pm • 0 0 • view
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Bread and Circuses @cosimopiovascod.bsky.social

They don’t care if it’s good use of LE or has meaningful substance. The intent is to condition the populace to seeing FBI, National Guard, Marines etc. in the streets of American cities. A progressive desensitization until it’s accepted as the new normal. Convince us to trade freedom for “security”

aug 11, 2025, 3:46 am • 3 1 • view