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23 Jul 20, 4 tweets, 2 min read
‘It was like being preyed upon’: Portland protesters say federal officers in unmarked vans are detaining them

washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07…
Trump announces 'surge' of federal officers to Chicago as he campaigns on 'law and order' mantle cnn.com/2020/07/22/pol…
Federal Officers Hit Portland Mayor With Tear Gas

Mayor Ted Wheeler denounced federal officers for an “egregious overreaction.” Some protesters mocked him, recalling the city police’s use of tear gas on demonstrators.

nytimes.com/2020/07/23/us/…
A Judge Said Federal Officers Can’t Arrest Or Use Force Against Journalists In Portland

The 14-day temp restraining order, which the Trump administration opposed, is the first court order placing limits on the federal law enforcement action in Portland. buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…

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19 Jan
This is what happens when you let the far right control the narrative with police. Police are conditioned by Fox News and Facebook disinformation that BLM and Democrats are the enemy and the only rebuttal they see is “Defund the Police.” This is not how you win an information war
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16 Jan
Capital One fined for violating U.S. anti-money laundering law, failed to file “thousands of suspicious activity reports” and “thousands of Currency Transaction Reports” with respect to a business unit known as the Check Cashing Group. reuters.com/article/us-cap…
“The $422 billion-asset admitted that it was negligent in failing to file the reports on roughly 50,000 transactions totaling more than $16 billion.” americanbanker.com/news/capital-o…
“The civil money penalty totaled $390 million, but Capital One was credited $100 million for a penalty that it paid to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in 2018.”
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15 Jan
The Canadian video-sharing platform Rumble is suing Google over claims the tech giant is "unfairly rigging its search algorithm" to preference YouTube videos in its search results.  businessinsider.com/rumble-sues-go…
“Rumble has become popular with conservatives in the past year or so, encouraged by Republican Rep. Devin Nunes and others. The company says it has more than 2 million creators using the site”
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8 Jan
Capitol Police chief resigning amid criticism over pro-Trump mob nbcnews.com/politics/polit… via @NBCNews
“But they could not find Mr. Schumer’s office. He said they asked a Capitol Police officer, who tried to direct them." nytimes.com/2021/01/07/us/…
December 31st, 2020:

Capitol Police to enhance security at Jan. 6 session to certify election
Efforts come ahead of protests that could be violent rollcall.com/2020/12/31/cap…
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27 Dec 20
Said privately yesterday that gunshot was likely a suicide before blowing themselves up, seems even more likely given the additional details.
So bizarre dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9…
FBI investigating AT&T as target and 5G conspiracy theory as motivation for the suicide bomb #Qanon newsweek.com/nashville-bomb…
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3 Dec 20
Disgraced Republican lawmaker planted no-party candidate in key Senate race

Frank Artiles boasted that he planted a no-party candidate in the Miami-Dade Senate race. Artiles recruited Alexis (Alex) Rodriguez, a longtime acquaintance and Facebook friend.
miamiherald.com/news/local/com…
“The no-party candidate with the same surname as the incumbent Democrat had been a registered Republican until just before his qualifying papers were filed to make him a candidate for the Florida Senate. He received 6,382 votes in the election.”
“Artiles resigned from the Senate in disgrace in 2017” for “the hiring of a former Hooters “calendar girl” and a Playboy model with no political experience as “consultants” using funds from his political committee” & “called two Black lawmakers a racist slur in a Tallahassee bar”
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