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12 Nov, 7 tweets, 2 min read
don’t like the maudlin stuff

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15 Nov
thought we were done for the day

but there is a bit of a kerfuffle between opposing protesters at the capital hilton next to blm square

police forming a cordon between about two dozen pro-trump activists and maybe 100 anti-trump protesters
police in riot gear have staged around the block
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14 Nov
overheard from a group of trump supporters at a pizza place in Capitol Hill

“first we’re gonna send in the fbi & then we’re gonna send in the military!”

unclear to which location these federal agents will be dispatched

but first they’re gonna enjoy a pie from we the pizza
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19 Jul
[that feeling when you are trying to beat a dude who is twice your size with your baton and he doesn’t seem to notice]
“I need your clothes, your boots and your unmarked minivan.”
turns out that dude getting whaled on in Portland by feds was a Seabee

this explains a fuck of a lot to anyone who has spent time around Seabees on shore leave... 😂

and yes, he is a U.S. Naval Academy graduate

friend of mine now chasing it so i won’t share more
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18 Jul
Read the thread below.

In a country such as the US, there is an absolute need for highly trained, well-armed federal tactical teams. With an abundance of external and internal threats, and easily available firearms, this is simply a question of public safety.
I have a high regard for such officers; I know many personally as good people, highly professional, who perform extremely dangerous jobs.

We shouldn't blame the officers in Portland for making the practical choices needed to do their job: we should question their leadership.
But these events in Portland ought to be analyzed in context. There needs to be a public conversation about this issue.
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17 Jul
it hardly seems accidental that the federal officers in portland who seem unfamiliar with law enforcement in a constitutionally protected civil context

are from agencies - CBP & US Marshals - least likely to conduct law enforcement in a constitutionally protected civil context
last time i checked these were border police and fugitive hunters

why should anyone think they are appropriate for policing american streets?
it will be interesting when we learn the details of which federal law enforcement agencies declined such assignments

i'd imagine the FBI's internal lawyers, for example, immediately understood what a perilous thing it would be to accede to such a request
Read 14 tweets
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1 Jul
There’s a story which may well be apocryphal: at an art exhibition in the 1880s the Russian painter Vasily Vereshchagin took General Helmuth von Moltke (the elder) on a tour of the gallery.

There he led the general in front of his painting, “The Apotheosis of War,” (1871). Image
The general was not pleased. It’s easy to imagine that lanky, austere Prussian - a man so erudite and reserved he was once described as “silent in seven languages” - perplexed by the painting, in particular its dedication:

“To all great conquerors, past, present and to come.”
By Vereshchagin’s own account, the general ordered his men not to view the painting, further recommending that the artist's military paintings be burned “as objects of a most pernicious kind.”

The antiwar sentiment exhibited in that painting wasn't an accident. Image
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