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21 Jan, 12 tweets, 4 min read
There are about 150 protesters in Portland marching right now toward an ICE facility, chanting "Fuck Joe Biden."
The crowd has arrived, and the feds have declared an unlawful assembly
The feds have come out and unloaded tear gas and pepper balls into the crowd
Here's video of the feds emerging and shooting tear gas and other riot-control munitions to disperse the Portland crowd.
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Some very close-proximity shooting
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Hours After Biden Inauguration, Federal Agents Use Tear Gas in Portland

nytimes.com/2021/01/21/us/…
The feds also brought out some sort of tear-gas blower machine...

What is this thing called??
More footage from earlier, when federal agents blanketed the area with riot-control munitions
So much tear gas from the feds tonight. It reminded me of some of the July days during the big federal deployment in Portland.

I'm not sure if it is the potency or what, but my skin is burning a lot more tonight than in past tear gas events.
After the feds advanced on the Portland crowd and unleashed the tear gas, someone pulled a Biden for President flag out and the crowd burned it on the street.

nytimes.com/2021/01/21/us/…
Portland police say they made more than 8 arrests today. I didn't see any federal agents make arrests. It seemed like they were coordinating to have local police handle that.

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20 Jan
200 left-wing protesters are on the streets in Portland right now, with anti-Biden and anti-police messages.

"We are ungovernable," one sign says.
The Portland crowd has now gone to the local headquarters of the Democratic Party, smashing windows and writing "Fuck Biden"
Seeing some criticism for calling the crowd "left wing," which was my shorthand to make clear that it isn't Trump supporters on the streets of Portland. The longer version is that the crowd is a mix of racial-justice, anti-fascist, anarchist, youth liberation, etc
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6 Jan
An incredible image. Trump supporters have breached the Capitol and are outside the Senate chamber.

📸 by @erinschaff

Live updates: nytimes.com/live/2021/01/0… Image
Trump supporters are breaking windows to get inside the Capitol

A volatile scene inside the Capitol

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Trump supporters are trying to break past police lines at the Capitol building.

More Trump supporters are headed to the Capitol at the president's urging
Evacuations from Capitol office buildings
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21 Dec 20
Police at Oregon's statehouse have been clashing with right-wing protesters angry about coronavirus restrictions.

photos below by @_Brian_ICT at @Salem_Statesman

nytimes.com/live/2020/12/2…
People in the crowd are saying they have spent months supporting law enforcement, including at "Back the Blue" rallies, and now say they won’t.

“I stand with antifa now,” someone shouted. Someone suggested creating a Patriot Autonomous Zone.
A video from earlier: The group chanting "Let us in" and kicking the door. And then one person in the crowd sneezes.

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19 Nov 20
This was one of the most distressing days of the pandemic so far.

We tallied an astonishing 1,923 deaths today. Our daily average of 1,246 deaths is now the highest since the spring and 76% higher than a month ago.

The surge shows no sign of slowing. 1/

nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Tonight, we reached an almost incomprehensible milestone: Over just the past month, ~3.4 million people in the United States were identified as having new coronavirus infections.

** That is 1 out of every 100 people in this nation. In one month. **

2/
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As we know, deaths tend to lag cases by weeks. But we are already seeing record hospitalizations — currently 79,410 people in the hospital with Covid-19.

In South Dakota, 1 out of every 1,493 people in the state are hospitalized with the virus.

covidtracking.com/data/charts/us…

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14 Nov 20
!!!!!

Another truly horrifying day. We have reached 181,194 new U.S. coronavirus cases IN A SINGLE DAY.

One month ago, the daily numbers were below 60,000.

Since then, 1 out of every 113 people in this country have been identified as a new infection.

nytimes.com/interactive/20…
New U.S. cases per day

Nov 1: 74,236
Nov 2: 93,659
Nov 3: 92,612
Nov 4: 107,913
Nov 5: 121,529
Nov 6: 132,847
Nov 7: 125,932
Nov 8: 103,416
Nov 9: 130,340
Nov 10: 139,746
Nov 11: 142,860
Nov 12: 163,405
Nov 13: 181,194
68,516 people in the United States are currently hospitalized with Covid-19.

The number of active hospitalizations has nearly doubled in one month.

covidtracking.com/data/charts/us…
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