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Laura Jedeed, Non-Fungible

26 Apr, 6 tweets, 2 min read

@PDocumentarians

As you may have noticed, I am no longer covering on-the-ground lefty events in Portland

The Portland left has made it clear that press is unwelcome generally

Also, I have been fashjacketed and do not feel safe, especially after what happened to @PDocumentarians

I'm perfectly willing to risk my personal safety against the police or the far right, as my record shows

I'm not willing to risk it by attending left-wing protests where my presence is now seen as exploitative or menacing

This should be good news for all who see it that way

If you follow this account for the live-tweets, you'll have to wait until I move to NYC for any chance of that happening again (65 days)

If you follow it for the writing and/or analysis and/or videos and/or weirdness, good news: all that shit's here to stay forever

I am a leftist. I support social justice. Black Lives fucking Matter. The police should be abolished and replaced with structures that actually protect and serve the community

None of that has changed

I choose to work towards those things in a different way now

Hi there, if you're here from one of the various quote tweets fashjacketing me here's something that might clear things up for you

Or you can continue to pretend that I was a fascist while I was conducting academic research if that turns you on, whatever

laurajedeed.com/2021/03/18/how…

I'm a lot closer to finding it funny that my years of risk-laden academic research into Portland's far right when very few people were paying attention to that issue is being used to paint me as a fascist by very brave keyboard warriors but forgive me, I'm not quite there yet

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Reactivating briefly to say some stuff

1) Fuck police forever. If you're scared of air fresheners and can't tell a taser from a gun maybe you shouldn't be allowed outside unsupervised

I wrote a brief substack about it, that's right I have a substack now

laurajedeed.substack.com/p/a-fucking-ai…

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2) I just appeared on the latest No Easy Answers podcast (@NoEasyAnswerPod) with the esteemed @realjulestaylor. We talk about the far right, mostly why are they and what can we do about it?

It was really fun to make, hopefully you enjoy it too

bit.ly/no_easy_answers

Having expressed these thoughts, I shall now flee into the woods for a week of camping and not having Internet

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and also Patreon, where all new posts are public right now (patreon.com/laurajedeed)

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