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🗓️ 9 June 2025
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If you think this ends with L.A., you haven’t been paying attention. This is Portland 2.0 — but scaled up, and aimed at the soul of American democracy…
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0:30.0 | Trump is normalizing the unthinkable federal troops in American streets, breaking the law and getting away with it. |
0:37.8 | This opens with an epigraph. |
0:40.8 | Trump, well, we're going to have to send troops everywhere, reporter. |
0:44.8 | What's the bar for sending in the Marines? |
0:47.0 | Trump, the bar is what I think it is. |
0:50.1 | In 26, excuse me, the 20206 and 28 elections may have just gotten a lot more distant. |
0:57.9 | First, the backstory. |
1:00.0 | It was around 2 a.m. on July 15th, 2020, when Mark Pettabone, then 29, was walking home from a relatively calm Black Lives Matter protest in downtown Portland. |
1:10.2 | He hadn't done anything more provocative than |
1:12.0 | wearing a black shirt, no slogans, no mask, no glimmers of violence. Yet moments later, an |
1:17.5 | unmarked minivan pulled up alongside him. Outjump several armed men in camouflage with no insignia, |
1:23.6 | slipped a bag over his head, and kidnapped him. I was terrified, Pettybone told reporters, his voice |
1:29.0 | trembling with the memory. It was like being preyed upon. He was shoved into the van, blindfolded, |
1:34.3 | driven to the federal courthouse, interrogated, and held with no Miranda rights, no paperwork, |
1:38.8 | no explanation for nearly 90 minutes before being released without charge or citation. No uniforms, no accountability, |
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