1. Trump/Pence 2020: Badges? We Don't Need No Stinking Badges.pic.twitter.com/cJwWtqFkux
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3. I don't think it's an accident that Portland is the trial run for this experiment in badgeless policing: it's been the site of longstanding intermittent battles between police, right-wing militias, and more amorphous anarchist groups usually labelled Antifa.
4. This is why the Antifa fear-mongering -- foisted not just by Fox News but by ostensibly anti-Trump contrarians like Jon Kay & liberals like Jonathan Chait -- is so dangerous. It's throwing tinder on a combustable situation.
5. Former CIA analyst Aki Peritz on where this could go: https://twitter.com/AkiPeritz/status/1283970400880340992 …
6. More thoughts on Trump's mysterious new police: https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-secret-police-portland/ …
Barr’s Special Forces
Yes, but we were told that was possible only because of DC's status as Federal territory. What legal basis is there for sending these forces to a state in the absence of a request from the governor?
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