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peggysue2

(12,619 posts)

15. A tank?

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Mon May 25, 2026, 05:40 PM

Monday

In Newark, NJ.

So we've entered our Tiananmen Square phase? ICE is trying to provoke an incident for their Dear Leader.

Because Ballroom and Security apparatus and Drone Towers and a humiliating surrender to Iran. Martial Law coming right up. Anything for a distraction. Anything for the child-man to feel strong, omnipotent.

This is straight-up bullshit.

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ICE is pointing their weapons at peaceful protesters who are forming a human chain in Newark, NJ [View all] red dog 1 Monday OP

sort of like this? DBoon Monday #1

My first thought as well PatSeg Monday #13

Tank man. The bravest person who ever lived. paleotn Monday #20

O.M.G. wnylib Monday #2

Tanks dont have doors SSJVegeta Monday #3

It's a BearCat (Ballistic Engineered Armored Response Counter Attack Truck) Brother Buzz Monday #9

Responding to protesters with an "attack truck" says everuthing we need to know about how ICE hasnt changed SSJVegeta Monday #11

De-escalation is an alien concept to jackbooted thugs. Brother Buzz Monday #14

Where is Delaney Hall, please? rurallib Monday #4

Immigration Detention Center in Newark, N.J. red dog 1 Monday #8

More info on the situation and conditions at Delaney wnylib Monday #5

Thank you for sharing more detail. yellow dahlia Monday #12

Defund them SunImp Monday #6

We need to dismantle ICE and prosecute BarbD Monday #16

extermination centers Whip-poor-will Monday #7

N.J. Gov. Mikie Sherrill at ICE facility Delaney Hall to join protestors riversedge Monday #10

A tank? peggysue2 Monday #15

In any other time, I would have thought you were joking calimary Monday #18

Don't fall for the provocation. Just don't cooperate. paleotn Monday #21

If I still lived in Westfield, NJ, I'd certainly be there. pat_k Monday #17

Call 'em concentration camps. poli-junkie Monday #19

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