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Thoughts with Portland friends, and implications.
Watching indicators:
* # cities DHS Operation Legend
* # kidnapped from protests, streets
* dystopia phrases like “proactively arrest”
* USPS delays, defunding
* swing state outbreaks
* novel voter disenfranchisements
* “resignations” of or “retiring” US generals
* border closures
* airport closures

Some links:

“Operation Legend”:
* https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/21/trump-federal-force-cities-377273
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Legend

People kidnapped from protests, streets:
* https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2020/07/20/28659148/what-to-do-if-youre-kidnapped-by-federal-officers-while-protesting
* https://twitter.com/matcha_chai/status/1283328232033411072
* https://www.wweek.com/news/2020/07/17/federal-officers-appear-to-be-using-rental-cars-from-enterprise-to-snatch-portland-protesters/

Dystopia phrases, especially from police/military dystopias:
* https://www.newsweek.com/portland-federal-agents-minority-report-1519574

USPS:
* https://www.npr.org/2020/07/23/894794250/critics-say-changes-to-usps-may-completely-transform-the-post-office
* https://fortune.com/2020/07/24/usps-mail-delivery-postmaster-general-louis-dejoy-us-postal-service/
* https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/07/22/maine-letter-carriers-allege-usps-leadership-willfully-delaying-mail-sabotage-postal
* https://www.vox.com/21328220/senate-democrats-usps-vote-by-mail

Novel voter disenfranchisements:
* https://americanindependent.com/texas-gop-electoral-college-rig-elections-popular-vote-senate/

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