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Dictators silence our freedoms. In America, the people will be heard. Oct 18: #NoKings. RSVP: nokings.org?utm_source=5...

FACT: Hitler and the Nazi Party repeatedly exaggerated or outright fabricated crime and unrest in order to justify taking over policing powers, centralizing control, and dismantling democratic safeguards.

DHS Tells Police That Common Protest Activities Are ‘Violent Tactics’ - WIRED

ICE agents wearing masks add new levels of intimidation, confusion during L.A. raids — Los Angeles Times As federal immigration agents have ratcheted up enforcement raids, critics warn that their tactic of masking spreads fear and panic across communities.

This is what domestic terrorism looks like.

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We cannot normalize this. You cannot simply walk by because you have a meeting or a lunch date. You’re helping it happen when you do nothing. You are not immune from it happening to you.

Ted Cruz: ‘Vacationing Is How I Grieve’

Ted Cruz: ‘Vacationing Is How I Grieve’

Peter Thiel Shows Trump How To Sort Spreadsheet Of Americans By Ethnicity WASHINGTON—Stressing that it would be simplest to troubleshoot now during the onboarding process for his company’s surveillance technology, Palantir founder Peter Thiel reportedly spent Tuesday morning showing President Donald Trump how to sort a spreadsheet of Americans by ethnicity. “So what’s neat is that you can just do command-shift-E and rank every single resident from […]

Peter Thiel Shows Trump How To Sort Spreadsheet Of Americans By Ethnicity
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The fact we have secret police whisking people off the streets doesn’t get enough attention. It ain’t normal and we’re further down the road to authoritarianism than you think.

Warnock: If I'm honest, there are days when I have to ask people of my faith tradition as a Christian, are we reading the same book? 

The book I know says I was hungry and you fed me. I was sick, I was in prison and you visited me, I was a stranger and you welcomed me….

With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending

BREAKING: What you just witnessed was a state-sanctioned kidnapping. These people aren’t identifying themselves. Citizens can no longer distinguish between state authority & rogue violence.

This is not a warning about what might come. We are not watching the start of something. We are living it.

Not-so-gentle reminder that one senator can use his privilege to pretty much grind the senate to a halt.

NEWSOM: "It's a vulgar display. It's the kind of thing you see with Kim Jong Un, Putin, dictators that are weak… How weak do you have to be to commandeer the military for your birthday?“

❗️Enemy 🇷🇺Tu-95MS planes fly about 12,400 km (or 23 hours in the air) to bomb 🇺🇦Ukrainian cities - this is how difficult the UAV attack on 01.06 on the Olenya/Belaya airbases made "life" for Russian bombers.

Tracking tells us that:

"Please continue peacefully protesting": Sen. Padilla after forced removal from DHS presser

Sen. Alex Padilla getting pushed out by law enforcement on a live feed after he tries to question Kristi Noem at her presser on a live feed in Los Angeles

“I’m Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary. Because the fact of the matter is, a half dozen... Hands off!”

Palmer: Charges should be brought against each one of you

AOC: Raising the prospect of charges against witnesses is a form of intimidation is it not?

Palmer: I strike those words

This is actually perfect. The emptiness makes it look as ridiculous and wasteful as it is.

Well we still have famine to look forward to.

How great for us.

It can happen here. It is happening here.

Full page ad in the NYT.

We feed you.
They hunt us.

ALL Military Personnel - Should Already Know...

AOC: If Senator Fetterman or anybody else is concerned with law and order, we should be looking at one of the most law breaking agencies and administrations that we've seen in the United States.

Donald Trump’s Projecting Panic, Not Power The president’s deployment of troops to LA and parading of tanks in DC look like attempts to appear in control even as his administration spirals.

I wrote about how Trump is using authoritarianism to distract from all of his losses last week

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