Literally the authoritarian playbook:
1. Call your opponents terrorists.
2. Deploy state power against them.

There's nothing subtle or confusing or complex about what's happening. The *outcome* is uncertain but the authoritarianism is right out in the open.

Be Loud — For America By Governor JB Pritzker

"I have spent the last few weeks addressing and preparing for a military invasion by the President of the United States. No, I’m not a soldier or a foreign adversary. I’m the Governor of Illinois"

He looks like a Scooby Doo villain.

As of 8:30 tonight, a standoff between various forms of military /law enforcement agents and activists who want answers is still ongoing in the fields of Camarillo, Ca.

…

a woman just trying to get home gets shot

ICE crossed a line in LA

Tanks being moved into DC. National guard being mobilized in LA. Paramilitary thugs being unleashed across America. It's summer in America and fascism is in full bloom.

Waiting impatiently for 9 PM

The national divorce is heating up.

EXCLUSIVE: Alex Jones Responds To The Palantir Hysteria & Lays Out What's Really Happening

Alex Jones, who spent years ranting about shadowy government mass surveillance technology, is now stanning for Palantir

Arresting judges.

Threatening allies.

Lying about trade deals.

Trying to sell campaign merch from the White House.

Floating a 2028 run.

Deranged. Dangerous. Undemocratic.

We must retake our democracy.

Significant ⬇️

She was on her way to break her Ramadan fast, so I can only imagine how hungry and afraid she was. She also does not have her asthma medications with her—a human rights violation.

This is unacceptable and she must be released immediately and have her visa restored NOW.

Federal judge halts Trump administration’s policy of deportation to third countries In a significant legal blow to the Trump administration’s immigration agenda, a federal judge has slammed the brakes on a controversial deportation policy that allowed the deportation of migrants to c...

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Gosh. If only there were an historical analogue we could study to learn about the horrors of rounding people up without due process and sending them to torture camps in other countries.

K. A. Riley (@k.a.rileywrites) on Threads I spoke about Cǔrtis Yárvin ages ago but I felt so unhinged I haven’t felt right doing it since. But now that Heather Cox Richardson is doing it…

Resist. www.threads.net/@k.a.rileywr...

‘They are being treated like dogs': Families concerned over living conditions at Krome Detention Center Family members of detainees being held at Krome Detention Center are speaking out about the alleged harsh conditions of the facility.

Migrants found dead at Krome Detention Center in Miami, due to possible starvation and dehydration.

The facility, which was a detention facility prior to it being converted for ICE use, has a max capacity of 500.

We have arrived at the point where Iran’s supreme leader is critical of the Trump Admin’s record on civil liberties and human rights.

Trump and Republicans have awakened a sleeping giant—and they will regret it.

REPUBLICAN TOWN HALL CHANT: “Tax the rich, tax the rich, tax the rich…”

Video: hacker group Anonymous warns Trump of systemic attacks, calls for mass uprising v fascism Group says Trump’s and Musk’s open fascism and attacks on state organs is ‘testing the waters’ for all-out control and the enslavement of the working class The Anonymous hac…

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If the Supreme Court ultimately agrees with what the gov't is arguing today, that the President has broad Article II powers that would permit it to deport people & there can be no judicial review, then literally no one is safe.

Well I’m back to vegetarianism.

They started with the undocumented, then they went after visa holders and permanent residents, now it's naturalized citizens.

How many times must history rhyme and repeat before we realize what's going on?

Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.

Test. Cases. Any little infraction. But don't think they can't make up infractions...they already are.

This is a pretty weak and half-assed attempt to defend higher education. NYT used to have a little courage. Is now really the time to raise the straw man of the leftist ideologue Professor?

Opinion | Colleges Are Under Attack. They Can Fight Back. This is a moment to trumpet the strengths of higher education and address its weaknesses.

University leaders “need to defend the core mission of their institutions” against the Trump administration’s campaign against higher education, the editorial board writes.

Coward.