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“Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope.” — Things you won’t see trending on X • L.A./N.Y./London/Rome & NOLA. Energy transition, Silicon Valley technofile, aerospace, filmmaker, writer ✍️, former producer, foreign policy and dolphin hugger. #RESIST

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Three WWII generals from left to right: General Dwight D Eisenhower, General Bradley (center) and General Patton.

Three WWII generals from left to right: General Dwight D Eisenhower, General Bradley (center) and General Patton.

Hey Chicago: The original Antifa.

Tell the Texas National Guard to go home — or take ‘em to a baseball game instead and call it a day. youtu.be/fWKA9Zi5-_Y

07.10.2025 23:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Trump will continue to move military and ICE into US cities to intimidate voters and arrest those who don’t swear loyalty to Trump.

07.10.2025 22:27 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Bondi is vile, without class, amoral and not intelligent. The writers of the Constitution never imagined that people like her would be involved in the administration of the government of this great nation. They didn’t write safeguards against something so low as Bondi’s character.

07.10.2025 23:25 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

It’s time for all of us to wake up and realize that this regime has taken not only the Department of Justice, but all of the very (what used to be “independent” agencies) meant to hold them accountable to destroy checks and balances completely. She thinks she will be pardoned & is above the law.

07.10.2025 23:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Live updates: National Guard deployments and Trump administration lawsuits | CNN The state of Illinois and Chicago on Monday sued the Trump administration over its move to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago. Follow here for the latest.

So what, if not the courts, would be the remaining check on presidential power?:

New: Trump says he could use Insurrection Act to bypass court rulings blocking use of troops in US cities

www.cnn.com/us/live-news...

07.10.2025 23:34 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Seems like Houston and San Antonio have much higher crime rates per population than Chicago does. Chicago isn’t even in the top ten. 🔟

Maybe Abbott should keep his storm troopers closer to home instead. Can you imagine if Illinois sent guard into Texas without their governor’s consent??!!

07.10.2025 23:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Meanwhile, in Portland…

07.10.2025 23:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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AG Bondi, here’s that correction you requested.

07.10.2025 20:34 — 👍 5276    🔁 2059    💬 407    📌 152

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07.10.2025 23:22 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Let me be clear: It’s ILLEGAL to deny federal workers back pay after a shutdown.

There’s a 2019 law that guarantees it, but Trump is once again trying to break the law.

You don’t get to punish people for doing their jobs just because you’re failing at yours.

07.10.2025 16:36 — 👍 3256    🔁 904    💬 88    📌 20

Her refusal to answer Q’s isn’t just contemptuous of Congress, but of the Constitution. This isn’t governance. The AG & entire regime believe they’re untouchable because the system now exists to protect them, not to restrain. Warning to general public: they no longer even pretend to be accountable.

07.10.2025 23:10 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0

who believe they are untouchable because the system now exists to protect them, not to restrain them. It is also a warning to the public: they no longer even pretend to be accountable.

07.10.2025 23:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Her sneering attitude & refusal to answer lawful questions are not just contempt for Congress. They’re contemptuous of the Constitution. This is not governance. This is power used as a shield. It’s the behavior of people…

07.10.2025 23:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I was just thinking that. Where’s Hogsbreath? 😂

07.10.2025 22:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

😂

07.10.2025 22:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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a chicago bulls logo with a basketball player ALT: a chicago bulls logo with a basketball player

Da Bulls…

07.10.2025 22:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Men in National Guard uniforms walking in front of a large truck with other soldiers carrying weapons and carting large green duffle bags.

Men in National Guard uniforms walking in front of a large truck with other soldiers carrying weapons and carting large green duffle bags.

Members of the Texas National Guard have arrived in Illinois, according to sources familiar with their whereabouts and video taken of them at an Army Reserve training facility in a #Chicago suburb.

abcnews.go.com/US/texas-nat...

07.10.2025 22:24 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 11    📌 2
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Portland residents scoff at Trump threat to send military: ‘This is not a war zone’ Claims of violence by US president contrast with reality of life in vibrant, peaceful Oregon city, residents say

Dear 82nd Airborne and Oregon National Guard: remember your oath to the constitution. And, not to follow illegal orders from a bunch of sociopathic idiots who want you to kill a citizen exercising their right to protest in a frog or chicken suit in Portland.

That is all.

05.10.2025 12:47 — 👍 59    🔁 31    💬 3    📌 0

Trump is redefining the meaning of “law” in US. (By Trump I mean the core oligarch regime apparatus.) Judges are “enemies” to law & order. Power is the law. The power to harm, imprison, torture, destroy & kill. Trump attacks judges now so he can ignore them later. He wants gun control. ALL the guns.

07.10.2025 21:46 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

If there was nothing to hide, the Epstein files would have been released. But we all know the answer to that!

07.10.2025 21:56 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I saw at least 20 commercials recruiting for ICE this weekend. It's disgusting. The ads are targeting LEOs who feel they are being restrained from going as far as they want. It's basically a ploy to get the most brutish force they can hire.

07.10.2025 22:06 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

I’m concerned that most Americans are either in denial or frightened into passivity. We need mass rejection of Trumpism & total non-cooperation with the regime. It takes so little. Just NOT doing what they require. But Americans are too lazy to get that lazy.

07.10.2025 22:07 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

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How are we paying for this? Do these people think we are printing money in the White House basement?

07.10.2025 22:11 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

So true. Yet they are pushing millions of people off of healthcare while they are spendthrifts going through taxpayer money and shutting down our government.

07.10.2025 22:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Now is not the time for apathy.

07.10.2025 22:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Meanwhile, in today’s Gilded Age coal baron redux: Senate NOW voting to begin debate on a House-passed resolution to overturn a Biden-era BLM land management plan in Montana limiting coal leasing.

07.10.2025 22:09 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

I can see why the Florida legal community tried to get her disbarred.

07.10.2025 22:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Very apparent and very fascist.

07.10.2025 21:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

In New York he bought them all off. He views SCOTUS as “his” court.

07.10.2025 21:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Bondi is a corporate lobbyist. That’s her grounding, not the law. She thrived in Florida swamp politics filled with quid pro quo or bribery. She’s had multiple clear conflicts of interest and her idea of a justice system is one that’s easily influenced by wealth & political connections.

07.10.2025 21:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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