Brett D - OKC

Dang! Good thinking.

Undue alarm is counterproductive. Resolve is empowering.

Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act.

I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. It’s unfolding very rapidly. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plan

about a year ago one of the richest, most conservative men in Oklahoma who swings a huge stick in GOP politics said at a Chamber luncheon that "we have to get Ryan Walters out of this state and fix our schools".

The establishment is going to salt the earth behind this guy.

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This is what consolidation has done to the news industry. What were once locally owned and operated Alaska news companies are part of a big outfit with their HQ in Alabama.

Judge blocks Trump from sending National Guard from California to Portland The decision late on Sunday comes a day after the same judge barred the deployment of troops from the state of Oregon.

The latest decision as of first thing Monday, Sept. 6:
www.bbc.com/news/article...

We need to very carefully stay conscious of which governors are just going along with something so clearly intended to divide up the United States in such undemocratic ways as is being attempted by this administration. Memory will be important in the future.

1/ This is so f'ing outrageous. You cannot safely restrain people on their stomachs. They're going to kill people.

This is very well known now.

We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.

Here is Hegseth’s new letter, which references a new Section 12406 determination by Trump from Saturday.

12406 is the law calling up the National Guard that Immergut found had not been properly invoked as to Portland in terms of the September deployment decision. www.lawdork.com/p/judge-bloc...

NEW: Oregon and Portland filed an amended complaint in their lawsuit against Trump tonight, with a new plaintiff added who is joining them: California. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States.

America is on the brink of martial law.

Do not be silent.

In every definition of "tyranny" that I have heard as justification for more war weapons among citizens in the last 10 years, the makings of those conditions are happening now.

We are definitely NOT finished. I don't see people giving up in large numbers which would be the only way that we would be "finished."

Blood Sport.

This feels like evidence Trump's aides are deliberately gaslighting him, which is unfortunately very easy to do with dementia sufferers (Trump did it to his father) and which aides are using to seize control of the US military for their own purposes.

OKC Starbucks picket part of nationwide union push Baristas and allies picketed an OKC Starbucks Wednesday, joining a national wave of actions demanding a fair contract and warning they’re ready to strike.

Baristas and allies demonstrated at an OKC Starbucks Wednesday, joining a national wave of practice-picket actions demanding a fair contract and warning they’re ready to strike. | Brett Dickerson was there and reports: freepressokc.com/okc-starbuck...

This is an old formula used by authoritarian regimes. Stoke chaos and blame scapegoats to justify the use of force.

This is what the shutdown is about in case you are catching up.

Fun Sunday morning review for my #OklahomaCity friends. Our Lyric Theatre continues to provide some great entertainment.

This is a fierce ruling against Trump from a judge he appointed.

It has seemed to me for some time now that Stephen Miller is ther real instigator/thinker behind most of the violent directives and talk from Trump. Both clearly hate large swaths of American people. Yes, hate.

so much fucked up about this

Remember, Trump, as his conversation with Gov Kotek revealed, had no idea what's going on in Portland, fed 5 year old videos

Hegseth, Miller and the rest of the fascists know the reality about Portland and wanted to send the 82nd Airborne anyway. They are monsters

i looked at the methodology for this and it is
a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and
b. p-hacked

A very nice reminder that seems to be pointed directly at one JD Vance, alleged Catholic who does not love his neighbor as himself, doesn't suffer the little children, and is very actively bearing false witness against his [undocumented] neighbors at the moment.

1. This is one of the most insane statements ever delivered by a presidential spokesperson in U.S. history. Totally disconnected from reality.

2. There is either going to be a civil war or abject Democratic surrender to autocracy. They are telling this you, to your face, in explicit terms.

Seriously, this looks like something a bunch of 7th grade boys in the computer club would come up with over lunch. Pathetic. Embarrassing for the country.

Marge says that Republicans can end the shutdown anytime they want without Democratic votes.