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This is the energy you need to bring ICE and all fascists, this is what everyone should be doing. In a world full of compliers be the polka dot lady. #3E

Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life?

#TwentyfiveFortyseven

Genuinely incredible how unprofessional these guys are. One dude yelling in your face and you immediately assault them on camera?

Image of an X post screenshot. The post from @CBotTh ... (C-Bo the Eggman) reads, "Banning words should do the trick," posted 20 hours ago. Below it, a Politico post from @politico (1 day ago) states, "Energy Dept. adds 'climate change' and 'emissions' to banned words list," with the Politico logo. The image includes profile pictures and timestamps.

Censorship is the mark of a weak regime.

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

In sum, the President is certainly entitled "a great level of deference," Newsom II, 141 F.4th at 1048, in his determination that he "is unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States." 10 U.S.C. § 12406(3). But "a great level of deference" is not equivalent to ignoring the facts on the ground. As the Ninth Circuit articulated, courts must "review the President's determination to ensure that it reflects a colorable assessment of the facts and law PAGE 22 - OPINION AND ORDER Case 3:25-cv-01756-IM Document 56 Filed 10/04/25 Page 23 of 31 within a 'range of honest judgment.'" Id. at 1051 (quoting Sterling, 278 U.S. at 399). Here, this Court concludes that the President did not have a "colorable basis" to invoke § 12406(3) to federalize the National Guard because the situation on the ground belied an inability of federal law enforcement officers to execute federal law. Id. at 1051-52. The President's determination was simply untethered to the facts. c. Whether there is a Rebellion or Danger of Rebellion Defendants also aroue that the Sentember 28 2025 federalization order is authorized

If a federal judge, appointed by Trump, can call him “simply untethered to facts,” our White House press corps can as well.

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Stephen Miller Follow @StephenM Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide). This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself. › Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance • 3h 1/ Judge Immergut just granted a restraining order that prevents Trump's mobilization of the Oregon National Guard in Portland. IMMERGUT, District Judge. This case involves the intersection of three of the most fundamental principles in our constitutional democracy. The first concerns the relationship between the federal government and the states. The second concerns the relationship between the United States armed forces and domestic law enforcement. The third concerns the proper role of the judicial branch in ensuring that the executive branch complies with the laws and limitations imposed by the legislative branch. Whether we choose to follow what the Constitution mandates with respect to these three relationships goes to the heart of what it means to live under the rule of law in the United States.

Stephen miller is actively calling for a civil war right now on Twitter.

I really do not think Americans are taking in the reality that the federal government is openly admitting to waging war against democratically held cities and states and what comes now that this is being openly said.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.

this is the kind of shit you should shut down the government for imo

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i know we joke about fox news being state TV, but jesus christ i don't think it gets more clear than this

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion.

Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

something something political violence

Media execs have fallen prey to a propaganda and harassment campaign that has completely divorced them from what people actually want right now.

Both their insular information environments (group chats, podcasts) and ambient noise (Twitter reactionaries) have put them in a very stupid bubble.

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly.

sbgi.net/tv-stations/

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

One crucial front in the war against fascism will be the right to photograph police. The cops have always hated that right and they and their various lickspittles will push back at it at every turn.

Shocking. I remember how the age of the previous (and fully functional) president was constantly & relentlessly in the news.

Ongoing political purges by the Trump regime across the U.S. government. Another marker of rising authoritarianism. What’s the opposition’s strategy for helping people make sense of this, for mobilizing them (in whatever form) to push back, for redressing this in a future iteration of US democracy?

My name is Captain Dylan Blaha, and this message is for members of the National Guard across the USA.
I've served in the Illinois Army National Guard for over 12 years, including a deployment to Afghanistan and three years on active duty in Europe.
What's going on right now is not normal.

All major news outlets are failing miserably and completely.

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It’s wild, absolutely wild, how for EVERY. SINGLE. CITY. Trump wants to militarize I can post data showing how crime is plummeting in all of them without any federal invasion…

… and the press KEEPS stenographing the naked bad-faith claims about “fighting crime!” in the headlines.

Infuriating.

I think David Graeber was onto something when he diagnosed the scarcity of jobs with meaning. (I think he was mostly wrong about the analysis, but he was always wrong in a fruitful way!) And so, people are looking for that. But they don't realize that it's precisely the use of technology 1/n

Interactions from the last few days show ICE officers running their mouths at witnesses of their lawlessness. Now they’re directing violence at them, too.

We'll see if this causes as much agita among the elite classes as the proposal for a few state-run grocery stores in poor parts of NYC.

We all have to get it through our heads that it’s getting to the point that they don’t need a reason to harass, beat or abduct any of us. No. One. Is. Safe!

ICE, DC Police, Park Police, DHS, and HSI brutally arrested a man who refused to provide identification after being stopped for eating in public. Goons attempted to stop community members from recording his injuries during the incident.

Donald Trump says he is going to deploy the National Guard to Chicago. This is what weak men do to pretend they’re strong.

Stay safe, stand with your community, and most importantly, know your rights: