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

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

I co-wrote Trump’s first anti-terrorism plan in 2017-18. He’s not trying to stop “left-wing” terrorism. He is staging it.

His troop deployments are a false flag — meant to provoke a response in order to justify harsh crackdowns.

This is now very obvious.

OH, THE RAVAGES OF THE WAR ON CARNIVORISM

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She is not doing well

Why even have congress? Also funding WIC is good

This strikes me as pretty bad

I got a bonus and a raise. Then DOGE fired me for ‘performance.’ Trump and Musk are lying to get rid of people like me.

"DOGE’s indiscriminate, slash-and-burn approach is a preposterous and cruel way to treat the nation’s best and brightest, its future leaders."

"I believe that the United States is giving up our standing in the world."

Rep. Dan Goldman: "Every single Cabinet member, when they go in the Cabinet room, it's like Kim Jong Un is there—everybody claps and has to go around and give praise to the king, Donald Trump...And all he cares about is revenge and retribution."

This is so dark

Sen. Mark Kelly: "Mike Johnson has to get Republicans back to Washington, D.C....He doesn't want to deal with this. He doesn't want to deal with Epstein issues. He doesn't want to swear in Adelita Grijalva...The Speaker of the House just doesn't want to do his job."

Sen. Mark Kelly on Trump suggesting they might not give furloughed federal workers back pay:

"They don't care about working class people. I don't think they're really looking out for people other than people in Donald Trump's orbit."

The Fear Factor The right and the left both use fear to drive politics, but the difference in how is striking

These are scary times, and it’s okay to feel afraid. The challenge is learning how to respond instead of retreating. This piece offers insight into managing that fear and transforming it into courage, understanding, and tangible steps forward.

Mike Johnson says he'll swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social as soon as she wants. Okay, so how about today?

RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

Pam Bondi admits she spoke to Apple to "get the ICEBlock app taken down." Sounds an awful lot like coercion to suppress disfavored speech to me. A clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

I forget-- who controls the White House, Senate, and House?

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

The “war-ravaged” Portland only exists in Trump’s head. My video report paints a very Portland scene of defiance—and dance.

The “war-ravaged” Portland only exists in Trump’s head.

@kevinhfoster.bsky.social recently visited the ICE facility and spoke with people there and across Portland—and the reality of what is happening on the streets is very different than what the administration wishes to portray.

Good fucking morning to everyone—except the ICE agents in Chicago making false 911 calls to get local cops to harass peaceful protestors and journalists. What the hell are you doing? There are real emergencies in and around Chicago that actually need police attention. Stop wasting their time.

Here’s the CBS News report about ICE making bogus 911 calls and filing false police reports in Chicago.

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Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.

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