Sam Diener

Why Nonviolent Resistance Doesn't Require Your Opponent to Have a Conscience If nonviolence required tyrants to grow a heart, we'd be finished—violence is what they're begging for. History shows we beat them by withdrawing pillars of support until they're forced to concede.

open.substack.com/pub/timhjers...

Trump Marks First Year In Office With Unhinged Racist Rant Targeting ‘Very Low IQ’ Somalis
#allyagainstbigotry ⁦‪@NAACP‬⁩

Trump administration claims offshore wind poses a threat. But it won't say how.

YouTube video by NBC News MLK Talks 'New Phase' Of Civil Rights Struggle, 11 Months Before His Assassination | NBC News

MLK Talks 'New Phase' Of Civil Rights Struggle, 11 Months Before His Ass... youtu.be/2xsbt3a7K-8?... via @YouTube. A somber reflective King in May of ‘67, in an interview I hadn’t seen before.

Boston federal judge says top U.S. officials failed to uphold Constitution in free speech case A federal judge says that the U.S. government must prove that if it attempts to change the immigration status of foreign scholars it's not out of retribution for being involved in the current suit.

share.google/25y8Ds7uNAyX...

Judge Restricts Immigration Agents’ Actions Toward Minnesota Protesters

Judge Restricts Immigration Agents’ Actions Toward Minnesota Protesters www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...

Source: Wyoming Public Media

Source: MPR News. #blacklivesmatter #allying ⁦‪@splcenter‬⁩ ⁦‪@facinghistory‬⁩ ⁦‪@NAACP‬⁩ ⁦‪⁦‪@ShowUp4RJ‬⁩

So an officer has his phone out recording obviously distracted, shoots a woman and calls her a “f’ing Bitch” and they think that HELPS the case?!?

NEW: 400+ civil rights groups and unions just joined our demand that Congress refuse funds for ICE and rein in their behavior.

Masked federal agents are endangering our communities and putting lives at risk. Our leaders must act now and defend us from this lawless violence.

ICE Out For Good Waltham · Mobilize Join your neighbors at Waltham Common on Saturday January 10 from 11am to noon to stand in solidarity against the lawlessness of ICE. On January 7th, an American citizen was killed by Immigration a...

I'm attending Indivisible's event, “ICE Out For Good Waltham” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.

Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

Beware the Slide Toward Regime Change in Venezuela | International Crisis Group The Trump administration is dispatching military assets to the Caribbean and sinking boats it claims ferry drugs. While it appears the deployment is part of a plan to depose Venezuelan President Nicol...

www.crisisgroup.org/latin-americ...

x.com/earnknowledg...

Analysis: Donald Trump’s top 25 lies of 2025

Major Alzheimer's Breakthrough? Advanced-Stage Mice Fully Recover After Taking Experimental Compound

USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...

hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

Lawmakers threaten Attorney General Bondi with contempt over incomplete Epstein files The Justice Department is defending its initial release of documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, saying lawyers are still going through them to ensure victims are protected.

www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g... grants Trump a coerced “voluntary” #censorship veto over all reports.

Congress quietly moves US closer to military draft

Judge says Trump administration showed ‘blatant lawlessness’ in deporting man from El Paso. Again. Horrific.

'It's a confession': Conservative lawyers call new Hegseth comment an 'admission of guilt'

Source: Interesting Engineering

Visible from space, bloody sands expose the slaughter of tens of thousands in Sudan

Billboards outside US Southern Command urge troops not to 'break the law’ in Caribbean strikes “Don’t let them make you break the law,” reads a billboard along the road to U.S. Southern Command, one of several set up by veterans.

"The new billboards are designed to inform troops of legal resources … 'The [Southern Command] strikes … represent the most blatantly illegal act that this administration has had the military carry out.'"

taskandpurpose.com/news/vet-group-billboards-caribbean-strikes/

His school didn’t call the cops after a transphobic bully attacked him. Now it’s paying the price.

@girightshotline for info on your right and responsibility, even under the UCMJ, to resist and disobey unlawful orders

Staff Sgt. Demi Palecek and Capt. Dylan Blaha, of the Illinois National Guard, said they will defy orders if sent to Chicago to federalized against citizens.

Guardsmen: Your oath is to the Constitution, not to a wanna-be king. If federalized you too can follow the law.

#NoKings
#ImpeachTrump

Refusing to obey illegal orders is an obligation of the oath.

Dylan Blaha, the Illinois National Guard Captain who urged all military members to disobey illegal orders, has had his security clearance suspended by the Department of Defense.

And he's running for Congress: www.dylanforillinois.com

👍👍Yes, I fully support Captain Dylan Blaha!!!