Remember, any city's police force can overwhelm the agents and troops being sent to attack cities, if they just try a LITTLE
06.10.2025 02:45 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0@nslayton.bsky.social
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Remember, any city's police force can overwhelm the agents and troops being sent to attack cities, if they just try a LITTLE
06.10.2025 02:45 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Their portrayal of Portland is entirely detached from reality but at least half of America has no idea.
06.10.2025 02:14 β π 16 π 7 π¬ 1 π 0This represents a major escalation.
President Trump effort to mobilize TEXAS National Guard for deployment in Portland and Chicago.
Court filing just entered in Oregon v. Trumpβ¬οΈ
UPDATE: Hegseth today called up 400 members of the Texas National Guard, with Gov. Abbott's apparent permission, to be deployed "where needed, including in the cities of Portland and Chicago." www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
06.10.2025 02:06 β π 273 π 141 π¬ 15 π 60This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate. 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. I call on Governor Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate. There is no reason a President should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge, consent, or cooperation. The brave men and women who serve in our national guards must not be used as political props. This is a moment where every American must speak up and help stop this madness.
Statement from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker
06.10.2025 02:06 β π 969 π 376 π¬ 24 π 34wrote this line yesterday:
"If President Trump were, in other words, trying to instigate some kind of national divorce, it is hard to imagine what he would be doing differently than this."
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06.10.2025 00:40 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1In the early morning hours after midnight on October 5, 2025, 101 federalized members of the California National Guard landed in Oregon at the Portland Air National Guard Base. Supp. Decl. of Brigadier General Alan R. Gronewald, Decl. Paul S. Eck ΒΆΒΆ 17β19. An additional 99 federalized California National Guard troops will arrive in Oregon around 4 pm this afternoon. Id.; see also Newsom, 141 F.4th at 1040 (noting that the current federalization of Californiaβs National Guard is under Β§ 12406). It is readily apparent that these members of the California National Guard have been redeployed to carry out the same mission that, just yesterday, the Court held was not a satisfactory basis for sending in federalized troops under 10 U.S.C. Β§ 12406. 2 In other words, having been enjoined from federalizing and deploying 200
Plaintiffs say the first 101 federalized members of the California National Guard landed in Oregon not long past midnight this morning, mere hours after Judge Immergut's ruling making clear that there was no legitimate basis for a federal deployment.
06.10.2025 00:38 β π 267 π 61 π¬ 4 π 4People so stupid Matt Y ends up correct
06.10.2025 00:39 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Why does Mishima keep coming up in 2025? I cant escape the guy.
06.10.2025 00:38 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0What a day for the Third Amendment!
06.10.2025 00:01 β π 494 π 101 π¬ 20 π 8MEMORANDUM OF LAW I. INTRODUCTION Yesterday, this Court recognized that the legal principles at stake in this case βgo[] to the heart of what it means to live under the rule of law in the United States.β Opinion & Order Granting Mot. for Temporary Restraining Order (βOrderβ), ECF 56 at 2. Applying those principles, this Court concluded that Defendants likely lacked authority to federalize Oregon National Guard members and ordered Defendants to halt federalization for 14 days. Defendants filed a notice of appeal last night (Ntc. of Appeal, ECF 57), and they have now asked the Ninth Circuit to stay the effect of this Courtβs decision. Not content with this Courtβs or the Ninth Circuitβs judgment, Defendants are now in the process of circumventing this Court's Order. After this Court ruled that 10 U.S.C. Β§ 12406 could not justify federalizing the Oregon National Guard to deploy them to Portland, Defendants have deployed members of the California National Guard to Portlandβservicemembers who were federalized under that very same Title 10 authority for deployment in Los Angeles. That redeployment is illegal: Setting aside whether the underlying federalization order from August violated Section 12406, the federalization order clearly did not contemplate the use of California
NEW: California joins Oregon and Portland in asking Judge Immergut for a SECOND temporary restraining order blocking the Trump admin from "circumventing this Court's Order" by deploying the federalized California National Guard to Portland. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
06.10.2025 00:34 β π 900 π 270 π¬ 11 π 18Wait what now???
06.10.2025 00:35 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Wait what? Which incident?
06.10.2025 00:35 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Seriously
06.10.2025 00:33 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A juxtaposition of two screenshots from Fox News shows host Jesse Watters interviewing a masked guest who appears to be the same person in both images. In the top image, the guest is labeled βFormer Antifa Member Speaks Outβ and wears a green cap and black patterned face covering. In the lower image, the same man, now identified as βRamon βMundoβ Mendoza, Mexican Mafia Encyclopedia Author,β wears a black cap and balaclava. The caption beneath the second screenshot reads: βEx-gang member says Chauvin attackerβs story doesnβt add up β AlphaNews.org.β
New pointing Spider-Man meme just dropped.
06.10.2025 00:04 β π 867 π 197 π¬ 37 π 12The admin is an anti-1A regime. They are explicitly opposed to the Constitution.
06.10.2025 00:09 β π 32 π 10 π¬ 1 π 0Damn it I said "if" twice
06.10.2025 00:09 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0In a hypothetical where a subsequent president tries to undo this, Iβm not confident that the masked guys with guns going around in moving vans abducting people are going to stop driving around in moving vans abducting people. The law enforcement-to-right wing death squad pipeline isnβt a mystery.
06.10.2025 00:04 β π 114 π 23 π¬ 4 π 0It is fair to ask if -- assuming a change in political power happens goes through, etc -- if they'd relinquish their arms and assets if ordered to.
05.10.2025 23:59 β π 74 π 21 π¬ 6 π 1If the immigration enforcement apparatus of the United States were its own national military, it would be the 13th most heavily funded in the world. This puts it higher than the national militaries of Poland, Italy, Australia, Canada, Turkey and Spainβββand just below Israel.
US immigration enforcement is now the 13th most well-funded military in the world, ahead of Canada and, incredibly, just behind Israel.
inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...
Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question
05.10.2025 23:48 β π 4915 π 1712 π¬ 221 π 108Capybaras against ICE
05.10.2025 23:51 β π 22 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0He supported the Iraq War and thinks people should listen to him.
05.10.2025 23:53 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0my neighbors are being disappeared. people think they're next. some people aren't scrubbing b/c i dunno, integrity, or whatever the quality is that Tom lacks and makes him say unhinged things. also people have been scrubbing. also i can't post a CBP guy's name who committed crimes b/c I will get
05.10.2025 19:23 β π 90 π 21 π¬ 5 π 0If any other president said something like this in a speech to a military academy, it would be a massive scandal. Instead, it isnβt among the ten most dangerous things heβs done this week.
05.10.2025 23:43 β π 2110 π 510 π¬ 70 π 14Huh?
05.10.2025 23:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The judge blocked the federalization of the Ore. NG but the California one are already under federal control (a lawsuit is pending)
05.10.2025 23:12 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0That White House statement also referred to Newsom as "Newscum" if you're wondering how serious they were.
05.10.2025 22:34 β π 24 π 5 π¬ 2 π 0Trump served a full term as president while the war in Afghanistan was going on. He dropped the Mother of All Bombs during it. The U.S. still lost.
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