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I stand with Chicago. I stand with Mayor Johnson.

🚨 NEW: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson just signed an executive order to resist Trump’s federal invasion and occupation of the city.

Details in 🧵

This is why Trump’s Big Ugly Bill increased ICE’s budget by $170.7 billion

More than the military spending of most countries, and more than the US appropriated for the FBI, DEA, ATF and Marshals-combined

Trump is amassing an army to employ against Americans in blue states

And Illinois is up first

NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES
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DAY 30 AUGUST 2025

THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES

HAPPY LABOR DAY WEEKEND
Today, I met with Navajo supporters & great news !

MEET JOHNATHAN NEZ Former Navajo Nation President
Now running for Congress for CD AZ02
HE CAN WIN THIS SEAT
@formerpreznez.bsky.social

Trump facing 25th Amendment calls as plan grows for his removal from office Democratic Rep Maxine Waters has demanded "aggressive" action against Donald Trump, calling his conduct "extraordinarily dangerous" and saying he has the "makings of a dictator."

YES
Rep Maxine Waters has called for the cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove Donald Trump from the White House.
www.themirror.com/news/politic...

If there were some police you could trust, you could call and say that you were assaulted by a masked man, and his fingerprints are on the driver's window of my car.

I was in the news business for only 4 decades, so maybe I don't know much. But it seems like the transformation of the U.S. into a police state would be worth a headline and a few paragraphs.

Trump Says He Is Firing Fed Governor Lisa Cook—She Says He Lacks Authority To Do So Trump accused Cook of engaging in mortgage fraud, an allegation she has denied as she noted that the president has no authority to fire her.

Trump accused Cook of engaging in mortgage fraud, an allegation she has denied as she noted that the president has no authority to fire her.

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

In case anyone is still wondering why Bolton was raided

Roger Marshall, Jerry Moran, Derek Schmidt
Do you have any morality?

Riverdale Park, Maryland
Wednesdays thru September 10
Rash Hour Sidewalk Sign/Wave

🤯 THEY picked a fight WE CAN WIN 👊🏼

I made this for you. And you. And your trans friend. And their cis friend’s trans kid. And your lawyer friend who does pro bono. And your mom who keeps saying we’re overreacting. And your attorney. And your partner. And your provider. And your representative. And your city councilor. But mostly you.

Trump blames renewable energy for rising electricity prices. Experts point elsewhere President Donald Trump is blaming renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power for skyrocketing energy costs

It’s a flat out LIE to blame clean energy for higher bills.

Experts point to fossil fuels, aging grids, and extreme weather.

Wind and solar are the cheapest power.

Trump promised lower costs—families are getting the opposite.
abcnews.go.com/Business/wir...

Bowie, Maryland
Friday, August 29
VisBrigade Pedestrian Bridge
Sign/Wave

After President Biden left office,Democrats lost their balance.
No clear voice, no strong center.
But that’s changing.
Newsom isn’t just talking — he’s doing the work.
We haven’t lost because of GOP strength.
When we’ve lost, it’s been from within.
2026 is in play.
2028? Newsom’s still in play.

Do you live in New York City?

Do you have tomorrow afternoon free?

Up for something fun?

Join the @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social scavenger hunt!!!

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I would go, but I’m not in NYC.

I can’t wait to live vicariously through those who post tomorrow!

Allentown, Pennsylvania
Wednesday, August 27
Community Gathering to Hold Rep.
Mackenzie Accountable

A father was taken last week while dropping his child off at Encinitas Elementary School in California.

Families are being torn apart and innocent people are being sent to states far away from their homes.

You are watching this on your devices but children watched it live. Imagine their trauma. 💔

Checks and balances against abuse of power
The Courts are the only line of defense currently against this abuse by the Executive branch
Republicans in Congress have ceded their checks and balances authority already

3 co-equal branches of government in our Constitution
Read it

Fuel crisis continues to spread in Russia: Cars line up for hours at empty gas stations, waiting for the next fuel delivery.

Here's a Map of What Trump-GOP Destruction of US Hospitals Looks Like | Common Dreams Protect Our Care's Hospital Crisis Watch tracks hospitals at risk of closure due to Medicaid cuts in GOP budget, highlig

Thanks to the Medicaid cuts in Trump's Big Ugly Bill, hospitals across America are facing severe cuts and closure — all so the ultra-wealthy can get even richer.

This is what class warfare looks like. https://www.commondreams.org/news/hospital-closures-gop-medicaid

The University of Missouri (Mizzou) recently canceled a back-to-school event, the "Black 2 Class Block Party," organized by the Legion of Black Collegians (LBC), a Black student group, for using the word Black in the name of the event.

It’s clear Mizzou is trying to erase Black voices. 🤬

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Hegseth has fired the Commander of Naval Special Warfare Command (Navy SEALS) Rear Admiral Milton 'Jamie' Sands.

I have special and heartfelt insight into this man. I was led by Rear Admiral Sands, thirty-years ago...at the Naval Special Warfare Center in Coronado, California.

I may have reposted this before. Doesn’t hurt to remind you that Trump proposes to send a thousand National Guards in to deal with a non-existent “massive increase in crime”. No there isn’t.

🇺🇸President Trump plans to deploy up to 1,000 National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., to address violent crime, prompted by an assault on a former Department of Government Efficiency staffer during a carjacking, despite D.C. police reporting a 26% decrease in violent crime in 2025

🚨 30 years in the making — D.C. just saw its lowest violent crime rate since the early ’90s. 2024 brought a 35% drop citywide: homicides -32%, robberies -39%, carjackings -53%. Focused crackdowns on gangs and gun crime are changing the city. The numbers say it all 📉🏙️ #DC #AntiMaga

Violent Crime in D.C. Hits 30 Year Low Total violent crime for 2024 in the District of Columbia is down 35% from 2023 and is the lowest it has been in over 30 years, according to data collected by the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) a...

When Trump militarizes D.C. tomorrow, folks need to remember that he’s doing this despite violent crime in the city being at a 30-year low.

He’s turning our Capitol into a police state as a test run for even more authoritarian escalation, and as a desperate distraction from the Epstein files.

Crime rates in D.C. are about to increase, and all of them will be committed by agents of the Federal government

🚨 Sources close to the DC mayor and police say, Trump will deploy 1,000 National Guard troops into D.C. tomorrow/Monday.

• For context, Los Angeles is 502.7 square miles, and he deployed 4,000 troops there.

• Washington, D.C. is only 68.3 square miles.

This is what cities under siege look like.