As usual Rick isn't pulling any punches, but he speaks truth and brings reality about the fascist trump regime trying to kill democracy.
Rick put it something like this:
The trump regime is Russia and the people supporting democracy are Ukraine, so in this moment be Ukraine.💫🇺🇸🇺🇦
#PeacefulResistance

What’s Really Going On in Portland, According to Police Reports Protests outside an ICE facility were dwindling in size and at times ”low energy” in the days and weeks before President Trump called in troops, according to official law-enforcement logs.

Republican fear of everything is the defining vibe of our age.

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White House response is measured as always:

The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
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Judge blocks Trump from deploying troops in Illinois for now Officials in Oregon and Illinois had challenged the Trump administration’s push to dispatch the National Guard in both states.

“I’m trying to put this delicately,” Perry said. “There has been evidence submitted that the very presence of federal agents, that the way they’re interacting with the populace, is itself the cause of violence.”

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Trump ICE Raids Take Unnerving Turn as Dem Gov Drops Bombshell Warning With Trump’s occupation of Chicago worsening, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker shares new details about what’s happening—and tells us the time is now for Americans to rise up against authoritarianism bef...

Appalling: JB Pritzker tells me he hasn't been able to get a single conversation with Kristi Noem or any other top Trump officials to even discuss their Chicago operations. Pritzker just wants a heads up for logistical purposes. Nada.

Pritzker opens up on the pod:
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Apropos of nothing in particular this morning, I've been told that, in essence, there are two things that physicians can't do at the White House medical unit: MRIs and surgeries. Virtually anything else can be done there if you have to or want to.

María Corina Machado—leader of Venezuelan opposition against Maduro, former member of National Assembly and presidential candidate — has been awarded Nobel Peace Prize

“When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist”, Nobel Committee

No One is OK Right Now You don't need to pretend that you are

No one is OK right now.

At least, no one with working empathy and a knowledge of History who’s paying attention.

It is an emotional impossibility to be living in days like the ones we’re in and to be fully unaffected.

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Ugly laws: The blueprint for Trump’s anti-homeless crusade DC’s crackdown is just the latest in a long war on being poor and disabled in public.

Ugly laws: The blueprint for Trump’s anti-homeless crusade

Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA Sets ‘All American Halftime Show’ in Protest of Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Performance Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA announced the 'All American Halftime Show,' a Super Bowl alternative in protest of headliner Bad Bunny.

If I wanted to watch Nazi propaganda during a sporting event, I would watch the 1936 Olympics… 
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I like how they gave the Nobel Prize to someone fighting for democracy in Venezuela, instead of someone sinking fishing boats off their coast.

there is most definitely something wrong with him

Torches, pressure cookers, power stations, power banks, magnetic balls, waist fans, pajamas, and more. It was a wide-ranging Recall Thursday. Check out this week's consumer product recalls: www.cpsc.gov/Recalls

President Trump and Elon Musk spent $15 billion to fire 200,000+ federal workers, and now 750,000 more are furloughed without pay.

This was never about efficiency – and we’re making sure everyone knows it.

Russian losses per 10/10/25 reported by the Ukrainian General Staff

+1120 men
+5 tanks
+14 AFVs
+13 artillery
+254 UAVs

Oh, no! You shouldn’t reveal the location of antifa’s HQ!

YouTube video by David Feldman ICE Attacking American Christians, Pope Mad, Leticia James, Chicago, Portland, Lindsey Graham,

I.C.E. agents get more dangerous as Trump seeks to hire 10,000 more of these imbeciles. The News: ICE Attacking American Christians, Pope Mad, Leticia James, Chicago, Por... youtu.be/C3biY4OX_n4?... via @YouTube

"I have trouble with the term 'liberal Zionism'"

Anti-Zionist Jewish Hollywood star Hannah Einbinder on the "settler colonialist ideology" and "apartheid" of Zionism, in the new Zeteo podcast 'Beyond Israelism with Simone Zimmerman'.

Full show: zeteo.com/p/beyond-isr...

Sinister, Malevolent, Venomous: Stephen Miller Is Like No Other White House Aide in Modern US History Miller, the deputy White House chief of staff, has never hidden his disfigured and dangerous psyche. But now Donald Trump has empowered him to execute his fascist impulses.

"Sinister, Malevolent, Venomous: Stephen Miller Is Like No Other White House Aide in Modern US History"

Miller, the deputy White House chief of staff, has never hidden his disfigured & dangerous psyche. But now Trump has empowered him to execute his fascist impulses, writes John Harwood for Zeteo.

They didn’t just NOT give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they wrote a citation that reads like an anti-Trump rallying cry.

(He’s gonna extra-tariff Norway now, isn’t he?)

When Trump demands prosecutions, his DOJ now obeys Donald Trump has long called for imprisoning his opponents. For the first time, he has a Justice Department willing to do his bidding.

NEW: Trump demanded prosecutions of his enemies in a public message to “Pam.”

His DOJ, which resisted similar entreaties in his first term, obeyed — shattering an already corroded guardrail against political prosecutions.

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Americans who love democracy need to face the fact that we’re no longer living in one.
We’re living in a transitional state in which a fascist dictatorship is fast descending.
But we still have a great resource: people power. It’s time for boycotts, protests, civil disobedience. Make yourself loud.

For those who have asked about the "in part" part of Judge Perry's ruling, it wasn't clear in the courtroom what she denied.

But, noticeable in the original prayer for relief (left) was a request to also block use of the "U.S. military" — something not mentioned in the final order (right).

Notice of appeal has arrived in Illinois v Trump.

The fight over the National Guard is officially headed to the 7th Circuit.