Christina Ballard

Scoop: White House memo says furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to backpay A move to deny backpay to up to 750,000 furloughed workers would dramatically escalate Trump's pressure on Democrats to end the shutdown.

This is just evil.

If you are still a member of the GOP you need to unaffiliate.

#TYRANNY #Resist

We need to come together and be prepared.

#thetimeisnow #resist

BREAKING: Illinois Governor JB Pritzker threatens to withdraw from the National Governors Association if the organization doesn't speak out against Trump's use of the National Guard in U.S. cities.

Watch Gov. Pritzker discuss with Rachel Maddow:

😬 awkward

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror."

( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

Judge Immergut in Oregon v Trump now:

"I grant plaintiffs second motion for a TRO."

Federalized Texas and California Guard to Portland is a "DIRECT CONTRAVENTION" of court's TRO from Saturday.

Both on 12406 statute and Tenth Amendment grounds.

Just a fucking disgrace that any president would say this to active duty military. But I expect it from this asshole, who has never respected the apolitical military tradition we’ve had since Washington. No, what’s more disgraceful is the silence of Republican vets in Congress.

Gov. Pritzker: "[ICE is] just picking up people who are brown and black and then checking their credentials. I don't know about you, but I don't carry around papers that say I'm a U.S. citizen. So U.S. citizens are getting detained and arrested."

Keep taking videos of what ICE is doing. @govpritzker.illinois.gov is right, document what’s happening. This is why they hate journalists so much.

The very first statute authorizing domestic use of the military during domestic emergencies, enacted in 1792 by a Congress full of the same folks who wrote and ratified the Constitution, expressly provided for judicial review in certain circumstances *before* the President could even send troops.

Illinois is being invaded by Texas.
It’s an act of civil war.

I don’t know any other way to frame this. It’s simply what’s happening.

The federal regime is declaring war on it's own citizens.

If you've ever asked yourself what you would do when the time came -- this is it.

Keep speaking, keep advocating, keep showing up. If you cannot physically protest, write letters and make calls.

#thetimeisnow #resist

Idiocracy was unrealistic only because we got dumber quicker than the movie anticipated

Jane Goodall offers sage advice for the rest of us. #3E

This is what the actual dangerous rhetoric being spewed by the federal regime does.
#resist #thetimeisnow

He could’ve fought, but he faked bone spurs. So someone else had to go in his place - most likely a working class kid whose daddy couldn’t afford to bribe a doctor. Now he’s talking shit about how it should’ve been fought.

SOUTH CAROLINA… “Judge Goodstein was walking on the beach when the fire started. Her husband, Arnie, was in the house with children and perhaps grandchildren. The family had to escape by jumping from a window or balcony...” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

We do not deploy American forces against Americans in our own cities.

Our military is not trained for domestic law enforcement.

It’s illegal and un-American.

This is insanity.

The TRO issued last night was for the Oregon National Guard. Now POTUS is deploying the CA Guard.

#resist #thetimeisnow

I can’t not believe how hard it is to sleep when you’re watching your country, be dismantled by the dumbest people.

@Sec_Noem on X: Chicago, we’re here for you.

If you showed this tweet to James Madison, he would be like, "yes, this is why I wrote the 2nd Amendment"

I have lived in 6 states since 1994. I am the happiest and feel the safest here in Oregon.

This regime wants a civil war to placate a man whose mind is stuck in the 1970's and thinks he is king of the world. He has psychopaths like Miller egging him on.

#tyranny #resist #thetimeisnow

Oregon AG Rayfield: Huge win at this moment in our democracy right now.

This is the president that is normalizing the use of the United States military in our country.

So to get this strong of a ruling out today for the public to see—it’s incredibly important.

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

Seems to me there’s escalating evidence for a massive class action lawsuit against ICE for systemic 4th Amendment violations.

Searching an entire apartment building, zip tying children, and detaining citizens 100% constitutes unreasonable searches and seizures. One example of many.

the people who told us to calm down because Roe was settled law are the same people now telling us to calm down because the military would never open fire on Americans

They will pull hardworking Americans out of their regular jobs and away from their families all to participate in a manufactured performance -- not a serious effort the protect public safety. For Donald Trump, this has never been about safety. This is about control.

I don't want my country to be torn apart.

When will the #GOP or the cabinet do something?

POTUS is going to war against his own citizens.

#tyranny #resist