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His masked agents already are grabbing people off the street. Separating children from their parents. Creating fear. Taking people for “how they look.”

Making people feel they need to carry citizenship papers. Invading our state with military troops. Sending in war helicopters in the middle of the night. Arresting elected officials asking questions.

I will not back down. Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power. What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

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It does not want churches that defend the poor, speak against violence, or stand up for justice. It only wants your obedience. It's willing to shoot protestors and even priests to force compliance.

This government is following the same pattern. It uses religion to build support and silence dissent. It talks about protection. It campaigns on faith. It holds prayer events and makes public claims to moral authority.

Under Nazi rule, clergy who refused to support the regime were surveilled, arrested, assaulted, and in some cases, executed. The Nazis publicly aligned themselves with Christian values while targeting religious figures who defended the vulnerable or spoke against state violence.

* deep desire to just bite mean people

Wow 👇

Update from the war zone in Portland.

This strikes me as pretty bad

So Bondi plans her congressional hearings by bringing up dirt on the senators who questioned her rather than answering the questions. This is the lying schemer that is running the DOJ.

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in. Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators. The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

This photo of red troops from Texas invading Illinois over a fake emergency is raising some significant questions for those who watched the televised address Pete Kegstand gave to hundreds of generals, admirals and commanders recently, a speech that already lives in infamy as the "No Fatties Speech"

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat. For the crime of … complaining about government policy. Core 1A speech. With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Shot a priest in the head with a pepper ball, just for fun. There was absolutely no threat here.

I wonder how many of the warning signs for serial killers are applicable to most ICE agents.

CNN: “An older couple making $85K/year will see their yearly insurance premiums jump from $7K to $25,000 — 30% of their income.” 😳#TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax This is what Dems are drawing attention to and want fixed. Now, not later.

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This is how propaganda works. They slapped an image on this from Los Angeles in 1992 during Rodney King riots.

One should assume, if one had not already, that every single thing the GOP has to say about pretty much anything is a lie or fabrication.

The Danish government wants to introduce a ban on several social media platforms for children under the age of 15, PM Mette Frederiksen announced today.

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

It seems clear—I think to everyone, now—that a false and illegal invocation of the Insurrection Act is coming before the end of the year. Media outlets should be telling us how they will prepare for this potential Treason. State governments should be telling us. Activists should be developing plans.

Two psychiatry organizations call for the removal of RFK Jr. His statements have increased stigma, instilled fear and hurt access to mental health and addiction care. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act. I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. It’s unfolding very rapidly. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plan

First they shut down the government. Then they tampered with federal workers’ emails to shift the blame. This is corruption in broad daylight.

Donald Trump giving a long, unhinged speech is nothing new. But it's what he said – and who he said it to – that should concern every American regardless of whether they live in a red state or blue state.

Sanders: These projects have been appropriated. They were signed by a president. It is illegal to rescind them. And to say to people in Vermont, in New York and California, oh, you didn't vote for Donald Trump, we're going to take away funding that was supposed to go to your state… illegal

Before engineering the Trump administration's government shutdown response, Russ Vought spent years building Project 2025 strategy. “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” he said in 2023. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work.” (Pub. Oct. 2024)

The natural world is not built to be self aware the way human beings are. Ever action we take towards each other is a conscious one with an understanding of some consequences. Using nature as an excuse for the manmade injustice in the world doesn’t work with self aware beings.

I can’t begin to tell you how damaging “the world isn’t fair, get used to it” line has been to every child’s psyche growing up and therefore has led to a world that stays unfair. If we teach children to get used to an unfair world, we are destroying the possibility of a better world.

How convenient. Crash economy. Close government. Martial law. It’s almost like they has a “Project” for this in 2025.

“.. Judge William Young concluded, in a scathing, 161-page opinion that he described as the most crucial he’s delivered in his 30 years on the bench.” @politico.com @kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

I have never seen such a blistering rebuke of a President by a federal judge. He is telling us clearly to stand up for our liberty against a dictator. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

(AP) — The man who oversees the nation’s military reposted a video about a Christian nationalist church that included various pastors saying women should no longer be allowed to vote. @apnews.com apnews.com/article/wome...

Oh yes, this is clearly now.

This is a drunken rapist moving to protect his fellow rapists and domestic abusers in the ranks who are accused by fellow military members.

Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher. Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.

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Good news, but I hate that it took a judge to do it.

Until we get power away from Republicans, we might as well teach elementary schoolers first aid the day after active shooter drills. #EnoughIsEnough