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Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

How do we sleep while democracy's burning How do we sleep while Trump's still earning We borrow from Midnight Oil's 80's classic for this one #freespeech #fascistclown #teslatakedown #resist #oligarch #billionaire #protest #protestsong #protestmusic #DonaldTrump @the-wolves.bsky.social

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Trump "We have an Insurrection Act for a reason. If I had to enact it, I'd to that ... if courts were holding us up or governors or mayors were holding us up, sure, I'd do that."

When Trump is about to do something awful, he signals ahead so that people can get acclimated to the idea. It reduces the likelihood of a blow up from people due to the shock. Brace yourselves America. You put him in power. Get ready for the road to fascism to accelerate at a fast pace.

👀 Marjorie Taylor Greene breaks with Republicans on Obamacare funding, saying she’s not a fan of the law but demands action to prevent a premium hike. “I’m absolutely disgusted that health insurance premiums will DOUBLE if the tax credits expire this year.” She says GOP leaders don’t have a plan.

This footnote to Illinois and Chicago's lawsuit against Trump is an important reminder: * There is no Department of War or Secretary of War, which are make-believe names for the actual agencies created by Congress. Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Republicans, from the very top down to the lowest of levels, are inveterate liars. Their claims should be met with extreme skepticism if not outright dismissal until they can produce overwhelming corroborated evidence because time and again this is what they do.

IL State Senator Karina Villa Tells ICE “This is my City! Take off your Mask!” Chasing them out of the neighborhood. She sends a message to constituents.

This is the second time body cam video has suggested that ICE/DHS lied about a Chicago-area shooting by an agent.

I’m desperately hoping mainstream media quickly learns the lesson that they can’t just print “DHS says X” in the developing phases of stories anymore.

this is a very very big story because of the apparently totally fake story ICE/DHS put out about what happened.

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John Oliver: "If ICE can bother some guys at a roofing job, bystanders can bother ICE at their state-sanctioned kidnapping job."

Right wing garbage Joey Gibson and Nick Sortor are back at the Portland protests. This is why I tell everyone phones out. Record everything. These people will try to stage violence or agitate. Record EVERYTHING. We have nothing to hide.

The Trump administration has taken more overt actions to censor, criticize and legally harass journalists than any administration in the modern era. New: deadline.com/2025/10/ari-...

This guy sounds like a fucking lunatic.

A Trump-appointed federal judge slams the Trump Administration TWO SEPARATE TIMES for its illegal attempts to deploy the National Guard in Portland. Oregon’s AG @agdanrayfield.bsky.social joins me fresh off of a rare, late night hearing with the latest! youtu.be/TuOsL1A5R0Y?...

'Judge April M. Perry of Federal District Court in Northern Illinois, a Biden appointee, pressed Trump administration lawyers for more information about National Guard assignments in the, describing herself as “very troubled by the lack of answers.”' { gift link } www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Same thing happened in LA, same thing happened in DC: prosecutors charged people with assaulting a federal officer and then furiously backpedaled when the evidence didn’t support it

One guest, a retired major general, was asked about Hegseth's dismissal of the rules of engagement. He answered: "The words the president and secretary of defense are those of potential war criminals."

In a court of law, the government bears the burden of proving it's case with actual admissable evidence under cross examination with attorneys and a judge/jury. The press needs to be laser focused not allowing the government "to create the pretext." Investigate before parroting.

Pritzker: “The Trump administration is following a playbook: Cause chaos, create fear and confusion, make it seem that peaceful protesters are a mob by firing gas pellets and tear gas canisters at them. Why? To create the pretext for invoking the Insurrection Act.”

“.. Thousands of federal agents once tasked with investigating drug smuggling, sexual exploitation and organized crime have been redirected to immigration enforcement ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Whether you're a casual news reader or a breaking news reporter at the NYTimes, I implore you--please, please, please--do not believe or report DHS/ICE/CBP's side of events uncritically. End the state's monopoly on legitimate storytelling. They are not the objective arbiter of what really happened.

It had been hours since the President had announced a tariff change, and all of this stability was killing the economy. He had to act to provide the American people with the uncertainty they deserve.

“This is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law,” wrote U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee.

This dystopian video is previewing a violent takeover, not a targeted law enforcement action. It's insane. Trump is militarizing our cities to STOKE violence. Not to reduce it. These are the tried and true tactics of authoritarians - plain and simple.

Acting as judge, jury, and executioner against civilian vessels would lead to war crimes charges with nearly any other country’s leader.

CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital. apnews.com/article/chic...

How the hell did CNN brass ever sign off on this?

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. trib.al/9Sxu9IN

America 💙We need to step it up the protest while we can !! Our democracy is broken and on the brink of collapse!! #DemVoice1 #DemsUnited #ProudBlue

Understand what they are doing: using the massive power of the state - including military power and the power to imprison - to carry out a campaign to eliminate their political opposition. It's growing in seriousness by the hour.

CENSORED: “They refused to run my column this week. Too critical of Trump, they said.” Writer Dan Conway left The Daily Memphian after editors rejected his column for criticizing Trump’s unconstitutional military incursions into US cities. Read the censored column: www.facebook.com/share/p/16uP...

Def. atty continues his argument, says "violent terrorist organizations" are trying to doxx agents. This prompts open laughter in the courtroom. "Well, I think we have a different idea of what's going on in Chicago," Ellis tells the def. atty, who is appearing remotely.

Ellis interjects that this is likely activity that protestors have a right to do under 1A. "They can peacefully protest by standing in the driveway... at least as I understand Democracy, which may not be how everyone understands it," she says, listing off other 1A activities.

NEW: The militarization of American cities isn’t happening with a parade of tanks. It’s a slow drip of troop deployments that are probing courts’ willingness to give unlimited deference to the commander in chief — and testing workarounds when they don’t. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Something is very wrong with America. A crowdsourcing campaign has raised more money for the family of the murderer who killed churchgoers, than the families of those murdered. Honestly, how can you even start to explain this? abcnews.go.com/US/day-saint...

Chicago’s new lawsuit against imminent National Guard deployment paints a city besieged by disproportionate federal force.

I think when the second Civil War starts?

Trump is now threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act to bully courts into letting his illegal military occupations proceed unchecked by rule of law. Inventing a fake crisis wholesale to bulldoze what's left of constitutional restraints: Unhinged despotism. Okay, then. Make him invoke it.

Yeah, I caught that too. That's a huge problem.

These are rookie numbers. We need Bluesky at least 20%

Social media sites where people in the US get their news from: Facebook 38% YouTube 35% Instagram 20% TikTok 20% X 12% Reddit 9% Nextdoor 6% WhatsApp 5% Threads 3% Rumble 2% Truth Social 2% Bluesky 2% Source: www.pewresearch.org/journalism/f...

It really is staggering to see so many people willing to abandon our 249 year experiment in democracy for an increasingly unstable criminally convicted reality show charlatan.

BREAKING: Judge Ellis says that "it appears that the plaintiffs have shown a likelihood of success" on their claim that DHS has violated plaintiffs' Fourth Amendment and First Amendment rights. In addition to the standing ruling, this is the key aspect of deciding whether to enter a TRO here.

"We live in a country with a First Amendment." This is really a failure to train, plaintiffs' lawyer says, noting a point raised often that so many of these federal officials are not appropriately trained for what amounts to community-based policing.

They are going through the proposed order now, so, yes, Ellis is going to be granting a TRO. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...