Lets explain how escalating/manufacturing a military confrontation with Venezuela gives the administration a legal “hook” to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, one of the oldest national-security laws still on the books. This statute allows a president to detain, restrict, or deport non-citizens

The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker. Just to level set

Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.

I think immigrants Make America Great. I think most immigrants are not criminals. I KNOW the president is a criminal. ⚖️🇺🇸⚖️

Sickening.

Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses, as hate symbols. The fuck? wapo.st/3Mbd9a6

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

When a sitting president calls for death to lawmakers, it’s not a warning sign, it’s the emergency siren. He is talking like a dictator and telling you exactly how he plans to use his power. This is how democracies fall and how dictatorships begin.

Terms of the US-drafted, 28-point framework to end the war closely track Russian demands, according to news reports.

Oh America how I weep for thee.

Pretty soon it will be no star leaders. Those with no sense of duty, honor and integrity.

I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk? But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession. But that's just me

🇫🇷🇺🇦 Macron and Zelenskyy signed an agreement for Kyiv to acquire up to 100 Rafale fighters, air-defense systems, and drones, - AFP The 10-year deal allows for future contracts covering around 100 Rafale jets with weapons, as well as SAMP-T air-defense systems, radar systems, and drones.

You do realize those $50,000 sign up bonuses are paid for by our taxes. That is not what I want my taxes used for.

ICE offering a $50,000 signing bonus?

all six D's who voted for this god awful thing including the corrupt give away to senators need to be primaried

Everybody is caving. Does not portend well. Where is my crystal ball?

Angus King defected!!!! No reason he can give will justify the harm that will be caused by this measure. Shame on him. No one is answering his DC phone. His voice mailbox is full.

#MEPolitics #SeeYaSusan #NoKings #ElbowsUp

I love being an American. I love Americas diversity, and I love the possibilities possible with the freedoms granted by our constitution. Our country is an experiment and will forever change. We can’t go back to the past. NO KINGS IN AMERICA, EVER!!!!

🇺🇦👀 Zelensky:"We will not give anything to the aggressor, and we will not forget anything. We clearly see that this Russia is a long-term threat. We in Europe need long-term cooperation and real results both in the short term and in the longer term, so that people can live."

If you’re not watching what’s going on locally then you are missing the grassroots takeover of our democracy. www.facebook.com/share/g/1B9f...

Historians of the future: Rest assured, millions of us know all this in real time. We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends. trib.al/0islLh9

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That White House account? Blocked.

My favorite at NO KINGS Bangor ME.

And then the NO KINGS march Bangor ME.

No Kings rally Bangor ME.

Go ahead folks. Keep cooking in PFAS laden cookeare but don’t start crying foul when your kidneys have had enough. Or when your grandchildren succumb to a variety of problems. Your Governor won’t protect you. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin. When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

Wishing our Native neighbors a Happy Indigenous Peoples Day. Honoring their fight against oppression.

I weep for Ukrainians. Amidst all the horror around the world this takes my breath away. It must remain in the forefront of everyone’s mind. It cannot be relegated to the backwaters of global consciousness.

Donald Trump is not a king — and his administration is not above the law. Today, the court confirmed what we all know: there is no credible evidence of a rebellion in the state of Illinois. And no place for the National Guard in the streets of American cities like Chicago.

Spending time with Mainers, getting to hear what’s on their minds, is my favorite part of running. From Lewiston to Brooksville, folks are concerned about the cost of living, protecting health care and preserving our democracy.

I am loving this. A Venezuelan woman has won the Nobel Peace Prize. I am absolutely loving it! Thank you to the Committee!!!! No medals for Felon 47.

The guy who literally incited an insurrection is now threatening to use the Insurrection Act to torment Americans who do not support him. (…because he literally incited an insurrection)

Serious question: What's stopping the State of Illinois from arresting Stephen Miller & charging him with incitement? The Senate didn't confirm him. He's just a guy. At some point, the states MUST use their authority to prosecute, because the federal government certainly will not.

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.

Turns out the greatest threat to Americans is American federal security forces. #USpol

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.

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

Grabbing small joys where I can: produce at the farmers market. Just a bunch of Samwise Gamgees there wanting to sell me stuff from their gardens.

Attn Black people, stop scrolling. This is not a drill: Chicago

The battle lines have been drawn. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

US factory activity shrank in September for a seventh consecutive month, reflecting a pullback in orders and adding to evidence manufacturing is lacking traction. www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

Have you read it? Another American hero. US District Judge William Young. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.