“Be ready to say no.”- @timothysnyder.bsky.social #OnTyranny

It is no coincidence that Trump, Hegseth, Miller, Noem and other members of the admin continue to make inflammatory partisan political speeches to military and law enforcement. They are conditioning them now to embrace the planned war to come - their war against other Americans.

A year ago, both Trump’s former chief of staff John Kelly and his top military advisor Mark Milley warned America that Trump was a “fascist.” As Milley said: “He is the most dangerous person ever…he's a total fascist. He is now the most dangerous person to this country.”

I remember when New Yorkers put up posters in a desperate attempt to locate loved ones after 9/11. Now they are desperately looking for loved ones disappeared by the government of this country.

Statement from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker

Where are the commanding officers of those sailors in the background. How are they letting this happen?

I don’t mean to overreact or anything, but this is the commander-in-chief telling military personnel that Democrats are a problem to be dealt with.

Someone is a closet Hanks fan!

Trump to the Navy: "I was president in 2016. And then they rigged the election on me. And then we caught 'em, didn't we?"

Trump: "The instant US carrier, cruiser, or destroyer breaks across the horizon, every tyrant and adversary on the planet know their choice is very simple. It's leave America in peace or be blown up in fire and fury never seen before."

“Fuck your e pluribus unum” is one hell of a hell of a sentiment to be coming from the secretary of defense of, uh, the United States of America

At least two people were shot and killed, and 12 others were shot and wounded, late last night in downtown Montgomery during the Alabama National Fair. Police described the firearms used as “high capacity.” This is preventable. We all deserve to enjoy a night out without fear of being shot.

In 1890, U.S. troops massacred over 250 women, men, and children at Wounded Knee. This week, the U.S. Secretary of Defense announced that the soldiers who carried out the massacre will keep their Medals of Honor, which many have said should be rescinded.

Braxton Bragg was an unpopular military figure whose own soldiers tried to kill him. He contended that slavery was “just and necessary.” In June, the Trump Administration ordered the name of Fort Bragg to be restored.

John Bell Hood was a failed Confederate leader who believed Black people were inferior and fought against the U.S. to preserve slavery. This year, his name was reinstated on a military base.

Edmund Rucker profited off the lethal system of convict leasing. He killed U.S. soldiers to defend slavery. His racist views persisted throughout his life, 40 years after the Civil War. And now, once again, there is a military base named in his honor.

Henry Benning said “give me pestilence and famine” sooner than electing a Black person. Despite being committed to racial inequality, the Trump Administration recently has renamed a military base in Georgia in his honor.

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice overlooks a hilltop in Montgomery. It is the nation's first comprehensive memorial dedicated to the legacy of Black Americans who were enslaved, terrorized by lynching, humiliated by racial segregation, and presumed guilty and dangerous.

84 y/o woman, after ICE attack: “People have to know that we are not Antifa. We’re just regular Portlanders who love our city, and my husband, being a Vietnam veteran, is incensed that we’re talking about war within our own country. This is outrageous, really.” www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

For those lucky enough to not know this is a neo-Nazi meme normally found on TRS and the Daily Stormer being shared by the official DHS account.

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

More pure violent thuggishness from Trump's secret police.

Also perfect for the Friday afternoon commute! 😀

Is everyone appreciating how utterly sick this is

For Mr. Rodrick Johnson, “kept outside” = TIED UP OUTSIDE. An American, innocent-yet treated in an inhumane, traumatizing way. This is systemic racism + authoritarianism

In #Chicago , the #authoritarian goons broke into homes of American citizens, grabbing them and binding them with zip ties. Children were zip tied together-separated from their parents. Rodrick Johnson,“…was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours before agents finally let him go.”

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’” It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

Is Trump going to bail out the other businesses who are going under or losing money because of his tariffs, or only people who sell soybeans to the Chinese?

He can’t take tariff money and give it to anyone, so that is bs. Congress has to pass another farm bailout bill just like they had to the last time Trump wrecked their businesses. So farmers will have to embrace socialism again since they can’t compete in market capitalism.

The four victims of the mass shooting at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc, Michigan deserved to come home alive. No one should have to fear being gunned down in their place of worship—but when guns are everywhere, no one is safe anywhere.

Today in 2015, a gunman armed with six firearms, including an AR-style rifle, shot and killed nine people and wounded nine others at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon.

On this day in 2017, 60 people were fatally shot and over 400 more were wounded when a gunman armed with more than 20 AR-style rifles—many equipped with bump stocks and high capacity magazines—opened fire on a crowd during the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Minnesotans are calling for a special session to ban assault weapons—but Republican lawmakers are refusing to let it proceed. This image perfectly encapsulates Republican’s cruel apathy toward protecting our kids from gun violence: Empty signatures, empty promises.

"Globalist" has long been used by the white power movement to signify a Jewish conspiracy to eliminate the white race. It sometimes means something less alarming, like opposing the UN, worrying about cosmopolitanism, etc, but that's not who this meme is for. This meme is bread & butter racism.

DHS posts an antisemitic meme about keeping "globalists" out of the US. One of the internet's most influential white nationalists, the British white supremacist known as "Raw Egg Nationalist," responds with a groyper meme. The DHS account RESPONDS, calling him "Patriot."

NEWS: Donald Trump made it easier to add Americans to the terrorist watchlist — including his enemies. Amidst all the drama in DC, this is getting overlooked. But it might be the most Orwellian thing he’s done yet. www.treason.io/p/must-read-...

File this under “essential function.” 🤡 #Shutdown abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...

Good morning. The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you. Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.

MAGA is screwing the rural people….again. Fucked up livelihoods for the farmers. Fucked up rural communities. #Nebraska #AreWeGreatYet ?

We have lost our #FreedomToLive due to gun violence that permeates every aspect of our lives. Host a local vigil of any size or a gun violence prevention event in your community on December 10th to support the survivors & demand action to #EndGunViolence. Register: www.mobilize.us/newtownactio...

So Trump is defunding the police.

".. something we've always wanted to do."

can’t report on how few americans have jobs if you fire the person who runs job-counting and furlough all the job-counters

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people.

“CPJ is deeply alarmed by reports that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officials in New York City have assaulted journalists simply for doing their jobs and covering matters of public importance." — Katherine Jacobsen, CPJ's U.S., Canada and Caribbean Program Coordinator

Quick reminder that fascism is almost always obsessed with the aesthetics of the male body—sculpted, uniformed, disciplined.

Judging by their speeches, neither Trump nor Hegseth has paid the slightest attention to how actual wars are being fought in the actual world. The “war fighting” and “lethality” they plan is inside their own country and comes from conflicts inside their own minds.

The president just told all of the military's leaders that all Democrats are evil and promised to send the full force of the military into Democratic cities to assault the "enemy within," and there's *still* a chance that Democratic congressmen provide the crucial votes to keep this regime running.

She told America. We told America. Now, it's here.

Trump wraps up a speech to military leaders that represented a major escalation of his effort to weaponize the armed forces into a tool he can use to violently quash domestic dissent. Hard to imagine how anyone with a shred of dignity can keep serving after this, which of course is the point.