“There is no insurrection in Portland,” [Gov. Tina] Kotek continued. “No threat to national security. No fires, no bombs, no fatalities due to civil unrest. The only threat we face is to our democracy — and it is being led by President Donald Trump.”

1775 had Lexington and Concord, 2025 has Chicago

Look for Respect MO Voters volunteers out gathering signatures at the Chappell Roan concert tonight in KC! #missouri

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FYI: Speaker Johnson (R) is delaying swearing in Representative-Elect Adelita Grijalva (D) of Arizona, because she has sworn to provide the last vote needed to pass the Epstein Files Transparency Act. 📞 Call (202) 224-3121 to tell your representative how you feel about this issue.

www.reuters.com/world/china/... Look, if you're a red-blooded American, you'll support our farmers by eating less beef (of which we are a net importer) and more soy

The ACLU has created this letter you can easily personalize and send to your members of Congress to request that they stop the unlawful and unnecessary deployment of National Guard troops in our cities. They’ll use your address to get it to the right people.

“They asked for a sword, and we said, ‘Well, we do have swords, but we can’t give them away because they’re museum artifacts,’” said Todd Arrington, forced to resign as head of Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library.”

FYI, the 4th Amendment is supposed to protect everybody from unlawful search and seizure on American soil. Anybody and everybody who claims to care about law and order of the Constitution should be enraged right now. 😡

It’s almost Friday! Here is a reminder from the @nlgnews.bsky.social to SHUT THE F*CK Up!

NLG is receiving more and more verified reports of federal agent door-knocks and contacts. If you are approached by federal law enforcement, don’t be afraid to alert your community!

Here’s some great info for anyone who may be stopped by ICE. The National Lawyers Guild shows what a valid judicial warrant looks like. If you’re an immigrant, I recommend saving the image or post for quick reference in case you get stopped. Check out NLG’s posts for more tips.

I just read the transcript of Trump’s speech to our military leaders and nearly died of secondhand embarrassment. If you don’t want to wait for it to turn up in textbooks as an example of dementia, you can read and listen to it through the link below 👇🏽 rollcall.com/factbase/tru... #25thamendment

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.” - Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

THE NEW 'INDICA' FOR IDENTIFYING TERRORISTS: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...

For his own vanity, Pete Hegseth is pulling our military leaders away from their missions around the world— At great cost to American taxpayers and our national security. In every way, this abrupt, unprecedented meeting is too high a price. I’m demanding answers.

If you live in these states, your ACA premiums are about to jump: SD - Up 235%
LA - Up 150%
WV - Up 387%
WY - Up 382%
TN - Up 320%
MS - Up 314%
AK - Up 346% Republicans are fighting to make sure this happens to their own constituents.

FYI, the toxic masculinity show Pete Hegseth and Taco D put on with our military leaders as their captive audience likely cost the U.S. between $2M - $6M. It would’ve been cheaper and safer to make it a Zoom meeting. Sources: www.csis.org/analysis/upd... www.thepricer.org/how-much-doe...

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

You have ONE WEEK to register to vote for the November 4 General Election. To make your voice heard in our local elections, learn more at OhioSOS.gov.

ICE agents aren't being directed to protect Chicago, they're being told to use their badge to profile people of color. The Border Patrol's "Operation At large" is racial profiling disguised as law enforcement.

Hey House Republicans, cancel your vacation. Cancel the cuts. Lower costs. Save health care.

If troops have been deployed to your city, please, follow this advice from Gov. Pritzker. Democracy dies in darkness, so you’d better shine a light on what you see happening in your city before it’s too late. ⬇️

Here’s part of Project 2025 I hadn’t heard of: Screwing over farmers. Then again, gutting USAID did some of that already.

Just because our president acts lawless doesn’t mean laws have no power. Many of his worst ideas have been stopped by the Constitution, and we need to fight back on every front, including via the law. You do have rights—know them!

Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens. Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.

Miguel Angel Garcia-Hernandez is kept shackled while unconscious and on life support as ICE controls who can visit his room. His wife, a U.S. citizen who may deliver their 5th child at any time, says he’s funny, helpful, a good father. Share this link +/or donate to help: gofund.me/d2553efb2

I was searching for info on how disdain for the arts and artists is a warning sign/feature of fascism, and I stumbled on this interesting piece on anti-intellectualism that I just had to share. If you’re as stumped by people’s distrust of scientists and experts as I am, you should give it a read.

Have I mentioned how much I ❤️the #artactivism sculpture campaign that satirizes Trump? The US Parks Police purposefully BROKE this Trump-Epstein friendship memorial while removing it w/o giving due notice or explaining how it violated its permit. I hope the artists sue for destruction of property!

THERE IS NO RATIONAL OR LEGAL REASON for the regime and its ICE lackeys to deport Guevara. They're doing it because he's a journalist reporting on ICE raids and arrests in Atl. An attack on one person's rights is an attack on all of us! @indivisiblegaco.bsky.social 285south.com/immigration-...

I’m glad I’m not the only person wondering about this. For one thing, don’t people usually refer to crushed ICE rather than saying they’re anti-ICE? For another, an FBI director shouldn’t be posting pics of evidence on social media. It’s like he’s trying to tell agents what conclusions to draw.

The Daily Mirror nailed it: “World’s most powerful man-baby.”

You wanna talk about things that are politically motivated? All three people who were shot were detainees, but you’d never know that if you only read the statements Noem, Patel, Lyons, Abbott, and Vance made about the shooting. They made this all about the presumed targets, not the actual victims.

There’s a postcard + letter writing event for Northland residents of the #KCMO area coming up on Tuesday, October 14th! It’s essential to tell your elected officials if you don’t like the legislation or nominees they’re voting for, and writing is a great way to do it if you can’t attend protests.

Another video of the ice agent throwing Candidate Kat. He throws her like a sack of garbage, and you can hear the "thwack" of her hitting the pavement. These people are monsters. And apparently liars. bsky.app/profile/mulc...

Read the full thread from Alt National Park Service. There’s an article attached, and people have shared video evidence of ICE’s violent behavior in the comments.

Pretty sure you could have found this yourself: youtube.com/shorts/f1w1C...

It’s time for Trump to address the Republican healthcare crisis. And avoid a painful government shutdown.

@nickmark.bsky.social apnews.com/article/h1b-...

#BoycottABC #BoycottDisney @psychopete.bsky.social @dcombes.bsky.social @journeyled1.bsky.social @morgfair.bsky.social @cwebbonline.com @muellershewrote.com @axidentaliberal.bsky.social @liz.sheshed.rocks This is better than the ABC contacts I posted last night.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

The cowards are revealing themselves faster than I can update but I revamped the media section to include ABC. More updates coming today but I wanted to get a version out that reflected the ABC situation. Please repost so we can bleed these ghouls: open.substack.com/pub/psychope...

Does anyone know how to contact the heads of ABC, Nexstar, and Sinclair to complain about them violating Jimmy Kimmel’s free speech just to curry favor with the FCC chair? When you read what he actually said, it’s pretty clear that he didn’t say anything to merit being pulled from the air!

Kudos to Mr. Duquette for calling out ABC for their cowardly actions. Shame on Nexstar and Sinclair as well for folding to fascism.

BREAKING: Trump says he’s designating Antifa as a “major terrorist organization.”