This is the argument every Democrat should have right now. Simple, effective, and true.

Oct 17, 1871: President Grant suspends habeas corpus in 9 South Carolina counties, allowing federal forces to arrest KKK networks & cohorts engaging in severe violence on black communities there. 2025: Trump wants to suspend habeas on those protesting against federal racial violence. ... Really?

Oct 16, 1919: Adolf Hitler gives his first public speech at the small, fringe nationalist German Worker's Party. It focused on empowering working class and German identity as being more important than any other aspect. His oratory skills quickly gained popularity which he used against his enemies.

Reviewing the circular logic: Israel will continue bombing Hamas if they do not return dead civilian hostages to Israel, which Hamas can't currently reach because they're buried under tons of rubble from... Israel's bombing of civilians. At no current point are Palestinians still the aggressors.

This could happen nationwide, but our representatives on both sides are too afraid of losing campaign donations from those profiting off of your hardships. That, and a President that doesn't care if you live or die.

Just to be clear: (1) The old guard (both literally the older ones but also the spiritually/ideologically/tactically older ones) of the Democratic Party doesn't seem to understand the moment we're in. (2) The competitive primaries (which are good!!) are going to prove that out.

If you let this Administration continue to kill people indiscriminately and without due process in international waters, it won’t be long before you’re also fine with them murdering American citizens.

When they say Make America Great Again they mean bring back slavery. They mean bring back the time when straight white men of god ruled over everyone else and resistance led to lynching or worse. And guess what? They're achieving it right now. The old normal is becoming the new normal. Again.

When this dark part of our history has passed, the two sides won't have been North vs South, but billionaires and their enablers vs democracy. Money cannot hold back hundreds of millions of voices, especially when they turn from disbelief and denial to anger once knowing the truth.

Just calling them drug traffickers and blowing them up means he can declare anyone a criminal and just have them killed. Remember when he was admiring president Duarte’s murdering of thousands of suspected drug traffickers in the Philippines? He’s trying to do the same thing here.

The Republicans had me until the second half, not gonna lie. But that holding yourselves to the highest integrity and professionalism... you've... watched Trump and Johnson, right?

Oct 15, 1951: Norethisterone, an oral contraceptive, is synthesized for the first time by Mexican chemist Luis E Miramontes. It would be one of the earliest contraceptives that women could take both discreetly & self-directed, allowing them the ability to control their own lives, families, & future.

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

Oct 14, 1964: Martin Luther King, Jr. accepts the Nobel Peace Prize for work against racial inequality via nonviolent means. His words continue to remind America how great our country & world can be. Trump demanding a Nobel reveals a racist hatred that such black men existed & were better than he.

A notice from @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social. Will run in newspapers across the nation.

Never forget... "At least 3,104 Native American children died in boarding schools in the United States, taken from their families to be forcibly assimilated."

Oct 13, 1775: America officially establishes the Continental Navy, precursor to today's US Navy. For 250 years, it has surprised & dominated major world forces in its overwhelming firepower & skill. It's currently being used to blow up small Colombian & Venezuelan fishing boats without warning.

How many Trumped up charges (yep.) does a President make on his political enemies before journalists push back and say he's full of shit? Because it seems like the number keeps growing faster than Trump's inflation rate.

Pure capitalism is justifying spending billions to design a computer program that can seemingly tweet autonomously, while ignoring the human costs of indigenous inequality or poverty. Can AI help resolve humanity's current issues? Absolutely. Not like this.

Giving up? LOL. We're just getting started. October 18th, Everywhere #nokings

Most kids pick someone like Superman or Vanessa Williams.

How many adults need to be in the room to prevent the RFK and Trump toddlers from pushing too many big red buttons on the American economy and health at once? Even Bart Simpson had better control and compassion than this, and he was literally written as an impulsive little asshole.

Oct 12, 1945: Desmond Doss becomes the first conscientious objector to receive the US Medal of Honor, believing it a sin to take a life. Ignoring his draft deferment, Doss became a field medic during WW2 & saved at least 75 men while taking injuries himself. Ahem. For that ICE objector out there.

"Man, I don't even know what we're doing here anymore." An ICE agent complaining to his teammate. ICE is weaker than Trump and Miller want to admit because, at the end of the day, they have more humanity than their supervisors. Miller will be last man standing in his personal Trump Puppet crusade.

Oct 11, 2002: President Bush convinces Congress to grant him military powers & invade Iraq, a war later proven to have started under false pretense of weapons of mass destruction. Estimates range from 100k-500k Iraqis being killed as a result. Now, it's Trump lying about & attacking America. Wtf.

There are entire American citizen communities that have experienced for decades, centuries, what white Americans are just now experiencing for the first time. Police brutality? Financial abuse? Medical negligence? Officials lying about you without consequence? Welcome to the real America, folks.

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

Oct 10, 1935: The Hellenic Parliament of Greece is overthrown by military coup, reinstating King George II. Barely a year later, George endorses Ioannis Metaxas' plan for dictatorship, which lasts until Metaxas' death in 1941. George himself died in 1947, during the Greek Civil War that followed.

The Guardian, showing how much of a tantruming toddler Trump is on the world stage. Clamoring for "his" Nobel Prize while shitting in the diaper he's made of America's civil rights.

Oct 9, 1969: Illinois Governor Ogilvie calls 2,500 National Guard to Chicago as Weathermen, mostly white student groups, instigate riots & overrun police to protest Vietnam & the draft. 56 years later, Chicago's rioters are ICE. No politician wants the Guard present. Trump is the white instigator.

Oct 8, 2001: President Bush creates the Department of Homeland Security in response to the Sept 11 attacks. Since, it's been cited multiple times in erosions on civil & constitutional liberties - most recently via its ICE department, which is currently tearing apart America. Not really secure is it?

This is not the stress test that American democracy needed nor asked for. But it sure as hell is the one we're in the middle of.

Nonconformity challenges the desired status quo & leads to progressive change. Neurodivergency, nonconforming processing, is one of the leading causes of humanity's progress. Paleolithic conservatives were afraid of fire. Progressives learned to harness it. Today's neo-cons are afraid of humanity.

Over her 24-year tenure, Senator Boxer experienced 3 Federal shutdowns due to budgetary concerns. In the last 7 years, Trump has caused 3 shutdowns: Jan 2018 - DACA recipients. Dec 2018 - Building a border wall. Now - Immigrants & healthcare. Trump does more for racism than he will for the budget.

Oct 7, 2023: Hamas militants attack southern Israel, needlessly killing 1,200 people & kidnapping 240 others. It was wrong, evil, & should never have happened. Now, using that same logic: Israel's killing of over 70,000 people & creation of almost 2 million refugees since? ...Yeah. It's worse.

If your belief system can't withstand being in the presence of, let alone being questioned by, another's healthy belief to the point that you can only feel safe by eradicating them from society, your belief system isn't nearly as convincing as you think it is.

"Hey, you remember that one time that Obama sent a masked secret service brigade and hundreds of National Guard troops to Oklahoma because the Governor said Obama shouldn't wear a tan suit and so Obama said they were an enemy of America and everyone in the state should suffer?" Yeah no, me neither.

Oct 6, 1939: Adolf Hitler speaks at Reichstag, where he celebrates German victory over Poland & offers peace to England & France. In the process, he also discusses the need to fix Europe's "Jewish problem." This week, Stephen Miller offered peace to states that helped with the "immigrant problem."

“I am living with the deep pain of watching someone I once loved become the face of evil.” From July 17th: m.facebook.com/share/p/16yL...

It may be time to consider Stephen Miller is simply not mentally stable. Reading his rants, one can completely picture him as the character that reaches for a police officer's gun to shoot everyone as they try to cuff him for his crimes, instead of ever even realizing that he was wrong all along.

The goalposts will always change when dealing with the Christian White Nationalists and their billionaire backers. States rights when deregulating and resegregating. Federal authority when states or localities don't step in line. By design, you will never be correct unless you unilaterally agree.

Oct 5, 1970: the Public Broadcasting Service begins operations as a member-affiliated & owned non-profit. 3 years later, it would be a main provider of Watergate coverage for working Americans. It continues to include key educational programming & local news/sports events, especially in rural areas.

Oct 4, 1936: The Battle of Cable Street. 100k anti-fascist protestors blockade London streets against a planned march of 2-3k British Union of Fascists members. Unions, Jewish groups, Communists, & local residents blocked all paths, pushing back 6k police officers in the process, forcing a retreat.

Keep telling Americans that it's about violent crime when your agency is targets the kidnapping of naked children.

This is Trump's America. Miller's secret service troops: - Rappelled down an apartment building at night. - Broke through windows and stole naked children. - Stuffed the children into U-Haul trucks. - Refused to show a warrant. - Also arrested citizens. Who the fuck let this happen? Republicans.

Oct 3, 1990: The [East] German Democratic Republic officially ceases to exist, joining the [West] Federal Republic of Germany. For the first time in 45 years, Germany was once again united. No longer was there an Iron Curtain, Berlin Wall, or separated families. Just love, life, and celebration.

"Transferring billionaire assets to the poor is unAmerican." Bullshit. - Sherman Antitrust Act, breaking up monopolies. - 1930's Resettlement Administration, creating small farms. - FHA, HUD, enabling first-time homeowners. - WW2 seizure of private companies. They want you to forget we can & have.

Imagine the pain of preparing your child for burial after they've taken their own life. Add weight of knowing it could have been prevented, if numerous professionals had done their jobs. Years later, pain still fresh, find out that they lied to cover their guilt. Follow Emily's links to read more.

Oct 2, 2018: Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi is assassinated under the direction of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. This week, Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner finalized an $84 billion deal with Mohammed's Saudi PIF investment fund to purchase Electronic Arts. Nothing odd there.

Oct 1, 1946: The International Military Tribunal finds 20 of 22 Nazi Party leaders guilty of war crimes & crimes against humanity. Also ruled criminal were 4 organizations: the Nazi Leadership Corps, the Gestapo, the SS, & the SD (Intelligence). Willing membership is considered key to one's guilt.