Erasing hooks from Tyranny’s skeletal death claws. Útrýmum fasisma í Bandaríkjunum NÚNA! að fjarlægja króka úr dauðaklóm harðstjórnarinnar 🚫No DM’s. 🚫No MAGAs. I will block you. She/her Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
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Let us be clear: there is no emergency in Chicago that warrants the President of the United States deploying the military. I joined Senators Duckworth and Durbin and 10 Members of Congress from IL to demand that Trump & the Pentagon suspend plans for the deployment of military personnel to Chicago.
"Our democracy is only as strong as the people willing to defend it. State and local officials are on the frontlines of this work, and they must stay firm in the tough battles ahead — for the systems they manage and the voters they serve. The stakes couldn’t be higher." -- Pamela Smith
Of course.
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Newsom v. Trump: a federal court granted our injunction, blocking Trump’s illegal use of the military for domestic law enforcement. The ruling is clear: Trump is breaking the law by trying to create a national police force with himself as its chief.
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ICYMI: A group of admin law scholars sent a letter to the House & Senate Appropriations Committees arguing why "pocket rescissions"—the idea that the president can propose rescissions of budget authority late in a fiscal year and then allow funds to expire while the proposal is pending—are illegal.
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In a serious authoritarian move, the FBI arrested an Army veteran for protesting against ICE. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
New York does not miss. The bleach did it for me. 😭
What’s happening?
All kidding aside, it is so *insane* & *shocking* & *dangerous* that Corporate Media has collectively decided to completely bury objective fact that the President is uninformed, confused, and physically & mentally deteriorating.
HUGE: "Nevertheless, at Defendants’ orders and contrary to Congress’s explicit instruction, federal troops executed the laws. ... In short, Defendants violated the Posse Comitatus Act." Working link here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Susan Collins should actually be *concerned*. I'm not sure if Maine wants this, but I've been waiting to hear someone tell everyone who Collins is for more than a decade.
UPDATE: House Oversight is convening a private roundtable with survivors of Epstein’s abuse. This is a testament to our pressure. I look forward to hearing from survivors & won't stop pushing for a full, public hearing so their stories are documented in the Congressional Record.
Countless Americans protested peacefully across the country yesterday. Like we’ve done in the past, we spent a lot of time gathering images to prove there were “Workers Over Billionaires” events in all 50 states and DC. Especially since corporate media coverage was abysmal.
Seems like as good a time as any to reshare my story on the Coffee County voting system breach, which details the key role Giuliani played in Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
BREAKING: Judge Charles Breyer finds that the Trump administration violated the Posse Comitatus Act by using the military for domestic law enforcement purpose in Los Angeles. He enjoins further violations of the Posse Comitatus Act ⬇️ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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As we begin September, Democracy Docket is tracking 139 voting and election cases is 40 states. 13 in Georgia 13 in North Carolina 10 in Texas 9 in Arizona 8 in Pennsylvania 8 in Wisconsin Democracy is on the docket! www.democracydocket.com
Perfect encapsulation of the Trump administration: The guy suing Harvard for alleged antisemitism is a straight-up Hitler-admiring Nazi. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
In case you were looking for this tonight … How The 25th Amendment Actually Works — And What Nobody's Ever Figured Out www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chri...
Agreed.
Assuming he's not dead, the 2 pm "big announcement" will be unveiling plans to invade Chicago and kidnap a bunch of families, ship them off to be enslaved and tortured, but the interesting part will be if he speaks or if they have him just sit there while someone else does all the talking.
🚨🚨🚨If you live anywhere in the greater Chicago area…ICE will start using Great Lakes Naval Station as a command center for their “enforcement” operations across Chicago on Sept 5. The base isn’t in the city or Cook County. It’s north, in Lake County. Expect raids across entire the metropolitan area.
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Back when Donald was a failure in real estate, he was famous for not paying his contractors. He would come up with fictional fault in their work as an excuse not to pay them. Now, this unscrupulous cretin is short-changing the National Guard. www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
🧵 Nine former CDC directors, who served under both Republican and Democratic administrations, are raising the alarm: RFK Jr.’s firing of CDC Director Susan Monarez and the exodus of top officials mark a cynical turn that threatens the core of U.S. public health. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
One foot in front of the other. 🙏
I just read that on another post.
My son just texted me that every road around Walter Reed is closed...👀
He’s providing them with valuable mulching experience though.
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I just posted this, even if it’s fluctuating, this is horrific.
Holy smokes This is the crowd at the Bernie Sanders/Graham Platner Fighting Oligarchy event in Portland, ME tonight Platner is the oyster farmer challenging Susan Collins; Senate seat👇 Overwhelming turnout! I feel like maybe Susan's number is finally up ..
Likely the only thing ON his schedule given how little he actually does besides illegibly scrawl his name on unconstitutional executive orders.
“There will be no West of this continues.” Christ. I could live with that if he were gone to Mars or any-the-fuck-where.
More than 1.2 million immigrants disappeared from the labor force from January through the end of July, according to preliminary Census Bureau data analyzed by the Pew Research Center. That includes people who are in the country illegally as well as legal residents. https://to.pbs.org/46d1uiJ
Labor Day March and Rally in Chicago Labor over Billionaires! ✊ www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...
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Warfighters demonstrating leafality.
📌 Nice to see D.C. show up day after day. ✊🏼 Power to the people!
The secrecy of it all was the tell. The rush to move buses under cover of night, to load planes before dawn, was not about efficiency. It was about shame. If this plan had unfolded at noon, with cameras rolling, the country would have recoiled. So they . . .” open.substack.com/pub/closerto...
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Your Labor Day reminder that Trump doesn't actually care about working people. Take it from me, a former Secretary of Labor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARL5VvYJUe8
Republican governors have sent National Guard troops to Democratic-led Washington, D.C., even though cities in their states all have higher rates of violent crime than the nation’s capital. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
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“. . .they are all the more tempting for an American president who wants to be able to do what Hungarian and Russian leaders have done: redirect flows of wealth to himself . . .attempt to imitate them in the United States is not only authoritarian but destructive.” open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Trump seeks to cut $4.9 billion in foreign aid funding allocated to the State Department and USAID, using a “pocket rescission.” This move is expected to face backlash and potential legal challenges. #ProudBlue #DemVoirce1
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Those who cannot tolerate the cacophony and complexity of today’s world become susceptible to leaders who arouse their fears and unleash their authoritarian tendencies and – no surprise – such leaders will arise to take advantage and manipulate those fears. terikanefield.com/heres-why/
This photo was taken of miners at the end of their shift during the Gilded Age before they were unionized. This Labor Day remember the blood, sweat, and tears that those before us paid to give the working class the basic rights we enjoy today. h/t John Koehlor
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Triple exclamation marks. What a douche bag.
Around 10 ICE agents showed up at Malcolm X Park to detain an unarmed man peacefully sitting on a bench. Wouldn't it be great to see them raking leaves instead of harassing innocent, harmless people and using the National Guard for free maintenance labor? What a total disgrace. #OnYourSide
Oh, Andy Borowitz. What a gem you are.
We need a proof of life video statement from Trump NOW! If he is indeed alive, then why is he hiding? What is he hiding?
Something has been going wrong for a long time, they just happened to notice now
'Something is very wrong': Ex-Trump insider flags 'alarming' news about president's health www.rawstory.com/trump-someth...
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Florida’s immigrant detention crisis isn’t a failure—it’s the blueprint. Engineered cruelty. State-sanctioned abuse. DeSantis turned the state into a test lab for authoritarianism—and now it’s spreading. You won’t believe what they’ve gotten away with. social.demcast.com/s/Dk6aQBQR
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz stated that Russia is attempting to destabilize Germany, including targeting its infrastructure, and therefore Berlin is in direct conflict with Moscow.
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NATIONWIDE PROTESTS September 1st on LABOR DAY. Stand up for America!! Show Up!! Find a protest near you by clicking findaprotest.info. Show your photos or videos tomorrow. Start putting out your signs in your yards. Show courage! Resist! No shows don't deserve to complain if we lose this shitshow
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If you aren’t completely loyal to the regime or dare to voice dissent, you risk being removed. Time and again, anyone who stands up is pushed out. Most recently, the Environmental Protection Agency dismissed eight employees after they
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#FireRFKJrNow Most Americans are ineligible for new #covidvaccine 🤬
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Maybe ICE shouldn’t have lowered their standards for new recruits.
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In a national poll, 9 out of 10 American flags prefer Governor Gavin Christopher Newsom.
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For those unaware: RFK Jr has been spreading anti-vaccine lies for over 20 years. This is not new. This is not “since COVID.” He wrote a 2005 article in Rolling Stone blaming vaccine ingredients for autism. Be aware of this history. He is a millionaire because of the disinformation HE created.
Yesterday, thousands joined together for a “March On Wall Street” in New York City. And in DC, dozens of labor unions led a march with thousands of people to protest Trump. GET LOUD! More here:
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