Please: DO NOT NORMALIZE OR EXPLAIN AWAY ARMED MILITARY ENGAGED IN LAW ENFORCEMENT IN AN AMERICAN CITY. If it doesn’t seem that off base or unusual to you, perhaps it’s because you are not the target of this.
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Never normal!! 👎🤬
aug 16, 2025, 11:27 pm • 0 0 • view
And if you think you're not the target, you're wrong.
aug 16, 2025, 11:22 pm • 0 0 • view
This is not normal. This is not humane. What horrible crime did this woman commit? Who are these goons masked up abusing a woman?!?
aug 17, 2025, 12:53 pm • 1 1 • view
Aren’t they though?
aug 16, 2025, 11:31 pm • 0 0 • view
ITS TOTALLY UNNECESSARY AND A WASTE OF TIME FOR OUR SOLDIERS- FELON TRUMP IS ONLY STARTING THIS SHIT TO TAKE OUR FOCUS OFF OF HIM RAPING CHILDREN WITH EPSTEIN. NOT GONNA HAPPEN!!!
aug 16, 2025, 7:45 pm • 0 0 • view
I am concerned and angry. The whole WH a nest of bad and now this. I also live in one of the cities/ States in the 47 hate zone.
aug 17, 2025, 7:47 pm • 0 0 • view
It's conditioning for when he seizes control.
aug 16, 2025, 10:52 pm • 1 0 • view
It's unusual to everyone.
aug 16, 2025, 10:44 pm • 0 0 • view
You are SO right
aug 17, 2025, 12:26 am • 0 0 • view
In any other country in the world we’d see it for the naked and awful authoritarian bullshit that it is. This is a horrible turn for the country.
aug 17, 2025, 2:23 am • 0 0 • view
If you’re not a target now, it’s guaranteed that you will be at some point if you don’t fall in line. That’s how this works.
aug 16, 2025, 7:19 pm • 9 0 • view
So now the American people are paying the National Guard to hold them hostage! OMG!
aug 16, 2025, 8:43 pm • 2 0 • view
aug 17, 2025, 3:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Not the target….yet!
aug 16, 2025, 10:38 pm • 1 0 • view
The QRF: He wants to have troops at the ready to put down protests. Classic Authoritarian Playbook. Militarized Streets (From my 100 Daze Series). bsky.app/profile/opsa...
aug 17, 2025, 12:56 am • 0 0 • view
One doesn't need to be a target to be outraged by such bully boy tactics being engaged in by the treasonous regime in your country. It is a slight to every decent American and further conform 47 et al are the greatest Domestic Threat to your country.
aug 17, 2025, 1:07 am • 0 0 • view
Yet…
aug 17, 2025, 1:52 am • 1 0 • view
Maybe they will be helpful if hurricane Erin causes flooding up the Potomac river next week.
aug 16, 2025, 8:15 pm • 0 0 • view
If you encounter Federal troops in your city, please ask them to call the military's GI Rights helpline for resisting illegal orders. The troops are trained to ignore protesters, so maybe holding up a big sign would be better. 1-877-447-4487 girightshotline.org
aug 16, 2025, 7:21 pm • 3 1 • view
#EvilAtWork
aug 16, 2025, 7:30 pm • 1 0 • view
We really are under Martial Law now, it's just going to take a little time to get the deployment in full swing. The red states will now overthrow the blue states. Forget gerrymandering, it's a full on War against blue states 1 city at a time. They plan to jail us for insurrection.
aug 16, 2025, 10:58 pm • 2 0 • view
Or perceive yourself to not be a target
aug 16, 2025, 7:41 pm • 1 0 • view
25 years of militarized police has conditioned us to it
aug 16, 2025, 10:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Sickening, and not needed. Chicago's crime levels have dropped because of opening mental health hospitals, and doubling the teen job program. Unless you address the roots, you are doing nothing. I hate to think of what the homeless are going to do. They lose everything.
aug 16, 2025, 8:01 pm • 4 0 • view
...not the target *yet*
aug 17, 2025, 4:18 pm • 0 0 • view
The PedoPrez wants to be a dictator and every dictator needs their own armed militia! Release the TrumpEpstein sex files
aug 17, 2025, 12:29 am • 0 0 • view
Overheard on @theweeknightmsnbc.bsky.social that dems will likely be voting to extend. We would love some names @symonedsanders.bsky.social
aug 16, 2025, 9:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Spring of 64 if I am recalling the correct year, spent a couple of days in DC enroute to Florida from Toronto. Returning to the hotel after dinner was confronted by two armed militia asking who we were and where were we going. Apparently we were out after “curfew “. So yeah, fun times in DC! 🇨🇦
aug 17, 2025, 8:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Or… you’re a dumbass moron
aug 17, 2025, 7:37 pm • 0 0 • view
yet
aug 16, 2025, 7:25 pm • 0 0 • view
We are ALL the target of this.
aug 16, 2025, 10:33 pm • 3 0 • view
...... YET. You are not the target of this, YET.
aug 17, 2025, 12:52 am • 1 0 • view
Or we could just say Fascism here we come, followed by an insurrection or two, and perhaps numerous dead and dying Americans.
aug 16, 2025, 9:14 pm • 0 0 • view
No wonder there’s no money for healthcare, housing, education, social security, and Medicaid.
aug 17, 2025, 2:24 am • 2 0 • view
But who gets the money? $962B “defense” budget enriches elites: Lockheed, Raytheon, Boeing, Northrop, new startups like Anduril & Palantir, even financiers. It’s less about security, more about profits, power & politics. War is business, not service. Your sons die not theirs!
aug 17, 2025, 7:51 am • 2 0 • view
I agree…why does MSM just remain silent??? Public opinion is everything but ‘politics’ is sport now…normalizing Trump???…I realized the gig is up…I had bought in #realitybites
aug 16, 2025, 11:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Hey The NFAC Armed Up Over 1500 Went To Stone Park North Atlanta Georgia and asked for the removal of a Confederate General And Was The Ku Klux Klan And In 2023 Before The Leader Grand Master Jay Of The Hip Hop Rap Group Run DMC Was Arrested For Pointing A Gun At Police In Louisville Kentucky.7years
aug 16, 2025, 10:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Not the target...yet.
aug 17, 2025, 2:37 am • 0 0 • view
not *yet* the target- Today's generation protests against being violently apprehended while just walking to work and then sent to a death camp where there are reports of torture and rape and from which there is yet to be an escape...
aug 16, 2025, 9:37 pm • 1 0 • view
Governors need to tell the National Guard that any deployment not authorized by them is not valid and lawful. Stand down without Governor’s orders!
aug 16, 2025, 9:30 pm • 1 0 • view
Kimberly, give us a report on Ward 8.
aug 16, 2025, 7:00 pm • 0 0 • view
DC is not just an American city. It’s the nation’s capital. You never want the military patrolling your streets in your nation’s capital.
aug 16, 2025, 6:59 pm • 13 0 • view
I guess democracy does not die in darkness. One sees all the pillars of democracy being brought down in the full light of day. Democracy contorted by the greedy elite, is then wielded to manipulate, bully, oppress and persecute civilians into exhausted resignation. Nothing new under the sun! Fascism
aug 17, 2025, 7:44 am • 1 0 • view
Where’s the Democratic leadership? Why aren’t they out there raising hell? Oh, that’s right, they’re too busy on vacations paid for by lobbyists, donors, AIPAC. Or they’re busy trying to take the voters’ choice away in NYC. Face facts folks, the Dem leadership in Congress have totally betrayed us!
aug 17, 2025, 3:05 am • 2 1 • view
Democracy is dying in the full light of day and the democrats shall conduct the funeral and be the biggest hired wailers, decrying how civilians failed themselves. Democrats are the elites and they serve those destroying America.
aug 17, 2025, 7:55 am • 0 0 • view
...yet. <---history is amazingly accurate on this additional account.
aug 16, 2025, 6:55 pm • 8 0 • view
It’s Time to Clean House. Remove Putin’s Fanboy Protector of Child Rapists. AND GET US A REAL PRESIDENT!! We Demand a president with a few brains and an ounce of courage. This Guy has screwed the pooch. At Home and on the World Stage. And get his Damn Toy Soldiers OFF OUR STREETS 😡🤬😡
aug 17, 2025, 6:59 am • 0 0 • view
I'm staying indoors because I don't trust myself not to grab one of these keystone cops and beat the crap out of him if I see them commit this atrocity to one of my neighbors. And I won't do anyone any good in jail.
aug 16, 2025, 8:02 pm • 4 0 • view
But will be soon. Believe me.
aug 16, 2025, 8:11 pm • 1 0 • view
Agree
aug 16, 2025, 10:39 pm • 0 0 • view
It's not normal hun it's Trump over reacting His authority and trying To throw people of gard And with his racist agenda In full swing he's out to Make as much trouble As possible And only looking for a Excuse to arrest people So don't engage with them Stay inside if possible And stay safe.
aug 16, 2025, 11:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Well hell, they’re even arresting actual honest-to-God Americans claiming all kinds of crap, true or not! We should ALL be worried & ALERT! tRump will do like Hitler. How many actual German citizens ended up in concentration camps bc they were JEWISH!
aug 16, 2025, 9:01 pm • 1 0 • view
When it happened to the forefathers of MAGA during Reconstruction, they hated it
aug 17, 2025, 12:42 pm • 1 1 • view
...and you're woefully ignorant of the US Constitution.
aug 17, 2025, 3:48 am • 0 0 • view
Thank the 4th estate!
aug 16, 2025, 8:14 pm • 0 0 • view
YET
aug 16, 2025, 9:26 pm • 1 0 • view
This! I don't care how bad crime is, armed occupation forces have no business in US cities.
aug 16, 2025, 7:11 pm • 4 1 • view
Republicans are destroying America and America's democracy
aug 16, 2025, 8:32 pm • 1 0 • view
...yet.
aug 16, 2025, 7:57 pm • 0 0 • view
“Off base” is the exact problem.
aug 17, 2025, 1:08 am • 0 0 • view
Epstein what?
aug 17, 2025, 6:24 pm • 0 0 • view
And because they have been normalising this sort of overreach by chipping away at your hard won rights and freedoms
aug 16, 2025, 9:01 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 16, 2025, 11:46 pm • 4 1 • view
I predict a flare up of a military and police presence in many, if not all, American cities in the run up to the 2026 mid term election. They want to make minorities afraid to leave the house and go to the polls.
aug 17, 2025, 11:52 am • 1 1 • view
The “crackdown on crime” drives me insane.
aug 16, 2025, 6:39 pm • 3 0 • view
Not our military.. it is Military contractors by way of Prince ..to the eyes
aug 16, 2025, 9:27 pm • 1 0 • view
They may believe they're not the target.
aug 16, 2025, 9:18 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 16, 2025, 9:41 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 16, 2025, 7:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Start tagging the military on your posts. You have to make them FEEL how wrong this is.
aug 16, 2025, 8:32 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 16, 2025, 8:39 pm • 1 0 • view
It is totally not normal. What it is totally is is totalitarianism and fascism right here. We cannot in any way think this improves our lives!!!! Or anyone’s lives.
aug 16, 2025, 9:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Because they think they won't be a target eventually
aug 16, 2025, 8:04 pm • 1 0 • view
It's horrific. Some of the videos are downright disturbing. I know it's just a matter of time before we all experience it.
aug 16, 2025, 7:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Yet.
aug 16, 2025, 8:09 pm • 1 0 • view
If it does not seem unusual or off base to someone, I question whether that person is an American
aug 16, 2025, 10:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Every miltary member engaged in this is a fucking traitorous asshole!!!
aug 17, 2025, 12:23 am • 0 0 • view
Too many Americans only care about themselves and what's in it for them. Me, me, me...just like Tramp. Whatever happened to the common good?
aug 16, 2025, 7:26 pm • 0 0 • view
It left with common sense.
aug 16, 2025, 11:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Who ever does this is pure evil and they will be prosecuted.
aug 16, 2025, 8:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Yet.
aug 17, 2025, 2:37 am • 0 0 • view
They are preparing for war. He wants to send troops to Mexico.
aug 16, 2025, 11:01 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 16, 2025, 10:02 pm • 1 0 • view
…’not the target of this’ yet.
aug 16, 2025, 7:25 pm • 4 0 • view
I dont find it unusual or even surprising cause I havent been closing my eyes screaming "lalala" pretending this country isnt dogshit. None of it's new. The only difference is you see it now. I'm so mentally checked out. The only surprise was "ASMR Deportation" posted by the US government. 1/2
aug 17, 2025, 11:48 am • 0 0 • view
Not joking btw. The actual government posted an ASMR Deportation video featuring real immigrants walking in chains. We give PEDOPHILES more dignity, liberty, justice, and protection than law abiding US citizens who happen to be children of otherwise law abiding immigrants. Im so done with ts.
aug 17, 2025, 11:48 am • 0 0 • view
I’m just itching to drive out there and join the music festival. White Minnesotan woman with lots of privilege to spend.
aug 17, 2025, 9:37 pm • 0 0 • view
📍
aug 17, 2025, 4:24 am • 0 0 • view
It gets worse! Patel is opening up the FBI to any slack jawed yokel who declares their loyalty to the mango.
aug 16, 2025, 7:05 pm • 1 1 • view
It’s a violation of the Constitution period the way they deployed.
aug 17, 2025, 2:56 pm • 0 0 • view
If Trump declares Martial Law, which FASCISTS 卐 like him do, everyone becomes a target. Citizen or not, doesn't matter what color. It's obey or die.
aug 17, 2025, 6:26 pm • 0 0 • view
The reason democracies don’t deploy their military on their own streets is because they’re trained to kill people, not protect and serve. They are two very different mandates. trump wants them to protect and serve him. Not you.
aug 16, 2025, 8:39 pm • 23 9 • view
Considering that police also don't have a special duty to protect as deemed by the courts........ Maybe the same logic that created ICE, also created it's forebearers who captured slaves and broke strikes. Just like bosses, they ain't there for u.
aug 16, 2025, 11:27 pm • 1 0 • view
I’m not going to argue with that. 😊
aug 16, 2025, 11:47 pm • 1 0 • view
I feel like we need to do something. And soon.
aug 16, 2025, 9:07 pm • 6 0 • view
I’m a British Australian, and the two countries I hail from already are. We’re both decoupling from America as fast as we can. Our “alliance” is no longer in our interest.
aug 16, 2025, 9:17 pm • 4 0 • view
Thanks for being there for us neighbor.
aug 16, 2025, 10:08 pm • 3 0 • view
Alliances aren’t built on transactions. They’re built on trust. When Amerika moves to transactions, everyone else has to move to those they can trust. trump told Americans you can’t trust anyone. And, most Americans agreed. So now we can’t trust Amerika. Not our choice. Amerika’s.
aug 16, 2025, 10:14 pm • 1 0 • view
Less than 1/3 of us "agreed". The other 2/3 could agree on who to vote for or were actively prevented viea voter suppression. You're watching an old alie fall tona fascist dictator and doing nothing. Worse you're saying it was our choice.
aug 16, 2025, 11:29 pm • 2 0 • view
It was a majority of the popular vote. How else do you want me to interpret it? And, FYI, I’ve done far more than enough. Don’t judge a person until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes.
aug 16, 2025, 11:46 pm • 0 0 • view
The popular vote was 48.3 for Harris 49.8 for trump 1.9 percent 3rd party. That means more people in this country is voted for someone other than trump. So that means fewer people support him than opose him. And again that doesn't include peywhos votes were actively surpriesd.
aug 16, 2025, 11:58 pm • 4 0 • view
Well, let’s call it 50/50. And, you had every chance to fix it in Biden’s term. It would have been 1/99 or 10/90 if people really understood him. Still, it’s your system. And, I can’t fix it from outside. Only you can do that. Australia has held firm. That’s the only place I can defend.
aug 17, 2025, 12:07 am • 0 0 • view
2/2 but I'm not a politician who can fix things here. I'm a father of 4 daughters in a bright red state who's vote doesn't seem to matter. Seeing things about our oldest allies breaking from us is.. distressing. I lashed out and I apologize for that.
aug 17, 2025, 12:16 am • 3 0 • view
During his administration the Democrat's majority was razor thin. A frustrating number of times "Democrats" sides with republicans. More than that the Democrats themselves don't seem to care to fix things, that's likely a big part of why they couldn't pull the votes from a 3rd party to win.
aug 17, 2025, 12:12 am • 1 0 • view
I respectfully disagree with “most”. Roughly half the country voted for Harris last year. That said, the other half of the U.S. did vote for Trump, after his first term showed the world exactly who he is. It’s a symptom of a deeper rot in American society: bigotry, jingoism, and willful ignorance.
aug 17, 2025, 2:24 pm • 1 0 • view
I don’t dispute that. By most, I meant that he got more votes than Harris - appreciate it was close to 50/50. Agree that they should have known better after his first term. But, here we are. And, he won under the rules, and by a majority. It’s called collective responsibility.
aug 17, 2025, 7:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Yet…
aug 17, 2025, 12:01 am • 0 0 • view
He deploys National Guard troops on imaginary, fake pretexts. What will the pretext be for martial law in the 2026 elections? In 2028? #ResistMartialLaw
aug 17, 2025, 1:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Thank you! Harvard Prof was on PBS saying "setting aside the question of whether it's legal/right or not" and I thought, hell of a thing to just set aside... She did go on to say it doesn't work (i.e. increased "policing" in this way)---woulda been nice to hear "this is fucking crazy" though.
aug 16, 2025, 7:27 pm • 2 0 • view
we will all be the target at some point
aug 17, 2025, 9:32 am • 0 0 • view
I can't understand why anyone is surprised at what Trump's doing. But I have to admit to being surprised at how many people are allowing him to do it...
aug 16, 2025, 7:13 pm • 0 0 • view
i am not the target and from 10k away i can tell you, expats know this is trouble
aug 17, 2025, 10:45 am • 0 0 • view
There is nothing normal going on right now. Nothing.
aug 16, 2025, 6:50 pm • 13 0 • view
A republican candidate mimed an physical challenge like a soulless bully, which republicans immediately explained away as everyone else not understanding the "humor, you silly overreacting Democrats" That was the first official step into republican-sanctioned treason. Steadily worse since.
aug 16, 2025, 7:02 pm • 6 1 • view
It is one major reason why the Revolutionary War was fought by Colonists against the British. No military in our streets in times of peace! bsky.app/profile/kc-m...
aug 16, 2025, 7:14 pm • 1 1 • view
Lay Subway Sandwiches at their feet like the L.A. folks laid flowers at National Guard.✌🏽
aug 17, 2025, 1:07 am • 0 0 • view
It is illegal. Full stop. Problem is... there is no one capable of stopping them. They ignore the courts, and the military is filled with cowards.
aug 17, 2025, 12:39 am • 0 0 • view
*not the target of this…yet.
aug 17, 2025, 12:54 am • 0 0 • view
I'm not a target,but I'm outraged for D.C. where it's "illegal" to be black, brown or homeless. 😠
aug 17, 2025, 4:23 am • 0 0 • view
Yet
aug 16, 2025, 11:43 pm • 0 0 • view
This will be in every city soon. The right to protest the king will be illegal
aug 17, 2025, 11:27 am • 1 1 • view
This is not normal.
aug 17, 2025, 12:08 pm • 0 0 • view
The Posse Comitatus Act prohibits the use of the military for domestic law enforcement. It exists to prevent a despotic leader from using the military as his own personal army to subdue the people who elected him. #possecomitatus #trump #fascist #government #dictator #military #lawenforcement
aug 17, 2025, 3:48 am • 6 3 • view
I'm not the target, YET. It seems way off base, illegal, and horrendous to me.
aug 16, 2025, 11:19 pm • 0 0 • view
How quickly people forget the Gestapo. The clock is ticking….
aug 16, 2025, 7:36 pm • 1 0 • view
If you & Ms McQuade had been on the Sisters pod this week, all four of you would have been on the ledge with no one to talk you off. 💔🤬
aug 17, 2025, 6:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Aw, but if they come for them in the morning,etc, etc. if magats don’t understand this..
aug 16, 2025, 7:54 pm • 1 0 • view
#WeWillNOTBeOccupied #MoreOfUs #RiseUp
aug 16, 2025, 7:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Yet.
aug 16, 2025, 8:33 pm • 1 0 • view
It seems batshit CRAZY to me. 😳🤬🤯
aug 16, 2025, 7:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Here's a thought. Don't be a piece of shit criminal, and you have nothing to worry about.
aug 16, 2025, 7:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Butt but but… criming teenagers
aug 16, 2025, 6:46 pm • 1 0 • view
100% agree! We are 180 degrees from normal. Trump’s tactics are like the Brits “surge” in Boston to enforce law and order amidst growing protests of British policies. Indignation and outrage should be the norm at a time like this, not complacency.
aug 16, 2025, 10:22 pm • 3 0 • view
This has been an exhausting week of “to be sures” which do nothing but give credence to a completely bogus justification for an autocratic armed military takeover of the nation’s capital, which is targeting communities and residents of color. Please, just stop it.
aug 16, 2025, 6:40 pm • 138 26 • view
"Republican-controlled states have higher murder rates" Crimes per 1M trips * NYC: 1.3 * Dallas: 38.0 "Texans 17% more likely to be murdered than Californians" "being within California’s borders 40% less gun violence" "Liberal policies, like California’s, keep blue-state residents living longer"
aug 17, 2025, 3:48 pm • 3 1 • view
1000%
aug 16, 2025, 7:04 pm • 1 0 • view
I honestly think people are expecting them to come right out and say, "We're declaring martial law," rather than them just doing it in plain sight.
aug 16, 2025, 9:23 pm • 1 0 • view
…yet.
aug 16, 2025, 7:33 pm • 1 0 • view
COMING TO A CITY NEAR YOU... NAZI STYLE GESTOPO AND CHECK POINTS. WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME TO THOW THE TEA INTO THE HARBOR!!!
aug 16, 2025, 10:28 pm • 5 2 • view
or PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE being treated like the conquering hero he in fact is by our POTUS. Wake up, America! Start with a google: PUTIN WANTS ALASKA RESTORED TO MOTHER RUSSIA. Stupid Americans. So easy to conquer and destroy. You no longer have a constitution or a democracy!
aug 17, 2025, 1:57 pm • 0 0 • view