what should we tell them to do to ensure Trump doesn't get funding for ICE, detentions, sending the military into cities, him supporting genocide to build resorts, etc.? We shouldn't pass any bill that funds those in any way
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what should we tell them to do to ensure Trump doesn't get funding for ICE, detentions, sending the military into cities, him supporting genocide to build resorts, etc.? We shouldn't pass any bill that funds those in any way
Every time somebody says that stupid “purity test” thing about Newsom, I ask if we can have it be their life we throw away instead of trans kids and the unhoused and somehow none of the people who complain have decided that they should be sacrificed instead? Strange. Suddenly we’re picky.
Protect your community from ICE: Partner with local businesses to put up signs clearly marking “Staff Only” areas that can’t be entered without a warrant. Learn more: act.indivisible.org/...
another fascist
JD Vance asking to be invited into a city feels really on the nose after Sinners
It's because the Trump voters have been cut off for being bad people and they don't think anyone has the right to be angry at them no matter what they do. So they answer that it's not OK to cut *them* off for their politics. Harris voters are more likely to believe in consent
little known fact: In 2020, Republicans lost the White House and the Senate.
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“Some activists launched ‘No sleep for Ice’ rallies, with chants and music blaring through the night, in hopes of pressuring the hotels to kick agents out. Now, public records shared w/the Guardian show that the protests indeed sent federal agencies scrambling …” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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When money is available, Trump takes it illegally to hurt people, and has stated his plans to continue. Funds that have been approved for any good are illegally frozen. Not having the money to spend on hurting people (a shutdown) would stop him. And it's one that's fully in Democrat's power.
I think it's fine if we all make life as embarrassing as possible for anyone participating in this
Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * bipartisan * my Republican friends * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans) * yea (when voting on Republican bills) * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did) * woke (in derogatory sense)
there are troops in DC and Trump is solidifying his control over the military to use against all of us
Just received this statement from Lisa Cook: "President Trump purported to fire me 'for cause' when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so. I will not resign. I will continue to carry out my duties to help the American economy as I have been doing since 2022."
She should just fire him right back.
FIGHTING BACK GETS RESULTS Don’t let the bullies convince you that standing down is the way to protect yourself. They do this so they don’t have to deal with consequences for their actions. They depend on our acquiescence. Standing up is *strategic*, not just brave. Stand up now or it keeps going.
they've sent troops into DC, are openly plotting to send the military into cities with Black mayors, and they're building and consolidating a military force loyal to Trump. Democratic electeds need to follow the lead of the people and start joining the resistance now, not hiding until midterms
Here's a news story covering Sean's comments & the subsequent retaliation. Judge for yourself, but to me, this is our LA public transit showing how, bit by bit, institutions let fascism take hold. This is a matter of democracy, not just a job. Please share widely: lapublicpress.org/2025/08/la-m...
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Block weapons to Israel and stop funding their genocide Make us believe you're going to stand up for everyone's rights instead of serially throwing everyone under the bus and saying "this is a distraction from kitchen table issues" Oppose the military coup, doesn't seem Dems have noticed
U.S. Special Operations Command, recently implicated in a covert anti-vax campaign targeting Asian countries, is seeking machine learning tools to automate digital propaganda and “suppress dissenting arguments" online, according to a procurement document I obtained theintercept.com/2025/08/25/p...
if you work in media and aren't loudly and unambiguously using your platform to fight this dictatorship, then you are failing.
Bacon, cheese and egg
Nobody should be joining the military right now, everyone with a conscience should be leaving it ASAP
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Baltimore I think we have to protest at the ICE office on monday
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Absolutely incredible video of a woman standing up to ICE. This is resistance 1/2
The first thing everyone in this country who is anti-fascist can do now is to join something where people are already gathering to address any issue. Can't find anything you want to join, then make your own thing and invite people to join you. This is not a time for Lone Rangers.
The visit came a few days after Matsui sent a letter to U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement demanding transparency and access into the facility.
Senator there are troops taking over DC and Republicans are withholding whatever money we are supposed to get from federal grants while you pretend everything is normal. That money is imaginary unless you make them stop
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Our local congresswoman Doris Matsui attempted to inspect the ICE field office, which is holding people in inhumane conditions. They wouldn’t let her in. www.instagram.com/reel/DNqkQtj...
Here's a toolkit with training links and an agenda/script/materials to help anyone who isn't quite sure what to do set up small resistance group with people they know- that actually takes action. There is a lot to do! People mostly just don't know how to start, here's a way to work it out together
If you work for ICE, save your immortal soul and quit your job.
“The daily cost of the D.C. troop deployment is more than six times what it would cost to operate affordable housing for D.C.’s entire unhoused population. The government’s priorities could not be more clear," said @hannahomestead.bsky.social of @nationalpriorities.bsky.social
If pundits would like to talk about violence, a terrorist recently shot up the CDC and another assassinated Democratic officials in Minnesota but they sort of let both stories disappear Not as threatening as motorbikes in DC I know but maybe we could circle back?
They booted you from Medicaid so they could build ICE Air.
Video of Columbia Heights residents driving ICE agents out of their area. source: www.instagram.com/reel/DNjkvLQ...
In Andor and in real life, the people rise. We refuse to bend the knee to an authoritarian power grab. #IHaveFriendsEverywhere
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Join us at the entrance area (public road, please park on a nearby side street) to show DHS and the Spartan Race that we are not OK with DHS recruiting for Trump’s police force in Elk Grove! reach out to Spartan Race and ask them to drop DHS as an event sponsor: tinyurl.com/NCRSpartan
Organizing so people are activated and support each other. It won't come without massive preparation. Here's training videos and a host toolkit with an agenda for 2 meetings from no kings/one million rising: www.nokings.org/rise#library docs.google.com/document/d/1...
One thing I know for sure is that if *I* called the cops and said “some guy just threw a sandwich at me” they would consider me to be a huge baby and think I was wasting their time.
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those are the white guys that have most figured that out... the people who are fighters but not white guys are just not getting automatically considered as presidential candidates by the people who think trans rights are disposable
So, Gavin Newsom isn't even the "monster we need" right now because it's not even his idea. We just need him to get on board with the people who have good ideas. . . like Isaiah Martin.
With regards to marriage equality, remember: They have already overturned Roe. They're coming for Obergefell. They're coming for Lawrence v. TX. They're coming for contraception. They're coming for no-fault divorce. The only thing that will stop them is if we come for them.
For the second night in a row, DC locals heckled officers participating in Trump's crackdown. As the federal government consolidates a police state, our best hope is to direct so much loathing at these mercenaries that they cannot recruit enough scum to fill the streets. bsky.app/profile/dcmi...
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They are literally members of a fascist army and members of fascist armies are generally normal dudes capable of heinous shit
“Don’t let them do this to you!” a man just now yelled at National Guard troops patrolling Washington DC. “These are your own citizens! These are homeless people!” “You have an obligation to refuse unlawful orders!” he told them. They drove by, saying nothing. #WakeUpAmerica
stop allowing all the other betrayals too, please military used domestically mass deportation and dehumanization genocide
I hope your community is never occupied like LA or DC. But if it is, you’ll quickly find that people don’t take kindly to having their city under federal control. And folks are just getting started. 📌 Protesters gathered near a checkpoint in the U Street corridor in Northwest Washington.
Slow down ICE by visiting local businesses, speaking to small business owners or store managers, and distributing signs that do two things: 1) Clearly mark "Staff Only" areas to create safe zones where ICE can’t legally operate without a signed judicial warrant.
Bowser’s strategy is to collaborate and throw DC to the fucking wolves?!? No hell is hot enough!
The Trump regime wants to make it illegal to oppose them politically. They want to end freedom of speech and stop having competitive elections in which they can lose power. This is what fascism looks like.
Trump sending ICE agents to Newsom’s press conference is thuggish totalitarian behavior, but more than that it’s deeply pathetic, insecure, and petty.
Comer: "We're gonna support doing this in other cities if it works out in Washington DC. We spend a lot on our military. Our military has been in many countries around the world for the past two decades walking the streets trying to reduce crime. We need to focus on the big cities in America now."
He warns it's an experiment that they'll do in other cities if it works out in Washington DC- so our mission is to make sure they do not feel they can do it in DC or any other city
"We've spent a lot of money on the military and now they have nothing to do so we might as well let the president use it domestically to satisfy his own petty grudges" is precisely why the Founders feared a standing army. I mean, it's pretty much fucking verbatim.
Situation on 14th St and W St. NW, with federal agents -- no specific agency identified -- pulling cars over for checks. They arrested a Black woman in this car. BIG crowd of people shouting at police. "Fuck you!" "What is wrong with you!" "You don't need to terrorize people like this!"
Every federal law enforcement agency involved needs its budget zeroed and all employee benefits revoked. They obviously don't have real work to do. If they did, they'd be complaining, individually or through their unions, about being tasked to harass minorities on the street. But they aren't.
The American press and public really need to figure out how to simply dismiss Trump's pretextual claims for authoritarian attacks and then resist the attack itself, not debate the claim. We have spent months asking "but is the Ivy League really antisemitic?" and now "but is DC really crime-ridden?"
The President cannot commandeer any local law enforcement. The President does not run the Smithsonian. The monthly BLS jobs report is required by law. Release the Epstein files. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
it *would* be seismic if cops refused to be present or quit completely because of how they're being asked to control crowds while ICE rounds people up. But in fact having them patrol is helpful to Trump and to ICE
cops that are present "where situations arise" invariably jump in to provide security for ICE/federal agents
The cops are not there to thwart federal agents and are actually a problem: "School police [...] are to patrol sensitive areas and are on call to move quickly to where situations arise. Some anti-police activists want the protective mission accomplished without any role for school police."
"We are witnessing authoritarian consolidation—not the rise or threat of fascism, but its enactment. Many people are understandably voicing alarm. In fact, it’s clear that alarm is all some people have to offer, including Democratic leaders." organizingmythoughts.org/you-must-pro...
If you're trying to make sense of what's happening in D.C., orient yourself in this moment, and figure out what to do next, you may want to read my latest piece.
Trump is using the National Guard against people in the US- in our own Capitol; you're funding genocide, confirming his appointees, and the only moral argument you can muster is against inflation
Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing theonion.com/protest...
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Them being pulled off of their regular job and pushed into this, where they feel public pressure and are unsettled by the change, is an opportunity to pressure them to stop. If you know them, tell them to quit and offer help to get another job. Appearing in public should always be stressful for them
With the news yesterday of Israel killing 5 additional journalists in Gaza, this documentary is so timely. Israel's calculus is that the PR hit from killing journalists is less than the PR hit from press coverage of the genocide. Dems in Congress should watch this and then vote to end U.S. support.
6 days after Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, a Prague paper published these “10 Commandments”: ‘When a Soviet soldier comes to you, YOU: 1. Don’t know 2. Don’t care 3. Don’t tell 4. Don’t have 5. Don’t know how to 6. Don’t give 7. Can’t do 8. Don’t sell 9. Don’t show 10. Do nothing’
Bowser: "I think I speak for all Americans -- we don't believe it's legal to use the American military against American citizens on American soil."
I've seen it called "authoritarian breakthrough" where autocrats rapidly consolidate power. Link is a toolkit for training/gathering your people for strategic noncooperation to erode institutional support of fascism. Agreed we need to defeat it, we can't wait for elections
Patel looks like he's trying to blast to the moon using the power of his mind
Just say: "Trump's claims that he has taken control of the police or that he can send in the National Guard are lies. He does not have the authority to do this, he's rotten with corruption and pretending to have powers he does not have, and he needs to be removed from office immediately."
Democrats seem to be at a loss as to how to respond, but if you want to know what you can do to be helpful to the resistance- a coordinated, fiery call from Democrats to remove him from office and publicly refuse to accept his authority to do this would be great
Ah, he's going to deploy the police in a strategic perimeter around the Epstein Files. Now I get it.
the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back
there is no emergency so we should not accept that he has this authority
It would be really helpful if Democrats would join in resisting Trump but we cannot wait for you
You need to be able to concentrate on multiple things at a time because at any given time Trump is doing multiple things that need to be addressed
You could call for him to be removed from office based on his inability to recognize reality. Yes, he is testing his ability to do this and we need to make as strong a showing against it as we can. It would be helpful if Democrats joined in resisting
Rep. Thompson, Trump is trying to seize control over the police in the U.S. Capitol and promising to send the National Guard. We need a response from Democrats that meets the urgency of the moment
Let’s do this www.universityofcalifornia.edu/get-involved...
A video arguing that women shouldn’t be able to vote was just shared by Trump’s Secretary of Defense, the guy in charge of our whole military. And Democratic Party leaders still can’t stand up to this administration?! Our rights are on the line and all our party leaders offer us is silence.
To avoid voting on the Epstein files, Republicans prematurely fled DC to get an early start on August recess. That means you might have a chance to pressure your GOP representative in person at an upcoming town hall, office visit, or other public event: indivisible.org/epsteinfiles...
You can, in fact, just decide to start a thing. I do it all of the time and it's a good way to execute ideas rather to just critique others' ideas. Critique by doing as Michelangelo said. Critique by DOING.
True: @zohranmamdani lives in 1 unit of rent-stabilized housing. Also true: Andrew Cuomo oversaw the loss of 96,064 units of rent-stabilized housing. And killed NYC’s program helping people move out of shelter. Leaders must show moral clarity. Andrew, time to move out. 🧵 x.com/andrewcuomo/...
Urge your Members of Congress to call for an end to Netanyahu’s intentional starvation of over two million people in Gaza. Elected officials from both parties must force the issue with Trump’s administration with demands to lift aid restrictions and allow trusted third parties to distribute food.