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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 2d

As alarmed as people may be, they aren't alarmed enough. Trump just escalated this crisis from a fight between the federal government and a state, to a situation where one state is deploying armed forces to impose its will on another state. www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

www.thebulwark.com

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David Kaufman @kaufmanmd.bsky.social · 2d

Adolf Hitler....

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David Kaufman @kaufmanmd.bsky.social · 2d

We have nothing to do with traitors". Read below first, don't cheat! This is beyond important.

www.kenklippenstein.com/p/secretive-...

Secretive Watchlisting Center Executing NSPM-7

“We’re expanding the watchlist,” FBI director says amid 300% increase in domestic terror investigations.

www.kenklippenstein.com

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David Kaufman @kaufmanmd.bsky.social · 2d

Guess who said this? Answer at the end of this post. Don't cheat. You must read the Substack post first.

There will be no mercy. Anyone standing in our way will be cut down. Whoever thinks he can oppose this national command, whether directly or indirectly, shall fall.

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David Kaufman @kaufmanmd.bsky.social · 3d

Just as millions and millions become disabled with Long Covid, Trumps solution is this:

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Trump plan would limit disability benefits for older Americans

Trump administration officials are considering eliminating age as a factor in deciding whether someone is capable of working.

www.washingtonpost.com

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David Kaufman @kaufmanmd.bsky.social · 3d

And of course it is illegal: "1866 law enshrined a tradition that only deceased people could appear on U.S. currency to avoid the appearance that America was a monarchy."

But kings and dictators don't care about legality or tradition, just egomaniacl power.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...

Treasury Plans to Mint $1 Commemorative Trump Coin

www.nytimes.com

David Kaufman @kaufmanmd.bsky.social · 3d

Ready to be sickened? Ready to see another grotesque way Trump wants to celebrate our 250th (and maybe last) birthday?

"the “heads” side would have Trump’s profile and the “tails” side an image of him standing before the American flag and pumping his fist under the words “Fight, Fight, Fight.”

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David Kaufman @kaufmanmd.bsky.social · 4d

This is so sickening and enraging. Trump's private militia of thugs terrorizing our population. And what is being done? Where is the mass outcry?
Read your history folks. This Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy.
Click on the video and be ready to be nauseated.

coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...

“There’s a baby!” ICE agents stop Alamosa family at gunpoint, smash car window

Immigration arrest last week in southern Colorado follows national trend of escalating force from ICE agents

coloradosun.com

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David Kaufman @kaufmanmd.bsky.social · 5d

a bright moment in another grim day. Thanks Ruth Ann

Ruth Ann Crystal @drruth.bsky.social · 5d

Happy #Caturday from one cool cat!

#CatsofBluesky

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David Kaufman @kaufmanmd.bsky.social · 5d

This has been happening to families with kids with ME/CFS for literally decades!!! Cruel and outrageous.

Neurologist Mom @neurologistmom.bsky.social · 5d

Everyone ignores this huge problem striking families with LC kids, already devastated. If these extremely vulnerable children were taken from their parents “by mistake,” they’d lose the essential care they need to survive. Even the hint of this is terrifying. This is inhumane.

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David Kaufman @kaufmanmd.bsky.social · 5d

to abstain from “actions or speech relating to societal and political events except in cases in which external events have a direct impact upon the university.” It would be hard to come up with a more explicit attempt to restrict freedom of speech."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

www.nytimes.com

David Kaufman @kaufmanmd.bsky.social · 5d

Read this too and realize that this is what's really buried in the "Compact" (AKA ransom note):

"the compact would violate the First Amendment in another way: requiring universities to have policies prohibiting “all university employees, in their capacity as university representatives,

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David Kaufman @kaufmanmd.bsky.social · 5d

Read this
"Mr. Trump’s proposed ballroom, by contrast, suggests something else: The nation’s most enduring building will be reshaped in the image of Mr. Trump, one defined by over-the-top opulence, exaggerated scale and a preference for size over subtlety."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o...

Opinion | Trump’s Louis XIV Moment

www.nytimes.com

Neurologist Mom @neurologistmom.bsky.social · 5d

Everyone ignores this huge problem striking families with LC kids, already devastated. If these extremely vulnerable children were taken from their parents “by mistake,” they’d lose the essential care they need to survive. Even the hint of this is terrifying. This is inhumane.

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Ruth Ann Crystal @drruth.bsky.social · 5d

Happy #Caturday from one cool cat!

#CatsofBluesky

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David Kaufman @kaufmanmd.bsky.social · 6d

welcome to the USA, 2025.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 6d

Update: Ald. Fuentes held a presser this afternoon with other local electeds in response to this incident. She said the person the agents were arresting is a ~37 y/o man who broke his leg while being chased by ICE.

Fuentes told press ICE agents blocked attorneys from speaking to the man.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 6d

Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes' office has released video of federal agents handcuffing her at Humboldt Park Health, as she asked them to present a judicial warrant for another arrest.

David Kaufman @kaufmanmd.bsky.social · 6d

Gee what a surpise. He is a lying corrupt pig. Project 2025 is the American future....

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6d

Remember when Trump denied knowing about Project 2025 and many pundits and politicians gave him a pass?

Now he’s openly embracing it.

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David Kaufman @kaufmanmd.bsky.social · 6d

Do not think for one millisecond that this 'surveillance' is illegals and deportation. This is to find people like you and me posting and writing and exercising our free speech.
They are after us.

Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 6d

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

www.wired.com

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David Kaufman @kaufmanmd.bsky.social · 6d

Yes exactly!! Where is the outcry, the media, the mass protests.

David Kaufman @kaufmanmd.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks to Eric Topol for posting about this paper and the role of inflammation in cardiovascular heart disease.
I think the issues discussed here are all relevant to Long Covid, ME/CFS and complex illness including POTS, SIBO, MCAS.

www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/...

Inflammation and Cardiovascular Disease: 2025 ACC Scientific Statement: A Report of the American College of Cardiology

www.jacc.org

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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 6d

Trump's memo, Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence, also known as NSPM-7, is the single most dangerous move against American liberty that I've seen in my lifetime.
We're moving into a no man's land that threatens to further destabilize the bill of rights.

Pocan, Huffman, Jayapal to Lead Letter to Trump Slamming Executive Order Targeting Protected Speech

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S.

pocan.house.gov

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6d

Remember when Trump denied knowing about Project 2025 and many pundits and politicians gave him a pass?

Now he’s openly embracing it.

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 6d

Update: Ald. Fuentes held a presser this afternoon with other local electeds in response to this incident. She said the person the agents were arresting is a ~37 y/o man who broke his leg while being chased by ICE.

Fuentes told press ICE agents blocked attorneys from speaking to the man.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 6d

Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes' office has released video of federal agents handcuffing her at Humboldt Park Health, as she asked them to present a judicial warrant for another arrest.

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David Kaufman @kaufmanmd.bsky.social · 6d

A Compact with the devil. Our government--no wait, not 'our', their farce of a government--has turned into one vast criminal enterprise based on extortion, blackmail, and militarism.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference

www.nytimes.com

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David Kaufman @kaufmanmd.bsky.social · 6d

Welcome to Trump's America. Drones, helicopters, snipers attacking apartment buildings in Chicago. Read the whole piece to get the full picture of what is happening. This country will never recover. MAGA has destroyed our Democracy and disgraced our history.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/u...

Drones, Helicopters, Hundreds of Arrests: Trump’s Immigration Crackdown in Chicago So Far

www.nytimes.com

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 6d

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

www.wired.com

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David Kaufman @kaufmanmd.bsky.social · 7d

Read this and weep. What city is next? Who is next? This is what dictators do, this is what Hitler did, this is what Trump is doing.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 7d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 7d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

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David Kaufman @kaufmanmd.bsky.social · 7d

Even the Gestapo didn't wear masks. Trump's private army of thugs....in these United States of America.
Can we ever recover from this?

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 10d

On Saturday, September 27, US Air Force veteran Dana Briggs was arrested outside of the Broadview ICE detention facility. He is being charged with assaulting a federal officer, which is a felony.

Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 7d

How exercise promotes the immune system vs cancer, working through a gut bacteria metabolite
www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 7d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 7d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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