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Arturo Dominguez 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @extremearturo.bsky.social · 10h

News: "Ken Paxton thinks Discord is the 'devil's chat room.'"

Me: "Hello, satanic panic from 1985? Come get your boy. We don't want or need him."

www.chron.com/politics/art...

Texas AG declares war on popular app after Charlie Kirk shooting

Paxton's new enemy? A chat app full of teens and memes.

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Arturo Dominguez 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @extremearturo.bsky.social · 12h

Today's article covered where this language is coming from. It stems from an August meeting where this exact language was used to entice the U.S. military to join DHS in its lawless operation under the guise of immigration enforcement.

These are dangerous times.

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Arturo Dominguez 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @extremearturo.bsky.social · 21h

In the West, you can make big bucks justifying genocide, but speaking out against it can cost you your career.

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Arturo Dominguez 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @extremearturo.bsky.social · 1d

Forget ICE. Abolish DHS.

Did you know this about DHS?

- Has access to the utility bills of 218 million people

- Collected the driver's license data of most U.S. citizens

- Surveils people in public spaces without a warrant

- Purchases bulk data from corporations like Amazon

No One Is Safe From DHS

The rights you thought you had effectively no longer exist

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Arturo Dominguez 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @extremearturo.bsky.social · 1d

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Arturo Dominguez 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @extremearturo.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for sharing. It's important information. I appreciate it.

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Arturo Dominguez 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @extremearturo.bsky.social · 1d

The way Stephen Miller's inferiority complex affects why he hates so many of us is kind of diabolical. He'll never be as fresh and culturally significant as Black people and Latinos are.

Like all racists, he hates us because he ain't us.

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Arturo Dominguez 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @extremearturo.bsky.social · 1d

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Arturo Dominguez 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @extremearturo.bsky.social · 1d

Read about how DHS has all of your information. From utility records to your driver's license information, they have it all. You are not safe.

No One Is Safe From DHS

The rights you thought you had effectively no longer exist

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Arturo Dominguez 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @extremearturo.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone can be targeted for their speech, for protesting against the police state, or for organizing against fascism. It may be Trump now, but many presidents allowed this to happen, and ending it will require more than electing the next president...

No One Is Safe From DHS

The rights you thought you had effectively no longer exist

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Jason Dogwood 💙 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @jasondogwood.bsky.social · 1d

Truth-tellers don’t get silenced because they lie. They get silenced because they remind others, they’re not crazy.
This whole system was lost long before the military stormed our streets. But we will still resist. Unbought. Unbowed. Loud. And that matters, especially at the end. #Resist

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Arturo Dominguez 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @extremearturo.bsky.social · 1d

Remember how we were being alarmist and hyperbolic? Ugh.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 2d

Thus far, ICE and CBP in the Chicago region killed an immigrant

Shot a woman 5 times-after allegedly taunting her, saying “Do something, b****”

And shot a priest-who wasn’t remotely a threat-in the head

So when does Governor Pritzker deploy the National Guard to protect citizens from these thugs

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Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 2d

Yesterday on CNN Stephen Miller said Trump has plenary authority. If you watch the video, you can tell it was a slip of the tongue — he instantly froze up after realizing he’d said the quiet part out loud.

Just to be clear, Trump does not have plenary power — yet.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Trump aide freezes on live TV after controversial claim about president

A Trump administration official faces criticism after allegedly claiming US President Donald Trump has "plenary authority" while on a live interview with CNN.

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snagz_did_what @snagzsongs.bsky.social · 1d

This gross incompetence is worse than one could have imagined, and will get folks killed.

Blood is on yer hands GOP, and you seem to delight in it.

We will overcome. #Resist ✊🏽

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Chaos, Confusion, and Conspiracies: Inside a Facebook Group for RFK Jr.’s Autism ‘Cure’

A Facebook group set up to share information about leucovorin has been spammed by affiliate links and supplement companies trying to shame parents of autistic kids.

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Arturo Dominguez 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @extremearturo.bsky.social · 1d

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Arturo Dominguez 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @extremearturo.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone can be targeted for their speech, for protesting against the police state, or for organizing against fascism. It may be Trump now, but many presidents allowed this to happen, and ending it will require more than electing the next president...

No One Is Safe From DHS

The rights you thought you had effectively no longer exist

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Arturo Dominguez 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @extremearturo.bsky.social · 1d

"The difference now is that the U.S. government has an agency with much broader powers than at any time in previous history. DHS and its child agencies, such as CBP and ICE, have extensive surveillance and enforcement powers stemming from their mandates..."

No one is safe from DHS.

No One Is Safe From DHS

The rights you thought you had effectively no longer exist

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Arturo Dominguez 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @extremearturo.bsky.social · 2d

Yup.

Arturo Dominguez 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @extremearturo.bsky.social · 2d

It was in response to my saying:

"If you still think ICE is only targeting 'illegals' you have not been paying attention and we all know why. You think all Brown, Black, and all other nonwhite people are 'illegals.'"

They never fail to prove our points for us. This one came in under two minutes.

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Arturo Dominguez 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @extremearturo.bsky.social · 2d

We're all “illegals” to them.

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Antonia Marrero @antoniamarrero.bsky.social · 2d

“While Black immigrants are disproportionately targeted for deportations, the Trump administration is targeting Black communities to intimidate them and discourage them, or any other groups, from coming together and speaking out.”
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Arturo Dominguez 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @extremearturo.bsky.social · 2d

While this is not the Civil War, or race war, that has been promised by far-right white nationalist groups from the Ku Klux Klan to more modern neo-nazi groups like Atomwaffen, it’s impossible to ignore that this is a fantasy started by Trump’s White House.

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Analysis: Does Trump Want a Hot War on U.S. Soil?

The U.S. Government has already fired the proverbial first shot against civilians as right-wing terrorism becomes ever more prominent

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Arturo Dominguez 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @extremearturo.bsky.social · 2d

Hopefully, not much longer.

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