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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 14h

For over a century, Libertarians and anarchists have been endlessly bringing up how this was a titanic threat to liberty and relying upon "norms" to not use it was insane.

The time to get rid of this shit was the Whisky Rebellion, and then immediately afterward, and then immediately after that...

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

as Goldsmith points out, it's kind of insane no one thought that reigning this in during the Biden years was a good idea:

Now consider the much more robust Insurrection Act. That “Act” (it is really the product of several statutes enacted mainly over the course of the nineteenth century) provides, in relevant part and with emphasis added, the following:

10 U.S.C. §252. Use of militia and armed forces to enforce Federal authority

Whenever the President considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, . . . make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in any State by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, he may call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary to enforce those laws or to suppress the rebellion.

10 U.S.C. §253. Interference with State and Federal law

The President, by using the militia or the armed forces, or both, or by any other means, shall take such measures as he considers necessary to suppress, in a State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy, if it—

(1) so hinders the execution of the laws of that State, and of the United States within the State, that any part or class of its people is deprived of a right, privilege, immunity, or protection named in the Constitution and secured by law, and the constituted authorities of that State are unable, fail, or refuse to protect that right, privilege, or immunity, or to give that protection; or

(2) opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws.

The italicized portions here make plain why Bob and I once concluded that the Insurrection Act is “a dangerous, centuries-old federal statute that authorizes the president, with few restraints, to deploy the U.S. military inside the United States to suppress threats the president perceives to the constitutional order.” The power authorized here is astounding.

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 16h

reactionary centrists insist trans acceptance went too far & generated a backlash

but the UK legal transition for 20 years, it wasn't an issue until the press made it one

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Joshua Clark Davis @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social · 21h

Have a piece today in TEEN VOGUE from my new book POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT detailing how the NYPD, LAPD, cops in Chicago and Memphis surveilled the civil rights movement—and then destroyed millions of surveillance files in the ‘70s, including ones that may have shed like on MLK’s assassination.

Police Departments Tracked Activists in the 1960s and 70s — Then Erased Records by Joshua Clark Davis

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 2d

According the victim's attorney, body camera footage captured the officer saying, “Do something, bitch,” before leaping out of the car and shooting her multiple times. Another officer asked, “Hey, what happened?” The first pointed to his camera, “Hey, don’t speak. You’re good.”
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The Dax Symbiont 🏴🏳️‍🌈🌲🇸🇩 @thedaxsymbiont.bsky.social · 18h

Truly the most online government in world history. They’re tagging in the anti-circumcision guys who despite maybe having some sort of valid point choose to instead act completely insane and make everyone think their cause is toxic

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 20h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Squirrel 🏴 @therabbitwood.bsky.social · 18h

See what they don't realize is we're not all doom and gloom we're just all neuro-divergent and an all black wardrobe makes it easier to get dressed without shutting down with decision paralysis.

Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · 20h

Sitting in a coffee shop in my former home of Missoula, Montana, wearing all black, enjoying listening to the young women next to me talk about why Oregon sucks. "People have a doom and gloom attitude and wear all black."

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 18h

Brett Kavanaugh: “The Govt sometimes makes brief investigative stops …”

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 1d

ICE in Portland are the baddies.

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Stanislav Vysotsky @professorstas.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent statement in support of Mark Bray, academic freedom, and implicitly antifascism.

RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 1d

This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray came under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union condemn this campaign and stand in solidarity with our colleagues. Read our full statement here: https://loom.ly/BDXasRY

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Dutch Pendergrass @dutchpendergrass.bsky.social · 1d

Luis Enrique Marquez speaks for no one but himself. He has no respect in any PDX community for many reasons including his romantic relationship with a well known fascist while presenting as a face of a movement. He is a clogged toilet of a human being. *Spits on ground* Fuck that dude.

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Center for a Stateless Society @c4ssdotorg.bsky.social · 1d

"Here we come in contact with privileges and handicaps maintained by the government. These artificial restrictions and handicaps, no less than natural obstacles, affect the exchange value of things under which they are produced." - Laurance Labadie

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Laurance Labadie’s “Anarchism and the Money Problem”

Commentary This piece was likely written in the early to mid 1930s, and the draft version was archived in the Joseph A. Labadie Collection of the University of Michigan Library. As per my update I hav...

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

The nominative determinism of this specific atrocity is off the charts here.

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 1d

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

Two big GOP activists from Oregon were in DC last month for meetings with Trump admin officials. On their podcast they talk about a plan they discussed to nullify the results of Oregon's 2026 federal elections. Pass federal voter ID law, then refuse to seat OR delegation because OR didn't comply.

Ep. 18: September to Remember
October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min
Also, we proposed a idea how to do a end run on vote by mail. Concept is based on what Trump proposed. When you vote, you check everyone's citizenship as well as voter ID.
In a vote by mail state, you might be able to check citizenship during voter registration. You can send copies of your passport and your birth certificate in.
How in the world are you going to check our voters?
Voter ID, right? Vote by mail. So that creates a problem for Oregon.
But if federal government new requirement is to check both, and if Oregon can comply with the requirements, what would happen to our election result? I'm talking about the entire federal delegation.
For federal elections, we're talking about only federal elections.
COMMON SENSE
Vascluar

Ep. 18: September to Remember
October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min
So entire federal delegation, congressmen and senators could be challenged, could be unseated because you didn't follow federal requirements to elect them. So I said the trade-off is worth it. You know why?
Democrats control two Senate seats out of six congressional seats. We only control one. They control five.
You talk about trade-off, right?
COMMON SENSE
Sanctuany

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

The federal government is basically being run now by the algorithmically amplified, right wing grifter industrial complex, as exemplified by this weirdo from Washington state who was flown in for Trump’s Antifa round table.

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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 2d

The attack on Mark is another stunt by right-wing grifters to victimize a random person in an effort to use MAGA fear mongering to justify their existence. It should go without saying we should do anything possible to support his family.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 5d

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

"we are going to murder americans without due process"
~pam bondi, US attorney general

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."

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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 1d

make no mistake. this is the natural consequence of mainstream politicians accepting the war on terror. this is solidly the result of both parties' willingness to treat terrorism as a gotcha against civil liberties

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Neil Snyder @neilsnyder.bsky.social · 1d

What she says here is completely untrue, everyone knew she was a conservative walking a tightrope to keep her job, saying she was a reporter was generous. She mostly did opinion journalism, unlike Choe who actually was just a reporter who went off the deep end and got canned.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

The federal government is basically being run now by the algorithmically amplified, right wing grifter industrial complex, as exemplified by this weirdo from Washington state who was flown in for Trump’s Antifa round table.

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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 1d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

An image of Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music, twirling on an alpine meadow in a long Austrian skirt, next to an image of Christopher Plummer as Georg Von Trapp in the same movie, tearing a Nazi flag in half.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 1d

Just a reminder that Jack published a book last year called “unhumans” that makes the argument that all Democrats and anyone left of Francisco Franco should be rounded up and murdered en mass for the rest of the populations entertainment.
Jack is a Nazi and hell bent on the murder of his opponents

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 1d

Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.

A screenshot of C-Span showing Jack Posobiec speaking during a panel on "Antifa."

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 1d

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 1d

Sighing at the memory of each time a punk friend burned an american flag to protest Bill Kristol's war on terror and invasions of the middle east.

The unhinged AM radio shock jockeys who once screamed about the neocons not doing fascism hard enough have taken over.

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d

I prefer governments that don’t try to “take the freedom of speech away.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 2d

this is such an enormous story

Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Trump is moving to kill all funding for proposed Texas and Louisiana mega-hubs to capture CO₂ from the atmosphere

The bipartisan-backed hubs represented a rare clean tech industry where the US was on the cutting edge

by @emilypont.bsky.social for @heatmap.news

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Trump to Cancel Direct Air Capture Hubs in Texas, Louisiana

A new list of grant cancellations obtained by Heatmap includes Climeworks and Heirloom projects funded by 2021 infrastructure law.

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