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Fifth Generation Warfare 5GW: Hot-takes from a cold civil war https://www.defendspeechnow.org/ Read: https://america2.news/content/files/2025/02/Musk-NRx-Memo-February-5-2025.pdf

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5GW HotTakes @5gw.bsky.social · Sep 8

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it."

Abraham Lincoln, 1861

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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 3h

📢 Today, 5:30 pm! Join the Coalition Against the Trump Agenda @chicago-cata.bsky.social at Ida B Wells & Michigan

Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO: When our communities are under attack, what do we do? STAND UP, FIGHT BACK! As the National Guard comes to occupy our city & suburbs, we stand united to say HELL NO!

@chicago-cata.bsky.social puts out this call for all to rally:
📆 Wed, Oct 8th
🕠 5:30 PM
📍 Ida B. Wells Dr. & Michigan Ave.

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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 2h

Anyone who's read George Orwell knows #CensorshipIsSo1984.

This #BannedBooksWeek, we're asking you to do more than #ReadBannedBooks.

Could we suggest a $5 donation to PEN America for every one of the books you've read on our "Banned Books Bingo Card"?

Please donate now at: pen.org/2025-support...

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 3h

Today’s telephone town hall is being rescheduled to NEXT Tuesday, October 14 at 6:30 PM CST.

We appreciate your understanding and hope you’ll join us next week for important legislative and district updates.

Have questions? Call our office at 202-225-8885.

— Team Crockett

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5GW HotTakes @5gw.bsky.social · 3h

Join us.

Wake n Bake with #LoLosLounge @thelolo.bsky.social
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wake 'n bake with lolo: scotus mail in ballots

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David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 3h

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule newrepublic.com/article/2014... via @newrepublic.com

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

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5GW HotTakes @5gw.bsky.social · 3h

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The defense secretary cites a “Trump bump.” But the Army’s recruiting surge wouldn’t have been possible without the program started three years ago at Fort Jackson.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...

This Program Rescued Army Recruiting

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5GW HotTakes @5gw.bsky.social · 3h

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The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here

The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.

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5GW HotTakes @5gw.bsky.social · 1d

Please share. Spread the word.

If you're in Florida - Sarasota, or nearby - show up & support our friend, @jim-stewartson.bsky.social

Defend Free Speech Now

Link:
www.defendspeechnow.org

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Tina Says #FuckFascism @trcfwtt.bsky.social · 14h

I've been digging on these ppl for days.

@5gw.bsky.social, friend, I'm tired.

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Teresa C Carter aka: T @thatcattc.bsky.social · 14h

Cadet Bone spurs wants to silence a sitting US Senator, or have someone else do it for him?

5GW HotTakes @5gw.bsky.social · 16h

"He should be allowed to speak no longer!"

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Hellish Children @hellishchildren.bsky.social · 15h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

BLUMENTHAL: The night before Comey's indictment, you had dinner with the president. A pretty intimate group

BONDI: Actually there were a lot of people there that night

BLUMENTHAL: Did you discuss James Comey?

BONDI: I love that picture

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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 16h

Felon putting out hits in plain sight

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The Resistance Sentinel @resistancesentinel.bsky.social · 16h

Tell us about your bone spurs again, Donny.

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AsylumHouse @asylum.bsky.social · 16h

All this from Frumpy Bone Spurs! What a load of 💩.

5GW HotTakes @5gw.bsky.social · 16h

"He should be allowed to speak no longer!"

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5GW HotTakes @5gw.bsky.social · 15h

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Lolo the Dreaded Court Jester @thelolo.bsky.social · 16h

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5GW HotTakes @5gw.bsky.social · 16h

"He should be allowed to speak no longer!"

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5GW HotTakes @5gw.bsky.social · 16h

"He should be allowed to speak no longer!"

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Teresa C Carter aka: T @thatcattc.bsky.social · 20h

There will be nothing left of the FBI investigating groups, with Kash in charge.
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Axios @axios.com · 21h

FBI shuts down corruption group, fires agents after they monitored GOP lawmakers

The firings come after Fox News reported agents had monitored communications from nearly a dozen Republican senators.

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Tina Says #FuckFascism @trcfwtt.bsky.social · 20h

Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony. Mike Ellis was helping them round up classified documents on trump’s way out the door.

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Tina Says #FuckFascism @trcfwtt.bsky.social · 20h

#BindersFullOfBullshit

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Lolo the Dreaded Court Jester @thelolo.bsky.social · 21h

i stand with jim.

5GW HotTakes @5gw.bsky.social · 1d

Please share. Spread the word.

If you're in Florida - Sarasota, or nearby - show up & support our friend, @jim-stewartson.bsky.social

Defend Free Speech Now

Link:
www.defendspeechnow.org

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prettylight10.bsky.social @prettylight10.bsky.social · 21h

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5GW HotTakes @5gw.bsky.social · 1d

Ex parte Milligan & Limits of Martial Law
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Although it was later narrowed, the Supreme Court's 1866 repudiation of Civil War-era military commissions remains a bulwark against military authority wherever civilian courts are functioning
www.stevevladeck.com/p/111-ex-par...

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Teresa C Carter aka: T @thatcattc.bsky.social · 20h

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5GW HotTakes @5gw.bsky.social · 1d

Martial law declarations can result in the restriction or suspension of civil liberties, including habeas corpus (detainment w/o formal charges), 1st Amendment freedom of speech (censorship), freedom of assembly (gathering prohibitions) & due process (military trials).
www.lwv.org/blog/what-yo...

What You Need to Know About the National Guard, the Insurrection Act, and Martial Law | League of Women Voters

In moments of political uncertainty, concepts like the Insurrection Act or “martial law” can feel abstract – until they don’t. Given the current administration’s recent federal deployment of the Natio...

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 1d

“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has approved sending up to 600 military lawyers to the Justice Department to serve as temporary immigration judges, according to a memo reviewed by The Associated Press.” 9/2/25 h/t @5gw.bsky.social … 1/
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Pentagon authorizes up to 600 military lawyers to serve as temporary immigration judges

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has approved sending up to 600 military lawyers to the Justice Department to serve as temporary immigration judges, according to a memo reviewed by The Associated Press.

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