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To hear Mark Elias say this is no joke. In the context of commentators on American democracy this is as serious as it gets. This man, champion fighter of democracy, not an alarmist, filtered, passions restrained, just told us: DOJ, FBI weaponized, Republicans openly trying to rig elections. 🚨 Fire!
The old rulebook is gone. It's not coming back and we all need to accept that. The DOJ is weaponized. the GOP is rigging elections. Trump is literally bulldozing the White House.
Democrats need to operate under this new reality, fight hard, and play by the same rules.
Democrats need to operate under this new reality, fight hard, and play by the same rules.
October 24, 2025 at 3:42 AM
To hear Mark Elias say this is no joke. In the context of commentators on American democracy this is as serious as it gets. This man, champion fighter of democracy, not an alarmist, filtered, passions restrained, just told us: DOJ, FBI weaponized, Republicans openly trying to rig elections. 🚨 Fire!
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Poster for sale at Holocaust Museum.
October 24, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Poster for sale at Holocaust Museum.
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More here: open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials
www.nytimes.com
October 11, 2025 at 5:49 AM
More here: open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
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Agents went to almost every single door in the building, zip-tying people regardless of citizenship and ignoring requests to see a warrant.
This attack on our communities is a fundamental threat to the freedom of each and every one of us.
This attack on our communities is a fundamental threat to the freedom of each and every one of us.
October 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Agents went to almost every single door in the building, zip-tying people regardless of citizenship and ignoring requests to see a warrant.
This attack on our communities is a fundamental threat to the freedom of each and every one of us.
This attack on our communities is a fundamental threat to the freedom of each and every one of us.
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I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.
US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies
U.S. Border Patrol agents deployed to Chicago led a late-night raid on an apartment building this week, rappelling from helicopters onto rooftops and breaking down doors in an operation authorities said targeted gang members but which swept up U.S. citizens and families.
www.reuters.com
October 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.
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Tis the Season!
October 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Tis the Season!
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ICE is absolutely out of control in Chicago.
ICE just gassed a group a civilians near the Rico Fresh supermarket intersection on Armitage in Chicago - bystanders say this was in response for being heckled from the street.
October 3, 2025 at 7:35 PM
ICE is absolutely out of control in Chicago.
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Folks — this is not a normal government shutdown.
Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.
Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.
October 1, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Folks — this is not a normal government shutdown.
Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.
Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.
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NEW: Hawaii's Supreme Court keeps releasing opinions that denounce the U.S. Supreme Court.
The latest? A new ruling that requires the police to record all interrogations from now on.
The author took it as an opportunity to say Hawaii's court will protect due process—while SCOTUS isn't:
The latest? A new ruling that requires the police to record all interrogations from now on.
The author took it as an opportunity to say Hawaii's court will protect due process—while SCOTUS isn't:
Hawaii Supreme Court Expands Rights of Defendants, and Once Again Rebukes SCOTUS - Bolts
Hawaii justices ruled that their state constitution requires police to record interrogations. And they vowed to protect due process for Hawaiians—unlike, they said, the Roberts Court.
boltsmag.org
September 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
NEW: Hawaii's Supreme Court keeps releasing opinions that denounce the U.S. Supreme Court.
The latest? A new ruling that requires the police to record all interrogations from now on.
The author took it as an opportunity to say Hawaii's court will protect due process—while SCOTUS isn't:
The latest? A new ruling that requires the police to record all interrogations from now on.
The author took it as an opportunity to say Hawaii's court will protect due process—while SCOTUS isn't:
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"Here's what I found: Once fascists win power democratically, they have never been removed democratically. Not once. Ever."
I researched every attempt to stop fascism in history. The success rate is 0%.
Once they win elections, it's already too late.
open.substack.com
September 7, 2025 at 6:03 AM
"Here's what I found: Once fascists win power democratically, they have never been removed democratically. Not once. Ever."
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Reporting members of the UC Berkeley community to the government is reminiscent of the McCarthy era, when lives and careers were ruined merely because a person’s name showed up on a list.
UC Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names in antisemitism probe
UC Berkeley gave the Trump administration the names of 160 students, faculty and staff and details on their “potential connection to reports of alleged antisemitism” — sparking due-process...
www.sfchronicle.com
September 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Reporting members of the UC Berkeley community to the government is reminiscent of the McCarthy era, when lives and careers were ruined merely because a person’s name showed up on a list.
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A Black man and a homeless man were found hanging from trees in Mississippi yesterday, for those who haven’t seen yet because it’s barely made it out of local news.
September 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
A Black man and a homeless man were found hanging from trees in Mississippi yesterday, for those who haven’t seen yet because it’s barely made it out of local news.
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Trey Reed, found hanging in the middle of a college campus thegrio.com/2025/09/15/b...
Black student found hanging from tree at Delta State University
The body of 21-year-old Demartravion "Trey" Reed was discovered on Monday, prompting the university to cancel classes and campus activities.
thegrio.com
September 16, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Trey Reed, found hanging in the middle of a college campus thegrio.com/2025/09/15/b...
m.facebook.com
September 16, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Breaking: Trump’s NATO Letter Exposes His Deal with Putin
open.substack.com/pub/levremem...
open.substack.com/pub/levremem...
Breaking: Trump’s NATO Letter Exposes His Deal with Putin
A reckless letter reveals he’ll only act against Russia if it benefits him, not democracy or freedom.
open.substack.com
September 14, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Breaking: Trump’s NATO Letter Exposes His Deal with Putin
open.substack.com/pub/levremem...
open.substack.com/pub/levremem...
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Let’s help our smokejumpers. 🪂 🔥
Please, take a moment to add your name.
Fair pay makes a huge difference for those who lay it all on the line for us.
Please, take a moment to add your name.
Fair pay makes a huge difference for those who lay it all on the line for us.
Please help us get the hazard pay loop holes for prescribed fire and smokejumping training jumps fixed. We drafted a letter that could also be a script @5calls.org style. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell... #ourworkmatters #saveourservices #bettertogether #unionstrong
Tell Congress to Cosponsor the Wildland Firefighter Hazard Pay Correction Act (H.R. 5091)
Federal wildland firefighters engage in dangerous operations outside of active wildfires, including firefighters assigned to prescribed burns and smokejumpers performing training jumps. Both of these ...
actionnetwork.org
September 9, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Let’s help our smokejumpers. 🪂 🔥
Please, take a moment to add your name.
Fair pay makes a huge difference for those who lay it all on the line for us.
Please, take a moment to add your name.
Fair pay makes a huge difference for those who lay it all on the line for us.
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THIS!
Civil servants need to realize they’re civil ‘servants’, not authoritarian bosses
September 8, 2025 at 8:28 AM
THIS!
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The median FBI agent today is a lawyer who joined up to prevent another 9/11.
The median ICE agent tomorrow will be a dude with a high school diploma who watched guys in masks and full tactical snatching and beating day laborers and wants in on the action.
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
The median ICE agent tomorrow will be a dude with a high school diploma who watched guys in masks and full tactical snatching and beating day laborers and wants in on the action.
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
The American Police State Is Here
ICE is about to eclipse the FBI as America's most important law enforcement agency. That's bad. Super-duper bad.
www.thebulwark.com
July 8, 2025 at 8:13 PM
The median FBI agent today is a lawyer who joined up to prevent another 9/11.
The median ICE agent tomorrow will be a dude with a high school diploma who watched guys in masks and full tactical snatching and beating day laborers and wants in on the action.
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
The median ICE agent tomorrow will be a dude with a high school diploma who watched guys in masks and full tactical snatching and beating day laborers and wants in on the action.
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
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Get ready to see ICE deployed to election sites in 2026 to make sure "illegals" don't vote. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
The American Police State Is Here
ICE is about to eclipse the FBI as America's most important law enforcement agency. That's bad. Super-duper bad.
www.thebulwark.com
July 8, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Get ready to see ICE deployed to election sites in 2026 to make sure "illegals" don't vote. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
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“I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was,” Sahil Lavingia told NPR's Juana Summers.
Former DOGE engineer says federal waste and fraud were 'relatively nonexistent'
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Sahil Lavingia, who worked for the Department of Government Efficiency as a software engineer assigned to the Department of Veterans Affairs, about his experience.
www.npr.org
June 25, 2025 at 10:22 PM
“I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was,” Sahil Lavingia told NPR's Juana Summers.
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