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Refuse Fascism @refusefascism.bsky.social · 15h

Be in the house + Spread the Word

Trump Must Go Now — A Mass Organizing Forum
All Out for No Kings & On to Nov 5 to FLOOD DC!

🗓️ Wed, Oct 15 7PM
📍 NYC | Advent Lutheran Church
feat @michaelfanone.bsky.social @cornelwest.bsky.social @sunsarataylor.bsky.social
#Nov5FloodDC #FallOfTheRegime

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Refuse Fascism @refusefascism.bsky.social · 15h

ICYMI this week Sam speaks w legal scholar @maryannefranks.bsky.social author of ⁠Fearless Speech: Breaking Free from the First Amendment⁠, about what Trump/MAGA mean by “free speech” as they directly censor critics. Sam shares why we need to FLOOD DC on 11-05 to demand TRUMP MUST GO NOW.

The Freedom to Silence You — Dr. Mary Anne Franks on Trump’s War on Dissent - Refuse Fascism

Podcast Episode 266: Sam speaks with Dr. Mary Anne Franks, author of ⁠Fearless Speech: Breaking Free from the First Amendment⁠, about what Trump and MAGA mean by "free speech" as they directly censor ...

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Refuse Fascism @refusefascism.bsky.social · 1d

Chilling AF. He’s saying if the: courts , governors or mayors don’t bow down to him he’ll send the military in. folks the fascism is here. The only way to stop it is for us to rise together nonviolently in our millions to remove him from power
10.18 nationwide 11.05 in DC #TrumpMustGoNow

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump "We have an Insurrection Act for a reason. If I had to enact it, I'd to that ... if courts were holding us up or governors or mayors were holding us up, sure, I'd do that."

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Refuse Fascism @refusefascism.bsky.social · 1d

The time has come for…
THE FALL
of the
TRUMP FASCIST REGIME
Join what needs to be the biggest nonviolent mobilization in U.S. history. We won’t stop until Trump is removed form power.
Join in DC: bit.ly/Nov5FloodDC
Spread the word!

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Refuse Fascism @refusefascism.bsky.social · 3d

THERE IS
NO LIVING WITH THIS FASCISM…
11.05
Washington, D.C.

We begin the
nonviolent struggle
for a just world:

The FALL
of the Trump
Fascist Regime

Coming together in our millions to defeat Trump Fascism is the highest expression of our humanity.

Bit.ly/Nov5FloodDC

Created by @kbostudios

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Refuse Fascism L.A. @refusefascismla.bsky.social · 4d

Mass Organizing Meeting – October 4th
4PM
5426 Crenshaw Blvd, L.A. CA 90043
$10 Suggested donation
RSVP – actionnetwork.org/forms/oct4rf...

Fascism is upon us Now
We CANNOT WAIT for FUTURE RIGGED ELECTIONS

#resistfascism #refusefascism #peacefulprotest #nokingsinamerica #indivisible

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Valerie A. Traina @v3ndettaval.bsky.social · 6d

"REFUSE FASCISM" IS MOUNTING A RALLY CALLED "THE FALL OF THE TRUMP FASCIST REGIME" IN DC STARTING ON NOV. 5TH‼️🔥💪✊👏

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 4d

This is absolutely Brownshirt business.

alexjungle.bsky.social @alexjungle.bsky.social · 4d

Breaking news: ICE stops family at gunpoint—smash car window on top of newborn baby.

"I was screaming that there was a baby. But they didn’t care," cried mother.

“I covered my baby with my body—I was so scared he was going to be hurt because glass was landing on him."

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 4d

The Supreme Court on Friday allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to strip legal protections from more than 300,000 Venezuelan migrants.
https://to.pbs.org/4nACisU

Supreme Court allows Trump to strip protections from more than 300,000 Venezuelan migrants

The justices issued an emergency order, which will last as long as the court case continues, putting on hold a lower-court ruling by U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco that found the adm...

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 5d

“Fuck them kids.”

That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other.

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

bangs.

"They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'"

Watson said trucks and military-style vans were used to separate parents from their children. Other neighbors said agents destroyed property to get in the building.

"They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down," said witness Darrell Ballard. "We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 4d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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Pinko @pinkoscare.bsky.social · 4d

I live on the west side and I am very shook up right now. There's been a helicopter hovering all day. ICE throwing tear gas at a busy intersection with a grocery store! and a SCHOOL!!! People kidnapped from the Home Depot. It's like the stuff you read in history books, right there on your block.

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Refuse Fascism @refusefascism.bsky.social · 6d

Beginning November 5, the one-year anniversary of Trump’s election, flood DC in nonviolent protest.

Don’t stop until Trump is removed from power.

Get involved: RefuseFascism.org

Chicago
TRUMP MUST GO NOW!
Mass Organizing Meeting
Sunday October 5
3pm at St. Pius V Church

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Refuse Fascism @refusefascism.bsky.social · 7d

Trump and Hegseth Tell Top Generals to Commit War Crimes and Wage War on American Cities

This meeting was yet another red line crossed, a Nazi spectacle of intimidation and indoctrination.

Our only hope is #Nov5FloodDC in nonviolent mass resistance to remove Trump from power

Trump and Hegseth Tell Top Generals to Commit War Crimes and Wage War on American Cities - Refuse Fascism

On September 30, at a Marine Corps Base in Quantico, hundreds of America’s top generals and admirals were summoned to an unprecedented meeting. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stood before them and dec...

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 8d

Get ready and spread the word for November 5 in DC - the beginning of sustained mass action demanding the fall of the Trump fascist regime

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Refuse Fascism @refusefascism.bsky.social · 8d

This is shows we are now whole lot further down the road to full-out fascism.

The answer to this is not to give in to fear or silence or despair, the answer is to rise in our millions in nonviolent resistance. TRUMP MUST GO NOW!

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 8d

Pritzker: “Trump’s threats to jail his political opponents—you cannot call this anything except an attack on the Constitution of the United States.”

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Refuse Fascism @refusefascism.bsky.social · 8d

The only way to bring a stop to this horror is to drive out the whole Trump fascist regime.

Beginning 11.05, the one-year anniversary of Trump’s election, flood DC in nonviolent protest. Don’t stop until Trump is removed from power.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 8d

Pritzker: “ICE is running around the Loop harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States. Now, ICE is making it commonplace.”

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Refuse Fascism @refusefascism.bsky.social · 9d

This week Sunsara Taylor presents on 11.05 plus a brief recap of just some of the developments over the past week, both + (Jimmy Kimmel was reinstated after groundswell of outrage) & ominous (the regime’s declaration they are going to target “antifa” now) among many others

Defeating Trump/MAGA Fascism CAN Be Done… But We Have to Do It - Refuse Fascism

Podcast Episode 265: This week we're sharing the presentation Sunsara Taylor gave at the mass organizing meeting in Los Angeles on Sept. 20, plus a recap of recent events.

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Refuse Fascism @refusefascism.bsky.social · 9d

Hear voices from yesterday’s DC TRUMP MUST GO NOW! Mass Organizing Meeting for November 5
How can you contribute to making 11.05 the start of the largest relentless non-violent outpouring of resistance in U.S. history
Join a mass organizing meeting, get involved & donate visit RefuseFascism.org

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10d

This is looking really bad (the arrest, not Roberts).

Des Moines Schools Superintendent Arrested By ICE Is Placed on Leave

www.nytimes.com

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 10d

As a former Portlander myself, love that its motto is Keep Portland Weird. An essential part of fascism's project is to tell all of us how to look, whom to love, what to say, how to dress. Fuck that. Portland is too fabulous for fascism.

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 10d

This is absolutely intentional. The feds have been intentionally shooting "less lethals" at press for days, and now they're escalating by arresting press. This is fascism.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 10d

Chaos again, feds tackling protesters at random.

They just detained @peoplesfabric.com.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 10d

This is fucking horrifying.

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

A man was just chased and arrested outside of the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago. When legal observers from the National Lawyers Guild asked why, an agent threatened to arrest them too.

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Refuse Fascism @refusefascism.bsky.social · 10d

NYC: Vibe with TRUMP MUST GO NOW? Then get your butt to our Mass Organizing Meeting on Tuesday! Fascism isn’t looming — it’s here. Every day this regime stays in power, the danger escalates.

📍 Join the Mass Meeting:
Tuesday 6:30 PM
Brooklyn Friends Meeting House
110 Schermerhorn St

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