Posts by Democracy is a Verb
A Redditor Criticized ICE. Trump Is Trying to Unmask Them by Dragging the Company to a Secret Grand Jury.
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Over 400 federal judges ruled that ICE detained people illegally- more than 4,400 times. The courts are not silent. New video: I read the HSTF executive orders so you don't have to.
Democracy is a verb. Act accordingly.
ICE hired 12,000 new officers. DHS confirmed some started before their full background investigations. A whistleblower testified they cut about 240 total training hours, including constitutional instruction and use-of-force training.
A 1945 British military film about Palestine is going around. The comments are more alarming than the footage. Here are the questions nobody thought to ask.
Jean Wilson Brutus: cleared for general population at 1:25pm. Dead by 5:45pm. Same day. Four hours. That's in ICE's own report. The death rate just hit a 22-year high
DHS said there's been "NO spike in deaths" in ICE detention. Capital letters. Their words. The JAMA study says 22-year high. I read 14 of ICE's own death reports. Here's what they stopped telling you.
FEMA is sitting on nearly $10 billion in approved disaster preparedness funding. Spring flooding is here. Hurricane season starts June 1st. Louisiana, Florida, Texas, California. I put state names on what was cut and why it matters right now.
42,722 people in ICE detention as of April 4th have no criminal conviction of any kind. That's 70.8%. The data comes from ICE's own numbers, published by TRAC at Syracuse University.
Kamala Harris is thinking about 2028. The DNC is still hiding the report on why she lost 2024. Members yelled at the chair to release it. A billboard outside the New Orleans hotel said: RELEASE THE AUTOPSY.🎥
Every administration has resisted FOIA. Reagan, Obama, Trump, Biden. The data proves it. But right now is different. They’re not just ignoring requests. They’re firing the people who process them.
April 2025, HHS fired the entire FOIA teams at the CDC, FDA, and NIH. The CDC’s office was eliminated. Then a watchdog group filed FOIA requests with DOGE, & DOGE denied them. A federal judge had to order compliance. Meanwhile, 12% of FOIA requests were fully granted last year. Lowest on record.
The Arizona Mirror pulled data from ICE's FOIA records & the facility went from 21 detainees per day in 2025 to 274 in 2026, with a peak of 777 in a building designed for 157.
ICE said, on the record, that congressional visits are scheduled during "lower operational periods." They said they don't alter procedures for visits. Those two things cannot both be true.
$14 MILLION. AIPAC spent that against Democrats in their own Illinois primaries. The DNC met this week and voted not to say a word about it. I looked into what they DID pass. SPOILER ALERT: NOTHING, NADA
The largest organization in the U.S. lobbying for Israel isn't AIPAC. It's Christians United for Israel. 10 million members. Their founder said "prophetically, we're right on cue" the day after we bombed Iran.
Pete Hegseth has a Jerusalem Cross on his chest & "Deus Vult" on his bicep. He wrote a book called "American Crusade." On March 26 he prayed for "overwhelming violence" inside the Pentagon. Since the war began, 200+ troops have reported commanders calling it "God's divine plan." The Pope responded.
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Go read Snyder's full piece:https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-coup-attempt Call your representatives and say it out loud: we are worried about an auto-coup. Be specific. That's the first step. Democracy is a verb. Act accordingly.
7 months from the midterms. A 2-week ceasefire as of yesterday. Talks begin Friday in Islamabad. A president polling badly. A military reshaped around personal loyalty. Snyder's argument: Trump is actually weak. But weakness only matters if it's treated as a vulnerability and pushed toward defeat.
Snyder lays out 5 scenarios for how war enables this. The most likely: exploitation of terror. A real or manufactured attack becomes pretext for emergency powers and suspended elections. Putin did this in 1999 with the apartment bombings. It's a known, documented playbook.
A traditional coup: military seizes power from civilian government. A self-coup: a leader who came to power legally uses that power to stay in office illegally. Suspends courts. Delays elections. Uses the military to prevent anyone from replacing them. Different animal entirely.
Yesterday the world held its breath for twelve hours. I've been reading Timothy Snyder since before Tuesday happened, and I need to tell you what he calls that feeling. Yale historian. Author of On Tyranny. 148 self-coup attempts since 1946. 4 out of 5 succeeded. 🧵
The founder of AIPAC was a registered foreign agent who got tired of the paperwork. When RFK's DOJ ordered registration in November 1962, AIPAC was incorporated six weeks later. The Fulbright hearings found $50 million in hidden foreign money. The receipts go back 70 years. youtu.be/f_EXgeolEqw
AIPAC and its super PAC spent nearly $127 MILLION in the 2023-2024 cycle. The Democrats who took their money are walking away. This week the DNC meets in New Orleans and a resolution putting every member on record about AIPAC is on the table.
Rep. La Shawn Ford of Illinois didn't get AIPAC's super PAC endorsement. The reason he gave publicly: he would not pledge unconditional military aid to Israel. This week the DNC considers a resolution naming AIPAC by name. I read it. 🎬 Democracy is a verb. Act accordingly.
I don't make predictions. But a military rebuilt around loyalty to a person doesn't need a dramatic moment to become dangerous. It just needs an order. Full video on YouTube. Sources in video description. Get in the comments if you have expertise here.