It looks like some Democrats are preparing to help the GOP reauthorize a little-known law that lets the government sidestep the Constitution and spy on US citizens.
Zero Democrats should vote to allow the regime to gobble up mass surveillance data to punish Trump’s enemies and round up immigrants.
I dug in on just how bad our lack of #privacy laws are and...it’s very, very, very bad. You may feel like you already know this, like I did, but it’s so much worse.
Agencies like #ICE and the #FBI buying our data without a warrant. But we can fight back!
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The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.
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The #FISA vote was postponed from this week, but that means representatives like #JimHimes have more time to convince fellow Dems to pass FISA without closing the data broker loophole.
You can call and email directly through Chilli - I just added new action steps today!
#stopFISA #surveillance
Everyone on the ground has seen terrible things. The overall action has died down, but the terror still quietly happens.
The regime wants us to be afraid, but We the People are undaunted and unwilling to be silenced. We hope to see you in the streets on March 28 for the next No Kings Day: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
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The authority that Trump has asserted in taking America to war against Iran is, like many of his other power grabs, an expression of the very tyranny the Framers were seeking to prevent. “Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object,” a young congressman named Abraham Lincoln wrote in 1848. This was “understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.” This quote, incidentally, is immortalized on the House’s website, if any members of Congress are looking for it.
The design of the Constitution divided warmaking authority between Congress and the executive to prevent a president to take the country to war by themselves for any petty or self-serving reason. You know, like a king would. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Surviving on caffeine and spite! Discussing the endangerment finding in more detail in later posts. Obv this has been discussed in depth within. Positive naive hopes - the science is there for a. States to continue regulating and/or b. Congress can codify the science into law
I have spent the past several months studying the cutting-edge research on modern democracies that have defeated authoritarian leaders.
I've learned that the conventional wisdom on the topic is wrong — in ways that have clear implications for the US going forward
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"ICE OUT NOW" written in snow on a wall outside the heavily fortified Bishop Whipple building in Minneapolis, which has been serving as DHS headquarters in the state.
Cold, snowy night outside the Whipple Building in Minneapolis. More detainees were released, many vehicles in and out. Still waiting for things to wind down...
I think about this all the time!
One of the ways Civil Resistance works is by peeling off regime defectors. We only need a handful of Republican Senators and a handful of Republican Representatives to defect in order to impeach and convict. Direct pressure through their offices has the potential to really build towards defections!
"DHS funding lapsed at midnight Friday (12:01 a.m. ET Saturday), triggering a partial shutdown after Congress failed to reach agreement on immigration enforcement reforms. "
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This is concerning, that a rep feels they must post this. A lot in our coalition has felt the same way and worried about it, but didn’t think we’d be here publicly.
So what are we going to do about it? Are we going to shout on social media?
Or are we going to match into the halls of Congress and strike such terror into the hearts of every depraved coward enabling this administration that they resign on the spot?
On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.” A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees. The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
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This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
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The Trump administration is engaged in a “multi-front concerted effort to try to interfere in the midterm elections … from Georgia to Minnesota and beyond,” says @ariberman.bsky.social.
Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"?
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
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