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#Via New York Attorney General Letitia James / newyorkstateag
Oct 9, 2025, 5:36 PM

"This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights."

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History shows how dangerous moral panics can be. Jews were falsely accused of murdering or harming children in blood libel myths. Today, trans people are similarly accused of “grooming” children, creating fear and mistrust where none exists. Both narratives invent threats to innocence, weaponize fear, and justify discrimination. These fears are not based in reality. They exist simply because some people don’t like us.

If they can refuse to seat a democratically elected Democrat Congresswoman, they will refuse to seat a democratically elected Democrat president.

It isn't that hard folks, and they're not being subtle about this. Elections are over in this county. Welcome to the Fascist States of America.

Jane Fonda has relaunched the Committee for the First Amendment, first backed by her father Henry Fonda in 1947, to fight against what the group calls a ‘coordinated campaign’ from the Nazi Regime to curb freedom of expression.

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Reuters:
Most Americans don't want troops deployed without an external threat, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds

AMERICANS PREFER POLITICAL NEUTRALITY FOR MILITARY

The U.S. military traditionally keeps itself far removed from political discussions, and the Reuters/Ipsos poll showed Americans prefer that approach.

Some 83% of respondents said the military "should remain politically neutral and not take a side in domestic policy debates"
reuters.com/world/us/most-amer

#News #Politics #Democracy #Trump

Donald #Trump says the #Chicago Mayor and Governor Pritzker should be in jail for failing to protect #ICE officers. From what? Milkshakes? Donuts on fishing poles? Sub sandwiches?

#trump #Fascism #Vaught #OMB #Alt

Heather Cox Richardson 10/7/25
RUSSELL VAUGHT, OMB, GOES AGAINST TRUMP’S OWN LAW OF PAYING BACK FURLOUGHED CIVIL SERVANTS

"What we have going on right now is literally domestic terrorism in Chicago," #ToddBlanche, the No. 2 #DOJ official, lied on FoxNews.

#JBPritzker has accused #Trump of trying to foment violence to justify further militarization, & his state has sued to stop the deployment. A federal judge Monday permitted the deployment to proceed for now. Another federal judge blocked the deployment to Portland.

Trump has threatened to invoke the #InsurrectionAct to sidestep any #CourtOrders blocking him….

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I mean read this, the Trump administration in an official document is saying that Americans won't ever pick crops and America won't have enough food to eat because of ICE raids! prospect.org/politics/tru...

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Leo Garcia Venegas, a US citizen and construction worker in Alabama, was wrongfully detained not once but TWICE.

“I got arrested twice for being a Latino working in construction.”

Kavanaugh stop in action👇🏽

americasvoicecnn.substack.com/

A federal judge temporarily blocked Kari Lake — in her capacity as acting CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media — from eliminating the jobs of more than 500 employees from the taxpayer-funded Voice of America news organization.

msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/k

Politics, ICE, Fascism Is Here, Political Cartoon 

Pat Bagley Cartoon (set as unlisted, so... copy and paste with credit to Bagley)

Every time a MAGA voter says, "This is not the Trump I voted for", my reply is, "This is exactly the Trump you voted for. Because Trump is doing exactly what he said he would do, but mentally you just filtered out all the evil, crazy, stupid initiatives he presented throughout the campaign. He even published his entire plan in the document "Project 2025", but you chose not to read it. YOU chose to walk blindly off the cliff, because the tour guide was a great entertainer. YOU did that."

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