I'm in the UK and can hardly believe you are sending out warnings of your governments intention to arrest and detain you in concentration camps because you aren't or in some cases are a citizen. People you have to stand up to this. If you need to protest make it Millions not thousands and choose the White house! They can't kill millions!
They have stated a goal of "deporting" 100,000,000 and I don't think they are joking. That's not not really doable, there are not enough places to send them, so where do you think they will go? The problem is that they can, ad do kill millions; they just haven't done it on this continent for a while. They have done what in my opinion were two planned and staged for maximum effect executions and then started asking "haven't you learned yet?" Time to hold still, stop thinking, but not for too long, and then really think.
Protests aren't going to work and though we may have "rights" this regime doesn't care. They do whatever they want. They are currently building a database of people who disagree with them. Blue states have to close the bank and stop paying federal taxes, merge economies and make it fanancially difficult for them to afford all the illegal shit they are doing to this country.
The greatest benefit of protests is to make a public statement, to put pressure on state and local leaders and government and I believe, most of all to create solidarity and reinforce for people that they aren't 'crazy' for feeling a deep sense of alarm, and most importantly THAT WE ARE NOT ALONE. It supports the energy of resistance and is an antidote to being home alone feeling despondent.
Does this regime care? Of course not. But it niggles at them, it shows the world we are not accepting this criminal mess and hopefully in some cases the local pressure travels upward (or downward as the case may be.
Americans, sadly, believe they have the luxury of burying their heads in the sand, being willingly uninformed and thinking they can sit this one out. I even recently had someone say to me 'oh, I really don't do politics.'. One way or another these folks will wake up too.
I heard that some people don't know what's going on in their own country. This amazes me. How can they not know? Also if they do know why aren't they doing anything about until ICE lands in their neighbourhood. I hear also that the communities that are impacted at this moment like Minnesota and Minneapolis are organising in every way possible. They are making patrols of neighbourhoods to look out for ICE presence. They are blowing their whistles and helping children get to school safely. They are doing grocery shopping for people that daren't leave their homes! It sounds so much like how the Nazis frightened the population during the rise of Hitler. I can't understand that someone can still profess not to know! Do they think that they will be safe? Fascists as is proved come after everybody. P2025 want's to get rid of all black and brown people regardless if they voted for them. ICE knows about the organising against them because they are now trying to say that owning a whistle is illegal, that taking videos on their phones are illegal! Little dick is dying which means that Vance will be up next. He's not influenced by money as much. He's a Peter Thiel convert. With Miller and Vaught essentially running the White House you have reached point of no return. Yet everybody is angry but still going on with their day as if it'll just blow over. Waiting for the day to vote it all away! History shows that when Hitler rose to power the people thought they won't pick on me. Until they did. They unleashed hell on people. They dragged them out of their homes, men women and children and shot them in the street to discourage opposition. I'm scared for Americans that choose to remain ignorant until it's too damn late to act. All communities should be setting up protections. There are more of you than there are of them. Also you guys have more arms per capita than any country in the world. Don't believe you are helpless. That's what they are relying on. That's why they are ramping up the pressure. They don't intend to leave even if they are voted out. Stop lying on that tick in the box to save you. Sorry for ranting but I'm so angry that Americans became so soft that to them this only happens in movies or in crime gangs.
I know that but that anger has to be focused and strategic because these are dangerous times for America. Seek out those who are organised and fighting for the common good. Together you are a POWERHOUSE!
This is such a great post this morning. Extremely helpful!
Reports from Minneapolis also describe undercover ICE agents posing as workers, delivery drivers or even resistance members. Unmarked vehicles is one thing, posing as someone other than an agent is another. Why isn’t that prohibited?
I am guessing it is because they are planted in the crowd to act as crowd inflaming/inciting agitators.
For almost 20 years now, when ever I have gone to a large protest in San Francisco, when it was around a cause in opposition to a federal stance, action, or issue, these young guys all dressed in black would show up. They would always start some kind of trouble.
Eventually we learned, we would be marching in the street and someone would say, "oh, here they come again" and fairly quickly seemingly out of no where there would be this swarm of young guys who seemed hell bent on causing trouble. Because many protests happen downtown in San Francisco, what these guys tended to do was break the large plate glass windows that are the street level fronts of most buildings on Market Street. It always seemed to me to be a reason given to the police, should they want to rough up protesters.
I once left a protest early because that action was too close to where I happened to be. I went down a side street and a few moments later one of the guys I had seen breaking a window, came down the same side street passing me while stuffing his black hoodie and ball cap into his backpack and laughing saying, "idiots."
Does this mean it was not some random group of young men taking advantage of the opportunity of a large crowd to get up to mischief? No. However, there has been a pattern of activity and what appears to be coordinated effort around certain types of issues with a long duration and alway a stealthy group of young men who suddenly appear, dressed in black bent on disrupting the peacefulness of the protest.
The caption regarding judicial and administrative warrants needs fixing. Judicial warrants are labeled as “not acceptable”. Administrative warrants are labeled as “must be signed by a judge”
A good follow up to this is how to find local ICE alert lines for your local communities. I've added the numbers as contacts in my phone by community so I can find and text quickly no matter where I am in the state.
Everyone—download the 5 Calls app and use it today. It takes minutes to make your voice heard. Enter your city and the app instantly connects you to your senators and representative, with quick scripts on key issues. Voicemail or live person—it’s fast and effective. I’ve already called to demand an end to further ICE funding and to call for the impeachment of Trump and Noem. This is how democracy works. We the People have power—let’s use it! 🇺🇸✊💙
This could be the Mother of All Spending Strikes. The government shutdown is an opportunity to hold His Royal Heinous accountable and stop his atrocities, and the fascist takeover of the country. We, the People cannot easily withhold our tax dollars from HRH, but the Dems in the Senate have that opportunity. Do not fund the government until His Royal Heinous is brought to heel.
A U.S. president cannot spend money without an appropriation from Congress, which holds the "power of the purse".
Direct spending is prohibited.
Constitutional power: The Constitution's Appropriations Clause states, "No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law".
The Dems in the Senate must have a list of demands under which they would vote to keep the government running. Such as, the Congress sets tariffs, ICE only goes after violent convicted felons, no one is deported to a third party country, and so forth. And that willingness to fund the government would be on a week to week basis, to prevent HRH from going back on his commitment.
If congress refuses to authorize appropriations, HRH will not have money to operate his corrupt, inept, sadistic government. A chance for the Dems to prove they’re not the feckless cowards they’ve been up until now.
We've seen this before. It has a name and its name is Tyranny. Blue lives = Redcoats. Tumultuously to arms my fellow Americans! We've come full circle in America. Domestic enemies, liars, thieves, & murderers have no integrity, credibility, or honor. They are the domestic enemies our Founders warned us about. When a government of the People, for the People, and by the People turns against the People, it's name is Tyranny. We the People have a duty & an obligation to exercise our Rights & Liberty to overthrow those traitors, & abolish their treason by any means necessary. Revolution is the solution.
We're free people. Protect and defend America, the Constitution, We the People, & Liberty itself by any means necessary.
As you said, it's all about recognizing patterns, yes they may be subtle, but they are there. Look for vehicles that are trying to hard to blend in. and the little convoys of ice ride each other's bumpers so as to overwhelm their target
Yesterday, I drove past a Taco truck in Raleigh, NC. It struck me that if ICE returns, places like that could be easy targets. I started to wonder why we confront ICE directly when we might help more by moving a little farther away and warning our Latino neighbors if ICE is nearby. If you want to sound the alarm, maybe do it near a Hispanic grocery store instead of right in front of ICE agents. Just something to consider
I protested in front of an ICE facility the other day and noticed they had lots of new cars which were less obvious like small compacts. They are devious and deviants.
Since ICE and CBP have taken it upon themselves to break into homes illegally, demanding a judicial warrant doesn't seem to be of much help anymore. We've entered a new, even darker chapter in this horror story. And the worst part is it's not even close to the end yet.
I'm in the UK and can hardly believe you are sending out warnings of your governments intention to arrest and detain you in concentration camps because you aren't or in some cases are a citizen. People you have to stand up to this. If you need to protest make it Millions not thousands and choose the White house! They can't kill millions!
You're right! I'm in MN, and it's horrible what's happening here. :(
They have stated a goal of "deporting" 100,000,000 and I don't think they are joking. That's not not really doable, there are not enough places to send them, so where do you think they will go? The problem is that they can, ad do kill millions; they just haven't done it on this continent for a while. They have done what in my opinion were two planned and staged for maximum effect executions and then started asking "haven't you learned yet?" Time to hold still, stop thinking, but not for too long, and then really think.
Protests aren't going to work and though we may have "rights" this regime doesn't care. They do whatever they want. They are currently building a database of people who disagree with them. Blue states have to close the bank and stop paying federal taxes, merge economies and make it fanancially difficult for them to afford all the illegal shit they are doing to this country.
The greatest benefit of protests is to make a public statement, to put pressure on state and local leaders and government and I believe, most of all to create solidarity and reinforce for people that they aren't 'crazy' for feeling a deep sense of alarm, and most importantly THAT WE ARE NOT ALONE. It supports the energy of resistance and is an antidote to being home alone feeling despondent.
Does this regime care? Of course not. But it niggles at them, it shows the world we are not accepting this criminal mess and hopefully in some cases the local pressure travels upward (or downward as the case may be.
I agree you're right this regime is beyond listening to anyone. Money is all they care about.
The dems are getting their pockets filled as well.
Thank you. Yes too many Americans are ignorant.
Americans, sadly, believe they have the luxury of burying their heads in the sand, being willingly uninformed and thinking they can sit this one out. I even recently had someone say to me 'oh, I really don't do politics.'. One way or another these folks will wake up too.
I heard that some people don't know what's going on in their own country. This amazes me. How can they not know? Also if they do know why aren't they doing anything about until ICE lands in their neighbourhood. I hear also that the communities that are impacted at this moment like Minnesota and Minneapolis are organising in every way possible. They are making patrols of neighbourhoods to look out for ICE presence. They are blowing their whistles and helping children get to school safely. They are doing grocery shopping for people that daren't leave their homes! It sounds so much like how the Nazis frightened the population during the rise of Hitler. I can't understand that someone can still profess not to know! Do they think that they will be safe? Fascists as is proved come after everybody. P2025 want's to get rid of all black and brown people regardless if they voted for them. ICE knows about the organising against them because they are now trying to say that owning a whistle is illegal, that taking videos on their phones are illegal! Little dick is dying which means that Vance will be up next. He's not influenced by money as much. He's a Peter Thiel convert. With Miller and Vaught essentially running the White House you have reached point of no return. Yet everybody is angry but still going on with their day as if it'll just blow over. Waiting for the day to vote it all away! History shows that when Hitler rose to power the people thought they won't pick on me. Until they did. They unleashed hell on people. They dragged them out of their homes, men women and children and shot them in the street to discourage opposition. I'm scared for Americans that choose to remain ignorant until it's too damn late to act. All communities should be setting up protections. There are more of you than there are of them. Also you guys have more arms per capita than any country in the world. Don't believe you are helpless. That's what they are relying on. That's why they are ramping up the pressure. They don't intend to leave even if they are voted out. Stop lying on that tick in the box to save you. Sorry for ranting but I'm so angry that Americans became so soft that to them this only happens in movies or in crime gangs.
Many of us are equally angry. 🙏
I know that but that anger has to be focused and strategic because these are dangerous times for America. Seek out those who are organised and fighting for the common good. Together you are a POWERHOUSE!
Please double check the caption under the image of warrants. It is confusing!
Thank you! We removed the caption :)
Exactly same. Your images for warrants appear reversed. Thanks Joan for sharing my observation.
I was about to post the same!
Good reading, Joan!
This is such a great post this morning. Extremely helpful!
Reports from Minneapolis also describe undercover ICE agents posing as workers, delivery drivers or even resistance members. Unmarked vehicles is one thing, posing as someone other than an agent is another. Why isn’t that prohibited?
https://substack.com/@adamzarnowski/note/c-204959021?r=2leu0e&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Yes! And why aren't they being arrested?!
I am guessing it is because they are planted in the crowd to act as crowd inflaming/inciting agitators.
For almost 20 years now, when ever I have gone to a large protest in San Francisco, when it was around a cause in opposition to a federal stance, action, or issue, these young guys all dressed in black would show up. They would always start some kind of trouble.
Eventually we learned, we would be marching in the street and someone would say, "oh, here they come again" and fairly quickly seemingly out of no where there would be this swarm of young guys who seemed hell bent on causing trouble. Because many protests happen downtown in San Francisco, what these guys tended to do was break the large plate glass windows that are the street level fronts of most buildings on Market Street. It always seemed to me to be a reason given to the police, should they want to rough up protesters.
I once left a protest early because that action was too close to where I happened to be. I went down a side street and a few moments later one of the guys I had seen breaking a window, came down the same side street passing me while stuffing his black hoodie and ball cap into his backpack and laughing saying, "idiots."
Does this mean it was not some random group of young men taking advantage of the opportunity of a large crowd to get up to mischief? No. However, there has been a pattern of activity and what appears to be coordinated effort around certain types of issues with a long duration and alway a stealthy group of young men who suddenly appear, dressed in black bent on disrupting the peacefulness of the protest.
The caption regarding judicial and administrative warrants needs fixing. Judicial warrants are labeled as “not acceptable”. Administrative warrants are labeled as “must be signed by a judge”
A good follow up to this is how to find local ICE alert lines for your local communities. I've added the numbers as contacts in my phone by community so I can find and text quickly no matter where I am in the state.
Everyone—download the 5 Calls app and use it today. It takes minutes to make your voice heard. Enter your city and the app instantly connects you to your senators and representative, with quick scripts on key issues. Voicemail or live person—it’s fast and effective. I’ve already called to demand an end to further ICE funding and to call for the impeachment of Trump and Noem. This is how democracy works. We the People have power—let’s use it! 🇺🇸✊💙
Bring His Royal Heinous to Heel
This could be the Mother of All Spending Strikes. The government shutdown is an opportunity to hold His Royal Heinous accountable and stop his atrocities, and the fascist takeover of the country. We, the People cannot easily withhold our tax dollars from HRH, but the Dems in the Senate have that opportunity. Do not fund the government until His Royal Heinous is brought to heel.
A U.S. president cannot spend money without an appropriation from Congress, which holds the "power of the purse".
Direct spending is prohibited.
Constitutional power: The Constitution's Appropriations Clause states, "No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law".
The Dems in the Senate must have a list of demands under which they would vote to keep the government running. Such as, the Congress sets tariffs, ICE only goes after violent convicted felons, no one is deported to a third party country, and so forth. And that willingness to fund the government would be on a week to week basis, to prevent HRH from going back on his commitment.
If congress refuses to authorize appropriations, HRH will not have money to operate his corrupt, inept, sadistic government. A chance for the Dems to prove they’re not the feckless cowards they’ve been up until now.
We've seen this before. It has a name and its name is Tyranny. Blue lives = Redcoats. Tumultuously to arms my fellow Americans! We've come full circle in America. Domestic enemies, liars, thieves, & murderers have no integrity, credibility, or honor. They are the domestic enemies our Founders warned us about. When a government of the People, for the People, and by the People turns against the People, it's name is Tyranny. We the People have a duty & an obligation to exercise our Rights & Liberty to overthrow those traitors, & abolish their treason by any means necessary. Revolution is the solution.
We're free people. Protect and defend America, the Constitution, We the People, & Liberty itself by any means necessary.
So literally, Trump’s secret police.
Do not call this a “Democratic-forced shutdown.”
This is 100% a Republican shutdown.
Republicans are the ones insisting on pushing additional Homeland ICE funding with no accountability or protections for Americans.
If the government closes, it will be because Republicans chose ICE money over keeping the government open — just like the last shutdown they owned.
This is a Republican Shutdown. Period.
will no longer buy these brands, i will not support they who support nazi thugs
As you said, it's all about recognizing patterns, yes they may be subtle, but they are there. Look for vehicles that are trying to hard to blend in. and the little convoys of ice ride each other's bumpers so as to overwhelm their target
Yesterday, I drove past a Taco truck in Raleigh, NC. It struck me that if ICE returns, places like that could be easy targets. I started to wonder why we confront ICE directly when we might help more by moving a little farther away and warning our Latino neighbors if ICE is nearby. If you want to sound the alarm, maybe do it near a Hispanic grocery store instead of right in front of ICE agents. Just something to consider
one commonality betw the vehicles pictured: ALL AMERICAN MODELS. is this a thing? (oh except for FBI Director's BMWs?! grrr)
I protested in front of an ICE facility the other day and noticed they had lots of new cars which were less obvious like small compacts. They are devious and deviants.
Since ICE and CBP have taken it upon themselves to break into homes illegally, demanding a judicial warrant doesn't seem to be of much help anymore. We've entered a new, even darker chapter in this horror story. And the worst part is it's not even close to the end yet.