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www.thedailybeast.com - The New York Times Editorial Board has an Autocracy Tracker article about how there are twelve categories of an autocracy, and Trump has completed all twelve. We're quickly losing our rights and our democracy is at stake. The NYT is behind a...

www.scrippsnews.com - Chicago residents have come up with a simple solution to alerting neighbors about ICE raids: they are assembling whistles and passing them out to the community. We need to do this in all of the towns around America where ICE has a presence. If you...

www.rawstory.com - According to a redacted ICE document (a link is in the article) "ICE does not provide the opportunity for individuals to decline or consent to the collection and use of biometric data/photograph collection." This means everyone must allow them to...

www.westernslopenow.com - In Colorado, the Durango Police Department received a report that one of the children in ICE custody may have been in distress and experiencing child abuse. Officers tried to conduct a welfare check and bring food, but the federal agents denied them...

aclu.org - Our First Amendment is the most sacred to me, because those freedoms are what allow us to keep all of the others from being taken away. Unfortunately, the courts and Trump have been ripping up the First Amendment in too many cases to name. We are in...

www.ted.com - Our nation is in great danger. There are 7 steps to The Authoritarian Playbook, and Trump has completed all of the steps. We are losing our rights at an astonishing rate, and I don't think people realize how much trouble we are in. Here's a 16...

www.lawdork.com - Chris Geidner has an excellent "Law Dork" blog on what just happened in the Supreme Court, the effort of DHS to protect Gregory Bovino, and about the indictment of six protesters at the Broadview ICE facility, including congressional candidate Kat...

www.oregonlive.com - Hours after US District Judge Karin Immergut issued a temporary restraining order regarding deployment of troops, they sent an "Advanced MP Squad" to help ICE. They opened fire on local police officers with pepper balls, and the judge is not happy....

www.theguardian.com - A Pentagon memo orders the National Guard in all 50 states and our territories to form “quick reaction forces” trained in “riot control”, including use of batons, body shields, Tasers, and pepper spray. This is not what our troops signed up to do....

www.courtlistener.com - The 3-day bench trial by Federal Judge Karin Immergut starts today regarding deployment of National Guard troops. Docket #119 has the telephone number and instructions to listen in. Here's a bookmark for the complete court docket.  

www.chron.com - Texas Supreme Court has revised the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct to clarify that judges who refuse to perform a wedding ceremony "on a sincerely held religious belief" do not violate the state's rules on judicial impartiality. Judges who decline...

time.com - Federal agents have “Supremacy Clause immunity” which protects federal officers from state criminal prosecution when they are carrying out their official duties under federal law, provided their actions were "necessary and proper." That means they...

apnews.com - The border patrol chief must produce all use-of-force reports from agents involved in Operation Midway Blitz since September 2nd. The judge said, “My role is not to tell you that you can or cannot enforce validly passed laws by Congress. … My role...

www.washingtonexaminer.com - In his efforts to start a civil war that justifies his use of the Insurrection Act, this morning he told troops in Japan that "more than National Guard was needed" for his deportation efforts. Over the weekend, Trump and Noem wanted the leaders of...

www.courtlistener.com - In filing (docket #142) of CHC et al. v. Noem et al. they are asking the court to modify the TRO to prohibit the use of any tear gas until their motion on a preliminary injunction is heard. They say: "Plaintiffs suspect Defendants are inciting...

www.rawstory.com - Authoritarian Trump has sent notice to HHS federal workers that they must produce evidence that they “clearly and demonstrably support implementation” of his agenda. All of our federal agencies are being forced to be MAGA and kneel to the orange...

theraven.substack.com - All three branches of our government have failed and been taken over by right-wing extremists. Our executive branch is a joke with authoritarian Trump at the helm. Our legislative branch is so dysfunctional they can't even pass a budget to keep the...

www.alternet.org - Our elections are controlled by the states, but Heather Honey of the DHS "election integrity" team suggested Trump has “some additional powers that don’t exist right now,” and that by using an investigation as a pretext, “we can take these other...

www.courtlistener.com - Chicago Headline Club v. Noem - Another Notice of Violations of TRO which shows how DHS completely fabricated a story to justify their use of violence against peaceful protestors (paragraph 7). The attorneys bring some damning receipts against...

www.youtube.com - Trump just vowed to eliminate early voting and mail-in voting (which he doesn't have the power to do). They are also sending "election monitors" to New Jersey and California counties with a high Latino turnout in order to intimidate minority voters....

www.lawdork.com - 50 days ago, the corrupt SCOTUS essentially burned our 4th Amendment rights by allowing racial profiling. Chris Geidner goes into details about their decision and the consequences. I highly recommend subscribing (either paid or free) to his Law Dork...

znetwork.org - "Authoritarian regimes rarely criminalize dissent all at once; they normalize repression step by step." This article takes a look at the USA quickly falling into a repressive fascist authoritarian regime that refuses to give up power.

www.northjersey.com - Yes. "Federal agents can face arrest or prosecution under state law if they commit crimes that fall outside their official duties; for example: excessive force, assault, or other criminal acts unrelated to enforcing immigration law."  

reason.com - In September alone, ICE spent $1.4 billion in new surveillance technology contracts which are being used against US citizens violating the 4th and 1st Amendments of the US Constitution.

atlantablackstar.com - It took 10 years to finally remove officers from San Francisco Police Department who exchanged numerous messages containing racist sentiments and slurs aimed at Black, Hispanic, and gay people.