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Dr. Linda L. Moore's avatar

Encouraged by this….. what’s your confidence level?

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lyn Renee kithcart's avatar

Thanks for this concise appraisal of our condition. It helps.

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Donovan Marley's avatar

ICE was designed as a secret police force to operate inside the USA, but outside both State and Federal laws. You are taxed to pay ICE thugs to overthrow America’s Constitutional Republic.

In an attempt to seize unconstitutional powers that will enable him to rule the USA as a dictator, Donald Trump is trying to deploy both ICE and the military in Chicago, Portland, and other American cities. His goal: suppress and control every American that opposes his Fascist intent.

How does Trump intend to overthrow our government?

ICE is pivotal. Donald Trump pardoned the violent criminals who—in response to his call—attacked a Joint Session of Congress on 1/6/2021. Some of these criminals are now ICE deployed bounty-hunters—a Gestapo-like private police force directed by Donald Trump to ignore the law, ignore due-process rights, and (before the courts can learn of their existence) kidnap People of Color and make them disappear.

Who would support Trump’s treasonous intentions?

Trump’s MAGA base includes a hopelessly corrupt Supreme Court. It includes criminals serving in the President’s Cabinet. It includes hundreds of corrupt Republican Members of Congress, thousands of corrupt Republican office-holders, and millions of Neo-Nazis who hate People-of-Color.

Led by the lifelong racist Donald Trump, these MAGA Republicans are trying to convert the USA’s Constitutional Republic into a Fascist, Christian-Nationalist, White-Supremacist Kleptocracy to be ruled in perpetuity by the Trump Family Crime Syndicate.

To the delight of MAGA Republicans, but in direct contravention of the Constitution, Fascist Donald Trump has banned all criticism of his criminal acts, his person, and his Presidency.

American patriots are ignoring Trump’s attempt to eliminate their freedom of speech. The overwhelming majority of Americans reject Trump, his treasonous coup attempt, his secret police, his Fascist Sycophants, and his ongoing criminal acts. This majority will not rest until Trump is impeached, removed from office, prosecuted, convicted, and thrown into prison.

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TT's avatar

American people will not tolerate a dictator. We love our Constitution and our country. Donnie is going to have to go to a different country to be a dictator, if that’s what he desires.

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Andy's avatar

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This Saturday - in 7 DAYS!

No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.

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I hear that your current president has published a Bible. But, why stop there? Why did he not open a church? A Church for the complainer - the Church of the Grump.

Sour grapes, I normally would have said. Or, maybe that should be a lemon. By the way, Clemens is my name. But, I go by many. Most of you know me as Mark Twain. My wife knows me as the Lazy Buffoon. She's also a complainer. But, I love her very - sort of.

I would think the pulpit should have been a natural stump for Trump, as this church's head Grump. He could have herded masses of Grumps following like sheep - for slaughter or laughter, I'm not sure.

I can't imagine a religion more suited to the complainer, than one where humility is optional and forgiveness is reserved for only those who are politically pardoned.

Trump is a great man of such embraces.

Trump the Great reaches out to all men, and draws them close to his bosom - unless, of course, they really are men. In that case, I need not worry because of the immunity imparted upon me at birth by God. Trump, as you know, got his from a judge.

With one notable exception, that of Mr. Epstein. His kinship was apparently worth the risk of proximity to Trump. They cuddled together all the time, I understand! And, look where that got him - at the dump!

I, on the other hand, have returned from a perfect burial. Not by séance, or by Ouija board, but by the miracle of academic nostalgia.

I had asked some of my work not be published until a hundred years after my death. By then, anybody I wrote badly about should have passed on. I was curious what became of it, and if my wishes had ever been honored.

Ladies and gentlemen, I discovered your internet - a vast bazaar of brilliance and comedy. Especially in the whitehouse. There is material there for a satirist that can last a lifetime.

But, I also came across the Berkley Project's Unpublished Works of Mark Twain. I opened it with some apprehension:

https://www.marktwainproject.org/letters/

Every single entry I clicked on afterwards showed "This letter is not published" - accompanied with a blank page. Now, THATS what I REALLY like! Who said bureaucracy could not be your friend? Certainly not Trump.

Your century is a marvel. Your politics, a circus. Your world, a casualty. And, I will still be watching it all with interest.

Thank you - MT

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Keep protests peaceful.

Don't kill anyone.

They DO make a difference.

Here are some resistance related guides from around the world:

🇺🇸 Fundamentals of physical surveillance: a guide for uniformed and plainclothes personnel

https://archive.org/details/fundamentalsofph0000silj

The RCMP has its own publications including:

🇨🇦 GCPSG-022 (2025) - Threat and Risk Assessment Guide

GCPSG-010 (2022) - Operational Physical Security Guide

🇨🇦 GCPSG-019 (2023) - Protection, Detection, Response, and Recovery Guide

https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/physec-secmat/pubs/index-eng.htm

The non-profit Electronic Frontier Foundation also has excellent guides on:

🇺🇸 Street Level Surveillance

https://sls.eff.org

🇺🇸 Surveillance Self-Defense

https://ssd.eff.org/

🇪🇺 🇸🇪⚠️ Resistance Operating Concept

https://jsou.edu/Press/PublicationDashboard/25

🇺🇦 🇺🇲 Radio Free Ukraine Resistance Manual

https://radiofreeukraine.com/3d-flip-book/resistance-manual/

⚠️ Assessing Revolutionary And Insurgent Strategies (ARIS) Studies (now at archive.org)

Assessing Revolutionary And Insurgent Strategies (ARIS) Studies

https://web.archive.org/web/20250310000340/https://www.soc.mil/ARIS/books/arisbooks.html

⚠️ Civilian-Based Defense: A Post-Military Weapons System

https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/resource/civilian-based-defense-a-post-military-weapons-system/

🏁 Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States Office of Strategic Services

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184?ref=404media.co

⚠️ Library of Congress

Revelations from the Russian archives: documents in English translation

https://www.loc.gov/item/96024752

🏁 Robert Reich/Resistance School

Communicating Across Difference

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaT8gjnOmQl3dguy0_E0vVCL5ZYEyCTzu

🏁 Bernie Sanders:

https://m.youtube.com/@BernieSanders

🏁 CPJ Committee to Protect Journalists:

Safety Kit

https://cpj.org/safety-kit/

🏁 Activist Handbook:

https://activisthandbook.org/introduction

(⚠️ These are USA sponsored websites. Some publications may have been removed by the Trump regime)

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Carie's avatar

Thanks, I needed uplifting!

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Jill Munn's avatar

Well they're not going to fail because it's already happening it he is a dictator no one is stopping him everyday he passes these crazy things some qutar ours going to build a military base in our state ?and people are being ripped from their homes everyday and put in concentration camps we live in a horrible fascist Nation right now so I don't have time to read your article I guess

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Jeff J's avatar

Very informative and lightning Trump’s gonna go down for sure

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Jack's avatar

He looks better red than orange!

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Abracadabra's avatar

Trump’s legacy isn’t strength or vision — it’s corruption, chaos, and deceit. History will remember, and it won’t be kind.

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Dawn Eipeldauer's avatar

I think Trump has played his very supportive base! I was shocked at the inauguration when he had the tech bro billionaires seated up front (his big donors) and his puppets like Bondi - Patel - Rubio - RFK etc on the back row! He’s got Larry Ellison (and that horrid facelift on an 80 year old man) and Sam Altman - Peter Thiel - all moving forward with UN2030 -

WHITNEY WEBB WAS RIGHT

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Mark Walker's avatar

Where does the massive MAGA disinformation campaign in the the Pennsylvania Supreme Court retention election next month fit into all of this?

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Becky's avatar

The courts are trying. Problem, the regime ignores court orders. This will continue.

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Earthgirl's avatar

Political

capital?? The Right / TOP IN THIS regime has sooo much political

Capital and that’s why it steps directly on laws to push a line by a ruling to stretch a ruling regularly because each step is a chance to get a weak judge to rule in favor thus 1 step forward - 2 steps back is their dance - at a high rate of speed - look - we can’t beat the money until it’s gone on long enough that it won’t rebound like a rubber band

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