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AntiFascist's JournalThe 2nd Amendment EMPOWERS Chicago state and local police to resist the Feds...
"A well regulated militia" is the very first phrase of the 2nd Amendment, it can't be any more clear than that!
None other than Fox 32 local news of Chicago has reported that Chicago police have been tear gassed by ICE agents:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/onCvjvWN7zA
While the NRA and gun rights enthusiasts argue that the 2nd amendment is all about individual rights to carry weapons, in fact, the framers of the Constitution debated about what States might be able to do to resist a MONARCHICAL president using their armed forces to trample the rights of citizens of a State being invaded by the government.
As stated in Federalist Paper No. 46:
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the State governments must clearly have the advantage.
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should an unwarrantable measure of the federal government be unpopular in particular States... the means of opposition to it are powerful and at hand.
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and where the sentiments of several adjoining States happened to be in unison, would present obstructions which the federal government would hardly be willing to encounter
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Plans of resistance would be concerted[. One spirit would animate and conduct the whole.
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The only refuge left for those who prophesy the downfall of the State governments is the visionary supposition that the federal government may previously accumulate a military force for the projects of ambition.
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the traitors should, throughout this period, uniformly and systematically pursue some fixed plan for the extension of the military establishment;
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it would not be going too far to say, that the State governments, with the people on their side, would be able to repel the danger.
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Let us not insult the free and gallant citizens of America with the suspicion, that they would be less able to defend the rights of which they would be in actual possession, than the debased subjects of arbitrary power would be to rescue theirs from the hands of their oppressors
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Either the mode in which the federal government is to be constructed will render it sufficiently dependent on the people, or it will not. On the first supposition, it will be restrained by that dependence from forming schemes obnoxious to their constituents. On the other supposition, it will not possess the confidence of the people, and its schemes of usurpation will be easily defeated by the State governments, who will be supported by the people.
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed46.asp
'I love Hitler': Leaked messages expose Young Republicans' racist chat
Source: Politico
NEW YORK — Leaders of Young Republican groups throughout the country worried what would happen if their Telegram chat ever got leaked, but they kept typing anyway.
They referred to Black people as monkeys and “the watermelon people” and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.
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At least one person in the Telegram chat works in the Trump administration: Michael Bartels, who, according to his LinkedIn account, serves as a senior adviser in the office of general counsel within the U.S. Small Business Administration. Bartels did not have much to say in the chat, but he didn’t offer any pushback against the offensive rhetoric in it either. He declined to comment.
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The private rhetoric isn’t happening in a vacuum. It comes amid a widespread coarsening of the broader political discourse and as incendiary and racially offensive tropes from the right become increasingly common in public debate. Last month, Trump posted an artificial intelligence-generated video that showed House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries in a sombrero beside Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, whose fabricated remarks were about trading free health care for immigrant votes — a false, long-running GOP trope. The sombrero meme has been widely used to mock Democrats as the government shutdown wears on.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-00592146
Much more at the link. This is what has become of the Republican Party!
Trump's greatest enemy is the US Constitution...
No wonder he wants to rewrite it.
If you even attempt to defend the Constitution you will be branded “The Enemy Within” or the “The Radical Left,” no matter if you are a Federal district judge trying to uphold the law of the land. If you refuse to bow down, or kiss the ring, then MAGA’s collective delusion is that Hegseth’s “Department of War” will come after you.
The Republican Party has decided to become completely subservient to their oligarch overlords. The long-term end game is to have Artificial Intelligence replace the American (or foreign) worker. Eventually they will no longer need the general populace to support their global economy. Their crypto schemes will replace common currencies, while the general population becomes enslaved by unregulated capitalism-cum-fascism. Cut off our healthcare and the weakest among us will die off first.
While this future may sound bleak, I believe that the collective Intelligence and power of the American people will ultimately outshine and outlast the idiocy that was on full display recently in Quantico. The US Constitution contains safeguards to protect government by and for the People, should We the People decide to utilize them.
The Far Right is now starting to declare Civil War, but we're not taking the bait...
and we shouldn't be surprised by this:
Trump has repeatedly identified the Left broadly as being lunatics and needing to be prosecuted for speaking out against him. Hegseth, the US Secretary of War (yes, that's his title now!), has identified Democrats as the "enemy within" who are really the primary enemies of America needing to be suppressed, while Trump sends Federal Troops to invade Democratic cities.
We need to take a step back and understand why this is happening. The oligarchs who have funded mouthpieces like Charlie Kirk and the MAGA movement and who are taking over social media, in addition to streaming and broadcast media, do not want a government that is run "by the people, for the people" because they see it as a threat to their way of life. They surely don't appreciate the Epstein investigations, and they continue to be paranoid about anyone who is socialist-leaning, like Mamdani, rising up and taking power away from their unregulated capitalists.
The wealthy oligarchs view the impoverished as useless citizens who may as well be euthanized, and unless the elderly have massive wealth they may as well die early because "we all have to die sometime." They feel that the promise of the American Dream should also die because capitalist slavery serves their purposes much better.
Does this make me sound like a raging Marxist? Well, I'm not. I believe in well-regulated capitalism and social programs for those who need an alternative. Also, please don't try to engage me in a debate about the advantages of Communism; it really is exhausting and not helping our cause at this point in time.
Mayor Bass issues Executive Directive in preparation to defend against "unlawful raids"...
LOS ANGELES – Mayor Karen Bass signed an executive directive to support Los Angeles’ immigrant communities in the wake of unlawful raids conducted by the federal government. She has instructed City Departments to bolster their protocols and training to prepare for federal immigration activity occurring on City property, establishes an LAPD working group and expands access to resources for impacted families. The order also seeks records from the federal government on unlawful raids from federal agencies.
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Last month, ICE initiated large-scale immigration enforcement operations across Los Angeles. These operations have heightened fears, torn apart families, disrupted the immigrant community, and interfered with businesses and day to day life across the city. These enforcement actions have deterred City residents from attending school and church, seeking city services, accessing healthcare, and going to work. The City has a responsibility to ensure the safety of all residents, and City departments play a critical role in providing services to support residents and their needs.
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Furthermore, I hereby direct my Office to transmit a federal Freedom of Information Act request to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in order to obtain records regarding the dates and locations of all enforcement activities in Los Angeles, the identities of individuals and reason(s) they were arrested or detained, and policies governing both federal officers’ use of badges and other forms of identification as well as masks and other methods that obscure identification.
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Furthermore, I hereby establish a working group, to be led by the Los Angeles Police Department, in collaboration with the Police Commission and Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, to work with immigrant rights organizations and community leaders to solicit feedback on federal enforcement actions and the City’s response. Additionally, I hereby request the Police Commission, in collaboration with the Chief of Police, to incorporate, where appropriate, the community feedback and provide additional guidance to police officers on how to respond to situations involving federal immigration enforcement. While the LAPD Police Manual provides guidance on how police officers should respond to immigration enforcement activities, and the Chief of Police recently issued a notice to officers with additional guidance, ongoing comprehensive review and guidance is critical in light of the federal government’s unprecedented tactics used to conduct enforcement.
https://mayor.lacity.gov/news/mayor-bass-issues-executive-directive-support-immigrant-communities
Trump is much more of a Communist than any leftist politician...
He admires President Xi and wants the US to become more like Communist China, with authoritarian control over the populace and the government alone determining a corporation's policies.
He writes love letters to Communist Leader Kim Jong Un and wants to parade his military showing the same affection toward their dear leader.
He applauds Putin's attempt to rebuild the Communist Soviet Union while imprisoning and murdering any opposition and repressing all opposing discourse.
The branches of government no longer act with any checks or balances and must answer to the one Party that holds all the power. If you are not a Party member, then you have no pathway to the ruling elite, just as with the Communist Party.
As Karl Marx has predicted, Trump is selling the rope with which to hang capitalism by making it so corrupt that the only option will be to revolt against it.
Perhaps he should be tried for treason.
Recently surfaced 9/11 evidence was not shared with FBI field agents or top intelligence officials
Recently surfaced 9/11 evidence was not shared with FBI field agents or top intelligence officials
60-minutes
By Cecilia Vega
Updated on: April 27, 2025 / 7:59 PM EDT / CBS News
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The evidence is coming to light as part of a long-running lawsuit against the Saudi government by the families of the nearly 3,000 people killed in the attacks, and it includes a chilling video of a Saudi national filming the U.S. Capitol.
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The FBI says Bayoumi was living in the United States on a student visa and being paid by a Saudi aviation company in California – despite not showing up for classes or work. Investigators say, in fact, Bayoumi was an operative of the Saudi intelligence service and had close ties to two of the hijackers.
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Cecilia Vega: George Tenet, the CIA director at the time, says he wasn't aware of the video. Same for Michael Morell, the president's daily intelligence briefer at the time. Does it surprise you that they didn't know about this?
Gina Bennett: It does surprise me, again, because we're talking about the U.S. Capitol. And in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 Bayoumi was a suspect.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/recently-surfaced-september-11-evidence-60-minutes-transcript/
While I don't believe that 9-11 was an "inside job," I do believe that former officials, in particular George H. W Bush, had very close ties with Saudi Intelligence, and that evidence implicating the Saudi government was swept under the rug while high-level Saudis were rushed out of the country immediately after the event. Oligarchic ties to far-right Republicans began long before Trump came to power.
It's all about the tax cuts for the wealthy...
Trump can bloviate all he wants about fixing trade deficits and making government more efficient, but the truth is that chain-sawing government programs and imposing massive tariffs on imports will bring a sudden influx of revenue and savings to the US Treasury that Trump will pass on to his wealthiest supporters in the form of tax cuts. Normally this influx would go toward paying down the national deficit, but Republican senators are already hard at work making up the difference before people catch on to what is really happening:
Vote fell mostly along party lines and now goes to the House, where it could be voted on as soon as next week
Associated Press Sat 5 Apr 2025
Senate Republicans plugged away overnight and into early Saturday morning to approve their multitrillion-dollar tax breaks and spending cuts framework, hurtling past hardened Democratic opposition toward what Donald Trump calls the “big, beautiful bill” that is central to his agenda.
The vote, 51-48, fell along mostly party lines, but with sharp dissent from two prominent GOP senators. It could not have come at a more difficult political moment. The US economy is churning after the president’s vast tariff scheme sent stocks plummeting, and experts are warning of soaring costs for consumers at home and threats of a potential recession. Republican senators Susan Collins of Maine and Rand Paul of Kentucky both voted against the bill.
But with a nod from Trump, GOP leaders held on, determined to march ahead. Approval paves the way for Republicans, in the months ahead, to try to power a tax cut bill through both chambers of Congress over the objections of Democrats, just as they did in Trump’s first term with unified party control in Washington.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/senate-republicans-trillions-tax-breaks-spending-cuts
Trump DOJ sends probe letter asking Rep. Robert Garcia to clarify a metaphor
Source: Long Beach Watchdog
Garcia, who represents Long Beach in Congress, faces censure after criticizing billionaire Elon Musk and referring to the current state of American politics as a 'bar fight' requiring 'actual weapons.'
The Department of Justice has launched a probe into Long Beach Rep. Robert Garcia after the congressman used a metaphor to describe the current state of American politics as a “bar fight” that requires “actual weapons.”
In a Feb. 17 letter to Garcia, U.S. State Attorney Edward Martin asked for clarification on the remarks made by the congressman on Feb. 12 following a Department of Government Efficiency subcommittee hearing during which he called billionaire and presidential advisor Elon Musk a “dick.”
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“What I think is really important and what the American public want is for us to bring actual weapons to this bar fight. This is an actual fight for democracy, for the future of this country. And it’s important to push back on the chairperson of this committee,” Garcia said after the meeting, which was presided over by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Read more: https://lbwatchdog.com/trump-doj-sends-probe-letter-asking-rep-robert-garcia-to-clarify-a-metaphor/
California needs to utilize a "well-regulated militia" to prepare for defending democracy. It would be perfectly Constitutional.
Shouldn't this guy receive terrorism charges in addition to plotting a hate crime?
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/michigan-man-pleads-guilty-hate-crime-plotting-mass-shooting-gay-community
Also, cutting the intelligence division of the FBI by the incoming Administration will allow these kinds of threats to go unchecked!
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