‘Families lose, billionaires win’: Dem Sen. slams GOP spending bill
September 30, 2025
Judge Acting on Oregon Lawsuit Against trumpty
BREAKING: Judge takes QUICK ACTION in MAJOR Trump case
Judge deciding if it Will Prohibit trump from Putting Troops on Portland's Streets
Tear Gas Used by trumpty Against the People
Democracy for America Advocacy Fund
Tear gas has been banned on the world’s battlefields
for the last one hundred years -- first under the Geneva Protocol of 1925, and later reaffirmed in the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention. The reason? It’s a form of torture. Laid down like a blanket on an enemy, tear gas is relentless and devastating.
It inflicts immediate searing pain, causes chemical burns, blindness, and even death by suffocation.
Yet here at home, tear gas remains legal for use by law enforcement against civilians exercising their constitutional right to peaceably assemble.
And disturbingly, its use is selective.
No tear gas was deployed against the January 6 insurrectionists
-- an armed mob that stormed the Capitol, assaulted police officers, and openly threatened to execute Vice President Mike Pence and Speaker Nancy Pelosi. But it was deployed against anti-ICE protesters, where even local elected officials like Evanston, Illinois Mayor Daniel Bass were left gasping for air, unable to breathe or see.
If tear gas wasn’t deemed “necessary” against an armed insurrection that invaded the chambers of Congress seeking to overthrow the United States government, then what possible justification could there be for turning it on unarmed protesters demanding human rights?
The truth is clear: tear gas isn’t about keeping the peace. It’s about intimidation.
Tear gas punishes dissent. It escalates conflict rather than dispersing it. It can leave Americans physically harmed simply for exercising their First Amendment rights.
Some cities -- like Denver, Portland, and Seattle -- have moved to ban it. But this can’t be left to local patchwork solutions.
Congress must act now to ban the use of tear gas nationwide, so that no American risks chemical burns, blindness, or asphyxiation simply for standing up and speaking out, expressing our constitutional right.
MAGA Invades University; Threatens Students
Black Lives Matter
This week, Tennessee State University, an HBCU that has nurtured Black brilliance for more than a century, was invaded by a group calling itself
“Fearless Debates”. They weren’t there for dialogue.
They showed up uninvited, wearing MAGA hats
and waving signs that read “DEI should be illegal”
and “Deport all illegals now.”
This wasn’t free speech. It was targeted harassment. It was an attempt to provoke, disrupt, and intimidate Black students on sacred ground. They wanted to get a reaction out of those Black students, so that they can keep fueling racism across the country.
TSU students met hate with strength. They conducted themselves with dignity and respect. That resilience is a testament to the legacy HBCUs have carried forward since their founding in the face of exclusion and violence.
But here’s the truth: Black students should never have had to endure this in the first place.
What happened at TSU is not an isolated incident. It fits a broader pattern: gutting DEI programs, banning Black history curricula, and now direct intrusions into our campuses. There is a coordinated effort to roll back progress and silence Black voices.
That is why Black Lives Matter is demanding that:
- University administrators, lawmakers, and community leaders strengthen security protocols at HBCUs
- Investigate whether this intrusion is part of coordinated targeting of Black institutions
- Provide immediate support to students who experienced harassment
- Reaffirm their commitment to protecting Black spaces and Black futures
HBCUs are more than schools. They are the living legacy of Black resilience, the incubators of Black leadership, and the foundations of Black liberation. We will not allow extremists to intimidate, disrupt, or diminish them.
CBS Chicago Reporter Says ICE Shot Chemical Agents at Her ‘Absolutely Unprovoked’
CBS Chicago Reporter Says ICE Shot Chemical Agents at Her ‘Absolutely Unprovoked’
The attack came after a day of protest in which the National Lawyers Guild Chicago says officers were “launching chemical agents and firing munitions at members of the press and people assembled to protest.”
Ask Congress to Support the Tax Excessive CEO Pay Act
Americans for Tax Fairness Action Fund
Greedy corporations and their CEOs have never had it so good. They’re price gouging consumers while CEOs are making 290 times that of their average worker.
To put this in context, the typical Starbucks worker would need to work 6,600 years to make what their CEO made last year―$95.8 million!
At the same time, Tesla’s board of directors is considering a nearly $1 trillion pay package to Elon Musk, who is already the richest man in the world.
That’s why Bernie Sanders and I have introduced the Tax Excessive CEO Pay Act to tax corporations that pay their top executives more than 50 times their average worker.
At a time when billionaire wealth in the U.S. has reached a record $7.6 trillion and when 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, this bill would put a constraint on excessive CEO pay packages and encourage corporations to raise workers’ wages.
Sixty-two percent of Americans are in favor of putting a cap on CEO pay, relative to worker pay. Even Pope Leo has endorsed reining in CEO pay:
If the Tax Excessive CEO Pay Act becomes law, and Tesla’s board approves Elon Musk’s nearly $1 trillion pay package, Tesla would owe up to $100 billion more in taxes over the next decade.
September 29, 2025
trump Violating Federal Law
Trump's Unlawful Use Of The Military
POSSE COMITATUS ACT
Military Can NOT Police American Streets
trump's War on Americans is NOT Normal...or Legal!!!
trump Declares War on Portland
Oregon Sues
Portland STRIKES BACK after Trump DECLARES WAR ON IT
September 28, 2025
Portlanders protest against Trump decision to federalize National Guard
Portlanders protest against Trump decision to federalize National Guard
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Our National Guard ‘didn’t sign up for this’: Oregon lawmaker on Trump sending troops to Portland
-------------------Oregon governor, Portland mayor and local leaders respond to Trump sending troops into Portland
'Peace for Portland'
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UNINVITED: OR Sen. Jeff Merkley SLAMS Trump's threat to send troops to Portland
‘This is bad, bad, bad’: Ex-Trump DHS official slams President’s plan to send troops to Portland
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Rep. Bonamici on Trump’s threat to deploy troops to Portland: 'He’s either lying or he’s delusional'
September 27, 2025
Support the Billionaires Income Tax Act
Americans for Tax Fairness
America’s billionaires have accumulated $7.6 trillion in wealth.
According to a new Americans for Tax Fairness report, more than half of it, $4.2 trillion, has never been taxed.[1]
Working families pay taxes on every paycheck, but the richest Americans grow their fortunes virtually tax-free. This is not a bug in the system; it is the system they built to serve themselves.
We are building a nationwide fight to turn the tide. In Congress, we are championing Senator Ron Wyden’s Billionaires Income Tax Act, which would finally tax wealth gains and raise $557 billion over the next decade.[2]
On the state level, we are mobilizing for a Millionaires’ Surtax modeled after the one seen in Massachusetts, where a 4% surtax on millionaires’ income raised nearly $3 billion in its first year.
Both efforts prove the same point, that the ultra-wealthy are not untouchable, and when they are finally required to contribute at the level they should, communities benefit.
That is why our fight is urgent. Billionaires are spending unlimited sums on lobbyists, dark money groups, and political operatives to protect their privileges. They are determined to preserve a system where their fortunes are shielded and working people carry the weight. Every time Congress or a governor stands down, billionaires win. Every time we organize and force action, working families win.
The billionaires will not back down quietly. They are mobilizing lobbyists, front groups, and propaganda campaigns to preserve their privileges. They want the public to believe taxing the rich will hurt the economy, when the evidence shows the opposite: surtaxes and taxes on wealth gains can fund schools, healthcare, and jobs while billionaires do just fine.
They want people divided and distracted, so their own hoarding of trillions goes unchallenged.
Their wealth has grown by 160% since the Trump-GOP tax law of 2017.
That law opened new loopholes for billionaires while hollowing out resources for schools, healthcare, and infrastructure. The top 15 billionaires alone, men like Elon Musk, now control over 30% of all billionaire wealth.
This is not a battle we can win with research alone. It will take organizing, advocacy, and public pressure. It will take millions of Americans standing together to demand tax justice.
[1] Most Of Billionaires’ $7.6 Trillion Has Never Been Taxed
[2] Wyden Statement on Billionaires Income Tax Score
A Must-See Video
‘They’ll be others’:
Trump threatens more indictments of foes after Comey
Patriotic Americans Across the Political Spectrum
are Standing Up and Telling him,
are Standing Up and Telling him,
'Absolutely not.'
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Trump FBI plot debunked!
No real Comey case, amid alerts over red line and boiled frog
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‘I’m not his lawyer’: Ex-DOJ official says he resigned after refusing to do Trump’s bidding
September 26, 2025
ICE Violence
ICE agents clash with protestors during rally | In Full
God is Watching You and You Will Pay for This!
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trumpty Leaving Working Class Behind
The Worker's Circle
The Trump administration is doing everything in its power to force this partisan budget through. But here’s the problem: It leaves working-class families behind.
In addition to cutting roughly $1 trillion from Medicaid and neglecting to renew the enhanced Affordable Care Act premium tax credits in the Big Brutal Bill, Trump and OMB Director Russell Vought, the architect of Project 2025, have canceled or blocked more than $410 billion in urgently needed funds:
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$1 billion stripped from substance use and mental health treatment programs.
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$250 million yanked from school-based mental health grants, harming over 200 programs in 30 states.
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$500 million cut from the Emergency Food Assistance Program, leaving families hungry.
As we speak, health insurance companies are finalizing premium increases that will hit families starting January 1st, at the same time that cost of living is skyrocketing for so many people.
With the expiration of enhanced ACA premium tax credits, costs could spike by over 75% on average and in a dozen states, premiums will more than double. The Congressional Budget Office warns that up to 2.2 million people could lose coverage next year alone.
Make no mistake: This is a manufactured crisis. Speaker Mike Johnson has already adjourned the House until October 1st instead of working across the aisle. The Senate rejected the House’s partisan bill. We need to tackle these very real and pressing issues for working people now.
Federal cops ‘instigating’ confrontations with protesters outside ICE building, Portland police official says in court
Federal cops ‘instigating’ confrontations with protesters outside ICE building,
Portland police official says in court
A Portland Police Bureau assistant chief said in court recently that federal police were “instigating” some of the clashes between officers and protesters outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in South Portland.
Other records reveal police were aware of — and concerned about — potential excessive use of force by federal police as early as mid-June. Portland Mayor Keith Wilson recently called on the Department of Homeland Security to investigate federal officers’ use of force against nonviolent protesters captured on video and published by The Oregonian/OregonLive.
Trump’s REAL Economic Plan EXPOSED Hiding in PLAIN SIGHT
Trump’s REAL Economic Plan EXPOSED Hiding in PLAIN SIGHT
Max from @UNFTR unpacks Trump’s white nationalist agenda that was revealed through Project 2025 and is being implemented with stunning speed.
The seemingly banal figures behind the economic and political project remain mostly in the shadows while Trump throws everything at the media to keep us distracted.
In this longer piece for Meidas, Max details the origins of their plan and how their economic policies are designed to:
- crush the American worker,
- line the pockets of corporations and
- provide cover for the more nefarious white nationalist ideology that undergirds this entire administration.
Support the Equal Tax Act!!!
Progressive Caucus Action Fund
Big news: a bold new bill has just been introduced in Congress—and it could be a game-changer for economic fairness in America.
The Equal Tax Act is a major step toward fixing a tax system that currently gives the ultra-wealthy an unfair advantage. Right now, multi-millionaires and billionaires often pay lower tax rates than nurses, teachers, mechanics, and other working folks, simply because their income comes from investments, not wages. This bill would change that by making sure investment income and labor income are taxed the same way.
It's simple: if you work for a living, you shouldn't pay a higher tax rate than someone who lives off stock dividends.
This bill also closes some commonly-exploited tax loopholes the richest Americans use to pay less—but, importantly, the bill does not take away protections for family farms and small businesses.
More Illegal Mass Firings
Federal Workers Union Denounces Trump’s Threat of ‘Illegal Mass Firings’ Amid Shutdown Fight
“Instead of coming to the table to negotiate lowering costs and addressing the healthcare crisis Republicans created, the White House is staging harmful charades like this that will impact all Americans,” said Sen. Rosa DeLauro.
They are Trying to Normalize Military in the Streets - DON'T LET THEM!!!
Split Screen: Listening as an act of resistance
The noise of war should not be normal in any U.S. city.
How a simple electoral change could marginalize political extremism
By re-empowering the political center, fusion voting has the power to reorient American democracy away from authoritarianism
Ice detainees death toll reaches 16/ Class Action Lawsuit
Ice detainees death toll reaches 16 amid concerns over ‘horrendous’ conditions
Rising toll worries activists as mass detention in US increases after Trump returned to White House in January
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D.C. community members and national immigration organizations sue Trump over ICE: Austin Rose in conversation
“Before ICE arrests someone, they need to have probable cause that the arrest is appropriate.”
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Class Action Suit Challenges Trump’s Unconstitutional Attack on Due Process
“All people in the United States are entitled to due process—without exception,” said an attorney at the ACLU of Massachusetts.
September 25, 2025
WE ARE THE PEOPLE!!!
Protect Your Rights By Living Them!
Do NOT Obey in Advance, EVER!!!
NEVER Bend the Knee!!!
This is a DEMOCRACY.
WE ARE THE PEOPLE!!!
WE ARE THE BIG, BOLD OPPOSITION MOVEMENT
YOU CANNOT SHUT DOWN A DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT
Saving Democracy...It's Up to WE, the People
Our Best Chance to Save Democracy w/ Heather Cox Richardson
We, the People,
Against a Small # of People
Who Are Trying to Destroy America
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Even if protests don’t hit 3.5%, the resistance can topple Trump
“most mass nonviolent movements that have succeeded have done so even without achieving 3.5% popular participation.” Certainly, turning out 3.5%—or 11.9 million Americans—would be a tremendous achievement in the effort to overcome MAGA authoritarian rule, but over 60% of movements that turned out 1% to 3.5% succeeded.
In the 2021 book, “Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know,” Chenoweth identifies four factors that successful movements share: mass participation that draws from “all walks of life”; shifts in “the loyalties of the regime’s supporters”; tactics other than demonstrations; and discipline/resilience in “the face of repression.”
The lesson from the first eight months of a corrupt, lawless, erratic, and dangerous federal regime is that the resistance must turn out in the largest numbers it can, demonstrate resilience in as many ways as it can, and show vibrancy in all the places it can. Collectively, Americans and state and local leaders must sustain democracy wherever they can until the nation as a whole dumps the incompetent, vicious, and autocratic MAGA regime.
On the Legal Front
Petition by man against Ice custody may provide new path to release for others
Rodney Taylor, who is a double amputee, filed a habeas corpus after being held in a Georgia center for eight months
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Trump HIT with NEW SCANDAL as Term SWIRLS THE DRAIN
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Trump FCC SMACKED with COMPLAINT after PLAN FAILS
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Trump's Unlawful Use Of The Military
--------------------Trump DOJ faces NIGHTMARE DISMISSAL on…EVERY CASE!!!
Putin - Test Flights into Alaska
Trump has MASSIVE PANIC at Night as FIGHTER JETS SCRAMBLE
United States fighter jets scrambling over Alaska as it appears drones or airplanes of Russian origin were encroaching into Alaska air space as Putin seeks to test Trump and Meiselas shows how Trump has been a complete disaster for the United States and our alliances in every respect.
trumpty Forcing Shutdown,
Blackmailing Democrats,
Blame Democrats for Economic Calamity
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