"The Voting Rights Act is going to be as dead as the people who were murdered on the way to its passage—Goodman, Schwerner, Chaney, Liuzzo, Reeb, Jackson, Daniels, Dahmer, and so many others. This was a bill made possible with blood and death. It dies at the hands of people who profane this country’s best instincts by seeking to return the country to all of its worst impulses. Let the gerrymanders begin."

#SupremeCourt #Trump #JohnRoberts #corruption #racism #WhiteSupremacy #VotingRights
/9

"Sometime at the end of next April the carefully manufactured conservative majority on the United States Supreme Court will finish off the Voting Rights Act. It will do so on the basis of threadbare arguments easily summarized by the phrase: 'Black civil rights discriminate against white people like me.'”

~ Charles Pierce

#SupremeCourt #Trump #JohnRoberts #corruption #racism #WhiteSupremacy #VotingRights #fascism
/9

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a69060220/voting-rights-act-supreme-court-justice-roberts/

"My main takeaways from listening to the Supreme Court oral argument today are

-the writing is on the wall for the Voting Rights Act

-the Republican justices are now throwing racist spaghetti at that wall; they'll pass of whatever sticks as the opinion's rationale."

~ Madiba Dennie

#SupremeCourt #Trump #JohnRoberts #corruption #racism #WhiteSupremacy #VotingRights #fascism
/8

https://bsky.app/profile/audrelawdamercy.bsky.social/post/3m3bcbngb5c2r

The target’s family, friends & co-workers could also be probed.

While the overview says undocumented #immigrants would be the main target for the #socialmedia team, the draft guidelines designate “domestic or international terrorism,” which under Trump’s executive order includes #antifa, as being among the most urgent category of cases.

#Trump #law #4thAmendment #FirstAmendment #privacy #immigration #tech #SurveillanceState #infosec #MilitaryState #fascism #tyranny #RightToProtest #NoKings

"Ahead of Saturday’s 'No Kings Day' protests…, the oral arguments in Callais were a reminder that the Roberts Court has been acting as an unelected king for the last 20 years."

#SupremeCourt #Trump #JohnRoberts #corruption #racism #WhiteSupremacy #VotingRights #fascism #NoKings
/7

"Striking down Section 2 would take us right back to Jim Crow in the sense that the South will be able to elect people to the House with far fewer votes than the rest of the country. They will have representation in the House in proportion to the number of people who live there, but voters of color will have their power diluted such that they won’t have a say in who wins."

~ Michael Podhorzer

#SupremeCourt #Trump #JohnRoberts #racism #WhiteSupremacy #VotingRights
/6

https://www.weekendreading.net/p/20-years-of-king-roberts

In another project, #ICE has disclosed in recent days its potential plans to set up a #socialmedia monitoring team of 16 analysts who would sift through information from social media platforms & other databases to generate leads to locate *targeted individuals*. An Oct 2 “request for information,” …listed Facebook, X, TikTok, LinkedIn, Reddit, WhatsApp, YouTube, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, Flickr, Myspace & Google+ as some of the platforms that the team would scour…

#Trump #law #surveillance

"You get the historical effects of slavery brought back to life, that’s what you get. ...

Welcome to 1964. Welcome to Jim Crow. That’s where we will be if the Supreme Court puts a torch to the Voting Rights Act."

#SupremeCourt #Trump #JohnRoberts #corruption #racism #WhiteSupremacy #VotingRights #fascism
/5

"What do you get when you discriminate on the basis of race for 400 years, and you pass laws that say that racial discrimination is wrong for about 60 years, and then you defenestrate those laws the way Justice Roberts and the rest of the arsonists on his Supreme Court want?"

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#SupremeCourt #Trump #JohnRoberts #corruption #racism #WhiteSupremacy #VotingRights #fascism
/4

https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/republican-supreme-court-arsonists

"A loss in Callais will be a grievous injury to the Constitution and a betrayal of all Black Americans who believed that the Jim Crow era ended with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. That is the headline, that is the reason for moral outrage and unbridled condemnation of the racist justices in the reactionary majority on the Supreme Court."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#SupremeCourt #Trump #racism #WhiteSupremacy #VotingRights
/3

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/do-not-declare-defeat-before-the

"This administration has upgraded the earlier model, showing through word and action that it believes the shameful sides of America’s past were, in fact, good—even examples to follow today."

#SupremeCourt #Trump #JohnRoberts #corruption #racism #WhiteSupremacy #VotingRights #fascism
/2

"The Trump administration is seeking to rewind the clock on an entire century of legal—and moral—progress. ...

We’re no longer in the usual realm of Republicans whitewashing or downplaying the darkness in our history, e.g., the Supreme Court saying we don’t need voting protections because racism isn’t so bad anymore."

~ Dan Holtmeyer

#SupremeCourt #Trump #JohnRoberts #corruption #racism #WhiteSupremacy #VotingRights #fascism
/1

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-pro-massacre-pro-segregation-pro-eugenics-administration/

…#ICE also reported a $2 million contract for #Penlink’s #Tangles & #Weblocs data systems on Sept. 25, which combine #socialmedia & #darkweb data to build detailed portraits of individuals. Weblocs allows clients to track the mobile phone location data of targeted individuals, information that government officials would otherwise need a #warrant to obtain. Penlink did not respond to a request for comment.

#Trump #law #4thAmendment #privacy #immigration #tech #SurveillanceState #fascism #NoKings

"but I know I will be heartened by the images that will emerge tomorrow in cities and towns big and small all across our country that the country that I’ve believed in for my entire life isn’t gone yet. ...

For me, amid much darkness day-to-day, hope lives."

#NoKings #Trump #fascism #resistance #authoritarianism
/9

"Yes, there are lots of reasons to believe this moment is different — that the GOP is fundamentally committed to a white nationalist authoritarian vision for America unlike any party in power in history and that they’re willing to wreck our country to achieve that —"

~ Garrett Graff

#NoKings #Trump #fascism #resistance #authoritarianism
/8

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/why-i-have-hope-for-america

"Professor Stanislav Vysotsky, an expert on fascism: 'Yes, this is classic authoritarianism. It’s an intentional framing of the opposition as violent and dangerous in order to dehumanize them, which then justifies a violent crackdown. Authoritarians routinely paint their opposition as a menacing existential threat to peace and safety for just that reason.'”

#NoKings #Trump #fascism #resistance #authoritarianism
/7

"No Kings organizer Ezra Levin was asked by HuffPost why rhetoric from Republicans has gotten so hysterical about the rallies: 'I don’t think it’s that complicated. The one thing an unpopular authoritarian regime is scared of is mass, organized, peaceful people-power. That is it."

~ Ron Filipkowski

#NoKings #Trump #fascism #resistance #authoritarianism
/6

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-politics-bulletin-230-101625

#Paragon lists no contacts; requests for comment to Redlattice, a related Virginia-based company, drew no response.

Maria Villegas Bravo, Electronic #Privacy Information Center counsel, said #ICE’s use of Paragon #spyware raised questions of whether it infringed on the #4thAmendment against unreasonable search & seizure, as well as the #FirstAmendment’s protection of #FreeSpeech & the rights to #assembly & #petition.

#Trump #law #immigration #tech #SurveillanceState #fascism #NoKings

"Republican Governors across the country are calling up and mobilizing the National Guard in their states ahead of tomorrow’s No Kings Day protests, which are now set to be the largest protests in American history."

~ Aaron Parnas

#NoKings #Trump #fascism #resistance #authoritarianism
/5

https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/breaking-republican-governors-mobiliz

3 Democratic lawmakers wrote a letter to #DHS Secy #KristiNoem on Oct 6 expressing concern over reports of #ICE’s contract with #Paragon for #Graphite #spyware. “Graphite can gain unauthorized access into mobile phones without the owner’s knowledge or #consent, allowing access to encrypted applications, the phone’s location data, as well as messages & photographs saved to the phone,” Reps. Summer Lee (PA), Shontel Brown (OH) & Yassamin Ansari (AZ) wrote.

#Trump #law #4A #surveillance #NoKings

"The MAGA coalition is doing everything it can think of to control our thoughts and behavior through propaganda, threats, and fear. Millions of people plan to defy them and show up anyway."

#NoKings #Trump #fascism #resistance #authoritarianism
/4

"MAGA is trying to scare us into staying home, but in doing so, they’re showing us their hand. The more people turn out for these events, the more media coverage they receive, and visuals are shared online -- it becomes clear just how big the movement opposing Trump in America has become."

~ Melissa Ryan

#NoKings #Trump #fascism #resistance #authoritarianism
/3

https://www.altrightdelete.news/p/community-courage-joy-and-defiance

"Even if regional superpowers never went to war over boundaries, as they did in the past, humanity would still be divided between dominators and vassals. Do Argentinians feel particularly sovereign at the moment? Brazilians? Europe would become the last bastion of liberal democracy, but how well and long would it hold up, sandwiched between nightmare America and irredentist Russia?"

#NoKings #Trump #fascism #resistance #authoritarianism
/2

Brian Beutler thinks that protesting now (and tomorrow) is "the most urgent calling of our lives. The stakes are nothing less than whether the most militarily powerful nation in the history of the planet becomes a rogue dictatorship.

Where in the world will be lastingly safe if authoritarian kleptocrats carve the globe into spheres of influence?"

#NoKings #Trump #fascism #resistance #authoritarianism
/1

https://www.offmessage.net/p/no-kings

#ICE purchased #spyware in recent weeks that enables it to remotely hack into #smartphones & extract #data, even if phones are locked or communication is encrypted. One of them, developed by #Paragon, has drawn considerable concern from #CivilRights groups due to its use by other govts to monitor #dissidents & #journalists. ICE’s initial $2M contract for the spyware was suspended by #Biden due to those ethical concerns, but the contract was reactivated Aug 29.

#Trump #law #surveillance

#ICE posted drone footage of #protesters & ICE officers clashing in #Chicago on its #Facebook page on Oct 3.

The pinned post on ICE’s official Facebook page is a warning to the agency’s critics that they will “Face the Consequences” of long prison sentences if they assault or impede officers, cyberstalk, dox or make threats online.

#Trump #law #privacy #immigration #tech #SurveillanceState #MilitaryState #fascism #tyranny #RightToProtest #FirstAmendment #NoKings

A number of #ICE’s #surveillance orders this year are explicitly for #immigration enforcement, such as a $30 million contract to #Palantir to build #ImmigrationOS, a platform for granularly tracking undocumented immigrants’ movements and any self-deportations. But #US officials have also begun to say that their efforts may serve the crackdown on #antifa as well.

#Trump #law #privacy #immigration #tech #SurveillanceState #MilitaryState #fascism #tyranny #NoKings

Many of those funds reflect long-term contracts that will be paid out over time in the future. Hundreds of millions of dollars are earmarked for technology products, according to a review of the contracts by The Washington Post, with major spending also on #detention centers, air transport and guns.

#Trump #law #privacy #immigration #tech #SurveillanceState #MilitaryState #fascism #tyranny #NoKings

#ICE’s contracted obligations in September tallied up to $1.4 billion, its highest monthly sum in at least 18 years, according to USASpending.gov. The upsurge in awards coincides with the agency’s access to more than $170 billion in funding that #Congress allocated for border security & #immigration enforcement in its July spending bill.

#Trump #law #privacy #tech #SurveillanceState #MilitaryState #fascism #tyranny #NoKings

On Oct 2, #ICE also informed prospective vendors that it planned to set up a new social media monitoring hub to trawl platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp & TikTok to collect info on targets. The document identifies undocumented immigrants who have committed serious crimes as the primary focus but also deems domestic terrorism a top priority & says the contractor must be “flexible [about] shifting priorities.”

#Trump #law #privacy #immigration #tech #SurveillanceState #MilitaryState #NoKings

In one contract that #ICE signed last month for #Clearview #AI facial recognition software, the agency said in a filing that it would be used to investigate “assaults against law enforcement officers.” Other federal contracts show ICE has been expanding its fleet of small, remote-controlled drones, which it has said it is using to film #protesters.

#Trump #law #privacy #immigration #tech #SurveillanceState #MilitaryState #fascism #tyranny #NoKings

Technologies purchased by #ICE in recent weeks include an iris-scanning app that agents plan to use in the field, spyware that can hack into smartphones remotely & cellphone location software that can enable the tracking of a phone’s movements without a court #warrant.

“The acquisition & deployment of this technology in this environment is going to raise substantial concerns,” said John Sandweg, who was an acting director of ICE under the Obama admin.

#Trump #law #privacy #tech #Surveillance

But Democratic lawmakers, #CivilRights watchdogs & fmr officials have expressed concern that #ICE now has a green light not only to monitor immigrant communities, but also to carry out broad #surveillance of Americans exercising their #FirstAmendment right to oppose government action.

#Trump #law #privacy #immigration #tech #SurveillanceState #MilitaryState #fascism #tyranny #NoKings

“We have some of the best special agents, criminal investigators,” Lyons said on Beck’s podcast. “We are going to track the money. We are going to track these ringleaders.”

Lyons said the investigations will focus on “ringleaders” & “professional agitators” who he said are out to turn protests into violent confrontations.

#Trump #law #privacy #immigration #tech #SurveillanceState #MilitaryState #fascism #tyranny #NoKings

#Trump ordered all federal agencies to devote resources to investigating what he defined as “a militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States Government, law enforcement authorities, & our system of law.”

Shortly after Trump’s EO, #ICE’s acting director, Todd Lyons, told Glenn Beck in an interview that the agency will deploy some of its elite investigative officers to probe anti-ICE protester networks.

#law #privacy #immigration #tech #NoKings

The blitz of #surveillance purchases is motivated in large part by ICE’s intensive, nationwide campaign to find & deport undocumented #immigrants. But documents show that some of the #technology may also be used to target what the admin regards as anti-ICE extremist groups. Late last month, #Trump declared “#Antifa” a domestic #terrorist organization in the wake of a few violent clashes & a Dallas shooting at an #ICE facility.

#law #privacy #immigration #MilitaryState #fascism #tyranny #NoKings

#ICE has been rapidly building out its #surveillance capabilities in recent weeks, signing a string of contracts for technologies to identify individuals by their irises or facial features & to monitor their cellphone activity, social media posts & physical movements, according to a review of federal spending disclosures.

#Trump #law #privacy #immigration #tech #SurveillanceState #MilitaryState #fascism #tyranny #NoKings

#ICE amps up its #surveillance powers,
targeting #immigrants & the nonexistent group #antifa

Iris scanners, facial-recognition apps, phone-hacking software & cellphone location data are among the agency’s recent technological purchases.

#Trump #law #privacy #immigration #tech #SurveillanceState #MilitaryState #fascism #tyranny #NoKings

#GiftArticle
https://wapo.st/4nWuulq

i wish all people going out on the streets tomorrow during #NoKings day good luck, you are protesting for freedom and democracy.
https://www.nokings.org/
#NoKings #democracy #freedom #Trump #geopolitics #USA @geopolitics

After Alaska ofcourse Putin is very willing to participate in another useless meeting in Hungary. While nothing has changed. The meeting will just be a further delay. Further talking is useless if Russia won't even agree to a cease-fire along current frontlines (which Zelensky is willing to discuss).
#Trump #Putin #Zelensky #Ukraine #Hungary #Geopolitics @geopolitics

"Admiral Holsey's resignation only deepens my concern that this administration is ignoring the hard-earned lessons of previous #US #military campaigns & the advice of our most experienced warfighters," Reed said in a statement.

#Trump #Venezuela #law #USSouthCom #war #WarPowers #InternationalWaters #NonInternationalArmedConflict

Earlier on Thursday, #Defense Secy #PeteHegseth said the admiral who leads #USSouthCom will step down at the end of this year, 2 years ahead of schedule, in a surprise move.

The top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, Senator Jack Reed, called Admiral Alvin Holsey's unexpected resignation troubling given mounting fears of a potential US confrontation with #Venezuela.

#Trump #war #WarPowers #InternationalWaters #NonInternationalArmedConflict

Instead, the #Pentagon said a task force ‘was being created that would be led by II Marine Expeditionary Force, a unit capable of rapid overseas operations that is based at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.

That decision came as a surprise to #US #military watchers, since a combatant command like Southern Command would normally lead any high-profile operations.

#Trump #Venezuela #law #USSouthCom #war #WarPowers #InternationalWaters #NonInternationalArmedConflict

…In a letter to the #UnitedNations' 15-member #SecurityCouncil, seen by Reuters, #Venezuela's UN Ambassador Samuel Moncada asked for a #UN determination that the #US strikes off its coast are #illegal & to issue a statement backing Venezuela's #sovereignty.

Less than a week ago, the #Pentagon announced its counter-narcotics operations in the region would not be led by the Miami-based Southern Command, which oversees US military activities in #LatinAmerica.

#Trump #law #WarPowers #USSouthCom

Prior to Thursday's operation, #US #military strikes against suspected drug boats off #Venezuela killed at least 27 people, raising alarms among some legal experts & Democratic lawmakers, who question whether they adhere to the #LawsOfWar.

Videos presented by the #Trump admin of previous attacks showed vessels being completely destroyed, & there have been no prior accounts of survivors afterwards.

#law #war #WarPowers #InternationalWaters #NonInternationalArmedConflict

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, did not offer additional details about the incident, which has not been previously reported, except to say that it was not clear that the strike had been designed to leave survivors.

The development raises new questions, including whether the #US #military rendered aid to the survivors & whether they are now in US military custody, possibly as #POWs.

#Trump #Venezuela #law #war #WarPowers #InternationalWaters #NonInternationalArmedConflict

Exclusive: In a first, US strike in #Caribbean leaves #survivors, US official says

The US #military carried out a new strike on Thursday against a suspected drug vessel in the Caribbean, & in what is believed to be the first such case, there were survivors among the crew, a US official told Reuters.

#Trump #Venezuela #law #war #WarPowers #InternationalWaters #NonInternationalArmedConflict
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-carries-out-new-strike-caribbean-there-are-survivors-us-official-says-2025-10-16/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

Agents during the August search seized multiple documents labeled “classified,” “confidential” & “secret” from Bolton’s office, according to previously unsealed court filings. Some of the seized records appeared to concern weapons of mass destruction, national “strategic communication” & the US mission to the United Nations, the filings stated.

#Trump #JohnBolton #law #LegalEthics #RevengePolitics

The 18-count #indictment sets the stage for a closely watched court case centering on a longtime fixture in #Republican #ForeignPolicy circles who became known for his hawkish views on #US #power & after leaving Trump’s first admin emerged as a prominent & vocal critic of #Trump. …The case will unfold against the backdrop of broader concerns that his #DOJ is being #weaponized to go after his political adversaries.

#law #LegalEthics #RevengePolitics