Wendell Griffen enumerates the "plagues" Trump/MAGA have brought us:

1. "Farm families have lost markets for their soybeans rice, beef and other agricultural products."

2. "People have been grabbed and snatched from their homes, families, and neighborhoods by masked government agents without probable cause, warrants, or any other legitimate justification."

#Trump #MAGA #Project2025 #farmers #agriculture #immigrants #ICE #military #healthcare #economy
/7

"Since MAGA/Project 2025 zealots returned Donald Trump to power, the United States has experienced a series of events that resemble the Biblical plagues mentioned in the Hebrew Testament. I am not talking about flies, locust, frogs, or about blood, dust, and darkened skies.

~ Wendell Griffen

#Trump #MAGA #Project2025 #farmers #agriculture #immigrants #ICE #military #healthcare #economy
/6

https://wendellgriffen.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-plagues

"This month, the reason for Trump’s mass destruction crystallized: Trump and Russell Vought, architect of authoritarian cookbook Project 2025, stripped federal service budgets in order to move those dollars to another ledger, the one that funds federal agencies that control, police and punish the public. Those budgets have exploded, none more than that of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)."

~ Sabrina Haake

#Trump #Project2025 #ICE
/1

https://sabrinahaake.substack.com/p/wtf-does-ice-need-guided-missile

Analysis of government procurement data first reported by Popular Information shows a 700% increase in weapons spending by ICE this year. From January to October 2024, ICE spent under $10 million on weapons. For the same period ending this month, that amount jumped to over $71 million."

#Trump #Project2025 #ICE
/2

"Deploying the military against US citizens, pitting red states against blue, and arming a domestic force of masked ICE agents with sophisticated tools of war, are all of a piece: they signal that Trump is building a vast paramilitary operation to try to remain in power past 2028. We have to admit this reality before we can prepare to meet it."

#Trump #Project2025 #ICE
/3

"At least five federal agencies were involved in a massive immigration raid on Canal Street in Manhattan on Tuesday. The huge, heavily armored federal law enforcement presence included masked agents who arrested a mix of migrants and protesters in what both activists and local elected officials are calling an ominous escalation."

~ Hunter Walker

NY scorns Trump, votes Democratic. NY turns out for big No Kings protests. Tit for tat….

#Trump #Project2025 #ICE
/4

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/federal-agents-detain-mix-of-protesters-and-migrants-in-massive-manhattan-sweep

Not able to leave the home for boring reasons, I thought I'd order a pizza for delivery.

The pizza places around me only had carryout as an option, which was strange.

Half an hour later it finally struck me *why* delivery wasn't available.

#ICE #uspol

Of course they would

#ICE would need more #money to expand use of #bodycams in #Chicago crackdown, official says
Many federal officers assigned to #immigration enforcement in the Chicago area have body cameras but #Congress would have to allocate more funds to expand their use, officials testified Monday at a hearing about the violent tactics agents are using in #Trump admin’s crackdown.

#law #RightToProtest #CivilRights #HumanRights #fascism #PoliceBrutality #Gestapo
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-crackdown-chicago-bodycam-9aea34c3a48bc63cfb9d128159c5fdc9

“Supercharging this law enforcement agency and at the same time you have oversight being eliminated?...This is very scary.”

“ICE, their secret police, is their tool...Once they have that power, which they have now, there’s nothing stopping them from using it against citizens.” #ICE #DHS #fascism #SecretPolice https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-ice-secret-police-civil-rights-unaccountable

"The money the administration is spending to deploy federal agents to patrol outside of elementary schools could genuinely make a difference... National Guard deployment to Chicago, currently blocked in federal court, could cost roughly $1.59 million a day. The latest Republican spending bill added $29.9 billion to ICE’s enforcement budget — a boost that nearly triples the $10.25 billion operating budget for the entire Chicago public school system"

http://archive.today/2025.10.20-144216/https://theintercept.com/2025/10/19/chicago-schools-ice-national-guard-trump/

#ICE #Trump #Chicago

A sign carried by Indiana protesters at a No Kings gathering yesterday. shared by daghost_official.

#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #TomHoman #cruelty #fascism #immigrants #violence #churches #ReligiousFreedom #NoKings
/11

https://www.instagram.com/p/DP95O8pkSBT/

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A sign carried by No Kings protesters in Indiana reading, "Don't pretend God supports ICE raids"

CBS News reports on how ICE's terrorism — the terrorization of the immigrant community — is affecting churchgoing immigrants who fear being assaulted by ICE while they're at church, something previously unheard of.

#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #TomHoman #cruelty #fascism #immigrants #violence #churches #ReligiousFreedom
/10

First Spotify refused to cancel Joe Rogan's racist podcast. Now Spotify is running recruiting ads for ICE.

No one needs Spotify.

#BoycottSpotify #CancelSpotify #ICE #Rogan #USPol

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Spotify logo reimagined as N-Wordify

"'Kardon was part of a clergy group that was to lead a worship service outside the Chicago facility…. ...

Kardon has never been arrested before. She said she was beaten with a baton while she prayed and was then dragged from the group and handcuffed.'"

#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #TomHoman #cruelty #fascism #immigrants #violence
/9

"On October 17, another pastor was assaulted by ICE while praying. According to Baptist News Global:

'United Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon of United Church of Rogers Park, Ill., was violently arrested along with eight others at a peaceful protest at the Broadview ICE facility this morning.'"

~Diana Butler Bass

#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #TomHoman #cruelty #fascism #immigrants #violence
/8

https://dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/sunday-musings-7e5

"Immigration enforcement isn’t the problem. Dehumanization and injustice are."

~ Esau McCaulley

#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #TomHoman #cruelty #fascism #immigrants #violence
/7

https://www.holypost.com/post/what-does-it-profit-a-nation-to-deport-immigrants-lose-its-soul

"And in Tuesday’s raid in Chicago, teenagers were reportedly 'slammed to the ground' by masked agents and one U.S. citizen may have been detained for five hours."

#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #TomHoman #cruelty #fascism #immigrants #violence
/6

"Consider some recent horrors: an American citizen wrongly detained and treated with shocking brutality. A Mexican immigrant fatally shot by ICE officers for stated reasons that are falling apart under journalistic scrutiny. A minister shot in the head by a pepper ball while he had his arms raised in prayer."

~ Greg Sargent

#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #TomHoman #cruelty #fascism #immigrants #violence
/5

https://newrepublic.com/article/201802/trump-ice-raids-chicago-democrats

"Federal agents have been caught on video body slamming people to the ground, kneeling on people’s necks, and pointing weapons at close range. Dozens of people have already died at ICE’s hands , including US citizens, but this tally is artificially low because the Trump administration tightly controls media access to ICE detention facilities."

#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #TomHoman #cruelty #fascism #immigrants #violence
/4

"On too many videos circulating on social media to count, masked ICE agents have been recorded getting more and more aggressive with members of the public, deliberately escalating non-violent exchanges into violent ones."

#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #TomHoman #cruelty #fascism #immigrants #violence
/3

"More than that, his statement was meant to groom the public. The Trump administration is trying to get US citizens used to the idea that federal agents could use lethal force—to the point of killing people— against anyone who exercises their Constitutional right to peacefully protest against government actions they don’t like."

#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #TomHoman #cruelty #fascism #immigrants #violence
/2

"This week, blind to Constitutional law and US history, Trump’s Border Czar Tom Homan said that protests at ICE raids 'could lead to bloodshed and people dying.' Suggesting that masked ICE agents might kill protestors for simply shouting hateful slogans at them, Homan was building the permission structure for federal agents to use 'full force' violence against non-violent protestors."

~ Sabrina Haake

#Trump #ICE #TomHoman #cruelty #fascism #immigrants #violence
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https://sabrinahaake.substack.com/p/james-madison-smiled-on-no-kings

TO ALL THE #NoKings NAYSAYERS

there’s always folks like you who crave the negative attention. maybe try counseling instead.

these protests act as containers for all the grievances people hold against the status quo. they have people protesting #ICE #transphobia #techbros #billionaires #christofascism #zionism #genocide #misogyny #racism because they are all connected.

oh, you just wanted your one special interest represented? today is a safe day to go protest about it. go out there & do it.

IMPORTANT #NoKings REMINDER

fascist #billionaire media and their AP psycophants will try to depict the #Oct18 #protests as only happening in NYC, LA, DC, Portland, Chicago.

do you see the pattern? these are the big cities #Republicans have Trump targeting for #ICE terrorism.

DENY FASCIST MEDIA THE FALSE NARRATIVE OF SILENT #MAGA #GOP SUBURBAN FASCIST APPROVAL.

post your protests in suburban, exurban & rural towns, no matter how small. show #antifa lives out & proud outside the cities.

💥 IBM did the same with Nazi Germany.

｢ Screenshots of internal documents and communications obtained by The New York Times show that Salesforce has pitched Immigration and Customs Enforcement on using the company’s artificial intelligence capabilities to help ICE staff up as Mr. Trump expands immigration raids and deportations around the country ｣

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/us/salesforce-benioff-ice.html

#ice #ai #salesforce #fascism #uspol

ABOUT #NOKINGS

the world needs to see millions of white people on the streets everywhere.

i said back in 2015 that Trump was your family, friends & relations, and they’ve proven me right: not only did most voted for him, your skinfolks are giddy about his #ICE terrorism.

yes, everybody who can should hit the streets, but let’s be honest: a smidgen above 50% of white folks want #GOP fascism.

FLOOD THE ZONE IN EVERY #REPUBLICAN STRONGHOLD.

tomorrow be your friendly neighborhood race traitor.

In the dispute over the #NationalGuard, US District Judge April Perry said she found no substantial evidence that a “danger of rebellion” is brewing in #Illinois during the #Trump #immigration crackdown.

#Chicago #law #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #immigration #Constitution #FreedomOfAssembly #RightToProtest #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #fascism #Tyranny #MafiaState #PoliceBrutality #MilitaryState #PosseComitatusAct #MartialLaw #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy

What kind of people use Bitcoin?

The kind that join ICE to point guns at people.

Nice ad there, on the helmet.

Contemporary Gestapo, sponsored by crypto.

#ice #btc #ad #crypto #fascist

Are you #Amphtifa?
🐸
Operation Inflation and Rush Hour Resistance Rally #RHRR are looking to expand to your city!

Does that mean that Big Protest is going to come takeover and do the work for you?

Hell no! It just means that they have figured it out by doing it and would love to see the fun spread. Right now the most important thing that most people can do is to invade IRL & wake up the normies, imo.

https://www.operationinflation.com/faq

https://rhrr.us/#start-your-own

#NoKings #Antifa #Protest #Resist #antifascist #resistance #NoKingsNoMasters #TTJ #FuckFascists #FuckICE #ACAB #ICE #OperationInflation #Portland #Phoenix #PortlandFrogs

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Join us on the streets for a rush-hour resistance rally. Together, we the people can fix this.

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

…#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

#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

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

#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

Now I am hungry and want to buy a tamale by bicycle.

h/t @grumpasaurus

Chicago Cyclists Are Buying Out Tamale Carts To Keep Vendors Home And Safe From ICE

https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/17/chicago-cyclists-are-buying-out-tamale-carts-to-keep-vendors-home-and-safe-from-ice/

#BikeTooter #ICE #Fascism

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

#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

#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

LA Times: "...Video that appears to show federal immigration agents using their vehicle to ram the truck of an immigrant rights activist has sparked controversy and public outrage in the city of Oxnard, an agricultural town that has been the frequent target of immigration raids.

At the center of the controversy is a claim by federal agents that the activist was the aggressor, ramming into their vehicle.

...The incident is the latest controversy involving federal immigration agents that has not only sparked outrage among activists and residents but also raised questions about some of the claims agents made previously. ..."

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-16/agents-accuse-activists-of-slamming-into-their-vehicle

#ICE #Fascism #VenturaCounty

KTLA: Federal vehicle involved in crash in Oxnard, report says

"A vehicle containing federal agents and another vehicle collided in Oxnard Thursday morning.

The vehicles crashed in the 200 block of Fifth Street just before 8 a.m., the Ventura County Star reports, citing information from Oxnard Assistant Police Chief Rocky Marquez.

Marquez told the Star that the federal vehicle was tied to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Protesters and police gathered at the scene. "

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/federal-vehicle-involved-in-crash-in-oxnard-report-says/

#Fascism #ICE #Oxnard