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Resistance Media @resistancemedia.bsky.social · 2h

NSPM-7 represents a clear and present danger to journalistic activity historically protected by the First Amendment.

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Lawfare and the War on Free Expression: The Resistance Will Be Reported, Part 2

NSPM-7 represents a clear and present danger to journalistic activity historically protected by the First Amendment.

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Resistance Media @resistancemedia.bsky.social · 1d

"Both the order and the memo are ungrounded in fact and law. Acting on them would violate free speech rights, potentially threatening any person or group holding any one of a broad array of disfavored views with investigation and prosecution."

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Trump’s Orders Targeting Antifascism Aim to Criminalize Opposition

Purporting to go after “domestic terrorism,” the president presents an imagined left-wing conspiracy and authorizes punishments for even tenuous connections to speech the administration doesn’t like.

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Resistance Media @resistancemedia.bsky.social · 2d

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Occult

How Dominion's sale, the AI bubble, and ecological collapse reveal the occult logic behind America's authoritarian acceleration

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Resistance Media @resistancemedia.bsky.social · 2d

The Sanders-endorsed, anti-establishment El-Sayed, 40, follows a similar blueprint as Mamdani, and Michigan in some ways offers favorable terrain for the leftwing populist playbook.

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The populist playbook: Democratic US Senate candidate seeks to replicate Mamdani’s success

Abdul El-Sayed’s bid for Michigan senator centers on bold leftwing populism similar to the NYC mayoral candidate

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Resistance Media @resistancemedia.bsky.social · 3d

Miller plainly believes there’s a latent majority out in the country that can be sleepwalked into authoritarianism.

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Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

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Resistance Media @resistancemedia.bsky.social · 4d

Gaza’s reporters have endured displacement, famine, and exhaustion, and still face the threat of being silenced outright.

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Starved, Displaced, Killed: Gaza’s Journalists Persist Despite Dire Conditions - Nieman Reports

The record death toll for news workers in Gaza is just one of the grim realities facing those still reporting as the Israel-Hamas war grinds into its third year.

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Resistance Media @resistancemedia.bsky.social · 4d

The endgame for Trump, Vance, Noem, and Bondi is coming into clearer focus, and it’s nearly a one-for-one, step-by-step implementation of Nazi jurist/philosopher Carl Schmitt’s ideas that created and sustained the early Third Reich.

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Plenary Power: The Final Step in Trump’s American Autocracy

How the Insurrection Act could become the 21st-century Enabling Act, with six justices and the GOP standing by…

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Resistance Media @resistancemedia.bsky.social · 4d

From Bernie Sanders, whose 2016 Presidential race inspired him to embrace socialist politics, Mamdani has learned how to pivot relentlessly back to his economic agenda…

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What Zohran Mamdani Knows About Power

The thirty-three-year-old socialist is rewriting the rules of New York politics. Can he transform the city as mayor?

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Resistance Media @resistancemedia.bsky.social · 4d

The Trump administration is drawing up “secret lists of terrorist groups inside the United States,” Senator Elissa Slotkin said on the floor of Congress yesterday — the first such reference to the effects of National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7).

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Senator Warns of Trump's Secret Watchlist for Americans

NSPM-7 finally gets Congressional attention

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Resistance Media @resistancemedia.bsky.social · 4d

The order prohibits arrests and use of physical force against journalists and restricts the use of dangerous crowd-control munitions.

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Court backs Chicago reporters, but leaves door open for dispersals

A federal court limited how federal officers can target journalists at protests, but stopped short of entirely blocking them from ordering reporters to leave

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Resistance Media @resistancemedia.bsky.social · 4d

It’s hard to see how crowdsourcing information on ICE operations is distinguishable from live reporting — an activity explicitly protected by the First Amendment.

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How Big Tech Helps ICE Silent Dissent

Gatekeepers at Apple and Google prioritize fealty to Trump over the First Amendment and public safety.

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RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 6d

This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray came under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union condemn this campaign and stand in solidarity with our colleagues. Read our full statement here: https://loom.ly/BDXasRY

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Resistance Media @resistancemedia.bsky.social · 5d

After Kirk’s assassination, Jack Posobiec called Bray a “domestic terrorist professor” on X. The Rutgers chapter of TPUSA then circulated a petition that accused the professor of being an “outspoken, well-known antifa member” and called for his dismissal.
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US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 5d

This indictment of Letitia James is not a prosecution; it is a politically-motivated persecution. Donald Trump is using a weaponized Department of Justice to punish a public servant who dared to hold him accountable. This sham proceeding is a direct assault on the Rule of Law.

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 6d

Rutgers Professor @mark-bray.bsky.social, who studies & writes about Antifascism,Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

By the time he & his family reached the gate, their tickets were cancelled.
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Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 5d

Trump is weaponizing the DOJ to prosecute his perceived political enemies and it is unprecedented and flat out dangerous.

I stand with Letitia James. This administration must be held accountable.

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New York AG Letitia James indicted in Virginia after investigation by Trump's DOJ

A federal grand jury has indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James, marking the second Trump foe to face federal prosecution in recent weeks.

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Resistance Media @resistancemedia.bsky.social · 6d

The future is likely to be far more difficult.

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Truth Under Siege: The Resistance Will Be Reported, Part 1

Defending The Press in Trump's America

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Resistance Media @resistancemedia.bsky.social · 6d

If you’re a billionaire, you may view democracy as a potential threat to your net worth. Control over the dwindling number of media outlets enables you to hedge against democracy by subtly (or not so subtly) suppressing criticism of you and other plutocrats.

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Why has the media become so vulnerable to Trump, and what can we do about it?

Even after Disney's reversal on Jimmy Kimmel, the vulnerability remains — unless we change the rules.

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Resistance Media @resistancemedia.bsky.social · 6d

Stephen Miller spent his weekend, as he is wont to do, describing American politics as if the nation were in the advanced stages of civil war and as if he were dictating a message while racing to a mountain hideout to escape bloodthirsty guerrillas.

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Stephen Miller Is Going for Broke

The White House aide equates opposition to Trump’s agenda with terrorism—and pushes for the use of state power to suppress it.

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Resistance Media @resistancemedia.bsky.social · 6d

Its reputation in tatters, thanks to Musk’s brand suicide-by-Trump and years of quality complaints & technology stagnation,Tesla needed a big bang to counteract its shrinking market share…that big bang looks more like a Starship exploding on the launch pad.

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Tesla took its shot—and missed

Tesla's new Standard model cars aren't affordable, but they are cheap. And they're risking the automaker's reputation as an innovator.

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Resistance Media @resistancemedia.bsky.social · 6d

Harrell’s second executive order lays out plans for the Mayor’s Office to submit an ordinance that would ban the use of face masks by law enforcement, with limited exceptions. It would require federal agents to wear clothing that clearly designates their affiliations.

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Is Seattle next? Mayor Harrell signs orders to protect city amid Trump's National Guard escalations

Mayor Bruce Harrell on Wednesday signed two executive orders aimed at protecting Seattle and its residents from federal law enforcement actions taken by President Donald Trump's administration.

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Resistance Media @resistancemedia.bsky.social · 6d

This moment has elevated the crisis so that it is not just a conflict between the federal government and a state, but between two states. We have armed soldiers from Texas volunteered by their governor to impose the president’s will on the citizens of Illinois.
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Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

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Resistance Media @resistancemedia.bsky.social · 6d

As the weeks go by in this artificially generated constitutional crisis, the rationale for the domestic use of the military is shifting. Is it to protect federal law enforcement? To enforce immigration laws? To police crime? To stop nonexistent riots?

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There Is No Insurrection

Troops are for national defense, not displays of presidential power.

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Resistance Media @resistancemedia.bsky.social · 7d

Secretive Watchlisting Center Executing NSPM-7
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Secretive Watchlisting Center Executing NSPM-7

“We’re expanding the watchlist,” FBI director says amid 300% increase in domestic terror investigations.

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