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🗜️ The more we push back, the tighter they grip so that everyone sees their authoritarianism.
More than a hundred people died in Texas floods and Trump’s weather service cuts may be at partly at fault, but they’re calling reporters evil for asking questions. ICE raided farmworkers and ordinary locals rushed to help when word spread at internet speed. That freaked them out so much that Tom Homan defiantly said on live TV that they have the right to racially profile. Federal troops are still in Florida and California, prompting a judge to order today that they and police cannot shoot journalists with rubber bullets.
These panicked authoritarians are lashing back at anyone who challenges them. Yes, they’re more dangerous, but also much more open about it.
Keep pushing. Big nationwide protests are scheduled for Thursday so figure out now how you can be there.
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Yesterday’s Top Story
DHS labels skateboarding, livestreaming and bike riding as ‘violent tactics’ in police guidance for immigration protests obtained by WIRED.