A Great Motto for Witches!
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A Great Motto for Witches!
A dramatic image with bold text about Idaho House Committee's passage of a social transition ban, set against a grayscale domed ceiling background. Transcribed Text: BREAKING Idaho House Committee Passes Extreme Social Transition Ban HB 822 is alarming government overreach that would allow Idaho politicians to decide how youth dress and act.
BREAKING: An Idaho House Committee passed HB 822. This dangerous and unconstitutional bill would require trusted adults, such as teachers and counselors, to monitor children for signs that they are not conforming to gender stereotypes. Learn more about the bill: buff.ly/7kw0CXu
Screen shot of introduction of case: Michael H. Simon, District Judge. In a well-functioning constitutional democratic republic, free speech, courageous newsgathering, and nonviolent protest are all permitted, respected, and even celebrated. In an authoritarian regime, that is not the case. Indeed, a democracy is only as strong as its tolerance for dissent. As Benjamin Franklin wrote: Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins.' Our nation is now at a crossroads. We have been here before and have previously returned to the right path, notwithstanding an occasional detour. In helping our nation find its constitutional compass, an impartial and independent judiciary, operating under the rule of law, has a responsibility that it may not shirk. ' Benjamin Franklin, "On Freedom of Speech and the Press," Pennsylvania Gazette, Nov. 17, 1737. Fifteen years earlier, Dr. Franklin wrote: "Whoever would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation, must begin by subduing the Freedom of Speech." Benjamin Franklin, Silence Dogood, No. 8, as printed in The New England Courant, July 9, 1722.
otherwise, it is HEREBY ORDERED THAT: 1. The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and all agents and employees of that Department, including all persons acting under the direction of or in active concert or participation with the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security or any of its agents or employees (collectively, the "Enjoined Persons") are hereby prohibited and enjoined from engaging in, directing, or encouraging others to engage in or direct any of the following actions at or in the vicinity of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE") building located at 4310S. Macadam Avenue, near the corner of Southwest Moody Avenue and Southwest Bancroft Street in Portland, Oregon ("Portland ICE Building"): No Enjoined Person may direct or use chemical or projectile munitions, including but not limited to kinetic impact projectiles, pepper ball or paintball guns, tear gas or other chemical irritants, soft nose rounds, 40mm or 37mm launchers, less lethal shotguns, and flashbang, Stinger, or rubber ball grenades, unless the specific target of such a weapon or device poses an imminent threat of physical harm to a law enforcement officer or other person. No Enjoined Person may fire any munitions or use any weapons described in subsection (a) at the head, neck, or torso of any person, unless the officer is legally justified in using deadly force against that person.
No Enjoined Person may use pepper spray, oleoresin capsicum spray, or other aerosol restraint spray (collectively, "OC Spray"), unless the specific target of that weapon exhibits, at a minimum, active resistance. For purposes of this Order, and by way of example and illustration only, trespassing, refusing to move, refusing to obey an order to disperse, and "going limp" (or "going dead weight") are merely acts of passive resistance, not active resistance. In addition, no Enjoined Person may use OC Spray indiscriminately against groups of people where bystanders foreseeably would be affected. OC Spray, however, may be used against specific individuals actively engaged in violent unlawful conduct, actively resisting arrest, or as reasonably necessary in a defensive capacity.
2. Nothing in this Order shall prevent an Enjoined Person from making an otherwise lawful arrest if there is probable cause to believe that a crime has been committed and that the person being arrested has committed that crime. 3. Nothing in this Order shall prevent an Enjoined Person from using proportional force, including less lethal weapons, on any individual who poses an imminent threat of physical harm to a law enforcement officer or other person. 4. Defendants shall not be liable for violating this Preliminary Injunction if a person is incidentally exposed to a crowd-control device, provided that such a device is deployed in a manner that is fully consistent with this Order of Preliminary Injunction. The parties shall promptly confer regarding how the Enjoined Persons who perform duties at or in the vicinity of the Portland ICE Building can place conspicuous and unique identifying markings (using numbers and/or letters) on the uniforms, vests, and/or helmets of the officers and agents deployed at the Portland ICE Building so that they can be identified at a reasonable distance and without unreasonably interfering with the legitimate law enforcement needs of these personnel. If the parties agree on a method of marking, they shall submit the terms of their agreement in writing to the Court, and the Court will then issue a Supplemental Order of Preliminary Injunction that incorporates the parties agreement. If the
Preliminary Injunction granted in the Portland, Oregon-based lawsuit against the Fed's brutal response to non-violent protests at the ICE facility.
"I hope you are impressed," he said to me. "How do you like the performance? I mean, Venezuela is obvious. This might be even better. How do you like the performance?"
"I hope you are impressed," he said to me. "How do you like the performance? I mean, Venezuela is obvious. This might be even better. How do you like the performance?"
"How do you like the performance?"
An illegal war for the sake of spectacle and the amusement of POTUS.
the texas primaries have it all: corruption, clapbacks, honey tycoons, tejano musicians, and vince the shamwow guy
Okay I feel like this is going to come up a lot in the next 24 hours so let's just clear this up:
Ayatollah Khameini, the Iranian supreme leader allegedly killed today, is/was *not* the same person as Ayatollah Khomeini, the supreme leader who came to power in the 1979 revolution.
Several high-ranking federal election officials attended a summit last week at which prominent figures who worked to overturn Donald Trumpโs loss in the 2020 election pressed the president to ***declare a national emergency to take over this yearโs midterms***
www.propublica.org/article/elec...
Join me for another affordable, sliding scale class! No previous herbal knowledge required. All are welcome!
I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.
What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses?
Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards
My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
Although, not everything in Salem's prison history is so rosey. During our historical research for this story, we came across a report of one person OSP executed in the early 1900s.
Pieces of that man's skin were then sold to elites in Salem as a collectible. A tale for another day perhaps.
This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported.
He finally died.
I am so angry.
www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...
Want to listen to me talk about tear gas & street medicking? Hereโs a podcast!
www.buzzsprout.com/2506159
Loretta Smith has never been on your side, Portlanders. And now her reaction to disruptive protests is that she wants to have a firearm on her person?? That doesnโt seem like the gut instincts that Iโm looking for in a City Councilor.
Watching a queer speed dating event and they just split up by sign element. 5% earth signs, 15% air, 15% water, 65% fire
Damn, this is amazing. And definitely makes me wish I were there.
Headline: Immigrants who say their detention is illegal have filed more than 18,000 cases. It's a historic high. Graph: A line chart going from Jan 2009 to Jan 2026 showing very few habeas cases until Trumpโs second term, where the line takes off nearly vertically, showing more than 6,600 cases in Jan 2026 alone.
The Trump administrationโs push for mass deportations has resulted in more cases, known as habeas petitions, filed in federal court in the last year than under the last three administrations combined, including Trumpโs first term.
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You rock!
Spread the word! Invite your friends & coworkers! In person trainings in Portland, Oregon!
Uh, yes. Not seeing where I said anything that conflicted with that.
And if you want it printed by your door, we've got a poster for that: activistchecklist.org/police
Please share far & wide! Iโm doing a free aftercare workshop on Saturday, another on Sunday, & thatโll be a wrap for irl free aftercare classes this winter. Both venues can fit plenty of participants, & no herbal knowledge is needed!
A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad โ the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
Spread the word! Invite your friends & coworkers! In person trainings in Portland, Oregon!
A copy of Kristian Williams's new book Policing the Progressive City sits on top of four stacks of the same book.
๐ฅ RELEASED TODAY! ๐ฅ From Kristian Williams, author of ๐๐ถ๐ณ ๐๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ญ๐ถ๐ฆ, comes a new book on the dangers of "progressive policing" as told through a study of Portland, Oregon.
Learn more & get your copy: www.akpress.org/policing-the...
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Homeland Security is monitoring anti-ICE Reddit posts, an intelligence bulletin leaked to me reveals:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/homeland-s...
Right now Rikers Island, the physically largest jail in the entire United States, is holding under 7,000 people.
ICE's warehouse plans include detention camps which will hold between 8,500-10,000 people in buildings not designed for human habitation.
I mean, sure โ but having used these wipes just last weekend on my face, I can say that they were way more effective than water alone. 10/10 would use again.
