Turmoil in the United States

[Ravenlocke]

In the nation’s capital today

https://x.com/MAGACult2/status/1964406411351535787

Jaw-dropping crowds in DC right now, heading toward the White House. People do not like military takeovers of their city.

https://x.com/Victorshi2020/status/1964387422655172735

[Ravenlocke]

🚨 MAJOR: A spontaneous mass protest has erupted in D.C. against Trump’s militarization of the capital.

Crowds surged into the streets just hours after reports confirmed federal troop deployments and ICE raids.

The message from protesters is clear: “This is how you fight back.”

https://x.com/allenanalysis/status/1964391514198483083

[Ravenlocke]

Churches in Washington DC are ringing their bells in support of the protest

https://x.com/notjasond100/status/1964373987804532859

[Ravenlocke]

🇺🇲⚔️🇺🇸 The President of the United States (U.S.) appears to be declaring WAR on the U.S. City of Chicago.

Which U.S. city is next? Does President Trump not understand that in a war, two opposing sides are fighting each other? Is this really what he wants? For Americans to be fighting Americans on U.S. soil again?

Lines from the movie Apocalypse Now. A Vietnam era war movie:

Kilgore: Smell that? You smell that?

Lance: What?

Kilgore: Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell? The whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end.

Trump replaced the word "napalm" with "deportations", changed the actors face to his and changed the title to "Chipocalypse".

This 🇺🇲⚔️🇺🇸 The President of the United States (U.S.) appears to be declaring WAR on the U.S. City of Chicago.

Which U.S. city is next? Does President Trump not understand that in a war, two opposing sides are fighting each other? Is this really what he wants? For Americans to be fighting Americans on U.S. soil again?

Lines from the movie Apocalypse Now. A Vietnam era war movie:

Kilgore: Smell that? You smell that?

Lance: What?

Kilgore: Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell? The whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end.

Trump replaced the word "napalm" with "deportations", changed the actors face to his and changed the title to "Chipocalypse".

This 🇺🇲⚔️🇺🇸 The President of the United States (U.S.) appears to be declaring WAR on the U.S. City of Chicago.

Which U.S. city is next? Does President Trump not understand that in a war, two opposing sides are fighting each other? Is this really what he wants? For Americans to be fighting Americans on U.S. soil again?

Lines from the movie Apocalypse Now. A Vietnam era war movie:

Kilgore: Smell that? You smell that?

Lance: What?

Kilgore: Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell? The whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end.

Trump replaced the word "napalm" with "deportations", changed the actors face to his and changed the title to "Chipocalypse".

This post is very disturbing.

https://x.com/dana916/status/1964390022733254867

[Ravenlocke]

Chicago’s mayor deployed every salt truck in the city to block ICE last night. Because when the forecast calls for ICE, you salt the roads until it melts. ❄️🧂

By dawn today, IDOT plows and salt trucks were out on I-294, the Edens, and I-94 — crawling shoulder to shoulder, jamming every lane into Chicago. A wall of trucks, moving slow, making it clear: ICE isn’t welcome here.

https://x.com/DistillSocial/status/1964395291525992462

[Ravenlocke]

From Governor JB Pritzker

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.

This is not a joke. This is not normal.

Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

https://x.com/GovPritzker/status/1964367057052701152

My message to Donald Trump is very simple.

https://x.com/JBPritzker/status/1963764395600678999

[Ravenlocke]

🇺🇸🤡🪖Trump's Defence Minster's office sign has been changed following Donald Trump's order:

Hegseth is now the Secretary of War, not Defense.

America started to become a similar heritage foundation like Britain. The name Secretary of War was changed in 1947 to Secretary of Defence.

https://x.com/Hawkeye1745/status/1964333754761027903

[Ravenlocke]

Ben Cohen (Co-Founder of Ben & Jerry's and Leader of
@upinarms_us)


Our government is spending our money murdering people around the world just like us -- mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters -- instead of investing it here at home to meet basic human needs, like housing, healthcare and childcare.

People are Up In Arms. The Pentagon is killing us. And we're not going to take it. That's what our campaign is all about.

Full episode available here: https://kpfa.org/episode/the-ralph-n...ugust-25-2025/

https://x.com/YoBenCohen/status/1963612012119740851

[Ravenlocke]

Text:
A new day — new people unhappy with Trump's rebranding. Protests against the president's policies took place in Chicago.

Hundreds of people took to the streets with posters and flags. Cars with slogans like "Don't come to Chicago," "Fascists are not welcome here" are driving around the city — messages addressed to Trump and the National Guard, users write.

The thing is, the day before, the American president published a post hinting that the renaming of the Pentagon to the Ministry of War was done to use the armed forces to deport illegal migrants in Chicago. He wrote on his social media: "I love the smell of deportations in the morning" and "Chicago will soon find out why it's called the 'Ministry of War.'"

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker called Trump a dictator in response to these statements.
- ZN

https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1964590257367552395

“And here in Chicago, we say no more. It’s time to fight back.”

Local Latino leader, Ald. Byron Sigcho Lopez, outlines the struggle ahead for Chicago and its connections to Trump’s attacks on LA, DC, and Venezuela. Protests are taking place across the city today, as Trump’s assault on Chicago could begin this weekend.

https://x.com/BTnewsroom/status/1964355202351570993

From RT,

Anti-Trump protest SPREADS to Chicago

Crowds DENOUNCE plan to use National Guard to lower crime

‘This administration has waged war on anybody in this country who is a threat to WHITE supremacy’


https://x.com/RT_com/status/1964458149802627372

[grapevine]

Charlie Kirk’s Death Exposed the Biggest Scam in History

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=azE7nqqQMmo

(23.04)

Great commonsense information from Chase Hughes . . .

"Charlie Kirk’s assassination will dominate the headlines—but before the truth is even clear, the disinformation machine is already spinning. This video exposes how suppression, radicalization, and division are weaponized—not by ideology, but by systems designed to keep you outraged, divided, and distracted.

We’ll reveal:
• Why suppression is the biggest red flag in history—and why it always signals weakness, not strength.
• How highly suggestible people are radicalized—not by one side or the other, but through media outrage loops, algorithmic echo chambers, and deliberate manipulation.
• The illusion of “left vs. right”—a distraction designed to pit neighbors against each other while corruption, corporate power, and elites escape untouched.
• The common ground we all share: freedom, safety, stability, fairness—and what none of us want: corruption, endless wars for profit, elites with different rules, surveillance states, and justice systems that bend for the powerful but break for the rest of us.

This is not a partisan message.
Suppression is weakness.
Radicalization is manipulation.
Disinformation is the bait.
And if you don’t understand how this machinery works, you’ll keep falling for it.

Stay until the end—because once you see how these systems operate, you’ll never look at a headline the same way again.

God bless the Kirk family."

[wondering]

grapevine, Great video, short and succinct and has the ring of truth. I have already sent it to someone and will send it to others. I like this guy, sounds like he has quite a journey himself based on another video I saw about his health. Thanks

[Ravenlocke]

Mats Nilsson

Admiral Alvin Holsey in charge of Southern Command, Central and South America ops.

He’s leaving less than one year into his tenure. Worried he'll be charged with killing innocent people perhaps?

https://x.com/mazzenilsson/status/1978916550720499954

dana

🇺🇸⚔️🇻🇪 New York Times: “Admiral Alvin Holsey steps down as head of the US Southern Command less than a year after taking the position, amid a major Pentagon operation targeting alleged drug smuggling boats in the Caribbean region.”

stayfreeworld


https://x.com/dana916/status/1978950175474237908

Venezuelanalysis

About to be replaced by someone even more warmongering? US SouthCom chief admiral Alvin Holsey is stepping down from his post, with the NYT suggesting it is due to "concerns" over Washington's murder spree in the Caribbean Sea

https://x.com/venanalysis/status/1978933313973707083

[rgray222]

Posted by grapevine (here)
Charlie Kirk’s Death Exposed the Biggest Scam in History

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=azE7nqqQMmo

(23.04)

Great commonsense information from Chase Hughes . . .

"Charlie Kirk’s assassination will dominate the headlines—but before the truth is even clear, the disinformation machine is already spinning. This video exposes how suppression, radicalization, and division are weaponized—not by ideology, but by systems designed to keep you outraged, divided, and distracted.

We’ll reveal:
• Why suppression is the biggest red flag in history—and why it always signals weakness, not strength.
• How highly suggestible people are radicalized—not by one side or the other, but through media outrage loops, algorithmic echo chambers, and deliberate manipulation.
• The illusion of “left vs. right”—a distraction designed to pit neighbors against each other while corruption, corporate power, and elites escape untouched.
• The common ground we all share: freedom, safety, stability, fairness—and what none of us want: corruption, endless wars for profit, elites with different rules, surveillance states, and justice systems that bend for the powerful but break for the rest of us.

This is not a partisan message.
Suppression is weakness.
Radicalization is manipulation.
Disinformation is the bait.
And if you don’t understand how this machinery works, you’ll keep falling for it.

Stay until the end—because once you see how these systems operate, you’ll never look at a headline the same way again.

God bless the Kirk family."

Yes, this is the war being waged between good and evil. It is only fractionally about the people who commit the actual crimes; the real story is that they have allowed themselves to be compromised by evil. The person goes to jail and gets taken out of society, while evil moves on to the next victim. Evil scores enormous wins when it compromises an entire country or political party. Examples are littered throughout history, i.e. Cambodia, Russia, Germany, Japan etc the list goes on and on.

[neutronstar]

Posted by Ravenlocke (here)
Mats Nilsson

Admiral Alvin Holsey in charge of Southern Command, Central and South America ops.

He’s leaving less than one year into his tenure. Worried he'll be charged with killing innocent people perhaps?

https://x.com/mazzenilsson/status/1978916550720499954

dana

🇺🇸⚔️🇻🇪 New York Times: “Admiral Alvin Holsey steps down as head of the US Southern Command less than a year after taking the position, amid a major Pentagon operation targeting alleged drug smuggling boats in the Caribbean region.”

stayfreeworld


https://x.com/dana916/status/1978950175474237908

Venezuelanalysis

About to be replaced by someone even more warmongering? US SouthCom chief admiral Alvin Holsey is stepping down from his post, with the NYT suggesting it is due to "concerns" over Washington's murder spree in the Caribbean Sea

https://x.com/venanalysis/status/1978933313973707083

So when we kill criminals who are responsible for millions of deaths it is called murder. Typical hit piece by the propaganda tool called the NY Times. I personally think this is justice. I am in favor of sending in Special Forces to take out all the cartels in Central and South America. Don't need to waste time with a trial. I am tired of the criminals getting special treatment.

[Ravenlocke]

S.L. Kanthan

Sep 10
“Drug trafficking by the CIA”… in collaboration with the Venezuelan National Guard!

1993 report by CBS 60 Minutes.

The US government is not only the world’s biggest drug trafficker, but also spends billions fighting narcotics smuggling! 🤨
https://x.com/Kanthan2030/status/1965983415062368258

Stew Peters

Sep 26, 2023
The C.I.A. deals drugs on U.S. soil.

The reality is the C.I.A. is one of the biggest Narco Traffickers on the planet.

https://x.com/realstewpeters/status/1706781920535728295

red.

Feb 9
For decades, CIA-backed operations fueled drug networks worldwide. Meanwhile, US officials continue to blame foreign governments. By enabling traffickers to fund anti-communist militias, the agency helped entrench a drug trade that still destabilizes entire regions today.

https://x.com/redstreamnet/status/1888614323678781521

Geopolitics Prime

2️⃣The 80s: Cocain & contras

Iran-Contra scandal exposed in 1985 CIA cocaine smuggling to finance Nicaraguan rebels.

The agency used drug networks to finance covert wars while American cities faced addiction crises.

https://x.com/geo_prime1/status/1979168008883867863

[neutronstar]

I once believed that our Government controlled the drug trade but they don't. Our Government does two things. It gives our money to private industry because of bribes or blackmail and it passes legislation that private industry wants for the same reasons. The people that control the drug trade are criminals that uses our government resources went it needs them. They are not citizens of this country and don't follow our laws so they don't get protection for their rights, they have none.

[neutronstar]

Posted by neutronstar (here)
I once believed that our Government controlled the drug trade but they don't. Our Government does two things. It gives our money to private industry because of bribes or blackmail and it passes legislation that private industry wants for the same reasons. The people that control the drug trade are criminals that uses our government resources went it needs them. They are not citizens of this country and don't follow our laws so they don't get protection for their rights, they have none.

This was also brought up in the recent Dark Journalist interview with Eric Hecker and the Government UFO disclosure. The Government doesn't know anything about UFOs. It's in the hands of private industry. They just take money from our government and hide behind gov classifications. The whole disclosure thing is just a distraction, entertainment. Very good interview by the way.

We talk about our Government as if it were an entity with a person we elect to make decisions for the betterment or detriment of the country, but it is not. It is just a tool for private industry to get what they want. Even Catharine A Fits says the President has no real power if they try to go against the criminals that control it.

Our Government has gotten to big to control. There is no accountability. I big part of government employees are there because private industry put them there and are doing their bidding.

I believe there is good people in Government, but they are fighting a loosing battle unless they drastically shrink Gov.

[Ravenlocke]

Sony Thăng
@nxt888
·
13h
When President Gustavo Petro said that "Colombia once dreamed of the Vietnamese revolution,"

He wasn’t being poetic.

He was naming a buried memory.

The moment when Latin America looked East and saw itself reflected in a people that refused to kneel.

Vietnam was the template of the impossible:

A small, wounded nation that defeated three empires in a single century.

It proved that history could be rewritten from the periphery.

That’s why Washington made sure the dream would never repeat.

Colombia was meant to be the next Vietnam.

Not in triumph, but in suppression.

Where Vietnam’s jungles swallowed invaders, Colombia’s mountains were turned into laboratories.

For counterinsurgency. For psychological warfare.

For narco-politics disguised as anti-drug crusades.

Petro calls it what it is: a "CIA experiment."

A place where the empire perfected the art of dissolving revolution into addiction.

Where insurgency was transformed into trafficking,

And liberation was replaced by logistics.

Vietnam broke the chain of conquest.

Colombia was forced to internalize it.

In Vietnam, the guerrilla became a nation.

In Colombia, the guerrilla was turned into a cartel.

It wasn’t an accident.

It was design.

A political genocide disguised as "stability."

An economic occupation hidden behind the language of "development."

The same United States that rained Agent Orange on Vietnamese rice fields later sprayed glyphosate over Colombian coca farms.

Different crops. Same war. Same objective.

To sterilize resistance in the name of civilization.

Petro speaks of a time when Colombia "dreamed of the Vietnamese revolution."

But that dream was buried under cocaine and counterinsurgency,

Under IMF debts and U.S. military bases,

Under presidents who ruled like colonial governors pretending to be democrats.

Vietnam’s revolution survived because it was not for sale.

Colombia’s was buried because it was surrounded.

Yet history has a way of returning in the places empire least expects.

The dream Petro names didn’t die. It went underground.

Waiting for a generation done with living between paramilitaries and Wall Street.

Vietnam taught the world that liberation begins when the colonized stop believing in the colonizer’s mirror.

Colombia is remembering that lesson now.

When Petro defies Washington’s "War on Drugs,"

He isn’t just arguing policy.

He’s re-igniting a memory.

The same one that terrified America half a century ago,

That somewhere, in the jungles of the South,

Another people might decide that sovereignty is not negotiable.

And if Vietnam was the proof,

Colombia might yet be the echo.

History doesn’t end with empire.

It ends with empire’s reflection,

When the colonies begin to dream again.

🇻🇳✊🇨🇴

@petrogustavo



Gustavo Petro
@petrogustavo
Auto-translated from Spanish by Grok
I have read Sony Thāng, on these networks, and his theses are companions to several theses we have presented to the world from Colombia, and he has another perspective on the global debate about drugs in the world.

As Colombia is the world's leading producer of cocaine, a substance prohibited by regulations that lack much scientific basis, the country has experienced hurricanes of violence and easy money, and the illicit economy has managed to undermine all its institutions and even the very culture of Colombian society, which once dreamed of the Vietnamese revolution but could not achieve it because the cocaine market emerged.

Communist guerrillas turned into drug traffickers, and fascism made a bloody entrance, this time cloaked in prohibited cocaine, because the money that could sway the votes of the humble without conscience could even appoint presidents, thus empowering genocide and greed instead of building a democracy, and it imposed true genocidaires in power.

In a way, I would say dialectically, what was once insurgency became the private army of the narco, something like that, I studied in Burma. For some reason I don’t know, many human processes in Southeast Asia resemble those in Colombia.

From Indonesia, they brought the idea of political genocide, and, on a smaller scale compared to what happened in Indonesia, they ended up assassinating the militants of the small Colombian left. It was a CIA experiment that left many children orphaned, because they killed their moms and dads, unionists, or simple grassroots workers gunned down in the streets by the thousands, just because a blend of cocaine, easy money, fascism, and genocidal massacres articulated even with the state. The mafia became, as Althusser said, an ideological apparatus of the state, controlling universities, and a paramilitary apparatus to control society from the fascist perspective, which is nothing more than de facto paramilitary governance. Colombia is a democratic country in appearance, with one of the most advanced constitutions in the world, but it remains a dead letter in the face of the reality of power itself, the power that kills to extract the last drop of labor from Colombians.

Trump allows me to put another perspective on the global agenda of anti-drug policy.

It is the same perspective as Sony’s; cocaine is just an excuse to maintain the budget of a bloated federal bureaucracy and allows military control over Latin American armies and other agencies. It is a policy of control over Latin America and its resources.

The U.S. anti-drug policy, called the war on drugs, is a failed strategy. It has left a million dead in Latin America and is only an excuse to control Latin America.

That’s why, in the Caribbean, missiles fall like in Gaza on boats of people who, whether involved in the drug trade or not, have the right to live.

If Trump’s strategist, to secure Venezuela’s oil cheaply, combines the so-called war on drugs with the real pursuit of oil, it is a double failure.

The “war on drugs” fails because it should never have been the domain of police and military but of public health, and the oil fails because if we continue down its greedy path, life itself will end.

https://x.com/nxt888/status/1980163709671768177

[shaberon]

Congress is looking at options including impeaching Kristi, de-funding Homeland Security, and restricting its power, such as...they would actually guard the borders.


Here is the can of worms as described by The Nation:

Low-lift national targets are mostly public-facing companies with relatively small ICE contracts that are set to expire soon, making them particularly vulnerable to consumer and employee pressure. Campaigns against companies like these can play a crucial role in generating further momentum against ICE, Trump, and their worst corporate collaborators.

Here are some examples:

Dell ($18.8 million contract with ICE for Microsoft software licenses, expiring March 2026)
UPS ($90,500 small-package delivery contract with ICE, expiring March 2026)
FedEx ($1 million delivery services contract with ICE, expiring March 2026)
Motorola Solutions ($15.6 million tactical communication infrastructure contract with ICE, expiring May 2026)
Comcast ($24,600 Internet services contract for ICE Seattle office, expiring May 2026. This could be a great fight for newly elected Mayor Katie Wilson to take on.)
AT&T ($83 million IT and network contract with ICE, with a potential end date of July 2032)

LexisNexis ($21 million data-brokerage contract with ICE. This company is particularly vulnerable to pressure from university students and professor unions, since much of its revenue comes from colleges.)

Home Depot and Lowe’s are using AI-powered license plate readers and feeding this data into law enforcement surveillance systems accessible to ICE. Their parking lots are also regular sites of ICE raids targeting day laborers.

High-lift national targets have deeper relationships with ICE, and will be harder to pressure. But two in particular need to be tackled.

Amazon provides ICE with the digital backbone for its data and surveillance operations through Amazon Web Services. Amazon’s Whole Foods stores are a rich potential target for nonviolent disruption on big days of action.

Palantir provides ICE with core data platforms that integrate and analyze information from many databases so agents can search, link, and manage deportation operations.
It will take longer to force these behemoths—the two worst corporate collaborators with ICE—to cut their ties, but it’s essential to publicize their centrality to Trump’s deportation machine.


Want to Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate Collaborators.

Abolish ICE or GTFO

Minneapolis to ICE: Get the **** Out!
Alyssa Oursler

Local targets can be found in communities across the country, where hundreds of smaller business have ICE contracts. Local activists can research and target these businesses—from contractors providing services to ICE offices to suppliers selling equipment—creating distributed pressure campaigns in every region where ICE operates. Hotels that rent rooms to ICE agents are particularly vulnerable targets, as the Minneapolis example demonstrated, and hospitality unions can play a key role in these campaigns.

Breaking companies from ICE is a winnable struggle that can put serious pressure on the administration by raising the political cost of mass deportations and damaging ICE’s ability to function. No administration can survive long without the consent of corporate America.

Obviously, the stakes are highest for our undocumented friends and family members. But this fight impacts all of us. To stop Trump’s authoritarian oligarchy, we need millions of people—well beyond our normal circles of activists—to join the fight.

Who is going to stop Trump from invading more countries and stealing the 2026 and 2028 elections if not a mass movement from below? Who is going to force politicians, whether Republicans or Democrats, to stand up for immigrant communities? Who is going to make corporations pay a price for collaborating with the Trump regime? We need to start building the organizing muscle and connective tissue now for widespread nonviolent disruption. Strategic organizing to win justice for all is the best way to honor the memory of Renee Nicole Good and the countless other victims of Trump’s inhumanity at home and abroad.

I don't know if anyone got hurt or anything was destroyed today.

Those are our options, fascist dictatorship or mass movement from below.

This was not on anyone's radar today?

[shaberon]

Here are some symbols you may see, from young to retired, north and south:

...demand accountability from a system that has operated with impunity for far too long.

"I'm done with the military colonialism, the overtake in other countries, and no accountability for this authoritarian regime,"

At the Minneapolis federal building:

U.S. Reps. Ilhan Omar, Kelly Morrison, and Angie Craig accused ICE agents of obstructing members of Congress from fulfilling their duty to oversee operations there.

"They do not care that they are violating federal law," Craig said after being turned away.

Among the press releases is the modern Anti-Administration:

Indivisible, a social movement organization formed to resist the Trump administration, said hundreds of protests were scheduled in states such as Texas, Kansas, New Mexico, Ohio, and Florida. Many were dubbed "ICE Out for Good" using the acronym for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Indivisible and its local chapters organized protests in all 50 states last year.

This is correct, Indivisible is an anti-Trump administration movement to the extent of calling it Fascist, whose idea of "Campaigns" are not political campaigns, more like a list of grievances.

We are dealing with those in a position of impunity who either want you gone or basically do not care that you are alive.

You have to replace the devotees from the Congress and Senate.