@heidilifeldman Love your optimism that we still have a civilization and it can still support historians ...

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And ANOTHER VERY IMPORTANT thread 🧵 to read and understand.
The world is changing rapidly to bad.
We MUSTN'T look away or deny it happens.
It does.

@heidilifeldman Is it in a governor’s power to call up his own state guard “meet” an incoming guard from another state?

@heidilifeldman I think you're right. We're through the looking glass now. Most of what the current administration does is beyond satire and a parody of itself. There must be some way to bring people together, but it's hard to ignore these strange (unconstitutional) attempts at fomenting unrest and violence.

@heidilifeldman When the southern states seceded in 1860 they rebelled against the federal administration led by President Lincoln. This time the sitting President is in breach of the constitution. Who will lead the states which remain faithful to the old "pre-Roberts" constitution?

@heidilifeldman I think America seems too apathetic for a civil war.

@heidilifeldman Thank you for using the term "US military," which is much more appropriate than the somewhat friendly-sounding "National Guard." They are *soldiers*, whether part of the Guard or the active Army. The receive the same training and use the same weapons and equipment.

It would be more likely to be described as a purge than a "civil war". We would be hopelessly outgunned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UucXz3ZGmF4&t=142s

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Oh, this is gonna be a burner!

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You're spot on about everything. Thank God we have educated people like yourself who know what's up and aren't afraid to speak up.

@heidilifeldman Evil Republicans can't wait to murder Americans.

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Are California taxpayers paying for this abuse of law and power?

Possibly as a direct response to Immergut’s temporary restraining order, Trump and Hegseth have apparently turned to California-based National Guard troops, which they previously unlawfully activated, and are deploying them to Oregon. https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/newsom-sue-trump-california-national-guard-portland-oregon/ 7/

Judge Immergut’s decision ruled that plaintiffs who have sued to stop Trump and Hegseth from activating troops based in Oregon are very likely to win on their claims that neither the relevant National Guard statute nor the Constitution itself permit thus. In other words, she concluded that Trump would both usurp Congress’ authority and violate the sovereignty of the state of Oregon were he to federalize the Oregon National Guard. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ord.189270/gov.uscourts.ord.189270.56.0_1.pdf 6/

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It's a loose loose proposition:

Either a place surrenders to the ICE thugs or it creates the pretext to get visited by the military.

In Oregon, the Republican Fascist President’s introduction of U.S. military troops is even more egregious. Trump has ordered the use of troops stationed in California to invade Oregon. Not only is this the use of the federal military to occupy a peaceful state, it is in direct contravention of a court-ordered prohibition announced yesterday by a federal court judge appointed by Trump. 5/

In Chicago, the federal government’s introduction of federal troops has come after a peaceful time there during which the federal government used federal domestic law enforcement, ICE, to create and incite violence. The ICE-driven violence was ratcheted up this weekend, seemingly to create a pretext for the invasion of Chicago by federal military forces. 4/

For the CA and OR governors’ statements see:
https://apnews.com/article/national-guard-oregon-california-trump-newsom-3b8e12f8d2d39f195dda73dda31f1681

For IL governor’s latest statement and WH confirmation of federalization of the National Guard there, see https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/pritzker-trump-administration-federalize-illinois-national-guard-members/ 3/