Democratic Governors Warn of MAGA Invasions, Martial Law - The Monday AM Quickie 10/6/25
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THE BIG NEWS
Trump Has Troops Invade Chicago, Portland; Democratic Governors Warn of MAGA 'Martial Law'
Top Democratic leaders in Oregon, Illinois, and California delivered stark warnings against unwanted, unasked-for incursions of federalized National Guard troops from other states, as federal agents brutalized peaceful protesters in cities targeted for punishment by MAGA policymakers. In Portland, Oregon, feds charged into a crowd of families totally unprovoked and knocked over a couple of 84-year-olds, sending one to the emergency room, after firing projectiles and chemical spray. In Chicago, feds deployed helicopters and chemical agents against families, and dragged innocent people away in handcuffs and zip ties.
"They are the ones that are making it a war zone," Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker told CNN last night. "They fire tear gas and smoke grenades, and they make it look like it's a war zone."
"We must now start calling this what it is: Trump's Invasion," he wrote later.
Governors of other targeted states echoed that message. "There is no insurrection in Portland. No threat to national security. No fires, no bombs, no fatalities due to civil unrest. The only threat we face is to our democracy — and it is being led by President Donald Trump," Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek said last night after a Trump-appointed federal judge, Karin Immergut, barred the Pentagon and the White House from deploying National Guard troops from any state to fight Trump's feverishly imagined "war."
It's unclear exactly what the rambling dotard Trump knows about the situation, but he clearly approves of the use of force against peaceful protesters. On his way to a brazenly partisan appearance before military servicemembers on Saturday, he claimed the only reason Democratic leaders "pretend" their cities aren't burning down is because "the politicians are afraid for their lives." Ludicrous.
"This is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law," Judge Immergut wrote. Dismissing the judge's decision before it was rendered, White House chief henchman Stephen Miller, who seems to be running the show, spread outrageous lies. Miller called the presence of a few dozen peaceful protesters, some in inflatable animal costumes, "an organized terrorist attack," while dismissing judicial oversight as a "legal insurrection" against the regime.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom joined Oregon's lawsuit against the government to stop the incursions yesterday, which have included National Guard troops from California. "America is on the brink of martial law," Newsom warned last night. "Do not be silent."
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Israel Abuses Gaza Aid Activists Including Greta Thunberg
Activists detained by Israel while attempting to deliver much-needed humanitarian aid to Gaza by sea have been abused and even "torture[d]" by their captors, the Guardian and the Associated Press report. Italian journalist Saverio Tommasi says Israeli soldiers withheld medicines from the activists, whom they treated "like monkeys." Famous Swedish activist Greta Thunberg was apparently singled out for mistreatment. "They dragged little Greta by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others," activist ErsinÇelik told Turkish state media. Thunberg told Swedish foreign ministry officials that the Israelis had tried to force her to sign a document she couldn't understand. The Israeli government calls the reports "brazen lies."
Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people protested the flotilla's interception in several European cities on Sunday. And a new Washington Post poll shows 61 percent of American Jews say Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza, while 39 percent say Israel is guilty of genocide. You can imagine what the Israeli government might say about them.
Regime Plans Cuts to Social Security Disability Benefits
The Washington Post reports that the Trump regime wants to make it harder for people to qualify for Social Security disability benefits by changing the evaluation criteria around age and imposing a stricter burden on people in determining whether they can work. It's still unclear how many people could lose benefits under this scheme – but outside experts say the rule changes could cut benefits to 750,000 disabled people while depriving 80,000 widows and children of benefits. Former Office of Management and Budget official Jack Smalligan says the rules as they are are already too strict, denying benefits to many who deserve them. But the cuts are "a priority" of OMB Director and Project 2025 mastermind Russell Vought.
“This is Phase One of the Republican campaign to force Americans to work into old age to access their earned Social Security benefits, and represents the largest cut to disability insurance in American history," Oregon Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden says. "Americans with disabilities have worked and paid into Social Security just like everybody else, and they do not deserve the indignity of more bureaucratic water torture to get what they paid for."
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- Shutdown Sees Congressional Democrats Finally United in Opposition to GOP Agenda, with a Few Exceptions "In the Senate, John Fetterman (D-Pennsylvania), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nevada) and Angus King (I-Maine) voted with the Republicans on their stopgap spending measure. In the House, the lone Democratic holdout was Rep. Jared Golden of Maine, who argued that his party’s defiant position was largely performative." via the Washington Post and the Associated Press.
- Truth Social AI Videos Show 'Trump Has Been Behaving Strangely' – Even for Him Meanwhile in Russia, companies are selling AI "resurrection videos" of fallen soldiers showing them ascending through the clouds on a stairway to heaven. via the Guardian, NBC News, and the Washington Post.
- FBI Fires Agent Who Refused to Stage On-Camera 'Perp Walk' of Former Director James Comey Leadership presumably including current Director Kash Patel had "asked for 'large, beefy' agents to conduct an arrest of Comey 'in full kit,' including Kevlar vests and exterior wear emblazoned with the FBI logo." via Reuters, CBS News, and the Washington Post.
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496
That's how many Russian attack drones struck across Ukraine early Sunday morning, along with 53 missiles, according to Ukraine's air force. The strikes, which killed at least five people, focused on energy infrastructure and knocked out power to tens of thousands of people. Meanwhile, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen warned that the recent mystery drone flights in European airspace mark "the beginning of a hybrid war against Europe."
ON THE SHOW TODAY
10/6: Sam and Emma will both be in studio; the guests will be Michael Mann and Peter Hotez, co-authors of Under Siege: How to Fight the Five Biggest Forces That Threaten Our World.
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As enjoyable and refreshing as this interview is, I hope he makes another run for office instead of going into punditry.
PARTING WORDS
"Absolutely, there are people I don't like. And I would like to put them on one of Musk's spaceships and send them all off to the planet he's sure he's going to discover. ... He'd be the host. You can imagine who I'd put on that spaceship. Along with Musk would be Trump, and some of Trump's real supporters. And I would put Putin in there. And I would put President Xi. I would certainly put Netanyahu in there and his far-right government. Put them all on that spaceship and send them off."
-- Famed naturalist Jane Goodall, speaking to an interviewer for the Netflix series "Famous Last Words" some seven months before her death last Wednesday at 91.
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