Wednesday, May 21, 2025

The Big List of Protests

 https://theblop.org/

 

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

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Cultural Diversity Day Protest

Olympia, WA

Join us for a protest to raise awareness of attacks on DEI policies and immigrants. The event seeks to bring people together on the World Day for Cultural Diversity.

🗓️
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
️🕒
12:00 PM
📝
Sidewalk along Capitol Blvd
👥
Oly Resistors
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Conversations with Chris Kluwe

Mission Viejo, CA

Join us as we host Chris Kluwe, who will address his personal fight against tyranny.

🗓️
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
️🕒
12:00 PM
👥
SouthOC4Democracy
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Stop the Deportations

Portland, OR

We are organizing a protest against the deportations and ICE operations in our community. Join us to make a stand.

🗓️
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
️🕒
3:30 PM
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ICE Facility
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Stand Up For Democracy

New Orleans, LA

We are organizing a neighborhood mini-protest to take a stand for democracy, emphasizing constitutional rights, and advocating for issues such as Medicaid. The event will take place on the neutral ground at Magazine Street & Napoleon Avenue in Uptown New Orleans.

🗓️
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
️🕒
6:00 PM
📝
Neutral ground at Magazine Street & Napoleon Avenue
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[CITIZENS FOR THE CONSTITUTION]
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Mini Protest for Due Process

New Orleans, LA

We are organizing a mini protest in support of due process. Join us to raise awareness and advocate for justice.

🗓️
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
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6:00 PM
📝
Neutral Ground at Napoleon Ave. and Magazine St
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Pull the Permit Rally

Portland, OR

Join us for a rally outside City Hall to demand the City Council pull the permit for the Portland ICE Detention Center. We will present a petition and hold them accountable for supporting ICE.

🗓️
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
️🕒
8:30 AM
📝
City Hall

Thursday, May 22, 2025

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Overpass Bannering

Fife, WA

Join us in support of the freeway bannering team to bring attention to important causes. Meet at Poodle Dog Restaurant or join up on the overpass every Thursday.

🗓️
Thursday, May 22, 2025
️🕒
3:45 PM
📝
Poodle Dog Restaurant
👥
350Tacoma
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Corner Protest

Fort Collins, CO

Join us for a recurring protest every Tuesday and Thursday from 4:15 to 5:45 PM at the southwest corner of Drake and College in Fort Collins, focusing on democratic engagement and public issues.

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Thursday, May 22, 2025
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4:15 PM
📝
SW Corner of Drake and College in Fort Collins
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Street Rally to Defend Civil Rights - Redmond

Redmond, WA

Join us for a volunteer-organized rally to defend civil rights in Redmond. The event aims to bring the community together to promote awareness and advocacy for civil rights.

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Thursday, May 22, 2025
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4:30 PM
📝
Redmond Downtown Park
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Knights Who Say Ni, 50501 Movement Washington State
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Resist Tyranny with Utah Overpass Action

Salt Lake City, UT

Join us for an overpass action event where we display large letters and banners to convey our message. Meet us at Fashion Place Mall to organize and bring your own signs. Let's make our voices heard!

🗓️
Thursday, May 22, 2025
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5:00 PM
📝
Fashion Place Mall parking lot of Macaroni Grill
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All Out for Mahmoud

New York, NY

We are organizing a gathering titled 'All Out for Mahmoud' to bring together supporters at Foley Square. Join us for this event advocating for Mahmoud.

🗓️
Thursday, May 22, 2025
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5:30 PM
📝
Foley Square
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All Out for Mahmoud

New Orleans, LA

Join us in supporting Mahmoud Khalil's immigration hearing by taking a bus from New Orleans to Jena on May 22. The bus departs at 6 AM and arrives by 10 AM.

🗓️
Thursday, May 22, 2025
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6:00 AM
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Shut It Down, Palestine

florida doesnt tolerate evil acts

 

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after today’s shooting fla gov dick scotty-mouth says florida doesnt tolerate evil acts ----—

-- since when? his election?

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

the 40 days of trumpmas - a surreal serial poem

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Remember, remember! The fifth of trumpvember

 the 40 days of trumpmas - a serial poem

 

for 40 days the trumpeter reigns,

his lies and hate on whom he disdains,

but election day will come so soon,

we'll no longer hear the orange baboon;

 

in 39 days full of world wide problems.

we could elect him to get rid of the muslims,

but as he'll rant on trivialities of his presidential life,

what could be worse? - you could be his wife;

 

in 38 days just what will you do?

the donald has said he likes lgbtq,

but as he bullies his women and all his men too,

if youre questioning, what stops him from bullying you?

 

in just 37 days, some people are saying,

(or pleading or hoping or some even praying)

the duke of prunes will dye his forelock purple my friend,

and thus make america grape again,

 

our days are down to just 36,

before our problems the don will fix,

he will on day one do what hes said - true,

he'll wall out our enemies - and fat women too!

 

on the 35th day of trumpmas

yes just seven weeks remain!

will the polls and tallies deliver us

donald with his golden mane?

 

34 days and the vice-pipers have piped,

though pence didnt say why donalds suit shouldnt be striped,

he wouldnt defend his master's string pulling,

to make america great? - who do they think they're fooling?

 

just 33 days till the macho tornado,

unless its blown away by hurricane machado,

with women and voters he has so much to loose.

keep your mouth shut donald (unless youre changing your shoes)

 

32 days and we’ve been hit by the big blowhard,

donald spoke here in fla (oh, we had a hurricane too)

this administration gives us playing the race card, a weak economy, and unemployment

but if you want a job you could be donald’s campaign manager (unless youre a jew)

 

31 days, just a month, remains;

will the donald say hes sorry, and his baser impulses restrain?

or keep blaming bill clinton for our moral demise;

when trump speaks to us, our NO votes must be our replies!

 

election comes this time (in 30 days) each 4 years,

time for praise and tears and fears;

as polls will open in many states,

vote early, please dont vote late!

 

down to 29, just a leap february,

and theres still the donald quite

contrary;

donald donald, how does your garden grow?

quoth the master debater, "with pretty maids groped in a row"

 

just 28 days - later or soon,

and the zombies will rise, led by the big goon;

unless everyone gets a reality inoculation,

i might have to move to canada for a well deserved vacation; 

 

now just 27, less than 4 weeks,

no time for you to say 'yikes!' or 'eeeks!'

obama wants to go to mars and colonize it for man,

lets send trump tomorrow! and colonize it for orangutan!

 

26 days are all that remain,

will our democracy and economy go down the drain?

if we all keep listening to the blustering oaf,

will he give jobs and prosperity? - or just half a loaf

 

25 days - will more women speak?,

of the antics of donald who the presidency seeks,

dating 14 year old girls or groping their mothers,

how did the gop pick him over the others?,

 

24 days - were down to two dozen,

the next woman who speaks just might be your cousin,

or mother or sister, aunt, niece, even daughter,

describing the circumstance in which donald caught her,

 

23 days left and trump doesnt yet have as many accusers,

as cosby, but he assures us that they are all really losers,

sent by bankers or hillary with secret agendas,

to disrupt our election of him - our defender!,

 

22 days and we know charity begins at home,

but donalds attention is so prone to roam,

his gift that disappeared to 911 survivors from his foundation?,

oops! maybe donald spent it on a vacation,

 

21 days and trump says the election may be rig-ly,

if hes not the winner and his total's not big-ly,

tremendously higher than hillary gets,

he warns his supporters may all lose their wits,

 

20 days left and while george zimmerman still walks free,

the man who shot at HIM got 20 years - while trayvon got eternity,

trump wants us to support our cops and maintain law and order,

he'll put all the inner city dwellers in jail, and send the immigrant criminals far across the border,

 

19 days left till we all go to pretend,

to elect someone to lead us, as if on it our lives depend,

but wise man, donald trump, already really knows,

who we really voted for - a wolf in president's clothes?,

 

18 days and we bad hombres demand a rebate,

on the ill feelings left since the comments of one candidate,

the debaters have met in their final grudge match,

but only donald can say from whose hands victory will be snatched,

 

17 days and our government is corrupt with quid pro quo,

did you take latin at wharton? is that how you know?,

donald wants us to fire at them all - the bureaucrats lined up in rows,

and believe me, corruption is a subject. that donald really knows,

 

16 days - lets set term limits on all our office holders,

and put all our women in binders - or maybe in folders,

donalds endless complaints are becoming a sour whine,

have a little cheese with that, from wisconsin, where 

hillary's doing fine,

 

15 days and on stocking covered thighs did linger,

two miniature hands with two thumbs and eight tiny fingers,

they belonged to the donald who believed that he owned,

any thing that he wanted - or anyone he got alone,

 

14 days yes only two weeks,

till the duke of orange assends to the throne he seeks?,

to rule all americans, the strong and the weak?,

and dominate the globe with power that's peak?,

 

the 13th day to go - does that seem unlucky?,

not for donald whos lately been appearing quite plucky,

claiming media, polls, and parties are against him,

and rallying his multitudes with wit waxing dim,

 

on the 12th day of trumpmas donald awoke with a jerk,

promptly fired his latest campaign manager (who considered that a perk),

if youre "AAAfroAAAmurikan" and unemployed i can put you to work,

barked donald the businessman from behind his sly smirk,

 

it's the 11th and engineer casey trump is in the caboose,

i hear some of you saying oh no! what's the use,

our campaign will probably just go off the tracks,

but donald says its ok - cause he's got "the blacks",

 

just ten days left yes only one-zero,

til donald is hoping that he'll be your hero,

as new hillary emails come under investigation,

donald hopes to rename camp david to camp donald for

his vacations,

 

like a cat has nine lives we're left with only 9 days,

till we're subject to donald? and his old wicked ways,

on foreign affairs he says he'll save us from isis,

but his domestic affairs are misogyny and crisis,

 

our days are numbered - yes only eight,

till once again we make america great,

by getting rid of candidates who have nothing to add,

goodbye donald you wont make america sad,

 

just one week to go - its day minus seven,

till america's lifted above - to trumpty dump heaven?,

where for rich folks like donald opportunity abounds,

and we keep the working poor with a wall that surrounds,

 

how the time it does fly its already day 6,

till americans problems the donald will fix,

his solutions begin on trumpday number one,

dont you like them? they'll come at the barrel of a gun,

 

Five days to go, baby, One in five,

No one here gets out alive, now,

david dukes not opposed to all jews,

he backs trump - who are you going to choose?,

 

only 4 days left till the armaged-don,

he'll seize power by the horns once he has won,

and donnie will be what he longs for - a winner,

using the FBI to wreak havoc on hillary the sinner,

 

only three left, just a triad of days,

and the donald his supporters continues to amaze,

with hoopla and folderoll made up in his head,

his winning temperament will leave us all dead,

 

just a pair of days - 2 - till trump paradise,

since these words you're reading please heed my advice,

the creatures that surround us are beginning to bite,

'blacks for trump' fear the Illuminati so lets turn out their light,

 

just a single day left till our thanksgiving,

deliver us from donald and preserve the living,

forget sanity and disgard your misgivings,

but pray hard to your gods that they'll be forgiving,

since we've got the nukes why can't we use'em?,

on the road to 2016 why couldn't we lose HIM?,

 

and trumpmas now has finally come,

the tallies will count up to a winning sum,

unless the earth is struck soon by a cataclysmic comet,

to elect a candidate who just makes you want to vomit?,

we wish you a merry trumpmas at this time each 4 years,

if you have'nt voted you've lost the chance to mitigate your fears,

cause donald duck is ready to lead, forget your crocodile tears,

so you'd better get the vaseline and lubricate your rears!

Trump and Musk’s DOGE: Slashing Health Care, Feeding Billionaires

https://accountable.us/trump-and-musks-doge-slashing-health-care-feeding-billionaires/ 

 

Trump and Musk’s DOGE: Slashing Health Care, Feeding Billionaires

Trump Administration
May 19, 2025

Trump and Musk Assault Health Care and Social Security, While Enriching Themselves

 Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and their allies in Congress are carrying out their latest attack on the services Americans depend on with dramatic cuts to health care and food assistance. Their plan would kick 10.3 million Americans off of Medicaid, and eliminate $300 billion in food assistance funding which 42 million hungry Americans rely on. But Republicans’ devastating cuts are just the latest step in the war on families that they’ve been advancing for months. 

 

Trump and Musk’s DOGE has already cut at least 10,000 Health and Human Services employees, accessed Americans’ private health care data, and at least a $1 billion in support for food banks and farmers. And DOGE is not stopping there, their sights are also on getting their hands on Americans’ personal financial data including Social Security and food assistance records

 

As ordinary families see the benefits they depend on disappear, Trump, Musk, and Republicans’ plans have been a boon for themselves and their Billionaire backers – with massive tax cuts that disproportionately benefitting the wealthy. On top of that, Trump and Musks’ DOGE cuts to the Internal Revenue Service and at least a third of its auditors have made it easier for wealthy tax cheats to further avoid paying their fair share. Trump and Musk’s cuts have meant “Christmas [came] early if you cheated on your taxes this year.”

 

Americans deserve real reforms to cut red tape and waste, and ensure the government delivers for taxpayers. But Trump and Musk’s DOGE isn’t even bothering to try to make government more efficient. Instead it’s a vehicle for their Billionaire-first agenda: making themselves and their ultra-wealthy pals richer, while axing essential benefits like health care and Social Security, and driving up costs for everyone else.  

 

HOW THE TRUMP-MUSK ADMINISTRATION’S DOGE IS HARMING FAMILIES 
  • Targeting major cuts to Social Security, threatening seniors’ benefits: Trump and Musk’s DOGE continued their crusade against Social Security by suing to allow DOGE to access Americans’ personal financial data. It’s just the latest step unraveling the earned benefit that 69 millions seniors rely on and have paid into for decades. Earlier this year, Donald Trump and Elon Musk announced they would cut 7,000 jobs – or 12% of the workforce – from the Social Security Administration, which has already led to significant increases in wait times for service, and the Social Security Administration website has crashed multiple times. In the words of one data privacy expert: “If DOGE gets a hold of this information, it opens the floodgates on a host of potential harms. It also normalizes a very dangerous practice for other federal agencies.”


  • Harming veterans by creating chaos at the VA: A new report reveals the scale of Trump and Musk’s destruction to the veterans services, as VA hospitals and clinics are sending “desperate messages” making clear DOGE’s cuts are threatening veterans’ health care and life-saving cancer research trials. Among DOGE’s harms to veterans’ care: VA doctors in Pennsylvania have warned that sweeping cuts could cause more than a thousand veterans to lose access to treatment, the VA in Detroit has warned that it is unable to track oncology treatment and recurrences, and treatment trials have been delayed. It comes as earlier this year, Trump and Musk’s DOGE promised they would cut 80,000 VA employees, and earlier this month, DOGE shut down the “only affordable option for many vets who are seriously behind on their VA home loans.” 


  • Firing National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) employees, hindering our ability to respond to disasters: Trump and Musk’s DOGE has fired at least 2,000 NOAA employees responsible for managing extreme weather events, responding to natural disasters, and more. Already, those cuts are hampering our ability to respond to disasters including a major oil spill off Louisiana’s Gulf Coast, and experts are sounding the alarm on the danger these cuts pose to Americans’ safety. As one noted: “We are very concerned about staff and expertise that won’t be able to respond to this oil spill. No part of NOAA has been spared from DOGE and early retirements, we know the expertise is not there and the support from the agency and the support isn’t there for the responses.” 


  • Communities across the country feel the pain from Americorps cuts: Trump and Musk’s cuts to Americorps are leading to the elimination of community service projects in communities across the country. In St. Louis, DOGE’s cuts have eliminated half a million dollars in funding for projects to expand scientific educational opportunities for kids. In Michigan, DOGE’s cuts led to cuts to math and science tutoring programs in 65 school districts. And in Virginia, at least 16 community service grants were cut. As one official involved in St. Louis’s program described it: “I am having a little bit of trouble understanding the politics of providing additional educational experiences to children. So it’s a little perplexing. This is a program that is shown to be a benefit to the children.”

  

SOCIAL CONTENT TO LIFT
  • ‪@accountable-us.bsky.social‬: House Republicans are pushing a Medicaid overhaul that could leave millions without coverage. States would face new mandates, fewer funding options, and work requirements—just to pay for more tax cuts and political favors. www.politico.com/news/2025/05…
  • ‪@accountable-us.bsky.social‬: Medicaid isn’t waste. It’s what keeps millions of people with disabilities out of institutions and in their homes. Republican cuts would rip away care, independence—and dignity.
  • @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social‬: Despite staffing shortages, Elon Musk and his DOGE boys continued to push out valuable FAA employees. Now, we’re witnessing the consequences of DOGE’s careless cuts. President Trump must prioritize passenger safety over Elon Musk’s corrupt agenda.
  • @schumer.senate.gov‬: 1000 measles cases. It’s no coincidence that this has happened after DOGE cancelled $11 billion that went to state and local public health departments. It’s no coincidence that this has happened after the CDC fired infectious disease experts. Trump and RFK Jr. must act to stop measles now.

 

Budget cuts by DOGE are hitting critical services hard—healthcare, farmers’ aid, research, veterans’ care, and Head Start programs. 
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The Situation: And What If He Meant It?

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The Situation: And What If He Meant It?

Alan Z. Rozenshtein, Benjamin Wittes
Monday, May 19, 2025, 4:59 PM

James Comey could have gone a lot stronger than “8647” and still not risked jail.

Former FBI Director James Comey discussing the impact of technology on law enforcement, Oct. 16, 2014. (https://www.flickr.com/photos/96739999@N05/16389996032/in/photostream/, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en)

Published by The Lawfare Institute
in Cooperation With
Brookings

The Situation on Friday objected to recognition of Michael Flynn at the National Symphony.

Today let’s talk seashells.

Former FBI Director James Comey sent the MAGA world into a tizzy last week by sharing on social media a picture of seashells arranged to say “8647” on the beach. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said he should be in jail for threatening President Trump. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced that the Secret Service, which she oversees, was investigating the matter. Current FBI Director Kash Patel said the bureau stood ready to assist the Secret Service in investigating him. And Trump himself rejected Comey’s explanation that he had not known that the numbers 86 could mean kill, not just get rid of, and deleted the post when he found out.

The Secret Service interviewed Comey on Friday.

We take Comey at his word that the social media post was not intended to provoke violence. The verb “to 86” someone has long referred to getting rid of people in ways other than killing them; it actually comes from the service industry, where it means being out of something or to throw a customer out of a bar. The violent usage of the term is more recent. If Comey’s use of the term is a threat, lots of online retailers are peddling threats to the president’s life. And even more were doing so during Joe Biden’s term, when merch with “8646” was common. There is exactly zero reason to think that Comey was trying to inspire an assassination attempt against Trump.

But let’s imagine for a minute that he was. Let’s pretend, just for a second, that Comey did, in fact, intend “86” in a violent way.

After all, the director of the FBI, the director of national intelligence, and the secretary of homeland security—not to mention Donald Trump himself—all purport to believe this interpretation. These are, after all, the senior national security officials of the United States of America. And more generally, the right-wing media ecosystem, which so energetically objected on free speech grounds to the Justice Department’s investigations of threats to public officials, flight attendants, and others, couldn’t now be adopting a wholly different standard that actually impinges on free speech, could it?

So let’s impute to him, as the senior leadership of the Trump administration does, the most nefarious possible use of the seashell image. And let’s, just for the sake of argument, assume that Comey is lying about the seashells, which he claims to have found on the beach already arranged in this threatening posture. Let’s imagine that Comey meticulously arranged the seashells in order to take a photo, share that photo, and thus communicate a request for an assassination of the sitting president to the public at large—hoping that some patsy would pick up a gun and do the deed.

So what?

Even if this absurdly ungenerous interpretation of a picture of seashells were the correct one, there would still be no justification for, as Tulsi Gabbard put it, Comey to go to jail. If the administration wants to condemn Comey’s post, fine. If we thought there was even a small chance that Comey was encouraging violence, we’d join the condemnation. One shouldn’t joke about, let alone advocate, political violence, especially given the two assassination attempts against Trump. And if Secretary Noem wants to waste a few of her Secret Service officers’ afternoon on a drive to Virginia and a pointless interview, that’s fine too. One of us was once the subject of a similar Secret Service interview about an equally absurd supposed “threat” on social media. The matter amounted to nothing, and we’re sure Comey acquitted himself just fine in a chat with some federal agents. 

But what’s not remotely plausible is treating this as a criminal matter. First, the statute at issue, 18 U.S.C. § 871(a), criminalizes the act of “knowingly and willfully” making “any threat to take the life of, to kidnap, or to inflict bodily harm upon the President of the United States.” (A broader prohibition, 18 U.S.C. § 875(c), criminalizes making threats through interstate communications.)

The law requires an actual threat—“a serious expression conveying that a speaker means to commit an act of unlawful of violence”—not some cryptic statement about the desirability of harm befalling the president. Nothing in the picture supports the existence of such a threat—certainly not one made knowingly and willfully. What threat exactly is Comey supposed to be making here against Trump: death by sharpened mollusk?

Indeed, interpreted in the light least favorable to Comey, the mollusks in question don’t even make out a threat. They make out a request: Will somebody please 86 the current president? Interpreted as violently as possible, that translates to: Someone please murder Donald Trump. That’s arguably a call to violence, but it isn’t a threat.

And this brings us to the bigger problem for a potential United States v. Comey: that pesky First Amendment, which sets an extremely high bar for prosecuting speech as either a “true threat” or an incitement of violence and does not, last we checked, have an exception for presidential egos.

We’re not over our skis here: This is as clear as it gets in constitutional law. In Brandenburg v. Ohio, the Court held “the constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press do not permit [a law] to forbid or proscribe advocacy of the use of force or of law violation except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.” The key point is that even exhortations to violence cannot be criminalized unless they are detailed and the threat of lawlessness is imminent.

Immediacy and proximity is also what distinguishes a “threat” in the colloquial sense from a “true threat” in the legal sense. Indeed, in Watts v. United States, decided the very same term as Brandenburg, the Court held that § 871 must be interpreted in light of this strong First Amendment background. In that case, the Court overturned the conviction of a protester who said, “If they ever make me carry a rifle, the first man I want to get in my sights is L.B.J.” The Court found this to be “political hyperbole” rather than a true threat and thus not within the prohibition of § 871. That case was about a rifle. The Supreme Court has even struck down an anti-cross-burning statute as going beyond criminalizing the “true threat.” This incident—we can’t stress enough—is not about rifles or burning crosses. It is about seashells.

In short, Comey could have been a lot more aggressive and still been solidly within the protection of the First Amendment. He could have spelled out with seashells: “Will nobody rid me of this meddlesome 47?” Had he had the time and the patience, he could have gotten away with a seashell design that said, “If they ever make me carry a rifle, the first man I want to get in my sights is 47.” Or maybe, “If we catch 47, we’re gonna break your damn neck" (see NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware). Or he might have written, “if our President, our Congress, our Supreme Court, continues to embrace MAGA ideas, it’s possible that there might have to be some revengeance taken” (see Brandenburg).

But our imaginary Evil Comey wimped out and stuck with some numbers.

And no, this episode isn’t funny. It’s just another example of the authoritarian strategy of “for my friends everything, for my enemies the law.” Ironically, the First Amendment principle that protects Comey here is the exact same one that protected Trump—much more tenuously—from a prosecution for inciting a mob to attack the Capitol.

That incident actually got people killed and interfered with the peaceful transition of power. 

This one involved, quite literally, a walk on the beach.

The Situation continues tomorrow.


Alan Z. Rozenshtein is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School, Research Director and Senior Editor at Lawfare, a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously, he served as an Attorney Advisor with the Office of Law and Policy in the National Security Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and a Special Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland. He also speaks and consults on technology policy matters.
Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books.
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/2/21/2305351/-Magic-Disappearing-DB-Story-About-Allegations-Trump-Was-Recruited-as-a-Russian-Asset


https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/2/21/2305375/-Before-Trump-was-exposed-as-Krasnov-and-after


https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/2/21/2305257/-Krasnov