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LS's avatar

I would like to point out that LGBTQ+ Americans, specifically trans Americans, have been considered domestic terrorists by the US for months. We apparently promote a violently nihilistic "transgender ideology" for... existing. Most recently, the Attorney General of the USA pressured the FBI to pay cash bounties for information about trans people. This goes deeper than flirtation, and I am sure that Renee's queerness and allyship with trans people played a role in her immediately being labeled as a terrorist.

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Patricia Reed's avatar

Such a sad statement.

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Ken Fisher's avatar

“ I am sure that Renee's queerness and allyship with trans people played a role in her immediately being labeled as a terrorist.” Tip of the iceberg for the American fascist state.

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Fran's avatar
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There are strict, clearly defined terms that define what constitutes the different types of 'terrorists". There is literally a textbook covering that, written by Malcolm Nance and used in US law enforcement and in many countries around the world. Malcolm is here on substack @malcolmnance The way the term is being used by the current government has little or no relation to reality.

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Rocket Cat's avatar

This designation puts neighbors watching out for neighbors in the same category as Dylann Roof and the El Paso shooter. Make no mistake, this is pretext to normalize incarceration and extermination of anyone who opposes ICE.

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Kim Sayers's avatar

I get to decide. MAGA are domestic terrorists.

Unless Congress decides, there is no legal definition of domestic terrorism. I don’t think they ever did, even after the Murraugh bombing.

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Suzette's avatar

Ice Barbie Noem sat there with her ten gallon stetson perched on her 1/2 ounce brain and said that the cold blooded murder that we all witnessed was self defense. Bull shite, and then to call the deceased a domestic terrorists, adding insult to injury. I guess that all of us that speak out on social media are terrorists too. I will never step foot in the U.S.A. as long as this current band of thugs hold power. I fear for all of us, as there appear to be no guardrails to Trump's madness.

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Patricia Reed's avatar

For your own safety, please stay home wherever you live. However, you need to know there are many of us trying our hardest to cause "good trouble" and do something.

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Barbara Harris's avatar

I think you’re asking a really important question here.

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Bren M's avatar

It is progressively more difficult to protest peacefully when the government is responding with violence and threats of further violence. This is a powder keg, and everyone is waiting to see what the spark will be that sets it off.

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MIchael Tscheu's avatar

“Bitch”. (ICE to Renee Good)

Just as Trump did with immigrants, naming them “vermin”, “animals”, “garbage”, dehumanizing them, redefining them as an “it”, he has begun doing the same thing to us. Once you become an “it”, you no longer have moral or ethical standing. You become expendable. As immigrants are now. Why ICE operates with impunity.

It starts soft and becomes harder. Trump has always used this language with political opponents.

Now we are named “domestic terrorists”, “enemies of the State”. “Bitch” asserts their ability and power to define us.

As the language dehumanizes, you first lose legal, rights, then you lose moral rights,

then you lose the right to life.

Words have power.

Words can kill.

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Kai Colbourne's avatar

I’m thinking the people running for gas masks and calling their relatives to say goodbye, during the orange child molester’s deadly insurrection on 1/6 on Capitol Hill. I would imagine the witnesses of a U.S. government sanctioned Brownshirt, executing an unarmed Mother in broad daylight.

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pete gee's avatar

In LETTERS TO AN AMERICAN , I ave been foreboding this and worse for 12 months now.

Rise up you patriots and heroes, or forever lose your precious Democracy.

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Chris Raymond's avatar

I'm starting to wonder if I need to buy a firearm and get training in preparation for trying to vote in the midterms. And I live in a strongly Blue pocket of Northern Virginia

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kathyjo's avatar

NSPM 7 signed September 25, 2025 plainly lays out their plan to make anyone who isn't a bootlicking loyal ass kisser as a domestic terrorist. Even though Trump and Vance both terrorized the Haitian population while campaigning and now the Somalian citizens and immigrants are taking the brunt of their violence inciting rhetoric.

Horrified at what is happening and what's to come because so many are in denial or are racist fascist white nationalist and agree with the evil regime.

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julie elder's avatar

Honestly, since the president seems to think that ANTIFA is a terrorist organization, any of us who are anti fascist have been called “Domestic Terrorists who are as bad as” and then Noem listed several actual foreign terrorist groups.

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Ånnikun's avatar

The moneymaker for the GOP here will be the riots and protests in her honor. They finna scoop up these Domestic Dissidents. What happens when all the good government officials quit 🫣🤬 and protesters are arrested in the street? As a Glasnost Exchange kid who went to Russia in '91.... it's not pretty. I lol a lot bc the Putin/Trump ship thing is so obvious.... wanker even called his platform "Pravda", which is Truth in English. This summer's protest season gonna be hardcore. Esp considering he is gonna lean haaard on 1776-2026. Nothing like rounding up dissidents for his intafada party. Imo he will eventually get around to executing people himself, maybe Luigi, bc he was very jealous of Duarte doing so.

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Ånnikun's avatar

Its mere culture war. They are doing what they can to discredit her like they do to a Black person who was murdered by the cops. Fox is busy talking about Somali daycares like that is the only news out of MN. When they do mention her theh give her the George Floyd treatment. African Americans know the drill. Lol.... is this DEI? It just shows how thin their veneer of "we love white women" is. What conservative men love is power. White women, the idea of them rather than the reality of a living sentient being, have been used to gain and hold power for centuries. The horror in "Sixteen Candles" when Ringwald says "I want a black one." "A BLACK GUY?!?" "NO. Pink guy, black car". Hughes, as the self-proclaimed stand-in for Red Blooded Americana, didnt care about her as a person... just about her tits and that she wasnt sleeping with a black guy. The GOP is happy to shove Mrs. Good under the rug and libel her along the way. They buried her husband, his Air Force past, all of it. "Shes just a gay troublemaker, ya know. No loss." Incidentally, _the only_ voting demographic to not go hard-right neonational when they are poor or undereducated are African Americans. We know the GOP doesn't serve us and doesnt want us. From this perspective, it is sad to watch millions of Americans fall for racist GOP bullshit bc they are white and believe the lies that bc of their phenotype they have nothing to worry about, even when those lies melt like snowflakes in the face of fact

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