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ihaveaquestion

(4,197 posts)
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 07:12 AM Oct 15

Hawk's Podcasts / Feds Are Targeting The No Kings Protesters This Saturday - Labeling Them Domestic Terrorists



Hawk discusses the leaked DHS and FBI intelligence bulletin obtained by journalist Ken Klippenstein that warns local law enforcement to treat this Saturday’s No Kings protest marches as potential terrorist threats. Hawk examines how the Trump administration and congressional Republicans are framing dissent, protest, and free speech as “domestic violent extremism.”

Drawing from the leaked memo, Hawk outlines how the Department of Homeland Security and FBI are using incidents at ICE facilities in Texas as justification for broad surveillance of protest movements. He explores how this new national security directive—rooted in Trump’s National Security Presidential Memo Number 7—signals the growing criminalization of dissent in America.

Hawk focuses on the language of the bulletin, which refers to “domestic violent extremists” and conflates constitutionally protected protest activity with terrorism. He calls attention to how this framing erodes First Amendment rights and could reshape the relationship between citizens and government.

From the “No Kings” protests to the administration’s expanding surveillance powers, Hawk takes a hard look at what it means when peaceful protest is treated as a national security threat.
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Timeflyer

(3,498 posts)
2. They're scared of us. They should be, but not because we're violent--it's because we're using the 1st Amendment.
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 08:38 AM
Oct 15

Just smile and wave, and hold your sign high.

Timeflyer

(3,498 posts)
4. Blow them a kiss. No Kings is going to be a party. Bring music, dance like the world and our descendants are watching.
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 09:17 AM
Oct 15

Timeflyer

(3,498 posts)
8. Well, you'll get noticed, probably make the news. But police car seats can cause chafing--take a towel to sit on.
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 02:35 PM
Oct 15

Hotler

(13,548 posts)
7. My sign reads on one side No Kings or Assholes. The other side reads, .....
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 11:33 AM
Oct 15

Not one single person who paid to rape children on Epstein's island has been arrested.

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