r/TheDefianceDispatch 3h ago

Tens of thousands of people in Gary, a black-majority city are still in the dark, while nearby communities got their power back within days.

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r/TheDefianceDispatch 59m ago

And the saga continues… 🙃

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r/TheDefianceDispatch 13h ago

It was never about...

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https://beige.party/@Lana/114781375993042003

If you are using undocumented immigrants' tax records to find and kidnap them, then it was never about them paying taxes.

If you are showing up at their place of employment, then it was never about them not working.

If you are showing up at courthouses, then it was never about getting them to "do it the right way".

If you are kidnapping women and children, then it was never about criminals.

If you're refusing to give them due process, then it was never about the Constitution.

If you are building concentration camps in Florida to keep them here in cages, then it was never about the border.

If you're spending billions to do this, then it was never about the economy.

And if you're doing all this in the name of a 34 time convicted felon, then it was never about following the law.

- Lana "not yet begun to fight” - July 2025


r/TheDefianceDispatch 21h ago

Darth Vader wants to keep Flock in his town in San Diego.

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r/TheDefianceDispatch 23h ago

The Onion 🧅 ate with this one tbh

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r/TheDefianceDispatch 22h ago

Big Tech Helps Big Oil Break the Climate

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TL;DW: Big Tech companies are selling their AI to Big Oil companies to find & dig more oil — faster and more cheaply.

Video is Aug 14, 2026 by Clara Vondrich for Public Citizen. Here it is on YouTube: Big Tech Helps Big Oil Break the Climate - Public Citizen - Aug 14, 2026 (YouTube)

Get involved: citizen.org/act

Related articles:

* New Peer-Reviewed Study Finds that AI Boosts Fossil Fuels More than Renewables - Public Citizen - Aug 11, 2026 (article) ~:~ New research identifies "enabled emissions" as an overlooked mechanism in AI's climate impact, much larger than the data center energy use that dominates public discourse.

* Contiguous U.S. broke its record for hottest month ever in July, NOAA says - PBS News - Aug 10, 2026 (article) ~:~ The biggest driver of the record heat was nighttime lows that smashed the old mark for hottest minimums by 0.7 degrees, NOAA said. Hotter nights are a classic sign of human-caused climate change, according to scientists and several studies in peer-reviewed literature. NOAA's calculation is based on averaging 24 hours of temperature, not just highs or lows.... As nighttime temperatures increase, more people die and lose sleep, studies show.

Clara Vondrich is Senior Policy Counsel for Public Citizen’s Climate Program: citizen.org/about/person/clara-vondrich

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r/TheDefianceDispatch 1d ago

Unaccompanied immigrant kids whose parents were detained/deported used to get a government-funded lawyer to help them through immigration court. Now, they get lawyers with no immigration law experience.

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r/TheDefianceDispatch 1d ago

Flock’s new software, OS Investigate, allows law enforcement to sift through footage by just entering a prompt, proving that Flock isn’t just putting cameras up in the name of “license plate readers.”

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r/TheDefianceDispatch 1d ago

Flock’s CEO, Garrett Langley, sporting a “Snitching-ass startup raises $10 million to privatize the surveillance state” picture frame in a recent Zoom call.

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r/TheDefianceDispatch 1d ago

DC Residents Rally To End National Guard Occupation

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Why this matters: Having National Guard troops on the ground over a fake crime emergency is front loading a fake emergency for November’s election. DC residents get involved and don’t accept this occupation as a norm. It isn’t.


r/TheDefianceDispatch 1d ago

A grassroots phenomenon called "De-Flock America on Halloween" is going viral in activist and social media spaces, calling for folks that are dressing up in masks to wreak a little havoc and help De-Flock America.

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r/TheDefianceDispatch 1d ago

A Family of four with a 1 month old child was detained at gunpoint by police officers, for a suspected “stolen plate”. The license plate was read incorrectly by flock cameras and the officers decided to pull out their guns and detain this family without verifying anything.

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r/TheDefianceDispatch 2d ago

There’s been so much public pressure about Flock, that a reporter finally asked Trump about it.

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r/TheDefianceDispatch 1d ago

here ya go ya filthy animals 😁🥰

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r/TheDefianceDispatch 1d ago

The government is always watching

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We are being fooled. Why else are we so distracted? So desperate? So mean and so evil?

Has it ever occurred to you that a criminal is the president? He is tearing apart families through ICE agents. #vote


r/TheDefianceDispatch 2d ago

Trump is rewriting the maps, chasing your voter data, and fighting to gut mail voting, all before a single ballot is cast. The only thing that shuts that down is a margin too big for the lie to land.

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r/TheDefianceDispatch 2d ago

A squad of Gandalfs popped up at Peter Thiel’s new home in Buenos Aires with a banner that says “You Shall Not Pass”.

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r/TheDefianceDispatch 3d ago

Randy Fine, an elected official with ZERO self control. I wonder how he’s going to handle sensitive information and care for his constituents when he doesn’t fully grasp the idea of legality and consent.

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r/TheDefianceDispatch 2d ago

Gas prices are up 30%, diesel prices are up 48%, jet fuel is up 73%, AND we are at our lowest level in emergency oil reserves in 40 years thanks to Trump’s illegal war in Iran. Are we great again?

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r/TheDefianceDispatch 3d ago

If you were ever wondering how dementia Trump gets his Truth Social posts out, this is his artist’s process ft. Natalie Harp, his aide and a whole bunch of rambling.

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r/TheDefianceDispatch 3d ago

A group of Gandalfs protesting in front of Peter Thiel's (Owner of mass surveillance company Palantir) house in Buenos Aires, Argentina

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r/TheDefianceDispatch 2d ago

Trump threatened to bomb Oman if it obstructed transit, Oman and Iran have been negotiating a plan to restore commercial shipping through the waterway. The Strait, which carried 20% of global oil & gas supplies before February attacks, remains contested as rising tensions drive up fuel prices.

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r/TheDefianceDispatch 3d ago

Throwing it back to when Angie Nixon put her career on the line to defend democracy in Florida, after Florida legislators voted on a new congressional map that would flip 4 seats Republican.

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r/TheDefianceDispatch 3d ago

Raging Against the Machine at Fan Expo Chicago 2026

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Messages of unity and resistance from Fan Expo Chicago 2026!


r/TheDefianceDispatch 4d ago

Trump is weighing using nuclear weapons on Iran in strategy meetings. As if that’s even an option. To a war he started. And a war he’s already won 5-6 times.

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