William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

Trump announced Monday that half of the restaurants in DC had been closed due to crime, and he's gotten them open again. As Adrian Carrasquillo notes, chef José Andrés responded:

"I understand why you are confused...all your time in DC you haven't eaten ONCE outside the White House or your own hotel."


/21

thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-stra
Ham on Wry
@HamonWry@mastodon.world  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

When you see troops on the streets of Washington DC … troops deployed for no reason … that’s what every other shithole dictatorship looks like.

It’s Trump’s dream to be the second coming of Hitler.

#america #dictatorship #dictator #trump #news #washingtondc #washington #democracy #nationalguard
William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

"I've lived here for 33 years, and it's a flat out lie that half the restaurants have closed because of safety...but restaurants will close because you have troops with guns and federal agents harassing people...making people afraid to go out."

Carrasquillo adds,

"Andrés is right. Trump’s deployment of 2,300 National Guard troops and 500 federal law enforcement agents has hurt foot traffic, chilled business, and made people cancel trips and nights out."


/22
William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

"It is slowly choking the life out of Washington, D.C. restaurants, which were still struggling to gain their post-pandemic footing just as Trump returned to town and started firing tens of thousands of their customers."

#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #military#WashingtonDC
/23
William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

Trump announced Monday that half of the restaurants in DC had been closed due to crime, and he's gotten them open again. As Adrian Carrasquillo notes, chef José Andrés responded:

"I understand why you are confused...all your time in DC you haven't eaten ONCE outside the White House or your own hotel."


/21

thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-stra
William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

"I've lived here for 33 years, and it's a flat out lie that half the restaurants have closed because of safety...but restaurants will close because you have troops with guns and federal agents harassing people...making people afraid to go out."

Carrasquillo adds,

"Andrés is right. Trump’s deployment of 2,300 National Guard troops and 500 federal law enforcement agents has hurt foot traffic, chilled business, and made people cancel trips and nights out."


/22
William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

Trump announced Monday that half of the restaurants in DC had been closed due to crime, and he's gotten them open again. As Adrian Carrasquillo notes, chef José Andrés responded:

"I understand why you are confused...all your time in DC you haven't eaten ONCE outside the White House or your own hotel."


/21

thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-stra
William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

"I have always believed that at some point Trump would come for DC itself for it is the world’s most powerful monument to democracy, for freedom, for e pluribus unum and overcoming racism and slavery. For Trump’s rancid remaking of America into something other than a democracy to succeed he was going to eventually have to do something about this living, inspirational monument."

~ Simon Rosenberg

#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #military#WashingtonDC
/19

https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/an-encouraging-win-in-iowa-national
William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

"This isn’t about the city of Washington, or crime or public safety. It is a highly symbolic signal of his intent to subdue American democracy itself to his whims, and turn America the free into an authoritarian police state."

#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator #military#WashingtonDC
/20
William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

"The deployment of a Marine infantry division that served in Iraq and Afghanistan in Los Angeles, the sight of military vehicles and armed National Guard troops in Washington D.C., and Trump’s threats to give the same treatment to Chicago and other Democrat-led cities, have borne out my June forecast that Trump is gearing up to pursue a 'forever war' on Americans."

~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat

#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator #military
/18

https://lucid.substack.com/p/trumps-war-on-america
William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

"I have always believed that at some point Trump would come for DC itself for it is the world’s most powerful monument to democracy, for freedom, for e pluribus unum and overcoming racism and slavery. For Trump’s rancid remaking of America into something other than a democracy to succeed he was going to eventually have to do something about this living, inspirational monument."

~ Simon Rosenberg

#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #military#WashingtonDC
/19

https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/an-encouraging-win-in-iowa-national
Greg Lloyd
@Roundtrip@federate.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent

“The grand jury’s rejection of the felony charge was a remarkable failure by the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington and the second time in recent days that a majority of grand jurors refused to vote to indict a person accused of felony assault on a federal agent. It also amounted to a sharp rebuke by a panel of ordinary citizens against the prosecutors…”

#GiftLink#NYTimes

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/us/politics/trump-sandwich-assault-indictment-justice-department.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hU8.5Xff.PI2J47SDKk__&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Ben Royce 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Don't Boo: Vote
@benroyce@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

@Roundtrip

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Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago
#Trump extends federal #takeover of #DC

#Transportation Secy Sean Duffy announced Wednesday that his department is taking management of #UnionStation, the main transportation hub in #Washington, away from #Amtrak, in another example of how the #FederalGovernment is exerting its #power over the nation’s capital.

#law#US #military#NationalGuard#WashingtonDC#HomeRule#MilitaryState #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #coup#TrumpCoup2
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-8-27-2025
William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

"Whether persecuting Abrego Garcia, threatening Fed independence, or shredding the constitutional division between military forces and civilian law enforcement, Trump has signaled there are no limits (and scant consideration) to his dictatorial ambitions."

~ Jennifer Rubin

#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator#KilmarAbregoGarcia #military#WashingtonDC#LisaCook
/1

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-police-state-is-here
William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

“The line is that I'm a dictator, but I stop crime. So a lot of people say, ‘You know, if that's the case, I'd rather have a dictator.'

With Trump underwater on all his key issues and his job approval rating dismal, the administration appears to be trying to create support for Trump by insisting that the U.S. is mired in crime and he alone can solve the problem."


/11
William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

"The administration’s solution is not to fund violence prevention programs and local law enforcement—two methods proven to work—but instead to use the power of the government to terrorize communities.

There is a frantic feel to that effort, as if they feel they must convince Americans to fear crime more than they fear rising grocery prices or having to take their children past police checkpoints on their way to school."

#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator #military#WashingtonDC
/12
William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

"Today, for the second time in as many days, President Donald J. Trump suggested that Americans want a dictator. In a meeting in the Cabinet Room that lasted more than three hours, during which he listened to the fulsome praise of his cabinet officers and kept his hands below the table, seemingly to hide the bad bruising on his right hand, Trump said:"

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator #military#WashingtonDC
/10

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-26-2025
William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

“The line is that I'm a dictator, but I stop crime. So a lot of people say, ‘You know, if that's the case, I'd rather have a dictator.'

With Trump underwater on all his key issues and his job approval rating dismal, the administration appears to be trying to create support for Trump by insisting that the U.S. is mired in crime and he alone can solve the problem."


/11
William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

"The sight of soldiers on American streets—camouflage-clad, armed and patrolling the same avenues where tourists once lined up for food trucks—should never have become normal. Yet under Donald Trump’s leadership, Washington, DC was transformed from a civic capital into a stage set for authoritarian theater."

~ Mark Mansour

#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator #military#WashingtonDC
/9

https://mmansour.substack.com/p/the-dangerous-normalization-of-trumps