He said no decisions have been made on the request & that the base has not received an official request to support a #NationalGuard deployment.
#Trump #law#US #military#MilitaryState#PosseComitatusAct #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny#Gestapo #coup#TrumpCoup2
Trump’s admin has asked a military base outside Chicago for support on immigration operations, the base said Thurs, signaling a push to expand its law enforcement crackdown to other [democratic] #cities.
#law#US#NationalGuard#MilitaryState#PosseComitatusAct #democracy#CivilRights #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny#Gestapo #coup#TrumpCoup2
https://apnews.com/article/trump-immigration-military-base-4be8ec065a8749bafd326333a1f1c767?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-08-28-Breaking+News
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."
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #military #WashingtonDC
/21
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-strangling-the-life-out-of-washington-dc-restaurants
"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."
"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."
"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
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."
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #military #WashingtonDC
/21
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-strangling-the-life-out-of-washington-dc-restaurants
"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
"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
"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
"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
Public broadcaster #DR said Danish government & #security sources which it didn’t name, as well as unidentified sources in #Greenland & the #US, believe that at least 3 US nationals w/ connections to #Trump have been carrying out #covert #influence operations in the territory.
1 of those people allegedly compiled a list of US-friendly Greenlanders, collected names of people opposed to Trump & got locals to point out cases that could be used to cast #Denmark in a bad light in US media.
2 others have tried to nurture contacts w/ politicians, businesspeople & locals, acc/to the report.
An #influence operation is an organized effort to shape how people in a society think in order to achieve certain political, military or other objectives.
#Trump has repeatedly said he seeks #US jurisdiction over #Greenland, a vast, semi-autonomous territory of #Denmark. He has not ruled out #military force to take #control of the #mineral-rich, strategically located Arctic island.
#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
“'It bore similarities … to meetings of ministers in other countries where leaders have sought to exert strong, personal control over large stretches of national life,' the WaPo reported.
For his part, Trump basked in the preposterous praise and further embraced the Roberts Court’s view of the unitary executive."
Re: WaPo's report, read: "other countries" with dictators at their helms….
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator #JohnRoberts #SupremeCourt
/17
"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
"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
“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."
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator #military #WashingtonDC
/11
"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
"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
“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."
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator #military #WashingtonDC
/11
"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
"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
"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
"Why is Donald Trump trying to break the will of the Federal Reserve? Because he wants to be able to set the nation’s interest rates according to his momentary political interests—a tectonic disruption of America’s financial system that could permanently destroy America’s reputation as an economic safe haven and cause immeasurable damage to the U.S. economy."
~ Andrew Egger
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator#FederalReserve#LisaCook
/8
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/all-the-presidents-butt-snorkelers-cabinet-meeting-sycophants-dictator
"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
"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
"Unless states and ultimately the Supreme Court (which to date has enabled his tyrannical moves) blow the whistle, the fear of a police state with a corrupt, crony-capitalist economy will become our reality."
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator#KilmarAbregoGarcia #military#WashingtonDC#LisaCook#SupremeCourt
/2
"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
"Trump is trying to normalize the militarization of our country. This is where it starts, not where it will end. Trump is dropping the pretense of abiding by the rule of law. ...
This manner of operation makes it clear that it’s not about democracy and the American people; it’s about Trump and protecting Trump."
~ Joyce Vance
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