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
It's past time for our most conseq news orgs to recog:🚨Trump's leading an authoritarian regime.
The closest the NYT will come to telling readers the truth: “promoting an aura of auth nationalism,” or: certain actions “increasingly remind scholars of the way authoritarian ldrs in other Cs” behave.
No guardrails anymore -no one inside the exec branch/ruling party in Congress/RW maj of the SC -won't tell him no.
Dom media insts won’t call him out.
#Authoritarianism#USPolhttps://presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-have-become-an-authoritarian-state-and-our-top-newsrooms-are-in-denial/
"Perhaps the most important thing to understand about Trump’s mobster state capitalism is that it isn’t about economic efficiency or stimulating growth, let alone a vision of how the economy works and what it should create. It’s about power, pure and simple. Trump is expanding his own personal power in every direction he can — over Congress, over universities, over civil society, and over American business."
Kate Riga notes that "the standoff the Supreme Court left the door open for is here" with Trump's determination to seize control of the Federal Reserve:
"The Court’s right-wing majority has been largely gleeful to cosign Trump’s rampage through the federal government, the weakening of executive branch agencies being a special hobbyhorse for Chief Justice John Roberts in particular."
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator #SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts
/7
"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
I want to share an important article from the The Tor Project about how Turkmenistan turned internet censorship into a business 🧵
Officials block access to the open internet—then sell it back at a price. Tor, being free and effective, became a threat to their profit model 🔐
When censors become dealers, censorship becomes extortion.
https://blog.torproject.org/Corruption-Control-Turkmenistan-internet-censorship-business/
#Privacy#Censorship#Surveillance#Corruption#DigitalRights#Tor#VPN#Freedom#HumanRights#Authoritarianism#FreeSpeech
It's past time for our most conseq news orgs to recog:🚨Trump's leading an authoritarian regime.
The closest the NYT will come to telling readers the truth: “promoting an aura of auth nationalism,” or: certain actions “increasingly remind scholars of the way authoritarian ldrs in other Cs” behave.
No guardrails anymore -no one inside the exec branch/ruling party in Congress/RW maj of the SC -won't tell him no.
Dom media insts won’t call him out.
#Authoritarianism#USPolhttps://presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-have-become-an-authoritarian-state-and-our-top-newsrooms-are-in-denial/
I want to share an important article from the The Tor Project about how Turkmenistan turned internet censorship into a business 🧵
Officials block access to the open internet—then sell it back at a price. Tor, being free and effective, became a threat to their profit model 🔐
When censors become dealers, censorship becomes extortion.
https://blog.torproject.org/Corruption-Control-Turkmenistan-internet-censorship-business/
#Privacy#Censorship#Surveillance#Corruption#DigitalRights#Tor#VPN#Freedom#HumanRights#Authoritarianism#FreeSpeech
#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
"In an orgy of 'flattery inflation,' President Trump’s Cabinet members tried to outdo themselves with over-the-top cultist praise for their leader while he preened, strutted, and projected for TV cameras for more than three excruciating hours Tuesday."
~ David Kurtz
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator
/16
https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/dc-grand-jury-declines-to-indict
“'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
Paul Krugman looks at Trump's decimation of renewable energy enterprises, electricity generated by wind and solar power"
“'The Crazy' is my personal term for the escalating barrage of destructive actions and statements coming from the madman-in-chief and his minions."
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator #ClimateChange #electricity#WindPower#SolarPower#RenewableEnergy
/15
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-crazy-comes-for-clean-energy
"In an orgy of 'flattery inflation,' President Trump’s Cabinet members tried to outdo themselves with over-the-top cultist praise for their leader while he preened, strutted, and projected for TV cameras for more than three excruciating hours Tuesday."
~ David Kurtz
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator
/16
https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/dc-grand-jury-declines-to-indict
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