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This is local Amsterdam news (in Dutch) about the library putting on a display of books banned from American schools and libraries, in little stars-and-stripes coffins. They say itās because whatever nonsense America gets up to, the Dutch need to be ready to guard against it being pushed here a few years later. at5.nl/nieuws/234309/wat-je-inā¦
I lost my Mom to pancreatic cancer when I was 19. She was only 47.
My grandmother also died from it at 53.
When Mom was diagnosed, she sat me down and said she knew exactly what I was feeling because she felt the same way when her Mom was dying.
She said she hated knowing that her girls were going to grow up without a mom.
She wasnāt afraid of dying, but she was afraid of leaving us behind.
She was sad that she would miss major milestones like graduations, marriage, grandchildren etc.
She wanted more time.
Unfortunately pancreatic cancer is quick and lethal.
Itās almost always caught too late, and few people live more than a year after diagnosis.
My Mom made it nine months.
Iām forever grateful for the time we had together and the fact that she prepared me for her passing. But I wanted more
The mRNA pancreatic cancer vaccine was a beacon of hope for my family.
It was hope for so many whose lives have been touched by this deadly disease. Whoāve lost loved ones.
Who live with the fear of being diagnosed themselves.
Thereās no words for the rage I feel when I think about RFK Jrās decision to cut funding for this life saving research.
His anti-vaxx grift has already killed and disabled many people. Measles is back. Covid is still here and still killing.
Now heās basically siding with cancer.
We deserve better than this.
We deserve an HHS leader who actually believes in science.
We deserve leaders who promote life saving interventions, robust public health and cutting edge research.
Shame on him and everyone who supports him.
MAHA just announced that states will be able to prohibit people from purchasing junk food with SNAP.
They claim this will make people healthier.
That itāll force them to make better choices. It wonāt.
Why? They arenāt addressing the privilege involved with healthy eating
Iām all for a healthy diet. I only consume whole and unprocessed foods myself, and even did a year as a raw vegan to try and reduce my overall inflammation.
It was an eye opening experience that I was only able to do because of my privilege.
In a perfect world, we would all be eating the healthiest and most nutrient dense food available.
But we donāt live in a perfect world.
Whole foods are more expensive, take longer to prepare and require more effort than ājunk foodā
People who are disabled, elderly, living in poverty and/or food deserts sometimes have no other choice.
Fed is better than dead.
This latest restriction will result in people going hungry. Kids starving because their parents canāt make them a healthy meal.
You canāt cut off an entire category of food without addressing the various systemic barriers to healthy eating.
There needs to be a plan to lower the cost of fresh whole foods. They need to be made more available, cheaper and in easy to prepare options.
People need a basic living wage to ensure they have the time to shop, prep and cook.
If youāre working two full time jobs just to survive; you canāt possibly be cooking from scratch every day.
Even if all those goals were accomplished, there are still people who rely on junk food for survival.
There are still people who may want it as an occasional treat.
Banning it altogether sends a message that poor & disabled people donāt ādeserveā treats.
This isnāt about making people healthier. Itās about blaming them for their illnesses.
If we blame diet and lifestyle, we can feel better about not treating people when they get sick.
Itās eugenics and itās on full display.
There are so many better ways to encourage people to eat healthier.
We should have universal healthcare, a basic income, childcare and affordable housing.
If basic needs are met, healthy living becomes much easier.
Finally, disability is no oneās fault.
Healthy living can help, but you canāt wellness your way out of chronic illness.
It doesnāt work that way, and the only reason to convince people otherwise is a desire to label disabled people expendable.
We are not expendable.
#uspol #disability #FoodInsecurity #snap #ableism #rfkjr #hhs #chronicillness
We should live in a world where selling out to corporate money or being completely spineless and ineffective in office is what threatens re-election.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics
There is really no comparison in American history to the blatant corruption.
nytimes.com/2025/07/29/opinionā¦
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics
Please get the word out and spread these articles widely: 404 Media is publishing its ICE coverage in Spanish -- no signups, no paywall.
404media.co/were-publishing-ouā¦
#ICE #immigration #uspol
We're Publishing Our ICE Reporting In Spanish
From ICE's facial recognition app to its Palantir contract, we've translated a spread of our ICE articles into Spanish and made them freely available.Joseph Cox (404 Media)
From the Disability Visibility Project:
"Immigrant Rights Are Disability Rights"
disabilityvisibilityproject.coā¦
"ā¦ a true commitment to justice for disabled people must recognize that many undocumented immigrants are themselves disabled and deserving of basic rights, not total erasure from the disability rights discourse."
#USPol #Disability #DisabilityRights #Ableism #Immigration #HumanRights
Immigrant Rights Are Disability Rights
Ā Immigrant Rights Are Disability Rights Joe Stramondo Ā In 2019, a White disability rights leader with a national reputation, Bruce Darling, had a spectacular fall from grace because of commenā¦Disability Visibility Project
Cuomo, a man with multiple credible sexual assault allegations against him, was thoroughly trounced by Mamdani in the Democratic primary for NYC mayor.
Does he concede quietly? Of course not.
Heās āin it to win itā as an independent.
This is what happens when men never learn that āno means noā.
Jeff Bezos threats to buy Conde Nast should absolutely be taken seriously.
It would give him control over a number of media outlets that are strong voices in opposition of fascism (like Wired and Teen Vogue)
Under the oligarchs control they would be forced to become right wing propaganda.
Now more than ever we must support independent journalistsā¦ many of whom are speaking truth to power despite the personal risk.
If you can boycott Amazon, please do it. Send a strong message with your wallet that you donāt support fascism or the billionaire class.
If you canāt boycott, please donāt feel guilty. Many disabled people and those in poverty may be reliant on Amazon for supplies they canāt get elsewhere.
Trust that your community is boycotting on your behalf.
Weāve got you, and you need to take care of yourself in order to survive.
No guilt. We all resist in whatever way we can.
Not that anyone caresā¦
If Trump fires the Fedās Powell, āboth the currency and the bond market can collapse,ā according to Deutsche Bank
fortune.com/2025/07/14/trump-fā¦
#JeromePowell #FederalReserve #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #TrumpVotersChoseThis #USPol
If Trump fires the Fedās Powell, āboth the currency and the bond market can collapse,ā according to Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank's explosive scenario in a note titled, āWhat ifĀ ?āJim Edwards (Fortune)
Interview: "It looks like I've hit a nerve."
~Francesca Albanese
The US has sanctioned Albanese following her scathing report, which named over 60 companies, including major US technology firms Google, Amazon & Microsoft, involved in "the transformation of Israel's economy of occupation to an economy of genocide".
middleeasteye.net/news/francesā¦
#USPol #FrancescaAlbanese #GazaGenocide @palestine .
āIāve hit a nerveā: Francesca Albanese defiant in face of Trump sanctions
The United Nations special rapporteur on Palestine, Francesca Albanese, on Thursday said she is undeterred byĀ sanctionsĀ imposed by the US on Wednesday. āIt looks like I've hit a nerve,ā she told Middle East Eyeās live show.Sondos Asem (Middle East Eye)
After Trans People, Trump Now Erasing Bisexual People From Stonewall National Monument
erininthemorning.com/p/after-tā¦
#Stonewall #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #queer #USPol
After Trans People, Trump Now Erasing Bisexual People From Stonewall National Monument
The "History and Culture" page no longer includes bisexual rights.Erin Reed (Erin In The Morning)
Wooohoooo to all the islamo-leftists in the houseeeeee ššš
thejc.com/opinion/zohran-mamdaā¦
#uspol #ZohranMamdani (deep thoughts on eating customs by the non-bidet tribes of the west)
Zohran Mamdani and the Corbynisation of New York
He eats rice by hand to fake Third World authenticity. Identitarian theatrics, anti-Zionism, and socialism are coming to the worldās largest Jewish cityDominic Green (The Jewish Chronicle)
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#AltNPS #Coup #Activism #NationalParkService #FederalGovernment #USpol #Trump
It just blows my mind that some people still don't seem to see the urgency and severity of the trouble we are in right now with the fascist government here in the US. This is fascism. How do you not see that? We have brownshirts kidnapping people off the streets. We have concentration camps being openly built. We have borderline autocracy.
Chris Van Hollen explains that tax cuts for the wealthy don't expire, but other provisions, e.g., no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, DO PHASE OUT.
Republicans are lying to you. Again, and again.
#BigFuglyBill #BBB #TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #Project2025 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
You no longer have to wonder whether some of the masked men with guns in unmarked cars taking people off the streets might not be real law enforcement officers. We now know that šŗš®š»š š®šæš² š»š¼š.
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jā¦
That includes a guy in NC who sexually assaulting a woman by threatening to deport her.
#ICE #Trump #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics
US sees spate of arrests of civilians impersonating Ice officers
Experts say trend of agents detaining people while masking and wearing plainclothes increases riskJosƩ Olivares (The Guardian)
Sen. Padilla's speech on being forced to the ground & handcuffed after asking a question:
youtube.com/watch?v=G-mKheWHHDā¦
"ā¦ we've seen masked federal agentsn in tactical gear, ordered into our communities. We've seen a disturbing pattern of increasingly extreme and cruel immigration enforcement operations targeting nonviolent people, at places of worship, at schools,
in courthouses, all to meet an arbitrary quota."
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#USPol #Padilla #Immigration #Democracy #Resist
WATCH: Sen. Padilla's full Senate floor speech recounting his removal from Noem's LA briefing
Watch PBS News for daily, breaking and live news, plus special coverage. We are home to PBS News Hour, ranked the most credible and objective TV news show.Su...YouTube
We need urgent community action to stop this incredibly ableist plan from moving forward.
The DOE has ruled that new federal buildings donāt have to meet accessibility standards.
That will mean many disabled people wonāt be able to work in or access these places.
Theyāre literally excluding us from as many facets of life as possible, because they have a eugenics plan.
Call, email, speak out!
Accessibility is not a ānice to haveā. Itās a legal right. Itās necessary for our survival.
federalregister.gov/documents/ā¦
#uspol #fascism #disability #chronicillness #ableism #accessibility #doe
Sticking with the Trumpenreich invasion of LA for just one more moment, I'd like to take a look at the intentional fascist intimidation tactics employed by Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, or at least her security team, against the US Senator from California, Alex Padilla. This event received extensive coverage in the mainstream media, but I believe it's important to take note of here for two reasons; one which was discussed in liberal media circles, and one that got far less coverage because our establishment is instinctively allergic to calling US cabinet officials "liars" even when everyone knows they're lying.
Let's get into the weeds:
truthout.org/articles/senator-ā¦
Sen. Alex Padilla Tackled to the Ground, Handcuffed at Noem Press Conference
"Video of the incident that circulated on social media showed Padilla attempting to ask Noem a question when multiple men began grabbing and shoving him.
āIām Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary,ā Padilla says, struggling to speak as heās manhandled. He seemingly begins to make a comment about the ārotatingā set of people supposedly convicted of crimes that the Trump administration is parading around in attempts to justify their brutal, sweeping anti-immigrant campaign.
As heās speaking, the officers forcibly remove him from the room, with Padilla yelling āhands off.ā Grabbing his arms, chest, and clothes, they shove the senator into a hallway, where they force him to the ground and handcuff him."
First of all, this is outrageous, intentional, fascist political intimidation and Senator Warren is absolutely right when she says the DHS Secretary should resign. Not that Noem will, because Trump purposely stacked his regime full of nazis who don't know the meaning of the word shame this time, and Kristi really fits that description; after all, this *is* a woman who bragged about murdering a puppy because she thought it would help her political career. The fact is however there are only 100 United States Senators, and while Capital Hill may be a city within a city, it's not a particularly large city. Every single person in that room, including Noem, her security detail, and the press corps, knew who Alex Padilla was the entire time. Furthermore, while Noam might have a TV star's face thanks to her surgeon, she's a very poor actor, and watching her during this widely-recorded moment makes it clear she's fully aware of what's going on the whole time. The assault, and it was an assault, by Noem's security detail on a Democrat sitting US Senator representing the community the Trumpenreich is currently invading, was completely intentional; Noem, and through her Trump, meant to send a message.
As the article goes on to detail, this fascist bullshit is firmly part of a larger Swine Emperor and GOP quest to criminalize their political opposition, specifically the Democratic Party. This is occurring not only in rhetoric, but in deed. The regime is investigating Act Blue, a Dem-aligned fundraising org, they've arrested both a Democrat Mayor, and a Democrat Congresswoman for attempting to conduct oversight on an ICE facility, federal agents burst into NY Democrat Jerry Nadler's office, cuffed an employee, and accused his staff of harboring "criminals." They're working hard to get Americans used to seeing Democrat officials aligned against Trump, in handcuffs on the six o'clock news, and I suspect that's not an accident.
All of which then brings us to Kristi Noem's bald-face lie, that Senator Padilla "burst into the room," "lunged at her,' and "did not identify himself." Let's roll the tape:
theguardian.com/us-news/live/2ā¦
CBS video of Padilla interrupting Noem with a question appears to undermine her claim that he lunged at her
"Just three seconds into the incident, Padilla could be seen standing, with his left hand raised slightly in a rhetorical gesture, trying to continue with his question, as a security officer placed his hands on the senatorās chest and back and began pushing him away from the front of the room.
There is no visual evidence in the clip to suggest that Padilla was moving in Noemās direction when he started speaking, or was ever within 10-15ft (3-3.5 metres) of her."
So, actually Padilla was already in the room, he never got within 12 feet of Noem and certainly didn't lunge, and he clearly identified himself in a room he didn't have to. I'm sorry for the Zapruder film treatment here, but I want to establish that Kristi Noem is unquestionably, and intentionally lying about something she knows is being recorded live, because that's the most important thing about this incident.
Noem knows she's lying, she knows you know she's lying, and she knows the camera knows she's lying, but in true fascist fashion she's claiming the power to force you to accept that lie as valid; and a media pretending she could just be stupid and mistaken, would make Orwell weep.
#Fascism #Trump #USPol #DHS #InvasionOfLA #KristiNoem #AlexPadilla #GOP
Sen. Alex Padilla Tackled to the Ground, Handcuffed at Noem Press Conference
āIf this is how this administration responds to a senator ā¦ imagine what theyāre doingā to everyday Americans, he said.Sharon Zhang (Truthout)
Keeping with collecting facts to remember about the ongoing invasion of LA in a discourse actively trying to reimagine these events in real time, I'd like to talk about this June 10th article on Huffpost because I think it highlights three important points I've been writing about on this blog. First, state security forces, particularly federal Trumpenreich immigration forces are the ones committing violence and sewing disorder, not protestors. Second, the "nonlethal" weapons being deployed on nonviolent protestors in LA are still extremely dangerous, and represent an unacceptable application of force against people exercising their constitutionally-protected rights. And third, the class sympathies of corporate media organizations are so powerfully encoded that they supersede even basic self-preservation.
huffpost.com/entry/journalistsā¦
Dozens Of Journalists Targeted, Shot, Detained While Covering LA Protests, Press Org Says
"Shocking video and photos taken amid the ongoing immigration protests in Los Angeles show journalists and news crews being shot, detained and forced off public property by law enforcement, raising concerns of excessive force and First Amendment rights violations.
There have been more than 30 incidents of police violence against journalists as of Tuesday, including 20 injuries, at least five of which required emergency room or urgent care visits, said Adam Rose, the press rights chair with the Los Angeles Press Club, which released a statement Monday urging an end to the targeting of journalists whose work is constitutionally protected."
Keep in mind that this story was published on June 10th, and it is now June 13th; I've watched enough livestreams from LA to guarantee you the more than 30 incidents of police violence against journalists catalogued by the LA Press Club is now a drastic undercount as we roll through day 7 of the fascist Trumpenreich invasion of LA. Furthermore, while everyone has seen the clip of the Australian 9 News reporter being purposely shot in the back of the leg by a murderpig, incidents of deliberate calculated violence against journalists by various state security forces are by no means isolated, and have resulted in far more serious injuries than Tomasi got in that clip. These violent assaults on journalists by federal immigration officers and local police forces are *not* accidental; check out this quote from the LA Press Club's letter to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem:
āIn some cases, federal officers appear to have deliberately targeted journalists who were doing nothing more than their job covering the news,ā a letter addressed to Noem by the organizations states."
Do you have any idea how sure a mainstream press body has to be before they accuse cops of purposely targeting journalists? Security forces, particularly Trump's federal Gestapo, have been intentionally attacking journalists to prevent them from covering their widespread civil rights abuses and fascist piggery towards migrants and protestors; full stop. Is this violence? Is this disorder? Cause if it is, I think it's safe to say the pigs are the one bringing those elements to the streets of LA.
Which brings us to nonlethal rounds, and the intentional application of excessive force against journalists, by security forces. Take this story from a veteran reporter shot through the leg with a "nonlethal" round by a cop aiming an area effect weapon directly at his midsection.
"Graphic photos shared with HuffPost show a gaping wound in Nick Sternās right thigh that he said has left him unable to walk or move without assistance.
āWhy this device was shot at human, kind of, waist high level, I do not know. The people around me at that time was doing nothing more than waving Mexican flags,ā he told HuffPost."
Stern's story is by no means an outlier, and the article provides evidence of more injured journalists like him. All of which might make you ask how media muppets can continue to blame violence on protestors and hump murderpigs on live TV while their compatriots are being wounded in the streets by deliberate pig assaults? The answer is cold hard cash, and the class sympathies of people who own and run media corporations. These folks are so committed to the police state that protects their material interests, that the media they control will jump through absurd hoops to conflate victim with victimizer; a few days ago I watched a CNN reporter claim protestors were throwing exploding foam objects at the press while holding up a nonlethal munition that I know came from the cops because they're the only ones who had those types of weapons at the protest.
My friends, you're damn right there is violence and disorder on (some of) the streets of LA; and if all the murderpigs and soldiers committing that violence and causing that disorder would like to fuck off now, I'm sure Angelinos can handle the rest from here.
#Fascism #Trump #InvasionOfLA #Police #PoliceViolence #Media #Journalists #CivilRights #USPol
Dozens Of Journalists Targeted, Shot, Detained While Covering LA Protests, Press Org Says
āI never thought for one moment that Iād actually have to be fearful of law enforcement during a public protest," said one photojournalist hospitalized after getting shot in the leg.Nina Golgowski (HuffPost)
In this thread I've written a lot about the importance of keeping track of what the regime says surrounding the fascist shitshow that is the Trumpenreich invasion of LA. Speaking frankly, I think everyone living in a capitalist police state should keep close track of what their "leaders" say at all times, but in this case it's important because the Trump regime uses propaganda to create space for action. In talking about and justifying their fascist activities, including the invasion of LA, regime officials frequently reveal a great deal about their methods of operation and future intentions.
To go deeper into what I mean by this sort of tea leaf reading and how it pertains to the Trump regime's statements about Los Angeles, let's take a look at this June 10th Guardian article discussing a very similar issue with some help from NYU history professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat:
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jā¦
āThe language of authoritarianismā: how Trump and allies cast LA as a lawless city needing military intervention
"As a pretext to this action, the Trump administration had characterized the protests as a broader threat to the nation. On X, White House deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, called LA āoccupied territoryā. āWeāve been saying for years this is a fight to save civilization. Anyone with eyes can see that now.ā
Trump posted on Truth Social: āA once great American City, Los Angeles, has been invaded and occupied by Illegal Aliens and Criminals. Now violent, insurrectionist mobs are swarming and attacking our Federal Agents to try and stop our deportation operations ā But these lawless riots only strengthen our resolve.ā
FBI director, Kash Patel, wrote on X that LA was āunder siege by marauding criminalsā.
If I'm being honest, this entire article is basically one huge "They Said It" post, so you'll forgive me for centering Trumpenreich official's comments over Ben-Ghiat's analysis. If you read on however, she confirms that the regime's language is designed to create an 'existential sense of fear," paint LA as a warzone, and justify putting soldiers in the streets to enforce Trump's fascist rule. Ben-Ghiat also points to a statement made by Trump's crusader fascist Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, for a perfect encapsulation of how this narrative building then translates to implied justification for very specific authoritarian regime actions.
"The violent mob assaults on ICE and Federal Law Enforcement are designed to prevent the removal of Criminal Illegal Aliens from our soil,ā Hegseth wrote. āA dangerous invasion facilitated by criminal cartels (aka Foreign Terrorist Organizations) and a huge NATIONAL SECURITY RISK.ā
Ben-Ghiat said Hegseth employed āthe classic authoritarian thing, of setting up an excuse, which is that the internal enemy, illegal criminal aliens, is working together with an external enemy, the cartels and foreign terrorists, and using that to go after a third party, of protesters, regular people, who came out to show solidarityā.
All of which brings us to the same, familiar, gnawing question that defines so much of the second Trump era; are these guys fucking serious? As I mentioned elsewhere, the fact is a fascist regime really only gets one shot at going for the full Third Reich dictatorship experience; if Trump and his minions go for it, but fail, everyone who doesn't have SCOTUS-granted immunity from prosecution is probably fucked. Is Downmarket Mussolini willing to risk the tremendous power and privilege he has now to make himself the true master of all he surveys? I'm not sure anyone, even Trump's unofficial minister of nazi shit Stephen Miller, actually knows the answer to that question.
What I can tell you however, is what I told you earlier on this blog today; at some point the idea that Trump is just accidentally falling into all the steps he'd need to take to install a permanent fascist dictatorship in America, ceases to hold water. This guy is either the world's luckiest accidental authoritarian, or the Trump regime is planning to go the full nine yards and what we're talking about now is a question of courage, not will. Take a look at what this article quotes Miller as saying, and then tell me you're sure I'm wrong.
āSimply put, the government of the State of California aided, abetted and conspired to facilitate the invasion of the United States,ā Stephen Miller wrote on X."
Folks, it's hard to say that the Trump regime is "preparing for war," when they've clearly already started one. But almost everything the regime does and says, especially in regards to the Los Angeles protests, strongly implies we haven't remotely hit rock bottom here. Trump is running out of shiny things to distract the public with and it's increasingly becoming clear the Trumpenreich is building a dictatorship brick by brick; you don't do that because you want to admire the shine on your Gestapo's riot helmets.
#Fascism #Trump #USPol #LA #InvasionOfLA #Propaganda #Dictatorship #StephenMiller
āThe language of authoritarianismā: how Trump and allies cast LA as a lawless city needing military intervention
As a pretext to sending in the national guard, the White House marked the Ice protests as a broader threat to the USTess Owen (The Guardian)
Today in deeply not at all fun Trump facts; did you know the Swine Emperor has currently deployed more troops to LA than the US military officially maintains in Syria and Iraq, combined? No, seriously:
truthout.org/articles/trump-haā¦
Trump Has Deployed More Troops in LA Than Syria and Iraq, Per US Counts
"President Donald Trumpās latest deployment of thousands of National Guard troops and Marines to Los Angeles means that there are now more troops carrying out Trumpās anti-protest crackdown in southern California than in both Iraq and Syria, regions where the U.S. has executed some of its most intense and inhumane military campaigns in recent decades, according to official counts.
Trump has dispatched roughly 4,000 National Guard members and 700 Marines to respond to L.A.ās protests of his immigration raids, for a total of roughly 4,700 troops. Meanwhile, according to publicly reported Pentagon figures, the U.S. has roughly 2,000 troops deployed in Syria and 2,500 troops in Iraq, for a total of 4,500."
As the article goes on to note, a Pentagon still operating under War on Terror logic while occupying Iraq and purportedly fighting terrorism in Syria, may well be undercounting the troop levels in those two countries; they've certainly done so in the past.
Regardless, if we consider the *official* deployment of military personnel to be a de facto statement of the regime's policing priorities, that still means the Trumpenreich is arguing that unarmed domestic protesters inside very small pockets of the Los Angeles area are a greater threat than militarized terrorist militias in two countries US intervention has helped transform into semi-perpetual warzones. Please keep in mind that the LA protests are happening on livestream, and there are hundreds of eye witness accounts in the public discourse from Angelinos saying there is no widespread disorder for the troops to quell. There is not a man, woman, nor child in America who can't verify for themselves that Trump is lying about a ārebellion against the authority of the Government of the United Statesā going on in Los Angeles, if they want to.
All of which of course leads us directly back to our ongoing discussion about what the Trumpenreich is trying to use its militarized invasion of LA to sanctify in practice, if not in US Law. Trump wants the power to permanently occupy US cities, while engaging the military in both domestic policing and assisting the Gestapo in the regime's ethnonationalist mass deportation project; including apparently providing detention facilities for caged migrants. Furthermore, as Zhang ominously notes, there are clear signs the regime is exploring how to scale up what they're doing in LA, to a much more national project.
"According to a report by ABC News, the Pentagon is considering a plan crafted by the Department of Homeland Security to deploy more than 20,000 additional National Guard troops to aid with Trumpās immigration raids.
This would cost $3.6 billion over the course of a year, and would represent roughly half of the number of troops deployed across the entirety of the Middle East. It would also be an escalation of the Trump administrationās use of the U.S.ās colossal military capacity to attack and subdue the American public."
Folks, I'm just going to be real with you; you don't martial up 20,000+ troops from all across the country in advance because ICE is going to raid a bunch of cities one by one to hunt down brown people Stephen Miller's shriveled conscience cannot abide existing in his county. We're definitely going to talk more about the ABC report the author mentions at a later point in time, but what you're looking at here is the opening steps the regime would need to take if they intended to militarily occupy the parts of the United States that didn't vote for Trump without meeting organized, violent resistance.
Like a lot of the fascist bullshit the Klepto Kaiser is doing right now, it's hard to tell if he's going to go "all the way." At some point however, the idea that Donald Trump is just accidentally stumbling in to all the steps he would need to enshrine a militarized fascist dictatorship under a perpetual state of quasi-martial law, strains credulity. If Trump gets away with transforming protests into an insurrection and soldiers into policemen in LA, you should bet on the idea that the nazis will soon be coming for a town near you in that very same way.
#Fascism #Trump #InvasionOfLA #Imperialism #WarOnTerror #USPol #LosAngeles #Protests #MENA #Syria #Iraq #PoliceState
Trump Has Deployed More Troops in LA Than Syria and Iraq, Per US Counts
The figures are a show of the administrationās willingness to use extreme military force on its own population.Sharon Zhang (Truthout)
They Said It (June 8th, 2025)
"Homeland security secretary Kristi Noem has said the protests in Los Angeles are āabsolutelyā organized by people being paid to instigate violence, without providing any evidence.
Asked by Sean Hannity on Fox News about pallets of bricks that he claimed had mysteriously appeared at the protests and whether she had found evidence of organisation and funding, Noem said:
"Absolutely. These are organized. These are people that are being paid to do this. You can follow how they behave, the signals they give to each other in these crowds and these protests to instigate violence. This is an operation, and itās professionally done. Theyāve done it before, and weāre going to stop it and make sure that we prosecute every single one of them."
She also called Karen Bass a ātrainwreck of a mayorā and said Los Angeles was not āa city of immigrants theyāre a city of criminals.ā
Source - Guardian live feed, June 8th:
theguardian.com/us-news/live/2ā¦
#Fascism #InvasionOfLA #KristiNoem #Trump #USPol
Mayor says Los Angeles being used as ātest caseā by federal government ā as it happened
Mayor says ānothing warrantedā the intervention and that cannot āemphasize enough the level of fear and terror that is in Angelenos right nowā due to Ice raidsKate Lamb (The Guardian)
If, as many local officials in California have suggested, Trump's goal was to create a powder keg that justifies even more authoritarian repression in LA, it's abundantly clear the regime and its Gestapo were working to create that power keg long before Trump illegally deployed what is now 4,000 National Guardsmen and 700 US Marines to the extremely diverse sanctuary city. Take for example the assault, arrest, and smearing of Service Employees International Union President David Huerta during the Friday ICE raids in densely populated portions of LA and the surrounding area.
Whether the Gestapo pigs who assaulted Huerta on camera while the extremely popular labor leader was merely observing the unlawful Gestapo raids targeting workers in his city knew it or not, their fascist piggery was almost certainly the inciting moment for widespread nonviolent protests that broke out across the greater LA area; a day and a half later, Trump would be illegally deploying National Guard troops on the streets of downtown Los Angeles.
commondreams.org/news/david-huā¦
'This Is What Fascism Looks Like': Beloved Labor Leader David Huerta Arrested
"The union included remarks from Huertas, who said, "We all collectively have to object to this madness because this is not justice. This is injustice."
"This is about something much bigger" than his own arrest, said Huertas. "This is about how we as a community stand together and resist the injustice."
According to a statement released by the Department of Homeland Security, approximately 44 individuals were "administratively arrested" in a series of raids at retail stores in the Los Angeles area, while one individual, identified as Huertas, was arrested "for obstruction" of federal officers.
"This is what fascism looks like," said California State Senator Scott Wiener, a Democrat. "Secret police raids. Injuring protesters. Arresting labor leaders."
As the article notes, Huertas is the president of a 750,000 member strong union in California that represents an absolutely massive number of Latinex workers in the state; if the feds were looking to avoid protests, this was the last guy they wanted to assault. Which makes the fact that they did so on camera, and then tried to lie about it later all the more revealing. This is from a Guardian update posted after Huertas was released on bond:
theguardian.com/us-news/live/2ā¦
"In an affidavit supporting the criminal complaint against Huerta, an officer alleged that the union leader was arrested after another officer tried to push him out of the way of a law enforcement vehicle being blocked by protesters on a sidewalk. The officer who witnessed the incident claimed that he saw Huerta āpush back, and in response, the officer pushed HUERTA to the ground. The officer and I then handcuffed HUERTA and arrested him.ā
However, video of the arrest shared on social media by US attorney Bill Essayli seems to show that the officer shoved Huerta to the ground without being pushed by the labor leader. Huertaās head was knocked into a concrete curb by the officers and he was hospitalized on Friday."
If you watch the video the government's own attorney shared, it is utterly impossible for the regime to credibly argue that Heurta is a violent protestor or criminal element, and even the regime's argument about "obstruction" seems to revolve around not stepping out the way for a truck full of kidnapped Angelino workers to be driven through; yet they're trying anyway. I believe that's because the facts don't matter to Trump, this arrest in particular merely provided him with the excuse he needed to declare war on LA and by extension, Governor Gavin Newsom.
If it seems like I'm laser focused on the Gestapo raids broadly targeting brown workers in LA on Friday, it's because this is unquestionably the inciting incident that lead to the Trump regime's ongoing fascist invasion of LA and contrary to Downmarket Mussolini and his minion's lies, the Trump administration was completely responsible for these inciting incidents. It was Kristi Noem who demanded vastly more migrant arrests, it was Stephen Miller who gave the order to target retail businesses and public districts, it was ICE officials who told the Gestapo to violate civil rights and start snatching people up for being brown, it was the Trump regime who targeted a sanctuary city in a sanctuary state run by the current 2028 Democrat nomination frontrunner for this spectacle, and it was Trumpenreich officials who responded to nonviolent protests by declaring a violent insurrection was occurring in LA to pave the way for Trump's deployment of US military forces to the city. They had the means, they created the opportunity, and the motives are transparently fascist; Trump snatched it up as an excuse to declare war on his perceived opposition immediately, as if it was planned that way, because it was.
#Fascism #LA #ICE #Trump #KristiNoem #StephenMiller #DHS #Invasion #USPol #Gestapo #Newsom #PoliceState #Nazis
Mayor says Los Angeles being used as ātest caseā by federal government ā as it happened
Mayor says ānothing warrantedā the intervention and that cannot āemphasize enough the level of fear and terror that is in Angelenos right nowā due to Ice raidsKate Lamb (The Guardian)
In the thread above, I've made the argument that the entire Trump regime's invasion of LA, from the original Gestapo raids on Friday, all the way through to this very moment, is a carefully orchestrated authoritarian political project stapled to an engineered bit of fascist theater. To my eye, this conclusion seems pretty obvious, particularly given how quickly after protests broke out the entire Trump regime, including noted nazis Stephen Miller and Tom Homan, produced clearly-coordinated sound bites about a "violent insurrection" in LA that literally was not happening. Proving it beyond a shadow of a doubt however, is an evolving process that's going to take time and evidence; so I'm going to intersperse that evidence throughout this thread as we go along.
First up, did you know the regime brought noted anti-migrant, pro-Trump fascist propagandist Dr. Phil to LA for an exclusive "before and after" raid interview with border Czar Tom Homan?
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jā¦
Talkshow host Dr Phil joined Ice agents for Los Angeles immigration raids
"Phil, whose full name is Phil McGraw, was with Ice before and after its agents conducted a series of raids on multiple locations across LA on Friday. Immigration advocates said at least 45 people were arrested, and the action was condemned by Californiaās governor and LAās mayor.
It was the second time McGraw, a former practising psychologist who hosted a TV talkshow for two decades, has been embedded with Ice this year. In January, he joined the US border czar, Tom Homan, in a choreographed immigration raid in Chicago, in a stunt that was criticized at the time."
First of all The Guardian, I think describing Phil McGraw as a "talk show host" and "television personality" in this year of our discontent 2025, is a bold move; Dr. Phil is now a fascist propagandist trading on his personal relationships inside the Trump administration to push an aging conservative audience further into the Klepto Kaiser's cult of personality. He isn't on my TV anymore; he's on a fake TV network for fascists and bigot Boomers and he's actively working with the Trump regime to produce anti-migrant, pro-ICE propaganda because his career prospects at this point are virtually nonexistent otherwise.
Which is of course why I'm sharing this article at all. We already know that the regime brought in Dr. Phil to create highly-choreographed propaganda to support fascist ICE raids after he was embedded with Gestapo agents led by Tom Homan himself back in January; it's not like this is a hobby for McGraw or anything, it's his job now. What then does it say that Homan once against tapped McGraw to provide the theatrical component to fascist ICE raids, using new tactics officials knew would result in outrage and resistance, while clearly preparing to justify the deployment of US military forces to LA against then entirely peaceful protests?
It says the regime was putting on a show; and if there's one thing we know about Trump and putting on a show, it's that Downmarket Mussolini likes to go big, or go home.
#Fascism #Trump #USPol #LA #MartialLaw #Insurrection #Propaganda #Nazis #DrPhil #WhiteNationalism #ICE #Gestapo #InvasionOfLA #TomHoman #StephenMiller
Talkshow host Dr Phil joined Ice agents for Los Angeles immigration raids
Conservative channel MeritTV says psychologist and TV host was there to get āfirst-hand look at targeted operationsāAdam Gabbatt (The Guardian)
While we're still in the "before ICE starts snatching up brown people at work in perhaps the most diverse city in America" portion of our story, I'd like to take a look at a curious exchange between California Governor Gavin Newsom and the Trump regime, that occurred right before the fascist theater shitshow in LA touched off. While the federal government's invasion of LA is inherently a story about labor class and marginalized resistance against fascist oppression, I do think there is a clear political angle at work here that we're going to have to talk about sooner or later, so I'd like to lay the groundwork for that discussion now before this fascinating tidbit of information fades out of the discourse.
Did you know that literally hours before the Gestapo raids in LA that touched off what would become Trump's invasion, California was threatening to without federal tax payments and the Pork Reich responded by threatening to jail the Governor of California while making arguments that Trump or at least Trump policies should control the state, not Governor Gavin Newsom?
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jā¦
Newsom is warned of ācriminal tax evasionā if he withholds federal taxes
"The US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, has warned California governor Gavin Newsom that he would be guilty of ācriminal tax evasionā if he withholds his stateās tax payments to the federal government amid threats of a funding cut by Donald Trump.
Newsom had threatened to cut tax payments to the federal government two days ago after reports that Trump was preparing huge federal funding cuts targeting Democrat-dominated California, including its state university system."
There's a lot going on here and the Guardian's reporting is a little bit of a flippant but juicy political story because, presumably, they did not know ICE and then the US military were about to invade LA. The two larger background stories here are that Gavin Newsome is the 2028 frontrunner for the Democratic Party nomination, and that Trump has been threatening California with drastic cuts to its federal funding unless Newsom adopts fascist political policies, particularly in relation to climate legislation and trans rights. The latter dispute, which has become quite heated, has been raging for months and was recently thrust into the spotlight because the Klepto Kaiser saw some moral panic anti-trans news stories about a girl's high school long jump meet and responded by threatening to defund the California University system; which is to some degree, the pride and joy of California (neo)liberalism.
So our backdrop here is that before a single federal boot hits the ground in LA and the surrounding area, Trump is already trying to broadly control policy in California, and become locked into a highly political battle of wills with Newsom, who the broader right seems to regard as the de facto leader of the Democratic Party given his status as the 2028 nomination frontrunner right now. That battle over the sovereignty of the California government had already escalated to a point just below the surface of open conflict in a way we haven't seen since the Civil Rights Act was passed; at the point the Governor of California is saying he's not gonna to pay the state's taxes unless Trump let's him govern his own state, and US government representatives are threatening to charge Newsom with criminal tax evasion, you are in fact already on the verge of something akin to a Civil War, or at least secession. Which in turn makes regime comments about Newsom's governance, delivered on Friday by White House spokesperson Kush Desai, extremely revealing.
"In a statement on Friday, the White House spokesperson Kush Desai criticized Californiaās energy, immigration and other positions as ālunatic anti-energy, soft-on-crime, pro-child mutilation, and pro-sanctuary policiesā.
āNo taxpayer should be forced to fund the demise of our country,ā Desai said, but he added that āNo final decisions, however, on any potential future action by the Administration have been made, and any discussion suggesting otherwise should be considered pure speculation.ā
Now look, I'm not a conspiracy theorist but if you look past the blatantly obvious lies being uttered by the Trump regime, this all sort of looks like the opening stages of a 2028 election battle with the Kelpto Kaiser upping the anti by making that battle highly literal and kinetic. The media isn't picking up on it because A) they're interested in selling Newsom as the next president and B) they're not taking Trump's threats to run for an (unconstitutional) third term seriously, but all the hallmarks of Trump building Newsom and "decadent" California up to be his new Clinton dynasty, or Biden regime style foil are there. This isn't about public safety, it's about power; the power to punish your political opposition and rule like an emperor across every state in America.
That's why they picked LA.
#Fascism #LA #Trump #Newsom #USPol #Funding
Newsom is warned of ācriminal tax evasionā if he withholds federal taxes
California governor made threat amid reports Trump is weighing huge federal funding cuts targeting stateEdward Helmore (The Guardian)
In some #awesome news, Trump's #AI plans have been leaked on #github, which others have now backed up for themselves.
First reported yesterday by 404 Media, the #tech is to launch on July 4th. Besides a #chatbot, there are APIs to connect to other models, and some other agency tech.
Despite Trump's rush to deploy widespread AI, many experts have valid #security and #privacy concerns regarding access to #confidential #data.
theregister.com/2025/06/10/truā¦
#news #technews #trump #unitedstates #uspol
Trump administration's whole-government AI plans leaked on GitHub
Updated: The AI.gov repository and staging site vanished when we asked questions, but don't worry ā we captured backupsBrandon Vigliarolo (The Register)
Today I invited a couple friends to the #NoKings protest this Saturday, and they were more open to it than I thought. (Not my most political friends.) Turning out lots of folks who don't usually protest would be amazing. I hope Saturday is the day many people wake up and realize the resisting this administration is not fringe, it's what most Americans want.
If you're in the USA, I hope you'll join us!
nokings.org/
Someone captured the moment an Australian reporter was shot by a rubber bullet at the anti-ICE protests in LA.
Itās wildly concerning that a country which prides itself on freedom of the press is now shooting at journalists.
Also, watch closely. She was away from the crowds. She was clearly reporting and no threat to anyone.
Yet the agent took direct aim & shot.
This is enraging. This is state sanctioned violence. This is an attack on the press. An attempt to silence.
Keep speaking out.
#ice #fascism #la #losangeles #abolishice #uspol
I'm not about to turn this account into US political drama posting full time, but I'd like to take a moment to talk about the Linsdey Graham tweet about the Gaza flotilla and anti-genocide activist Greta Thunberg. If you haven't seen it, there's a screenshot in the Zeteo article below, but the short story is that Graham posted or quoted an image of Thunberg on the deck of a flotilla vessel, and wrote over top "hope Greta and her friends can swim."
Graham's behavior is of course disgusting and condemnable on its face. I want to talk about it today however because I think if you take the Senator from South Carolina's post in the proper context, it reveals quite a lot about where the US government, buttressed by a pro-genocide corporate media, stands in contrast to the rest of the world on the subject of Israel's genocide in Gaza.
Lindsey Graham's Disgusting Tweet About Greta Thunberg Is 'Brain Rot' in Its Truest, Most Vulgar Sense
zeteo.com/p/lindsey-grahams-diā¦
"The warped logic, wildly insulting to the intelligence or basic morals of the Americans he serves, is one thing. As with their comical hypocrisy, the refrain about the modern Republican Party that āthe cruelty is the pointā is baked into US politics. But the extent to which these threads undergirding American conservatism are put into total overdrive when it comes to Israel is jarring to any observer.
Because, to be clear: Graham, a US senator, paid by our taxes, is apparently calling for a government thatās killed at least 54,000 (and likely, far more) Palestinians to bomb a boat carrying food to a starving population (or, if Iām being incredibly generous, he is just hoping the ship sinks). Itād be one thing if Graham was operating in the already-broken framework of the draconianism weāre used to: egging on the detaining of protesters and cheering for the bombing of Gaza under the auspices of āeliminating Hamas.ā
Think how far weāve come: pointing out Israelās bombing of humanitarians was a āblood libel.ā Now, itās a punchline.
Here, we reach the endpoint of it all: a Republican, sealed off in his grotesque, hermetically-sealed bubble, finding it not only appropriate, but actively helpful in his (and his Israeli friendsā) PR crusade to buoyantly rejoice at the idea of 12 volunteers ā including a young college-aged person ā being bombed, and left to tread in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea."
There's honestly so much going on here that you could write a whole book about this tweet, and the political moment in America that produced it. There are literal layers of grotesque inhumanity behind a US Senator cheerfully wishing death on a world famous activist and her friends for the high crime of trying to feed people we're helping to starve out of existence. Graham's callous, if not gleeful disregard for human life speaks to a modern, cultishly-devoted to Trump Republican Party whose broader motto might as well be "we're for killing and starving people" at this point; a sentiment their voters seem to embrace so long as the leopards aren't eating *their* faces.
If you know that the previous flotilla food aid attempt involving Thunberg was unable to reach Gaza after being struck by weaponized drones widely-believed to be Israeli in origin, then Graham's tweet reads like an open threat by a US Senator on behalf of a foreign government conducting a genocide we're paying for; which at almost any other point in American history would be earth-shaking news, but passes more or less for business as usual in the American pro-genocide reality bubble. This would be appalling under any circumstances, but for Graham to post this at the very same time the US government under Trump is pretending it is forcing Israel to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza, while openly concentrating starving Palestinians into corrals for the IOF to shoot at, is next-level Third Reich-type shit; and the whole world knows it.
Which then brings us back to the larger point about Israel's genocide in Gaza, and failing international support for the Netanyahu regime and an IOF committing open war crimes and mass murder. At the precise time that the entire international order except the United States is running away from their prior support for Israel's genocidal actions because starving children to death on livestream is extremely unpopular, the United States is accelerating the body count and a US Senator is openly threatening a European peace activist on behalf of our openly eliminationist ally, for the high crime of attempting to feed starving people our govt would clearly prefer dead. The Trump regime and the broader pro-genocide establishment in America are out of step with the rest of the Pig Empire, and out of touch with reality; Israel isn't the only country flirting with pariah state status as the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza continues to unfold.
#USPol #Gaza #Israel #UN #LindseyGraham #GazaFlotilla #GretaThunberg #Genocide #Starvation #WarCrimes #Palestinians #GOP #Trump
Lindsey Graham's Disgusting Tweet About Greta Thunberg Is 'Brain Rot' in Its Truest, Most Vulgar Sense
As the Zeteo contributor set sail on the Gaza aid flotilla, GOP Senator Lindsey Graham tweeted: "Hope Greta and her friends can swim!"Prem Thakker (Zeteo)
Republicans decided that they didn't need to know who they were starving.
Trump Administration Backs Off Effort to Collect Data on Food Stamp Recipients
nytimes.com/2025/06/03/us/poliā¦
#TACOTrade #Impeach #Convict #Remove #Indict #NoRepublicansEverAgain #FoodStamps #USPol