#AbuseOfAuthority

2025-11-18

Rep. Pat Ryan wrote: "Trump campaigned on lowering costs and ending forever wars. He’s doing the exact opposite. How about focusing on the economy, not sending our men and women in uniform into harm’s way to stroke your own ego?"

2025-11-05

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth: "Today, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War carried out a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization."

Justin Amash: "Thank you for documenting your crimes."

2025-11-01

@Nonilex Those who order illegal killings and those who follow those orders are murderers. It makes them feel powerful and they can justify the horror in their own sick minds.#murder #abuseofauthority #law #Venezuelamurders

2025-11-01

Dean Baker's comment in response to Donald Trump ordering our military to destroy other nation's boats near Venezuela:

"In his demented state, Trump can't remember whether he is supposed to be starting or ending wars to get a ."

2025-10-31

"The top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee are publicly pressuring the Pentagon to provide its legal rationale for the military strikes against alleged drug trafficking boats":
rollcall.com/2025/10/31/sasc-l
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2025-10-31

"The United Nations human rights chief has condemned the Trump administration’s military strikes on boats that it says are being used to smuggle drugs from South America, saying that they violate international law and should be investigated":
nytimes.com/2025/10/31/world/a
copy: @renewedresistance

2025-10-26

"California Gov. Gavin Newsom is condemning Pres. Donald Trump for disappearing [people] on the basis of the color of their skin amid his violent, sweeping ICE raids ... Immigrants have been terrified to do everyday tasks like walking their dogs, going to the clinic or attending family members’ funerals as they fear being targeted by ICE":
huffpost.com/entry/gavin-newso
copy: @renewedresistance

2025-10-26

David Chiu: "Needlessly deploying the military to American cities makes us all less safe. These deployments inflame tensions, undermine local law enforcement, and harm local economies. Our local law enforcement are more than capable of keeping our city* safe while upholding First Amendment rights."
*SanFrancisco

2025-10-24

"Donald Trump's claim that he can lawfully order the military to summarily kill people accused of smuggling drugs on boats off the coast of South America stands apart. A broad range of specialists in laws governing the use of lethal force have called Mr. Trump’s orders to the military patently illegal":
nytimes.com/2025/10/24/us/poli

2025-10-24

"A broad range of specialists in laws governing the use of lethal force have called Mr. Trump’s orders to the military patently illegal. They say the premeditated extrajudicial killings have been murders":
nytimes.com/2025/10/24/us/poli
"Since September 2, the military, on Mr. Trump’s orders, has carried out nine strikes on small vessels in the Caribbean Sea and in the Pacific Ocean."
copy: @renewedresistance

2025-10-23

"National Guard troops won’t be deploying in the Chicago area anytime soon unless the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes, because a judge on Wednesday extended her temporary restraining order indefinitely":
apnews.com/article/trump-immig

2025-10-20

Donald Trump said in his inaugural address: "We will measure our success by the wars we end and the wars we don't get into."

Now Trump is acting, without the approval of Congress, to get into wars in the Caribbean and in Venezuela.

Maybe Secretary of State Marco Rubio said starting new wars is how to win a Nobel Peace Prize.

2025-10-17

"More Than 170 United States Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days": propublica.org/article/immigra Justice Brett Kavanaugh falsely claimed that "Citizens shouldn’t be concerned. If officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, they promptly let the individual go.” Not true. copy: @renewedresistance

2025-10-14

Thinking of the disruption that ICE caused in other cities, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said: "If government law enforcement came to the city to illegally harass our residents, use excessive force or cross any other boundaries that the law proscribes, I will not hesitate to do my job and hold you accountable just like I do other violators of the law every single day”:
sfchronicle.com/tech/article/b
copy: @renewedresistance

2025-10-14

Trump "seems to want the military to spend a lot more of its time pointing its weapons at Americans rather than defending Americans. This case is going to answer the question of when, where and why can the president of the United States use the military at home against Americans”:
sfchronicle.com/politics/artic
copy: @renewedresistance

2025-10-13

"Deployment of National Guard troops within Illinois remained blocked Saturday after the federal appeals court in Chicago met the Trump administration halfway":
chicago.suntimes.com/donald-tr

2025-10-12

Suzie Rizzio: "ICE agents just snatched a journalist and were speeding away when they hit a woman’s vehicle that was going to work and she was doing nothing wrong! They almost left the scene after slamming into her, but then snatched her out of her car at gunpoint and took her with them!"

2025-10-12

Amanda Carpenter: "Project 2025 was, at its core, an aspiration to provide Trump plenary power to gut checks and balances, consolidate control over all aspects of the federal government and entrench power for the long term. It was written on paper and Stephen Miller is saying it out loud”:
huffpost.com/entry/stephen-mil
copy: @renewedresistance

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