Despite declaring the “successful completion” of its mission, #GHF from its start was heavily criticised internationally for operating a #militarized form of #aid distribution, with private #US contractors guarding sites that were often host to chaotic scenes.
#Israel also killed hundreds of #Palestinians on access routes to the aid distribution points, which disbursed boxes of dry foodstuffs to the local population that were deemed inadequate to alleviate the acute hunger across the enclave.
#Chicago undergoing startling escalation in federal immigration enforcement. #DHS #ICE Border Patrol conducted raids, mass detentions across city. operations unfolded under banner of “Operation Midway Blitz,” federal initiative that has rapidly transformed neighborhoods into #militarized zones. #court documents, #video evidence, eyewitness accounts paints troubling picture: federal agents not only using excessive force also spreading false narratives 2 justify their actions @parnasperspective
@Perspective The sad part is that the #ChemicalWarfareConvention explicitly does not classify #Teargas use by #Police as "#ChemicalWarfare"…
But since the #USA is a #UN #VetoPower with the ability to exert a financial #chokehold on the #UCC, #Trump won't be charged fir this shite!
New #Trump Order Among ‘Scariest Things I’ve Seen in US Politics,’ #CivilRights Attorney Says
The new order, he says, would essentially allow “random #fascist #vigilantes” to “sign up to be a #Brownshirt” for Trump’s militarized occupation forces.
Stephen Prager
Aug 26, 2025
"An executive order signed Monday by US President Donald Trump may permit 'random #FascistVigilantes' to help him #crackdown on protests across the country, according to one prominent civil rights lawyer.
"The new order, which comes amid wider concern about Trump’s #militarized takeover of #WashingtonDC, directs Secretary of Defense #PeteHegseth to ensure that each state’s #NationalGuard is equipped to 'assist Federal, State, and local law enforcement in quelling civil disturbances and ensuring the public safety.' "
Read more / listen:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-vigilante-portal
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/H30Nm
#USPol #Fascism #TrumpIsAFascist #Authoritarianism #BellRiots #Brownshirts #CorporateColonialism #Corporatocracy #CapitolGuards #HungerGames #SilencingDissent #CharacteristicsOfFascism
2) This is #DC outside Union Station the railroad station that connects the east coast corridor. Highly used station for locals, tourists, also has #metro station. So our railway station is now #militarized zone. Feel safe now? Feel as if #maga is working for you - this is #militarization of public spaces to intimidate, scare and reduce the use of #public #transportation to #travel, go to work, visit DC...This is coming 2 your #Blue State soon. https://bsky.app/profile/maplemama20.bsky.social/post/3lxpkepvdi22x
D.C. has its issues, but armed soldiers from other states won’t solve them
After a week and change of wondering when a trip in or out of the D.C. would treat me to the sight of President Trump’s Aug. 11 decision to summon National Guard troops from the rest of the nation to serve as political props around the District, a Bikeshare commute for an event Tuesday provided visible proof: soldiers walking around Lafayette Square.
They were picking up trash.
Going to Union Station Friday afternoon provided a few more reminders: five soldiers, armed with pistols, standing on the upper level of Metro Center (one flashed a thumbs-up for a news photographer), and three outside Union Station, outnumbered by veterans under a tent with signs reminding current servicemembers of their duty to the Constitution.
I asked the three where they were from: Louisiana. After a bit of banter about the weather, I said I hoped they could get home to their families soon.
That’s not because I think the D.C. has crime1 solved–although it is down significantly across the city–but because soldiers are not the way to solve it. Law enforcement is not military service, those two professions have profoundly different missions and rules, and U.S. law has long prohibited using soldiers as cops for sound reasons.
The governors of Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio, South Carolina and West Virginia who sent National Guard units to the District should know this, because multiple cities in their states have higher crime rates than D.C. If deploying armed National Guardsmen and women in urban areas helped stop murders, those governors would have done it already with a much smaller travel budget.
But sending a large contingent of soldiers carrying weapons into D.C. in particular does something else: advertise the president’s ability to treat my neighbors across the Potomac as subjects. While it seems clear that Trump broke the law when he sent National Guard units into Los Angeles without the permission of California’s government, the law expressly gives the president control of the D.C. National Guard, with zero input allowed to the District’s government.
Trump may think this show of force makes me nervous. If so, he’s wrong. It makes me angry. And it makes me even more convinced that the only way to end the abuse of power that Congress has also repeatedly enjoyed at the expense of the taxpaying people of D.C. is statehood for the people of D.C.
#DC_ #DCStatehood #DistrictOfColumbia #militarized #NationalGuard #statehoodNow #TrumpNationalGuard #TrumpOccupation #Washington
#ICE Protection agents are being #deputized to police #NationalParkService sites in #DC. #CBP, normally tasked w border security, will now patrol the #NationalMall, DuPont Circle, and Rock Creek Park. [Feel safe yet!] Putting border agents in city #parks collapses boundary betw #immigration enforcement, daily #policing. It deepens Trump’s #federalization of DC turning public spaces meant for #civic #life in2 extensions of his #militarized control #democracy #freedom #tump #maga #authoritarianism
Next to be #militarized will be #Chicago
then all #Democratic #States.
The #US #Army will NOT potect the #Constitution or #Democracy
(much less the 'We the People")
The Army will obey ALL #Trump illegal illegitimate amoral orders
(happily)
To 'defend against all enemies, foreign & domestic' 😃... just a 'cool' sentence
NOT a moral commitment.
BTW
US Army has ALREADY betrayed his #oath and #Constitution duties
will continue to do so
Fear the Army
they will not 'protect'.
Things will worsen
1) #Trump Places #DC #Police Under Federal Control Deploys #NationalGuard to target crime which is down in yr over yr in DC. #crimes are in the #WhiteHouse. Release all #EpsteinFiles 300+ gigabytes of #data held hostage by #FBI #DOJ. Violating DC #homerule #courts. #OneWhiteManMaga will create a 68 sq mile #warzone. This is not #lawenforcement #InsurrectionAct #FBI 2 limit #filth #scum this is what he calls citizens. https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/violent-crime-dc-hits-30-year-low #militarized #coverup #homerule #democracy #federalize
#Trump’s #BigBill Would Let Him Expand His #LosAngeles #ImmigrationCrackdown ‘Everywhere’
“If it works out well in L.A., expect it everywhere,” a Trump official says of the admin’s plans for #militarized #ICERaids around the country
By Andrew Perez, Asawin Suebsaeng
June 12, 2025
"Donald Trump’s '#BigBeautifulBill' wouldn’t just force millions of #poor people off their #HealthInsurance and #FoodAssistance to help pay for more #TaxCuts for the rich.
"The Trump #TaxBill would steer tens of billions of dollars to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for #detention capacity, employee bonuses, and to hire new agents. It would supercharge ICE’s ability to conduct raids, and allow the administration to expand the campaign of terror it’s waging on immigrants in Los Angeles to blue cities around the country.
"ICE’s aggressive worksite raids and courthouse arrests throughout the Los Angeles area have, of course, inspired a wave of protests — giving the president an excuse to send the U.S. military to a Democratic city, something he’s long fantasized about, while inspiring demonstrations across the country.
" 'This bill would give Donald Trump the ability to do what he’s doing [in California] on a scale we really haven’t seen before,' says #DavidBier, the director of immigration studies at the #CatoInstitute, a libertarian think tank. 'He will be able to replicate this militarized approach to Los Angeles across maybe dozens of American cities.'
"For Trump and key officials, including immigration-crackdown policy architect #StephenMiller, this is exactly the point, with Los Angeles currently being used as an autocratic staging area. They want to replicate this militarized, ramped-up blitz of ICE raids, backed by the U.S. armed forces, in several other Democratic strongholds — particularly if larger-scale protests spread to other cities.
"As Rolling Stone previously reported, the president and his senior officials have already mapped out near-term plans for how to further ratchet up the already tense blitz of ICE operations, especially in the coming days in Los Angeles, where the federal agents are now being protected by Trump’s literal troop deployment to the city, against the wishes of Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.
"Sources familiar with the matter tell Rolling Stone that senior Trump administration officials are closely monitoring the situation in L.A. as a test case for what they want to do soon in places such as #Chicago, #philadelphia #BostonMA, or the #WashingtonDC, area."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/SgWWL
#BigUglyBill #USSenate #USPol #Authoritarianism #protestors #SilencingDissent #USPol #NoKings #Protest #Solidarity #Immigrants #MassDeportation #EndICE #StopICE #Project2025 #MAGA #ThisIsFascism
#USConstitution #DueProcess #FirstAid #JustFollowingOrders #NationalGuard #Resistance #FashPatel #TrumpIsANazi #StephenMillerIsANazi #ResistICE #FuckICE #KillThePoor #EatTheRich #NoTaxBreaksForTheRich
@broadwaybabyto sadly nothing new. #Militarized #Cops in the #USA love to shoot #Journalists and threaten them with violence, cuz #PressFreedom doesn't exist there...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN8ISwuiX68 video via @dw_innovation / #DWnews
Anyine who's worried about #DEWs and #WAMI should not look into "#Starshield" aka. #SpaceX's *#militarized #payload on #Starlink satellites...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starshield
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed-energy_weapon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide-area_motion_imagery
#Militarized Tech: The Future Kills Itself
Drones. Killer Ai. Private security firms. It's a cyberpunk warzone out there. Militaries don't need soldiers anymore. They've got machines. In some neighborhoods, the police are #privatized, turning your local beat cop into a rent-a-cop with a corporate logo.
The quiet rollout of #CopCities across the #US meets a growing resistance;
As Cop Cities spread to nearly every state, #grassroots #activists are pushing back by forming coalitions that press for investment in communities over #militarized #policing.
#Saanich municipal government, under #bootlicker, #colonialism heavy guy, Mayor Dean Murdock, gave millions to increase #SaanichPolice budgets - that was mostly spent on buying #militarized SUVs & didn't help to increase but decreased #CommunitySafety. While he is trying to tell us that #PropertyTax increases will be raised to near 10% - fucking #corruption BS. He is #SaanichPoliceBoard chair. No #mayors should be on ANY #PoliceBoard chairs because it is a HUGE #ConflictOfPublicInterest
#SaanichCouncil is also full of #eugenics #antimaskers. Don't believe my words alone. Watch their recent municipal council meetings. Full of eugenics enablers & #antimaskers. Shoddy council, full of lying, plague spreading #hypocrites.
I don't mince any words to comfort the already comfy colonial enablers.
How #NativeHawaiians Have Fought for #Sovereignty
Ever since the US overthrew the #Hawaiian monarchy in an illegal #coup, Native islanders responded with #protest, #activism and expressions of #cultural pride.
By: Kelli Y. Nakamura
Published: May 10, 2023
"Ever since white Christian #missionaries first arrived in Hawaii (Native spelling: Hawai‘i) in the 1820s, the islands’ Native people have found their sovereignty, culture and way of life under increasing threat. For two centuries, many have resisted.
"The threats began early. By 1840, some scholars estimate, the Native Hawaiian population had plummeted by as much as 84 percent, largely due to diseases introduced by Western #colonizers. In 1893, an illegal coup, orchestrated by a handful of white planters [#Dole] and #businessmen, ousted the sovereign Hawaiian monarchy. Five years later, the United States annexed Hawaii, viewing the islands as both a rich agricultural resource and a strategic perch in the Pacific.
"And in 1959, the U.S. legislature voted to make Hawaii America’s 50th state. During that time, colonizers confiscated lands and #militarized parts of the island. They suppressed traditional cultural and #spiritual practices. And they banned the Hawaiian language in schools and government.
"Native Hawaiians have responded with protest, activism and expressions of Indigenous cultural pride. In the 1880s, #KingDavidKalākaua kindled nationalism and promoted Hawaii internationally as an independent sovereign kingdom. He also fostered what came to be known as the First Hawaiian Renaissance, reviving traditional cultural practices like hula dancing, an integral part of Native Hawaiian storytelling—and outlawed since 1830, largely because missionaries did not understand its cultural importance and viewed it as a pagan ritual. The Second Hawaiian Renaissance flourished in the 1960s and ’70s. Today, Native #HawaiianSovereignty remains a critical issue, informing contemporary protests against militarism, imperialism and occupation.
"'Resistance and nationalism have been intertwined throughout the last two hundred years of the history of Hawaii,' writes Noenoe Silva, a scholar of Indigenous politics at the University of Hawaii and author of Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian #Resistance to American #Colonialism."
Read more:
https://www.history.com/news/native-hawaiian-sovereignty-protest
#CulturalGenocide #Sovereignty #CorporateColonialism #DolePineapple #HawaiianHistory
#History #Histodon #IndigenousPeople #IndigenousActivism
