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Catherine Schmidtlillyfinch@mstdn.social
2025-08-18

#Politics #Fascism #trump #Authoritarinism #Epstein #Cruelty #Violence #Takeover #alt #RedStates #Republicans

Heather Cox Richardson 8/17/25
RED STATES DEPLOY NATIONAL GUARD TO DC DESPITE HAVING HIGHER RATES OF CITY VIOLENCE

Heather Cox Richardson 8/17/25 RED STATES DEPLOY NATIONAL GUARD TO DC DESPITE HAVING HIGHER RATES OF CITY VIOLENCE Yesterday the Republican governors of West Virginia, South Carolina, and Ohio all said they would send National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., to support Trump's takeover of the city. They will be funded by the federal government—that is, our tax dollars. Journalist Philip Bump illustrated that the true goal of the forces in the city has little to do with actual crime rates by running the numbers. He showed that 43 cities in the states sending troops to Washington, D.C., have higher rates of violent crime than the capital does. The Trump administration is launching a classic authoritarian project, attempting to take over a country through division and fear. But they badly misunderstand the nature of power. If they succeed, they will control a badly diminished United States of America, one that has fallen to the level of a country like Russia, far from the powerhouse it was when we recognized that the extraordinary strength of our nation always came not from force, but from alliances. There is one thing Trump's military deployments against the American people have accomplished though: media mentions of the Epstein files have plummeted.
Catherine Schmidtlillyfinch@mstdn.social
2025-08-18

#Politics #Fascism #trump #Cruelty #Violence #Takeover #alt

Heather Cox Richardson 8/17/25
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ENCOURAGES VIOLENCE

Heather Cox Richardson 8/17/25 TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ENCOURAGES VIOLENCE On ,Aug 11, Trump announced he was placing the, D.C., police department under federal control and deploying National Guard troops there. He asserted that violent crime in the city is “getting worse” and in an executive order claimed that “crime is out of control” in the city. This is a transparently manufactured excuse to enable the admin to take over a Democratic city with troops they control. In fact, crime in, D.C., has been trending downward for decades & violent crime is now, according to the DOJ’s own statistics, at a 30-year low. There is also the sticky little problem of the fact that Trump pardoned about 1,500 of those convicted of crimes for their participation in the riot of Jan. 6, 2021, and that under his direction, the DOJ dismissed all pending cases against the remaining Jan 6 defendants. Many of those defendants attacked police officers. More generally, the administration seems to be encouraging violence rather than shunning it. As Anna Merlan of Mother Jones reported , the White House, ICE and the DHS joke on social media about cruelty and torture, suggesting it's fun to hurt people. They are sanitizing and popularizing state violence. Trump's pardoning of drug trafficker Ross Ulbricht, sentenced to life in prison, and his welcome to the U.S. of a man convicted of killing three people in Spain suggest the president's support for “law and order” is coverage for his own political end
Catherine Schmidtlillyfinch@mstdn.social
2025-08-18

#Politics #Fascism #trump #Military #Takeover #alt

Heather Cox Richardson 8/17/25
TRUMP HAS TURNED MILITARY GUNS ON U.S. CITIZENS

Heather Cox Richardson 8/17/25 TRUMP HAS TURNED MILITARY GUNS ON U.S. CITIZENS Trump has misunderstood the nature of power in a democracy at home, too. Rather than building domestic coalitions to support the government, he is overseeing the takeover of the government by a radical minority that seems to think the way to build power is for the government to attack its own people. The administration's defunding of scientific research, medical care, environmental protection, food safety and security, and emergency management all threaten Americans’ health, safety, and security. Its attacks on history and education, as well as its firing of women and racial and gender minorities, seem designed to drive wedges among Americans. Its incarceration and disappearing of undocumented migrants both creates an “other” for Trump loyalists to hate and provides a warning of what could happen to the regime's opponents. Now, under the guise of fighting crime, the administration has quite literally turned guns on the American people.
News Beepnewsbeep@newsbeep.org
2025-08-18

Comvita receives takeover offer from Mark Stewart’s Florenz worth $56.4 million

Comvita chair Bridget Coates said the board supports the offer, given the premium to recent trading, the greater…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #564 #billionaire #comvita #exporter #florenz #from #honey #limited #mark #masthead #million #mnuka #NewZealand #NZ #offer #received #receives #share #stewarts #subsidiary #takeover #valued #worth
newsbeep.com/67097/

Hacker Newsh4ckernews
2025-08-17

When Did AI Take Over Hacker News?

zachperk.com/blog/when-did-ai-

Pedro Adelinopedroadelino
2025-08-17

Ainda me lembro quando um amigo traiu a minha confiança.

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A única maneira de o fazer parar foi desativar o serviço da TMN.

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O cartão SIM dele passou a ser meu e nem tive de chegar perto.

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Aposto que ele ainda questiona o que aconteceu.

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NonilexNonilex@masto.ai
2025-08-15

After hearing arguments on an emergency request from #DC officials to block the #Trump admin’s #takeover of the 3,100-member #MPD, US District Judge Ana C. Reyes forged a compromise of sorts between the 2 sides—without issuing a ruling—on the key question of who runs the #police dept.

But the court did not rule on another key aspect of the case: Whether Trump can commandeer DC police officers to enforce #immigration violations. That issue is likely to be resolved next week, Reyes said.

#law

Rod2ik 🇪🇺 🇨🇵 🇪🇸 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 🇬🇱 ☮🕊️rod2ik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
2025-08-15

#D.C. #attorney #general sues #Trump administration over ‘ #hostile #takeover’ of #police www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

D.C. attorney general sues Tru...

Rod2ik 🇪🇺 🇨🇵 🇪🇸 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 🇬🇱☮🕊️rod2ik
2025-08-15

.C. sues administration over ‘ ’ of

washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/20

NonilexNonilex@masto.ai
2025-08-15

#Update

#DC police chief says #Trump move is a ‘dangerous’ threat to #law & order

Police Chief Pamela Smith’s statement came in a #court filing Friday as the city seeks to block the #federal #takeover of its #police department in court.

Smith said the Trump admin’s order installing a federal official as “emergency police chief,” if allowed to stand, would upend command structure & be ‘dangerous’ threat to law & order.

courtlistener.com/docket/71116

#law #MilitaryState #tyranny #coup #TrumpCoup2

NonilexNonilex@masto.ai
2025-08-15

#Washington’s top legal official [#DCAG] sought an emergency restraining order in federal court blocking the move. DCAG Brian Schwalb argues the #police #takeover is illegal & threatens to “wreak operational havoc.”

The lawsuit comes after US AG #PamBondi said Thurs night that #DEA boss Terry Cole will assume the police chief’s duties & approval authority for any orders issued to officers.

#law #MilitaryState #Trump #DC #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #coup #TrumpCoup2

NonilexNonilex@masto.ai
2025-08-15

About time!

#WashingtonDC sues to block #Trump #federal #takeover of its #police department as crackdown intensifies

The nation’s capital sued to block Trump’s takeover of its PD in court on Friday, hours after his admin escalated its intervention into the city’s law enforcement by naming a federal official as the new *emergency* #PoliceCommissioner.

#law #MilitaryState #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #coup #TrumpCoup2
#DC #DCAG #MPD #PamBondi #MurielBowser
apnews.com/article/washington-

NonilexNonilex@masto.ai
2025-08-15

🚨USAG #PamBondi has named the head of the #DEA as #Washington, #DC’s “*Emergency* #PoliceCommissioner,” saying she is granting him the powers of the #police chief amid the #federal #takeover.🚨

Bondi said in a directive issued Thurs night DEA boss Terry Cole will assume “powers & duties vested in the District of Columbia Chief of Police.” The #MPD “must receive approval from Commissioner Cole” before issuing any orders.

#law #Trump #TrumpCoup2 #coup #autocracy #tyranny
apnews.com/article/washington-

DoomsdaysCWDoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social
2025-08-12

We interrupt my anti-nuclear rants for breaking news... 😱

#Trump's #takeover of #WashingtonDC law enforcement begins as #NationalGuard troops arrive

ASHRAF KHALIL and LINDSAY WHITEHURST, Tue, August 12, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — "The new picture of law enforcement in the nation’s capital began taking shape Tuesday as some of the 800 National Guard members deployed by the Trump administration began arriving. The city’s police and federal officials, projecting cooperation, took the first steps in an uneasy partnership to reduce crime in what President Trump called — without substantiation — a lawless city.

"The influx came the morning after the Republican president announced he would be activating the guard members and taking over the District's police department, something the law allows him to do temporarily. He cited a crime emergency — but referred to the same crime that city officials stress is already falling noticeably.

"Mayor #MurielBowser pledged to work alongside the federal officials Trump has tasked with overseeing the city's law enforcement, while insisting the police chief remained in charge of the department and its officers.

" 'How we got here or what we think about the circumstances — right now we have more police, and we want to make sure we use them,' she told reporters.

"The tone was a shift from the day before, when Bowser said Trump's plan to take over the Metropolitan Police Department and call in the National Guard was not a productive step and argued his perceived state of emergency simply doesn’t match the declining crime numbers. Still, the law gives the federal government more sway over the capital city than in U.S. states, and Bowser said her administration's ability to push back is limited."

Read more:
yahoo.com/news/articles/federa

#TrumpTakeover #Authoritarianism #FascismInTheUSA #Fascism #CharacteristicsOfFascism #USPol

NonilexNonilex@masto.ai
2025-08-12

“I’m going to work every day to make sure it’s not a complete disaster,” #Bowser said at the Monday news conference, as she sought to downplay the impact of the #DC #takeover. “So we are going to work, every day, to get this emergency put to an end.”

She paused briefly & added, “I’ll call it the so-called emergency.”

#Trump #law #MilitaryState #autocracy #democracy #CivilRights #coup #TrumpCoup2

NonilexNonilex@masto.ai
2025-08-12

#Trump had openly opined about a #takeover for years, remarking in 2023 during a visit for the CPAC convention in the National Harbor that…“It’s so disgraceful, so disgusting,” he said, complaining at the image it sent to visiting foreign leaders & floating the idea of the #FederalGovernment taking #control of the #city. “I always made it a point as president, when I saw the highways were dirty, or that the #homeless encampments were starting to form to take care of the problem immediately.”

NonilexNonilex@masto.ai
2025-08-12

A White House ofcl…said that the attempted carjacking of Coristine underscored the importance [was a perfect excuse] to what had been a long-standing promise from #Trump to address *crime* in #Washington.

He had walked up to this line before, threatening a #takeover during the summer of unrest in 2020, but #DC [& military] officials talked him down with warnings that such a heavy-handed & unprecedented approach would only exacerbate tensions in the city.

#law #MilitaryState #autocracy #coup

beSpacificbespacific@newsie.social
2025-08-12

#Trump creating #military #force to respond to #civil #unrest #Blue #States. Called #Domestic Civil Action Response Force - #DC remains quiet despite Trump's #federal #takeover of the city. #militarization of the UnitedStates to quash #freespeech #protests #civilliberties #Democracy. #despot #fascism #dictator #police #nationalguard #HomeRule No #nationalsecurity #Focus #suppress #citizens not #protect & #defend America against #global #enemies #Constitution t #maga #politics #gop #republicans

Catherine Schmidtlillyfinch@mstdn.social
2025-08-12

#Politics #DC #TakeOver #Trump #Fascism #NationalGuard #Suppression #Alt

Aaron Parnas 8/12/25
[Fake photos and videos of DC “take over” circulating. Beware.]

Aaron Parnas 8/12/25 [Fake photos and videos of DC “take over” circulating. Beware.] The Trump administration is considering creating a “Domestic Civil Disturbance Quick Reaction Force” of 600 National Guard troops stationed in Alabama and Arizona, ready to deploy to U.S. cities within an hour to respond to unrest, a plan raising legal, political, and operational concerns over militarizing law enforcement, straining Guard resources, and lowering the threshold for domestic troop deployments. This, according to The Washington Post.
Catherine Schmidtlillyfinch@mstdn.social
2025-08-12

#Women #WomensRights #Suppression #Slavery #Evangelical #Extremism #Capitlal #TakeOver #WashintonDC #Handmaidentale #Alt

Generated photo of a male leader, from behind, , hands raised on the steps of the Lincoln Monuement, looking down the reflection pool, a giant cross at the end. Next to him a handmaiden in red cloak and white headdress, below, maidens lined up. Friendly reminder: in The Handmaid’s Tale, Gilead didn’t start with red cloaks. It started when they seized the capital.

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