The Feds Keep Detaining and Prosecuting Elected Officials Who Get in Trump’s Way
A timeline of authoritarianism.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/trump-detain-elected-officials-democrats-brad-lander-alex-padilla-lamonica-mciver/ #Trump #MAGA #TrumpAdministration #Authoritarianism #Politics #Extremism #Bullying #Intimidation
« Il faut réussir à dissuader les attaques qui ne relèvent pas de nos intérêts vitaux. Dans ce cas-là, c’est aux forces conventionnelles de le faire »
Héloïse Fayet, chercheuse en prolifération nucléaire et balistique à l’Ifri : https://www.lepoint.fr/politique/la-dissuasion-nucleaire-francaise-peut-elle-devenir-europeenne-01-03-2025-2583611_20.php
#armée #défaite #Elsa #nucléaire #armes #dissuasion #intimidation #Europe #Ukraine #Russie #géopolitique
"À l'heure actuelle, des milliers de #missiles sont cachés, littéralement à l'abri des regards, équipés d'ogives et prêts à partir, attendant le signal électrique adéquat. Ils représentent un désir de mort collectif, à peine réprimé. Chacun d'entre eux est un accident en attente, un acte potentiel de meurtre de masse. Ils sont là, à attendre, sans âme et mécaniques, soutenus par notre déni - et ils fonctionnent".
- Eric #Schlosser, dans son livre : "Command and Control (Les armes nucléaires, l'accident de Damas et l'illusion de la sécurité)".
#nucléaire #armes #dissuasion #intimidation #Europe #Ukraine #Russie #géopolitique
"[F]rom now on, MASKS WILL NOT BE ALLOWED to be worn at protests. What do these people have to hide, and why???... Remember, NO MASKS!"
- DJT, 08 June, 2025
#protests #surveillance #bigbrother #intimidation #privacy #security
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/los-angeles-ice-protests-helicopter/
Medhi Hasan: "I loathe Musk as much as anyone else, but for a sitting president to openly threaten a private citizen over what political donations he or she chooses to make is a reminder of how authoritarian this country is becoming."
#Intimidation #IsMuskAfraidOfTrump? #politics
Today's news: Trump threatened Musk:
"Pres. Trump said on Saturday that his relationship with Elon Musk was likely beyond repair after the two sparred publicly on social media this week, and he warned there would be serious consequences if Mr. Musk financed candidates to run against Republicans":
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/07/us/trump-news
#Intimidation #IsMuskAfraidOfTrump? #politics
https://www.alojapan.com/1292089/japans-anti-stalking-law-under-fire-after-asahi-okazakis-murder-record-case-numbers/ Japan’s anti-stalking law under fire after Asahi Okazaki’s murder, record case numbers #AntiStalkingLaw #AsahiOkazaki #AttemptedMurder #HideyukiShirai #HomeIntrusions #intimidation #Japan #JapanNews #JapanTimes #JapanTopics #MainichiNewspaper #NationalPolicyAgency(NPA) #news #Okegawa #RapeInvestigations #SaitamaPrefecture #StalkingReports Japan’s anti-stalking law is coming under fire as cases have surged to their highest levels since the law…
#uk #israel #syria : #media / #journalism / #bbc / #idf / #newspolicy / #intimidation /
„Four Israeli soldiers got out of the car and surrounded us. They pointed their rifles at our heads and ordered us to place the camera on the side of the road. I tried to explain that we were a BBC crew, but things escalated unexpectedly quickly. (…)“
"Further, it instills fear in the general populace because no one ever knows who in a crowd might be agents waiting to pull up their scarves and start detaining people.
That atmosphere of trepidation and uncertainty is part of the point. But in a free society, we shouldn’t tolerate this. ...
They know they’re doing something wrong."
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #fascism #deportation #intimidation
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"ICE agents today routinely conduct raids with their faces hidden, as if they are some kind of secret police. This produces considerable confusion and a high likelihood of confrontation, including from bystanders, at the moment the agents announce themselves."
~ Jay Kuo
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #fascism #deportation #intimidation
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https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/ice-dhs-officers-masks
#AlinaHabba, a fmr personal atty to #Trump, also charged Rep #LaMonicaMcIver (D-NJ) w/assaulting 2 #ICE agents during the clash that erupted May 9 as agents arrested #RasBaraka. The congresswoman & other Dems in DC have decried her prosecution as“political #intimidation”
At Baraka’s hearing Wed, Demanovich sidestepped the judge’s demands to explain how prosecutors could have said last week they were fully prepared to take Baraka’s case to trial, only to drop the charges days later.
Israel really is taking the piss here isn't it? No doubt if fatalities had occured it would have been alleged that Hamas terrorists were opart of the grouop, or possibly just journalists?
#Trump’s Newest Crackdown on #Dissent
[BS] Assault charges against a #Democratic member of #Congress look more like #intimidation than #law enforcement.
#Trump #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #law #democracy #UnitedStates #Constitution #SlouchingTowardsBethlehem
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/05/lamonica-mciver-charged-justice-department/682864/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxX9kdA2YiTSgORe70HZMPrU&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
In a story that as far as I can tell represents a petulant fascist temper tantrum as a result of fallout over the clown-show authoritarian arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, noted sycophant Trump minion Alina Habba has announced criminal charges against US Congresswoman (D-NJ) LaMonica McIver. The regime is accusing the Congresswoman of assaulting two ICE agents during the lawful oversight visit she conducted on a sketchy, privately-run, recently reopened migrant detention facility called Delaney Hall; the very same visit that resulted in Trump's Gestapo arresting Baraka as part of the regime's attempts to intimidate opposition to their unlawful mass deportation campaign.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/lamonica-mciver-charges
'Should Send a Chill Down the Spine of Every American': Trump DOJ Charges New Jersey Democrat
"In a statement, Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Alina Habba announced the charges against U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.), claiming the lawmaker "assaulted, impeded, and interfered with law enforcement" at GEO Group's Delaney Hall. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) awarded GEO Group a billion-dollar contract earlier this year to detain migrants there, even as the facility faced legal challenges and accusations of abuse.
McIver rejected the charges against her as "purely political," saying that "they mischaracterize and distort my actions" in an attempt to "criminalize and deter legislative oversight."
"We were fulfilling our lawful oversight responsibilities, as members of Congress have done many times before, and our visit should have been peaceful and short," said McIver. "Instead, ICE agents created an unnecessary and unsafe confrontation when they chose to arrest Mayor [Ras] Baraka."
Habba said Monday that her office has agreed to drop the trespassing charge against Baraka, who welcomed the decision while expressing solidarity with McIver."
Okay so I don't know if you remember the post I made about Baraka's arrest, but there are literally a bunch of links to video footage of the confrontation Habba is talking about and needless to say it doesn't show the Congresswoman assaulting anyone, let alone "body-slamming" anyone as at least one DHS official previously claimed. Even the government's own out of context video clip just shows some shoving in a crowd of people trying to protect the Mayor of Newark. In other words the Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey is straight up lying about something we can all watch on video. This would of course be more shocking if the world hadn't gotten to know Habba during her time as a defense attorney for Downmarket Mussolini, in which is she routinely spat out easily disprovable lies in court. As an activist I can say from personal experience that this feels an awful lot like the standard bullshit charge cops who just roughed up some protesters press to keep the heat off long enough for the story to go away, and then quietly drop later. You can see that same pattern at work in the "trespass" charges laid against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, which were ultimately dropped because the regime knows they don't have a leg to stand on when they're under oath.
With all that established however, I think it's important to understand that even if they ultimately drop the charges against McIver, as they did with Baraka, this is still an example of a fascist regime weaponizing the enforcement arm of the state, to target and intimidate their political opposition. Pam Bondi might not love the Justice Department's chances in a court of law, but a message is still being sent to opposition party politicians that if they try to interfere with the unlawful, openly fascist "whitening" of America, security forces will be deployed to stop them. This when combined with the regime's threatening rhetoric, and its day to day attempts to erode the oversight of the judiciary to do blatantly unconstitutional authoritarian bullshit, effectively creates an unstable political environment where opposition to the regime's program, even legal opposition, carries an impossible to properly calculate degree of personal risk to the critic. Whatever your opinion of the Democratic Party happens to be, I think we can all admit that putting their own asses on the line to protect dissidents and critics hasn't exactly been their forte since at least October 7th, 2023; although obviously Baraka, McIver, and Robert Menendez deserve full marks for doing so now.
Finally; I can't prove it, but for a fun thought experiment google up some pictures of Baraka, McIver, and Menendez and tell me if you can think of any obvious reasons a white nationalist government might charge only the two people they did. Yeah, looked about white to me too.
#Fascism #Trump #PoliceState #LaMonicaMcIver #ICE #DoJ #PamBondi #AlinaHabba #DHS #RasBaraka #DelaneyHall #RobertMenendez #Intimidation #DemocraticParty #USCongress #Newark #NewJersey #USPol #MassDeportation #Racism #WhiteNationalism
Monday, May 19, 2025
New clips from Putin documentary suggest Russia dismissed Ukraine peace talks, ceasefire weeks ago — Uncovering the secret Russian FSB operation to loot Ukraine’s museums — Russia launches record 273-drone attack on Ukraine ahead of planned Trump-Putin call — Nicusor Dan wins Romanian presidential election, defeating anti-Ukraine Simion … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/05/monday-may-19-2025/
« Les médias d’information possèdent un grand pouvoir : celui d’influencer le discours public et démocratique dans nos sociétés. C’est pour cette raison qu’il existe des guides déontologiques visant entre autres à prévenir les abus. »
https://pivot.quebec/2025/05/15/il-faut-quon-parle-de-quebecor/
#Trump’s border #intimidation has come for US citizens too
Leftwing, pro-Palestine streamer’s interrogation by airport officials on return to #US shows chilling escalation of war on #FreeSpeech
He was detained, questioned for hours by border control as he re-entered US (he is #US #citizen
Countries behave like this towards political commentators & dissenting voices who are their own citizens are either nakedly #authoritarian, on the way
“DHS confirms to Axios that they are considering arresting Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman, LaMonica McIver and Rob Menendez.
Watson Coleman's office says they reviewed the body cam footage and that it proves "nobody 'assaulted' any agents."
Every day, Trump finds new targets, so he can stay in the spotlight,& sic “his AG & the DOJ on them with trumped-up charges.
#Fascism #DOJ #DHS #ICE #Nazis #Retribution #Trump #Resist #Laws #Intimidation #USPol
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/10/trump-ice-arrest-house-democrats-new-jersey
