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looks like the process of ICE buying warehouses in order to turn them into concentration camps is going as expected: "ICE bought a warehouse in Social Circle, Ga. The city wishes it hadn't"
"While other attempts to lease or buy properties like this one on East Hightower Road in Social Circle have fallen apart, this one is a done deal. A sales deed shows DHS paid just under $129 million for the space.
Social Circle City Manager Eric Taylor really wishes it hadn't.
"This is not something, hands down, that the city can support," Taylor said."
"The frustration here is that they're looking at a building that was not built for human habitation," Taylor said. "There's nothing more than a shell of a building."
"In Social Circle, Eric Taylor said he would like consultation, too, but ICE won’t answer his calls. If it did, he would tell ICE: The city doesn’t have enough drinking water."
"Suffering breeds character, character breeds faith. In the end faith will not disappoint.
You must not surrender! You may or may not get there but just know that you're qualified! And you hold on, and hold out! We must never surrender! America will get better and better.
Keep hope alive. Keep hope alive! Keep hope alive! On tomorrow night and beyond, keep hope alive!"
I wonder about these FOIA letters Epstein made to CIA/NSA. You would get the same answer for me. It means nothing, and if he was an agent or adjacent, he should know. Was he trying to figure out if the CIA/NSA was on to him? LOL He would have gotten the same answer. Guy could only trying to bamboozle others with the letters.
#Epstein #USPol #CopyAndRepost
https://youtu.be/D5QKy68AKyQ
RE: https://hellions.cloud/@noondlyt/116087363873641959
This should be the most viral YT video of the year if for nothing else byt as a big fuck you to Trump, Carr and the MAGA.
Everyone who opposes Trump, ICE, Carr, MAGA, Stephen Miller, etc should at least open this video and let it play out completely. (They also count minutes watched)
#USPol #JamesTalarico #Colbert #TheView
AodeRelay boostedStephen Colbert once again censored by CBS and the FCC last night. His interview with James Talarico was not shown on broadcast but is available on YT. It feels like Trump really does not want you to see James Talarico considering it is the second time this year a show has been in the FCC crosshairs for an interview with him. I smell fear. The regime thinks he's going to win.
I came of age politically just after Jesse Jackson's political career had peaked. So I never got to experience him at the height of his powers.
But he has loomed ever larger in my mind as time has passed. He was out there being an unabashed progressive in the 1980s, a time when progressive ideas were not just marginalized but widely mocked. 1984 and 1988 were not easy times to be on the left. But Jesse Jackson was there, and stayed there. He was no summer soldier, no sunshine patriot.
In these troubled times, may his memory inspire a thousand others to rise up.
The FCC doesn't want you to watch this, which is why you should.
Stephen Colbert once again censored by CBS and the FCC last night. His interview with James Talarico was not shown on broadcast but is available on YT. It feels like Trump really does not want you to see James Talarico considering it is the second time this year a show has been in the FCC crosshairs for an interview with him. I smell fear. The regime thinks he's going to win.
RIP Jesse Jackson
Jackson said at the start of the Tangerine Tyrant's first term:
'“The idea of making America great again reopens the wounds in America’s immoral foundation, born in sin & shaped in inequity... We need not for a moment underestimate the damage done to our country... What are we confronted with? There is a tug of war for the soul of America'!
Remains true nearly a decade later.
h/t FT
"#Hegseth🚨just killed a bunch more people."
-R Filipkowski
"Hegseth's💔"we will kill you" vow becomes maritime slaughter: 11 executed yesterday sans evidence. 130+ dead since Sept 2025, missiles vaporize proof with suspects.
Trump's🚨extrajudicial murder abandons due process, inviting global tyranny under his lawless precedent."
-WH Xray
🚫more impunity for Trump/enablers.
#Impeach #Murder #DOD #Fascism #BoatStrikes #IllegalOrders #Lawless #TrumpRegime #DueProcess #Protest #NoKings #USPol
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SOUTHCOM on X post: claims they're narco terrorists, 11 dead:
A mother💔was forced to leave her 6-mo-old with her sister when she was deported & flown to Honduras. By the time she landed, her sister had also been detained -& she'd no idea where her child was.
A father💔begged IMM agents for one phone call when he was detained at work bc his child was with a babysitter *able to stay a few extra days, but he was deported w/o his child.
US taxpayers'💰: used to #torture IMMs & destroy their lives.
#FamilySeparation #ICE #Protest #USPol
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/parents-deported-without-knowing-where-kids-are_n_698ca60ae4b080ae0a811345
Featured story, from Alex Birnel: Texas and the State of #Texas are not exactly one—this sprawling place we call home contains five of the 15 most-populous cities in the country.
All lean to the left, all see their power currently suppressed.
https://www.texasobserver.org/let-a-hundred-mamdanis-bloom/
#politics #USpol #Mamdani #Democrats #NYC #Austin #Dallas #Houston
Major corps: incl GM, St Farm, JPM Chase, Delta, & Microsoft —🚨are bankrolling a political ad from Senate cand A Barr featuring a white nationalist slogan.
In the ad, he declares,🚨“It’s not a sin to be white.”
It's a variation of “It’s OK to be white,” which has been adopted by white supremacists -designated: as a “hate slogan“ by the ADL‼️
It’s OK to be white,” *IOTBW, was popularized on the racist msg board 4chan in 2017.
#GOP 🟰 #WhiteSupremacy
#Racism #Protest #USPol
https://popular.info/p/major-corporations-bankroll-political
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I finally broke. Mental health reached a breaking point
I reached my breaking point today . Walked into my managers office and said I couldn’t hack the job anymore . SSA has caused me to break As someone who fights demons from military service , dealing with chronic health problems finally hit a breaking point and cried for the first time in public . I served my country honorably as a combat engineer in the US Army for 15 LONG years . Before I hit year 5 , I had already spent almost 29 of those months in Afghanistan doing route clearance . After two deployments , I finally found my purpose in life and started a family . Fast forward a tad , I start a wonderful career with the federal government, and was amazed at the opportunities, and benefits that came with working , and continuing to serve my country. Since starting working for SSA, I have had a large portion of my colon removed(complications from diverticulitis), a minor stroke, shingles , AFib that resulted in two heart surgeries . I’m still in my 30’s.After hitting my 10 year mark , I made history by publicly crying. I hit my breaking point . I never thought I would admit I’m mentally exhausted . But it happened. The constant barrage of insults from the public . Mad because work isn’t being done . You’re mad because you know why it’s not being done, but you have to become the emotional punching bag . I must say that admitting that I mentally broke today feels really good, but it still saddens me that we’re being deliberately mistreated . What tops it off , is that if you mention anything about it to people outside of work , they chalk it up as being “ left leaning conjecture “. My heart goes out to all my VA folks. I’ve noticed that feds from across the government ether are pretty tight knit . PS. I’m good , I’m getting the help I need . I wanted to share because one thing I have learned is that you should not suffer in silence . After all I have been through , it was rather embarrassing crying in front of another grown man , but having humility will soothe the soul .
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LAist: 3 big changes are proposed for FEMA. This is what experts really think of them
"...In the draft report, responsibility for disasters would largely shift to states, which have long relied on the federal government to help survivors when a flood, hurricane or wildfire hits. FEMA's workforce, already hit hard by staff reductions since Trump took office, would be cut in half, compared to its size at the end of the Biden administration. ..."
https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/3-big-changes-proposed-for-fema-what-experts-really-think
Previously: In a world run by #science, the government would respond to a Texas measles outbreak by increasing vaccination rates.
But today, our government is controlled by dysfunctional, radical idealists like RFK, Jr. https://www.texasobserver.org/dysfunctional-government-rfk-trump-v-slaughter/
#RFKJr #Trump #fascism #politics #USpol #health #news #Texas #OpEd
cleaned up and interlinked my collection of #EpsteinFiles sites where you can browse files of particular interest with color highlighting of interesting keywords
https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/epstein_text_messages/
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#crypto #Epstein #uspol #uspolitics #JeffreyEpstein #Trump #bitcoin #jeremyRubin #peterThiel #Scaramucci #SteveBannon #MAGA #orban #mandelson #BorisNikolic #billGates #MashaDrukova #cryptocurrency #blockchain #MIT #MediaLab #MITMediaLab #JoiIto #LarrySummers #BrockPierce
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Trump Now ‘Boasting of a War Crime’ as Cuba Suffers Under Oil Blockade
“Cuba isn’t failing, it’s being suffocated,” said one anti-war group.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-and-cuba
from #CommonDreams
Feb 17, 2026
#Trump’s latest comments on his government’s blockade on #Cuba amounted to “boasting of a war crime,” one journalist said after Trump told the press that the #Caribbean island is a “failed nation” weeks after Trump himself cut off Cuba’s main source of #energy and threatened countries with tariffs if they provided the government with oil.
“They don’t even have jet fuel to get their airplanes to take off. They’re clogging up their runway. We’re talking to Cuba right now... and they should absolutely make a deal, because it’s really a humanitarian threat...There’s an #embargo, there’s no #oil, there’s no money, there’s no anything.”
#NuestraAméricaFlotilla
#LetCubaLive
#OilForCuba! #PetróleoParaCuba
#EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
#news #LatinAmerica #Caribbean #politics #USpol #US
"The billionaires' eugenics project"
An Epstein-funded group "cloaked eugenics, race 'science' & sexual misconduct in Ivy-League respectability."
The group called 'Edge' had token female members, who were excluded from men-only schmoozing, conferences & "Billionaire dinners":
"The Epstein files tell us [that] the men – from Pinker to Dawkins to Musk to Gates – converged on nothing less than the ideology of Mein Kampf."
https://www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-billionaires-eugenics-project-harvard-academia-john-brockman
#USPol #EUPol #Epstein #news #racism #sexism .
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Jeffrey Epstein (2nd from left) at a dinner he hosted at Harvard, September 2004 with (I-r) professors Alan Dershowitz, Robert Trivers, Lawrence
Summers (formerly Secretary of the Treasury and Harvard President) and Stephen Pinker. Photo: Rick Friedman / Alamy
#BariWeiss #CBS #LarryEllison #DavidEllison #UnivOfAustin #USPol
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8 men leapt into those rough seas on Dec 30 when the US rained down a barrage of munitions, sinking 3 vessels. They required immediate rescue; chances were slim: they could survive even 1 hour. In announcing its strike, SOUTHCOM, said it “immediately notified” the Coast Guard.
But it took them almost 45 hrs to begin searching. Help did not arrive in time. A total of 11 civilians died.
~133 ppl have died since the #TrumpRegime...
#Murder #DOD #Hegseth #BoatStrikes #USPol
https://theintercept.com/2026/02/17/boat-strike-trump-southcom-survivors-rescue-plane-hours/
Iran condemns the US blockade of Cuba
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/16/iran-condemns-the-us-blockade-of-cuba/
#SOVEREINGTY #INTERNATIONALLAW
#trade #tradewars #sanctions #tariffs #economy #cdnpoli #uspol #Venezuela #Cuba #China #Iran #Russia #law @law @democracy @politics #socialmedia #ai #russia #iran #china @technology #plutocracy #billionaires #government #imperialism #fascism #trump #war #icc #socialmedia #europe #canada #mastodon #fediverse #tiktok #middleeast #africa @blackvoices #cdnpoli
Several cities, cos & sts are creating⚡#ICE-free zones by restricting IMM agents’ access to govt-owned & pub spaces. Local ofcls say: makes it safer for residents to visit hosps, CHs, critical spaces...w/o fear of ICE.
Philly DA,⚡L Krasner/grp of prosecutors from across the US have formed a coalition: Project for the Fight Against Fed Overreach (Fafo) to “share strategies & best practices” for🚨prosecuting fed agents when they break st laws.
#DOJ #DHS #PoliceState #USPol
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/16/cities-anti-ice-tactics
Hey let's team up. Want to fight for democracy? Some local folks you can team up with!
Join us: https://linktr.ee/southbayswingleft
Join OCI Indivisible: https://linktr.ee/ocindivisible
States Win South Bay: https://stateswinsouthbay.org/
Bay Area Coalition: https://bayareacoalition.org/
See you there!
#ICE & #DHS: #LastWeekTonight with #JohnOliver (HBO)
Feb 16, 2026 #lastweektonight
"John Oliver discusses ICE’s repeated atrocities over the past months and explores the massive entity overseeing it all: the Department of Homeland Security. How it started, who runs it, and how many hats #KristiNoem owns."
Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-KDUOHEZFk
#USPol #ICESucks #AbollishDHS #AbolishICE #SepareteFEMA #FEMA
#PrivatePrisons #DetentionCenters #BorderPatrol #MurderPatrol #NineEleven #Profiling #WarantlessSurveillance #SurveillanceState #Orwellian #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity
I heard Donald Trump doesn't want anyone to see this interview of a Texas Democrat.
The Trump FCC has threatened every show State Rep. James Talarico goes on and this week it was The Late Show's turn in the hot seat. The FCC forced this interview off the airwaves.
We probably should watch it if Trump hates this politician so much.
#JamesTalarico #Texas #Trump #TheLateShow #stephencolbert #USPol #1A #christianity
#Epstein Files email:🚨lluminates an elite class that's cocooned themselves into an🚨unaccountable shell of wealth/privilege -to protect their secrets/offenses.
Jun 2015,🚨K Ruemmler, emailed: good friend J Epstein (once under consideration to become Obama’s AG): “I'm working on a PR strategy for MJ White v E Warren.” JE: MJ is good.” KR: “EW: the worst.”
Epstein class:🚨believes in their own pers impunity *seeks to protect their fellow travelers as well.
#Corruption #USPol
https://prospect.org/2026/02/17/epstein-files-email-kathy-ruemmler-elizabeth-warren-class-war/
Freedom, like peace and security, cannot be maintained in isolation. It involves being alert and on guard against the infringement not only of our own freedom but the freedom of every American.
#fascism #uspol #history #propaganda
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Inside the Homeland Security Forum Where ICE Agents Talk Shit About Other Agents
https://www.wired.com/story/hsi-forum-ice-agents/
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"As some question how to teach American history to our children — and even question the history itself — I urge us to confront the hard truth, and to trust our children with it. Because a truly great nation is one that can acknowledge its failures." - Ken Burns
#USpol
#USHistory
Top #ICE officials🚨knew in Mar 2025 that offs were USING DRAMATICALLY MORE FORCE AGAINST CIVILIANS & targets of their enf ops, mos before #ICE #CBP offs killed 2 US citizens in MPLS.
Emails show that top ofcls knew the amt of force *lethal/non-lethal -used by ICE offs was rapidly rising after Trump took ofc, & incidents were occurring NW.
#DHS: insisted➡️offs: complying with the standards.
⬆️#force:🚨a feature: not a bug➡️⬆️#violence.
#StateViolence #Nazis #Lies #DHS #USPol
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/17/ice-officials-use-of-force-00782501
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Caleb Vitello (left), ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Academy assistant director and Todd Lyons (right), acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement speak to the press at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers in Brunswick, Georgia on Aug. 21, 2025
Pro #AI super PAC:🚨preparing to spend ~$5M to help Rep Donalds' campaign for gov of FL -as Rs in FL participate in a fight over AI leg backed by Gov DeSantis but opposed by the IND.
Donalds: 1st cand for gov in the C to win support from🚨Leading the Future *rec sig funding from OpenAI's Brockman, fndrs of A Horowitz... And will fund L Buckhout: R primary cand *NC Cong 1 Dist.
LTF PAC:🚨will dominate in the midterms, more than crypto, AIPAC...
#Oligarchs #Elections #USPol
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/super-pac-backed-ai-titans-pledges-5-million-boost-byron-donalds-run-f-rcna258612
🇨🇦 True North Documentary Trailer
#blackhistorymonth2026 #blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #bipoc #blackwomen #blackmastodon #poc #crt #racism #whitesupremacy @democracy
@blackvoices #antifascism #antiimperialism #global #classwar #resistance #solidarity #protest #activism #sovereignty #revolution #freespeech #humanrights #education #uspol #ice #minnesota #fascism
#Africa #Free from #Western #Imperialism #Canada #Montreal #cdnpoli
Epstein's elite group preached master-race ideology
Alpha males were "apex predators ordained by nature to exploit & subjugate others"
& white men, partic of Ashkenazi descent (eg, Epstein) are “biologically selected for high intelligence”.
Epstein planned to "seed the human race w/ his superior DNA".
One teen says she was an “incubator” for Epstein’s offspring. Others recount enslavement & forced pregnancies.
https://www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-billionaires-eugenics-project-harvard-academia-john-brockman
"Apex" males. Ha 👇️️️️
#USPol #EUPol #Epstein #Racism .
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Edge's apex males
- "What are you in here for? Murder? Robbery?"
- "Worse, possession of zines"
https://theintercept.com/2026/02/16/daniel-sanchez-estrada-prairieland-trial-zines
"Sanchez Estrada is facing up to 20 years behind bars for allegedly moving a box of anarchist zines from his parents’ house to another residence"
Another activist was indicted for telling people how to delete messages and remove people from Signal group chats, which government lawyers argue is a first-degree felony
#freespeech #zines #anarchism #censorship #uspol #dystopia #prison #orwell
The campaign against Francesca Albanese presages a terrifying world where:
* western nations prey upon the weak
* law is whatever powerful nations say it is
* those who stand up for the rule of law are relentlessly persecuted
* genocide is another tool in the arsenal to crush the vulnerable
"This is a fight we must win. If we lose... let voices like Francesca’s be silenced, we will usher in an age of blood & terror."
Source: Chris Hedges 17 Feb substack
#USPol #EUPol #Albanese #racism .
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The persecution of Francesca Albanese
In order to silence Albanese and other supporters of
Palestinian rights, Trump placed Albanese on the Office of
Foreign Assets Control list, normally used to sanction money
laundering or involvement with terrorism.
Being on the list bans her from entering the US or from using
banks. Her US assets are frozen, & she can't use credit cards.
Her medical insurance has refused to reimburse her.
Previously friendly institutions, including US universities,
human-rights groups & NGOs, have cut her off for fear of US
penalties.
Trump's sanctioning occurred six days after the release of
Albanese's report that documented corporate profiting from
the Israeli occupation and genocide.
Chris Hedges Report |i 6 Feb, 2026 Substack (abridged)
The worse it gets, the more innocent Trump becomes.
RELEASE ALL OF THE EPSTEIN FILES—UNREDACTED!
#EpsteinClass #TrumpEpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles #IndictAlexAcosta #ChildRapistTrump #GhislaineMaxwell #JeffreyEpstein #MAGA #DonaldTrump #PamBondi #USPol
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His name appears OVER 1,000,000 TIMES in the Epstein files…and he’s “totally exonerated?!?”
DONALD TRUMP RAPES CHILDREN.
Wow. Enumclaw Police Chief Tim Floyd must feel like a real strong big man and proud after arresting a 17 year old high school girl at an ICE protest (she allegedly assaulted a man but the details are conveniently not mentioned).
If I share recordings of people driving aggressively over the speed limit, is Tim going to go write them a ticket?
Enumclaw police are such a joke.
https://mynorthwest.com/crime-blotter/enumclaw-students-arrested/4204130
F*CKING DICTATOR!!! Impeach this PEDO ASSHAT!!!
#Trump floats #ExecutiveOrder on #VoterID if #SAVEAct stalls in Senate
Ryan Mancini
Fri, February 13, 2026 at 7:27 PM EST
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-floats-executive-order-voter-002730882.html
#USPol #CharacteristicsOfFascism #Authoritarianism #Dictatorship
"urge Europe to stand up to Trump"
Why don't you?
Fucking telling Forrins what they should be doing, like they've got a leg to stand on now. 😡
"Please, we're so weak and useless, you'll have to save us....please...."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/16/republicans-and-democrats-unite-to-condemn-trumps-attacks-on-allies
Congratulations, Elon Musk! The #1 cause of US job loss in 2025!
#BankruptTesla #TeslaTakedown #CancelStarlink #BoycottSpaceX #ElonMusk #DOGE #Swastikars #USPol
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DOGE actions caused the loss of 294,000 jobs in 2025, beating out market/economic conditions, business closings, cost-cutting, AI, and restructuring.
Francesca Albanese:
"Three European governments accuse me - based on statements I never made - with a virulence & conviction that they have NEVER used against those who have slaughtered 20,000+ children in 858 days.”
Albanese's actual statement was not about Israel, but about the genocide-enabling western system as "a common enemy of humanity".
Hasbara group "UN Watch" created the doctored video.
~Mouin Rabbani
https://substack.com/home/post/p-188005792
#USPol #EUPol #UN #FrancescaAlbanese #palestine .
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Francesca Albanese
Why is it that White Nationalist always look like this fucking choad?
State Department Nominee Jeremy Carl Has A History Of Racist Bigotry
https://www.anarchistfederation.net/state-department-nominee-jeremy-carl-has-a-history-of-racist-bigotry/
Wow. A woman betraying other women! There's a word for women like that...
#PuertoRico governor signs law to recognize #fetus as human being as critics warn of consequences
By DÁNICA COTO, February 12, 2026
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — "Puerto Rico’s governor on Thursday signed a bill that amends a law to recognize a fetus as a human being, a move doctors and legal experts warn will have deep ramifications for the U.S. Caribbean territory.
"The amendment was approved without #PublicHearings and amid concerns from opponents who warned it would unleash confusion and affect how doctors and pregnant or potentially #PregnantWomen are treated.
"The new law will lead to 'defensive health care,' warned Dr. Carlos Díaz Vélez, president of Puerto Rico’s College of Medical Surgeons."
#ReproductiveRights #USPol #PuertoRicoPol #WomensHealthcare #ProBirth #ProBirthIsNotProLife #Authoritarianism #ReproductiveFascism
#NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet
February 16, 2017 – Using the Congressional Review Act, Donald Trump repealed the so-called “stream protection rule,” which kept coal companies from dumping mining debris into rivers.
1/2
#TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
Apparently Ars Technica released an article with AI slop that made people upset so i want to remind people that Ars Technica, along with GQ, Vanity Fair and Wired, are owned by Condé Nast- which recently dissolved their team doing incredible political coverage in Teen Vogue.
#arsTecnica #condéNast #wiredMagazine #usPol
I'm not trying to read their print anymore because i think this should be expected from ownership that hates good reporting
USpol, fascism, racism, ICE [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
@TexasObserver that's just a #ConcentrationCamp but 21st century.
#USpol #FuckICE #ICE #fascism #racism #commentary #Trump #ForcedDisappearance
“That facility is, like, terrible, horrible. There’s a lot of people in there. A lot. Each room has like 45 capacity. And they’re putting like 60 people in each room. The restroom is a mess. Dirty. People are sleeping on the floor, people are sleeping in the restroom.” https://www.texasobserver.org/trump-ice-detention-bond-prosecutorial-discretion/
Trump's longtime confidant T Barrack *AMB to Turkey/special envoy to Syria,🚨was in regular, close contact with J Epstein for years after Epstein's 2008 conviction.
The correpondance places Barrack, among a⭕of wealthy & influential figures who maintained social contact with Epstein even as his criminal history became widely known.🚨Their relshp continued even after Barrack became a fundraiser for Trump's 2016 campaign...
Trump & most in his⭕: in the #EpsteinFiles‼️
#USPol
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tom-barrack-jeffrey-epstein-files/
Remember, when they start on #Springfield, #Ohio, the estimated 12,000 to 15,000 ( 1 in 4 residents) of #Haitians that live in Springfield, do so with a mixture of temporary protected status, citizenship, and other legal status. These are not border crossers.
Springfield, a central Ohio city of 60,000 where as many as one in four residents are Haitian, is bracing for an influx of federal immigration enforcement officers #USPol #ICE #WineMoms
🔗 The original ‘wine moms’ are in Ohio. They’re mobilizing to support Haitians in Springfield. https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/02/16/the-original-wine-moms-are-in-ohio-theyre-mobilizing-to-support-haitians-in-springfield/
«#Protest gegen US-Regierung — Ministerium für Homeland Security jagt ICE-Kritiker in sozialen Netzwerken:
Das Ministerium hat #Google, #Meta und Co. laut »New York Times« Hunderte Auskunftsanforderungen geschickt, um #Daten von Nutzern zu erhalten, die die Einwanderungs- und Zollbehörde #ICE kritisieren. Die #Konzern'e kamen einigen Anfragen nach»
Wer hat nichts zu verbergen und welcher Qualition gehören die US Tech-Giganten an?!??
The least shocking thing you'll see today: #Epstein: *Sept 2018🚨“I've sat in Kavanaugh chair. I'm thinking of Nov.” *ref isnt' clear.
He🚨called the pending judiciary hearing “a trap!”, adding “Iye [sic] been through many of these. MANY! She will cry, make sordid allegations. Say she feels bullied, fearful, traumatized. Every thing bad in her life was s result of the rape attempt. Suffered anxiety! Her relshps with men... this is a very special skill set needed.”
#USPol
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/16/jeffrey-epstein-brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court
“Trump’s Private Company Files Trademark for ‘President Donald J. Trump International Airport’”
by Josh Gerben
Epstein was central to the Zionist project - a powerful, unofficial, Jewish-supremacist "ambassador" for Israel.
He helped shape the Oslo & Abraham Accords to eradicate Palestinian rights from the process - which became "peace without justice".
Interview with Craig Mokhiber, a fearless former UN insider. He explains the UN's choice not to defy Israel.
TRUMP TAKES US TO WAR!
Nearly one-third of the U.S. Navy’s fleet is now deployed in preparation for a potential confrontation with Iran.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews
Epstein's elite group preached master-race ideology
Alpha males were "apex predators ordained by nature to exploit & subjugate others"
& white men, partic of Ashkenazi descent (eg, Epstein) are “biologically selected for high intelligence”.
Epstein planned to "seed the human race w/ his superior DNA".
One teen says she was an “incubator” for Epstein’s offspring. Others recount enslavement & forced pregnancies.
https://www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-billionaires-eugenics-project-harvard-academia-john-brockman
Apex males + 2 not 👇️️
#USPol #EUPol #Epstein #Racism .
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Edge's men + 2 women
“Every president in my lifetime goes into office a sociopath and then leaves a war criminal.” -- Hasan Minhaj, Off With His Head (2024)
Happy Presidents Day, everybody? #uspol
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Headshot of Hasan Minhaj on a poster for his Off With His Head Tour.
Brazilian unions and movements rally under the “Petróleo para Cuba” campaign to break the energy siege on Cuba
https://www.telesurenglish.net/brazil-cuba-solidarity-petrobras-fuel/
from #TeleSur
Feb. 14, 2026
#Brazil #Cuba solidarity reaches new heights as trade unions and social movements launch coordinated efforts to support Cuba amid a severe energy crisis triggered by #USpressure. On February 14, 2026, the Unified Federation of Petroleum Workers (FUP) formally requested an emergency meeting with state-owned #Petrobras to arrange urgent fuel deliveries to the #Caribbean island.
The campaign, dubbed “Petróleo para Cuba” (Oil for Cuba), counters recent threats from US President Donald #Trump. He imposed potential tariffs on nations or entities supplying hydrocarbons to Cuba, exacerbating fuel shortages that cause rolling blackouts and disrupt essential services.
#OilForCuba!
#PetróleoParaCuba
#CubaSolidarity
#LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba
#AbajoElBloqueo #SolidaridadConCuba
#LatinAmerica
#news #politics #USpol
Two satellite proposals threaten the night sky — the window to act is now.
One is SpaceX wanting to put a million low orbit satellites up.
The second is a service that would sell people sunlight at night by reflecting it back to Earth with mirrors.
Comments open until March 6th, but comment early in case they are closed early.
https://darksky.org/news/two-satellite-proposals-threaten-the-night-sky-the-window-to-act-is-now/
Did you know that the company that wants to find your lost dog is owned by Jeff Bezos?
Amazon bought Ring in 2018 for $1 billion. So fuck Search Party, fuck Ring, and—most of all—fuck Amazon.
#JeffBezos #WashingtonPost #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
Over the past month and a half, I've encountered a lot of Very Serious PeopleTM in my life, and on my TV, who seem to think that the best way to counteract Trump's fascist regime as it tears everything apart and starts trying to disappear political prisoners, is to "not take the bait" and wait for the courts to handle it. "We are still a nation of laws" these folks have assured me, even though I've spent the past four decades watching US presidents break the law in ways that are more acceptable to Pig Empire society than Trump does. Throughout that time, my question has always been "well what are you gonna do when he just ignores the law? I mean it's not like you can send the local sheriff to evict him from the White House, and the GOP is extremely unlikely to help their inept opposition to impeach him." To the degree that I've been able to actually ask that question in person, I have yet to receive a reasonable reply; which is unfortunate, because completely ignoring the courts appears to be precisely what Downmarket Mussolini and his merry gang of shitposting nazi freaks are doing:
Trump Officials Are Pretending A Judge Didn't Bar His Anti-Diversity Orders
"In at least one case, the senior executive says, a U.S. official told the international organization that they knew about the court injunction and what it meant, but that the senior ranks of the Trump administration had explicitly instructed staff to enforce Trump’s executive orders, to ignore the court’s injunction, and to pressure partner organizations if need be. This official also said that if the nonprofit’s leaders didn’t sign the new paperwork, they’d risk having their funding quickly terminated by the Trump administration, per the senior executive.
“The Trump administration is daring the courts in the United States to do something about this, and thus far, I don’t think most people in America understand that what’s at risk is the fundamental basis that there is fairness and justice and rule of law in the United States,” says the senior executive. “And whatever you think of DEI, we should all agree that running the government based on the rule of law is a requirement. The playbook that is being used in the U.S. is not new; we’ve seen it in country after country where there’s been an increase in authoritarianism. To see it in the modern United States itself is what’s new and disturbing.”
The other two sources, one of whom is a Trump appointee, tell Rolling Stone that the directive to comply with Trump’s DEI orders, despite what the judge said, has gone out to an array of nonprofit organizations and partners around the world."
This is kind of a messy article that spends a lot of words going over the timeline of the Trump administration's attempts to play dumb about what the judge's injunction actually blocks in terms of Trump's anti-diversity executive orders, but the key takeaway isn't that complex. Trump has knowingly, and directly ordered his administration to ignore the injunction and continue enforcing his anti-diversity orders both inside the government and towards outside contractors and partners. This is not speculative, several sources *inside* the Trump administration have confirmed that the regime knows what the injunction means, and government employees are being ordered to simply ignore the ruling. Borrowing a page from noted genocidal racist U.S. president Andrew Jackson, Trump has effectively declared "Adam Abelson has made his decision; now let him enforce it."
Should this come as a surprise to anyone in the American establishment "opposition?" Well, probably not, because as the article notes Trump and his minions have more or less been actively broadcasting their intentions to ignore court orders designed to block their fascist agenda:
"The episode is part of a broader pattern in which the second Trump administration has operated under the impression that judges’ orders and rulings don’t much matter. Vice President J.D. Vance has publicly argued that Trump can ignore judges’ orders, asserting: “Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.” Trump, for his part, has threatened to “look at” judges who rule against Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Over Presidents Day weekend, Trump admitted he thinks he can break any law he wants to — so long as he can loosely define doing so as part of his mission to “save” the country."
Folks, like I've been telling you for a while, the cavalry ain't coming. If a GOP-controlled government won't impeach him, and the regime won't obey court orders, nothing short of an uprising is stopping these nazis anytime soon; no matter HOW much that scares an "opposition" establishment that hates people power.
#Trump #Fascism #Courts #DEI #Impeachment #GOP #Musk #ExecutiveOrder #JDVance #USPol #AndrewJackson #PorkReich #AdamAbelson
Obviously I support pressuring the U.S. government to impeach Trump, both for the laws he's breaking and to stop the very real, and very violent fascist agenda he's conducting, but I don't think you can count on a Republican Party that has fully embraced Trump and the fascist American First movement, and is currently surrendering its own powers over things like tariffs to the President, to help anyone do that. They like most of the fascist shit he's doing, and they've seen what the MAGA base does to GOP officials who speak out against Downmarket Mussolini, at least in terms of their career prospects. Mostly then, I'm sharing this article to point out that Trump's strategy of ignoring the courts and daring someone to stop him extends far beyond an injunction to protect the right to even *have* optional diversity programs that, let's be honest, a lot of privileged white Americans really don't care about even though they should.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-impeachment
Trump Ignoring Court Orders Is New Grounds for Impeachment, Says Pro-Democracy Group
"As Free Speech for People detailed in a Wednesday statement, the new administration's recent "oversteps of the judiciary branch include: refusing to release $2 billion in foreign aid in defiance of multiple court orders; refusing to adhere to court orders that prohibit the Office of Management and Budget from implementing a freeze on all federal assistance; and refusing to adhere to a court order requiring U.S. Office of Personnel Management [acting Director] Charles Ezell to testify in person on March 13, 2025, in a lawsuit challenging Ezell and OPM's termination of thousands of employees."
Courtney Hostetler, legal director of the nonprofit, said that "the checks and balances of our three-branch government is a cornerstone of our democracy, created by our country's founders because they were rightfully afraid of how quickly, in the absence of a balanced system, our democracy might become a tyranny."
"Trump has usurped the powers of the legislature and now tramples on the authority of the judiciary," Hostetler continued. "In just one month, he has repeatedly ignored court rulings that have and must restrain his unlawful abuses of power. He, like all presidents, must abide by the rule of law—and because he has not, Congress must adhere to its own obligations to carry out an impeachment investigation."
I write a lot about what the shit Trump says actually means, or what he's *going* to do next, because as a student of Pig Empire history, political economy, and the rise of fascist movements, I know a lot of things about how Trump is operating that for-profit, corporate media seems reluctant to share with you; and I've been right far more often than wrong on this hellride so far. On this subject however, we're no longer talking about likely scenarios. We can acknowledge that Trump absolutely means to ignore any court orders designed to block his fascist agenda and considers himself above the law, because he is doing precisely that already, he's openly saying he can break the law if he wants to as President, and as I'll discuss in a minute when I have time to break out the links, SCOTUS has signaled that they agree with him.
This is it folks, a really-existing, overt fascist dictatorship is here under Downmarket Mussolini and you are watching this nazi bastard assemble his own version of the Nazi Enabling Act, piecemeal, and in real time. The vaunted American system of "checks and balances" in government isn't going to stop him, the courts aren't going to stop him, and I would bet you my whole ass the Republican Party isn't going to stop him either. If we don't want to suddenly wake up five years from now to piles of corpses so big they block out the sun, it's time to start deploying people power, fighting fascism in the streets, and shutting this shit down - or you'll soon be asking yourself why you didn't *do* anything about fascism, before the mass graves were dug.
#Trump #Fascism #USPol #Impeachment #GOP #Courts #ExecutiveOrder #PeoplePower #ResistEverywhere
In a story that's not really making many waves in the US media because transphobia, transmisogyny, and hating incarcerated people are all bipartisan establishment positions, the Trump administration is also transferring incarcerated trans women to men's prisons; despite the fact that it's both illegal, and multiple judges have issued restraining orders to prevent the regime from doing so:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/07/transgender-women-prison-trump
Trans women transferred to men’s prisons despite rulings against Trump’s order
"Transgender women incarcerated in the US prison system have been transferred to men’s facilities under Donald Trump’s executive order, despite multiple court rulings blocking the president’s policy, according to civil rights lawyers and accounts from behind bars.
Trump’s day-one “gender ideology” order, one of several sweeping attacks on trans rights, said the attorney general “shall ensure that males are not detained in women’s prisons or housed in women’s detention centers” and that no federal funds go to gender-affirming treatment or procedures for people in custody.
The executive order was quickly challenged in court. In three lawsuits filed on behalf of trans women housed in women’s prisons, federal judges have ruled that the US Bureau of Prisons (BOP) cannot withhold their medical treatment and was barred from moving them to men’s facilities. One judge said the plaintiffs had “straightforwardly demonstrated that irreparable harm will follow."
Lawyers fighting Trump’s directive say the court rulings prevented the transfers of 17 trans women who are plaintiffs in the cases, but others not included in the litigation are now facing placements in men’s facilities."
In case you're missing the shell game going on here, the Trump administration is pretending that only the 17 specific trans women mentioned in the cases to block this cruel fuckery are covered, while simply going ahead to target other trans women who are not specifically mentioned in the court orders. Not only is this an abnormal, malicious violation of the spirit of the judge's orders, but it's also literally straight up illegal:
"Prisons are required under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (Prea), a longstanding federal law, to screen incarcerated people for sexual assault risk and consider LGBTQ+ status when making housing decisions. Legal experts say Trump’s blanket policy of housing trans women in men’s facilities clearly violates Prea."
This is a hard story to read, because it demonstrates a pattern of pointless, wonton cruelty towards trans women by Trump's Bureau of Prisons; in addition to moving trans women to men only facilities that put them in very real danger, the BOP has also issued *orders* for guards to deadname prisoners and use incorrect pronouns, change their gender markers on official forms, deny requests for gender appropriate clothing, and to allow male guards to pat down trans women prisoners. Furthermore because this administration (and some would say, American society) hates trans women more than they like ice cream, nobody is making any effort here to prevent abuses that would seemingly go even beyond Trump's fascist executive order. There are already reports of male guards "groping" trans women prisoners, prison officials seizing the bras and underwear of trans women prisoners like they were contraband, threats to force detransition incarcerated trans women by denying their hormone therapy, and even one report of a woman who had gender-affirming surgeries before her incarceration, being moved to a men's prison. As one lawyer noted, this "is essentially sanctioning sexual assault in some instances."
Of course, given that trans people represent a microscopic minority inside the U.S. population, and 17 trans women are being protected by temporary restraining orders, only a small number of trans women are subject to what I'd describe as a form of psychological torture and the constant threat of violence; perhaps that's why the US political and media establishment in the "opposition" doesn't care, rather than their well established indifference towards trans lives, if not outright transphobia. I would however argue that the fact that the Trump administration is plowing ahead to target such a small number of trans women demonstrates that this isn't about safety or the rule of law; the cruelty is indeed the point, and a Trump regime that cares little about malnourished children, seniors living check to check on social security, or American workers, is clearly prepared to move heaven and earth to make existence so intolerable for trans women that they simply stop existing.
#Fascism #Trump #PoliceState #TransRights #BureauOfPrisons #Cruelty #SexualAssault #transmisogyny #USPol #PreaAct
As part of my work, I've been watching a fair bit of mainstream cable news recently; your condolences are appreciated in advance. While not all the coverage of the Trump regime's willful violation of judge's orders and the law in general has been horrible, there is a strong tendency to cast what is happening here as a hypothetical future result in a far too credulous way given the available evidence. This isn't even really about whether or not Downmarket Mussolini will get away with ignoring the laws and courts yet either; we're talking about grown adults in our media openly asking if the Trump regime seriously intends to do so, or this is all some grand strategy bluff.
This position is of course preposterous to the point that pretending it's plausible Trump isn't trying to create a "constitutional crisis" and allow his administration to act regardless of courts or the law, borders on open collaboration with a fascist regime. If that position sounds extreme to you, check out this article collecting some of the things official representatives of the Trump administration have said about the regime's already-enacted scheme to ship hundreds of alleged gang members to a slave labor prison in El Salvador despite having presented no evidence the Venezuelan men are gang members, and using a war powers act that's well over 200 years old, despite the fact that we're not at war with Venezuela:
https://truthout.org/articles/bondi-says-trump-will-defy-judge-continue-deportations/
"Bondi Says Trump Will Defy Judge, Continue Deportations"
"In a court filing, the ACLU and Democracy Forward accused the administration of a “blatant violation” of the restraining order, as senior Trump administration officials openly dismissed the order. Vice President J.D. Vance bragged about the forced transfers on X, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio retweeted a post by El Salvador President Nayib Bukele that mocked the judge’s decision, saying, “Oopsie… Too late,” alongside a laughing emoji."
Okay so that's Vice President JD Vance, and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio; let's take a look at what other high-level, official representatives of the Trump administration have to say about the situation and the government's intentions:
US Attorney General Pam Bondi:
“These are foreign terrorists, that the president has identified them, and designated them as such, and we will continue to follow the Alien Enemies Act [AEA].”
“You know, this one federal judge again thinks he can control foreign policy for the entire country, and he cannot.”
WH Deputy Chief of Staff (and noted white supremacist) Steven Miller:
“It is without doubt the most unlawful order a judge has issued in our lifetimes.”
“A district court judge has no authority to direct the national security operations of the executive branch. The president has operated the absolute apex of his constitutional authority,” he continued."
WH press secretary Karoline Leavitt:
"“[F]ederal courts generally have no jurisdiction over the President’s conduct of foreign affairs, his authorities under the Alien Enemies Act, and his core Article II powers to remove foreign alien terrorists from U.S. soil and repel a declared invasion.”
U.S. “border czar” Tom Homan:
“We’re not stopping.”
“I don’t care what the judges think. I don’t care what the Left thinks. We’re coming.”
Folks, these' aren't fascist YouTubers or Fox News media hosts, these are officially designated representatives and officials in the actual Trump administration. They aren't saying these things as a matter of personal opinion, they are speaking on behalf of the Trump regime in an official capacity, even when they're appearing on Fox. It is blatantly irresponsible for corporate media muppets to pretend this fascist nonsense is all something Trump *might* try to do, just because nobody knows if these nazis are actually going to get away with it. He *is* trying it, the US government under Trump's official position is that the president has the power to ignore laws and courts that interfere with his self-identified mandate to "save America." We can debate whether or not he'll get away with it, but the regime has made its intentions clear and the American people deserve to know that. It's not good enough to report Trump's actions and discuss the potential motivations behind them, while treating what regime officials openly say as a separate story. These things are intimately related and they should be presented as such.
#Fascism #USPol #Trump #Courts #ConstitutionalCrisis #FoxNews #JDVance #MarcoRubio #Media #PamBondi #StevenMiller #KarolineLeavitt #TomHoman
Because the Pork Reich is maniacally dedicated to ensuring I never have a calm Friday evening again, Trump's unofficial minister of blatantly nazi shit, Stephen Miller, just threatened to suspend the writ of habeas corpus unless courts start ruling in favor of Trump's mass deportation schemes, during a press briefing in front of the White House.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/09/trump-deportation-habeas-corpus-miller.html
Trump administration ‘looking at’ suspending habeas corpus for migrants, Stephen Miller says
"White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller said Friday that the Trump administration is “actively looking at” suspending the writ of habeas corpus — the constitutional right to challenge in court the legality of a person’s detention by the government — for migrants.
Miller’s comment came in response to a White House reporter who asked about President Donald Trump entertaining the idea of suspending the writ to deal with the problem of illegal immigration into the United States.
Asked when that might happen, Miller responded: “The Constitution is clear, and that, of course, is the supreme law of the land, that the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus can be suspended in time of invasion.”
“So, I would say that’s an option we’re actively looking at,” he said."
Let me start by saying that I am consistently surprised at how much mind-blowingly disingenuous fascist bullshit noted hate-goblin Stephen Miller is capable of cramming into a few short sentences. What Miller is arguing by implication here, is that Trump can use the absolutely fake "invasion" he's trying to use to justify invoking the Alien and Enemies Act, a justification that has already been called into question in one court with more likely to follow, to also justify suspending the legal right to challenge your detention by authorizes, in a court of law. In what is not at all a coincidence, a number of the "deportation" (read: kidnapping) cases the Trump regime keeps losing in court, including those against foreign anti-genocide student protestors, revolve around the violation of the writ of habeas corpus. Furthermore, while Miller is clearly threatening this clear act of authoritarian bullshit in regards to the regime's various plots to mass deport migrants, the fact of the matter is there's only one writ of habeas corpus; if Trump can suspend it to traffic migrants to foreign torture prisons, he'll be suspending the right to challenge state detention for everybody so long as the "invasion" the regime completely made up, remains "ongoing." In other words, migrant or otherwise, this how you start herding people who won't obey a fascist dictator into American prisons or concentration camps.
Furthermore, the rest of Miller's comments make it clear that the regime is at least threatening to usurp the American judiciary, unless they start giving Trump favorable rulings in cases against his mass deportation efforts.
"Miller said that Congress had stripped federal courts of jurisdiction over immigration cases with the Immigration and Nationality Act.
“The courts aren’t just at war with the executive branch, the courts are at war, these radical rogue judges, with the legislative branch as well,” Miller said.
“So all of that will inform the choices the president ultimately makes.”
While it is indeed true that numerous American laws and statues give the President far too much authority over all immigration matters, Miller is openly lying when he implies federal courts have no jurisdiction over immigration cases; and even if he were correct, the right to due process comes from the US Constitution and is granted to everyone in the United States, citizen or otherwise. Miller knows this, he just doesn't fucking care and is prepared to drum up a fascist conspiracy about radical left wing judges (including Trump appointees) to justify imploding the rule of law if it can get him closer to his precious white ethnostate.
Needless to say, absolutely none of this is based on reality or is strictly-speaking, legal. Unfortunately, sending Stephen Miller out to threaten the writ of habeas corpus to leverage cooperation from a judicial branch consistently ruling that Trump's mass deportation schemes are illegal, or based on fascist conspiracy theories that have no foundation in reality, signals that the regime is growing tired of caring about the rule of law entirely. If Trump gets away with this, either through suspending habeas corpus or bullying judges into legitimizing his illegal mass deportation efforts, the framework Miller is using here will remain in place for as long as Trump wants it to; certainly long enough to start rounding up his political opposition and anyone else the regime doesn't like.
#Fascism #StephenMiller #Courts #CivilRights #USConstitution #HabeasCorpus #Dictatorship #ICE #DHS #MassDeporations #PoliceState #IdeoligicalPolicing #WhiteNationalism #USPol #Judiciary
Last Friday, we talked a little bit about Stephen Miller trotting out onto the White House lawn out of seemingly nowhere to threaten the judiciary and folks who oppose the regime's fascist mass deportation schemes, with the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus; which means your right to challenge your detention in court. As I pointed out then, what Miller was proposing effectively, was enacting yet another emergency power based on a made up invasion that's already been rejected by (3 now) judges in court, to indefinitely cage or imprison anyone they want for any reason they want; this is of course because if you have no right to challenge your detention in court, it literally does not matter why the government says they're holding you - they just can. Of course Miller couched this in language that both threatened judges and implied this authority would be used to round up and deport migrants, but the power Trump's unofficial minister of nazism was proposing here could and likely would be used to target virtually anyone who opposes the regime and its fascist agenda.
As I also pointed out however, Miller's threat would be heinously illegal; the fascist administration would be effectively suspending the constitution, and the power to do that traditionally does not reside with the office of the President for very good reasons. There is only one time in US History where a President suspended the writ of habeas corpus on his own, and that president was literally Abe Lincoln during the actual fucking civil war. Furthermore, the situation was understood to be so extraordinary and potentially dangerous, that Congress got together after the fact and legitimized Lincoln's play; the other three times the government has suspended “The Great Writ” all required congressional authorization. All of which is of course to say nothing of the fact that doing so *requires* a threat to public safety that necessitates even considering suspending the writ in the first place; no such threat exists here obviously, Miller and Der Leader are simply upset that judges have insisted the government respect the due process rights of migrants.
Of course, I can tell you all this, but I am not a lawyer or a professor of law. So to make the point abundantly clear, I'd like to share this Truthout Article by Marjorie Cohn, who is in fact a law professor, to explain all the ways this is definitely illegal fascist bullshit.
Stephen Miller’s Argument for Suspending Habeas Corpus Is Legal Garbage
“A suspension [of habeas corpus] is temporary, but the power it confers is extraordinary,” Barrett and Katyal wrote in their National Constitution Center article. “When a suspension is in effect, the president, typically acting through subordinates, can imprison people indefinitely without any judicial check.”
It is becoming increasingly clear that Trump will stop at nothing to impose his will – the commands of the Constitution notwithstanding. On May 4, Trump refused to say on “Meet the Press” that he was bound by the Due Process Clause of the Constitution.
For now, federal judges are serving as speed bumps in Trump’s cruel and illegal war on migrants. Trump has packed the Supreme Court with radical right-wingers who may well overturn some of those lower court rulings. But Trump has already defied the high court’s ruling that his administration facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador. We can only hope that the “justices” on the high court maintain their reverence for the Constitution, even though the president does not."
I know that legal language makes a lot of people's eyes glaze over, but I strongly encourage you to just read the whole article because it does a very good job of explaining precisely how illegal and authoritarian Miller's proposal to suspend the writ of habeas corpus actually is. The gist of it however is that president Trump doesn't have the power to suspend the writ without Congressional authorization, there absolutely is no invasion to justify doing so, and Miller is openly lying when he says that the Immigration and Nationality Act strips judiciary oversight and appellate review for the regime's mass deportation activities.
Of course as the author (and many others) point out, the illegality of their activities has only marginally stopped Trump so far; the regime is currently ignoring multiple court orders and the President is openly declaring that he's not sure if he has an obligation to uphold the US Constitution in media interviews; despite the fact that upholding the Constitution is one of the things all Presidents swear to do on live TV while being inaugurated. Miller was certainly trying to cow American judges to ram through Trump's mass deportation project, but we've seen the pattern of this regime transforming fascist musings into enforced reality far too many times to believe he's not being serious.
#Fascism #Trump #StephenMiller #Law #HabeasCorpus #USPol #GOP
While repeatedly losing in court has been an early theme of the Trump regime's project to install a fascist dictatorship in America, I don't think it's safe for anyone to assume the crux of the danger we're facing rests solely on to what degree the Swine Emperor and his cronies are willing to simply ignore court orders. Lost in the reality that so far the Supreme Court has held the line against the Trump administration on the question of due process for migrants the regime wants to deport, is the fact that this 6-3 fascist-high bench is the same body that granted president Trump virtual immunity from prosecution for "official acts" undertaken as president, without even bothering to define what an official act is.
That 6-3 fascist majority means the Supreme Court, which is dominated by Federalist Society appointees hand-picked by far right megadonor Leonard Leo, is very closely aligned ideologically with the Christian Zionist fundie fascist wing of the Trump cult, as exemplified by folks like Marco Rubio, and the Heritage Foundation. They might not agree with everything the more openly white nationalist and authoritarian elements in the Trump regime want to do, but guys like Sam Alito and Clarence Thomas are more or less in lockstep with the vast majority of reactionary right wing objectives Trump and his minions are trying to accomplish here. In practice that means that while the 'conservative" justices on the Supreme Court are prepared to align with the law and block some portions of the Trump regime's agenda, they are just as likely to piss on decades of legal precedent and make some bullshit up to advance that agenda; particularly when it aligns with the agenda of the Federalist Society and its donors.
A good example of what that looks like can be found in the recent unsigned shadow docket stay the Supreme Court issued allowing the Trump regime to effectively "fire" two executive branch officials working for consumer and labor protection agencies, while their formal cases against the government make their way through the courts. A ruling might I add that was issued despite the fact that the agencies involved operate independently of the US executive branch, and there is a clear SCOTUS precedent against removing members of independent boards "without good cause."
The Supreme Court Makes Sure the Law Does Not Get in the Way of Trump’s Takeover
"On Thursday night, the Supreme Court’s six Republican-appointed justices allowed President Donald Trump to remove two executive branch officials: Gwynne Wilcox of the National Labor Relations Board and Cathy Harris of the Merit Systems Protection Board. In doing so, the court refused to enforce a major precedent. The decision indicated that, despite recent rebukes, the court is willing to disregard longstanding precedent for Trump to proceed with his overhaul of the federal government.
Before the court’s actions, a unanimous 1935 Supreme Court precedent called Humphrey’s Executor insulated both Wilcox and Harris, as members of independent boards, from removal without good cause. On Thursday, the GOP-appointees effectively cabined—or overturned—Humphrey’s Executor, in a glib order; they discarded the precedent that undergirds the modern executive branch in the same way they might toss out an old shirt they no longer feel like wearing.
The court offered a few justifications. First and foremost, it nodded at the Unitary Executive Theory. The theory rests on the idea that the Constitution vests all the executive authority in the president, and therefore it’s unconstitutional to place limits on how the president uses that authority. This theory was crafted by conservative lawyers in the 1980s and early 1990s, when Republicans seemed to have a lock on the presidency but couldn’t get control of Congress and therefore needed a justification for the president to act unilaterally. The Roberts court has spent the last 15 years embedding the theory into constitutional law—even though many academics argue it is an inaccurate and opportunistic reading of the Constitution and the nation’s history."
If the truth be told, the extraordinary lengths the Trump regime has undertaken to fire the National Labor Relations Board's Gwynne Wilcox in particular is an epic tale of authoritarian cracker fuckery in its own right, but we don't have the space to get into it here. The principle point to take away from this story is that a 6-3 fascist high SCOTUS isn't trying to thwart parts of Trump's agenda because they care about the law; they're doing it to retain legitimacy so they can play Calvinball for the American right whenever Trump's agenda aligns with Leonard Leo's, using the Unitary Executive Theory. This in turn means that Americans cannot count on SCOTUS to stop Trump's illegal fascist activities, even if the regime decides to obey a given court order.
#Trump #Fascism #Courts #NLRB #SCOTUS #GwynneWilcox #USPol #LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety #GOP
At this point, I think the degree to which bald-faced racial animus and white nationalist ideology helps form the very core of what the Trump regime does on a day to day basis, makes it ridiculously irresponsible not to discuss the open white supremacy underpinning those actions when reporting on them. I think we're all aware that Donald Trump and the vast majority of his administration are committed racists, but when politically-empowered racists start devoting the immense power of the state to prosecuting white grievance, and re-establishing an ethno-nationalist legal, political, and social order, that should be front page news no matter how many times it has already come up before. Take for example the relative lack of media uproar about the news that Trump's Department of Justice is launching what's effectively an "anti-Affirmative Action or DEI" investigation into the Black Democrat Mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson for literally hiring Black people, in a minority majority city.
Justice Department to investigate Chicago after mayor's remarks about hiring Black officials
"The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said Monday that it was opening an investigation into the city of Chicago after Mayor Brandon Johnson's comments Sunday highlighting prominent Black officials in his administration.
Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon wrote in a letter to Johnson posted on X that she had “authorized an investigation” into whether Chicago is “engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination” following Johnson’s remarks at a church Sunday.
“If these kind of hiring decisions are being made for top-level positions in your administration, then it begs the question of whether such decisions are also being made for lower-level positions,” Dhillon wrote.
Johnson said in remarks at Apostolic Church of God that the deputy mayor, the chief operations officer, the budget director and others are all Black people. Johnson said some of his detractors criticize him by saying the only thing he talks about "is the hiring of Black people."
“No, what I’m saying is when you hire our people, we always look out for everybody else," he said."
Alright so bear with me for a moment because the amount of racist petulant adult baby shit going on here is significant, and I'm not sure the quoted passage does it justice. The (un)Civil Rights division of Trump's Justice Department is investigating the Mayor of Chicago for crimes against whiteness because he highlighted the effectiveness of hiring Black people in a city that's roughly 65% non-white, and 30% Black, while speaking at a Black majority church. So, what normal people would call "political campaigning."
As the article goes on to note, the announcement of this investigation comes despite the raw demographic data showing only a slim majority of Black employees among the Mayor's Office staff:
"According to the mayor’s office, white and Black employees are a majority of staff members, with 30.5% of employees identifying as white and 34.3% identifying as Black."
So, the Trump administration is harassing the Mayor of a majority-minority city winger racists have been demonizing for years, because Johnson hired a staff that looks more or less like the community he serves, demographically. Of course there's a little more backstory here, because Mayor Johnson has been critical of Trump's racism and racist policies; to which any rational person should probably respond "well, good for him; at least he got something right given how poorly his tenure as Mayor has gone." The reality here however is that someone inside the Trump regime heard a Black Mayor brag about hiring Black leaders in his administration at a Black Church and decided that was probably a race crime against whiteness. Normally, the story would end there, with a note that "crackers believe the weirdest shit" but because this is a white nationalist government prepared to move heaven and earth to prosecute white grievance, here we are.
I sincerely hope the reason media minions are missing the point of this story isn't that Trump sent out the Indian-American lady to announce the threat on Johnson; we're far too late in the game for "but they have a minority friend" to carry water. Maybe folks don't want to talk about Brandon Johnson because he's a bad Mayor, who ran as a progressive, and has more or less let down all the people who brought him to power in Chicago. That's fair, but when the Trump administration is using the Department of Justice to target its political opposition for blatantly racist reasons, Very Serious People TM in the discourse could at least use that story to stop equivocating about whether or not these guys really are cracker nazis, doing cracker nazi shit.
#Fascism #Trump #USPol #IdeologicalPolicing #Racism #WhiateNationalism #Chicago #BrandonJohnson #PoliticalIntimidation #JusticeDepartment #HarmeetDhillon #WhiteGrievance #AffirmativeAction #DEI #Nazis
I originally started this thread to articulate and verify a then-controversial argument about the American establishment's response to Trump's fascist agenda. Specifically I argued that sitting by quietly and relying on American courts to stop Downmarket Mussolini's dictatorial ambitions was not only cowardly, but would ultimately be wholly ineffective. This is because not only does the entire Trumpenreich regard the law as useful only when it can be used to prosecute a fascist agenda, but also because every enforcement agency that could potentially hold Trump accountable for violating court orders, ultimately works for the Swine Emperor himself. The Courts have no army or police force to compel a wayward nazi president to obey their rulings.
This was not a particularly popular opinion outside the antifascist radical left at the time, but I think the light of history has reflected well on my take. As it turns out, so does the Washington Post who recently published the results of an extensive investigation into every court order issued against the Trump administration, to find that the regime or its minions are violating over a *third* of all such orders in some way or another, and by a variety of clearly intentional methods.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/21/trump-court-orders-defy-noncompliance-marshals-judges/ (Archive: https://archive.ph/jJpnx)
Trump officials accused of defying 1 in 3 judges who ruled against him
"President Donald Trump and his appointees have been accused of flouting courts in a third of the more than 160 lawsuits against the administration in which a judge has issued a substantive ruling, a Washington Post analysis has found, suggesting widespread noncompliance with America’s legal system.
Plaintiffs say Justice Department lawyers and the agencies they represent are snubbing rulings, providing false information, failing to turn over evidence, quietly working around court orders and inventing pretexts to carry out actions that have been blocked."
This is a very granular study of 165 lawsuits against the Trump administration where courts have ruled against the regime's (often illegal) actions and the results of those court orders; WaPo found that in a staggering 57 of those cases, the US government had taken steps to subvert, ignore, or openly violate those court orders. This comes from a larger pool of 337 cases against the Trump regime brought to court, which means you've got about a fifty percent change of beating the fascists in court, and at best a two thirds chance of that actually meaning anything even if you do. Does that sound like a legal system capable of protecting Americans and their civil rights from a fascist administration to you? Yeah, me neither.
It is of course deeply ironic that this analysis is coming from The Washington Post; an outlet which by my reckoning has played a prominent role in pushing the idea that actively resisting the Trump regime in the streets is unacceptable lawlessness and it is far better to wait for court decisions that may be entirely meaningless to stop the fascist creep in our society. Even Jeff Bezo's pet media company however was willing to note that this alarming situation has grown out of an American judiciary unwilling, or perhaps unable, to hold the Trump administration to account for openly violating the law and the orders of our courts.
"Outside legal analysts say courts typically are slow to begin contempt proceedings for noncompliance, especially while their rulings are under appeal. Judges also are likely to be concerned, analysts say, that the U.S. Marshals Service — whose director is appointed by the president — might not serve subpoenas or take recalcitrant government officials into custody if ordered to by the courts."
I should note that the rest of this article focuses on diving into the myriad of ways the Trump administration has found to openly violate, undermine, or ignore court orders as a matter of foundational policy; efforts which expose the Trump regime's belief that the Swine Emperor has absolute power over immigration law, national security, federal funding, and the government workforce as a whole. This is a thorough investigation, that also clearly demonstrates that none of this is an accident and the Trump regime is usurping the power of the American judiciary entirely intentionally.
All of which leads me ask the Very Serious People TM in our society who insisted on allowing the Trump regime to openly do illegal fascism while waiting for the courts to swoop in and save the day, one simple question - what now? After all, we are now sitting in the same position we were when I told you months ago that only massive society-wide resistance would end Trump's fascism, and that expecting judges with no armies to stop him was a fool's errand; only now, even WaPo is admitting the courts know they can't stop him and Trump's agenda is a half year closer to becoming our reality. Dare you even answer?
#Fascism #Trump #Dictatorship #USPol #Courts #RuleOfLaw #Authoritarianism #WaPo
#Epstein and #RobertKennedyJr., were on #PineRidge '#FossilHunting'
By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, Feb. 13, 2026
Excerpt: "In related news, former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson's is in the Epstein files.
The horrific abuse of children now being exposed in the Epstein files includes these facts: The #ZorroRanch in #NewMexico was never searched, and is now believed to have the bodies of young victims buried there.
"Former New Mexico Gov. #BillRichardson, who was deeply involved in energy negotiations in Indian country, was in contact with Epstein for years. Richardson is among those named by one of the underage girls as being responsible for abusing her. She also named #PrinceAndrew.
"The United Nations is also included in the horrific scheme. #GhislaineMaxwell promoted her #TerraMar, a false front non-profit claiming to protect the oceans, during years of testimony at the U.N.
"The University of Arizona in Tucson was among those who received a grant from Epstein's Gratitude 'non-profit.'
"These are just a few of the facts being exposed in the millions of Epstein's files now being released.
"Gov. Richardson's involvement with energy in #IndianCountry was during the same years that #TexHall rose to so-called glory.
"Hall, the #EnergyCzar from #FortBerthold in #NorthDakota, headed the National Congress of American Indians, and brought in massive #OilAndGas wells to the Three Affiliated Tribes in North Dakota. Hall's business associate was later convicted in the two murders for hire of their other business partners.
"Hall and Gov. Richardson were energy czars in Indian country, during the years when Richardson served as New Mexico Governor and U.S. #EnergySecretary."
Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2026/02/pine-ridge-epstein-and-robert-kennedy.html
#BigOilAndGas #USPol #RFKJr #WorldPol #PedophileRing #MissingChildren #MMIC #ReaderSupportedNews
Lying sacks of sh*t!!! #ICEOutForGood !
#Trump's #borderCzar says a 'small' security force will stay in #Minnesota
byAlina Selyukh
February 15, 2026
"#Homan said an additional security force — described in size only as 'small' — will stay to 'respond to when our agents are out, and they get surrounded by #agitators and things got out of control.' "
Read more:
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/15/nx-s1-5715151/minnesota-immigration-homan-security-force-stay
#USPol #NPR #AbolishICE #DefundICE #AbolishCBP #BorderPatrol #MurderPatrol #SilencingDissent #Disappearing #ImmigrantsRights #Authoritarianism #SecretPolice #Gestapo
If 1% of criminals being undocumented immigrants is enough to justify concentration camps, what should we do with the fact that 98% of criminals are men?
Personally, I'm not a radical: a moratorium prohibiting men from being elected to any government position is enough. Let's try that for 10 years and see how it goes.
Sources:
https://cmsny.org/publications/jmhs-legal-process-criminalization/
https://www.aclu.org/documents/facts-about-over-incarceration-women-united-states
#usa #uspol #politics #us #feminism #justice #crime #ice #patriarchy
A reminder to remain vigilant, #PDX. ICE agents are still out here taking people out of their cars.
"The streets of certain parts of town would have just been littered with glass because of the number of people who were being taken from their vehicles.”
‘We Are Sailing to Cuba’: Humanitarian Coalition Announces Flotilla to Break US Blockade
“Together, we can break the siege, save lives, and stand up for the cause of Cuban self-determination,” said the mission’s organizers.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/cuba-flotilla
from #CommonDreams
Brett Wilkins
Feb 12, 2026
Members of #ProgressiveInternational, #CodePink, and other direct action and advocacy groups plan to set sail for #Cuba next month in the #NuestraAméricaFlotilla, which they said is inspired by the Global Sumud Flotilla missions to break Israel’s illegal blockade of #Gaza amid the ongoing genocide in the Palestinian exclave.
“We are sailing to #Cuba, bringing critical humanitarian aid for its people,” the flotilla organizers said on their website. “The #Trump administration is strangling the island, cutting off fuel, flights, and critical supplies for survival. The consequences are lethal, for newborns and parents, for the elderly and the sick.”
The DOJ has shut down access to the Epstein Files via VPN.
Pam Bondage is tracking lawmakers, so it makes sense they're tracking everyone else by their IPs as well.
No fuel, no tourists, no cash – this was the week the Cuban crisis got real
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/feb/15/cuba-crisis-oil-shortage-venezuela-donald-trump-havana
from #TheGuardian
Feb. 15, 2026
Cuba is in crisis. Already reeling from a four-year economic slump, worsened by hyper-inflation and the migration of nearly 20% of the population, the 67-year-old #communist government is at its weakest. After Washington’s successful military operation against #Cuba’s ally Venezuela at the beginning of January, the #US administration is actively seeking #RegimeChange.
Stoking concerns is news that lack of fuel is hampering the UN World Food Programme’s efforts to relieve suffering from last year’s Hurricane Melissa. The organisation, which keeps a low-key presence on the island, is now having to draw up plans for a new, far larger crisis. “We’re already seeing the impact in the availability of fresh produce in the cities,” said Étienne Labande, the WFP’s country director.
#OilForCuba!
#LetCubaLive
#news #politics #USpol #Trump #hunger
"In mid-December, Dr. Annie Andrews turned on her camera to record. The pediatrician — among a growing cohort of medical professionals who use social media to break down health care news and misinformation — had a public service announcement."
https://19thnews.org/2026/02/annie-andrews-south-carolina-measles-pediatrician-senate/
#PublicHealth #measles #vaccines #immunizations #misinformation #healthcare #medicaid #SNAP #hunger #SouthCarolina #elections2026 #USpol
A planned vacation turned into 4 months of hell in a TX #DeathCamp for a mom & her child. The #TrumpRegime💔traumatizes children & leaves adults with shattered lives, & frequently: deported *most: no criminal convictions:
🚨”I met Maria Antonia inside Dilley in mid-Jan where she’d been detained for 4 months.💔She told me she was on her way to Disney World when IMM agents intercepted & interrogated her in the a/p -sent her/mom to #detention.”
#ICE #Immigrants #Evil #USPol
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-dilley-maria-antonia-guerra-story
Fascists. Nazis.
Broken bones, burning eyes: How Trump's DHS deploys 'less lethal' weapons on protesters
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-dhs-immigration-protests-injuries-less-lethal-weapons-force-rcna258388
#AbolishICE #TrumpMustGo #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #ICE #JonathanRoss #DHS #Minneapolis #KristiNoem #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
Palantir for Governor?
The broligarchs are funding Dem candidates who embrace Republican policies.
Democrat Matt Mahan has entered the California governor’s race, & tech billionaires are flooding him with cash.
Why? Bcz they know he’ll:
* serve them;
* fight liberal or progressive policies; &
* be labelled a "centrist".
Ask him: Why are you being bankrolled by a Trump-supporting Palantir billionaire who favours public hangings?
Report: More than 50,000 western nationals serve in Israel’s army in the Gaza genocide.
"Personnel carrying passports from the US [12,000+], Russia, France, UK, Germany, Ukraine & Canada are the largest groups.
#USPol #EUPol #CdnPoli #France #GazaGenocide #IDF #news #Palestine #Racism .
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Numbers of western nationals serving in Israel’s army
"Starmer is toast. But the dark forces that brought him to power are as strong as ever."
"In Starmer, the billionaires found their synthetic, laboratory-grown 'man of the people' - one so clueless... that his closest advisors [said] he was an empty vessel through which they ran the government."
The Epstein Files indicate "how completely the billionaire class has captured political life in Britain."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/starmer-toast-dark-forces-brought-him-power-are-strong-ever
#UKPol #USPol #EUPol #Starmer #Epstein #oligarchy #mandelson .
Francesca Albanese:
"Three European governments accuse me - based on statements I never made - with a virulence & conviction that they have NEVER used against those who have slaughtered 20,000+ children in 858 days.”
Albanese's actual statement was not about Israel, but about the genocide-enabling western system as "a common enemy of humanity".
Hasbara group "UN Watch" created the doctored video.
~Mouin Rabbani
https://substack.com/home/post/p-188005792
#USPol #EUPol #UN #FrancescaAlbanese #palestine .
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Francesca albanese
I'd like to take a moment to talk about a regional PNW news story about resistance to the Gestapo, because I think Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's response to it is at once very typical of the regime's fascist propaganda style, and also crude enough to perhaps expose the direction the fascist shitshow that is Trump 2.0 is heading. After semi-anonymous groups of heroic citizens worked to publicly identify masked ICE Gestapo agents openly violating the civil rights of Oregonians, noted puppy murderer Noem promised swift prosecution of “anarchist and Antifa-affiliated groups” who acquire or share "personal information" of federal law enforcement officials who work for the government.
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/07/ice-officers-doxxed-by-antifa-anarchists-in-portland-dhs-says.html (archived: https://archive.ph/0cm2B)
ICE officers doxxed by antifa, anarchists in Portland, Noem says
"Noem, in a statement and photos, identified Rose City Antifa, “Rose City Counter-Info,” and “The Crustian Daily,” as groups that have published names, photos and personal addresses of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers on their websites or put up fliers in the officers’ neighborhoods. In one case, trash was dumped on the front lawn of an officer’s property, but the location was not disclosed.
“We will prosecute those who dox ICE agents to the fullest extent of the law. These criminals are taking the side of vicious cartels and human traffickers,” Noem said in the statement. “We won’t allow it in America.”
So, before we get into what I think Noem's belligerence has exposed about how the Trump regime intends to market the transformation of the United States into a white ethnostate executive branch dictatorship with theocratic characteristics, I just want to clear up an point of order here. ICE agents are public law enforcement officials, who are issued numbered badges, and work for the government; it is categorically impossible to dox someone who shouldn't be allowed to run through American cities wearing neck gaiters pulled up over their faces like a CIA-trained Latin American death squad. So, right off the bat we've got the DHS Secretary arguing that people who haven't broken a law are guilty because they exposed people, Gestapo pigs, who actually are breaking the law, or at least openly violating the civil and constitutional rights of both migrants and American citizens alike.
Don't sleep on Gestapo Barbie's attempts to revive the "Antifa and anarchist scare" that characterized the first Trump administration's justification for using federal agents to conduct blatantly illegal operations in cities they consider politically hostile either. Trump and the pigs loyal to him have spent a very long time trying to get you to associate "Portland" with "lawless anarchist violence" and "Antifa terrorism" and I don't think it's any sort of accident that she's invoking that trope again now.
What I think is most revealing here however is that Noem couldn't resist tying all of this back to the regime's threats against "sanctuary cities" - which as the article notes, has also been a key talking point being put forward by Trump's Border Czar, Tom Homan recently. This context, which Noem wasn't required to provide, paints a giant target on Portland, for the type of militarized invasion and occupation we've been watching for weeks in Los Angeles.
Now, you gentle reader might think it would be ridiculous to pretend an American city had been taken over by "Antifa terrorists" in league with Democrat officials, and therefore needed to be brought to heel by militarized federal forces, and nobody could blame you for that - the problem is, the first Trump administration made precisely that argument already, repeatedly in 2020, and started using Federal Marshals to black bag protestors and suspected antifascists right off the streets of Portland. The only thing that stopped Downmarket Mussolini from fully invading a bunch of Democrat-controlled cities back then was a lack of military buy-in, and I think the ongoing invasion and occupation of LA demonstrates that won't be a problem with Pete Hegseth running the Department of Defense and a 6-3 fascist high Supreme Court.
#Fascism #Trump #DHS #KristiNoem #Antifa #Anarchists #Gestapo #ICE #CivilRights #USPol #PoliceState #TomHoman #InvasionOfLA #Portland #Oregon
When writing about both the Trump regime's ethnic cleansing project, and the ensuing reign of terror being conducted on our streets by the Gestapo, I've tried to focus on a few reoccurring, and important lines of examination. We've talked a lot about the way local police forces are aiding the Trumpenreich's white nationalist mass deportation project, the role that a pre-existing "counterterrorism" mass surveillance panopticon is playing in the larger fascist agenda to transform America into a dictatorship, and how everything Trump is doing here is built on the already massive skeleton of a racist, fascist police state that was created long before the Swine Emperor ever took office. All of which exemplifies what I've been saying about Donald Trump and the MAGA movement since 2016; namely that Downmarket Mussolini and his entire regime are at once a product of, and an accelerant for, Pig Empire fascism.
Today I'd like to look at a terrifying Intercept report from late July, that in its own way pretty much encapsulates everything I've been saying about Trump, the Gestapo, and the cop-humping fascist society that produced them. A recent investigation reveals that at least eight (and almost certainly more) states and municipalities are sharing their racist, unsupervised, and extremely flawed "gang database" entries with ICE, who are using that data to kidnap and deport people often guilty of nothing more than a civil violation (or indeed, nothing at all) in our workplaces and on our streets.
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/22/ice-gang-database-trump-deportations/
State Cops Quietly Tag Thousands as Gang Members — and Feed Their Names to ICE
"An investigation by The Intercept found that at least eight states and large municipalities funnel their gang database entries to ICE — which can then use the information to target people for arrest, deportation, or rendition to so-called “third countries.” Some of the country’s largest and most immigrant-dense states, like Texas, New York, Illinois, and Virginia, route the information to ICE through varied paths that include a decades-old police clearinghouse and a network of post-9/11 intelligence-sharing hubs.
Both federal immigration authorities and local police intelligence units operate largely in secret, and the full extent of the gang database-sharing between them is unknown. What is known, however, is that the lists are riddled with mistakes: Available research, reporting, and audits have revealed that many contain widespread errors and encourage racial profiling."
Well, the American police state is certainly the gift that keeps on giving, isn't it? Although the article doesn't directly articulate it, what you are looking at here is the nightmare confluence of over four decades of Pig Empire racialized policing policy, transforming into a many-headed Gestapo hydra at Trump's beck and call. The American obsession with gang violence rises out of 80's era US white supremacist politics, where virtually all crime committed by non-whites was racially coded under the auspices of gang activity to allow a largely bipartisan, cop-humping political class to portray marginalized communities as a threat to upstanding (white) citizens in need of aggressive and quite lucrative (for some) policing. The political rhetoric of this era, which continued well into the 90's, defined it as "the War on Drugs," but in reality it was, and always has been a war on marginalized communities. After 9/11, this War on Drugs, was fused with the alarming rise of a new counterterrorism police state inside America, as part of the "War on Terror." This too, turned out to pretty much be a war on nonwhite people, although the government also found time to expand it to include all sorts of dissenters, including anti-war activists, anti-police violence activists, and uh, dangerous environmentalist teens who believe in scientifically-verifiable climate crisis. Regardless of whatever purpose these programs were created to achieve, the reality is that they have resulted in the systemization of racialized policing and oppression in our society.
Naturally then, it only stands to reason that a fascist regime, built around the myth of a formerly-racially pure fallen America, conducting a white nationalist ethnic cleansing project before our very eyes, would seek to integrate the pre-existing, fascist American police state into its even more racially-focused operations; after all, we did build him a machine that already oppresses the shit out of minorities, and that's something the Trump regime wants to do a lot more of. When Tom Homan tells you kidnapped migrants are in a gang because he says so, this pre-existing structure is what he's relying on to make his propaganda hold water in the American discourse. To paraphrase hip Zoomers, if you don't want the torment nexus to fall into the hands of literal fucking nazis, don't build the torment nexus in the first place.
#Fascism #Trump #Gestapo #EthnicCleansing #Police #USPol #PoliceState #WhiteNationalism
Something Surprising Happens When Bus Rides Are Free
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/opinion/free-bus-rides-mamdani.html?unlocked_article_code=1.L1A.-VTN.A4m163H2hzed&smid=nytcore-ios-share
from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
[shareable gift article]
Feb. 13, 2026
Free buses? Really? Of all the promises that #ZohranMamdani made during his #NYC mayoral campaign, that one struck some skeptics as the most frivolous leftist fantasy. Unlike housing, groceries and child care, which weigh heavily on New Yorkers’ finances, a #bus ride is just a few bucks. Is it really worth the huge effort to spare people that tiny outlay?
It is. Far beyond just saving riders money, free buses deliver a cascade of benefits, from easing traffic to promoting public safety.
If free buses strike you as wasteful, you’re not alone. Plenty of the beneficiaries would be people who can afford to pay. Does it make sense to give them a freebie? Yes, if it improves the life of the city, just as free parks, libraries and public schools do. Don’t think of it as a giveaway to the undeserving.
Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts
The department has sent Google, Meta and other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment on ICE, officials and tech workers said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/dhs-anti-ice-social-media.html?unlocked_article_code=1.MFA.Vs3Z.wp4uTUF3mn_X&smid=nytcore-ios-share
from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
[gift article]
Feb. 13, 2026
The Department of Homeland Security (#DHS) is expanding its efforts to identify Americans who oppose #ICE by sending tech companies legal requests for the names, email addresses, telephone numbers and other identifying data behind social media accounts that track or criticize the agency.
In recent months, #Google, #Reddit, #Discord and #Meta, which owns #Facebook and #Instagram, have received hundreds of administrative subpoenas from the DHS, according to four government officials and tech employees privy to the requests.
#AbolishICE
#DueProcessForAll
#DefendFreeSpeech
#StopTheDeportations
#deportations #immigration
#USA #US #USpol #politics #Trump #news
The only way RFK, jr. makes sense is if the Republicans’ plan is to kill as many of us as possible.
More for them.
#Trumpdemic #BatshitBob #AgentBrainWorm #BobKennedy #HHS #PublicHealth #Vaccines #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
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Skeletons dancing from Black Death Bubonic plague history. Caption: The GOP is killing us. Literally.
#Trumpdemic
The official title of the Nazi party was deliberately worded for its propaganda value, appealing to "nationalists," "socialists," "workers," and all others who might be favorably influenced by these labels.
#fascism #uspol #history #propaganda
Tail end of an actual exchange with my partner.
P: Vance lectured the US athletes after he got booed.
M: Of course.
P: They didn't boo you, you idiot - they're not stupid. The rest of the world did.
M: Because you fucking deserved it.
P: Ya, you deserved it.
M: And stop wearing eyeliner!
P: Ecch... Vance is creepy.
M: I'm only surprised that he hasn't been publicly accused of diddling children yet.
P: Yet. Vance isn't in the Epstein files, is he?
M: His couch is.
#USPol #Vance #JDVance #profanity #creep #creepy #FBomb #EpsteinFiles #couch #CouchFucker #pedophile #Chesterfield #Ottoman #Olypmics
Y'all think that after we do Nuremberg 2.0 for MAGA politicians, we're gonna get around to finally instituting structural reforms to our Democracy?
Like, putting in something like Ranked Choice voting so we don't have to rely on the Two-Party System? Maybe banning Gerrymandering? Possibly even being more specific in the Constitution about what is an impeachable offense?
What do y'all think we should also be doing during the coming era of reform after we kick the fascists out of power?
Patriarchy> you need to change your name when you get married.
Also patriarchy> if you changed your name for any reason we are going to make it difficult for you to vote.
Senate Democrats should not attend Trump’s State of the Union, and should instead place a photo of an Epstein survivor on each of their chairs.
- Paraphrasing AudreyLovesPolitics.
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Social media post from AudreyLovesPolitics
Senate Democrats are reportedly discussing whether to leave their chairs empty when Trump delivers the first State of the Union of his second term on Feb. 24.
Sounds like a plan to me.
In fact they should each leave a photo of an Epstein survivor
on the seats they vacate.
#GamersNexus once again prove themselves as among the most important and professional of US journalists today, reporting on the connections of #Discord and its upcoming #ageVerification and #chatControl imposition to technofeudal oligarch #PeterThiel, private #panopticon seller #Palantir, leading anti-#privacy UK politician and lesser oligarch Joanna Shields, child-corralling company k-ID, and even (indirectly, through Thiel) to #Epstein.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qhxsE8dvbs4
#surveillance #surveillanceCapitalism #censorship #uspol #cdnpoli
Trump's Unspeakable Evil!
Trump's CDC is canceling $600M in HIV and STD funds to four Democrat-led states
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews
Even if voters don’t care about the🚨plight of undoc #immigrants in #detention #DeathCamps, or the inhumane #deportations, incl 100s dumped in 3rd Cs➡️trafficking, violence… -the #economy should concern them, which the #TrumpRegime has destroyed with #tariffs, policies, visa restrictions…: A drop in Canadian visitors to the US🚨has cost the American economy ~$4.5B, with a 22%⬇️in visitors. Road trips by Canadians dropped by 27% in Jan 2026.
#Tourism #Trade #Canada #USPol
https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2026/02/12/canadian-visits-fall-january-trump-slump/
Personal record beaten: over 19,000 days of not appearing in the Epstein files, one more than yesterday.
Actual number is only approximate.
#USPol #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #PedoPresident #Trump #pedophile #MangoMussolini
We won't get out of this mess, not really, until we address the greatest wealth disparity America has ever known.
Support unions! Support labor! Tax the rich! Tax corporations!
America belongs to its people--all of them.
#UnionStrong #WealthDisparity #TaxTheRich #USPol
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Chart illustrating the growth of income inequality over time as unions were being busted, beginning in the 1940s.
Epstein-funded group preached master-race ideology:
Alpha males were "apex predators ordained by nature to exploit & subjugate others".
And white men, notably those of Ashkenazi descent like Epstein, have been “biologically selected for high intelligence”.
He intended to "seed the human race with his superior DNA".
A teen survivor calls herself an “incubator” for Epstein’s offspring. Others recount enslavement & forced pregnancies.
https://www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-billionaires-eugenics-project-harvard-academia-john-brockman
#USPol #EUPol #Epstein #Racism .
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Group photo of Edge mdmbers
With his erudite comments on religious extremists and people who want to ban books, one would think this interview took place yesterday and not 45 years ago. I could listen to Gore Vidal all day. #Politics #Culture #Entertainment #Books #Book #US #USpol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU7UD_KHOP0
#DHS🚨has sent Google, Meta & other cos 100s of subpoenas for info on accts that track or comment on #ICE.
The tech cos have said they review govt requests before complying. Some of the cos notified the ppl whom the govt had requested data on & gave them🚨10 to 14 days to fight the subpoena in court.
“The govt🚨is taking more liberties than they used to” -S Loney, ACLU of PA. “It’s a whole other level of frequency & lack of accountability.”
#Surveillance #Protest #USPol
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/dhs-anti-ice-social-media.html?unlocked_article_code=1.MFA.etW4.BLWmjAEoNuxe&smid=nytcore-ios-share
They're dropping like flies! Worldwide! Everywhere...except in the Trump administration. Hmmm.
High-profile resignations and replacements as Epstein case fallout spreads
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/2/14/2368583/-High-profile-resignations-and-replacements-as-Epstein-case-fallout-spreads?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=main
#TrumpEpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles #IndictAlexAcosta #ChildRapistTrump #GhislaineMaxwell #JeffreyEpstein #MAGA #DonaldTrump #PamBondi #USPol
Epstein was a key figure in the Oslo & Abraham Accords, which undermined Palestinian sovereignty.
And the architect of Oslo, Terje Rod-Larsen, was deeply embedded in Epstein's inner circle.
He "facilitated visas for Jeffrey Epstein’s victims & was listed for a $10m payout" from Epstein.
Rod-Larsen’s wife, Mona Juul, was also pivotal in the Oslo negotiations & has resigned as ambassador to Jordan-Iraq.
#Epstein #USPol #EUPol #palestine #CdnPoli #Racism #OsloAccords .
Report: France et al's witch hunt against Francesca Albanese is disingenuously using a doctored video.
Albanese’s Doha speech was doctored to suggest she called Israel the “common enemy of humanity”.
She has posted the full original video, which shows she was describing the system that shields abuses.
France, joined by Germany & the Czech Republic, called for her resignation, & refused to back down even when the doctored video was exposed.
https://aje.news/cfmk9v?update=4312079
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Francesca Albanese
"Exhausted yet, friend? That's the point," Mary Trump writes.
"This regime’s playbook isn't complicated. Flood the zone. Overwhelm the senses. Make people so tired of the outrage that they stop paying attention. Then, while everyone's looking away, they quietly do the damage."
#StayStrong #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansDidThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
I think it was Russell Vought who said that Trumps second term would bring with it a so called “second American Revolution”. But that’s the greatest misnomer ever. Not only because it’s not the American Revolution he is referring to by second, that would the Civil War, but also that it is in fact a revolution at all! What we are seeing is effectively a counterrevolution aimed at undoing the social progress gained from the Civil War and the civil rights and feminist movements. Claiming that this is a “second American Revolution” is just sneaky way, (that only fools nazi pedo cult member foot soldiers) that they are engaged in a just social upheaval.
Social revolutions are progressive by their very nature. Counterrevolutions are regressive by their vary nature. Nice try Russell! #UsPol
Report: More than 50,000 western nationals serve in Israel’s army in the Gaza genocide.
"Personnel carrying passports from the US [12,000+], Russia, France, UK, Germany, Ukraine & Canada are the largest groups.
#USPol #EUPol #CdnPoli #France #GazaGenocide #IDF #news #Palestine #Racism .
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Dual nationals in IDF
Putin’s Puppet the Pedophile, two of his current Cabinet secretaries, his former strategist, his biggest donor, and his pending Fed Chair nominee are all in the files of a pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring, while the attorney general and a former Cabinet secretary let him get away with it.
#epstein #EpsteinFiles #epsteinclass #epsteinlist #jeffreyepstein #trump #uspol
You ain't seen nothing yet! Strap in!
Regretful Trump voters say their lives are 'getting worse by the day'
https://www.alternet.org/trump-voters-regret/
#TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansDidThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
"Democracy has disappeared in several other great nations, not because the people of those nations disliked democracy, but because they had grown tired of unemployment and insecurity, of seeing their children hungry while they sat helpless in the face of government confusion and government weakness through lack of leadership in government. Finally, in desperation, they chose to sacrifice liberty in the hope of getting something to eat."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1938.
(For historical context, Germany invaded Poland one year later in 1939.)
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/fireside-chat-15
Bad Bunny Joins Pro-Immigrant Protests
https://world-outlook.com/2026/02/13/bad-bunny-joins-pro-immigrant-protests/
from #WorldOutlook
February 13, 2026
“Before I say thanks to God, I’m gonna say: ICE out!” proclaimed trap and reggaeton artist Bad Bunny on February 1, while accepting the Grammy award for best urban music album.
The crowd inside the show, which took place in LA, overwhelmingly responded with cheers.
“We’re not savage, we’re not animals, we’re not aliens,” he added. “We are humans and we are Americans.”
The #Grammy ceremony and #BadBunny’s anti-#ICE statement came in the context of the #Trump administration’s brutal crackdown against immigrant workers, with hundreds of thousands of people arrested and deported in the last year, often violently.
Bad Bunny, one of the most well-known and awarded #US musicians today, repeated his pro-#immigrant message a week later at the #SuperBowl halftime show, without making an explicit political statement as he did in the Grammys.
Republicans are the enemy of democracy.
"When Kansas did a version of the SAVE Act, it purged around 40 ineligible voters - and stopped 31,000 legal citizens from registering to vote (12% of all applicants). That's 775 legal voters lost for every 1 ineligible voter.” -- Jessica Riedl with Brookings Institute
The Woman #AlexPretti Was Killed Trying to Defend Is an EMT. Federal Agents Stopped Her From Giving First Aid.
“I was literally begging the agent who was holding me back to let me do CPR,” she told The Intercept in an exclusive interview.
C. Frances, February 13 2026
Excerpts: "One of the women involved in the confrontation, who was the closest civilian to Pretti when he was killed, said that in the immediate aftermath of the shooting she identified herself as an emergency medical technician and moved to perform CPR. Federal agents restrained her, said the woman, who requested anonymity for fear of retribution by the government.
[...]
"Government agencies have an obligation to give basic health care to people that they have arrested or detained, according to to Xavier de Janon, the director of mass defense at the National Lawyers Guild."
https://theintercept.com/2026/02/13/alex-pretti-first-aid-emt-federal-agents/
#USPol #DefundICE #AbolishICE #DefundDHS #AbolishCBP #BorderPatrol #MurderPatrol #ICESucks
#Video - Why a Grammy Winner Says You Can’t Understand Jazz Without Cuba
https://peertube.world/w/3sepoddXTodz5pPfwDAGZg
[from the #news collective #bellyofthebeast]
Arturo O’Farrill is a #Grammy-winning pianist, composer and one of the most influential voices in #AfroCubanJazz. But for him, #Cuba is more than just an inspiration — it’s home, history and identity.
In #Havana, during the 41st International #Jazz Plaza Festival, Arturo told us why #jazz cannot be understood without Cuba, why #AfroCuban roots remain central to the music’s evolution, and why #cultural exchange persists despite the #US’s decades-long economic war on Cuba.
Arturo has been returning to Cuba year after year for over two decades, honoring his heritage, and using #music as a bridge between Cuban and US citizens - despite the personal cost of taking political positions.
“This is Cuba,” he says. “I come here to learn how to live.”
#OilForCuba!
#EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
#DizzyGillespie #LatinJazz #culture #LatinAmerica #USpol
Fallout🚨from IMM raids in MPLS:
"One month. $203M in impact. 1000s of MPLS families hurting.
In just 30 days,💔Op Metro Surge has resulted in:
• $47M in lost wages
• $81M in small bus losses
• 76,200 ppl facing food insecurity
• 8,700+ children needing mental health support.
MPLS taxpayers🚨shouldn't be left to foot the bill *created by the fed govt."
-Mayor Frey
"A prelim city study found 1 in 5 MPLS residents: now in urgent need of food asst.
#ICE #DHS #Protest #USPol
https://www.startribune.com/economic-impact-ice-immigration-surge-minneapolis/601581894
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Pic of Mayor J Frey:
What to know about Homeland Security shutdown starting this weekend
By Meg Kinnard
"Only agencies under the DHS umbrella, such as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Transportation Security Administration, are affected. Depending on how long the shutdown lasts, some federal workers could begin to miss paychecks." GOOD!
https://apnews.com/article/homeland-security-shutdown-ice-funding-7bf62bc50ca0a6a6013a714bee2ffdb4
#ICEOutForGood #DefundICE #DefundDHS #DefundCBP #AbolishICE #USPol #BorderPatrol #MurderPatrol #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity
Hedging their bets on Trump surviving?
Interview: "The tech oligarchs behind Trump are also working to co-opt the Democratic Party."
Palantir is trying to "buy the California governor’s office by funding the candidacy of San José Mayor Matt Mahan, a right-leaning Democrat whose supporters include Trump-loving Palantir billionaire Joe Lonsdale."
https://www.thenerdreich.com/nerd-reich-comes-for-california/
#USPol #EUPol #California #BigTech #cdnPoli #Palantir #Thiel #JoeLonsdale .
#JanetMills Is Flopping in the Fight for Maine Senate
New FEC data from the Maine governor's #Senate campaign show waning voter enthusiasm.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/janet-mills-maine-senate-fec-million-dollars-small-donors
from #DropSiteNews
Nathan Bernard and Ryan Grim
Feb 13, 2026
Despite sub-zero conditions, the crowd gathered for the state’s first large-scale #ICE protest, an “ICE THEM OUT” rally. That week, masked federal agents launched “Operation Catch of the Day,” a mass #deportation campaign aimed at the nearly 6,000 #Somalis who live in #Maine. By operation’s end, the administration claimed to arrest over 200 “#immigrant offenders.” Many of these Mainers are now being held at a Massachusetts facility attorneys found to have “inhumane” conditions.
The Lewiston event featured many of the state’s prominent #Democratic politicians.
Gov. Mills was notably absent.
“Governor Mills did not reach out to me, or to the organizing team ahead of the January 24 rally"...said Safiya Khalid.