anyway. many people don't know yet or don't want to hear it, but the next weeks will decide the fate of the global economy, the US and the middle east all at once. trump has broken something important, a physical thing, not politically.
trump
After the events of Jan. 6, 2021, we sifted through thousands of videos taken by Parler users during the riot at the Capitol.
Then we created an interactive database that lets you sort through the footage.
See the full collection here: https://projects.propublica.org/parler-capitol-videos/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
So what are the odds that #Trump's decapitation of the #Venezuela government becomes as much of a fiasco as Bush's misadventure in Iraq? I rate the chances at about 99%.
"Trump's airbrushed version of Jan 6 distorts history. See the evidence for yourself. "
NPR does a great job sharing details -
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/04/g-s1-102891/jan-6-archive
@NPR #uspol #jan6 #history #democracy #trump #freedom #liberty #washingtondc #law #ruleoflaw #fascism #antifa
"Trump Says U.S. Will 'Run' Venezuela During Transition" (headline*)
America First.
#USA #US #USpol #trump #Venezuela #MyThoughts 🍟
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NEW: Brig. Gen. Eric Widmar, senior legal adviser to the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he is retiring “for personal reasons.”
His is the latest high-profile departure among the military’s top leaders and lawyers in the Trump administration. https://www.propublica.org/article/eric-widmar-retiring-joint-chiefs-legal-adviser?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
The phrase describing this behavior is "state terror". It is not "enforcement" or "operations". This is inexcusable.
ICE agents shatter window, leave 1-month-old baby, mother in car after Portland arrest
#maine #ICE #ICEOut #Trump #USPol #StateTerror
ICE agents shatter window, leave 1-month-old baby, mother in car after Portland arrest
Video shows federal immigration agents leaving behind an infant and broken glass after detaining a Guinean immigrant with no known criminal history.
#maine #ICE #ICEOut #Trump #USPol #StateTerror
Edited 232d ago
Ahead of the FBI’s raid of an election center in Georgia, the prosecutor overseeing the investigation met with several Trump lawyers, including Ed Martin and Kurt Olsen, who helped the president try to overturn the 2020 election.
https://www.propublica.org/article/thomas-albus-fulton-county-georgia-election-records?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #FBI #Georgia #Election #Vote #Missouri #USPolitics #Law #Trump
The government does not track how often immigration agents hold Americans. So ProPublica did.
We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#ICE Is Cracking Down on #Chicago.
Chicagoans Are Fighting Back.
Residents have begun forming volunteer groups to monitor their neighborhoods for federal #immigration agents. Others honk their horns or blow whistles when they see agents nearby.
#Trump #law #Rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #AbuseOfPower #fascism #Tyranny #MafiaState #PoliceBrutality #MilitaryState #CBP #Gestapo #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/us/chicago-ice-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that insiders say they feel like “he is the commander in chief.”
THIS is the response #Trump should be getting from ALL (cc: Hillary Clinton and others🤬) NOT effin praise
Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way and overwhelmed challenges to their arrests.
It's a know your enemy sort of thing to say, no, #Trump is not a king. He's a stupid brand. And recent events just highlight that as he slapped his name on the #Gaza agreement.
I keep thinking of the Trump brand of wine.
Trump didn't make that wine. I doubt he knows how wine is even made at all. He's notorious for not drinking, so how would he even know if the wine is good or bad? He doesn't know anything about it, he just slapped his brand on it.
To counter Trump it's foolish to approach him as a king. In fact that might might make things worse because it brings more attention to his brand.
The #nokings stuff is foolish because it misses what's going on here. And it will serve to actually embolden and strengthen Trump.
Know your enemy. He's not a king, he's not that smart, he's just a brand hopping from issue to issue the same way he hops from crappy wine to crappy steaks.
Russell Vought is the architect of President Trump’s broader plan to fire civil servants, freeze government programs and dismantle entire agencies. Here are some key things to know about the D.C. insider who wants to take a hatchet to the federal government.
"Don't Wanna Be Called #nazi Don't Do Nazi Sh*t"
https://www.blueamp.co/p/young-republicans-and-congressman
"These Young Rs are 'no one swiped right' in human form
And what's w 'young' for #MAGA lasting til minoxidil's a thing? Hell, they prob had their 1st #crypto scams a decade+ ago" #news #politics #fascist #tech #media #press ##youngrepublicans #trump #ai #donaldtrump #eu #tv
Elon Musk was the face of DOGE, but records show that Russ Vought, Trump’s budget chief, played a key role in guiding DOGE behind the scenes.
Tomorrow at 6 p.m. ET, head to Reddit to ask our reporter Andy Kroll about Vought’s influence over the Trump presidency: https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1o8zj92/im_andy_kroll_a_propublica_reporter_i_just/
#RussellVought #Trump #ElonMusk #DOGE #WhiteHouse #Government #USPolitics #Reddit
January 3, 2026 - Scenes of protest from around the world against the #US #attack on #Venezuela, and against US-#imperialism. [video]
#deathamerica #venezuela #usa #usimperialism #antiimperialism #trump #fire #flagburning #americanflag #video #2025 #embassy #2026 #solidarity #flashing #委内瑞拉
Oklahoma’s social studies standards, written with the help of the right-wing group behind Project 2025, now include roughly 40 points about Christianity that students should learn as well as skepticism about the 2020 election and COVID-19’s origins.
#News #Oklahoma #Trump #Education #Teaching #School #GOP #Project2025
"Trump is clearly getting worse, growing even more out of touch with each passing week. Regardless of whether it’s advancing age or growing frustration, even Trump, I think, realizes that his efforts to suppress all opposition are running into serious resistance."
~ Paul Krugman
#Trump #MentalDecline #dementia #rage #dissociation #fascism #NoKings #ShitShow
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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/donald-trump-has-lost-touch-with
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"What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places — and there are so many — where people have behaved magnificently, it energizes us to act, and raises at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."
— Howard Zinn
Full text: https://www.howardzinn.org/collection/a-marvelous-victory/
#HowardZinn #Resist #Protest #USPol #Democracy #Trump #GOP #Musk #DOGE #ICE #Antifa #Vote
Over 10,000 World Cup tickets have been cancelled by overseas fans after ICE murdered innocent woman in Minneapolis.
Whether it's out of fear, or solidarity with U.S. residents, or both, this is what is needed to bring down fascism. Mass boycotts. General Strikes. Civil Disobedience. Direct Action.
Be ungovernable!
#worldcup #fifa #trump #ice #immigration #fascism #generalstrike
Today, Congressional Democrats are spotlighting a particularly troubling part of Trump's immigration dragnet: the American kids — including some featured in ProPublica's reporting — who have been collateral damage in the deportation campaign.
https://www.propublica.org/article/american-kids-detained-trump-immigration-deportation-democrats-investigation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Democrats #Immigration #Congress #Children #Immigrants #Deportation #Trump #ICE #DHS