"In short, nobody knows what is going on out there in the Everglades. ...
Even with as little as we are being told, we know what is going on. They have built an American concentration camp in Florida. It is evidence of fascism, and it must stop."
~ Lucian K. Truscott
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #MaskedThugs #ConcentrationCamps #AlligatorAlcatraz #immigrants #deportations #cruelty #fascism
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https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/its-official-our-country-now-has
FBI agents were told to ‘flag’ any Epstein records that mentioned Trump, Sen. Durbin says
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/18/trump-epstein-fbi-durbin.html
#Trump’s National Guard #Troops Are Questioning Their Mission in #LA.
Thousands of #NationalGuard members have served in the #LosAngeles region since last month. 6 #soldiers spoke in interviews about low morale over the deployment.
#law #Constitution #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfAssembly #domestic #military #deployment #PosseComitatusAct
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/us/trump-national-guard-california.html?unlocked_article_code=1.XU8.DHg3.DiDSwciqqUpD&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#Corruption in plain sight
The #DOJ on Friday fired at least 3 prosecutors involved in #Jan6 #criminal cases, the latest moves by the #Trump admin targeting attys connected to the massive prosecution of the Jan 6, 2021, #insurrection…
Those dismissed include 2 attorneys who worked as supervisors overseeing Jan6 prosecutions in the #USattorney’s office in #DC as well as a line atty who prosecuted cases stemming from the insurrection…
#law #PoliticalViolence #MafiaState
https://apnews.com/article/jan-6-prosecutions-capitol-riot-trump-bondi-1107441a68cef171dfff4e680e438452?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-06-27-Breaking+News
In the time before widespread #vaccination, #death often came early.
Devastating infectious diseases ran rampant in America, killing millions of #children & leaving others w/lifelong #health problems. These illnesses were the main reason why nearly 1 in 5 children in 1900 never made it to their 5th birthday.
#Trump #RFKJr #PublicHealth #USpol #policy #science #medicine #vaccines #ConspiracyTheories #AntiVax #eugenics
https://apnews.com/article/vaccines-measles-polio-whooping-cough-rubella-af4cd1aef8f408a960601df6372f9c32?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-06-28-Lessons+unlearned
US Senate confirms Fox TV host Jeanine Pirro for post of U.S. Attorney for DC
“The Senate voted 50-45 to confirm former Fox host Jeanine #Pirro as the United States Attorney for Washington D.C.
The vote was 50-45 along party lines.
Senators Ruben Gallego, Mitch McConnell, Peter Welch, and Roger Wicker did not vote.” #Trump
Took the effort to cut the "#Trump endorsement" 😆 from the recent South Park episode
#Trump Promised to ‘Drill, Baby, Drill.’
The New Rigs Are Nowhere to Be Found
“There is one key indicator of drilling levels that the industry has watched closely for more than 80 years: a weekly census of active oil and gas rigs published by Baker Hughes.
When Trump came into office on Jan 20, the US rig count was 580.
Last week, it was down to 542, hovering just above a four-year low.”
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-promised-to-drill-baby-drill-the-new-rigs-are-nowhere-to-be-found/
A federal judge appeared deeply skeptical on Monday of the #Trump admin’s efforts to strip #HarvardUniversity of billions of dollars in #research #funding, suggesting the school might prevail in its #legal battle against the admin.
Judge Allison D. Burroughs did not issue a ruling…, but she did seem receptive to #Harvard’s arguments, as both the #school & the #DOJ sought to have the case decided in their favor without a trial.
#law #Constitution #DueProcess #AbuseOfPower
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/us/trump-administration-harvard-hearing.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#Trump's …powers as a public figure have long included the ability to redirect, evade & deny.
But his well-worn methods of changing the subject when a tough topic stings politically are not working as his admin fends off persistent unrest from his usually loyal base about… #JeffreyEpstein & his associates.
#Trump has scolded reporters, claimed ignorance & offered distractions in an effort to quash questions about Epstein & suspicions around the financier's case….
Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Free Press, commenting wryly on, well, who we Americans (many of us) have chosen to be at this point in history — what we've chosen to be remembered for.
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #deportations #BirthrightCitizenship #MaskedThugs
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/6/28/2330522/-Cartoon-Papers-please
Because of course.
The star witness against #KilmarAbregoGarcía was due to be deported. Now he’s being freed.
Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes is a three-time #felon who has been released early from federal #prison to a halfway house in exchange for his *cooperation* in the case.
The #Trump admin has, for the first time ever, built a searchable national #citizenship #data system.
The tool, which is being rolled out in phases, is designed to be used by state & local election officials [sure] to give them an easier way to ensure only citizens are voting. But it was developed rapidly without a public process, & some are already worrying about what else it could be used for.
NPR is the first to report….
#surveillance #law #privacy
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/29/nx-s1-5409608/citizenship-trump-privacy-voting-database
One former senior official called it “mind-boggling” that the Drug Enforcement Administration is “just getting orders saying, ‘This is what Stephen Miller wants and you’ve got to give it to us.’”
#News #Trump #WhiteHouse #Crime #Drugs #DHS #FBI #StephenMiller
Microsoft admits it 'cannot guarantee' data #sovereignty - https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/microsoft_admits_it_cannot_guarantee/ "Under oath in French Senate, exec says it would be compelled – however unlikely – to pass local customer info to US admin" and there we have it... #trump
#Trump makes no secret of his displeasure over the cost of renovating the #FederalReserve headquarters — around $2.5 billion, or even higher by Trump’s *accounting*.
But getting the White House to discuss another of Washington’s expensive renovation projects, the cost of refurbishing a “free” #AirForceOne from #Qatar, is quite another matter.
Officially, & conveniently, the price tag has been classified.
#hypocrisy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/us/politics/air-force-one-trump-cost.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
"Can you believe it has been over a year since the conservatives on the Supreme Court invented a very special immunity for a very special president?
It’s arguably the worst decision to come out of the Roberts Court, which is saying something. And it isn’t a reach to say that if there had been no immunity decision, there likely would be no Donald Trump second term."
~ Liz Needham
#Trump #SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #immunity #RuleofLaw #corruption
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https://www.publicnotice.co/p/scotus-immunity-decision-trump-treason-obama
The changes made to #Trump’s big tax bill in the #Senate would pile trillions onto the nation’s #debt load while resulting in even steeper losses in #healthcare #coverage, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said in a new analysis, adding to the challenges for #Republicans as they try to muscle the bill to passage.
Susan Niemann on her discovery that she descends from a woman hanged for witchcraft during the Salem witch trials:
"The Salem Witch Trials serve as another example of America’s heinous treatment of the poor, the power of religious superstition and extremism, the mass hysteria religion can gin up, and the dangers of intolerance."
#NewEngland #witches #women #Trump #MAGA #Republicans #Christofascism
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https://adchick.substack.com/p/they-hung-grandma-margaret-in-salem
"Far from public view, the toll of the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration is unfolding in overcrowded detention facilities across the country.
Some immigrants have gone a week or more without showers. Others sleep pressed tightly together on bare floors. Medications for diabetes, high blood pressure and other chronic health problems are often going unprovided."
~ Miriam Jordan and Jazmine Ulloa
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #cruelty
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/us/immigrant-detention-conditions.html
Hey everyone,
In regards to ICE agents masking:
The upper partials of someone’s speaking voice are like a fingerprint. If you want to save evidence for future prosecution, record their voices.
(I am a professional who works in music and sound.)
#politics #uspol #uspolitics #ICE #corruption #trump #rights #MaskedThugs #CivilRights #justice
Trump Administration Looking to Slash Environmental Protection Rules for Rocket Launches
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A draft executive order viewed by ProPublica directs the secretary of transportation to “use all available authorities to eliminate or expedite” environmental reviews for launch licenses — a change Elon Musk’s SpaceX and others have long sought.
#News #Environment #Aviation #SpaceX #Space #ElonMusk #Regulation #Trump
Ouch. #Trump #tariffs take a $1 billion bite out of #GM earnings
#GeneralMotors' second-quarter core profit fell 32% to $3 billion on Tuesday, as the automaker continued to confront challenging #tariff policies, which it said sapped $1.1 billion from the results.
#economy #inflation #recession
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/trump-tariffs-take-1-billion-bite-out-gm-earnings-2025-07-22/
Daily Beast:
Gabbard Is Lying About Obama and Russian Intel: Top CIA Officer
“The director of national intelligence and the White House are lying again,” said CIA veteran Susan Miller. “We definitely had the intel to show with high probability that the specific goal of the Russians was to get Trump elected..."
After the assessment, “We could determine that, 100 percent, the Russians were trying to influence the election..."
https://www.thedailybeast.com/mueller-report-author-shreds-tulsis-obama-conspiracy-claims/
