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Al Letson asks Jason Stanley if the US is living through a coup under Trump. Stanley replies:
"Let’s look at what’s happening with the boats that they’re blowing up and now in the Pacific, first in the Caribbean, now in the Pacific, they’re just simply assassinating people for no reason whatsoever. It’s completely illegal. In fact, what it now means is that Trump could just kill anyone anywhere just by saying they’re a terrorist."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/jason-stanley-fascism-trump-history/
POST-ELECTION ECONOMIC NEWS:
ADP's latest private-sector jobs report was released this morning, and the numbers help explain why voters are so worried about the economy and why they went so heavily Democratic last night.
Job growth has collapsed under Trump's tariffs.
For those of you who believe the democrat-peddled 👉FICTION👈 that #trump is responsible for the emergence of an American #PoliceState, a free ebook and white paper. Check the COIN hashtag at the tumblr link for ALOT more.
https://auntieimperial.tumblr.com/post/48201197473
Via Emptywheel:
I hope someone (and McBath would be perfect) mentions how the GOP response to Trump being shot by an assault rifle is to suggest Trump's failed assassination is more important than all the children actually killed by #GunViolence, which #Trump said to just get over.
Greg Bluestein:
Georgia’s Lucy McBath lands prime speaking role on DNC’s final night
Only a snapshot, ignore polls but enjoy the good press.
VOTE. #DoSomething
NYT—Kamala #Harris has overtaken Donald #Trump across the seven states likeliest to decide the presidency, erasing a five-point lead Trump had in May, New York Times/Siena College battleground polls show.
“Abba have demanded that #Trump stop using their music after he played several of their songs & used footage of the group at a campaign rally alongside messages urging supports to donate..
The Republican presidential candidate played hits including Money, Money, Money, The Winner Takes It All and Dancing Queen at his event in St Cloud, Minnesota, the US state with the highest Swedish population, on Tuesday, the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet reported.”
"#Fux, your biography is now just your vote on the coup. You are the only one who betrayed, who surrendered, who encouraged #Trump to impose more #tariffs, who extended for a few more years the political instability that has already done so much harm to the country, who strengthened the fascists within the Brazilian right."
#FuxLied
https://web.archive.org/web/20250911010257/https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/celso-rocha-de-barros/2025/09/fux-mentiu.shtml
Department of #Energy officials to meet with White House to tamp down Trump’s idiotic idea of explosive nuclear testing
Top energy & #nuclear officials in the #Trump administration are planning to meet with the White House & #NationalSecurity Council in the coming days to dissuade Trump from resuming testing of the nation’s #NuclearWeapons, sources told CNN.
Rep #EricSwalwell (D-CA), one of Trump’s most vocal critics in the #House, said Thurs that he was being targeted by the #Trump admin after news reports that he had been referred to the #DON for a potential #criminal investigation.
An accusation that Swalwell had committed #mortgage & #tax #fraud was made on Wednesday by #BillPulte, director of the #FHFA. Pulte, a Trump crony, has made similar allegations against Trump’s other perceived enemies.
#law #RevengePolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/us/politics/trump-mortgage-fraud-eric-swalwell.html?smid=url-share
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
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Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arrested in a Chicago raid are telling their stories.
https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-venezuela-immigration-ice-fbi-raids-no-criminal-charges?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Chicago #ICE #Immigration #FBI #Venezuela #Immigrants #Trump
#Illinois Gov #JBPritzker says he’s worried how #Trump might respond to the growing controversy over his ties to #Epstein.
“My great fear, of course, is that with the release of that information, which I think will be devastating for Trump, he’s going to do everything in his power to distract. What does that mean? I mean, he might take us to #war with #Venezuela just to get a distraction in the news & take it out of the headlines.”
[we’re all worried about that JB]
https://apnews.com/article/pritzker-trump-reaction-epstein-files-distraction-280eb69c80aee902b3ed6d712c79f332
#Trump to propose opening #California Coast to #oil #drilling for the first time in roughly 4 decades, acc/to 3 people.
The move would set up a confrontation with Gov #GavinNewsom, a #Democrat who has fought #OffshoreDrilling & who has emerged as one of Trump’s chief political antagonists. Newsom is in Brazil for the #UN #climate summit, where he is drawing a contrast between himself & Trump, who denigrates efforts to fight #GlobalWarming.
#law #ClimateChange
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/climate/offshore-drilling-california-trump-newsom.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
This first excerpt in the thread is long. My apologies for that. What J. Filipovic has to say here seems so important that it's hard to choose short pieces to share:
"The Trump administration is a regime of restoring male power. That includes being a pedophile protection racket covering for men who sexually abuse girls."
~ Jill Filipovic
#Trump #DirtyDonald #Epstein #GhislaineMaxwell #VirginiaGiuffre #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #SexualAbuse #misogyny
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1-yr-old pepper-sprayed by federal agent in #Chicago
Video shows federal agents spraying chemical irritants from a moving vehicle at a line of cars waiting to leave a Cicero Sam’s Club Saturday morning. The action obviously violates a judge’s restriction on use of force.
#Trump #law #immigration #judiciary #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #fascism #MafiaState #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #WhiteSupremacy
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/11/09/1-year-old-pepper-sprayed-by-federal-agent-in-cicero
“The group White Dudes for #Harris rolled out a new $10 million ad campaign on Thursday, with the first ad of the effort targeting white men in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
The over one-minute-long spot addresses #Trump’s grip on the white male vote but works to appeal to voters in the bloc who are disillusioned with him and his campaign.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4888155-white-dudes-harris-ad-campaign/
Racists be racist, gotta appeal to fellow racists.
Via Rupar:
beyond parody -- #Trump begins his event in #NorthCarolina by vowing to restore Confederate names to renamed military facilities
#Trump admin to fire worker for TV interview about #SNAP
The employee warned that the #shutdown could have negative impacts on the millions of Americans who rely on the #FederalGovernment to put #food on the table.
#censorship #authoritarianism #dictatorship #law #labor #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/11/13/usda-worker-snap-benefits-interview/
The #Trump admin has developed plans for a shift in #homelessness #policy that would slash support for long-term housing programs…& critics say it could place as many as 170k formerly #homeless people at risk of returning to the streets.
Pivoting from #housing #aid, the approach would shift billions to short-term programs that impose work rules, help #police dismantle #encampments, & require [force] the #unhoused to accept treatment for mental health or addiction.
#law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/us/politics/trump-homeless-funding.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
Via Rupar:
#NancyMace on Fox News says she's voting for #Trump because "as a woman, I want to vote for someone who will protect women like me who are survivors of rape" (Trump is an adjudicated rapist)
Venezuelan #military preparing #guerrilla response in case of #US attack
#Venezuela is deploying #weapons, including decades-old Russian-made equipment, & is planning to mount a guerrilla-style resistance or sow chaos in the event of a US air or ground attack, according to sources with knowledge of the efforts & planning documents seen by Reuters.
#Trump #law #WarPowers #Congress #SeparationOfPowers #InternationalLaw #LawOfArmedConflict #authoritarianism #autocracy
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/venezuelan-military-preparing-guerrilla-response-case-us-attack-2025-11-11/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
Via Katie Phang:
If you're disheartened at today's delay in #Trump's sentencing, let's be clear at whose doorstep lies the blame:
The conservative majority of the #SCOTUS and its terrible decision on presidential immunity.
➡️Consider the possibility of at least TWO new SCOTUS appointments for the next President of the United States.
When you go to vote in November, think about who you want to be making those appointments.
#Trump using Dolly Parton's "Jolene" today in Michigan.
Don't fuck with Dolly Parton.
Period.
Lawyers on line 1...
Authorities investigating ex-Trump prosecutor #JackSmith for alleged *illegal* political activity
Federal officials have opened an investigation into Jack Smith, the fmr special counsel who investigated #Trump for illegal retention of #ClassifiedDocuments & for a #SeditiousConspiracy to steal the 2020 election.
#law #RevengePolitics #TrumpLies #WeaponizationOfGovernment
https://apnews.com/article/trump-jack-smith-investigate-cotton-special-counsel-f32b39962d7aee1cb87f71ea9fde13f5?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-08-02-Breaking+News
“The altercation came moments after #Trump criticized major media outlets for what he said was unfavorable coverage”
Then, as the cops hailed him out Trump said, “is there anywhere that’s more fun to be than a Trump rally?”
https://apnews.com/article/trump-rally-arrest-taser-media-68fe78b79ae65556c4efc850e142998c
#fascism #Election2024