<p><a href="/tags/giftarticle/" rel="tag">#GiftArticle</a></p><p><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> solicited the damn thing, so—not a freaking gift at all. </p><p>The Inside Story of Trump’s Search for a New <a href="/tags/airforceone/" rel="tag">#AirForceOne</a></p><p><a href="/tags/qatar/" rel="tag">#Qatar</a> had been trying to sell off a luxury jet for years, with no luck. Then Trump’s team set its sights on it.</p><p><a href="/tags/factcheck/" rel="tag">#FactCheck</a> <a href="/tags/trumplies/" rel="tag">#TrumpLies</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/emoluments/" rel="tag">#emoluments</a> <a href="/tags/corruption/" rel="tag">#corruption</a> <a href="/tags/nationalsecurity/" rel="tag">#NationalSecurity</a> <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/us/politics/trump-air-force-one-qatar-jet.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ik8.kIs0.LGc-fUJ-F_4u&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/us/politics/trump-air-force-one-qatar-jet.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ik8.kIs0.LGc-fUJ-F_4u&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/us/</span><span class="invisible">politics/trump-air-force-one-qatar-jet.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ik8.kIs0.LGc-fUJ-F_4u&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare</span></a></p>
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<p>“ <a href="/tags/scotus/" rel="tag">#SCOTUS</a> allows <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> to revoke protected status for thousands of Venezuelans</p><p>As part of the Trump administration's hardline immigration policy, it seeks to revrse a Biden-era policy that extended protections for more than 300,000 Venezuelans.”</p><p>2/ Via Mark Joseph Stern:</p><p>Only Justice Jackson notes her dissent.</p><p>1/...<br> <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-allows-trump-revoke-protected-status-thousands-venezuela-rcna205657" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-allows-trump-revoke-protected-status-thousands-venezuela-rcna205657"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nbcnews.com/politics/supre</span><span class="invisible">me-court/supreme-court-allows-trump-revoke-protected-status-thousands-venezuela-rcna205657</span></a></p>
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<p><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> alleges 'genocide' in <a href="/tags/southafrica/" rel="tag">#SouthAfrica</a>. <a href="/tags/white/" rel="tag">#White</a> Afrikaner farmers reject that</p><p>Days before South Africa’s president meets w/ Trump at the White House, <a href="/tags/afrikaner/" rel="tag">#Afrikaner</a> <a href="/tags/farmers/" rel="tag">#farmers</a> at the center of an extraordinary new <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#US</a> <a href="/tags/refugee/" rel="tag">#refugee</a> policy roamed a memorial to farm attacks in their country’s agricultural heartland, some touching the names of the dead — both <a href="/tags/black/" rel="tag">#Black</a> & white.</p><p><a href="/tags/factcheck/" rel="tag">#FactCheck</a> <a href="/tags/trumplies/" rel="tag">#TrumpLies</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#immigration</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <br><a href="https://apnews.com/article/south-africa-afrikaners-trump-refugees-ramaphosa-c87264523d555a64c0588d8734bba83a" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="apnews.com/article/south-africa-afrikaners-trump-refugees-ramaphosa-c87264523d555a64c0588d8734bba83a"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/south-afric</span><span class="invisible">a-afrikaners-trump-refugees-ramaphosa-c87264523d555a64c0588d8734bba83a</span></a></p>
<p>😳“The <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> administration has devised plans to spend up to $250 million earmarked for foreign assistance to fund instead the removal and return of people from active conflict zones, including 700,000 Ukrainian and Haitian migrants who fled to the United States amid extreme, ongoing violence back home”<br> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/05/20/trump-deporations-ukrainians-haitians/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/05/20/trump-deporations-ukrainians-haitians/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.washingtonpost.com/nationa</span><span class="invisible">l-security/2025/05/20/trump-deporations-ukrainians-haitians/</span></a></p>
<p>If Will Bunch wrote it, you should read it.©</p><p><br>"You'll be shocked to learn that mainstream media, amid its frenzied coverage of that <a href="/tags/biden/" rel="tag">#Biden</a> book and <a href="/tags/cancer/" rel="tag">#cancer</a> diagnosis, is missing the story that matters most to Americans </p><p>A vengeful <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> has shot down Biden's cancer 'moonshot,' with funding down 31%." </p><p><a href="https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/attytood/cancer-research-cuts-trump-biden-gallego-slotkin-cryptocurrency-20250520.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.inquirer.com/columnists/attytood/cancer-research-cuts-trump-biden-gallego-slotkin-cryptocurrency-20250520.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.inquirer.com/columnists/at</span><span class="invisible">tytood/cancer-research-cuts-trump-biden-gallego-slotkin-cryptocurrency-20250520.html</span></a></p>
<p>"For those of us who remain horrified by its actions, the White House is hoping we ultimately treat it like we now do mass shootings. That is to say, the administration hopes it becomes so commonplace that we hear about it, shake our heads in resigned hopelessness, and begin to accept it as inevitable."</p><p>~ Jay Kuo</p><p><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/republicans/" rel="tag">#Republicans</a> <a href="/tags/fascism/" rel="tag">#fascism</a> <a href="/tags/cruelty/" rel="tag">#cruelty</a> <br>/1</p><p><a href="https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/trump-administration-cruelty-goal" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/trump-administration-cruelty-goal"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p</span><span class="invisible">/trump-administration-cruelty-goal</span></a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/americanautocracy/" rel="tag">#AmericanAutocracy</a></p><p><a href="/tags/giftariticle/" rel="tag">#GiftAriticle</a></p><p><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a>’s Newest Crackdown on <a href="/tags/dissent/" rel="tag">#Dissent</a></p><p>[BS] Assault charges against a <a href="/tags/democratic/" rel="tag">#Democratic</a> member of <a href="/tags/congress/" rel="tag">#Congress</a> look more like <a href="/tags/intimidation/" rel="tag">#intimidation</a> than <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> enforcement.</p><p><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/authoritarianism/" rel="tag">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="/tags/autocracy/" rel="tag">#autocracy</a> <a href="/tags/tyranny/" rel="tag">#tyranny</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/democracy/" rel="tag">#democracy</a> <a href="/tags/unitedstates/" rel="tag">#UnitedStates</a> <a href="/tags/constitution/" rel="tag">#Constitution</a> <a href="/tags/slouchingtowardsbethlehem/" rel="tag">#SlouchingTowardsBethlehem</a> <br><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/05/lamonica-mciver-charged-justice-department/682864/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxX9kdA2YiTSgORe70HZMPrU&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/05/lamonica-mciver-charged-justice-department/682864/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxX9kdA2YiTSgORe70HZMPrU&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theatlantic.com/newsletter</span><span class="invisible">s/archive/2025/05/lamonica-mciver-charged-justice-department/682864/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxX9kdA2YiTSgORe70HZMPrU&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share</span></a></p>
<p>Keep 'em coming</p><p>Via Kyle Cheney: </p><p>JUST IN: A federal judge has blocked the <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> administration from removing medical research papers from an HHS database over references to transgender people. </p><p>It is unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination, he rules. </p><p><a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.281890/gov.uscourts.mad.281890.43.0.pdf" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.281890/gov.uscourts.mad.281890.43.0.pdf"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">storage.courtlistener.com/reca</span><span class="invisible">p/gov.uscourts.mad.281890/gov.uscourts.mad.281890.43.0.pdf</span></a></p>
<p>This is crazy.</p><p><a href="/tags/dhs/" rel="tag">#DHS</a> agents invade a congressman's offices & <a href="/tags/arrest/" rel="tag">#arrest</a> a staffer who tried to stop them.</p><p>In a dramatic incident captured on video, DHS police Wednesday handcuffed one of Rep <a href="/tags/jerrynadler/" rel="tag">#JerryNadler</a>’s aides in his Manhattan office, which is in the same federal office building as an <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#immigration</a> <a href="/tags/courthouse/" rel="tag">#courthouse</a>.</p><p><a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/abuseofpower/" rel="tag">#AbuseOfPower</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/gestapo/" rel="tag">#Gestapo</a> <br><a href="https://gothamist.com/news/homeland-security-cops-handcuff-one-of-rep-nadlers-aides-in-chaotic-day-at-ny-fed-building" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="gothamist.com/news/homeland-security-cops-handcuff-one-of-rep-nadlers-aides-in-chaotic-day-at-ny-fed-building"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gothamist.com/news/homeland-se</span><span class="invisible">curity-cops-handcuff-one-of-rep-nadlers-aides-in-chaotic-day-at-ny-fed-building</span></a></p>
<p>👎🏻“Karol Nawrocki, a nationalist who was endorsed by <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a>, will be <a href="/tags/poland/" rel="tag">#Poland</a> ’s next president.” <br> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/world/europe/poland-president-who-is-karol-nawrocki.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/world/europe/poland-president-who-is-karol-nawrocki.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/wor</span><span class="invisible">ld/europe/poland-president-who-is-karol-nawrocki.html</span></a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/autocracy/" rel="tag">#AUTOCRACY</a> NOW!</p><p><a href="/tags/curtisyarvin/" rel="tag">#CurtisYarvin</a>’s calls for an American king once seemed like a joke. Today, the right is ready to bend the knee.</p><p><a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/democracy/" rel="tag">#democracy</a> <a href="/tags/constitution/" rel="tag">#Constitution</a> <a href="/tags/authoritarianism/" rel="tag">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="/tags/tyranny/" rel="tag">#tyranny</a> <a href="/tags/farright/" rel="tag">#FarRight</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/americanautocracy/" rel="tag">#AmericanAutocracy</a> <br><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/09/curtis-yarvin-profile?utm_social-type=owned&utm_brand=tny" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/09/curtis-yarvin-profile?utm_social-type=owned&utm_brand=tny"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.newyorker.com/magazine/202</span><span class="invisible">5/06/09/curtis-yarvin-profile?utm_social-type=owned&utm_brand=tny</span></a></p>
<p>Judge blasts <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> admin’s embarrassing retraction of charges’<br>
The <a href="/tags/doj/" rel="tag">#DOJ</a> charged <a href="/tags/newark/" rel="tag">#Newark</a> <a href="/tags/mayor/" rel="tag">#Mayor</a> <a href="/tags/rasbaraka/" rel="tag">#RasBaraka</a> w/ trespassing during a visit to an <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> facility in the city, but days later has now dropped the case.</p><p>A magistrate judge upbraided federal prosecutors Wed as he granted their request to dismiss trespassing charges against Mayor Baraka, calling the govt’s abrupt about-face “a worrisome misstep” in a case that has stoked a political firestorm.</p><p><a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#immigration</a> <br><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/05/21/mciver-baraka-newark-ice-court-charges/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/05/21/mciver-baraka-newark-ice-court-charges/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.washingtonpost.com/nationa</span><span class="invisible">l-security/2025/05/21/mciver-baraka-newark-ice-court-charges/</span></a></p>
<p>🤦🏻♀️ The Defense Department said Wednesday it has accepted a Boeing jet from Qatar that will be retrofitted and used to transport <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a>.</p><p><a href="/tags/qataralago/" rel="tag">#QatarALago</a> <a href="/tags/jetgate/" rel="tag">#JetGate</a></p><p><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/qatar-jet-trump-boeing-pentagon/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.cbsnews.com/news/qatar-jet-trump-boeing-pentagon/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.cbsnews.com/news/qatar-jet</span><span class="invisible">-trump-boeing-pentagon/</span></a></p>
<p>“ <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> admin “unquestionably” violated a court order when it tried to transfer detainees to war-torn South Sudan without a meaningful opportunity to contest their removal to a place where they might face torture, a federal judge said Wednesday.”</p><p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/politics/deportation-flight-south-sudan-controversy?cid=ios_app" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/politics/deportation-flight-south-sudan-controversy?cid=ios_app"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/politic</span><span class="invisible">s/deportation-flight-south-sudan-controversy?cid=ios_app</span></a></p>
<p>The giant <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> banner at the <a href="/tags/usda/" rel="tag">#USDA</a> is another sign the US is sliding into <a href="/tags/autocracy/" rel="tag">#autocracy</a></p><p>It may be small & petty, but these changes are part of the erosion of democratic norms, softening people up for potentially more <a href="/tags/authoritarian/" rel="tag">#authoritarian</a> behavior.</p><p><a href="/tags/americanautocracy/" rel="tag">#AmericanAutocracy</a> <a href="/tags/fascism/" rel="tag">#fascism</a> <a href="/tags/tyranny/" rel="tag">#tyranny</a> <br><a href="https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-usda-portrait-road-from-to-authoritarianism-rcna207709" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-usda-portrait-road-from-to-authoritarianism-rcna207709"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.msnbc.com/top-stories/late</span><span class="invisible">st/trump-usda-portrait-road-from-to-authoritarianism-rcna207709</span></a></p>
<p>Judge Finds <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> Admin Violated <a href="/tags/courtorder/" rel="tag">#CourtOrder</a> with Sudden <a href="/tags/deportation/" rel="tag">#Deportation</a> Flight<br>to Africa</p><p>Lawyers for some of the 8 immigrants deported Tuesday said they were told they were being sent to <a href="/tags/southsudan/" rel="tag">#SouthSudan</a>. People familiar with the plane said it had landed for now in <a href="/tags/djibouti/" rel="tag">#Djibouti</a>.</p><p><a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#immigration</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/rendition/" rel="tag">#rendition</a> <a href="/tags/judiciary/" rel="tag">#judiciary</a> <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/us/south-sudan-deportation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=291694FB-D343-4DAC-A141-08E0F41D1DCF" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/us/south-sudan-deportation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=291694FB-D343-4DAC-A141-08E0F41D1DCF"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/us/</span><span class="invisible">south-sudan-deportation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=291694FB-D343-4DAC-A141-08E0F41D1DCF</span></a></p>
<p>Keep 'em coming</p><p>Via Kyle Griffin:</p><p>WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal judge blocks <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a>'s firing of two Democratic members of privacy oversight board.</p>
<p>BREAKING: <a href="/tags/adamschiff/" rel="tag">#AdamSchiff</a> just read <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a>’s EPA director like a receipt roll listing failure after failure of the agency right to his face.</p><p>By the end? Dead silence. Not a word.<br>No defense. No spin. Just shame.</p><p>This is what accountability looks like.<br>One man. One mic. A whole administration exposed.</p>
<p>‘Keep Him Where He Is’: How <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> Ofcls Were Sent Scrambling to Cover Their Asses in the <a href="/tags/kilmarabregogarcia/" rel="tag">#KilmarAbregoGarcia</a> Case</p><p>A Maryland man’s deportation to <a href="/tags/elsalvador/" rel="tag">#ElSalvador</a> set off a fierce debate among ofcls of 3 cabinet agencies, despite agreement there had been a mistake.</p><p>The Trump admin had deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a prison in El Salvador, even though a judge had issued a ruling expressly prohibiting that from happening.</p><p><a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#immigration</a> <a href="/tags/rendition/" rel="tag">#Rendition</a> <br><a href="/tags/giftarticle/" rel="tag">#GiftArticle</a> <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/us/politics/trump-abrego-garcia-el-salvador-deportation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.I08.piTL.n27B6-Ia0Kk7&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/us/politics/trump-abrego-garcia-el-salvador-deportation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.I08.piTL.n27B6-Ia0Kk7&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/us/</span><span class="invisible">politics/trump-abrego-garcia-el-salvador-deportation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.I08.piTL.n27B6-Ia0Kk7&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare</span></a></p>
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<p>Trump’s new partner for his crypto venture World Liberty Financial is KuCoin — an exchange that reached a plea deal this past January and was banned In U.S., and fined $300 million for money laundering - by <span class="h-card"><a href="https://journa.host/@z_everson" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>z_everson</span></a></span> for Forbes </p><p><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/worldlibertyfinancial/" rel="tag">#WorldLibertyFinancial</a> <a href="/tags/trumpcrypto/" rel="tag">#TrumpCrypto</a> <a href="/tags/kucoin/" rel="tag">#KuCoin</a> </p><p><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2025/05/21/trump-crypto-coin-kucoin-300-money-laundering-world-liberty-financal/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2025/05/21/trump-crypto-coin-kucoin-300-money-laundering-world-liberty-financal/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.forbes.com/sites/zachevers</span><span class="invisible">on/2025/05/21/trump-crypto-coin-kucoin-300-money-laundering-world-liberty-financal/</span></a></p>
<p>Today in The Medium Blog, Zulie @ Medium shares highlights of what happened on <a href="/tags/medium/" rel="tag">#Medium</a> in April 2025, including:</p><p>• A recap of <a href="/tags/draftday2025/" rel="tag">#DraftDay2025</a></p><p>• Perspectives on <a href="/tags/popefrancis/" rel="tag">#PopeFrancis</a> by Daniel B. Gallagher; the Iberian power outage by Charlie Brown; and <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a>, <a href="/tags/tariffs/" rel="tag">#tariffs</a>, and possible insider training by <span class="h-card"><a href="https://me.dm/@johnnyp" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>johnnyp</span></a></span></p><p>• Selected stories by first-time Medium writers</p><p>• Medium product updates, and more</p><p><a href="https://blog.medium.com/it-happened-on-medium-april-2025-3fe5de742c51" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="blog.medium.com/it-happened-on-medium-april-2025-3fe5de742c51"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.medium.com/it-happened-on</span><span class="invisible">-medium-april-2025-3fe5de742c51</span></a></p>
<p>…after the US <a href="/tags/military/" rel="tag">#military</a> announced that 700 <a href="/tags/marines/" rel="tag">#Marines</a> would join the now 5,000 <a href="/tags/nationalguard/" rel="tag">#NationalGuard</a> <a href="/tags/troops/" rel="tag">#troops</a> in <a href="/tags/losangeles/" rel="tag">#LosAngeles</a> on Wednesday, escalat[ing] the [admin’s unlawful] military response — an exceedingly rare use of active-duty <a href="/tags/troops/" rel="tag">#troops</a> on <a href="/tags/domestic/" rel="tag">#domestic</a> soil — <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> suggested on Tues that the <a href="/tags/laprotests/" rel="tag">#LAprotests</a> were petering out, & gave himself credit. “By doing what I did, I stopped the violence in LA.”</p><p><a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#immigration</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="/tags/possecomitatusact/" rel="tag">#PosseComitatusAct</a> <a href="/tags/democracy/" rel="tag">#democracy</a> <a href="/tags/constitution/" rel="tag">#Constitution</a> <a href="/tags/righttoprotest/" rel="tag">#RightToProtest</a><br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/11/us/los-angeles-protests-trump-ice/heres-the-latest?smid=url-share" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/11/us/los-angeles-protests-trump-ice/heres-the-latest?smid=url-share"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/1</span><span class="invisible">1/us/los-angeles-protests-trump-ice/heres-the-latest?smid=url-share</span></a></p>
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<p>"The European country of Kosovo has agreed to a <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> administration request to allow the U.S. to deport a small group of migrants to the landlocked Balkan nation who are not from there"<br> <br><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kosovo-accept-u-s-deportations-of-migrants-from-other-countries/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.cbsnews.com/news/kosovo-accept-u-s-deportations-of-migrants-from-other-countries/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.cbsnews.com/news/kosovo-ac</span><span class="invisible">cept-u-s-deportations-of-migrants-from-other-countries/</span></a></p>
<p>Trump Is Using the National Guard as Bait by Tom Nichols</p><p>« During the George Floyd protests in 2020, <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> was furious at what he saw as the fecklessness of military leaders determined to thwart his attempts to use deadly force against protesters. </p><p>He’s learned his lesson: This time, he has installed a hapless sycophant at the <a href="/tags/pentagon/" rel="tag">#Pentagon</a> who is itching to execute the boss’s orders. »</p><p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/trump-provoke-not-pacify-los-angeles/683080/?utm_source=feed" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/trump-provoke-not-pacify-los-angeles/683080/?utm_source=feed"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theatlantic.com/ideas/arch</span><span class="invisible">ive/2025/06/trump-provoke-not-pacify-los-angeles/683080/?utm_source=feed</span></a></p>
<p>Well, the <a href="/tags/possecomitatusact/" rel="tag">#PosseComitatusAct</a> has officially been violated.</p><p><a href="/tags/nationalguard/" rel="tag">#NationalGuard</a> troops have detained <a href="/tags/civilians/" rel="tag">#civilians</a> in <a href="/tags/laprotests/" rel="tag">#LAprotests</a>, commander says</p><p>National Guard troops already have temporarily detained civilians in the <a href="/tags/losangeles/" rel="tag">#LosAngeles</a> <a href="/tags/protests/" rel="tag">#protests</a> over <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#immigration</a> raids, the commander in charge said Wednesday, but they quickly turned them over to *<a href="/tags/lawenforcement/" rel="tag">#LawEnforcement</a>* [the 30 second rule is only for food fools].</p><p><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/democracy/" rel="tag">#democracy</a> <a href="/tags/righttoprotest/" rel="tag">#RightToProtest</a> <a href="/tags/authoritarianism/" rel="tag">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="/tags/tyranny/" rel="tag">#tyranny</a> <a href="/tags/gestapo/" rel="tag">#Gestapo</a> <br><a href="https://apnews.com/article/national-guard-immigration-raids-los-angeles-c9957a0d4ded48e40ce78efb0b7a8fbf" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="apnews.com/article/national-guard-immigration-raids-los-angeles-c9957a0d4ded48e40ce78efb0b7a8fbf"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/national-gu</span><span class="invisible">ard-immigration-raids-los-angeles-c9957a0d4ded48e40ce78efb0b7a8fbf</span></a></p>