I feel like in the 1980’s/90’s this would be a major plot point in a Tom Clancy novel, and the operation would be carried out as an off-book, illegal black op, with various characters trying to cover it up lest they face congressional hearings. Now the President just announces it.
This Labor Day, I urge you to join a Workers Over Billionaires protest.
We must continue standing together to show Trump that we, the people, have the power – not his billionaire buddies and corporate cronies. bit.ly/4lMgKaR
credit where it's due, Newsom finally said the thing in a way that got it covered the way we're trying to get it covered!
"The greatest tyrannies are those which are practiced in the shadow of the law, and under the color of justice."
- Lysander Spooner
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If it took 8 days to build a massive concentration camp in Florida then it means they could build and house the homeless at any point but choose not to
"Once [mafia state leaders] entrench people into belief systems and communications echo-chambers, they often defraud them to help monetize their cause, they further radicalize them to fund and deploy fear and intimidation campaigns that degrade opposition power.
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Top Dems on House and Senate Intel Committees — Jim Himes and Mark Warner, both members of Gang of Eight — were not briefed before the attacks on Iranian nuclear sites, per sources.
The war in Iran is illegal under the UN Charter, under War Powers Act, and didn't even comply with National Security Act.
Rubio on CBS: "This wasn't a regime change move."
Vance on ABC: "Well, first of all, we don't want to achieve regime change."
Vance on NBC: "our view has been very clear that we don't want a regime change."
Trump, not waiting even 24 hours to undercut and humiliate them:
This is how it’s done!
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"the fact that millions of people believe that in his heart he shares their objectives and supports their cause is part of his very successful con."
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i stopped wearing red crosses more than a decade ago, because police *habitually* target medics.
this isn’t a one-off, it’s a deliberate choice they make over and over again.
it’s not “a few bad apples,” it’s widespread practice.
Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
You can't call immigrants lazy moochers looking for government handouts and then round them up at Home Depots where you know they are looking for work.
You can't say immigrants don't follow the rules and then round them up in courthouses where they are following the rules.
Get your lies straight.
An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house."
The threat was greeted with extreme concern by civil liberties and digital privacy groups. It suggests the LAPD could be using facial recognition to identify and retaliate against protesters.
"What is really important in the world of doublespeak is the ability to lie, whether knowingly or unconsciously, and to get away with it; and the ability to use lies and choose and shape facts selectively, blocking out those that don’t fit an agenda or program."
-- Edward S. Herman
Trump's move to deploy the Guard despite local opposition, his suggestion that Gov. Newsom should be arrested, and the subsequent deployment of 700 Marines are seen as dictatorial and un-American.
It militarizes the situation , increasing tensions and putting communities at risk.
This. All day.
