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For Trump, This Is a Dress Rehearsal Ordering the National Guard to deploy in Los Angeles is a warning of what to expect when his hold on power is threatened.

When CA asks for federal help from Trump, it gets stiffed.

In this case, no help was asked. CA's 75,000 uniformed law enforcement personnel were equal to the scale of disruption.

Trump was testing powers for later, not responding to a threat now. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

08.06.2025 15:40 — 👍 373 🔁 80 💬 19 📌 3

For Trump, This Is a Dress Rehearsal Ordering the National Guard to deploy in Los Angeles is a warning of what to expect when his hold on power is threatened.

What you saw from Trump in CA this weekend was not law enforcement.

What you saw was a test of ways and means for Trump to disrupt and pervert the 2026 elections.

My latest in @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

08.06.2025 15:36 — 👍 1355 🔁 500 💬 73 📌 47

Fired, rehired, and fired again: Some federal workers find they're suddenly uninsured Commerce Department employees caught up in a legal battle over their mass firings are now learning that their health care coverage was cut off weeks ago, even though they were paying their premiums.

Commerce Department employees caught up in a legal battle over their mass firings are now learning that their health care coverage was cut off weeks ago, even though they were paying their premiums.

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Horrifying. Appalling.

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Three US citizen children, one of whom has cancer, has been deported. - MSNBC

26.04.2025 01:50 — 👍 21 🔁 13 💬 5 📌 1

😢😢😢

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You saw the video of the ICE agent breaking a car window near the border, right? He wasn’t an ICE agent. He’s the founder of Veterans on Patrol, a FAR-RIGHT MILITIA patrolling the border for migrants. They’re basically deputizing militias to act as federal agents. This is dangerously out of control

17.04.2025 18:20 — 👍 22845 🔁 9061 💬 1292 📌 642

The Roman Way to Trash a Republic When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

“The checks and balances in the U.S. Constitution look very much like those that were in place in Rome before Augustus,” writes Michelle Berenfeld. “There were none after him”:

18.04.2025 06:45 — 👍 257 🔁 80 💬 9 📌 5

Dear senators who think you can’t do anything,

Today, Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT.

~ All of Us

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The good news is that the constitution provides ways for Congress and the Judiciary to reign in a power-hungry president. The bad news is those people are all scared of him.

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Sickeningly true. 😠

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Is this sarcasm…surely?

03.04.2025 02:00 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Great idea.

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