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LIVE 12m ago Trump to Deploy National Guard in Washington, D.C. The U.S. military is preparing to activate National Guard troops in the capital as part of President Trump's campaign against crime there, an official said.

Nothing says “Well-functioning State” like troops patrolling the streets of your nation’s capital. Add irregularly-uniformed, masked secret police bundling people into rented vans, plus constant public shakedowns by officials and you have what Political Scientists call the “Democracy Trifecta.”

When Sleeping Is a Crime With a new executive order and model state legislation criminalizing homelessness, the richest people in the U.S. are making it easier to lock up the poorest.

A man was charged with trespassing in New Haven, CT, on the very spot that the state Department of Correction had dropped him off when he finished serving a prison sentence. This is reality in a country where homelessness is criminalized, and it's getting worse, as Colleen Shaddox reports:

its so funny that james comey helped trump get elected as part of a calculation to help protect the institutional independence of the FBI and this is the result

Adams Quietly Uses Free Internet at NYCHA to Expand Police… The Adams administration is using its flagship broadband program to give police real-time access to NYCHA camera feeds — without telling anyone.

"Eric Adams’s administration is quietly using a flagship free internet program for public housing residents for another purpose: expanding NYPD surveillance... By the end of this year, the NYPD plans to connect video cameras at 20 NYCHA developments... to the Domain Awareness System"

there comes a time in every person’s life where they must choose, to be in decent shape or to eat a whole bunch of carbs. I’ve made my decision

screenshot of a Facebook post by Sam Brody: "What is happening in DC right now would not be happening if DC had been made a state any time Democrats held both the presidency and Congress in the last 30 years. Adding states to the union is much easier to do than amending the constitution. It requires nothing more than an act of Congress, and only needs a simple majority to pass. The Obama Senate could have easily done it when they had 59 senators. But the party leaders thought, I dunno, it wouldn’t be sporting or something. Not fair to the Republicans to use power to do things. The pundits might call it “overreach,” oh no, not that. Biden could have tried to do it - everyone was already saying it was necessary democracy reform after Trump I - but he pre-gave up because Manchin and Sinema said they just had to respect the ancient and immortal filibuster, so what can you do? Best not to try. So now we have millions of US citizens with no representation at all under naked authoritarian rule by an unchecked federal law enforcement apparatus. And the pundits have all forgotten the word “overreach,” which only applies to Democrats when they win by much greater margins than this and have much larger and more representative majorities than this."

"do you want to save this to the cloud?" do you want to die

‘I am the offspring’: A Portland son fulfills his mother’s final wish for justice Annette Benton fought for years to have the truth come out about her pregnancy and child. One year after her death, it's finally out.

This is such an intense read about an adopted child who found his birth mother...and a complicated story behind his birth, and his father's identity.

Paul Dama's detention is devastating & unnecessary, and his absence is already felt in the #MA7.

Whether welcoming neighbors to Suya Joint or helping folks with developmental disabilities lead healthy, dignified lives, his contributions to our community are immensely meaningful.

The rally in D.C. to protest the Trump regime’s attempted takeover of the city has begun.

Follow @freedcproject.bsky.social and learn more at bit.ly/free-dc-our-home.

Trump orders National Guard to deploy to Washington, DC Trump’s order comes after he federalized California National Guard troops and sent hundreds of active-duty Marines to Los Angeles in June.

Per Army release on National Guard deployment to DC: '...between 100-200 Soldiers will be supporting law enforcement at any given time. Their duties will include an array of tasks from administrative, logistics and physical presence in support of law enforcement.' taskandpurpose.com/news/nationa...

A teenage 4channer was beat up by two 15 year olds in DC, which was spotted and quickly stopped by nearby police. He told his friends, the richest man in the world and the Vice President of the United States, that he was pummeled by a dozen adult Romanians. A week later, Trump federalized DC police.

And a large portion of that panic was made up, or people claiming that stores already set to close were closing because of crime. So much of the panic was debunked. And yet.

I WAS TOLD THERE WOULD BE CHECKS AND BALANCES

Reddit will block the Internet Archive It’s another move to protect against AI scraping.

Reddit will block the Internet Archive

I think there’s sort of an idea that many of us have fallen into, including me in years past, that we can’t *really* be falling into fascism because MAGA is just a bunch of dumb guys who suck. The problem is that every fascist movement is reliant on dumb guys who suck.

this dc situation looks pretty horrible. i wish i had more to say except that autocracy is always mundane and petty and vicious and encourages you to look away and be safe. and you can live quite normally under it until you're a direct target

The funniest part is that his entire driving force for every decision he’s made in the last ten years is to become the most liked, most popular little birthday boy of all time. And it’s literally made him despised around the world.

A longer video of the collision between PLA Navy destroyer Guilin and a Chinese coast guard ship as they pursued a Philippines coast guard patrol vessel about 10 miles east of Scarborough Shoal

you can't say (correctly) "Vote Blue no matter who" and then desert the idea when a left-winger wins, and party leaders even encouraging or winking at opposition to Mamdani at this point are fools

"A woman who had her period while in detention was deprived of menstrual products “because the guards only gave the women in her hold room two pads to share among them."

gothamist.com/news/migrant...

the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back

Yes crime is something that is a result of Black people’s presence. This is the subtext that he’s making plain text. Black people are crime, and crime is not supposed to be in particular places.

DC statehood is now an imperative. No more dicking around. Next Dem majority, get it done immediately.

The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting.

we should fund hallmark movies where a lady returns home for Christmas and her high school sweetheart looks like shit because he’s been worn down by the mundanity of small town life

The job of policing is to keep people in their designated spaces. They’re at the National Mall to signal that the mall is understood as a place for particular people.

Missouri Officials Seize Control of St. Louis Police, in Latest Bid to Shutter Local Reforms The takeover returns St. Louis to a Civil War-era arrangement of state control. A local official calls the move "a clear gesture of white men wanting to control urban areas."

Missouri adopted a law that ends St. Louis’ ability to run its own police, transferring control to the GOP-run state government. The law also requires St. Louis to commit 25% of its budget to policing.

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16 people cited after unlawful assembly declared during downtown LA protest Friday The demonstration began earlier Friday with supporters demanding the release of an ICU nurse and community activist who was taken into federal custody in San Pedro.

Gonna try this again with a bit less anger, lol. It is disappointing to see a major media outlet reproducing police statements about what happened on Friday without doing a shred of due diligence to verify those claims.

The 2 people transported were not “pretending to be media,” they *were* media

That's called a bribe, pete.