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2) That military force can and will be enacted against US citizens. Hegseth and Trump clearly attempt to circumvent the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 that forbids federal troops from engaging in police action against civilians.

Two themes emerged in Hegseth’s hyper-fascist, self-aggrandizing monologue: 1) that military violence must no longer be constrained by moral guardrails such as the rules of war as specified in the Geneva Convention

That understanding provides the critical context to the surrealistic, horrifying meeting between Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump and the massive assembly of high level military staff members being lectured, bullied and threatened into surrendering to the fascist order at Quantico, Virginia.

The worst crimes of fascism invariably begin with military complicity.

Soviet commissars, Jews, partisans, Soviet prisoners of war, Slavic racial inferiors and anyone deemed to be an enemy of the Nazi regime.

Twenty four German generals were indicted for war crimes at Nuremberg. Nazi troops coordinated with the Einsatzgruppen, participated in roundups and mass executions of

Admirals and Generals Will Not Save US – Agency Rests In the Hands of the Public Alone (ZNetwork) The Nazi holocaust did not begin with The Wannsee Conference. Prior to the German invasion of the Soviet Union, representatives of the racial state – most li...

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The Trump administration is continuing to pretend as if the January 6 insurrection never happened.

Monday on CNN, referring to protesters at ICE facilities in Chicago and Portland. “This is the textbook definition of domestic terrorism!”

“When in our history have we tolerated unlawful riots and assemblies night after night around FBI buildings, or ATF buildings, or DEA buildings?” Trump adviser Stephen Miller said

Stephen Miller Must Have Amnesia if This Is Why He Hates ICE Protests (The New Republic) The Trump administration is continuing to pretend as if the January 6 insurrection never happened. “When in our history have we tolerated unlawful riots and ...

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Two Kentucky high school football games canceled because of government shutdown (The Courier Journal) The Fort Campbell and Fort Knox football teams did not play Friday night because of the government shutdown. Fort Campbell was scheduled to host Trigg County...

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Bill Gates Said 'Yes' Another Financial Crisis Like 2008 Is Coming — 'It Is Hard To Say When, But This Is A Certainty' (Benzinga) If the past is prologue, Bill Gates may have already told us what's coming. Back in a 2018 Reddit "Ask Me Anything," someone pressed the Microsoft co-founder...

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On Sept. 5, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, a Trump appointee, posted on X that the DOJ "would not stand" for Goodstein's ruling.

The fire, now under investigation by authorities, left three people severely injured-including Goodstein's son and her husband, former Democratic state lawmaker Arnold Goodstein.

A judge who had outraged the Trump administration received an onslaught of violent threats before an explosion tore through her home.

MAGA Demanded ‘Holy Hell Fire' Before Judge's Home Exploded (The Daily Beast) A judge who had outraged the Trump administration received an onslaught of violent threats before an explosion tore through her home. South Carolina Circuit ...

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Huge crowds took to the streets of Brazilian cities to defend what they rightly saw as an assault on Brazilian sovereignty and rule of law."

"Trump’s attempt to use punitive tariffs and sanctions to strong-arm Brazil into pardoning its disgraced former hard-right president Jair Bolsonaro backfired spectacularly last month.

Yet given his hapless blundering on other key foreign issues, the most likely explanation for Trump’s behaviour is that, typically, he hasn’t got a clue what he’s doing – in Venezuela or Latin America as whole. There’s no plan.

Long-term, the big winner will most likely be Beijing, an increasingly influential regional actor, investor and leading member of the Brics group of nations. As the US burns its bridges across the world, Trump is making China great again," Tisdall wrote.

'Self-defeating': Expert says Trump 'hasn't got a clue what he's doing' in Venezuela (AlterNet) Since taking office in January, President Donald Trump’s foreign‑policy approach and his handling of the United States’ relationships with key allies have ra...

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matriculation and instruction; and (iv) preferential treatment under the tax code,” which means 501(c)(3) status. This compact is a “reward” in exactly the same sense that it is “rewarding” to purchase protection from the Mafia. The compact is an open, explicit threat.

What benefits? Well, that same first paragraph lists quite a few specific “benefits”: “(i) access to student loans, grant programs, and federal contracts; (ii) funding for research directly or indirectly; (iii) approval of student and other visas in connection with university

Any lawyer — really, any careful reader — who makes it through even the first paragraph of the document can see that this is incorrect. The “compact” is quite explicit: Universities that do not sign on to this thing thereby “elect[] to forego federal benefits.”

The Trump Administration’s New Protection Racket for Higher Ed (Talking Points Memo) This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. A version of this article first appeared at Balkinization. The Trump administrati...

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Supreme Court declines to help out Laura Loomer in her doomed RICO social media lawsuit (The Independent) The Supreme Court refused to take up far-right provocateur Laura Loomer'seffort to sue social media companies over claims that they conspired to suppress her...

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House Republican Tells Newsmax ‘Our Economy Right Now Is Not Great, The Jobs Report Was Not Great’ (Mediaite) Representative Ryan Zinke(R-MT) admitted to Newsmax Monday that the economy isn’t doing great at the moment while arguing that the week-long government shutd...

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'Submissive' Supreme Court 'does Trump’s bidding' as new term gets underway: analysis (AlterNet) Although the U.S. Supreme Court has leaned conservative for decades, conservative GOP-appointed justices of the past — including Ronald Reagan appointees Ant...

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