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First Comes #ICE, Then Come Lawsuits
When a direct path to #justice is blocked, #states must look for a legal work-around.
By Aziz Huq
#law #Trump #immigration #Constitution #CivilRights #FirstAmendment #DueProcess #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #ExtraJudicialKillings #murder #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung #MafiaState #StateSponsoredTerrorism #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #fascism #tyranny
theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/…
First Comes ICE, Then Come Lawsuits
When a direct path to justice is blocked, states must look for a legal work-around.Aziz Huq (The Atlantic)
City Prosecutors Join Forces to Bring Charges Against #FederalAgents
9 progressive #prosecutors from cities around the country are launching a coalition to assist in prosecuting federal law enforcement officers who violate #state #laws, one of the prosecutors, Larry Krasner in Philadelphia, said Tues.
#law #FAFO #federalism #10thAmendment #FederalGovernment #Trump #MafiaState #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #MadKing
nytimes.com/2026/01/27/us/pros…
When even Jonathan Rauch admits it….
"Recent events have brought Trump’s governing style into sharper focus. Fascist best describes it, and reluctance to use the term has now become perverse. That is not because of any one or two things he and his administration have done but because of the totality."
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
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Yes, It’s Fascism
Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.Jonathan Rauch (The Atlantic)
"The point of the regime’s counter-attacks was to muddy the waters, causing the media and the MAGA base to focus on the victims’ actions and their alleged politics instead of the crimes committed against them. It’s the equivalent of blaming a rape victim for what she was wearing. And unfortunately, for a significant portion of the MAGA base, it works."
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
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"For many people, one of the more shocking parts of the White House response was its quick leap to blame the victims and to smear them as 'domestic terrorists' and violent assailants who, by inference, got what was coming to them. But this move is only surprising if you’re unfamiliar with Cohn’s second rule: always counter-attack."
~ Jay Kuo
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
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The Roy Cohn Playbook Is Failing
The Trump regime leaned hard into Roy Cohn’s playbook in Minneapolis, but the strategy is backfiringJay Kuo (The Status Kuo)
"This is unprecedented in the United States of America, a governor believing that he must use his powers to call up the state national guard in order to defend and protect the citizens of his state from a federal militia that has invaded the city of Minneapolis as if its armed and masked members are an enemy army."
~ Lucian K. Truscott
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
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First step in a civil war
This is an image of the Minnesota National Guard moving into Minneapolis to assist local police in enforcing the law.Lucian K. Truscott IV (Lucian Truscott Newsletter)
"This is not immigration enforcement. This is extortion. This is the use of state violence to seize control of elections in a swing state. This is the thing itself, undisguised, in plain sight."
~ Mike Brock
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
/15
Sullivan says,
"With what amounts to civil war raging in the United States, we desperately need clear, fearless truth-telling that doesn’t pull its punches and doesn’t hand a megaphone to lies and propaganda in the name of supposed fairness."
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism #NewYorkTimes
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Margaret Sullivan notes that in a single article, New York Times can run a headline saying that video evidence "appears to" refute the Trump regime's lies about Pretti's exeuction and then state in the article that the evidence“directly contradicts” the regime's lies.
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism #NewYorkTimes
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Defensive caution can’t compete with right-wing propaganda
Is it so hard for journalists to clearly state that the Trump administration is lying?Margaret Sullivan (American Crisis)
"Both times, the same spokesmen smeared the victims as 'domestic terrorists.'
This is a tactic that I recognize: blaming the victims for their own deaths has long been standard practice in dictatorships."
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
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"In the past several weeks, masked federal agents dressed as military officers have killed two Americans who were peacefully protesting their violent attacks on immigrants and U.S. citizens. Both times their actions were recorded on video cameras. Both times, government spokesmen made false statements, directly contradicting the video evidence."
~ Anne Applebaum
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
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Minnesota Winter
A second murder, a second set of lies and an ominous letterOpen Letters, from Anne Applebaum
"The regime’s mind-blowing dishonesty is ultimately a way to demean and mark those who resist. They function as fascist solidarity, signaling that partisans can and should do anything and everything to political enemies, no matter how violent, cruel, or unnecessary."
~ Noah Berlatsky
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
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The regime's mind-bending lies are a tactic
Thinking about them in terms of truth or falsity is a category error.Noah Berlatsky (Public Notice)
"Trump and his lieutenants are working to codify a new, more sinister right, one that they reserve selfishly for just themselves and their pals: the right to murder other people’s loved ones with impunity – in broad daylight, on camera – and to then immediately have a good laugh about it."
Asawin Suebsaeng
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
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First Draft: Murder Inc.
Trump's DHS escalates its reign of terror and killings, pro-gun groups are pissed at Republicans, and the 'Middle East's only democracy' cracks down on the free press... again.Asawin Suebsaeng (Zeteo)
"If you are, you get to rule, dominate, exploit. If you are not, because you deviate from MAGA’s vision of what 'real America' is supposed to be, you have forfeited not only your rights and protections as a citizen, but also your humanity, your very right to live."
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
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"There is no act of violence committed by the agents of the state they won’t defend – no victim they won’t slander and vilify. ...
Here is the clearest encapsulation of Trumpism as a political project: Redraw the lines of who belongs, who is legitimate, who is part of the 'Volk.'”
~ Thomas Zimmer
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
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The People Struggle Against Tyranny
Another execution of an American citizen. A regime that has no strategy but to lash out. The struggle against Trumpist authoritarianism is only going to get bloodier.Steady
compared it to conflict zones she has seen in other countries.
“My background is in international humanitarian response in conflict zones in Yemen, Haiti, Syria, Iraq and Ukraine. What I’ve seen here is what I’ve seen there – a powerful entity violently and intentionally terrorizing people.”
~ Rachel Sayre quoted by Rachel Leingang
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
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‘You ask us for peace, we get shot in the face’: Minneapolis in turmoil after federal agents kill second US citizen
Federal agents release chemicals into the air and arrest people after shooting and killing a 37-year-old manRachel Leingang (The Guardian)
"That is our new national reality. State terror has arrived."
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
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"After the past three weeks of brutality in Minneapolis, it should no longer be possible to say that the Trump administration seeks merely to govern this nation. It seeks to reduce us all to a state of constant fear — a fear of violence from which some people may at a given moment be spared, but from which no one will ever be truly safe."
~ Masha Gessen
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
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"Let me break it down. There is one story: our country is on the brink of an authoritarian takeover. "
~ Francine Prose
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
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America feels like a country on the brink of an authoritarian takeover
This is the news we should be paying attention to. At least for the moment, everything else is a distractionFrancine Prose (The Guardian)
"To be clear, we're not "protesting" here in Minneapolis. We're resisting an occupation."
- philcalvit
#Resist #Resistance #Protest #Minneapolis #Minnesota #USA #ICE #CBP #DHS #Trump #GOP #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Politics #US #UnitedStates
Defund #Science, Distort #Culture, Mock #Education
It’s not just about cuts to #research.
It’s about #power.
By Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum
#SevenMountainMandate #law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #dictatorship #authoritarianism #autocracy #MafiaState #RevengePolitics #Trump
theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/…
Autocracy in America: Defund Science
It’s not just about cuts to research. It’s about power.Anne Applebaum (The Atlantic)
#GiftArticle
‘He treats us with contempt’: This is not leadership
America’s #allies may comply for now. But the damage to trust will have consequences.
by Fareed Zakaria
#US #Trump #MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #economy #law #InternationalLaw #authoritarianism #dictatorship #MadKing #WEF
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"We use words like “police state.” Then we see it happen. To watch is not the same as to experience it, of course. Of being afraid to leave your house. Or having a classmate, co-worker, or family member disappear. But the images make it more real. It removes any illusion that it could not happen here. It is happening here. We see it happening here, if we are willing to look."
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pas…
#Trump #ICE #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Politics #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #America
—Dean Blundell, Mark Carney Didn’t Just Call Out Trump — He Called Out All of Us In A Historic Speech For The Ages
#carney #trump #authoritarianism
—Dean Blundell, Mark Carney Didn’t Just Call Out Trump — He Called Out All of Us In A Historic Speech For The Ages
#carney #trump #authoritarianism
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"two deeply concerning trends of growing #authoritarianism and
rising #inequality are not separate problems. They are not distinct dilemmas. They instead deeply entwined, as governments across the world side with the powerful, not the people, and choose repression, not
redistribution."
#Trump has made clear he wants the chance to stack the nation’s #CentralBank with #political #loyalists. In court, the admin has strenuously steered clear of this rhetoric. Outside of court, though, Trump has repeatedly boasted about the changes he hopes to bring to the #Fed.
#law #FederalReserve #economy #independence #SCOTUS #authoritarianism
nytimes.com/2026/01/21/us/poli…
The justices have signaled that the #Fed may be uniquely protected from presidential meddling, even as the court’s conservative majority has allowed #Trump to fire leaders of other #independent #FederalAgencies.
#law #FederalReserve #economy #independence #SCOTUS #authoritarianism
The #FederalReserve sets #MonetaryPolicy & #InterestRates, among other duties, & when #Congress established it, lawmakers worked to insulate it from #political #influence. Its leaders have 14-year terms & may be removed only “for cause.” But #Trump has increasingly attacked the #Fed, pressuring it to lower interest rates as well as trying to push out its chair, #JeromePowell, & fire board governor #LisaCook.