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#Trump’s Lust for #Vengeance Is Turning Into a Farce

#GiftArticle by Jamelle Bouie

The principal aim of Trump’s second presidential term is #revenge.

#law #unfit #PrerogativeState #MafiaState #RevengePolitics #retribution #EnemiesList #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #manbaby
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/opinion/trumps-revenge.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6lA.apb_.Y6mnzyhgj2vr&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Federal and state fascists work together to pull a man, with wife and kids from his car, there was no warning (Lawrence, MA, 08/15/26)

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Ice Out Report
https://iceout.org/en/reportInfo/137994

#ice #iceout #eyesonice #resistance #resist #usa #politics #authoritarianism #fascism #protest #civildisobedience #USAFascistShitShow #icestapo #policestate #paramilitary #policemilitarization #federalinvasion #abolishice #abolishdhs #abolishhsi #abolishero #abolishcbp #NoConcentrationCamps #racialprofiling #defendimmigrants #massachusetts #crimesofice_videos_abduction

ICE fascists walked onto private property in Brownsville, TX, without a warrant, with their guns drawn, then threatened to arrest the owner for telling them to get off his property

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#ice #iceout #eyesonice #resistance #resist #usa #politics #authoritarianism #fascism #protest #civildisobedience #USAFascistShitShow #icestapo #policestate #paramilitary #policemilitarization #federalinvasion #abolishice #abolishdhs #abolishhsi #abolishero #abolishcbp #NoConcentrationCamps #racialprofiling #defendimmigrants #Texas #crimesofice_videos_threatening #crimesofice_videos_violation_of_the_constitution

“Is [UK Prime Minister] Andy Burnham About to Create a British Constitution?”

by Anthony Barnett in The Byline Tines on Substack

@uk_politics
@UKLabour

“On Friday 31 July, Andy Burnham made history, even if he did so in his trademark style. He triggered a process that points in a genuinely radical direction. Yet its destination remains unmapped and uncertain, leaving potential supporters broadly sympathetic yet sceptical”

https://open.substack.com/pub/bylinetimes/p/is-andy-burnham-about-to-create-a

#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #UK #Britain #Labour #Burnham #Constitution #WrittenConstitution #Power #Decentralisation #Democracy #Freedom #Protest #Thatcher #Authoritarianism #Starmer #Funding

France begins extrajudicial asset freezing to silence free speech for the protection of Israel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIMZHpuB0ck

Chilling dissent for those offending authoritarian pro-genocide sensibilities. no charges, no trial, no conviction. destroying rights for war criminals...

#France #Tyranny #AssetFreezing #Extremisim #Authoritarianism #ExtraJudicial #StateTerrorism

In this 3 minute short, Snyder explains the reality of Americans and freedom, that many Americans are authoritarian and prefer an authoritarian leader who tells them what to do, and that a sizable group of wealthy and powerful people prefer having someone like Trump because it lets them do what they want to without interference.

"A Lot of Americans Don’t Like Freedom." Timothy Snyder on Authoritarianism - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VqheNCKr-8I
#uspol #freedom #liberty #authoritarianism

Ah yes, the classic tale of #authoritarianism with a side of tech-savvy dictatorship. 📱🔫 Who knew revolutionaries also needed a good phone plan to coordinate their uprising? Because nothing screams freedom like a text from your favorite network provider urging you to play soldier. 😂
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/and-then-the-men-with-guns-tell-you-to-do-it-anyway/ #techdictatorship #revolution #phoneplans #freedomjokes #HackerNews #ngated

Enforcement alert: pre-emptive detention ahead of student protest

Status and date: Observed enforcement on 18 August 2026. This is a separate street-level operation from the social-media arrests reported on 7 August. No legislative change, criminal charge or court ruling has been announced.

Polda Metro Jaya’s "Preventive Strike and Preemptive Education" team detained 21 people before the BEM UI-led #MerebutKemerdekaan demonstration in central Jakarta. They remained under questioning at the General Criminal Investigation Directorate when police announced the operation.

Police alleged that officers recovered fireworks, flares and bottles prepared for use as Molotov cocktails, and asserted that the detainees were not affiliated with the students organising the demonstration. These are police allegations; the official notice supplies no individual evidence, arrest grounds, legal provisions, identities or charging decisions. Official Polri enforcement notice: https://tribratanews.polri.go.id/blog/hukum-4/polda-metro-jaya-tangkap-21-orang-diduga-perusuh-demo-jakarta-sita-bom-molotov-hingga-flare-104670

Who is affected: Protest organisers, participants, volunteer medics, legal observers, independent journalists and digital advocates travelling to or documenting demonstrations in Jakarta.

Police are now publicly describing pre-protest detention and questioning as a preventive operation. Presence near an announced political demonstration may therefore expose people to screening or detention before any alleged disturbance occurs. Publishers should not reproduce the police description of the detainees as "rioters" or the alleged purpose of recovered objects as established fact.

Anyone covering or supporting forthcoming demonstrations should establish check-in times, an arrest-response contact and a record of participants’ last known locations. Preserve original footage and timestamps off-device, document searches or seizures, and distinguish verified conduct from police allegations when publishing. Do not publicly identify uncharged detainees or bystanders without their informed consent.

@indonesia #politics #fascism #antifa #authoritarianism #activism #repression #longliveresistance #panjangumurperlawanan #press

#ABC Sues #FCC to Block Threat to Its TV Licenses

The network asked a court to stop the agency from taking steps that could force ABC stations off the air & accused the FCC of violating its #FirstAmendment rights.

#Trump #law #Constitution #FreePress #journalism #media #FourthEstate #censorship #RevengePolitics #MafiaState #PrerogativeState #StateMedia #propaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/business/media/abc-fcc-lawsuit-broadcast-licenses.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6VA.3Zz_.we73rwHrbps0&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Court rulings against Yabloko highlight the shrinking space for anti-war voices in Russia | DW News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaFjGtWrjEE #Authoritarianism #Fascism #Russia

Martin Lagunas is a peice of shit ICE fascist who volunteered to terrorize people.

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https://reddit.com/comments/1vpg0jj

Related Article
https://migrantinsider.com/p/exclusive-two-dhs-sources-confirm

#ice #iceout #eyesonice #resistance #resist #usa #politics #authoritarianism #fascism #protest #civildisobedience #USAFascistShitShow #icestapo #policestate #paramilitary #policemilitarization #federalinvasion #abolishice #abolishdhs #abolishhsi #abolishero #abolishcbp #NoConcentrationCamps #racialprofiling #defendimmigrants #virginia #crimesofice_videos_threatening #crimesofice_videos_misconduct

Hands Off NYC Mobilizes Local Businesses Against Federal Raids, New Yorkers should text sighting details to 1-229-304-8720

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NEW YORK. Community resistance against federal immigration enforcement is actively expanding its operational footprint across New York City. The grassroots coalition Hands Off NYC is systematically canvassing commercial corridors from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to Staten Island to train local businesses on how to counter federal operations. The initiative is part of a coordinated, citywide effort to establish a unified baseline of noncompliance when ICE agents enter private or public spaces.

The hotline is active seven days a week from 6:00 AM to 8:00 PM and offers support in both English and Spanish. Dispatchers request that witnesses provide SALUTE details (Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, and Equipment) and include a photograph if it can be acquired safely. This centralized reporting mechanism allows the community to verify enforcement actions, map federal movements, and issue rapid tactical alerts to surrounding neighborhoods.

Citations

* Hands Off NYC Business Canvassing and Training https://www.handsoffnyc.com/get-trained
* Hands Off NYC Homepage and Reporting Hotline https://www.handsoffnyc.com/
* Hands Off NYC Resources and ICE Tactics https://www.handsoffnyc.com/resources

#ice #iceout #eyesonice #resistance #resist #usa #politics #authoritarianism #fascism #protest #civildisobedience #USAFascistShitShow #icestapo #policestate #paramilitary #policemilitarization #federalinvasion #abolishice #abolishdhs #abolishhsi #abolishero #abolishcbp #NoConcentrationCamps #racialprofiling #defendimmigrants #newyork #crimesofice_videos_citizens_defending_themselves

David Crowley proposes a total ban on local law enforcement entering into contracts with ICE in Wisconsin, arguing that ICE collaboration destroys trust

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#ice #iceout #eyesonice #resistance #resist #usa #politics #authoritarianism #fascism #protest #civildisobedience #USAFascistShitShow #icestapo #policestate #paramilitary #policemilitarization #federalinvasion #abolishice #abolishdhs #abolishhsi #abolishero #abolishcbp #NoConcentrationCamps #racialprofiling #defendimmigrants #crimesofice_videos_reaction_of_the_public_to_ice #wisconsin

This is a problem that is bigger than Delta's complicity to a paramilitary, we are under attack from a fascist regime. The rights we thought we had are proving to not actually exist.

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#ice #iceout #eyesonice #resistance #resist #usa #politics #authoritarianism #fascism #protest #civildisobedience #USAFascistShitShow #icestapo #policestate #paramilitary #policemilitarization #federalinvasion #abolishice #abolishdhs #abolishhsi #abolishero #abolishcbp #NoConcentrationCamps #racialprofiling #defendimmigrants #delta #crimesofice_videos_other

Fascist paramilitary weaponized their car, ran over a man, then they abducted him (08/10/26, Hallandale Beach, FL)

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Iceout Report
https://iceout.org/en/reportInfo/136960

#ice #iceout #eyesonice #resistance #resist #usa #politics #authoritarianism #fascism #protest #civildisobedience #USAFascistShitShow #icestapo #policestate #paramilitary #policemilitarization #federalinvasion #abolishice #abolishdhs #abolishhsi #abolishero #abolishcbp #NoConcentrationCamps #racialprofiling #defendimmigrants #florida #crimesofice_videos_use_of_excessive_force #crimesofice_videos_abduction

#US Manufactured Crimes and Spied on Peaceful #Protesters During #Minneapolis Metro Surge, New Court Filing Reveals

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, August 14, 2026

MINNEAPOLIS -- "While #Dakotas were praying at a #SacredSpring for those held in federal detention at the #WhippleBuilding in Minneapolis -- the U.S. government was spying on, and stalking, the #WhippleWatchers, a new court document reveals.

"The government is refusing to release all of its documents on its surveillance of those watching the Whipple building. The Whipple building is on the site of a former concentration camp, where Dakota and Ho Chunk were imprisoned, suffered and died.

" 'The government admits withholding at least five #ProjectWhippleShield #ROIs (Reports of Investigation) from the initial disclosures,' the court filing states.

"In the current case, the court document for discovery filed yesterday describes how the U.S. government spied on and tracked peaceful protesters during the #resistance to #OperationMetroSurge.

"Not only were peaceful protesters spied on, #stalked and #doxxed, but the #surveillance was carried out to #ManufactureCrimes when none existed, states the court document filed by a defense attorney for one of the government's targets."

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2026/08/us-manufactured-crimes-and-spied-on.html

#Authoritarianism #Fascism #USPol #UnionBusting #SilencingDissent
#CriminalizingDissent #DefundICE #DefundDHS #CharacteristicsOfFascism
#DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity

I had a dream about a firsthand experience with authoritarianism in traffic control and woke up feeling angry. #Authoritarianism #Dreams #Anger

The most immediate effect of Trump’s threat is to make Chandler Hall, the #CAP report’s author, a folk hero among DC’s left-leaning policy analysts. But if the threatened lawsuit actually materializes, #Trump will lose.

#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #ThoughtPolice #dissent #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny

Documents show federal surveillance operation in #Minnesota targeted #progressive groups, #unions

By TIM SULLIVAN and JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER
Updated 11:02 PM EDT, August 13, 2026

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — "Federal agents launched a sweeping undercover surveillance operation earlier this year targeting progressive organizations, labor unions and other groups protesting the immigration crackdown then raging through Minneapolis, according to court documents filed Thursday.

"The program, dubbed #OperationPuppetMaster, was aimed at what officials called a network of conspirators helping 'violent opportunists and agitators.' The documents were filed in a case involving 15 people charged by federal prosecutors in June with impeding the crackdown, accusing them of conspiring against the federal government through a range of actions, from throwing ice chunks to setting up blockades.

"The government documents were released Thursday in connection with a motion from a defense lawyer in the case, #KevinRiach, who requested that officials disclose more material collected during the investigations.

"The reality, according to government documents revealed in court motions, was Department of Homeland Security officers infiltrating meetings in churches, schools and parks that were often simply discussions of constitutionally protected protests.

"A statement from the department said Homeland Security Investigations doesn’t comment on the existence or status of on-going investigations or investigative methods. The statement referred questions to the U.S. attorney’s office in Minnesota, which didn’t immediately respond to an after-hours email from The Associated Press."

https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-immigration-enforcement-progressive-groups-investigated-5e6e554e79980553c3a02ca199593a7d

#Authoritarianism #Fascism #USPol #UnionBusting #SilencingDissent
#CriminalizingDissent #DefundICE #DefundDHS #CharacteristicsOfFascism
#DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity

#CAP is led by #NeeraTanden [💕], one of the Democratic Party’s most influential power players & a veteran of the past three Democratic admins. But a less partisan #ThinkTank, the #NiskanenCenter, published its own report in May that also found no effect on violent crime in DC attributable to the #NationalGuard deployment. (It did find a reduction in property crime, which CAP did not analyze.)

#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #Trump #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny

What set #Trump off was a #CAP report that found #NationalGuard deployments in DC have not contributed to the decline of violent crime. Trump said on social media that he’s drawing up a lawsuit against the liberal #ThinkTank & suggested that he might include some of its contributors. Trump named Google, Apple, Visa, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Walmart, Toyota, T-Mobile & NBC Universal.

#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #authoritarianism #autocracy #fascism #tyranny

#Trump’s attack on a #ThinkTank is an affront to the #FirstAmendment

#Republicans would be rightly irate if a Democratic president threatened to sue a conservative think tank & punish its corporate #donors over #research the White House didn’t like, but Trump’s attack this week on the Center for American Progress [ #CAP ] & its funders has been met with shrugs & silence.

#law #Constitution #ThoughtPolice #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/08/14/trump-legal-threat-against-cap-risks-chilling-think-tank-research/?utm_medium=referral_home&utm_source=webview&no_nav=true&utm_campaign=pb_2607:variant;rct:0:0:2:20260701

‘Outrageous’: #Trump Officials Investigated #LeftWing Groups After #AlexPretti Killing in #Minneapolis

One #FirstAmendment advocacy group called the investigation a “disturbing, invasive, and utterly unjustifiable attack on freedom of expression and political dissent.”

Julia Conley
Aug 13, 2026

"The Trump administration began the probe under the auspices of investigating whether the groups had provided 'help and money,' as the Times reported, to people who had participated in protests across the #MinneapolisSaintPaul area, where tens of thousands of residents rallied against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (#ICE) and defended their neighbors from immigration raids last winter.

"Newly released government documents, which were uncovered after an attorney filed a motion with the federal District Court in Minnesota demanding information about the DHS investigation, show that the agency characterized the protesters who opposed ICE as 'violent opportunists and agitators.'

"The investigation included #DHS’ use of administrative subpoenas to obtain financial records from #SunriseMovement, Communications Workers of America [ #CWA ], and the #SEIU, scrutinizing what the agency called 'domestic terrorist financing.' "

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-left-wing

#Authoritarianism #Fascism #USPol #UnionBusting #SilencingDissent #CriminalizingDissent #DefundICE #DefundDHS #CharacteristicsOfFascism #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity

As part of their inquiry, the documents show, #DHS officials used an array of invasive tactics during the first half of this year to gather information on many groups & individuals who were NEVER even accused of crimes, crossing the line that has traditionally stood between investigating criminal activity & political #dissent.

#law #Constitution #Trump #ThoughtPolice #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny

Instead, it was several #left-leaning #political organizations — #labor #unions, a #ClimateChange group, #socialist collectives — that investigators believed had provided help & money to what they described as the “violent opportunists & agitators” on the street, acc/to newly released government documents.

#law #Constitution #dissent #Trump #ConspiracyTheories #ThoughtPolice #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny