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  1. The #FBI had asked the Federal #AirMarshal Service to covertly monitor #EricSwalwell on board & to watch him use his electronic devices, to see whether officers could visually ascertain his passcodes‼️, acc/to records obtained not previously reported. Air marshals are trained to blend in with other passengers & quietly keep tabs on their subjects, who are usually suspected terrorists or potential hijackers, NOT politicians.

    #Trump #law #Constitution #FreeSpeech #MafiaState #fascism #autocracy

  2. The #FBI had asked the Federal #AirMarshal Service to covertly monitor #EricSwalwell on board & to watch him use his electronic devices, to see whether officers could visually ascertain his passcodes‼️, acc/to records obtained not previously reported. Air marshals are trained to blend in with other passengers & quietly keep tabs on their subjects, who are usually suspected terrorists or potential hijackers, NOT politicians.

    #Trump #law #Constitution #FreeSpeech #MafiaState #fascism #autocracy

  3. The #FBI had asked the Federal #AirMarshal Service to covertly monitor #EricSwalwell on board & to watch him use his electronic devices, to see whether officers could visually ascertain his passcodes‼️, acc/to records obtained not previously reported. Air marshals are trained to blend in with other passengers & quietly keep tabs on their subjects, who are usually suspected terrorists or potential hijackers, NOT politicians.

    #Trump #law #Constitution #FreeSpeech #MafiaState #fascism #autocracy

  4. The #FBI had asked the Federal #AirMarshal Service to covertly monitor #EricSwalwell on board & to watch him use his electronic devices, to see whether officers could visually ascertain his passcodes‼️, acc/to records obtained not previously reported. Air marshals are trained to blend in with other passengers & quietly keep tabs on their subjects, who are usually suspected terrorists or potential hijackers, NOT politicians.

    #Trump #law #Constitution #FreeSpeech #MafiaState #fascism #autocracy

  5. The #FBI had asked the Federal #AirMarshal Service to covertly monitor #EricSwalwell on board & to watch him use his electronic devices, to see whether officers could visually ascertain his passcodes‼️, acc/to records obtained not previously reported. Air marshals are trained to blend in with other passengers & quietly keep tabs on their subjects, who are usually suspected terrorists or potential hijackers, NOT politicians.

    #Trump #law #Constitution #FreeSpeech #MafiaState #fascism #autocracy

  6. #GiftArticle

    The #AirMarshals Keeping Watch On #EricSwalwell

    The #FBI made a highly irregular request for #surveillance of one #Trump’s most visible critics.

    On august 8, former Rep Eric Swalwell boarded a United Airlines flight from Frankfurt, Germany, to Washington, DC. He didn’t know it, but federal agents were watching him throughout the 9-hr trip.

    #law #dissent #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #MafiaState #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
    theatlantic.com/politics/2026/

  7. #GiftArticle

    The #AirMarshals Keeping Watch On #EricSwalwell

    The #FBI made a highly irregular request for #surveillance of one #Trump’s most visible critics.

    On august 8, former Rep Eric Swalwell boarded a United Airlines flight from Frankfurt, Germany, to Washington, DC. He didn’t know it, but federal agents were watching him throughout the 9-hr trip.

    #law #dissent #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #MafiaState #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
    theatlantic.com/politics/2026/

  8. #GiftArticle

    The #AirMarshals Keeping Watch On #EricSwalwell

    The #FBI made a highly irregular request for #surveillance of one #Trump’s most visible critics.

    On august 8, former Rep Eric Swalwell boarded a United Airlines flight from Frankfurt, Germany, to Washington, DC. He didn’t know it, but federal agents were watching him throughout the 9-hr trip.

    #law #dissent #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #MafiaState #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
    theatlantic.com/politics/2026/

  9. #GiftArticle

    The #AirMarshals Keeping Watch On #EricSwalwell

    The #FBI made a highly irregular request for #surveillance of one #Trump’s most visible critics.

    On august 8, former Rep Eric Swalwell boarded a United Airlines flight from Frankfurt, Germany, to Washington, DC. He didn’t know it, but federal agents were watching him throughout the 9-hr trip.

    #law #dissent #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #MafiaState #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
    theatlantic.com/politics/2026/

  10. #GiftArticle

    The #AirMarshals Keeping Watch On #EricSwalwell

    The #FBI made a highly irregular request for #surveillance of one #Trump’s most visible critics.

    On august 8, former Rep Eric Swalwell boarded a United Airlines flight from Frankfurt, Germany, to Washington, DC. He didn’t know it, but federal agents were watching him throughout the 9-hr trip.

    #law #dissent #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #MafiaState #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
    theatlantic.com/politics/2026/

  11. “Americans have become used to extreme corruption and threats of violence to civil servants. …there is a great difference between expecting autocracy and accepting it.”
    —Sarah Kendzior, Midterm Madness
    #autocracy #corruption #usa

  12. ”Autocrats adore elections! It’s their chance to show that their tyrannical capture is actually an expression of “the people’s love”. That’s why they win 90% of the vote! The US has not reached this point, but it’s getting there.”
    —Sarah Kendzior, Midterm Madness
    sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/m
    #autocracy #elections #voting

  13. The #Pentagon already faces two #FirstAmendment lawsuits over its recent actions at #StarsAndStripes∶ one from the ombudsman, Jacqueline Smith, who sued over her firing & alleged retaliation; the other by two board members, who sued over the March restrictions, alleging illegal #censorship.

    #law #Constitution #FreePress #FreeSpeech #military #Trump #Hegseth #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny

  14. In the lawsuit, filed Thursday in federal district court in Washington, publisher Max Lederer, editor in chief Erik Slavin & reporter Lara Korte claimed that their firings last week for “insubordination” were retaliatory in nature & violated federal administrative law.

    #law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreePress #FreeSpeech #StarsAndStripes #Pentagon #military #Trump #Hegseth #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny

  15. Under #Defense Secy #Hegseth, the publication’s #independence has come under threat during the 2nd #Trump admin as top #Pentagon leaders have derided the newspaper as “woke.”

    Erik Slavin, the #editor in chief, said he & #reporter Lara Korte also received separation notices Friday.

    #StarsAndStripes #law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreePress #journalism #media #FourthEstate #censorship #MafiaState #StateMedia #propaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny

  16. 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

  17. #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

  18. 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

  19. #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
    washingtonpost.com/opinions/20

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. Four days after #AlexPretti was fatally shot while filming officers taking part in the #Trump admin’s #immigration crackdown in #Minnesota, the #DHS quietly opened an investigation at its office in St. Paul.

    The target was not the #BorderPatrol agents who had killed Mr. Pretti, a 37-year-old government nurse, in late January.

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

  23. I’m sure it’ll be appealed, but it’s not nothing!

    Judge Dismisses Federal #Antisemitism Case Against #Harvard

    Judge Richard G. Stearns of the US District Court in Massachusetts granted Harvard’s motion to throw out the case, saying the antisemitic incidents cited in the administration’s March lawsuit were “too isolated and episodic” to show that Harvard is out of compliance with the law.

    #law #AcademicFreedom #FreeSpeech #Trump #censorship #dictatorship #autocracy
    nytimes.com/live/2026/08/13/us

  24. how's mr free speech dealing with this one?

    #autocracy

    Turkish court orders X to block Imamoglu candidacy account

    Ekrem Imamoglu, a member of the main opposition Republican People's Party, is widely seen as the main challenger to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's 23-year rule.
    dw.com/en/turkish-court-orders

  25. In a written ruling Tuesday, Mehta said he was dismissing the #OathKeepers’ charges reluctantly at the request of the #DOJ. He criticized prosecutors for claiming in a court filing that wiping out the most serious convictions from the #Jan6 riot was in the public interest.

    #Trump #whitewashing #RevisionistHistory #propaganda #law #ElectionInterference #BigLie #coup #SeditiousConspiracy #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny

  26. Mehta had sentenced Rhodes to 18 years in prison & imposed lesser prison terms on other top #OathKeepers who were #convicted at #jury trials. #Trump commuted those prison sentences on his first day in office last year, & he pardoned more than 1,500 rioters.

    #whitewashing #RevisionistHistory #propaganda #law #ElectionInterference #BigLie #coup #Jan6 #SeditiousConspiracy #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny

  27. #Trump is considering removing #JeaninePirro, the #USattorney for #DC, over a #DOJ conclusion that problems with the Lincoln Memorial #ReflectingPool stemmed from a flawed renovation rather than vandalism….

    Trump is “furious” with Pirro, one of the sources said, telling CNN that he fumed about her all weekend. They added that based on his criticisms of her, they find it “highly likely she’s removed from her job.”

    #law #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny

  28. Being #Left means, at the very least, being #open #liberal #tolerant #social #humane #empathetic #democratic and #peaceful. I think we can agree on that.

    When this stance is branded as #terrorism by the most powerful ruler #Trump and his brown-nose, such as Secretary of State #Rubio, call for its total annihilation while more and more heads of state offer themselves up to assist in this extermination, then dark times are no longer merely a threat; they are already at our doorstep.

    All "leftists" are being marked as fair game for the hunt. Brace yourselves (if that is even possible).

    #Fascism #Autocracy #Dictatorship

  29. 《All the children had been torn to pieces》

    《Schools and medical facilities are protected under international humanitarian law》

    The United States of America must stand trial in an International Criminal Court.

    #US #America #Corruption #Greed #Autocracy #Tyranny #Dictatorship #NoKings #Fascism #Nazi #CrimesAgainstHumanity #DirtyPoliticians #Iran #StopWar

    news.sky.com/story/revealed-a-

  30. The United States of America has suffered yet another ignominious defeat in the Middle East.

    Just like a naughty child, the US keeps poking the wasp hive. Stop it. Get some help.

    #US #America #Defeat #Iran #Stop #War #GetHelp #Tyranny #Autocracy #Dictatorship #NoKings #Fascism #Nazi #MiddleEast #CrimesAgainstHumanity

  31. CW: Occasional Foul Language. Always Political.

    Turns out “No Kings” translates internationally. 🚫👑

    US protesters are rejecting billionaire-backed authoritarianism, while anti-monarchy protesters outside Buckingham Palace are asking why inherited wealth still comes with political power in 2026.

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    #Coup #Activism #FederalGovernment #USpol #Trump #NoKings #elections #50501Movement #WeAreTheResistance #WeHaveFriendsEverywhere #FDT #PeoplesMovement #FiftyFiftyOne #StopICE #protest #organize

    #NoKings #Autocracy #MonarchyProtest #AntiMonarchy #WealthAndPower #BillionaireInfluence #PoliticalPower #DemocracyNow #BuckinghamPalace #GlobalProtests

  32. But they touch upon 2 key nerves in the body politic: The tension in a #democracy about how & to whom credit for #public works & programs should be given, & narratives of gratitude particular to #US history, including the gratitude freely offered by #immigrants & #refugees, & the forced gratitude demanded from #enslaved people.

    #Trump #narcissism #megalomania #vanity #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #MadKing

  33. …Compared with the giant banners of Trump’s glowering image hanging on federal office buildings, including the once-independent #DOJ, & the renaming for #Trump of public #landmarks & #memorials such as the #KennedyCenter for the Performing Arts, these banners are a relatively small #authoritarian incursion into the public realm.

    #narcissism #megalomania #vanity #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #MadKing