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[?]Nonilex » 🌐
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The administration’s intense digital strategy has helped grab Americans’ & discussion around current events, with some of its videos now capturing bigger audiences on social media than mainstream news reports. A White House video claiming was “in chaos,” which used footage from other states, has been viewed more than 1.4 million times across Instagram, TikTok & X.

The White House shared a video on Oct. 8 claiming to show Chicago “in chaos.” The video was filmed in Uvalde, Texas, on Aug. 27, 2024, according to the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service. (LEFT: White House, RIGHT: DVIDS)

Alt...The White House shared a video on Oct. 8 claiming to show Chicago “in chaos.” The video was filmed in Uvalde, Texas, on Aug. 27, 2024, according to the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service. (LEFT: White House, RIGHT: DVIDS)

    [?]Nonilex » 🌐
    @Nonilex@masto.ai

    ’s video operation now includes in-house photographers & videographers who routinely capture the action of raids & responses for videos that admin officials have widely promoted online. In a video DHS posted to X this month, a man in a flak jacket, his camera held aloft, can be seen jogging to catch up with officers putting a detainee into an SUV.

      [?]Nonilex » 🌐
      @Nonilex@masto.ai

      The Post sent the same details to the White House. Abigail Jackson, a spokeswoman there, did not comment on the errors but said “the Trump administration will continue to highlight the many successes of the president’s agenda through engaging content and banger memes on social media.” [?]

        [?]Nonilex » 🌐
        @Nonilex@masto.ai

        WaPo provided a detailed list of videos featuring misleading footage. DHS propagandist Tricia McLaughlin did not dispute the errors or explain what had happened but said the videos were a small percentage of the more than 400 that the agency has posted this year. “Violence & rioting against law enforcement is unacceptable regardless of where [or apparently when] it occurs,” she said.

          [?]Nonilex » 🌐
          @Nonilex@masto.ai

          Some videos that purported to show the fiery chaos of targeted included footage from completely different states. One that claimed to show dramatic examples of past admins’ failures instead featured border crossings & smuggling boats recorded during Trump’s first term.

          The U.S. Department of Homeland Security shared a video claiming to be from New York and referring to “illegal criminals who flooded our communities” when the country had open borders. The video was filmed in international waters and in 2019, during President Donald Trump's first administration, according to the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service. (LEFT: DHS, RIGHT: DVIDS)

          Alt...The U.S. Department of Homeland Security shared a video claiming to be from New York and referring to “illegal criminals who flooded our communities” when the country had open borders. The video was filmed in international waters and in 2019, during President Donald Trump's first administration, according to the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service. (LEFT: DHS, RIGHT: DVIDS)

          The U.S. Department of Homeland Security shared a video claiming to show “illegal criminals who flooded our communities” due to open borders under past administrations. The video was filmed during President Donald Trump's first term, according to the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service. (LEFT: DHS, RIGHT: DVIDS)

          Alt...The U.S. Department of Homeland Security shared a video claiming to show “illegal criminals who flooded our communities” due to open borders under past administrations. The video was filmed during President Donald Trump's first term, according to the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service. (LEFT: DHS, RIGHT: DVIDS)

            [?]Nonilex » 🌐
            @Nonilex@masto.ai

            Ya don’t say?

            admin uses misleading videos to portray chaos, push
            
Official videos purporting to show the triumph of recent operations used footage that was months old or recorded thousands of miles away, a Washington Post analysis found.


            wapo.st/4nuDGwf

              [?]Nonilex » 🌐
              @Nonilex@masto.ai

              has increasingly used speeches to the to air his grievances & bolster his accomplishments. Still, the scene was striking: a president defending & military deployments on US soil, & employing talking points on the global stage.

                [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                @Nonilex@masto.ai

                also defended the military’s strikes against what the admin claims are suspected drug smugglers. The tactics have drawn widespread rebuke from experts who have said it is illegal to use the to target civilians — including criminal suspects — who are not directly participating in hostilities.

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                  [?]Nonilex » 🌐
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                  Says He Is Prepared to Send ‘More Than the ’ Into US

                  In a speech to American assembled in Japan on Tuesday, Trump said he would escalate his orders to active duty branches of the if he decides it is appropriate.


                  nytimes.com/2025/10/28/us/poli

                    [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                    @Nonilex@masto.ai

                    In September, after meeting with congressional leaders about the looming government shutdown, posted photographs on Truth Social in which trump 2028 hats rested prominently on his Oval Office desk. In October, when discussing the possibility of a third term, Trump said, “I would love to do it. I have my best numbers ever.”

                      [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                      @Nonilex@masto.ai

                      But also in March, Trump’s ally said that he is “a firm believer that President Trump will run & win again in 2028,” adding that he & others are working on ways to do it, which would require circumventing the . (Bannon later told The Economist: “ is gonna be president in ’28, & people just ought to get accommodated with that.” He added, “At the appropriate time, we’ll lay out what the plan is. But there’s a plan.”)

                        [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                        @Nonilex@masto.ai

                        In March, refused to rule out a third term, saying that he was “not joking” about the prospect & claiming that “there are methods which you could do it.” He was asked about the idea of VP running for the presidency, getting elected, & then passing the baton back to him. “That’s one,” he said. “But there are others, too.” As he so often does, Trump later claimed that he wasn’t being serious.

                          [?]Nonilex » 🌐
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                          Writing to James Madison from Paris in 1787, Thomas Jefferson warned that such an incumbent, if narrowly defeated, would “pretend false votes, foul play, hold possession of the reins of government.” Were that moment ever to come, the believed, it would mark the of the nation that they had conceived, bringing to a calamitous end the greatest experiment in self-government ever attempted by man.

                            [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                            @Nonilex@masto.ai

                            With his every word & deed, has given Americans reason to believe that he will seek a third term, in defiance of the . It seems abundantly clear that he will hold on to the office at any cost, including America’s ruin.

                            The of our nation foresaw a figure like Trump, a who would ascend to the presidency & refuse to relinquish to a successor chosen by the American people in a free & fair .

                              [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                              @Nonilex@masto.ai

                              PRESIDENT FOR LIFE

                              is trying to amass the powers of a .

                              By J. Michael Luttig

                              In the normal course of history, the president of the is a figure who inspires optimism in the American people. The 47th president prefers to stir feelings of fear, vulnerability, hopelessness, & political inevitability—the sense that he, & only he, can rescue the nation from looming peril.


                              theatlantic.com/magazine/archi

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                                [?]Em :official_verified: » 🌐
                                @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange

                                I'm old enough to remember when having your photo and fingerprints taken by the authorities was reserved to convicted criminals.

                                Now it will eventually be all of us.
                                All of us constantly tracked by governments and corporations alike, requiring our biometric data for anything they feel like.

                                Our privacy rights are going down the drain under the pretext of security.

                                But it will not make us safer, on the contrary.
                                Don't believe their authoritarian lies.

                                  [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                  @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                  Bannon’s statement comes after months of publicly toying with the idea of running for a 3rd term. Even as Trump insists he is serious, some leaders have dismissed the idea as a joke, noting the does not permit it. White House aides have mocked reporters for taking Trump at his word.

                                  Trump has for years publicly & privately joked about being “president for life.”

                                    [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                    @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                    “At the appropriate time, we’ll lay out what the plan is,” said , without elaborating. “But there is a plan.” He added that was an “instrument of divine will,” echoing, as Trump himself has, the language of the divine right of .


                                    nytimes.com/2025/01/22/us/poli

                                      [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                      @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                      , the pro- podcaster & convicted fraudster who briefly served as Trump’s White House chief strategist in his first term, publicly threw his support behind Trump’s talk of seeking a 3rd term, in defiance of a constitutionally mandated 2-term limit.


                                      nytimes.com/2025/10/24/us/poli

                                        [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                        @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                        Deploying an is a major escalation of power in a region that has already seen an unusually large military buildup in the Sea & the waters off .

                                        The military has conducted its 10th strike on a suspected drug-running boat, said earlier Friday, blaming the Tren de Aragua gang for operating the vessel & leaving 6 people dead in the Caribbean Sea.

                                          [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                          @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                          orders aircraft carrier to as signals escalation
                                          
A spokesman claimed the dramatic increase in combat power aims not only to “disrupt narcotics trafficking” in the region but to “degrade & dismantle” the criminal groups that operate there.


                                          apnews.com/live/donald-trump-n

                                            [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                            @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                            The is expected to vote next week on a bipartisan resolution that would bar the from engaging in hostilities inside without explicit authorization by .
                                            The gives Congress the to declare , but formal declarations are rare & have not been issued since WWII. Lawmakers have more often passed authorizations for the use of force to grant the president permission to use force against specific targets.

                                              [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                              @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                              made the remarks during a news conference at the White House to promote the work of agencies that he said were working to “arrest, prosecute & permanently remove” people who were part of an elaborate drug cartel operation inside the US.
                                              They came as Trump has talked about expanding the legally questionable operation he has undertaken over the past several weeks, in which 9 airstrikes at sea have resulted in 37 acknowledged .

                                                [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                                @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                                “I don’t think we’re going to necessarily ask for a declaration of war,” told reporters of his campaign of deadly strikes against vessels in the Sea near & . “I think we are going to kill people that are bringing drugs into our country, OK? We are going to kill them, you know? They are going to be, like, dead.”

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                                                  [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                                  @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                                  said that he would not seek congressional approval to carry out strikes against alleged drug that allegedly traffic narcotics to the US, even as he vowed to expand the operation from attacks at sea to targets on land. The is expected to vote next week on a bipartisan resolution that would bar the US from engaging in hostilities inside without explicit authorization by .


                                                  nytimes.com/2025/10/23/us/poli

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