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[?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
@wdlindsy@toad.social

White Christians own the Trump presidency, having voted — across the board from evangelicals to mainline Protestants to Catholics — three times in the majority for Trump.

And for his cruelty visited on children, immigrants, his critics… And for his destruction of longstanding norms of decency and respect for the Constitution that keep democracy going.


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

    The memo, signed on 8 October by Maj Gen Ronald Burkett, the director of operations for the ’s bureau, sets thresholds for the size of the quick reaction force to be trained in each state, with most states required to train 500 national guard members, for a total of 23,500 troops nationwide.

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      [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
      @wdlindsy@toad.social

      "Arkansas is religiously an evangelical Christian state; Southern Baptists are the largest evangelical denomination in existence; and 80 percent of evangelicals countrywide vote MAGA. …

      I am not a MAGA supporter. I think MAGA is an abomination and scourge on not only the Republican Party but America, and certainly evangelical Christianity."


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        [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
        @wdlindsy@toad.social

        She answers her critic thoughtfully, refusing to cede ground on the well-documented fact that a very large percentage of white evangelicals are the core support of Donald Trump and the cruelties he is visiting on so many people. As she states,


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          [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
          @wdlindsy@toad.social

          In the essay I've just linked, Faulkenberry responds to an Arkansas man who emailed her a lengthy response to her previous statement about spiritual abuse, saying that, in effect, she's painting with a broad brush, that not all Christians and not all Southern Baptists are like what she's describing.


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            [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
            @wdlindsy@toad.social

            Arkansas writer Gwen Faulkenberry, who grew up Southern Baptist in Arkansas, recently published an essay in which she speaks about the "spiritual abuse" she and others, notably women, have endured in Southern Baptist churches.


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

              A top US official has ordered the national guards of all 50 US states, DC & US territories to form “quick reaction forces” trained in “riot control”, including use of batons, body shields, Tasers & pepper spray, according to an internal Pentagon directive reviewed by the Guardian.

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

                As reported in August (see boosted thread)

                orders states’ National Guards to form ‘quick reaction forces’ for ‘crowd control’

                Pentagon memo details plan to train >20,000 members across the US to carry out ’s order on *subduing# civil *unrest*


                theguardian.com/us-news/2025/o

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

                  “We’ll talk later about whether that’s ,” the judge responded to Lin Wednesday.

                  For the next 3 days, Immergut will preside over a trial that’s expected to touch on a range of issues, from lofty legal arguments about the authority & limitations of presidential powers, to specific ways the Police Bureau has evolved its response to since 2020, & rising tensions between local & law enforcement officers.

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

                    Jean Lin, special counsel for the , confirmed the deployment to the US District Court Judge Karin Immergut on Wednesday but provided few specifics — minutes before the trial began.

                    Immergut issued a restraining order at 3:40PM on Oct 4, barring from federalizing the & blocking their deployment. Later, on Oct 5, she issued another order temporarily blocking Guard members from anywhere in the country from deploying to Oregon.

                      [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                      @wdlindsy@toad.social

                      Ben Jennings comments on the "peacefire" Trump has effected in the Israel-Gaza situation.


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                      theguardian.com/commentisfree/

                      Ben Jennings offers satiric commentary "peacefire" Trump has effected in the Israel-Gaza situation, which isn't bringing peace at all but bomb dropping

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

                        Those emails were submitted to the court as a trial exhibit.

                        opb.org/pdf/Ex%20201%20Rieger%

                        “At 11:35 PDT today, a force of nine MPs arrived at the ICE facility in downtown Portland, Oregon where they assumed their first support mission,” wrote Col. Jeff Merenkov at 3:28 p.m. on Oct. 4.

                        The email included a schedule that showed the troops’ “shift conclusion” was set for midnight.

                          [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                          @wdlindsy@toad.social

                          "This isn’t a real ceasefire in Gaza – it’s a holding pattern before war returns.

                          Israel’s airstrikes have exposed the fragility of Trump’s ‘peace plan’. Without international support, it risks crumbling altogether."

                          ~ Sanam Vakil


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                            [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                            @wdlindsy@toad.social

                            "Trump has built his power on an alliance with far-right online trolls who hijacked the attention of the American electorate using bots and algorithms feeding controversy. That effort has only accelerated since then, as Elon Musk took over Twitter and eliminated any checks on the ability of literal Nazis to exploit its algorithms."


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                              [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                              @wdlindsy@toad.social

                              "Using bots and mob armies to stoke false controversies helped Trump win in 2016. It is how he has managed public attention ever since. ...

                              Of the most successful 20 peddlers of disinformation identified by Stanford’s Election Integrity Project, all were Trump aligned, and Trump and his two older sons both ranked close to the top of the list."

                              ~ Marcy Wheeler


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                                [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                "Trump’s chaotic tariff policies inflicted three types of economic damage: higher prices for American producers and consumers, economic uncertainty, and the global loss of American credibility. Even if the worst in terms of prices and uncertainty is over, it’s clear that Trump’s tariffs have inflicted lasting damage on the US economy as well as the global economic order."

                                ~ Paul Krugman

                                paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how

                                  [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                  @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                  "Johnson’s one client is not his constituents but Donald Trump. And Trump does not want the federal government to ever reopen."

                                  ~ Julie Roginsky


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                                    [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                    @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                    "This shutdown isn’t an accident; it’s a weapon. Federal workers are furloughed, contractors are unpaid, and community clinics are collapsing. The Trump administration calls it 'fiscal discipline.' I call it cruelty with a spreadsheet."

                                    ~ Michael Cohen


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                                      [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                      @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                      "Three-quarters of the way through 2025 (more than 300 days), the People’s House has met for a mere 87 days.

                                      Let that number sink in. While Americans work, pay their mortgages, and ferry their kids to school, the 119th Congress—or at least the House of Representatives—is on track to be the most truant in modern history."

                                      ~ Jeff Nesbit


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

                                        troops briefly deployed to despite judge’s order, federal trial reveals

                                        The revelation came to light Wednesday in federal court in Portland, where US District Court Judge Karin Immergut will decide if acted lawfully or violated the by trying to deploy the National Guard.


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                                          [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                          @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                          "They are perfectly comfortable allowing our children to go hungry and punish undocumented workers as long as the gestapo thugs at ICE keep getting funded. These are the priorities of the Republican Party. Let’s not pretend both sides are the same."


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                                            [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                            @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                            "The government shutdown that’s been engineered by the Republican Party at the behest of Donald is wreaking havoc across federal agencies. I think that is exactly as intended, and the damage being done could be long lasting and possibly permanent. That, also, is exactly as intended."

                                            ~ Mary L. Trump


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                                              [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                              @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                              "The government is shut down.

                                              Millions are going to go hungry and lose their health care.

                                              But Donald Trump is holding weekly meetings to discuss...his golden ballroom."

                                              ~ Adam Schiff

                                              As Schiff notes, Trump's press person Karoline Leavitt has said the golden ballroom is his number 1 priority.


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                                                [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                "The decision to deliberately make people go hungry to score political points is so callous, so cruel, so cynical, and fundamentally un-American. I want everyone in the country to know this is happening, and that will only occur if all of us tell as many people as possible."


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                                                  [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                  @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                  "To be clear, this is not simply a consequence of the shutdown. It’s a specific decision made by the Trump administration to exert political leverage. To Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans, forcing poor children to go hungry is preferable to negotiating with Democrats over lowering health care costs for millions of Americans."


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                                                    [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                    @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                    "For the first time in history, the government will refuse to pay food benefits to the poorest Americans. The Trump administration is refusing to distribute payments for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) nutrition program, which feed more than 40 million Americans. Children will go hungry in the most prosperous country on Earth."


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                                                      [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                      @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                      "This shutdown is on the cusp of becoming the longest in history. Several factors have contributed to the prolonged stalemate. The main reason is that Speaker Mike Johnson has kept the House out of session for more than a month to prevent members from negotiating with Democrats (and to prevent the release of the Epstein files)."

                                                      ~ Dan Pfeiffer


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                                                        [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                        @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                        "The administration maintains it cannot distribute the $6 billion the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) holds in reserve to cover for November 1.”


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                                                          [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                          @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                          "Yesterday air traffic controllers received their first ‘zero’ paycheck. For weeks, flights have been delayed across the country as air traffic controllers call in sick. Also across the country, states are bracing for food insecurity among the 42 million Americans who depend on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits when those payments don’t go out on time on November 1."


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                                                            [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                            @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                            Today is the twenty-ninth day of the government shutdown, and the House of Representatives is still on break as House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) continues to try to force the Senate to pass the House measure to fund the government without negotiating over the Democrats’ demand for the extension of the premium tax credit without which healthcare premiums will skyrocket."

                                                            ~ Heather Cox Richardson


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                                                              [?]#FreeSchool <---> Hashtag » 🌐
                                                              @freeschool@qoto.org

                                                              How do you stop of the in general ? ❓

                                                              If is pointing US Military wherever he wants to kill - is that same for domestic use ?

                                                              Picture of Tom Nichols with text below: The American President has said, I can point the US Military anywhere I want and kill anyone I want," and that attitude may become a principle in the domestic use of the military Tom Nichols Under that some text by FreeSchool says: Sometimes I wonder how far he's willing tdo Hashtag #FreeSchool for more

                                                              Alt...Picture of Tom Nichols with text below: The American President has said, I can point the US Military anywhere I want and kill anyone I want," and that attitude may become a principle in the domestic use of the military Tom Nichols Under that some text by FreeSchool says: Sometimes I wonder how far he's willing tdo Hashtag #FreeSchool for more

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

                                                                In its order seeking additional briefing Wednesday, asked “whether the term ‘regular forces’ refers to the regular forces of the United States military, &, if so, how that interpretation affects the operation” of the .

                                                                The justices set deadlines for the briefs that last through Nov 17, & the high court is unlikely to rule in the meantime.

                                                                That means ’s deployment of troops in — already blocked for 20 days — will likely be blocked for at least 19 more.

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

                                                                  Trump’s deployment of troops within will likely remain on hold through mid-November after sought more information from lawyers Wednesday.

                                                                  The request ended 12 days of silence from the justices. The admin asked the high court on Oct 17 to undo an order from US District Judge April Perry that’s blocked the troop deployment since Oct 9.

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

                                                                    After 12 days of silence about the deployment of troops in , justices are now asking “whether the term ‘regular forces’ refers to the regular forces of the , &, if so, how that interpretation affects the operation” of the .


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

                                                                      No ruling imminent as asks for more briefs in deployment case

                                                                      on Wednesday asked for more briefing in the ongoing fight over Trump’s ability to deploy National Guard troops to Illinois, signaling that the court’s highly anticipated ruling is still weeks away.


                                                                      chicagotribune.com/2025/10/29/

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

                                                                        nominee at export withdraws amid scrutiny of ties
                                                                        
Bryce McFerran is a former senior executive at a steel-trading business co-owned by one of Russia’s richest & is married to a member of a Russian family with extensive ties to the .


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                                                                          Autonomie und Solidarität boosted

                                                                          [?]Autonomie und Solidarität » 🌐
                                                                          @autonomysolidarity@todon.eu

                                                                          'Wenn ein Charakter wie Donald Trump Gaza „ewigwährenden Frieden“ verspricht und darin auch noch von dem wegen Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit gesuchten Machiavellisten Benjamin Netanjahu unterstützt wird, sollte man ganz genau hinsehen. Und wer das tut, wird rasch erkennen: egal, ob Phase 2 und 3 dieses Plans ausverhandelt werden und mit welchen genauen Ergebnissen – mit Frieden für die palästinensische Bevölkerung wird dies wenig bis gar nichts zu tun haben. Zu befürchten ist vielmehr ihre gewalttätige Befriedung im Interesse Israels, ihre fortlaufende Unterwerfung unter ein wie auch immer geartetes Protektorat, das sich als ein auf Dauer gestelltes Provisorium entpuppen könnte, so wie der Osloer Friedensprozess, der vieles gebracht hat, bloß keinen Frieden. Nur wird das Ganze in Gaza unter ungleich schlimmeren Bedingungen ablaufen....'

                                                                          Zum ewigen Frieden

                                                                          via @medicointernational
                                                                          medico.de/blog/zum-ewigen-frie

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

                                                                            & were notified of plans to cut the number of troops stationed on 's eastern flank including soldiers who were to be stationed at Romania's Mihail Kogalniceanu air base, Romania's defense ministry said Wednesday.

                                                                            Washington's European allies have been told previously by the admin of that they will need to take more responsibility for their own as the focuses more on its own borders and the Indo-Pacific region.

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

                                                                              to withdraw some troops from , 's eastern flank

                                                                              The decision was expected given changes in Washington's priorities, but roughly 1,000 U.S. troops will continue to be stationed in Romania, the country's defense ministry said.


                                                                              nbcnews.com/world/europe/us-tr

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

                                                                                “This is a political prosecution & a gross attempt to silence , a right protected under the . This case is a major push by the administration to criminalize & punish anyone who speaks out against them,” Abughazaleh said in a video posted to BlueSky.

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

                                                                                  A congressional candidate in has been indicted along with 5 others over blocking vehicles during outside a federal enforcement building in suburban , according to court documents.

                                                                                  The indictment, filed last week by a special grand jury, accuses Kat Abughazaleh of blocking a federal agent outside the detention center.


                                                                                  apnews.com/article/federal-enf

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

                                                                                    Will Halt News Operations Amid Shutdown

                                                                                    Until this month, had successfully resisted officials who had tried to render it obsolete.

                                                                                    RFA, 1 of 4 federally funded news organizations the Trump admin has aimed to close, will shut down its news operations on Friday for the first time since its founding in 1996, removing one of the few outlets in countries with limited press freedoms.


                                                                                    nytimes.com/2025/10/29/us/poli

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

                                                                                      It was not immediately clear whether their suspensions would affect Taranto’s sentencing date or the government’s recommendation on the punishment he should receive.

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

                                                                                        When Secret Service agents noticed Taranto in a wooded area near ’s residence, he fled. Investigators later found 2 & several rounds of in his van.
                                                                                        Taranto faces sentencing Thursday, following his conviction earlier this year on counts of unlawful possession of firearms & ammunition & making false threats. In their sentencing memo, Valdivia & White recommended he serve 27 months in prison.

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

                                                                                          Taranto said on video that he had outfitted his van with a car that he threatened to detonate outside the headquarters building. He also filmed himself driving around the city, saying he was searching for tunnels that would provide him access to the homes of president Barack & lawmakers, government court filings said.
                                                                                          
Taranto filmed those last moves after had posted what he said was Obama’s address to social media.

                                                                                            [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                                                            @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                                                            "What he omitted [in his commentary on Trump and the Epstein case], or hasn’t pieced together, is that the biggest, most revelatory twist in the Epstein saga is ongoing: Republicans have effectively dissolved the U.S. House of Representatives."

                                                                                            In other words, it's long since time that the media — New York Times leading the way — speak truth about what's going on right now.


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                                                                                              [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                                                              @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                                                              Noting that right-wing New York Times columnist Ross Douthat recently claimed tht Trump's coverup of the Jeffrey Epstein case file doesn’t bear hallmarks of state secrecy so much as desperation of guilty men, Brian Beutler writes,

                                                                                              "Douthat frequently seems both caught off guard and pained by the depravities of his coalition partners—in denial until some dark truth is revealed, at which point he acquiesces, and moves on to the next."


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

                                                                                                All charges related to Taranto’s conduct at the Capitol that day were dismissed as a result of ’s clemency orders.
                                                                                                
By that time, however, prosecutors had charged Taranto with additional stemming from a return trip he made to Washington in June 2023. He live-streamed himself making threats against several high-profile people & the headquarters of the National Institute of Standards & Technology, acc/to an arrest affidavit filed in his case.

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

                                                                                                  In court filings, they said Taranto had entered the building with the crowd of supporters & later tussled with MPD officers who were trying to repel the crowds. Once forced outside, court documents allege, Taranto also fought with other participants on the Capitol steps, using his cane to fend them off.

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

                                                                                                    Since then, the has dismissed or reassigned several of the prosecutors who led cases against those accused in the , particularly in the ’s office for , where Valdivia & White work.

                                                                                                    Prosecutors charged Taranto, a 39-yo married father of 2, in 2023 with misdemeanors stemming from his role in the attack.

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