Border Patrol’s #Bovino agrees to return to court daily, as he & federal judge talk #BodyCams, #TearGas, IDs

The top #US #BorderPatrol commander spent an hour on the stand Tuesday, responding to US District Judge Sara Ellis’ concerns about how federal agents have handled themselves, people they’ve detained, #protesters & #journalists.

#Trump #Chicago #law #immigration #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #fascism #PoliceBrutality #MilitaryState #ICE #CBP #Gestapo
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/28/border-patrol-gregory-bovino-federal-court

@Nonilex

#Fascism

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

#law #Constitution #RightToProtest #AbuseOfPower #Authoritarianism #Autocracy #Dictatorship #fascism #Tyranny #MafiaState #MilitaryState #MartialLaw #PosseComitatusAct

#Trump also defended the #US 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 #military to target civilians — including criminal suspects — who are not directly participating in hostilities.

#law #murder #WarPowers #AbuseOfPower #Authoritarianism #Autocracy #Dictatorship #fascism #Tyranny #MafiaState #MilitaryState

#Trump Says He Is Prepared to Send ‘More Than the #NationalGuard’ Into US #Cities

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

#law #immigration #Constitution #FreedomOfAssembly #RightToProtest #CivilRights #AbuseOfPower #Authoritarianism #Autocracy #Dictatorship #fascism #Tyranny #MafiaState #MilitaryState #MartialLaw #PosseComitatusAct
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/us/politics/trump-japan-national-guard-us-cities.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

So the USA is killing 14 more people, without evidence, arrest or trial. In plain sight, not hiding but proud of it. This is not the country that helped to liberate Europe from Nazi rule or the land of the free anymore...
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0ex94eeljeo
#trump #fascism #geopolitics @geopolitics

We Americans are by nature good people who believe in the inherent goodness of others, especially those we elect to represent us in the highest office in the land. But we ignore such statements & other expressions of #Trump’s intent at our peril. The 47th president is a vain man, & nothing would flatter his vanity more than seizing another term. Doing so would signify the ultimate triumph over his political enemies.

#law #ElectionLaw #Constitution #22A #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny

In September, after meeting with congressional leaders about the looming government shutdown, #Trump 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.”

#law #ElectionLaw #Constitution #22A #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #ElectoralAuthoritarianism #fascism #tyranny

But also in March, Trump’s ally #SteveBannon 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 #22ndAmendment. (Bannon later told The Economist: “#Trump 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.”)

#law #Constitution #authoritarianism #fascism

In March, #Trump 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 #JDVance 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.

#law #ElectionLaw #Constitution #22A #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism

#Trump proved in 2021 that he would do anything to remain in the White House. Even after the violence of #Jan6, his second #impeachment, & the conviction & incarceration of scores of his followers, he reiterated his willingness to subvert the 2024 #election. That proved unnecessary. Yet since his victory, Trump has again told the American people that he is prepared to do what it takes to remain in #power, the #Constitution be damned.

#law #ElectionLaw #22A #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism

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 #Founders believed, it would mark the #demise of the nation that they had conceived, bringing to a calamitous end the greatest experiment in self-government ever attempted by man.

#law #ElectionLaw #Constitution #22A #authoritarianism #autocracy #fascism #tyranny

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

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

#law #ElectionLaw #22A #authoritarianism #fascism

Since his second inauguration, #Trump has seized #authoritarian control over the #FederalGovernment & demanded the #obedience of the other powerful institutions of American society — #universities, #LawFirms, #media companies [& more]. The question weighing heavily on the minds of many Americans is whether Trump will subvert next year’s #midterm #elections or the 2028 presidential #election to extend his reign.

#law #ElectionLaw #Constitution #22A #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny

#GiftArticle

PRESIDENT FOR LIFE

#Trump is trying to amass the powers of a #king.

By J. Michael Luttig

In the normal course of history, the president of the #UnitedStates 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.

#law #ElectionLaw #Constitution #22A #authoritarianism #fascism
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/12/trump-third-term-authoritarianism/684616/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxe5K46zpx06xRWqfOz8AZR4

Ah, good thing Ireland didn’t bet a major chunk of its economy on US Big Tech creating jobs or anything.

*phew!*

#BigTech #USA #AI #tech #fascism #technoFascism #Ireland #Amazon

Alt...

Amazon has six sites in Ireland, including the Amazon Fulfilment Centre in Baldonnel Business Park in Dublin, Ireland. Amazon to cut 30,000 office jobs internationally following Al investments It is not yet clear whether Irish employees will be impacted. Today 8:40 a.m. AMAZON WILL LAY off tens of thousands of office workers as the e-commerce and tech giant trims costs amid ramped-up investments in artificial intelligence, according to US media reports. Some 30,000 positions will be cut in a belt- tightening move expected to begin on Tuesday, multiple news outlets reported.

Can you imagine what could be happening in Gaza right now if the Democrats, through countless administrations over the last 75 years, hadn’t stood up for what’s right against Israel’s settler colonialism, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing and seen the establishment of a two-state solution?

#democrats #republicans #USA #fascism #israel #genocide #hypocrisy #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing

Thank goodness both Barack Obama and Joe Biden abolished ICE or there’s no knowing what state the US would be in right now.

#democrats #republicans #USA #ICE #fascism

I shouldn't have assumed modern artists would be antifascist. It's too bad; I quite like the design here.

When I hear "Fascist art", I think of the boring classical sculptures that the Nazi Party favored: stern supermen, being athletic. Or paintings of some "uncorrupted" volkish village. The Nazis famously called almost everything experimental or urban "degenerate art."

But in fascist Italy, the Futurist school carried right on glorifying the modern, urban, mechanical world. And they made fawning portraits of Mussolini too.

Aerial portrait of Mussolini the aviator (Aeroritratto di Mussolini aviatore) by Alfredo Gauro Ambrosi, 1930

#aviation #italy #futurist #futurism #fascism #painting #modernart #1930s

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Painting of a landscape seen from above, as if from an airplane. Mussolini's profile appears to be emerging from the contours of the hills and town

SCMP: UK political commentator Sami Hamdi detained by ICE officers at California airport

"...Official said the detention was related to comments Hamdi, who is Muslim, made about the Middle East. Hamdi was on a speaking tour in the US..."

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3330534/uk-political-commentator-sami-hamdi-detained-ice-officers-california-airport

#FirstAmendment #Fascism #ICE

United State Holocaust Memorial Museum

State of Deception: the Power of Nazi Propaganda

https://exhibitions.ushmm.org/propaganda

#propaganda #hate #fascism

Oh wow, utility (possibly) ratting out their customers to ICE

https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/115446857186439348

#Fascism #ICE #Privacy

lol, let's start burning Union Jacks then if that's the game.

"Right to offend" 🔥 🇬🇧

#UniteTheKingdom #Flagwankers #Islamophobia #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #Fascism #Racism #FreeSpeech

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Man fined for burning Qur'an in London wins appeal against conviction Judge says Hamit Coskun has ‘right to offend’ and overturns conviction for religiously aggravated public order offence

Truthout: ICE Kidnapped My Neighbor in Broad Daylight. The Aftermath Left Me Reeling.

https://truthout.org/articles/ice-kidnapped-my-neighbor-in-broad-daylight-the-aftermath-left-me-reeling/

#Fascism #ICE #Chicago

🙏

Did not see this early, but a happy story.

LA Times: ‘We never lost faith’: Culver City palatero reunites with family after 114 days detained

"...Nearly four months after being detained by ICE while working his regular route, a Culver City palatero has returned safely home to his family — and has a green card on the way...."

10/18/25

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-18/culver-city-palatero-ice-detention-green-card

#ICE #fascism #immigration

Bannon’s statement comes after months of #Trump publicly toying with the idea of running for a 3rd term. Even as Trump insists he is serious, some #Republican leaders have dismissed the idea as a joke, noting the #Constitution 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.”

#law #22ndAmendment #ElectoralAuthoritarianism #illiberalism #authoritarianism #autocracy #fascism

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

#law #Constitution #22ndAmendment #ElectoralAuthoritarianism #illiberalism #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #NoKings
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/us/politics/trump-president-king.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

#SteveBannon, the pro-#Trump 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.

#law #Constitution #22ndAmendment #ElectoralAuthoritarianism #illiberalism #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/us/politics/president-trump-2028-steve-bannon.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

#Pentagon orders aircraft carrier to #LatinAmerica as #Trump 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.

#law #murder #Constitution #Congress #war #WarPowers #authoritarianism #fascism
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-10-24-2025

The Guardian: Officers in California fire on truck they say tried to back into Coast Guard base

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/24/california-coast-guard-base-truck

#Fascism #politics #ICE #crime #USCG

#Protester Who Played ‘#StarWars’ Song Sues After Arrest in Washington

Sam O’Hara was playing the “Imperial March” theme from the movie while protesting the deployment of #NationalGuard troops in the capital when he was handcuffed by city #police officers.

#law #dissent #RightToProtest #freedomOfExpression #fascism #Stormtroopers
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/us/politics/protester-who-played-star-wars-song-sues-after-arrest-in-washington.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

#Trump 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 #military operation he has undertaken over the past several weeks, in which 9 airstrikes at sea have resulted in 37 acknowledged #murders.

#law #Constitution #authoritarianism #fascism

“I don’t think we’re going to necessarily ask for a declaration of war,” #Trump told reporters of his campaign of deadly strikes against vessels in the #Caribbean Sea near #Colombia & #Venezuela. “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.”

#law #murder #Constitution #authoritarianism #fascism

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

#law #Constitution #authoritarianism #fascism
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/us/politics/trump-military-authorization-cartel-strikes.html?smid=url-share

"So often the cry comes: what good is art in war? ...Paintings are burnt by those who deem (them) 'degenerate.' Now is the time for battle, not art, say the voices of reason.

"We raise our voices in reply: art is our weapon! ...To let fascists crush art beneath their Jack boots, to fail to protect those who move us most profoundly, this would be a loss to humanity."

--Joanna Quinn,
THE WHALEBONE THEATRE

#art
#fascism
#BanTheFascistsNotTheBooks
#BanTheFascistsNotTheArts

@SrRochardBunson Let's not forget that the #FourthReich is also protecting/implicated in a #global #pedophile ring.

This isn't about where to draw the line. These abhorrently #criminal child-fucking #nazi #dirtbag #losers are so far past the line they have no idea when or where they crossed it and nor do they even care.

And, somehow, just some-fucking-how they are dictating to the rest of us how to live our lives and who is allowed in this country? That is truly exponentially mind-blowing on too many fronts.

This has never been about #left vs #right or #liberal vs #conservative or #republican vs #democrat. This is about #good vs #evil. Period.

#unitedstates #uspol #uspolitics #maga #fascism #GuardiansOfPedophiles

#Pentagon announces a new #FarRight #press corps after mass walkout

A new crop of *conservative* #media & influencers — including the Gateway Pundit, the Post Millennial, Human Events & the National Pulse — signed an agreement with the #Defense Department.

#law #democracy #Constitution #FreePress #fascism #StateMedia #propaganda
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/10/22/pentagon-press-corps-right-wing-media/

But the #Trump admin has taken other aggressive steps to assert more sway over #elections.

#DOJ, for instance, is compiling the largest set of national #voter roll data it has ever collected, an effort to try to prove unsubstantiated claims that large numbers of undocumented immigrants have voted illegally, The Times previously reported.

#law #ElectionLaw #coup #TrumpCoup2 #BigLie #propaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #UnitedStates
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/us/politics/trump-voter-registration-data.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

McCarthy’s appointment comes as nearly all of the #election experts at #CISA have been placed on administrative leave or reassigned this year amid a large-scale *downsizing* of the agency, which had played a leading role in deterring attacks on elections systems & combating #disinformation about voting.

#Trump #law #ElectionLaw #coup #TrumpCoup2 #BigLie #propaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #UnitedStates

Another activist, #MarciMcCarthy, who spread debunked claims about voting machines in Georgia when she was the chairwoman of the DeKalb County #Republican Party, was named in May to be the director of public affairs at the #Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, or #CISA, which is housed in #DHS.

#Trump #law #ElectionLaw #coup #TrumpCoup2 #BigLie #propaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #UnitedStates

“And therefore, we [would] have some additional powers that don’t exist right now,” Honey said in March, according to a recording reviewed by The New York Times from someone who joined the call, “and therefore, we can take these other steps without #Congress & we can mandate that states do things & so on.”

#Trump #law #ElectionLaw #coup #TrumpCoup2 #BigLie #propaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #UnitedStates

On a call with #FarRight activists in March, before her appointment to #DHS, Honey suggested that the new #Trump admin could declare a “national emergency” & justify dictating new rules to state & local governments. She said this could be based on an “actual investigation” of the 2020 election if it showed there had been a “manipulation” of the vote.

[There have been countless exhaustive investigations]

#law #ElectionLaw #coup #TrumpCoup2 #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #US

In the past few months, #Trump has elevated multiple proponents of his false fraud claims into high-level admin jobs. Now, as government insiders, these activists could wield their newfound power to discredit future results or rekindle old claims to argue for a federal intrusion into locally administered voting systems.

#law #ElectionLaw #coup #TrumpCoup2 #BigLie #propaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #UnitedStates

The remark parroted a widespread view on the right that #CISA had sought to silence supporters of #Trump’s false fraud claims. Honey also repeatedly mentioned a false report often cited by #election conspiracists to support their claims that voting machines were rigged to favor Democrats, acc/to the people familiar with the call.

#law #ElectionLaw #coup #TrumpCoup2 #BigLie #propaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #UnitedStates