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Footage of the attacks triggered a wave of outrage around the world. France, Germany, the UK & the EU all condemned the #atrocities.
Mohamed Osman, #Sudan researcher with Human Rights Watch, said that footage coming out of #elFasher “reveals a horrifying truth: the Rapid Support Forces feel free to carry out mass atrocities with little fear of consequences.”
“The world needs to act to protect #civilians from more heinous crimes,” he said.
“An unfathomable horror,” Simon Mane, a national director for the World Vision aid group, said. “Children are not just dying; they are being brutally robbed of their very existence, their hopes & futures cruelly wiped away. Their fate is a devastating moral failure.”
#Aid groups said hundreds were killed & hundreds detained since the #RSF overran the city, but a death toll has been difficult to determine given a near communication blackout.
The HRL also said that “systematic killings” took place in the vicinity of the eastern wall, which the #RSF built outside the city earlier this year.
It also reported what it said were targeted attacks by the RSF on #health facilities, #HealthWorkers, patients & #HumanitarianAid workers, which it said amount to #WarCrimes.
#LawsOfWar #InternationalLaw #law #geopolitics #Sudan #Darfur #elFasher #terrorism
In a report late Tuesday, the Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) said that #RSF fighters continued to carry out #MassKillings since they took over #elFasher.
The report, which relied on satellite imagery from Airbus, said it corroborated alleged #executions & mass killing by the RSF around the Saudi Hospital, & at a detention center at the former Children’s Hospital in the eastern part of the city.
#LawsOfWar #InternationalLaw #law #geopolitics #Sudan #WarCrimes
Both Amena and Tajal-Rahman said that #RSF fighters tortured & beat the detainees & shot at least 4 people Monday who later died of wounds. They also sexually assaulted women & girls, they said.
Giulia Chiopris, a pediatrician at a hospital run by the Doctors Without Borders medical group in Tawila, said they received many patients since Oct 18, suffering from injuries related to bombing or gunshots.
#SVAC #CRSV #LawsOfWar #InternationalLaw #law #geopolitics #Sudan #Darfur #elFasher #WarCrimes
The administration’s intense digital strategy has helped grab Americans’ #attention & #influence 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 #Chicago was “in chaos,” which used footage from other states, has been viewed more than 1.4 million times across Instagram, TikTok & X.
#Trump #propaganda #fascism #authoritarianism #law #immigration #MilitaryState #Gestapo
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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)
#DHS’s video operation now includes in-house photographers & videographers who routinely capture the action of #ICE raids & #protest responses for videos that admin officials have widely promoted online. In a video DHS posted to X this month, a man in a #BorderPatrol flak jacket, his camera held aloft, can be seen jogging to catch up with officers putting a detainee into an SUV.
#Trump #propaganda #fascism #authoritarianism #law #immigration #MilitaryState #Gestapo
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.” [?]
#Trump #propaganda #fascism #authoritarianism #law #MilitaryState #Gestapo
WaPo provided #DHS 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.
#Trump #propaganda #fascism #authoritarianism #law #MilitaryState #Gestapo
Some videos that purported to show the fiery chaos of #Trump targeted #cities 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.
#propaganda #fascism #authoritarianism #law #MilitaryState #Gestapo
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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)
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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)
The official’s sound bite about #deportations in #DC played over a clip from May showing detainees on a Coast Guard boat off the coast of Nantucket, the Massachusetts island 400 miles away.
Officials in #Trump’s admin have used similarly misleading footage in at least 6 videos promoting its #immigration agenda shared in the last 3 months, a WaPo analysis found, muddying the #reality of events in viral clips that have been viewed millions of times.
#propaganda #fascism #law #MilitaryState
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security shared a video claiming to show federal agents working to “deport vicious criminals” from Washington, D.C. The video was filmed on Nantucket, the Massachusetts island, in May, according to The Post's reporting. (LEFT: DHS, RIGHT: Jason Graziadei/Nantucket Current)
#DHS posted a swaggering montage to social media in August declaring it had triumphed in its takeover of #WashingtonDC. It showed footage of federal agents fighting what a DHS official called a “battle for the soul of our nation” & working “day & night to arrest, detain & deport vicious criminals from our nation’s capital.”
There was one problem. Several of the clips had been recorded during unrelated operations months earlier, in Los Angeles & West Palm Beach, Florida.
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security shared a video claiming to show federal agents working to “deport vicious criminals” from Washington, D.C. The video was filmed in West Palm Beach, Florida, in February, according to the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service. (LEFT: DHS, RIGHT: DVIDS)
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#Trump admin uses misleading videos to portray chaos, push #deportations
Official videos purporting to show the triumph of recent #immigration operations used footage that was months old or recorded thousands of miles away, a Washington Post analysis found.
#propaganda #fascism #authoritarianism #law #MilitaryState #Gestapo
The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals will reconsider #Oregon's fight to block the #Trump admin's deployment of #NationalGuard troops into the state against its wishes.
An appeals court panel ruled 2-1 this month to allow the deployment. The court said Tuesday it would hear the case “en banc,” meaning all active judges on the #9thCircuit will rehear it.
#law #military #PosseComitatusAct
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/appeals-court-will-reconsider-whether-allow-trump-deploy-national-guar-rcna240398
Seabright is the 3rd judge in recent weeks to disqualify top prosecutors appointed by #PamBondi to temporarily fill vacant positions in key federal offices, including those overseeing federal prosecutions in #NewJersey, #Nevada & now the #LosAngeles area. And the rulings may inform a 4th effort — by former #FBI Director #JamesComey & #NYAG #LetitiaJames — to disqualify #LindseyHalligan, the #Trump backed prosecutor in #Virginia who recently secured their indictments.
Essayli did not address another possibility: Under federal #law, the judges of the Central District of #California could appoint some other attorney to fill the #USattorney post until #Trump can get a nominee confirmed to the post. Federal law empowers judges to fill vacancies in the US.attorney’s post after the expiration of an interim US attorney’s tenure.
“Simply stated: Essayli unlawfully assumed the role of Acting United States Attorney for the Central District of California,” Seabright concluded. “Essayli may not perform the functions & duties of the United States Attorney … He is disqualified from serving in that role.”
#BillEssayli posted on X that the ruling permits him to continue serving as the highest-ranking official in the office he oversaw, even if he can’t hold the title of #USattorney.
“Nothing is changing,” he wrote.
Judge rules #Trump’s #LA federal prosecutor was illegally appointed
The ruling marks the 3rd time in recent weeks that judges have disqualified Trump’s federal prosecutors in temporary positions.
#BillEssayli, Trump’s pick in April to temporarily lead the #USAttorney’s Office for the Central District of #California, should have departed the post by July 31 under a 120-day limit imposed by federal #law, US District Judge J. Michael Seabright concluded.
Andrea Soria, whose daughter plays at Luna y Cielo, overheard her 6-year-old whisper to her dolls: “We have to be good or ICE will get us,” referring to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“These kids are traumatized,” Aguirre-Ávalos said. “Even if ICE stops doing what they’re doing right now, people are going to be traumatized. The damage is already done.”
#law #Chicago #Trump #immigration #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #MilitaryState
The SUV eventually drove away, the cloud of smoke cleared, and parents arrived. “What’s happening?” a girl cried, over and over.
Kucich’s son, who is white, now worries about his nanny, a U.S. citizen from Guatemala. He asks where she is and when she’s coming. He jumps at the sound of sirens. His mother called their pediatrician for a therapist referral.
#law #Chicago #Trump #immigration #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #MilitaryState
Owner Vanessa Aguirre-Ávalos ran outside to see what was happening, as the children’s nannies hustled them to a back room. Aguirre-Ávalos is a citizen; the nannies, Hispanic grandmothers, are citizens or are legally allowed to work in the U.S.
Still, they were terrified. One begged Aguirre-Ávalos: If they take me, please make sure the children get home safe.
#law #Chicago #Trump #immigration #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #MilitaryState
Kucich’s son was a half-block away, having lunch in the window of Luna y Cielo Play Cafe, where #children learn Spanish as they play with pretend food & toy cars. His nanny takes him there most days. He made his best friends at the cafe, & his little brother took his first steps there.
#law #Chicago #Trump #immigration #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #MilitaryState
Suddenly, #TearGas canisters flew from the window of the SUV.
The cloud of gas rose, first white, then green, & the street exploded into pandemonium. Some people ran. Others shouted at agents to leave. Sirens screamed toward them. Parents blew through stop signs & drove on curbs to reach their #children.
#law #Chicago #Trump #immigration #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #MilitaryState
Parents, teachers & caregivers have been grappling ever since with how to explain to children what they’d seen: how much to tell them so they know enough to stay safe, but not too much to rob them of their childhood. A toddler shouldn’t know what a #TearGas canister is, Kucich said.
“I don’t know how to explain this to my kids.”
#law #Chicago #Trump #immigration #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #MilitaryState
She abandoned her grocery cart & went as fast as she could to her toddler & his 14-month-old brother, who, on that warm October Friday, were among the hundreds of #Chicago #children caught suddenly in the turmoil of the #Trump admin’s #immigration crackdown.
#law #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #MilitaryState
#Chicago's #children are getting caught in the chaos of #Trump’s #immigration crackdowns
The 2-year-old boy was so frightened, he stuttered.
“Mommy, mommy, mommy,” he repeated, clinging to her.
His mother, Molly Kucich, had been grocery shopping when her husband called, panicking. She heard “immigration raid.” Then: “tear gas.”
#law #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #MilitaryState
https://apnews.com/article/chicago-immigration-trump-crackdown-school-children-c9a19835cac13c0fbbebcc9f4bf4f0a2?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-28-Immigration+and+kids
The #Trump family raked in more than $800 million from sales of #crypto assets in the first half of 2025 alone, a Reuters examination found, on top of potentially billions more in unrealized “on paper” gains. Much of that cash has come from #foreign sources as Donald Trump's sons have touted their business on an international investor roadshow.
#law #emoluments
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/inside-trump-familys-global-crypto-cash-machine-2025-10-28/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
The White House has said it would soon send Trump’s ballroom plans to the National Capital Planning Commission [after #Trump already tore down the #EastWing], which will decide whether to approve the new building. White House officials previously declined to comment on whether they planned to also send the plans to the #CommissionOnFineArts, & whether approval from that agency was necessary for the #ballroom project to move forward.
The White House in July also fired #Biden appointees from the National Capital Planning Commission, another #UrbanPlanning agency that is required to review external construction projects at the White House. The 12-member board is now led by a majority of #Trump allies, including its chairman, Trump staff secretary Will Scharf.
#law #art #architecture #HistoricLandmark #oversight #accountability
Their termination comes as the White House gears up to implement several #Trump construction projects, including his planned $300 million White House #ballroom, & seeks to install allies on key review boards.
The White House did not immediately respond to questions about its termination of #CommissionOnFineArts members.
#law #art #architecture #HistoricLandmark #oversight #accountability
The commission, which was established by #Congress more than a century ago & traditionally includes a mix of architects & urban planners, is charged with providing advice to the president, Congress & local government officials on design matters related to construction projects in the Capitol region. Fmr president Joe Biden appointed the 6 sitting commissioners to 4-year terms, several of which should have extended through 2028.
#law #art #architecture #HistoricLandmark #oversight #accountability
White House fires #ArtsCommission expected to review #Trump construction projects
The moves come as Trump pursues efforts to build a White House #ballroom & a triumphal arch in Washington.
#law #art #architecture #HistoricLandmark #oversight #accountability
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/28/trump-arts-commission-firings-ballroom-arch/
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
Employment attorneys cautioned that this memo streamlines the standard process of checks & balances within the department, making it much easier to fire those who are in the way.
“They are gutting federal employee protections significantly,” said Sean Timmons, a managing partner specialized in #federal #employment & #military #law at the firm Tully Rinckey.
#Trump must release millions in #grants meant to address the shortage of #MentalHealth workers in #schools, a federal judge ruled.
#Congress funded the program after the 2022 #Uvalde #SchoolShooting. The grants were intended to help schools hire more #counselors, #psychologists & #SocialWorkers, & focus on rural & underserved areas. But Trump’s admin opposed #diversity considerations used to award the grants & told recipients they wouldn’t continue past Dec 2025.
#law
https://apnews.com/article/trump-education-department-mental-health-dei-ruling-8cb195602cffff3ee20724a9fbcd1bb1
#Hunger & #Cold Loom as #Shutdown Imperils Funding for #Antipoverty Programs
Within days, tens of millions of #LowIncome Americans may lose assistance for #food, #childcare & #utilities if the federal government remains shut down.
As the shutdown nears the one-month mark, the lapse in federal funding is a looming crisis for vulnerable Americans who depend on government assistance for basic needs like #groceries & #heating.
#Trump #law #OrchestratedShutdown #plutocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/us/politics/trump-shutdown-snap-food-stamps-aid.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#Republican #House Speaker #MikeJohnson has refused to negotiate with #Democrats until they first agree to reopen the government.
This is now the second-longest #shutdown.
The longest shutdown occurred during Trump’s first term over his demands for funds to build the US-Mexico border wall. That one ended in 2019 after 35 days.
#Trump #law #OrchestratedShutdown #PowerGrab #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #plutocracy
Democratic lawmakers are demanding that any deal to reopen the federal government address expiring #healthcare subsidies that have made #HealthInsurance more affordable for millions of Americans. They also want any government funding bill to reverse the #Medicaid cuts in #Trump’s big tax breaks & spending cuts bill passed this summer.
#law #OrchestratedShutdown #PowerGrab #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #plutocracy
During a hearing on Oct 15, Illston said the layoff notices that started going out on or around Oct 10 appeared to be politically motivated and not well thought out. About 4,100 layoff notices have gone out, some sent to work email addresses that furloughed employees are not allowed to check. Some personnel were called back to work, without pay, to issue layoff notices.
#Trump #law #OrchestratedShutdown #PowerGrab #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #plutocracy
The American Federation of Government Employees #AFGE & other #labor #unions have sued to stop the “reductions in force” #MassLayoffs, saying the firings were an #AbuseOfPower designed to punish #FederalWorkers & pressure #Congress.
Lawyers for the government claim the district court does not have the authority to hear personnel challenges [which is bullshit].
#law #OrchestratedShutdown #PowerGrab #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #plutocracy
Illston has said she believes the evidence will ultimately show the #MassFirings were #illegal & in excess of authority.
The #Trump admin has slashed #jobs in #education, #health & other areas it says are favored by #Democrats. The admin has also said it will not tap roughly $5 billion in contingency funds to keep benefits through #SNAP flowing into November.
#law #OrchestratedShutdown #PowerGrab #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #plutocracy
A federal judge in San Francisco on Tuesday indefinitely barred the #Trump administration from firing #FederalWorkers during the government #shutdown.
US District Judge Susan Illston granted a preliminary injunction [#PI] that bars the firings while a lawsuit challenging them plays out. She had previously issued a temporary restraining order [#TRO] against the job cuts that was set to expire Wednesday.
#law #OrchestratedShutdown #PowerGrab
https://apnews.com/article/shutdown-layoffs-judge-trump-fdcb16f91c94d7bf73977e8968210b0e?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-28-Breaking+News
#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
But throughout his hourlong speech, his usual ramblings about the physical appearances of audience members & steam-powered catapults were laced with dark warnings about how he might choose to deploy #military forces.
“We have cities that are troubled, we can’t have cities that are troubled,” #Trump said. “And we’re sending in our #NationalGuard, & if we need more than the National Guard, we’ll send more than the National Guard, because we’re going to have safe cities.”
#Trump told #US troops assembled in Japan on Tuesday that he was prepared to send “more than the National Guard” into cities to enforce his crackdowns on crime & #immigration, further escalating how he has talked about using the #military at home & abroad.
Speaking to thousands of military service members aboard an aircraft carrier at the Yokosuka Naval Base in Japan Tuesday, Trump delivered a #partisan speech that resembled his raucous campaign rallies.
#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
In their lawsuit, officials from 25 states and the District of Columbia criticized the #Trump administration for its sudden reversal, arguing that the federal government has a legal obligation to maintain #FoodStamps by any means necessary.
~1 in 8 people in the #US receive food stamps, which avg ~$187 a month & cost the Federal govt ~$8B/month. #Congress must regularly approve money for it, though #SNAP maintains a sizable reserve to cover shortfalls.
Many congressional #Democrats & #Republicans encouraged the #Trump admin to use this funding to preserve #FoodStamps into Nov. But the Trump admin declined Friday to extend that reprieve, even though the #USDA said weeks ago it could reprogram the money to prevent benefit cuts.
>2 dozen states sued the #Trump admin Tuesday over its recent refusal to fund #FoodStamps during the government #shutdown, seeking to spare roughly 42 million people from #hunger & financial hardship starting in a matter of days.
The states, including officials in Arizona, California & Massachusetts, asked a federal judge to force Washington to tap emergency reserve money so that families do not see an interruption to their benefits under #SNAP starting Nov 1.
#law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/us/politics/trump-food-stamps-snap-lawsuit.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare