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Venezuelan #military preparing #guerrilla response in case of #US attack
#Venezuela is deploying #weapons, including decades-old Russian-made equipment, & is planning to mount a guerrilla-style resistance or sow chaos in the event of a US air or ground attack, according to sources with knowledge of the efforts & planning documents seen by Reuters.
#Trump #law #WarPowers #Congress #SeparationOfPowers #InternationalLaw #LawOfArmedConflict #authoritarianism #autocracy
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/venezuelan-military-preparing-guerrilla-response-case-us-attack-2025-11-11/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
The justices chose what is effectively the path of least resistance, anticipating the federal #shutdown will end soon while avoiding any substantive #legal ruling about whether lower court orders to keep full payments flowing during the shutdown are correct.
Beneficiaries in some states have received their full monthly allocations while in others they have received nothing. Some states have issued partial payments.
It’s not clear how quickly full payments would resume.
#SCOTUS extends its order blocking full #SNAP payments, amid signals that the #shutdown could soon end & food #aid payments resume.
The order keeps in place at least for a few more days a chaotic situation. People who depend on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to feed their families in some states have received their full monthly allocations, while others have received nothing.
#law #Trump #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #FoodStamps #hunger #poverty
https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-food-aid-024906c49fec6126585900ef916698f8?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-11-Breaking+News
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"The patriarchy is always in crisis; the patriarchy always needs shoring up. This is not a bug; it is a feature. Because, as long as the patriarchy needs defenders, (white male wealthy) patriarchs will always be able to barter their expertise as patriarchs for money, prestige, and a cleared runway for bloviating."
~ Noah Berlatsky
#men #Trump #Republicans #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #masculinity
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https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/manly-scott-galloway-explains-how
"In a society moving toward greater diversity and equity, the myth of supremacy has cracked. And when the only story you know is being on top, you will do anything to avoid falling through them."
#WhiteMen #Trump #Republicans #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination
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"For centuries, white men have been told a story about who they are: the conquerors, the leaders, the moral compass of civilization.
The problem is that this story was never true, and maintaining the illusion has become unbearable."
#WhiteMen #Trump #Republicans #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination
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Jemar Tisby points once again to the polling results from the recent elections, which show us,
"White men tend to be outliers in not-good ways.
Take last Tuesday’s elections. Democrats won decisively. People called it a 'blue wave.'
But when you dig into the polling data, white men stand apart."
#WhiteMen #Trump #Republicans #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination
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https://jemartisby.substack.com/p/whats-going-on-with-white-men
"This is the state of Trump’s America: delusion at the top, despair at the bottom, and disinformation flooding everything in between."
~ Ben Meiselas
#Trump #Republicans #authoritarianism #fascism #cruelty #disinformation
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/breaking-veterans-day-news-updates
Since then, #drilling has been prohibited in #California state waters, which extend 3 miles from the shoreline. There has been limited drilling, & no new leasing, in federal waters off CA since the mid-1980s.
The plan would also require new #oil & #gas leasing in the eastern #GulfOfMexico…. That could prompt pushback from #Republicans from #Florida, who have opposed new drilling there ever since the 2010 Deepwater Horizon rig disaster devastated the state’s tourism industry.
The #Interior Dept could announce the proposal as soon as this week, acc/to the 3 people….
There has been almost no #FossilFuel development along the #California coast since an enormous #oil spill near Santa Barbara in 1969 that shocked the nation & helped to galvanize a national #environmental movement. The #OilSpill sullied beaches in the popular coastal enclave, killed thousands of birds, damaged property & harmed the commercial fishing industry.
#Trump to propose opening #California Coast to #oil #drilling for the first time in roughly 4 decades, acc/to 3 people.
The move would set up a confrontation with Gov #GavinNewsom, a #Democrat who has fought #OffshoreDrilling & who has emerged as one of Trump’s chief political antagonists. Newsom is in Brazil for the #UN #climate summit, where he is drawing a contrast between himself & Trump, who denigrates efforts to fight #GlobalWarming.
#law #ClimateChange
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/climate/offshore-drilling-california-trump-newsom.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
The White House has said repeatedly that the #Trump admin’s actions “comply fully with the Law of Armed Conflict,” the area of #InternationalLaw that is designed to prevent attacks on #civilians.
But legal experts say the #LawOfArmedConflict would still apply to civilian drug traffickers, & the designation of a group as a foreign #terrorist organization does not automatically authorize the use of lethal force.
…the #Trump admin has argued that the #US #military can legally kill suspected traffickers because they pose an imminent threat to Americans & are “enemy combatants” who are in an “armed conflict” with the US, acc/to a memo sent by the admin to #Congress. The #DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel issued an opinion, which is still classified, reinforcing that argument, …& Trump has designated a number of drug cartels as “foreign terrorist groups.”
Good. Stop enabling the fascist #Trump regime’s #ExtrajudicialKillings
#UK suspends some #intelligence sharing with #US over boat strikes in major break
The #UnitedKingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the #Caribbean because it does not want to be #complicit in US #military strikes & believes the attacks are #illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
#law #murder #DueProcess #WarPowers #Congress
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/politics/uk-suspends-caribbean-intelligence-sharing-us
#Trump #Pardons the Husband of a #Republican Congressional Ally
Robert Harshbarger Jr. pleaded #guilty in 2013 to #healthcare #fraud & distributing a misbranded drug. His wife, #DianaHarshbarger (R-TN), is a member of #Congress.
#law #corruption #felon47
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/us/politics/trump-pardon-republican-harshbarger.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Ellis appeared to take inspiration from the piece’s interrogation of outsiders’ perceptions of #Chicago. For example, Sandburg considers descriptions of the city as “wicked” & “crooked” alongside his view of the town as a place “with lifted head singing so proud to be alive & coarse & strong & cunning.”
“This is a vibrant place, brimming with vitality & hope, striving to move forward from its complicated history,” Ellis said, juxtaposing her vision with the #Trump admin’s portrayal….
Her inclusion of the #poem struck a chord with locals, who have long regarded the work as an unofficial city anthem. The piece has been taught in classrooms, performed at poetry slams & recited by politicians, including gmt Mayor Rahm Emanuel. It has inspired a “Big Shoulders” comic series, & it is even painted on the facade of Damen Tavern in West Town.
But the poem is finding new resonance during the sustained #ICE occupation in #Chicago.
#Trump #law #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Gestapo
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Carl Sandburg’s iconic poem “Chicago” greets passersby from the side of Damen Tavern in West Town on Nov. 10, 2025
…“To read a #poem as part of a justification or a rationale for a judgment of this importance shows how #art can express the complexities of what we’re living through in ways that maybe other forms of speech can’t,” said Reddy, also a professor of English & creative writing at U of C.
Ellis’ order placed further restrictions on the agents’ use of “riot control weapons” & certain restraint techniques against #protesters & observers amid the #Trump admin’s #deportation campaign in #Chicago.
A judge’s decision to read a 111-yr-old poem in court before curbing federal agents’ #UseOfForce in #Chicago has brought fresh relevance to an iconic piece of local #literature.
In a ruling addressing actions by federal #immigration agents, US District Judge #SaraEllis last week recited #CarlSandburg’s 1914 composition “Chicago,” known for praising the town’s working-class roots & coining the “City of the Big Shoulders” moniker.
#Trump #law #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #HumanRights #fascism
#CarlSandburg ‘#Chicago’ #poem finds fresh relevance in a city occupied by #ICE
Known for praising the city with “big shoulders,” the beloved 1914 composition recently was recited in a ruling addressing federal #immigration agents’ #UseOfForce. Literary scholars say they were “astounded” & “amazed.”
#Trump #law #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #fascism #Tyranny #MafiaState #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #CBP #Gestapo #WhiteSupremacy
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/11/11/carl-sandburg-chicago-poem-operation-midway-blitz-deportation-campaign-judge-sara-ellis
Literal “holy crap”
#law #religion #idolatry #JeaninePirro #Trump #TrumpBible
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The attorney for the district of Columbia, Jeanine Pirro, holds a bible signed by the US president, Donald Trump, during a swearing-in ceremony for the newly appointed ambassador to India, Sergio Gor, in the Oval Office of the White House
"Imagine if Donald Trump had been a normal politician for a decade and then suddenly demolished the East Wing of the White House.
Or if he were normal for a decade and then posted a video showing a cartoon version of himself using a plane to drop feces on a crowd of Americans."
~ Mark Jacob
#Trump #media #normalization #saneashing #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #feces #cruelty #destruction
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https://www.stopthepresses.news/p/how-news-coverage-eases-us-into-tyranny
"Or if he were normal for a decade and then pardoned someone who gave his family a huge cryptocurrency payday that looked very much like a bribe – then denied he even knew who the pardon recipient was.
If a president had done any of those things in a normal time, the news media would have gone big with the story.:
#Trump #media #normalization #saneashing #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #feces #cruelty #destruction
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"But a very abnormal Trump has done all three of those things in the last month, and the stories have lasted only a day or two in major news coverage.
Trump has been dropping feces on us for a decade… and now we’re used to it."
#Trump #media #normalization #saneashing #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #feces #cruelty #destruction
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Fox News maven and attorney for DC Jeanine Pirro holds what's said to be a bible during a swearing-in ceremony for the newly appointed ambassador to India, Sergio Gor, in the Oval Office of the White House.
The photo is by Brendan Smialowski.
#Trump #media #normalization #saneashing #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #feces #cruelty #destruction
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A Trump bible carried by Jeannine Piro to a White House swearing-in ceremony
Here is #Chicago’s local coverage of the event:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjJb7LCEwvw
POS #Bovino was there. The ass that lied in court & then admitted he lied about protesters throwing a rock at him.
#Trump #law #immigration #ChildEndangerment #ChildAbuse #judiciary #DueProcess #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #Authoritarianism #Autocracy #Dictatorship #fascism #Tyranny #MafiaState #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #WhiteSupremacy
…The incident came amid a weekend #CBP campaign in Little Village, Cicero & Oak Park, where a #GirlScouts #FoodPantry food drive was halted Saturday after the troop encountered federal agents.
“What I witnessed with my eyes yesterday was #StateSponsoredTerrorism,” said state Sen Celina Villanueva of the activity in Little Village Saturday. “They kept going & coming back, & every single time they left destruction & traumatized people in their wake.”
#Trump #Chicago #law
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/11/08/oak-park-parents-ice-girl-scouts-food-drive
#DHS would not answer questions about whether the action violated #CBP’s #UseOfForce policy — which states that agents “should not use [pepper spray], & consider other force options” on small children, visibly pregnant people & “operators of motor vehicles” — or a Thursday preliminary injunction from US District Judge #SaraEllis restricting the use of “riot control weapons” against protesters or observers who pose no immediate threat, & without 2 warnings, among other restrictions.
#DHS would not comment on the specific incident, instead sending a similar statement to one it sent the day before in response to inquiries about its campaign in Little Village Saturday — where shots were *allegedly* fired at agents, acc/to DHS, multiple people were arrested after residents responded to agents detaining people.
#Trump #Chicago #law #immigration #judiciary #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #HumanRights #fascism #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #WhiteSupremacy
The video, filmed by Veraza’s wife in the passenger seat, shows a masked federal agent driving a black pickup truck & firing pepper spray into the open driver’s window of a vehicle. The video later shows his daughter, whose face is censored, crying as someone says, “You’re OK, Mama, you’re OK” & people wash out their eyes.
#Trump #Chicago #law #immigration #judiciary #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #fascism #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #WhiteSupremacy
“I didn’t have to go through this, & my daughter didn’t have to go through this,” Veraza said. “We aren’t protesters, we weren’t going after them, we weren’t attacking them.”
Veraza said his family is considering legal action to help pay for specialist care that he said his daughter now requires.
#Trump #Chicago #law #immigration #judiciary #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #fascism #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #WhiteSupremacy
A Berwyn family was driving with their 1-yr-old child Saturday when they were pepper-sprayed by federal agents, video shows.
…Rafael Veraza said his family was on its way to buy groceries at a Cicero Sam’s Club when they heard whistles & sirens.
Veraza attempted to leave the Sam’s Club parking lot when a federal agent drove alongside the line of cars exiting, spraying chemical irritants through open windows & striking occupants — including Veraza’s 1-yr-old daughter, Ariana.
1-yr-old pepper-sprayed by federal agent in #Chicago
Video shows federal agents spraying chemical irritants from a moving vehicle at a line of cars waiting to leave a Cicero Sam’s Club Saturday morning. The action obviously violates a judge’s restriction on use of force.
#Trump #law #immigration #judiciary #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #fascism #MafiaState #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #WhiteSupremacy
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/11/09/1-year-old-pepper-sprayed-by-federal-agent-in-cicero
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Waiting in the wings...
Conquest (in progress), along with War, Death, and Famine, just waiting for the word.
Yes, the deity is The King in Yellow; you know it makes sense.
#USPolitics #Apocalypse #EndOfEmpire #USPol #Trump #USA #America #AI
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Five men: Conquest, in white with the symbol of a crown on his lapel; War, in red with the symbol of a sword; Death, in sickly green with a biohazard symbol; Famine, in black with the symbol of scales. They are all watching to one side, waiting for the word from the deity, the King in Yellow, whose symbol of infinity is on his cane.
At the top is the word "America." At the bottom is the sentence "It's almost time."
Five separate AI-generated images manipulated and combined by me in Adobe Sketchpad.
"I also think that the timing of it was bananas. And so, yes, I think this was a huge mistake."
~ Simon Rosenberg
#Democrats #shutdown #Trump #healthcare
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https://davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/how-dems-can-move-on-from-their-latest
"The eight traitors did us a favor because their weakness underscored our need for strong Democratic lawmakers who will fight for the Democratic base, not cower in fear of the Republican base. The majority of Americans get it and are showing up to protest, to help their fellow Americans, and to vote."
~ Mary Trump
"The long-term significance here is that elected Democrats went belly-up to Trump less than a week after the public expressed overwhelming opposition to the Trump agenda, and the grass roots feel stabbed in the back.
~ Dan Froomkin
#Democrats #shutdown #Trump #healthcare
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https://criticalread.substack.com/p/the-real-story-is-the-democratic
"40 days of the government being shutdown, federal workers and their families suffering, essential workers not getting paid, cancelled travel plans, no SNAP assistance have been for nothing. Eight Senate Democrats capitulated to Republicans and voted YES to re-open the government with no tangible wins. …
It's an unconditional surrender that abandons 24 million Americans who are about to see their premiums more than double."
~ Jennifer Rubin
…I no longer can bear to be restrained by what #judges can say publicly or do outside the courtroom. #Trump is using the #law for partisan purposes, targeting his adversaries while sparing friends & donors from investigation, prosecution, & possible punishment. This is contrary to everything that I have stood for in my >50yrs in the #DOJ & on the bench. The WH’s assault on the rule of law is so deeply disturbing to me that I feel compelled to speak out. Silence, for me, is now intolerable.
Why I Am Resigning
A #FederalJudge explains his reasoning for leaving the bench.
By Mark L. Wolf
#law #judiciary #LegalEthics #SeparationOfPowers #Trump #AbuseOfPower #Authoritarianism #Autocracy #Dictatorship #fascism #Tyranny #MafiaState
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/federal-judge-resignation-trump/684845/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxbhI53LJtZufsllxT-YiTQc
Lindsay previously heard arguments Oct 24 & Nov 3.
The civic group originally claimed that it was harmed by the deployment by being forced to refocus its resources away from govt accountability & transparency. The WV AG’s office sought to reject the case, saying the group was not harmed & lacked standing to challenge Morrisey’s decision. Lindsay continued both of the previous hearings & ordered the state to specifically focus on whether what Morrisey did was lawful.
The #WestVirginia Citizen Action Group then filed a lawsuit claiming Morrisey exceeded his #authority.
Under #state #law, the group argued, the governor could deploy the #NationalGuard out of state only for certain purposes, such as responding to a #NaturalDisaster or another state’s #emergency request.
Morrisey’s office has argued the deployment was authorized under federal law.
#Trump #MilitaryState #MartialLaw #WashingtonDC #PosseComitatusAct #fascism #Gestapo
A judge on Monday allowed the continued deployment of more than 300 #WestVirginia #NationalGuard members to #WashingtonDC.
Kanawha County Circuit Judge Richard D. Lindsay made the ruling after hearing arguments in a lawsuit by a civic organization.
#Republican Gov. Patrick Morrisey authorized the Guard’s deployment in August to support #Trump’s *crime-fighting* efforts in the nation’s capital.
#law #MilitaryState #MartialLaw #PosseComitatusAct #fascism #Gestapo
https://apnews.com/article/trump-national-guard-deployment-west-virginia-washington-d495d47c8ac1de9dae2227a7653c8a81?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-10-National+Guard
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Must read IMHO.
"Do you feel like America is living in an authoritarian state?
Of course. I think right now, the Trump regime has decided it has enough of the levers of power that they don’t need to have public support anymore. And it is not clear to me whether or not they’re correct on that. They might be wrong. They might have just misstated the moment, and in fact, there will be civil resistance. The institutions will see that they have to unify. That might happen. Civil society is not, I think, buying the propaganda line of the regime. So I’m not saying by any means that things are lost. And in fact, the rapidity by which this has happened might actually work against this coup that is now happening."
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"I knew that Yale would try to normalize the situation, escape being in the press, urge us to see the fascists as just politically different, and talk about polarization, which is just fascism. All the people talking about polarization are just fascism enablers. They’re almost worse than the fascists because they’re just like, “Hey, how do I keep getting money in power?” I’ll say the fascists are normal."
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And we’ve already had that total breakdown because starting in 2015, we had this Coke-funded movement creating a moral panic about universities, and the New York Times piled on this moral panic. You couldn’t open the New York Times for years without reading another op-ed about hysterical moral panic about leftists on campus. All the while it was a total fiction that the whole time the right-wing press from Turning Points USA’s Professor Watchlist, originally Breitbart, Campus Reform, there was this massive attack on progressives and universities where progressive professors were terrified of being targeted by the conservative students and universities completely. So the media viciously attacked universities and set the groundwork for Trumpism. So that has to stop, and the both-siderism has to stop. The whole stuff about polarization, that’s just enabling fascism.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/jason-stanley-fascism-trump-history/
"After a precisely Biblical 40 days wandering in the Desert of Shutdown, eight of them crawled to the Party of Trump and tithed to the billionaires. A year from now, when millions of Americans are paying thousands more dollars to keep body and soul together, will anyone remember how this played out?"
~ Nina Burleigh
#Democrats #shutdown #Trump #healthcare
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https://www.americanfreakshow.news/p/you-say-you-want-a-revolution
…“It was like a bunch of gangsters coming into the neighborhood & smashing windows and threatening shop owners,” said Senator #SheldonWhitehouse, #Democrat of Rhode Island, who was briefed on the events by negotiators who were directly involved. Mr. Whitehouse called the Trump administration’s strategy a “shock-and-awe thuggery approach.”
…foreign diplomats said they were stunned by what they described as “nasty” & “very personal” threats made by #State Department officials, which were mostly aimed at leaders from poorer or small countries that are economically dependent on the #UnitedStates. Some of the delegations were summoned to the #US Embassy in London for these discussions, these people said.
These & other #threats, including #tariffs, #sanctions & the revocation of diplomats’ #US #visas, effectively killed the deal, according to the 9 American, European & developing-nation diplomats directly involved in the negotiations. They spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of #retribution from the #Trump admin.
An ambassador from #Asia was told that, if he voted in favor of the plan, his country’s sailors would no longer be allowed to disembark at #US ports. #Caribbean diplomats were told that they could be #blacklisted from entering the US. And #MarcoRubio, the secy of #state, personally called officials in several countries to threaten financial penalties & other punishments if they continued to support the agreement to cut ship #pollution.
More than 100 nations were poised last month to approve a historic deal to slash #pollution from cargo #ships. That’s when the #UnitedStates launched a pressure campaign that officials around the world have called extraordinary, even by the standards of the #Trump admin’s combativeness, according to 9 diplomats on its receiving end.