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A former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff warns of the President’s use of the military, saying, “I am deeply worried that as they execute their orders, the members of our military will be co-opted for political purposes.”

By Mark | June 2, 2020

[above: Military police block peaceful civil rights protesters from approaching the Lincoln Memorial on the day that Donald “don’t be too nice” Trump declares that his administration “has done more for the black community than any president since Abraham Lincoln.”] There are a lot of different ways that I could take things this evening, but […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Abraham Lincoln, armed forces, authoritarian, authoritarianism, Ben Sasse, Bible, black lives matter, Constitution, constitutional crisis, DC, Donald Trump, future crime, George Floyd, George W. Bush, Insurrection Act, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Kasie Hunt, Lafayette Square, Lincoln Memorial, Lisa Murkowski, mark Esper, Mike Mullen, military, military police, Minority Report, Mitch McConnell, National Guard, non-violence, police state, police violence, political ads, racism, rubber bullets, St. John's Church, tear gar, thought crime, violence, Will Hurd | 75 Comments

Taking another step toward martial law, police fire rubber bullets into a crowd of peaceful protesters in D.C. to clear the way for a presidential photo-op with a Bible

By Mark | June 1, 2020

[above: Donald Trump makes his way past a wall of “Fuck Trump” graffiti for a photo-op in front of Washington’s St. John’s church.] Declaring himself a “president of law and order” in the White House Rose Garden this evening, Donald Trump threatened to deploy the United States military against U.S. citizen in order to put […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Adam Serwer, Bible, call to violence, Coke, domestic terrorism, Donald Trump, fascism, George Floyd, Joe Biden, Lafayette Square, law and order, Marian Budde, martial law, Minneapolis, photo-op, police state, police violence, rubber bullets, St. John's Church, strafing, strength, tear gas, terrorism, The Gods Must Be Crazy, violence, weakness | 176 Comments

For what it’s worth, anti-fascists aren’t the problem

By Mark | May 31, 2020

📺 NEW VIDEO The White House is the Hate House. #VoteOutHate pic.twitter.com/9yIAU4343x — MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) May 31, 2020 Today, Donald Trump announced that, “The United States of America will be designating ANTIFA as a terrorist organization.” This is problematic for a number of reasons, not the least of which being that there isn’t an actual […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged #WhitePropertyMatters, 2020, anti-fascist, ANTIFA, arson, Aryan Brotherhood, Chris Swanson, Delaware, domestic terrorism, Donald Trump, enemy of the people, fascism, Flint, hiding, Joe Biden, John Lewis, journalism, KKK, leadership, National Socialist Movement, Nazi, Philip Rucker, police brutality, police state, property damage, Proud Boys, riots, Robert O'Brien, terrorism, threats to journalists, white power, white supremacy, Wilmington | 124 Comments

As protests spread over the murder of George Floyd, we’re once again reminded of the fact that we have the worst leadership possible to help us through this moment in history

By Mark | May 30, 2020

Over the past several years, there have been multiple instances of police officers killing unarmed black men in the Minneapolis area. In 2015, there was Jamar Clark, who, according to multiple witnesses, was not resisting officers at the time of his killing. In 2016, there was Philando Castile, who was shot and killed on video […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2020, Amish, Amy Klobuchar, arson, Atlanta, black lives matter, call to violence, COVID-19, Derek Chauvin, Donald Trump, George Floyd, Hafsa Islam, I can't breathe, Jamar Clark, Killer Mike, looting, Louisville, Memorial Day, Miami, Minneapolis, murder, pandemic, Philando Castile, police brutality, riots, Ruhel Islam | 99 Comments

Rick Bright testifies that we still “don’t have a master plan for (the COVID-19) response,” and McConnell concedes that, yes, the Obama administration did leave a detailed pandemic response plan, but that Trump just didn’t follow it

By Mark | May 15, 2020

Two interesting things happened in the real world yesterday as fucking idiots with assault weapons gathered in Lansing, shutting down the capitol to speculate about the imaginary crimes committed by Governor Gretchen Whitmer and fantasize about her assassination. Rick Bright, a former high-ranking vaccine official at the Department of Health and Human Services, testified before […]