You know Trump, who is clearly in his cups now, has wanted to occupy cities and other states with the military? Here’s a view of what the warfighters are doing today-hahah
Trump now has the “warfighters” picking up trash near the White House. www.fox5dc.com/news/nationa…
— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) August 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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This is insane. DOGE fires NPS workers, ostensibly for "efficiency" and to save money. DOD then removes National Guard members from their full-time civilian jobs in Mississippi, pays to house and equip them in DC, and has them shovel mulch. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec…
— Jeremy Schulman (@jeremyschulman.bsky.social) August 27, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Moore: "The thing that gets me most about this is how deeply disrespectful this is to members of the National Guard who signed up for this job as I did when I deployed overseas & led paratroopers in combat where we signed up w/the expectation the commander in chief was actually taking it seriously"
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) August 26, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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As Donald Trump’s approval numbers sink under the weight of repeated failure and flubs (e.g., Ukraine, the Jeffrey Epstein files, inflation, the reverse-Robin-Hood reconciliation deal), and the Democrats race to a huge advantage in the generic polling, his panic has escalated, causing him to resort to ever more extreme authoritarian moves (the Texas power grab, occupying D.C., etc.) He’s even declared that, in fact, people would like a dictator. Rather than dispel the whiff of desperation, however, his last three gambits have only reinforced his likeness to a mad king.
First, Trump’s obsession with persecuting Kilmar Abrego Garcia has accelerated. The wrongfully deported Abrego Garcia, whose mere presence in the U.S. underscores Trump’s dictatorial and ineffective deportation scheme, has triggered the president into committing one outlandish stunt after another, like evading a court order to turn the plane around or pretending he lacked the authority to return him from El Salvador). The Trump regime most recently has tried to bludgeon him to take a guilty plea for a concocted criminal charge under threat of deportation to Uganda.
After Abrego Garcia’s counsel brought suit to halt it, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis in a hastily scheduled hearing, delivered the law in words even the government’s lawyers could not spin or misinterpret: “Your clients are absolutely forbidden at this juncture to remove Mr. Abrego Garcia from the continental United States.” She also warned the government about coercing a guilty plea. “It is in my view plain that you can’t do that,” Judge Xinis said. “You can’t condition the relinquishment of constitutional rights in that regard.” She added, “You’d never get a knowing and voluntary guilty plea out of anyone if you do that.” We will see if the government continues its humiliating quest for vindication, or looks for an off-ramp.
All you need to see to know we are now a police state under a fascist government. No sugar coating, no politeness, no careful phrasing. This is fascism. Trump is ruling by decree. Congress has not even dared challenge his silly Trump Import Taxes, he has no right to levy as there is no emergency.
— Roland Gerritsen van der Hoop (@rgh1205.bsky.social) August 27, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Police state.
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf.bsky.social) August 25, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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an underappreciated aspect of this DC occupation is that they don't stay just in DC seeing uniformed soldiers and federal goons while i'm in a Wendy's drive thru here in Arlington really contributes to this uncomfortable feeling
— Cameron (@cameroncorduroy.bsky.social) August 26, 2025 at 10:31 AM
A Reichstag fire is blazing in Trump’s America and we know exactly who is fanning the flames
In Nazi Germany, it was the Reichstag fire that gave Hitler the pretext to create a police state. In America, it is Trump himself who plays the arsonist — igniting not one blaze but many, each fueled by crises of his own making.
Since the start of his second term, Trump has declared a national emergency over immigration, escalated federal interventions in cities under the guise of combating crime, and launched sweeping efforts to delegitimize elections through claims of fraud. These manufactured emergencies have served not as responses to chaos, but as pretexts: for deploying federal agents, bypassing congressional oversight, and consolidating executive power. An executive order issued on April 28, 2025, did more than authorize military-grade equipment for local police; it expanded federal jurisdiction over city law enforcement and laid the groundwork for a nationalized security apparatus.
Police state.
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf.bsky.social) August 25, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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What an image (J. Scott Applewhite, AP)
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) August 27, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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I’ve said it before but reading all the medieval history books I’ve been reading lately has been so comforting. Makes you realize that there have always been mad and incompetent kings and they almost always die in ignominy and everyone piles shit on them for centuries after they’re gone.
— Craig Calcaterra (@craigcalcaterra.bsky.social) August 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
GRAND JURY NULLIFICATION! Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u…
— Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) August 27, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Subway hero!
— Dave Karpf (@davekarpf.bsky.social) August 27, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Every lawyer should get the day off in observance of the fact that they actually failed to indict a ham sandwich
— Meredith Rose (@mrose.ink) August 27, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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