A good reminder that Joe Kent is no hero. Like Tucker Carlson, he's just from the MAGAts' #LiteralNazis wing that hate Israel FOR BEING JEWISH, not for all the war crimes they're committing. That's enough to put him on the right side OF THIS WAR because of Israel's involvement--yet still make him too eager to embrace EVERY ANTISEMITIC CONSPIRACY THEORY about HOW they're involved.

#DictatorDrumpf was already sold on this war, to #WagTheDog before the midterms. And the REST OF MAGA was just going to follow wherever their orange idol led, like good little sheeple. No convoluted, conspiratorial dragging required.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/joe-kent-hints-to-tucker-carlson-that-israel-may-have-killed-charlie-kirk-to-stoke-iran-war/#webview=1

Blue state governors RIGHT NOW need to be meeting with their state AGs, or pulsing any other Flag or GOs they have in THEIR OWN networks they can trust, and having them reach out discreetly through their Academy or War College classmates who are fellow generals to make sure that, when #AgolfShitler tries to invoke the Insurrection Act, the military will side with the American people--and the Constitution--as their oaths demand.

Because the fascists are going to KEEP murdering civilians exercising their Constitutional rights to hold them to account, until people start defending themselves or their fellow citizens against the #ICEtapo with lethal force. And if, through some heroic restraint, the resistance holds ENTIRELY to peaceful protest even as those among them are martyred BY THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT, that will only mean that the time when governors will have to stand firm and arrest or expel all Federal agents remaining in their states WHO WON'T stand with the People is--if not already upon us--near.

Either way, when it comes, #DictatorDrumpf and #WhiskeyPete WILL try to escalate, and there will be no "remaining neutral" or sitting this one out--and having an organized coalition of elected chief executives to rally forces remaining loyal to the Constitution could prove critical in providing the legitimacy associated with civilian control, for them to defy a rogue--and ANTIconstitutional--National Command Authority.

https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/minneapolis-shooting-anti-ice-protests-seattle/281-3f8af449-c9fe-4b60-b5bb-edcc8f7f7a13

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@emptywheel.bsky.social Nothing like pulling the ladder up after you. But of course #DictatorDrumpf HIMSELF is basically doing the same thing, a mere two generations after his draft-dodging grandpa (who must be really proud of #CadetBoneSpurs!) fled Germany--AND he's married to HRH #QueenMailorderBridesky who was an illegal immigrant HERSELF, so they're just following the example of their #Trumpenfuhrer.... 😖

It's ALWAYS about stripping Democrats of the tools & resources to do what they've been doing more-or-less effectively for decades (cf. public education)--then loudly proclaiming that ONLY #DICTATORDRUMPF can possibly fix this mess HE JUST CREATED...and only if you submit to his #TurdReich.

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Effectively, after sanctioning Mexico and Canada bc they're not doing enough on fentanyl trafficking, Trump is taking away California's tools to combat fentanyl trafficking.

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From the article: “The Civil Rights Division has always worked to make sure Americans have access to the polls and that their votes matter,” said Stacey Young, an 18-year Department of Justice veteran who left that division days after Trump’s inauguration in January and founded Justice Connection, an organization supporting the agency’s employees. “The division’s job is not to promote the politically expedient fiction that voting fraud is widespread.”

Their only job NOW is to make sure that Americans can't ever vote him out again. #DictatorDrumpf

https://apnews.com/article/trump-justice-department-voting-rights-elections-fraud-0717d58a10daa11b3957d277a7ca8e0e

Justice Department will prioritize Trump's elections order, memo says

A new mission statement for the Justice Department unit that upholds voting rights shows it's being redirected toward prioritizing President Donald Trump's executive order on elections. Trump has continued to insist that widespread fraud cost him the 2020 presidential election. Repeated audits, investigations and court cases show otherwise. The mission statement is silent on the voting section's normal mission of protecting the right to vote and people from being disenfranchised by gerrymandering. Instead it says the section will combat fraud and ensure that only U.S. citizens vote, even though voting by noncitizens is already illegal and has been shown to be extremely rare.

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