@openrightsgroup Yeah. #Obama should have thought of that before he expanded the #IndefiniteDetentionClause, eh?

#MarcoRubio Wants to Imprison You on Terror Charges for Supporting #NaziPunchers

The #Trump administration moved to designate #antifa groups abroad as foreign terrorists — setting up the prosecution of their U.S. allies.

by Matt Sledge, November 15 2025

"Hungarian Prime Minister #ViktorOrbán’s government launched a continentwide manhunt when a group of European antifascists attacked a #NeoNazi rally three years ago.

"Orbán, though, showed no such appetite for cracking down on the annual #fascist rally, which this February drew attendees sporting SS patches, #swastikas, and the '#Totenkopf' death’s head symbol — all under the watchful eye of Hungarian police.

"The aggressive response to antifascist activists, compared to the kid-gloves treatment of neo-Nazi demonstrators, has roiled European politics for years.
On Thursday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio joined the fray, inserting the U.S. into the debate by declaring the antifascist group that attacked the 2023 rally a terrorist organization.

"Though the designation is aimed at foreign groups, Rubio said that he was acting in accordance with President Donald Trump’s National Security Presidential Memorandum-7, or #NSPM7, regarding purported 'domestic' terrorists.

"The terror designation will cut off the small #AntifaOst group, and three others designated by Rubio on Thursday, from raising funds in the U.S. It could also imperil American #antifascist groups with civil and criminal allegations of 'material support' for terrorism, a civil rights lawyer warned.

" 'The clever way to go about it for them is to designate some foreign organization, because a foreign organization can be designated and there is almost no #DueProcess,' said Shane Kadidal, a lawyer at the Center for Constitutional Rights. “Then, you go after the U.S. groups for supposedly coordinating their political messages with the messages of the foreign groups.'

"Rubio’s announcement follows on the heels of one from Trump in September that he was designating antifa a 'major terrorist organization,' which has no basis in law. The foreign terrorist organization designations, however, entail significant legal consequences.

"Under a 2010 ruling from the Supreme Court, domestic groups can face '#MaterialSupport' charges for providing nonviolent support to designated foreign terrorist organizations.

"Kadidal said the Trump administration could essentially try to use the foreign terrorist designations as a workaround to target domestic antifascists with 'material support' charges. Key questions such as whether domestic activists had knowledge and intent to coordinate with foreign groups can be left for a jury to decide based on circumstantial evidence, he said.

" 'That is one of those things that makes this so dangerous,' he said. 'The jury may just decide, ‘Yeah, whatever you have alleged about this coordination of messaging is true, because these are bad people in front of me.'

" 'Juries do this thing all the time. They jump to conclusions.' "

Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/15/antifa-terrorist-rubio-nazi-material-support

Archived version:
archive.ph/LjT5S

#USPol #WorldPol #Fascism #Terrorists #NDAA #ExpandedPowers #AntiFascism #PunchANazi #Hungary #Orwell #NineteenEightyFour #IndefiniteDetentionClause #CharacteristicsOfFascism

Marco Rubio Wants to Imprison You on Terror Charges for Supporting Nazi Punchers

Rubio moved to designate antifa groups abroad as foreign terrorist organizations — setting prosecution for their U.S. allies.

The Intercept

The #PrivatePrison Industry Looks Forward to Soaring Profits Thanks to #Trump’s Budget

The $45 billion for #ImmigrationDetention in the "#BigBeautifulBill" represented a long-sought win for private prisons.

Matt Sledge, July 10 2025

Excerpt: "In the 2024 election cycle, employees and PACs affiliated with the publicly traded industry behemoths GEO Group and #CoreCivic contributed overwhelmingly to Republicans and Trump.

"Republicans received 92 percent of $3.7 million in contributions affiliated with GEO Group and 96 percent of the $785,000 in contributions affiliated with CoreCivic, according to #OpenSecrets, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research group that tracks official disclosures. When Trump won, the two companies gave $500,000 each to his inaugural committee.

Even though the industry kept profiting from the Biden administration — despite a supposed ban on private prisons — one advocate said it was clear to her why companies went all-in on Trump."

Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/10/corecivic-trump-big-beautiful-bill/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/t6cYB

#USPol #ICERaids #ICEKidnapping #MassDeportations #GatorGitmo #AlligatorAlcatraz #GeoGroup #TomHolman #PrivatePrisonIndustry #IndefiniteDetention #Fascism #Authoritarianism #CharacteristicsOfFascism #IndefiniteDetentionClause

The Private Prison Industry Looks Forward to Soaring Profits Thanks to Trump’s Budget

The $45 billion for immigration detention in the "Big, Beautiful Bill" represented a long-sought win for private prisons.

The Intercept
DoomsdaysCW (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image I found the cartoon! It was by cartoonist #MattBors from 2016 (right after Trump's election). #NDAA #ExpandedPowers #USPresidency #NationalEmergency #Drones #HR9495 #Terrorists #Activists #MattBors #USPol #BorderEmergency

kolektiva.social

I said this exact same thing to someone today! "Yes. I read #Project2025." (And, I thought to myself, the #IndefiniteDetentionClause, and lots of other warning signs...)

(Stolen from @georgetakei )
#WarningFascismAhead #Fascism #CharacteristicsOfFascism

@ryansingel #NDAA and #IndefiniteDetentionClause -- tools that were put in place before Cheeto.
#CharacteristicsOfFascism

Is #Trump planning to declare #MartialLaw on April 20? The frightening claim, explored

Story by Charlotte Simmons, March 14, 2025

"First, the essentials. Martial law is the term for when civilian government and legal processes (such as mayoral jurisdiction and police officers, respectively) are overtaken by state military, so as to make demands on behalf of the nation’s leader, and then enforce those demands with their wealth of resources. Typically, martial law is invoked in dangerous situations, such as natural disasters or major #CivilUnrest.

"This is different from the United States’ #InsurrectionAct, wherein those civilian enterprises are not replaced by military personnel and resources, but supplemented by them. More importantly, the official nature of the Insurrection Act allows the #POTUS to deploy the military domestically during emergencies, as the #PosseComitatus Act of 1878 prohibits the use of the military against American civilians. In short, the Insurrection Act can waive the rules of the Posse Comitatus Act to create a sort of #MiniMartialLaw. Remember this.

"Recently, fears have been rising over whether or not the United States could enter martial law on April 20 under Donald Trump. But why then? What is it about April 20 that holds significance? When Trump first took office back on January 20, he signed an executive order declaring a state of emergency at the United States’ southern border, requiring the secretaries of Defense and Homeland Security to submit a report about what the 'situation' is at said border, together with recommended actions for 'resolving' said 'situation.' This report needed to be submitted within 90 days.

"When this order was signed, Trump also declared that 'A #NationalEmergency exists at the southern border of the United States…I hereby declare that this national emergency requires use of the Armed Forces…' This, directly references the potential execution of the Insurrection Act.

"The Secretary of Defense? #PeteHegseth. The Secretary of #HomelandSecurity? #KristiNoem. Two of Donald Trump’s most prominent yes-men. And guess how many days January 20 and April 20 are apart? Ninety.

"So, essentially, on April 20, there’s a not-insignificant chance that those two aforementioned Trump yes-men are going to tell Trump whether or not he should deploy the military in the southern United States so as to crack down on immigration. Except, as we saw with the case of #MahmoudKhalil — a recent #ColumbiaUniversity graduate who played a major role in that student body’s recent #ProPalestinain campus occupations — it doesn’t matter if you have a green card or if you haven’t committed any crimes; under this presidency, #ICE will illegally detain you if they think you’re troublesome to the vision of #TrumpsAmerica. They’re trying to deport Khalil for speaking out against #genocide as we speak. This is a direct, wholly #unconstitutional attack on #FreeSpeech.

"And here’s why that distinction between the Insurrection Act and martial law was so important earlier. On April 20, Trump will constitutionally — through the Insurrection Act — be allowed to deploy the military against #AmericanCivilians, and his government has already demonstrated that legal American civilians who have not committed any crimes are at risk for detention and deportation. It’s not technically martial law, but this #Trumpian cocktail is just as bad, if not worse.

"#Khalil’s detention — again, occurring in response to his speaking out against the #genocide of #Palestinian people — was made on the grounds of Trump’s executive order prohibiting #AntiSemitism. How long before more executive orders (none of them made in good faith, let’s be clear on that) just so happen to limit more ways of speaking, acting, and thinking? A scary thought, and a horrifyingly pertinent one."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/is-trump-planning-to-declare-martial-law-on-april-20-the-frightening-claim-explored/ar-AA1AUIqy
#USPol #Authoritarianism #Fascism #Crackdown #CriminalizingDissent #NDAA #ExpandedPowers
#USPresidency #NationalEmergency #Terrorists #Activists #USPol #BorderEmergency #Gitmo #IllegalDetention #IndefiniteDetentionClause #IndefiniteDetention

MSN

Critics warn Trump’s latest order 'should concern you more than any so far'

"Users across social media reacted Tuesday to President Donald Trump’s new executive order declaring that only the president or attorney general can speak for 'what the law is' in the United States. The announcement of the new action came last in a series of orders Trump signed while at his Mar-a-Lago golf resort.

"'Trump Administration is setting up a constitutional crisis because they want #CivilUnrest to enact #MartialLaw,' national security analyst Maine Wonk wrote on X above a clip of the announcement."

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-executive-actions-2671177627/
#NDAA #IndefiniteDetentionClause #Fascism #Coup #USPol

Critics warn Trump’s latest order 'should concern you more than any so far'

President Donald Trump’s latest eyebrow-raising executive order triggered alarms throughout social media over the startling tone for American jurisprudence the action is ushering in.Users across social media reacted Tuesday to President Donald Trump’s new executive order declaring that only the pres...

Raw Story
Tent city rising at Guantanamo Bay

The Trump administration has moved over 30 people described as Venezuelan gang members to Guantanamo Bay, as U.S. forces and homeland security staff set up a tent city for more.

The Japan Times

'He's Building a #ConcentrationCamp': Fears Grow as Images Emerge of Offshore Prison at #Gitmo

"There's no reason to build this in Guantánamo unless you want to do things you don't think you could get away with on the U.S. mainland. It's easy to put tents in Florida. But they're putting them in Cuba. Ask yourself why."

by Jon Queally, Feb 09, 2025

https://www.commondreams.org/news/gitmo-concentration-camp
#GuantanamoBay #NDAA #IndefiniteDetentionClause #IndefiniteDetention #USPol #HumanRights #Torture #Fascism #authoritarianism #AuthoritarianRule

'He's Building a Concentration Camp': Fears Grow as Images Emerge of Offshore Prison at Gitmo | Common Dreams

"There's no reason to build this in Guantánamo unless you want to do things you don't think you could get away with on the U.S. mainland. It's easy to put tents in Florida. But they're putting them in Cuba. Ask yourself why."

Common Dreams