The #Army placed the units on prepare-to-deploy orders in case “violence” in #Minnesota escalates, officials said, characterizing the move as “prudent planning.” It is not clear whether any of them will be sent to the state, the officials said, speaking like some others on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive #military planning.

#Trump #law #Congress #PosseComitatusAct #MilitaryState #MartialLaw #Constitution #CivilRights #RightToProtest #UseOfForce #AbuseOfPower #autocracy

The #Pentagon has ordered about 1,500 active-duty soldiers to prepare for a possible deployment to #Minnesota, #defense officials told WaPo late Saturday, after #Trump threatened to invoke the #InsurrectionAct in response to “unrest” [dissent] there.

The soldiers are assigned to 2 #infantry #battalions with the #Army’s #11thAirborne Division, which is based in Alaska & specializes in #ColdWeather operations.

#NationalSecurity #law #PosseComitatusAct #MilitaryState #MartialLaw #AbuseOfPower

This is actually what #CivilWar looks like. #Trump is pitting #USsoldiers against #US soldiers on #domestic soil.

#Pentagon readies 1,500 #soldiers to possibly deploy to #Minnesota

Troops with the #Army’s #11thAirborne Division in Alaska are preparing after Trump’s #InsurrectionAct threat, according to defense officials.

#NationalSecurity #law #PosseComitatusAct #MilitaryState #MartialLaw #Constitution #CivilRights #RightToProtest #UseOfForce #AbuseOfPower #autocracy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/01/18/trump-minnesota-insurrection-act/

#Trump this morning cited “attacks” against #immigration agents in #Minnesota as a reason for potentially invoking the #InsurrectionAct to quell #protests. But a review of the federal #judiciary’s central database on Thursday afternoon indicates that NO federal charges—such as assaulting an officer—have been filed against ANYONE in the state in connection with the crackdown over the past week.

#FactCheck #TrumpLies #propaganda #law #MilitaryState #CivilRights #RightToProtest #UseOfForce #ICE

#Trump admin ofcls have described anti-#ICE demonstrators in #Minneapolis, including one shot dead by an agent last week, as domestic terrorists. #StephenMiller took that rhetoric a step further on a right-wing talk show Thursday, describing the protests as “an insurgency against the federal government” & an “insurrection.” Earlier, Trump threatened to invoke the #InsurrectionAct to deploy #troops to quash the #protests.

#law #MilitaryState #MartialLaw #Constitution #CivilRights #RightToProtest

Via Tennessee Holler:

“They chased him, he got home & when we closed the door they shot him.”

#Minnesota orgs/electeds say this is the family calling the police with #ICE outside, after a man was shot in the leg with a pregnant woman & children inside

Different than #DHS’ shovel #propaganda

h/t
@waltbaldwin

#Trump #law #Minneapolis #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #RightToProtest #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung #InsurrectionAct #MilitaryState #MartialLaw

For those of you who have never lived somewhere you need to shovel snow —

Snow shovels are designed to be super lightweight because they are used to lift heavy snow. You don’t need the extra weight of a heavy shovel breaking your back.

I’m not saying it’s a good idea to hit someone with a snow shovel, but it doesn’t warrant #shooting in “self defense”.

#Trump #law #MilitaryState #MartialLaw #CivilRights #RightToProtest #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung