"We have a mentally incapacitated octogenarian white supremacist, who is intent on using overwhelming power to change America into a MAGA wet dream. To do that, he is going to need to physically confront people he calls 'urban dwellers,' which is white supremacist talk for African-Americans."

~ Malcolm Nance

#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #NationalGuard #ICE #FBI
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https://malcolmnance.substack.com/p/urgent-trump-may-seize-control-of

URGENT: Trump May Seize Control of Washington DC Today

One white DOGE guy gets a well-deserved beating, and Trump wants to start the 2nd American Revolution.

Special Intelligence

"It will be a week filled with new performative cruelty and made-for-TV melodrama. It’s all a ruse. Trump is play-acting as president and provoking outrage to distract from his own guilt. Everything he does is a sign of weakness or fear."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #NationalGuard #ICE #FBI #PerformativeCruelty
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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/looking-past-the-performative-cruelty

Looking past the performative cruelty to see the reality of Trump's collapsing agenda

August 11, 2025

Today's Edition Newsletter

"Trump's authoritarian power grabs are escalating. Random street crimes are being used as pretexts for repression. ...

The ongoing militarization of immigration enforcement, the false narratives about rising crime, and the threats for further crackdowns on Americans are all part of Trump’s need to punish anyone and everyone who doesn’t support him absolutely."

~ Justin Glawe

#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #NationalGuard #ICE #FBI #PerformativeCruelty
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https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-national-guard-washington-dc-takeover

Crime is down. But Trump's authoritarian power grabs are escalating.

Random street crimes are being used as pretexts for repression.

Public Notice

"It’s official: Donald Trump has deployed the National Guard to Washington, D.C.—a dramatic escalation in a city where violent crime has actually fallen year-over-year from 2024 to 2025."

~ Aaron Parnas

But EpsteinEpsteinEpstein and EconomyEconomyEconomy.

This is politics of theater and distraction, always predictably loved by authoritarian-leaning citizens.

#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #NationalGuard #ICE #FBI #PerformativeCruelty
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https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/breaking-donald-trump-places-dc-police

BREAKING: Donald Trump Places D.C. Police Under Federal Control and Deploys National Guard

I have lived in D.C. for eight years. I am not leaving the city I call home. Get ready for on the ground, live coverage from the nation's capital.

The Parnas Perspective

"Yes, today, the crazy old man running the country is going to focus on CRIME. I think we know why, don’t we? Here’s the lead story on The Hill’s website right now:

'High costs after tariffs pose threat to Trump and GOP.'"

~ Simon Rosenberg

#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #NationalGuard #ICE #FBI #PerformativeCruelty #Epstein #economy
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https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/working-to-distract-from-epstein

Working To Distract From Epstein, Rising Prices, His Traitorous Fealty To Putin, Trump Starts Terrorizing Another American City

Stuart Stevens Joins Hopium Live Today at 130pm ET (Note new time) - Join Us!

Hopium Chronicles By Simon Rosenberg

"Our Republic reaches a crossroads as the power of the White House to militarize our cities comes under judiciary scrutiny. …

There are already plenty of police within D.C, and neither the mayor of D.C. nor its police chief has asked for any federal help with crime control. Nor is the National Guard trained to conduct crime control as Trump wants them to."

~Jay Kuo

#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #NationalGuard #ICE #FBI #PerformativeCruelty #Epstein #economy
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https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-posse-comitatus-trial

The Posse Comitatus Trial

Our Republic reaches a crossroads as the power of the White House to militarize our cities comes under judiciary scrutiny.

The Status Kuo

"Every single person who said we were being hysterical about Trump being an existential threat should be forced to explain how the President seizing control of the capital’s police force and deploying military units to forcibly relocate citizens represents normal democratic governance."

~ Mike Brock

#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #NationalGuard #ICE #FBI #PerformativeCruelty #Epstein #economy
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https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/a-note-on-trump-derangement-syndrome

A Note on "Trump Derangement Syndrome"

A Brief Meditation of Moral Witness

Notes From The Circus

Wajahat Ali and Danielle Moodie ring a warning bell in a conversation they've just had about what's happening with Trump and his military occupation of D.C.:

"The overarching message in today’s episode is a stark warning: the America many knew is 'gone.'"

#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #NationalGuard #ICE #FBI #PerformativeCruelty #Epstein #economy
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https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/trump-takeover-of-dc

Trump Takeover of DC!

Donald Trump's federal take over of Washington D.C. is a sign of his authoritarian ambitions. Law enforcement is now his personal Gestapo to crush future dissent and protests.

The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali

"Donald Trump’s usurpation of law enforcement in the nation’s capital carried a warning for America’s liberal bastions.

Speaking at a White House press briefing Monday morning, Trump declared a 'public safety emergency,' emphasizing Washington’s supposedly startling rise in crime while citing statistics from 2023 instead of 2025."

~ Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #NationalGuard #ICE #FBI #PerformativeCruelty #Epstein #economy
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https://newrepublic.com/post/198978/donald-trump-warns-fascist-dc-takeover-just-beginning

Trump Warns Fascist D.C. Takeover Is Just the Beginning

Donald Trump has seized control of the Washington Metropolitan Police Department.

The New Republic

Trump also suggested that cities far beyond Washington’s region could experience the same fate.

'We have other cities also that are bad. Very bad. You look at Chicago, how bad it is. You look at Los Angeles, how bad it is. We have other cities that are very bad. New York has a problem. And then, of course, you have Baltimore and Oakland.'"

#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #NationalGuard #ICE #FBI #PerformativeCruelty #Epstein #economy
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"Data released by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in January, revealed that total violent crime in D.C. was at a 30-year low in 2024, and had decreased by 35 percent from 2023. Homicides were down 32 percent from 2023; robberies were down almost 40 percent; and armed carjackings were down more than 50 percent."

~ Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg

#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #NationalGuard #ICE #FBI #PerformativeCruelty #Epstein #economy
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https://truthout.org/articles/trump-to-send-national-guard-troops-into-d-c-and-the-military-if-its-needed/

Trump Plans to Send National Guard Troops to D.C., Suggests Other Cities May Be Next

Despite official data that shows crime in D.C. is at record lows, Trump says the city is overrun with violence.

Truthout

"But at Trump’s press conference he claimed, 'Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals roving mobs of wild youth, drugged out maniacs and homeless people, and we’re not going to let it happen anymore.'”

#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #NationalGuard #ICE #FBI #PerformativeCruelty #Epstein #economy
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"There are the especially concerning facts of this military deployment, which we must place in the context of an ever-growing impulse to deploy the military within the United States. It began eight months ago at the southern border. It spread to Los Angeles earlier this summer."

~ Chris Mirasola

#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #NationalGuard #ICE #FBI #PerformativeCruelty #Epstein #economy
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https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/deploying-the-d.c.-national-guard

Deploying the D.C. National Guard

The president’s concerning use of the D.C. National Guard relies on incredibly broad and outdated statutory law and a history of maximalist executive branch practice.

Default

"And it is now arriving (returning, really) to the capital. Each time, the president has justified these military deployments under the pretext of a domestic crisis that facts do not support."

#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #NationalGuard #ICE #FBI #PerformativeCruelty #Epstein #economy
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"President Trump said violent crime in big cities was 'out of control.' The new FBI report on 2024 data says otherwise. …

The FBI’s data is unambiguous. Far from being “out of control,” violent crime in the United States fell by an estimated 4.5% in 2024. The numbers are even more striking when you break them down."

~ Jeff Nesbit

#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #NationalGuard #ICE #FBI #PerformativeCruelty #Epstein #economy
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https://contrarian.substack.com/p/president-trump-said-violent-crime

President Trump said violent crime in big cities was 'out of control'

The new FBI report on 2024 data says otherwise.

The Contrarian

@wdlindsy

Facts, science, knowledge no longer a factor in American government.

@wdlindsy Drug use and homelessness demand the deployment of the military. An attack on the #Capitol not so much

@wdlindsy

"we start with DC, then ride north" - the same fucking plan the Ku Klux Klan has been trying to pull off since Lincoln died

@wdlindsy

Also, don't overlook the fact that the first deployments to the border were funded by billionaires.

Bigoted billionaire GOP donor and Tennessee resident Willis Johnson

Political theater & stunts by Trump are him auditioning for the role of despot, as Peter Thiel's puppet JD Vance makes his play for Trump's ouster.

MAGA ire over Epstein is manufactured by Thiel's media manipulation

Both are auditioning for the billionaire donors.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/29/willis-johnson-us-mexico-border-497080

https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/how-kristi-noems-team-prepared-to-defend-a-1-million-donation-to-send-sd-troops-to-the-border/

Billionaire GOP donor is funding South Dakota National Guard border deployment

Willis Johnson doesn’t live in the state but says he backs Gov. Kristi Noem, a potential presidential candidate who has called migration a “national security crisis.”

@wdlindsy The "drugged out maniacs" are less dangerous than #tRump and his allies in #Congress and #SCOTUS

@wdlindsy
"Trump posted a similar statement on Truth Social last week, stating that kids as young as 14 should be charged as adults."

That's so it will be legal to fuck them, too.

@wdlindsy So I would like to know what the definition of a “public safety emergency” is and how National Guard troops are qualified to provide the same kind of law enforcement as trained police officers are?
Will they correctly observe the correct protocol when engaging crime or will perpetrators escape unscathed when entering the court system because improper procedures were not followed, rights not protected etc?