What emerged in 2 interviews w/ #Trump, & conversations w/more than a dozen of his closest advisers & confidants,were the outlines of an imperial presidency that would reshape #America & its role in the world. To carry out a #deportation operation designed to remove >11M people from the country…he would be willing to build migrant detention camps [#ConcentrationCamps] & deploy the #US#military…
He is weighing #pardons for all of his supporters accused of attacking the Capitol on #Jan6, >800 of whom have pleaded #guilty or been #convicted by a jury. He might not come to the aid of an attacked #ally in Eur or Asia if he felt they weren’t paying enough for its defense. He would gut the US civil service, deploy the #NationalGuard to US cities as he sees fit, close the WH #pandemic-preparedness office, & staff his Admin w/acolytes who back his false assertion the 2020 election was stolen.
TikTok CEO #ShouZiChew has said the company will take the fight against the new law to the courts, but some experts believe that for the #US#SupremeCourt, national security considerations could outweigh #FreeSpeech protection.
The historical precedents are becoming more overt. In 1969, #Harvard called in the #police to clear #AntiWar protesters, as #Columbia had done a year earlier. Both events produced pictures of bruised and bloodied students.
Every day I watch as my country falls more and more into a oligarchic surveillance state. #nationalguard in subways is now the hot new flavor of #americansecurity
As if armed army personnel standing around like occupying forces is going to make people feel safe.
Instead of wasting money on the border the governor of #Texas could send those #nationalguard to fight the fires in west Texas. Do your job #GovernorAbbott
Today in Labor History February 8, 1919: A General Strike occurred in Butte, Montana against a wage cut. Inspired by the Seattle General Strike, members of the IWW and the Metal and Mine Workers Union, Local 800, organized Soldiers’, Sailors’ and Workers Councils to lead the strike. Streetcar workers joined in, shutting down transportation for 5 days. Soldiers, returning from World War I, joined the pickets. Montana’s governor called in the National Guard. They bayoneted 9 workers. The workers ultimately called off the strike out of fear that there would be fatalities.
« #Texas Gov. #GregAbbott has refused to stop erecting #RazorWire to blockade portions of a state park in border community of #EaglePass to obstruct #migrant crossings, even as #BorderPatrol agents warn it's impeding their ability to do their jobs & even after the #SupremeCourt gave the fed government permission to remove it. Former President #DonaldTrump has even encouraged #GOP-controlled states to send their own #NationalGuard troops to supplement Abbott's project »
A century & a half ago, Confederate Gen Joseph Orville Shelby splashed into the wild waters of the Rio Grande off this border city & fled to Mexico, refusing to surrender to Union soldiers.
Now the park named in his honor (?) has become a front line in a feud between the #state & the #federal govt — a power struggle over who ultimately has the right to control the border….
#Texas#NationalGuard Humvees carry rifle-toting troops & patrol newly erected gates to the municipal park previously used for family cookouts & Independence Day festivities. Tents, military trucks, heavy equipment & portable toilets dot the edge of a browning fairway. Along the riverbank, Gov #GregAbbott (R) has ordered the state National Guard to deploy coils of #RazorWire, rusting shipping containers & dirt-filled barrels to declare his state’s sovereignty. #state#federal#Biden#immigration
In a Shelby-like act of defiance, the governor is invoking the state’s right to defend itself against what he sees as an invasion. #Abbott made national headlines when he seized the park in #EaglePass this month & shut out U.S. #Border Patrol agents who had long used the terrain as a staging point — action the governor’s supporters saw as a take-charge move, while his detractors viewed it as a dangerous #overreach of #state#power.
The feud between #Abbott & the #Biden admin is heating up just as the presidential #election campaign gets underway. The issue has galvanized #Republicans, some of whom are now questioning the merits of a #bipartisan#border package tied to #Ukraine#aid after #Trump called it “meaningless.” #POTUS Biden has been pushed to take a harsher stance — declaring Fri that he would “shut down” the southern border when illegal crossings surge.
#Mexicans who cross legally make up ~½ of #EaglePass’s workforce; many US residents also cross the river to work. While local government & the school district have been Eagle Pass’s biggest employers historically, residents are increasingly landing jobs w/ the #Border Patrol & large manufacturers. Still, nearly a ¼ of the population — about 2X the #Texas avg — lives in #poverty.
Ok, Dark Brandon.... you need to arrest these folks. It's not political speech. It's insurrection. They need to be put behind bars in the worst prisons available while the courts take the week off. Oh, and send them with a complementary bar of soap with a note that it's for cleaning out their filthy mouths....😉
@lednabwm Biden has the authority to seize control of every state's #NationalGuard and that will be next. These fucking inbred Nazi shitbags want a civil war instead.
Anyone still identifying as Republican is the enemy, to everyone and everything. Yes I said it. The only good Nazi is a dead one.
Let's take a look of the powers granted by the #Constitution.
Biden's authority would come from Article 3, Section 2:
"The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States;"
So where does this -call to service- come from?
All that authority rests with #Congress. This is from Article 1 Section 8:
"To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;"
The power to -call to service- rests with Congress. Once Congress has done so, #POTUS takes over as the Commander-In-Chief.
Be cautious with people advocating otherwise. They're either ignorant, and spreading #misinformation. Or they are malicious and attempting to #gaslight you with #disinformation.
#SCOTUS sided w/ the #Biden admin on Mon & cleared the way for #border patrol agents to remove #RazorWire#Texas ofcls installed along a busy stretch of the southern border until the legality of the barriers is resolved in court.
4 conservatives — Justices #ClarenceThomas, Samuel #Alito, Neil #Gorsuch & Brett #Kavanaugh — noted their dissents w/o explanation.
Trump staff creating 'pre-vetted pro-Trump army' of 54,000 loyalists to staff federal government
Staffers who worked for former President Donald Trump are reportedly now assembling a database of MAGA loyalists in preparation for an unprecedented purge of federal workers should Trump win a second term in 2024.
In summr o '21, #SouthDakota Gov #KristiNoem deployed #SD#NationalGuard 2 #Texas’s #Mexico bordr w/ $1M priv donation frm billionaire #GOP donor & #Tennessee res #WillisJohnson. The use o priv donation 2 activate troops was widely covered in nat #media not only as unprecedented, but also unethical & legally dubious. New records obtained by #CREW provide behind-scenes look @ how Noem’s & SDNG staff communicated about donation amid mounting controversy in last days o June
Today in Labor History October 3, 1932: All 164 students at Kincaid High School in Illinois walked out to protest their school’s use of scab labor to provide heating coal, in solidarity with their fathers who were striking against Peabody Coal. Also known as the Father-Son strike, the actions came on the heals of the creation of the new Progressive Miners of America (PMA). Thousands of Illinois miners joined the new union in protest of wage concessions by John Lewis of the UMWA. The strikers went to all scab mines and forced the workers to join their new union or leave the mine. They also picketed UMWA mines to protest their wage concessions. The government called in the National Guard to stop the armed conflicts between the two unions.
Today in Labor History September 22, 1934: The United Textile Workers (UTW) strike committee ordered strikers back to work, ending the largest U.S. textile strike to date. Over 400,000 workers participated, mostly women. At least 18 of them died at the hands of militias, vigilantes and police. The strike began in the south and spread up the Eastern Seaboard. The governors of North and South Carolina deputized citizens (i.e., created vigilante squads) during the first week of the strike, issuing shoot-to-kill orders against any picketers who tried to enter a mill. As a result, 14 strikers were murdered in that first week. In the second week of the strike, the governor of Rhode Island mustered the National Guard, who used machine guns against strikers armed with flower pots and headstones they had taken from a nearby cemetery. The National Guard was also deployed in Maine, New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts. In Georgia, strikers were arrested and held without charge, in World War I concentration camps. 34 strike leaders were held incommunicado.
800 members of Fla Nat Guard
200 agents (in teams of 40) from state Dept of Law Enforcement
101 state highway patrol troopers
20 agents from state Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission & the Department of Emergency Management
5 fixed-wing aircrafts
17 unmanned drones
10 waterborne vessels
i/:Where are the constitutional lawyers when you need them?/I
Ok, it is the #NationalGuard, so it is probably fine to send them from one state to another, but sending law-enforcement officers from #Florida to #Texas on such a massive scale without federal requests etc.? IDK
And NO to the Guard:
"The National Guard is a state-based military force that becomes part of the reserve components of the US Army and the US Air Force when activated for 👉federal👈 missions..."
A little-known multi-agency drug war group runs thousands of #facialrecognition scans and other #surveillance operations. We found over 37,000 requests for support, connecting at least 233 #lawenforcement organizations in #Minnesota and beyond.
In addition to federal agents, the local #HIDTA program – North Central HIDTA – employs “specially trained criminal intelligence analysts” from “Anoka, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey and Washington” counties and a “Minnesota National Guard Counter Drug analyst” according to the docs. #nationalguard#counterdrug#drugpolicy