"Ultimately, the developments this week in the nation’s capital serve as proof of concept for everywhere else Trump would like to unleash the military — cities where white people are no longer the majority. During his press conference, Trump first threatened to deploy troops to New York City, Baltimore, and Oakland, then some 45 minutes later added Chicago and Los Angeles to the list."

~ Lisa Needham

#Trump #WashingtonDC #crime #fascism #racism #military
/8

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-federal-forces-dc

"The Associated Press didn’t mince words in the headline for its story: 'Trump’s rhetoric about DC echoes a history of racist narratives about urban crime.' I wish more media outlets had been as direct in framing this outrage."

~ Elliot Kirschner

#Trump #WashingtonDC #crime #fascism #racism #military
/9

https://elliotkirschner.substack.com/p/the-real-criminals-in-washington

"White Christian nationalism requires a virtuous past to sell its story of U.S. history."

~ Jemar Tisby

#Trump #WashingtonDC #crime #fascism #racism #military #Smithsonian #history #WhiteSupremacy #RevisionistHistory
/10

https://jemartisby.substack.com/p/how-the-white-houses-review-of-smithsonian

Joyce Vance notes that when Trump purchased a golf course in Virginia, he placed a plaque with made-up history at the site claiming that "great" soliders of both North and South died there:

"'Write your story the way you want to write it,' Trump told reporters who pressed him for any evidence to support the supposed history he attributed to the site.

#Trump #WashingtonDC #crime #fascism #racism #military #Smithsonian #WhiteSupremacy #RevisionistHistory
/11

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/living-in-1984

"Once history is rewritten to match the preferences of those in power, the past stops being a shared record and becomes a weapon."

~ Aaron Parnas

#Trump #WashingtonDC #crime #fascism #racism #military #Smithsonian #history #WhiteSupremacy #RevisionistHistory
/12

https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/an-urgent-psa-this-evening

"Eugenic and nationalist imaginaries are retelling the same old stories of a favored 'race' with God-given superiority and the church’s blessing to steal land predestined to be colonized. It’s a 'Master Narrative' set, the Doctrine of Discovery, Manifest Destiny, and Survival of the Fittest repackaged."

~ Starlette Thomas

#Trump #WashingtonDC #crime #fascism #racism #military #Smithsonian #history #WhiteSupremacy #RevisionistHistory
/13

https://goodfaithmedia.org/the-writer-is-a-witness/

"Elites seek cultural hegemony because they know that ideas and the arts and intellectual discourse are what form the bonds within nations, ensure the stability and endurance of key institutions and persuade people that their identities are actually linked to ideas that benefit those in power."

~ David Rothkopf

#Trump #WashingtonDC #crime #fascism #racism #military #Smithsonian #history #WhiteSupremacy #RevisionistHistory
/14

https://davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/how-do-you-defeat-the-oligarchy

"Trump doesn’t just seek to control the Smithsonian or the Kennedy Center because he is a malignant narcissist wannabe king….although that’s part of it."

#Trump #WashingtonDC #crime #fascism #racism #military #Smithsonian #history #WhiteSupremacy #RevisionistHistory
/15

"He does it on behalf of those who are sponsoring his Christo-fascist or ethno-nationalist movement and thereby building a powerbase that can serve the real big bosses, the oligarchs at the top of the food chain who are cynically tapping into white grievances to gain an ever bigger piece of the pie and to further entrench themselves so their interests cannot be challenged by something as flighty and unpredictable as the will of the people."

#Trump #Smithsonian #history #WhiteSupremacy
/16

"It’s important to see Trump’s occupation of Washington, D.C., as a trial run for a possible military occupation of the United States, including martial law, later in his term."

~ Robert Reich

#Trump #WashingtonDC #crime #fascism #racism #military
/17

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-trial-run

"Multiple favored strongman tactics are being deployed in President Donald Trump’s current authoritarian assault on Washington D.C. They include inventing a crisis to justify the expansion of executive power and using cities as laboratories of state repression. I also see his assault on D.C. government and law enforcement as payback for his failed coup."

~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat

#Trump #WashingtonDC #crime #fascism #racism #military #strongman
/18

https://lucid.substack.com/p/trumps-dc-takeover-uses-classic-strongman

"The militarization of DC also illustrates a core feature of fascist regimes, which is their collapse of rhetoric and reality. Symbolism, language, images: these are core to Trump’s political project, which is as much mythic as it is material. Trump’s claims about crime and disorder are plain lies. But the ability to make your lies have the force of fact is a terrifying power. No one can doubt that Trump has seized it."

~ Moira Donegan

#Trump #WashingtonDC #fascism
/19

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/12/trumps-military-takeover-of-washington-dc-is-a-sheer-demonstration-of-power

If you live near or care about #America and don't watch #LegalEagle, you really should. His insights are great and his production quality is high.
https://youtu.be/mIk4-uDRk0o?si=cDAINbCIX3VJLgEe
#video #law #WashingtonDC #Trump

Macron sort de sa réserve estivale à Brégançon pour faire le SAV de Trump deux jours avant la rencontre des deux dirigeants qui vont discuter de l'avenir de l'Ukraine. "La volonté américaine est d'obtenir un cessez-le-feu", assure le président, évoquant "une trilatérale à venir en Europe dans un pays neutre". Quelques jours après avoir rencontré à l'Elysée son homologue suisse. A croire que Macron s'imagine toujours un avenir européen...

#Politique #Macron #Russe #Trump #Guerre #Ukraine #Europe

COUNTDOWN TO PUTIN-TRUMP SUMMIT: US and Russian officials are racing to finalize plans for Friday’s summit between #Trump and #Putin — the first meeting between the two leaders in over four years.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/12/politics/trump-putin-meeting-plan-location

Dr. Jemar Tisby, a Black scholar of religion, has important things to say about Douglas Wilson, the right-wing Reformed minister whose patriarchal ideas (women should not be allowed to vote, gay people should be criminalized) Pete Hegseth is now shopping around. Jemar has himself been personally targeted by Wilson.

#DouglasWilson #Hegseth #churches #patriarchy #misogyny #homophobia #Trump #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination
/1

https://jemartisby.substack.com/p/how-douglas-wilsons-ideology-became

Tisby writes,

"If we had paid attention to [Douglas] Wilson and the spread of his ideology, we could have foreseen the Trump regime coming.

What happens in politics is downstream of what happens in the church. …

They want to strip women of bodily autonomy. They have recently challenged marriage equality. They are under orders to gerrymander districts to guarantee Republican wins."

#DouglasWilson #Hegseth #churches #patriarchy #misogyny #homophobia #Trump #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination
/2

"They have demonized and brutalized immigrants from certain countries. Now they are attempting to take over cities with large Black populations in the name of law and order.

This will result in a very small group of wealthy people—mostly white, mostly male, mostly Christian nationalist—imposing minority rule on the majority who disagree with their leadership and policies."

#DouglasWilson #Hegseth #churches #patriarchy #misogyny #homophobia #Trump #WhiteSupremacy #immigrants
/3

"In the end, Wilson, this political regime, and its supporters want the United States to look a lot like the antebellum South. ...

What we see in Douglas Wilson’s theology today will become someone’s policy tomorrow.

If a church teaches hierarchy, exclusion, and authoritarian control, it will eventually shape a politics that enforces those same values."

#DouglasWilson #Hegseth #churches #patriarchy #misogyny #homophobia #Trump #WhiteSupremacy #immigrants
/4

"And once that theology is embedded in law, it affects everyone — not just the people in the pews.

That’s why it matters who and what we platform in our churches."

#DouglasWilson #Hegseth #churches #patriarchy #misogyny #homophobia #Trump #WhiteSupremacy #immigrants
/5

"For Wilson, Hegseth represents a unique chance to spread his extreme ideology. Some at his church oppose female suffrage; his denomination is against women in combat, homosexuality, abortion, and pushes for an extremely traditional interpretation of family structure."

~ Josh Kovensky and Emine Yücel

#DouglasWilson #Hegseth #churches #patriarchy #misogyny #homophobia #Trump #WhiteSupremacy #immigrants #WhiteChristianNationalism
/6

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/where-things-stand-pete-and-the-preacher-man

"Yes, they're coming for same-sex marriage. This was always part of the right-wing plan. And it won't stop here."

~ Jill Filipovic

#Trump #Republicans #Obergefell #SameSexMarriage #WhiteChristianNationalism #homophobia #MAGA #SupremeCourt #contraception #women #BirthControl #ReproductiveRights
/7

https://jill.substack.com/p/yes-theyre-coming-for-same-sex-marriage

FRANCE 24's Mark Owen speaks to Oleh Shamshur, forrmer Ambassador of Ukraine to France, about the upcoming meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Alaska. He says that any territorial concession to Putin will only be a prelude to a wider war in Europe and that the security of the continent is being decided now in Ukraine.
#Ukraine #Trump #Putin #Russia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzZfxt7Pxrk

#Trump #WashingtonDC, takeover begins as #NationalGuard troops arrive

Some of the 800 National Guard members deployed by Trump began arriving in the #US capital Tuesday, ramping up after the WH ordered #federal forces to take over the city’s #police & *reduce crime* in what Trump called — without substantiation — a lawless city.

…He cited a #crime #emergency — but referred to the same crime that city officials stress is already falling noticeably.

#law #MilitaryState
https://apnews.com/article/washington-dc-takeover-trump-mayor-crime-48b8c936a19531cacf6bfb75e2f32231

"For the second time in eight months of his presidency, Donald Trump has deployed federal military force to subdue a city with a large Black population currently led by a Black woman."

~ Oliver Willis

#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #racism #misogyny
/1

https://www.oliverexplains.com/p/donald-trump-is-attacking-black-america

"The irony, when Trump complained during the press conference Monday that the people in D.C. who were committing crimes weren’t good people who could be reformed—that they were murderers, not school teachers—was hard to miss in light of the white teacher who murdered a husband and wife who were out hiking with their children in Arkansas in late July. Why not fight crime there?"

~ Joyce Vance

#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #racism
/2

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/when-the-president-becomes-the-police

"Invading DC is textbook fascism. ...

Trump isn’t just targeting DC because he wants to see different headlines. He’s targeting the people of DC because he sees them as a racial enemy to be subjugated and destroyed."

~ Noah Berlatsky

Berlatsky sees the idea that Trump's DC stunt is an attempt to distract from his problems (Epstein, economy) as denying he's also a fascist. Some things can be both-and, seems to me.

#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #racism #fascism
/3

https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/trumps-invasion-of-dc-is-not-a-distraction

Lamenting the totally predictable Washington Post editorial soft-selling Trump's lies about DC crime and his fascist military takeover of the city, Gene Weingarten features a photo of what went on as white supremacist Birmingham, Alabama, police supervisor Bull Connor deployed firehoses and dogs against "violent" Black protestors in the 1960s.

#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #racism #fascism
/4

https://geneweingarten.substack.com/p/the-washington-post

"Already, Trump is using his false claims about crime in DC to encourage and justify police brutality."

~ Judd Legum, Rebecca Crosby, and Noel Sims

#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #racism #fascism
/5

https://popular.info/p/calling-crime-data-fake-news-trump

"The real 'crime,' 'bedlam,' and 'squalor' engulfing the capital emanate not from D.C.’s not especially mean streets but from the White House itself."

~ Timothy Noah

#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #racism #fascism
/6

https://newrepublic.com/article/198996/biggest-criminal-dc-donald-trump

Lucian Truscott reminds us of Trump's role in the Central Park Five debacle:

"As good as Trump is at home decoration, he is also the world’s biggest expert at law enforcement, as he showed the world the day in 1989 that he ran full page ads in all the New York newspapers calling for the execution of five Black and Latino teenagers arrested for raping and nearly killing a female jogger in Central Park."

#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #racism #fascism
/7

https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/donald-trump-crime-solver-its-even

"Here is how Trump described the solution to crime in New York: 'Bring back the death penalty and bring back our police!' The five teenagers were exonerated by DNA evidence and the confession of the man who actually committed the crime. The five said all along that they had been coerced into admitting a crime they didn’t commit. Their convictions were vacated in 2002, and the city of New York settled their civil rights lawsuit in 2014 for $41 million."

#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #racism
/8

"Trump 'solved' the case of the Central Park Five with a newspaper ad, and he is solving the non-existent crime explosion in Washington D.C. the way he has solved everything else, with an executive order and a press conference."

Some crime solver this gilded man is….

#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #racism
/9

"Deploying the National Guard in Washington, D.C. is a calculated move. It’s a flex of authority designed not only to show the public that he can, but also to dominate headlines, change the subject, and create a visual — soldiers in uniform, military vehicles rolling through familiar streets — that draws the cameras and drowns out other coverage."

~ Aaron Parnas

#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #racism #Epstein #economy
/10

https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/we-are-at-an-inflection-point

"There is no crime wave or homeless crisis in D.C., but there is a public relations emergency at the White House. It makes one wonder what Trump is trying to hide from: the still lurking Epstein scandal? Rising grocery prices? Criticism over meeting with a war criminal on U.S. soil? It’s becoming embarrassing to watch him manufacture stunts to change the subject."

~ Dan Rather

#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #racism #Epstein #economy #groceries
/11

https://steady.substack.com/p/capital-punishment

"Fake crime wave, real power grab. ...

Ever since that latest weak jobs report, Trump has been frantically trying to convince the American public that the economy is doing great. He is failing, and predictably so. Experience shows that trying to talk up the economy when people don’t perceive it as good never works, even if the data are favorable."

~ Paul Krugman

#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #economy #groceries #inflation #jobs #tariffs #taxes
/12

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-plays-the-carnage-card

"It’s a familiar headline for Americans of my generation: 'Authoritarian Government Uses Pretext to Take Control of Police Force in Nation’s Capital.'

The dateline could be Belgrade or Bangkok, Caracas or Cairo."

~ William Kristol

#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #authoritarianism #ShowofForce #PoliticsofDistraction #theater
/13

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-isnt-liberating-dc-hes-subduing-home-rule-police-national-guard-military-washington

Trump is taking over D.C. police because he’s a racist thug. Trump doesn’t care about 'crime.' He cares about the right white people being in charge. …

At the press conference, an array of the right white people could be seen flanking Trump on the cramped riser."

~ Melissa Gira Grant

#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #racism
/14

https://newrepublic.com/article/199001/trump-dc-takeover-police-racist

"The recent talk of 'law and order' among Trump and other officials is, as it usually is in this country, a fearmongering political maneuver. It is meant to link alleged incompetence and lawlessness with the political participation or even the mere visibility of Black people, immigrants, or women—all those whom our leaders have claimed at multiple points throughout our history lack the capacity to govern themselves, let alone others."

#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #racism
/15

Rebecca Solnit on REAL crime in D.C. and when we all remember it taking place.

#Trump #WashingtonDC #Republicans #military #crime #Jan6
/16

Alt...

Rebecca Solnit commenting on when REAL crime took place right in the capitol buildings in DC on January 6

"Many correctly saw this [announcement that Trump is taking over DC] as another escalation in Trump’s autocratic quest. Others also correctly saw this as another attempt to distract from the Epstein files.

It’s both of those things, but it’s also, politically speaking, a pretty weak maneuver."

~ Jay Kuo

I agree with Kuo: seems to me to be both-and.

#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #fascism #Epstein #economy #PoliticsofDistraction #PoliticsofTheater
/17

https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/king-of-the-sandbox

Trump’s summit with #Putin risks a dangerous precedent if abducted #Ukrainian children are left out of a deal.

The Yale group tracking the missing children have previously reported they are trying to locate 35,000 children. Previously, #Trump cut funding to the Yale group.

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/57954

@Itchy He didn't "exaggerate." He didn't "misstate facts." He lied. Why can't they say that?
#politics #USPol #Trump #APnews #journalism
https://apnews.com/article/trump-washington-crime-factcheck-violent-homelessness-db6f809a13800ccc1f4606bb9bf506a8

Aux États-Unis, 10 ans après la légalisation du mariage pour tous, l'ex-greffière du comté du Kentucky Kim David qui discriminait les couples gays en refusant de leur délivrer leurs licences de mariage au nom de sa religion, réclame pas moins de 360.000 dollars de dommages et intérêts pour... discrimination religieuse. Avec Trump et une Cour suprême à majorité conservatrice, elle a toutes les chances de gagner. https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/supreme-court-formally-asked-overturn-085935840.html

#Politique #Trump #Mariage #LGBTQIA #USA #EtatsUnis

@noelreports
#Russia lost Crimean War (1856), WWI (1918), Afghanistan (1989).
#Trump lost his memory (2025).

Here's what we are reading today:

Ahead of next week’s Trump–Putin meeting, #Zelenskyy said he will not give up any land for a ceasefire and that #Ukraine must be part of the talks.

#Trump said Friday there “will be some swapping of territories, to the betterment of both.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3dp119lk5xo

Trump: "On prend Gaza"
Reporter: "sous quelle autorité ?"
Trump: "sous l'autorité états-unienne"

Tout est dit

#Politique #Trump #Gaza

#MilitaryState

The US #military is preparing to activate #NationalGuard troops in the nation’s capital as part of #Trump’s campaign against *crime* there, a #Defense Dept official said.

#Trump is expected to announce Monday that up to several hundred #DC Guard #troops will be sent to *support* law enforcement in the city.

Crime rates in #WashingtonDC have been falling, but Trump has claimed they are “totally out of control” & has threatened a federal takeover.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/us/politics/trump-national-guard-washington-dc.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

“I will, MAKE OUR CAPITAL GREAT AGAIN!” #Trump said in a Truth Social post Monday morning.

The #NationalGuard troops would probably not have arrest authorities. Instead, they would *support* law enforcement officials or free them up to carry out patrol duties, the #Defense Dept official said.

The Trump admin also plans to temporarily reassign 120 #FBI agents in #WashingtonDC to nighttime patrol duties….

#MilitaryState #authoritarianism #autocracy #Gestapo
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-military-preparing-national-guard-activation-washington-dc-officials-say-2025-08-11/

Most of the agents will be pulled from their regular duties at the #FBI’s Washington field office….

The troop activation in #Washington comes after the deployment this summer of nearly 5,000 #NationalGuard troops to #LosAngeles with orders to help *quell* #protests that had erupted over #immigration raids & to *protect* the federal agents conducting them. All but about 250 of those National Guard #troops have since been withdrawn.

#Trump #MilitaryState #authoritarianism #autocracy #Gestapo

In his first term, #Trump called up #NationalGuard soldiers & federal law enforcement personnel to forcibly clear peaceful #protests during the #BlackLivesMatter protests after the #police killing of #GeorgeFloyd in 2020.

Unlike a #state’s governor, #DC does not have control over its National Guard, giving the president broad leeway to deploy those troops. [Which is why they weren’t called up #Jan6 till Trump’s supporters had left]

#MilitaryState #authoritarianism #autocracy #Gestapo

Update:

#Trump is promising to announce new steps to tackle #homelessness & #crime in #WashingtonDC at a 10 AM ET news conference just days after directing federal law enforcement agencies to increase their presence in #Washington & suggesting that the #FederalGovernment could #seize control of the #city.

#MilitaryState #authoritarianism #autocracy #Gestapo

Literally the only thing on #Trump’s schedule today is a news conference at 10 a.m., and he’s already 30+ minutes late for that.

#IdiotInChief #idiocracy #kakistocracy

#Trump is going further than initially reported. He claims he is putting #WashingtonDC #police departments under direct control of the #FederalGovernment.

Now Trump is spouting off #disinformation & claims DC has worse crime than Bogota, Columbia & Bagdad, Iraq.

Argh he is just lying lying lying

Trump specifically mentions #Chicago, IL & #Baltimore, MD. Not so subtly hinting at future #military #troop deployment in #US cities.

For unknown reasons #Trump goes off on a #transgender athletes tirade for several minutes. How this is related to crime 🤦🏼‍♀️ — he can’t even find a way to connect the topics.

In the news conference (still ongoing), #Trump said he’ll place the #DC #police department under #federal #control & deploy the #NationalGuard & #FBI agents.

Trump said he wants to “rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam & squalor.” The Democratic mayor of DC, Muriel Bowser, has noted that violent crime in Washington has decreased since a rise in 2023.

#MilitaryState #authoritarianism #autocracy #Gestapo

La population de Washington DC est composée à 45 % de Noirs et à 12 % d'Hispaniques/Latino, selon la dernière étude du Bureau du recensement des États-Unis en 2022. Et 90% des électeurs votent démocrate. De là à penser que Trump tyrannise la capitale pour cette raison...

#Politique #Trump #Election #USA #EtatsUnis #Washington

Trump déploie la garde nationale à Washington, au motif de lutter contre l'insécurité. Le président compare le taux de criminalité de la capitale à des villes comme Bagdad, Brasília, Bogotá et Panama City. Problème, les statistiques officielles montrent pourtant une baisse de la criminalité violente à Washington, comme le souligne le NYT, qui rappelle que Trump a gracié des centaines d'émeutiers violents https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08/11/us/trump-news

#Politique #Trump #USA #EtatsUnis #Washington #Dictature #Securite

#Zelenskyy may join Trump’s planned talks in Alaska with Russia’s president, though the decision rests with #Trump, U.S. Ambassador to #NATO Matthew Whitaker said.

European allies back the idea, seeing it as a chance for Kyiv to present its stance in possible peace negotiations.

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/57878

“Nice chip business you have there. Would be a shame if something happened to it.”

“What do you propose?”

“I’ll send my men once a month and you give them 15% of your revenue with China. And I won’t care which chips you sell them.”

“Sounds fair.”

Cue Godfather theme music, slowly fading out.

Context: (gift article) https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/technology/us-government-nvidia-amd-chips-china.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dU8.2rH1.HJZpmvkSoPgY&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

#Trump #NVidia #AMD

Le discours confus de Trump après les frappes américaines en Iran. Le président des Etats-Unis remercie "Dieu" en s'emmêlant les pinceaux. On se demande s'il va finir son mandat, à ce rythme, et on repense à "Sleepy Jo", son prédécesseur, moqué pour ses problèmes de santé...

#Politique #Trump #Compol #Iran #Discours #EtatsUnis #Information #Sante #Religion