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“The president foreshadowed that if these heavy-handed tactics take root here, they will be rolled out to other majority-#Black & #Brown #cities, like #Chicago, #Oakland & #Baltimore, across the country,” said Monica Hopkins, executive director of the ACLU’s #DC chapter.

“We’ve seen before how #federal #control of the DC #NationalGuard & #police can lead to #abuse, #intimidation & #CivilRights violations —

#MassiveAttack, #Kneecap and others form musician alliance against 'silencing' by pro-Israel groups”

by Shafik Mandhai in Middle East Eye

@palestine
@israel

“Acts including Kneecap, #BrianEno, and #Garbage have signed up for the group, which was announced on the back of a documentary by campaign group Led By Donkeys about the work of a pro-Israel group that is silencing activism on the situation in Palestine”

middleeasteye.net/news/kneecap

Middle East EyeMassive Attack, Kneecap and others form musician alliance against 'silencing' by pro-Israel groupsMassive Attack said there were 'aggressive, vexatious campaigns' against artists who spoke out on Israeli abuses against Palestinians
#Press#UK#Musicians
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The #Trump admin has been considering #sanctions against Moraes for weeks, according to 4 people familiar w/the situation…. Two said they had seen a copy of a proposed sanctions order against Moraes within the last month, but said it had initially met with pushback from the #Treasury Department, an account corroborated by a senior #State Department official.

ICE arrested a 6-year-old boy with leukemia at immigration court. His family is suing.

tpr.org/border-immigration/202

A Honduran mother and her two children — ages 6 and 9 — sued the Trump administration over their arrest at Los Angeles Immigration Court, the first lawsuit challenging the arrests of children under a new ICE directive targeting courthouses...

"ICE agents today routinely conduct raids with their faces hidden, as if they are some kind of secret police. This produces considerable confusion and a high likelihood of confrontation, including from bystanders, at the moment the agents announce themselves."

~ Jay Kuo

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #fascism #deportation #intimidation
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The Big Picture · Why Do ICE Agents Cover Their Faces With Masks?By The Big Picture
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@Tooden
From what I hear, it's hard being Jewish in Australia. Particularly for those who refuse to toe the Zionist line.

The loudest voices tell us that Zionists are a majority in Australia's Jewish communities, but it's impossible to know. Any who aren't Zionists are intimidated into silence.

The image is from the US, four decades ago, but pretty much sums up how many Jewish Australians are feeling these days. Unseen and unheard.
@palestine

#AusPol
#Zionism
#hasbara
#propaganda
#CrimesAgainstHumanity
#Israel
#Gaza
#genocide
#intimidation

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#AlinaHabba, a fmr personal atty to #Trump, also charged Rep #LaMonicaMcIver (D-NJ) w/assaulting 2 #ICE agents during the clash that erupted May 9 as agents arrested #RasBaraka. The congresswoman & other Dems in DC have decried her prosecution as“political #intimidation”

At Baraka’s hearing Wed, Demanovich sidestepped the judge’s demands to explain how prosecutors could have said last week they were fully prepared to take Baraka’s case to trial, only to drop the charges days later.

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In a story that as far as I can tell represents a petulant fascist temper tantrum as a result of fallout over the clown-show authoritarian arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, noted sycophant Trump minion Alina Habba has announced criminal charges against US Congresswoman (D-NJ) LaMonica McIver. The regime is accusing the Congresswoman of assaulting two ICE agents during the lawful oversight visit she conducted on a sketchy, privately-run, recently reopened migrant detention facility called Delaney Hall; the very same visit that resulted in Trump's Gestapo arresting Baraka as part of the regime's attempts to intimidate opposition to their unlawful mass deportation campaign.

commondreams.org/news/lamonica

'Should Send a Chill Down the Spine of Every American': Trump DOJ Charges New Jersey Democrat

"In a statement, Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Alina Habba announced the charges against U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.), claiming the lawmaker "assaulted, impeded, and interfered with law enforcement" at GEO Group's Delaney Hall. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) awarded GEO Group a billion-dollar contract earlier this year to detain migrants there, even as the facility faced legal challenges and accusations of abuse.

McIver rejected the charges against her as "purely political," saying that "they mischaracterize and distort my actions" in an attempt to "criminalize and deter legislative oversight."

"We were fulfilling our lawful oversight responsibilities, as members of Congress have done many times before, and our visit should have been peaceful and short," said McIver. "Instead, ICE agents created an unnecessary and unsafe confrontation when they chose to arrest Mayor [Ras] Baraka."

Habba said Monday that her office has agreed to drop the trespassing charge against Baraka, who welcomed the decision while expressing solidarity with McIver."

Okay so I don't know if you remember the post I made about Baraka's arrest, but there are literally a bunch of links to video footage of the confrontation Habba is talking about and needless to say it doesn't show the Congresswoman assaulting anyone, let alone "body-slamming" anyone as at least one DHS official previously claimed. Even the government's own out of context video clip just shows some shoving in a crowd of people trying to protect the Mayor of Newark. In other words the Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey is straight up lying about something we can all watch on video. This would of course be more shocking if the world hadn't gotten to know Habba during her time as a defense attorney for Downmarket Mussolini, in which is she routinely spat out easily disprovable lies in court. As an activist I can say from personal experience that this feels an awful lot like the standard bullshit charge cops who just roughed up some protesters press to keep the heat off long enough for the story to go away, and then quietly drop later. You can see that same pattern at work in the "trespass" charges laid against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, which were ultimately dropped because the regime knows they don't have a leg to stand on when they're under oath.

With all that established however, I think it's important to understand that even if they ultimately drop the charges against McIver, as they did with Baraka, this is still an example of a fascist regime weaponizing the enforcement arm of the state, to target and intimidate their political opposition. Pam Bondi might not love the Justice Department's chances in a court of law, but a message is still being sent to opposition party politicians that if they try to interfere with the unlawful, openly fascist "whitening" of America, security forces will be deployed to stop them. This when combined with the regime's threatening rhetoric, and its day to day attempts to erode the oversight of the judiciary to do blatantly unconstitutional authoritarian bullshit, effectively creates an unstable political environment where opposition to the regime's program, even legal opposition, carries an impossible to properly calculate degree of personal risk to the critic. Whatever your opinion of the Democratic Party happens to be, I think we can all admit that putting their own asses on the line to protect dissidents and critics hasn't exactly been their forte since at least October 7th, 2023; although obviously Baraka, McIver, and Robert Menendez deserve full marks for doing so now.

Finally; I can't prove it, but for a fun thought experiment google up some pictures of Baraka, McIver, and Menendez and tell me if you can think of any obvious reasons a white nationalist government might charge only the two people they did. Yeah, looked about white to me too.

#Fascism #Trump #PoliceState #LaMonica McIver #ICE #DoJ #PamBondi #AlinaHabba #DHS #RasBaraka #DelaneyHall #RobertMenendez #Intimidation #DemocraticParty #USCongress #Newark #NewJersey #USPol #MassDeportation #Racism #WhiteNationalism

Common Dreams · 'Should Send a Chill Down the Spine of Every American': Trump DOJ Charges New Jersey Democrat | Common Dreams"The most corrupt administration in our country's history is targeting and punishing public officials who seek to hold them accountable."

“DHS confirms to Axios that they are considering arresting Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman, LaMonica McIver and Rob Menendez.

Watson Coleman's office says they reviewed the body cam footage and that it proves "nobody 'assaulted' any agents."

Every day, Trump finds new targets, so he can stay in the spotlight,& sic “his AG & the DOJ on them with trumped-up charges.

#Fascism #DOJ #DHS #ICE #Nazis #Retribution #Trump #Resist #Laws #Intimidation #USPol

axios.com/2025/05/10/trump-ice

Axios · Trump admin eyes arrests for House Dems over ICE incidentBy Andrew Solender
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When Downmarket Mussolini made pardoning January 6th coup participants one of his first official acts in his second term, I talked a little bit about the necessity for a fascist regime to be able to call on extrajudicial violence and intimidation, from an irregular cohort of fascist vigilantes in the larger populace. Although Trumpism doesn't necessarily have a singular organized group of vigilante supporters, the evidence of their connection to fascist street gangs and right wing extremists, as well as the regime's willingness to encourage extrajudicial violence from their supporters in response to political opposition, are both extensively documented in even mainstream media sources.

As such, I don't think it's particularly surprising that Trump's numerous conflicts with the judicial branch, and authoritarian propaganda designed to intimidate federal judges ruling against his regime, have inspired threats and harassment targeting at least eleven judges and their families.

archive.ph/uvGEH

These judges ruled against Trump. Then their families came under attack.

"In March, the judiciary launched a task force to propose steps for maintaining the security and independence of courts and judges, according to a memo from the judiciary’s administrative arm to federal judges and other court staff.

Such efforts, however, have done little to quell the broadsides from Trump and his allies. Trump’s attorney general, Pam Bondi, has referred to the judges who ruled against the administration’s interests as “out of control” and said they “need to be removed.”

One federal judge told Reuters that the Trump administration’s inflammatory rhetoric encourages the hostility aimed at judges and feared it ultimately would inspire true believers to violence."

“The Justice Department doesn’t understand the fire they’re dealing with,” the judge said. “The public discussion of ‘out-of-control judges’ turns out the crazy.”

Contrary to the opinion of the judge anonymously quoted above, I am about as certain as I possibly can be that Trump's fascist Department of Justice knows full well their rhetoric is likely to inspire violence towards the jurists they're demonizing, from their rabid fascist base. In fact, I'd say they're clearly counting on it, and they want every judge in America to know that the same thing could happen to them if they rule against Trump's fascist agenda.

As an abolitionist, I'm not going to blow a bunch of smoke up your backside about the sanctity of American law, or the independence of judges who are politically appointed and happily enforced the laws of an already alarmingly authoritarian white nationalist police state in a professional capacity long before Trump came back to power. The reality however is that state-enforced fascism is a political situation with no bottom, and as such it's almost always possible for things to get worse. If American judges fear for the lives of their families if they rule against the regime, then logic dictates that less of them are going to rule against Trump's fascist agenda. You can argue that it doesn't matter because the regime is openly ignoring court orders right now, but the fact is the government is still arguing its nonsensical legal theories in court and trying to intimidate courts precisely *because* rubber stamps from judges will make it easier to transform America into a Christian Nationalist dictatorship under Donald Trump.