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"Terrifying prospect." Trump will use U.S. military to carry out mass deportations
salon.com/2024/11/19/terrifyin

* plans to declare national emergency
* response to 2024-Nov-08 Truth Social post f. Tom Fitton, president of conservative group Judicial Watch
* critics: military round up costly/dangerous
* big price tag: astronomical economic costs
* requires unfeasible infrastructure



Sex misconduct allegations: Trump’s picks
19thnews.org/2024/11/sexual-mi

* Trump: dozens of accusations of sexual misconduct back to 1970s
* surrounded by men who face similar allegations
* 4 of Trump’s top picks accused of sexual assault, harassment, or child sex trafficking

Matt Gaetz: mastodon.social/@persagen/1134
Elon Musk: mastodon.social/@persagen/1134
RFK Jr.: mastodon.social/@persagen/1134
Pete Hegseth: mastodon.social/@persagen/1134

#Trump2#GOP#fascism

Veteran news editor expects Trump 'to go after the press in every conceivable way'
npr.org/2024/11/20/nx-s1-51926

* New Yorker editor David Remnick: Trump's anger "has been never so intense as it's been against the press"
* Trump: news media the "Enemy of the American people"
* threatened retribution
* suggested NBC, CBS, ABC have licenses revoked


Trump orders GOP to snuff out press freedom bill
salon.com/2024/11/20/republica

* act under attack would shield journalists f. being compelled to turn over their reporting & sources

H.R.4250 - PRESS Act (2024)
Protect Reporters from Exploitative State Spying Act
congress.gov/bill/118th-congre
* would make curr. DoJ rule barring prosecutors f. compelling release of journalists' sources into federal law


Salon.com · "REPUBLICANS MUST KILL THIS BILL": Donald Trump orders GOP to snuff out press freedom actDonald Trump pushes Republicans to block bill that would protect journalists from law enforcement

Want to fight Trump? Act now to strengthen democracy
salon.com/2024/12/07/want-to-f

* Americans don't want Trump2 hatred
* e.g. post-election CBS poll: maj. support for promise to deport undocumented immigrants

* more nuanced poll, Data for Progress, showed exactly the opposite:

mass deportation highly unpopular when you shift question f. abstraction to specific details
deporting members of these groups was opposed >3:1


Salon.com · Want to fight Trump? Then act now to strengthen democracy

Welcome to the New Dark Ages
salon.com/2024/12/07/welcome-t

* Trump choosing loyalty as most imp. virtue
* mockery of merit even as nominees claim to uphold meritocracy

* nominees
denigrate science/expertise
subscribe to conspiracy theories
hostile to arts/education
xenophobic
anti-LGBT

* next 4 yrs will be far worse than Gilded Age: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilded_A



Salon.com · Welcome to the New Dark Ages

Trump Expands Deportation Threats to Include U.S. Citizens
newrepublic.com/post/189146/tr

* [unlike Trump1] "the only way you don’t break up the family is you keep them together & you have to send them all back"
* Trump calmly acknowledged how evil, damaging, & unpopular the policy would be to American families
* also wants to end birthright citizenship, a basic tenet of U.S. Constitution



The New Republic · Trump Expands His Deportation Threats to Include U.S. CitizensDonald Trump’s frightening deportation plans won’t spare Americans either.

Biden commutes roughly 1,500 sentences and pardons 39 people in biggest single-day act of clemency
apnews.com/article/biden-pardo

* commutes: 1,500 people released f. prison/home confinement during COVID-19 pandemic
* pardons: 39 Am. convicted of nonviolent crimes

Biden weighs preemptive pardons for those on Trump's enemies list
mastodon.social/@persagen/1136



President Joe Biden speaks at the White House Conference on Women's Health Research from the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
AP News · Biden commutes roughly 1,500 sentences in biggest single-day act of clemencyBy COLLEEN LONG

Terrifying Line of Shock Troops Likely in Trump2 DoJ
slate.com/news-and-politics/20

* state attorneys
Drew Wrigley, ND Attorney Gen.
Scott Stewart, MS Solicitor Gen.

* nonprofit influencers
Gene Hamilton, America First Legal
Jeffrey Clark, Center for Renewing America
Katharine Sullivan, Texas Public Policy Found.
Patricia Nation, America First Policy instit.

* other
Ryan Newman, FL Gov.’s Off. (Gen. Counsel)
Lawrence Keefe, FL Gov.’s Off. (Public Safety Czar)
Curtis Gannon, U.S. Dep. Sol. Gen.

Rand Paul Suggests Elon Musk Be Next U.S. House Speaker
newrepublic.com/post/189554/ra

Further Continuing Appropriations and Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2025
congress.gov/bill/118th-congre
docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/2

* Rand Paul thinks Elon Musk should take over after his amazing work driving the government toward shutdown

Elon Musk Bullying Mike Johnson to Drive U.S. Government Into Shutdown
newrepublic.com/post/189539/el
* cyberbullying speaker of U.S. House

#USpol#Trump2#GOP

@persagen we know he'll just escalate from there, it'll be anyone he doesn't like.

@persagen

thanks maga you fucking assholes

i hope you get every single thing you voted for

@persagen
Thank you for your post.
The majority of Americans and the World warn against republicans NOT standing in the way of Trump.

Peace