I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

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Oregon Governor Tina Kotek in Portland: "I will not be approving utilization of the Oregon national Guard. The President does not have the authority to deploy federal troops on State soil."

Trump's deal to sell TikTok won't just enrich his billionaire pal Larry Ellison. It also gives UAE investment firm MGX — a key business partner of the Trump family's crypto company — a major ownership stake and board seat at TikTok. Everything is for sale.

Kerry James Marshall, ‘Better Homes, Better Gardens’ 1994

Just the president authorizing full military force against US citizens. Nothing to be alarmed about.

Real leadership is the opposite of thuggery. The so-called “strongmen” of the current era — Putin, Trump, and Netanyahu — are not leaders. They can manipulate public opinion and sustain their bases of power, but they have no moral authority.

This isnt alarmism, this is a real 5-alarm-fire. Time to wake up. youtube.com/shorts/Mv887...

It doesn’t matter that there’s no such organization — they’ll use it as a pretext to go after anyone they want. How can you prove you’re not a member? It’s like terrorism or gangs, just ambiguous enough to be very useful to a fascist regime. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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People use fascism loosely to speak of that which they dislike, but the term has a meaning. Most reductively: cult of personality; nationalism; eroticized violence, internal enemies, purity myths, politicized gender.

Text from a senior foreign diplomat posted at the UN to foreign affairs journalist Ishaan Tharoor in response to Trump’s UN speech.