Civil Rights Leaders Denounce 'Federal Coup' – The Wednesday AM Quickie 8/13/25
The latest California Labubu heist should not be misinterpreted so as to support the Trump regime's false narrative about rising crime. If governments decriminalized Lafufus, people wouldn't steal so many Labubus. It's simple economics, supply and demand. - Corey
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THE BIG NEWS
Democratic City Leaders Urged to Prepare for More Trump Troop Takeovers
Civil rights leaders across the country yesterday denounced Donald Trump's military takeover of Washington, DC, supposedly to combat "crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse." Crime, of course, has actually been declining in most American cities. NAACP President Derrick Johnson calls the DC military depoyment a "federal coup" – but unlike Donald Trump's last attempted coup d'etat in the nation's capital, on Jan. 6, 2021, this time he's commanding uniformed soldiers instead of a "very special" army of MAGA thugs.
"We don't live in a dirty city," DC Mayor Muriel Bowser told community leaders yesterday, rejecting Trump's outrageous lies about the city in service of his "authoritarian push." "We are not 700,000 scumbags and punks. And we don't have neighborhoods that should be bulldozed." But her official response to Trump's Fox News-friendly takeover has been more muted. According to the Washington Post, it's not clear who's currently in charge of DC police. And while many officers are grousing about the loss of community trust, others – including the leadership of the city police union – have "rejoiced" over the "switch-up in leadership."
Trump promised similar deployments may follow in other cities, and America's Black Democratic mayors expect Trump will target their cities first. "Everyone should be preparing, and the threats should be taken at face value," LiJia Gong, the policy and legal director at Local Progress, a progressive group working on racial and economic justice, tells NOTUS.
The regime is working to create a "Domestic Civil Disturbance Quick Reaction Force" of hundreds of National Guard troops to respond to "protests or other unrest" on as little as one hour's notice, the Post reports. It's unclear how these troops will interact with civilians, but homeless people in DC appear to be squarely in the regime's sights, with those in encampments set to be sent to jail. If I had to put money on it, I'd expect multiple deployments around election time next year.
It's worth pointing out that all of this is probably illegal. Maj. Gen. Scott Sherman, who commanded the Guard troops Trump deployed to Los Angeles this year, testified in court this week about whether the deployment violated the Posse Comitatus Act barring the use of the military as a domestic police force. Sherman testified that when he raised concerns about moving troops forward along Wilshire Boulevard in LA, a Homeland Security official "questioned his loyalty." The question as to whether troops are loyal to the Constitution or to Trump will only grow more pressing from here on out – and there's only one correct answer.
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Russia Launches Ukraine Offensive Ahead of Trump-Putin Meetup Tomorrow in Alaska
Aspiring Tsar Vladimir Putin will meet his superfan Donald Trump at a US military base in Anchorage, Alaska tomorrow. "I may say, 'lots of luck, keep fighting,' or I may say we can make a deal," Trump said this week. But even the White House yesterday conceded a deal is unlikely, calling the meeting a "listening exercise." Russia "is definitely not preparing for a ceasefire or an end to the war," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warns. "On the contrary, they are redeploying their troops and forces in ways that suggest preparations for new offensive operations. If someone is preparing for peace, this is not what he does." Zelenskyy also says Putin is likely to press Trump to force Ukraine to cede territory that could be used as a springboard for future attacks.
"We are in trouble here," warns Rima Ziuraitis, an American fighting for Ukraine. "While Putin and Trump keep everyone distracted, Russia has broken through our lines in Pokrovsk. The situation is critical."
Regime Transforms Public Agencies Into Propaganda Organs
While all presidential administrations have at times bent the truth to their advantage, you simply can't trust any information from the Trump regime, even formerly reliable statistics from dedicated civil servants. The truth-tellers have either been fired, compromised, or suppressed. Case in point is E.J. Antoni, the MAGA hack Trump has put in charge of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This week Antoni, who still awaits Senate confirmation, said BLS would stop publishing monthly jobs reports.
Meanwhile at the State Department, the annual human rights reports to Congress "have seen significant details cut, with many sections removed and country entries often half the length," all to cover up abuses by foreign governments allied with Trump. Not even the Smithsonian Institution has escaped the regime's war on truth; the national museums of history, science, and culture have been ordered to celebrate "Americanism" and "remove divisive or partisan narratives" as well as "improper ideology." Translation: hail Trump, censor everything. It's bleak!
QUICKEST QUICKIES
- Israel Is in Talks with War-Torn South Sudan to Forcibly Resettle Palestinians from Gaza Meanwhile, the United Nations warned Israel and Russia that their militaries were "credibly suspected" of using sexual violence as a weapon of war. via the Associated Press, Al Jazeera, and the Guardian.
- South Korean Police Arrest Wife of Jailed Former President Yoon for Corruption In addition to stock fraud and influence peddling, former first lady Kim Keon Hee "is also accused of receiving two Chanel bags together valued at 20 million won and a diamond necklace from [the Unification Church] as a bribe in return for influence favorable to its business interests." via Reuters and the New York Times.
- Crooked Texas AG Ken Paxton Asks Judge to Jail Beto O'Rourke for Raising Money for Texas Democrats in Exile The Republican state Attorney General "claimed that O'Rourke had violated [a] temporary injunction at a Fort Worth rally Saturday, when he told the crowd, 'There are no refs in this game, fuck the rules.'" via the Texas Tribune, the Washington Post, and NBC News.
- Federal Judge Orders ICE to Improve Conditions at 'Horrific' Manhattan Lockup Trump regime attorney Jeffrey Oestericher asserted his Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination under questioning by Judge Lewis Kaplan, concerned by reports that as many as 90 people were being held in a single room at a time. via the City, the AP, and HuffPost.
- Ghislaine Maxwell Wins Work Release Permission The "quiet transfer" of Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice "to a ‘Club Fed’ prison does not comport with the seriousness of the sex crimes she was found guilty of," Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island says. "It just so happens that the transfer was facilitated one week after Maxwell's highly unusual meeting with the deputy attorney general. This whole thing reeks of a coordinated protection racket run at taxpayer expense to shield the president from the fallout from his years-long friendship with a notorious sex trafficker." via HuffPost and Allison Gill.
- Bad Trip: Rick Perry and Kyrsten Sinema Lobby for Ibogaine, a Powerful Psychedelic During a 2023 trip at a clinic in Mexico, the former Republican Texas Gov. saw objects flying past him that resembled Mayan hieroglyphics; a devilish arm reached out for him, only to disappear when he said "Satan, get behind me." via the New York Times.
SOME NUMBER
15 percent
That's the cut of revenue the US government will receive from every sale of advanced Nvidia and AMD computer chips to China, under a deal struck by Donald Trump this week that will exempt the companies from export controls. According to the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post, the government's cut of chip sales to China will be worth billions of dollars a year, and flies in the face of a ban in the US Constitution against taxes on exports. Many corporations now fear the same approach could be imposed on them, making Trump "a sort of super-CEO" of every company in the country.
ON THE SHOW TODAY
8/13: Today’s guests will be Milton Allimadi, a Ugandan-American author, journalist, professor, and co-founder of Black Star News; and Harvey J. Kaye, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay professor emeritus and author of The Fight for the Four Freedoms: What Made FDR and the Greatest Generation Truly Great.
DON'T MISS MR CLIPS
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PARTING WORDS
"Would they have said anything if it was ICE or FBI or a more politically aligned agency? For some reason, they think it's acceptable for CDC scientists to come under fire like this. When we see that silence, it only implies complicity."
-- A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientist who narrowly avoided getting shot last Friday when an anti-vax gunman shot up the agency's Atlanta headquarters, speaking to the Washington Post about the White House's failure to publicly acknowledge the attack. Georgia police said this week that the shooter, Patrick Joseph White, who killed himself after firing more than 150 shots into the CDC building, "want[ed] to make the public aware of his distrust of the [Covid-19] vaccines."
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