With immigration raids and arrests mounting all over the nation, but particularly in the major cities of Los Angeles and New York City, Donald Trump has taken the step of escalating his authoritarian impluses by deciding to utilize the National Guard in LA, against the wishes of Governor Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass. It is extremely unusual and rare to take such an action against the recomendations of state and local officials.
This is clearly seen as a move toward total crackdown on basic civil liberties, perpetrated by Thomas Homan, Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi, Pete Hegseth, and a host of other Trump appointees.
We have entered a “police state” situation, with great danger of massive violence and bloodshed, and it could spread quickly around the nation, and lead to the potential of civil war, a horrifying scenario!
There is no indication of massive violence, just of street protests, so this is a power grab by Trump and his government perpetrated to justify suspension of basic First Amendment rights.
It is not clear what can be done about the aggressive and abusive moves inititated by Donald Trump, so we are in a period of great mourning for our Constitution, rule of law, and American democracy!
Governor Rhodes of Ohio asked Nixon to send the Ohio National Guard to Kent State College, and the outcome was the Kent State Massacre in 1970.
it was Maryland’s Governor Spear T. Agne’s request that sent in the National Guard into Cambridge, MD.in the summer of 1967. Three black high school students dared to pray in the “White Lobby” of the only movie theater in Cambridge They were given 6 years in prison for that heinous crime. As the people marched to protest, they were opened up on with shotguns and attack dogs.
Now Nixon was more mentally stable than Trump has ever been. Nixion was not empowered by some Neo-Nazis beliefs as Trump is today.
Get your pen and paper out because history is going to repeat itself!!
I am reflecting to the facts when the Navy sent me to South America in 1975 to help prop up the Military Juntas of Chile and Argentina.
General Jorge Rafael Videla did in Argentine coup d’état was a coup d’état that overthrew Isabel Perón as President of Argentina that’s when the military junta was installed to replace her.
Also, Pinochet seized power in Chile in a military coup, which toppled Allende’s democratically elected left-wing Unidad Popular government and ended civilian rule.
I saw first hand the abuses to the population of those countries when the unchecked power of the Juntas’ forcibly took over power of those countries.
Republicans are viciously OPPOSED to “states’ rights,” which they only really supported when they were *southern* states who *opposed desegregation*.
The Trump administration apparently WANTS to escalate tensions and violence as justification for its authoritarian, unconstitutional plans.
Trump is floating the idea of invoking the Insurrection Act,
Veteran ABC News correspondent Terry Moran was suspended Sunday after he posted a highly critical assessment of President Donald Trump and Trump’s deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller on the social media platform X.
In the missive, which was posted shortly after midnight, Moran said both Trump and Miller are “world-class haters.” For Trump, he said, hatred is “only a means to an end, and that end is his own glorification. That’s his spiritual nourishment.”
For Miller, on the other hand, “hatreds are his spiritual nourishment,” Moran charged. “He eats his hate.”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/08/media/abc-terry-moran-trump-stephen-miller
Terry Moran perfectly expresses how I feel about Trump and his administration.
Republicans Line Up to Back Trump’s L.A. National Guard Deployment
https://www.notus.org/us-news/republicans-line-up-to-back-trumps-l-a-national-guard-deployment
The ICE Policy That Set Off Chaos in LA
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/la-protest-ice-raid-trump-immigration-dhs-national-guard-workplace-raid/
What Terry Moran said was 100% accurate and ALL of ABC “News”‘ journalists should be saying that. The fact that ABC “News” suspended Terry Moran basically means they’re not a real news network anymore.
LA protests inch Elon Musk back to President Trump.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/09/media/elon-musk-donald-trump-la-protests
Trump is hinting for his border czar to arrest Newsom.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-hints-he-would-support-arrest-california-governor-newsom-2025-06-09/
Arrest Newsom?! For what?! That’s batshit crazy!
Newsom has announced he will soon be filing a lawsuit against Trump.
Roughly 500 Marines based out of the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in California have been mobilized to respond to the protests in Los Angeles.
I heard last night that the amount of Marines is 700.
The anti-ICE protests aren’t limited to Los Angeles. Here’s where else they’re taking place:
Santa Ana — just southeast of L.A.
San Francisco
New York City
Atlanta
Louisville, Kentucky
Dallas
Separately, labor leaders in various locations have called for the release of David Huerta, an influential union leader who was detained in the L.A. protests and later released on bond. The demonstrations for his release took place in cities including:
Boston
Pittsburgh
Charlotte
Seattle
Washington, DC
Connecticut
New York
Also, protesters in Mexico City staged a demonstration outside the US Embassy on Monday, calling for an end to sweeping immigration raids across the border.
Dr. Phil was embedded with ICE during controversial Los Angeles immigration raids.
https://cnn.com/2025/06/09/media/dr-phil-mcgraw-ice-immigration-raids-los-angeles
How Murdoch Media is fanning the L.A. flames.
https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/how-murdoch-media-is-fanning-the
LAPD chief: Police had “no formal notification” of Marines’ deployment to LA
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/10/la-protests-marines-newsom
I’m expecting any day for Trumpolini to declare martial law.
Trump was just speaking at Fort Bragg. He’s escalating his rhetoric, calling the protesters “criminal invaders”, falsely claiming it’s an insurrection.
ABC News has dropped Terry Moran.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/10/media/abc-news-terry-moran-exits-trump
Bob Costas Condemns Mainstream Press for Doing ‘MAGA Media’: ‘There Really Isn’t Two Sides’
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/bob-costas-condemns-mainstream-press-for-doing-maga-media-there-really-isnt-two-sides/
Agreed 100%: the “mainstream media” might as well be “MAGA media”.
MSNBC showed video of ICE arresting workers in the farm fields. That kind of crap will further hurt the economy.
What Rustbelt is referring to…
Despite administration rhetoric, ICE heavily targets non-criminals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/11/deportation-ice-criminals-campaign-polling/
If they’re “hardened criminals and gang members,” get them outta here. If they’re just working to change grandma’s diapers or whatever, then leave them alone!
The “mainstream media” is mostly a bad joke.
Mainstream media ignores Trump’s planned Office of Remigration, a term for ethnic cleansing.
https://www.mediamatters.org/immigration/mainstream-media-ignore-trumps-planned-office-remigration-term-ethnic-cleansing