"Crews tore down a major encampment [of unhoused people] near the Kennedy Center on Thursday, with federal law enforcement removing residents and clearing out the remaining encampments across the city overnight. The removal is part of Trump’s federal takeover of the city’s police department and deployment of the national guard across the city."

~ Kirstin Garriss

#Trump #MAGA #military #fascism #homeless #WashingtonDC
/17

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/15/trump-washington-dc-unhoused-people

"So much of what we are seeing from Trump is fueled by that idea of being the protector of white people."

#Trump #MAGA #military #fascism #racism #WhiteSupremacy #WashingtonDC
/16

"After President Obama won re-election in 2012, 'White South Africans from the party that was the apartheid party in South Africa reached out to American Republicans urgently with a 911 and said to them, if you all don't become, quote unquote, a white interests party' you will be in essence overrun."

~ Dean Obeidallah quoting Joy Reid

#Trump #MAGA #military #fascism #racism #WhiteSupremacy #WashingtonDC
/15

https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/joy-reid-trump-is-trying-to-turn

The plan, if carried further, would envisage people moving from an enclave shattered by almost 2 years of #war with #Israel to a nation in the heart of #Africa riven by years of political & ethnically-driven #violence.

Israeli PM #Netanyahu said this month he intends to extend #military control in #Gaza, and this week repeated suggestions that #Palestinians should leave the territory voluntarily.

"Trumpworld will now continue its usual comms strategy, insisting that the raid was a completely normal militarized operation that had nothing to do with Newsom, but also bragging about how the raid really put Newsom in his place."

~ Doktor Zoom

#Trump #MAGA #military #fascism #Newsom
/14

https://www.wonkette.com/p/border-patrol-here-to-arrest-california

#KristiNoem faced scrutiny for her #expenses when she served as #governor of #SouthDakota. She spent $68k in #taxpayer funds to refurbish the governor’s mansion with a sauna, chandelier & other amenities, the Sioux Falls Argus Leader reported in 2021. And South Dakota picked up the tab for at least $150k in campaign & personal travel for Noem related to her security when she was governor, the AP reported this year.

#waste #fraud #Trump #law #military #government #excess
https://wtop.com/national/2025/03/kristi-noem-refused-to-say-who-financed-some-of-her-travel-it-was-taxpayers-who-were-on-the-hook/

"As Federal officers tell Black people sitting on private porches that they can’t drink in public, it recalls the rumors that Pirro, like her colleague Whiskey Pete, drinks on the job."

~ Marcy Wheeler

#Trump #MAGA #military #fascism #racism #WhiteSupremacy #WashingtonDC
/13

https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/15/no-bill-as-a-substitute-for-his-low-energy-parade-trumps-dc-occupation-is-thus-far-falling-short/

Current & former #CoastGuard members have also cited #KristiNoem’s frequent use of a Coast Guard Gulfstream aircraft as a point of tension. Agency guidelines require the #DHS secretary to use a plane with secure communications for both personal & professional business, though they are required to reimburse the government for personal travel. DHS did not say whether Noem has done so.

…#KristiNoem pays no rent to live in the commandant’s house…That’s a departure from how other #Cabinet secretaries have handled similar arrangements. Cabinet ofcls, including during both #Trump admins, have paid to use #military housing that otherwise would be occupied by top generals & admirals.
Noem’s housing has raised eyebrows from current & retired #CoastGuard ofcls, as well as Dems, who warn she risks creating the perception that she is #exploiting the #perks of her position as #DHS secy….

"Stopping the Trump White House now will be critical to deterring it from expanding its reach into other Democratic-controlled cities such as New York, Chicago, Baltimore and Oakland, all of which Trump has identified by name—and by no small coincidence are all governed by Black mayors."

~ Jay Kuo

#Trump #MAGA #military #fascism #racism #WhiteSupremacy #WashingtonDC
/12

https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/home-rule-clash-in-dc

#KristiNoem recently moved into Quarters 1, a spacious waterfront residence at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Southeast Washington where the #CoastGuard commandant typically resides. She did so because of concerns over her safety after the Daily Mail, a British tabloid, published photographs in April of the area around Noem’s residence in Washington’s Navy Yard neighborhood, #DHS propagandist Tricia McLaughlin said.