RE: https://mstdn.social/@locuta/115792111317573461

I'm reading here that #ICE is now also arresting bystanders for filming:

"The Justice Department now defines filming immigration raids as “domestic terrorism”

"ICE agents in California handcuffed a father on #Christmas morning in front of his two minor children, forcibly seized their phones, and briefly detained the children, while also arresting three bystanders who were filming"

Maybe this is why I am seeing fewer ICE kidnappings in my timeline?

The #fascist #coup will not be televised.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@locuta/115792111317573461

I'm reading here that #ICE is now also arresting bystanders for filming:

"The Justice Department now defines filming immigration raids as “domestic terrorism”

"ICE agents in California handcuffed a father on #Christmas morning in front of his two minor children, forcibly seized their phones, and briefly detained the children, while also arresting three bystanders who were filming"

Maybe this is why I am seeing fewer ICE kidnappings in my timeline?

The #fascist #coup will not be televised.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday started his 27-year #prison sentence for leading a coup attempt, to the surprise of many in the South American nation who doubted he would ever end up behind bars. Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who has overseen the case, ruled Bolsonaro will remain in custody after being preemptively arrested on Saturday. FRANCE 24's Jan Onoszko reports from Rio de Janeiro.
#Brazil #Bolsonaro #coup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_2QQm6_Jes

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday started his 27-year #prison sentence for leading a coup attempt, to the surprise of many in the South American nation who doubted he would ever end up behind bars. Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who has overseen the case, ruled Bolsonaro will remain in custody after being preemptively arrested on Saturday. FRANCE 24's Jan Onoszko reports from Rio de Janeiro.
#Brazil #Bolsonaro #coup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_2QQm6_Jes

#Brazil judge orders #Bolsonaro arrest for allegedly plotting #escape ahead of #prison term

Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered the preemptive arrest of former President Jair Bolsonaro on Saturday, with a judge claiming he was intent on escaping just days before he was set to begin his 27-year prison sentence for leading a #coup attempt.

The 70-yr-old politician was taken to the HQ of the country’s federal police in the capital, Brasilia, from his house arrest.

#law
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-bolsonaro-prison-arrest-d68ae43b99762c577efe7e6ba20b0542?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-22-Bolsonaro+arrest

#Brazil judge orders #Bolsonaro arrest for allegedly plotting #escape ahead of #prison term

Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered the preemptive arrest of former President Jair Bolsonaro on Saturday, with a judge claiming he was intent on escaping just days before he was set to begin his 27-year prison sentence for leading a #coup attempt.

The 70-yr-old politician was taken to the HQ of the country’s federal police in the capital, Brasilia, from his house arrest.

#law
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-bolsonaro-prison-arrest-d68ae43b99762c577efe7e6ba20b0542?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-22-Bolsonaro+arrest

Al Letson asks Jason Stanley if the US is living through a coup under Trump. Stanley replies:

"Let’s look at what’s happening with the boats that they’re blowing up and now in the Pacific, first in the Caribbean, now in the Pacific, they’re just simply assassinating people for no reason whatsoever. It’s completely illegal. In fact, what it now means is that Trump could just kill anyone anywhere just by saying they’re a terrorist."

#Trump #fascism #coup
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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/jason-stanley-fascism-trump-history/

"The way it’s going to work is they’re going to say, 'Okay, these narco traffickers are terrorists. Oh, the immigrants are terrorists. Anyone protesting ICE now is a terrorist. If you’re against us blowing up boats without any legal justification or evidence, or if you are against ICE brutalizing little kids, you are a terrorist. The Democratic Party are terrorists.' So they’re trying to illegalize the opposition."

#Trump #fascism #coup
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Al Letson asks Jason Stanley if the US is living through a coup under Trump. Stanley replies:

"Let’s look at what’s happening with the boats that they’re blowing up and now in the Pacific, first in the Caribbean, now in the Pacific, they’re just simply assassinating people for no reason whatsoever. It’s completely illegal. In fact, what it now means is that Trump could just kill anyone anywhere just by saying they’re a terrorist."

#Trump #fascism #coup
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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/jason-stanley-fascism-trump-history/

Trump’s unrelenting fast-track drive to humiliate, investigate & prosecute the people he hates has gained momentum, in part, because his targets have not been in a position to inflict serious retributive pain on him.

#JackSmith is different.

Smith, the special counsel who twice indicted #Trump, appears unintimidated by the president’s demand that Republican lawmakers investigate him & that the #DOJ put him in prison for as-yet unproved & unspecified crimes.

#law #SeditiousConspiracy #coup

#GiftArticle

#JackSmith, #Trump’s Target, Shifts From Defense to Counterattack

The former special counsel has told people in his orbit he welcomes the opportunity to present the public case against the president denied to him by adverse court rulings & the 2024 election.

Bring it.

#law #SeditiousConspiracy #ElectionInterference #coup #Jan6 #insurrection
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/us/politics/jack-smith-trump-investigations.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yU8.olrq.3OTGE8r_e1HD&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Quite the opposite, in fact. #JackSmith, who spent >2 years aggressively collecting evidence to prove #Trump mishandled #ClassifiedDocuments & tried to overturn the results of the #2020election, appears eager to publicly challenge a foundational pillar of #MAGA canon: that Trump was a sinned-upon innocent who did nothing to deserve scrutiny, much less 2 prosecutions.

#law #SeditiousConspiracy #ElectionInterference #coup #Jan6 #insurrection

…Until now, #Trump, in the half-joking estimation of one longtime adviser, has been able to order up investigations of his political enemies like Ubers.

But in two low-key but self-assured appearances over the past six weeks, #JackSmith has made it unmistakably clear that he will not only defend himself but take a hammer to Trump’s exaggerated or false claims about his work as special counsel.

#law #SeditiousConspiracy #ElectionInterference #coup #Jan6 #insurrection

Whether #JackSmith gets the chance to confront his accusers on the biggest official stage available to him, a public #House or #Senate hearing, remains very much an open question. Some #Republicans have privately expressed concern that #Trump’s quest for vengeance could backfire by giving a credible anticorruption investigator an open mic.

#law #SeditiousConspiracy #ElectionInterference #coup #Jan6 #insurrection

#JackSmith has told people in his orbit that he welcomes the opportunity to present the public case against #Trump denied to him by #SCOTUS decision asserting broad presidential #immunity from prosecution & adverse rulings from a Trump-appointed judge on the federal bench in Florida.

#law #SeditiousConspiracy #ElectionInterference #coup #Jan6 #insurrection

Quite the opposite, in fact. #JackSmith, who spent >2 years aggressively collecting evidence to prove #Trump mishandled #ClassifiedDocuments & tried to overturn the results of the #2020election, appears eager to publicly challenge a foundational pillar of #MAGA canon: that Trump was a sinned-upon innocent who did nothing to deserve scrutiny, much less 2 prosecutions.

#law #SeditiousConspiracy #ElectionInterference #coup #Jan6 #insurrection

Trump’s unrelenting fast-track drive to humiliate, investigate & prosecute the people he hates has gained momentum, in part, because his targets have not been in a position to inflict serious retributive pain on him.

#JackSmith is different.

Smith, the special counsel who twice indicted #Trump, appears unintimidated by the president’s demand that Republican lawmakers investigate him & that the #DOJ put him in prison for as-yet unproved & unspecified crimes.

#law #SeditiousConspiracy #coup