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DHS Internal Memo Reveals More Military Support to ICE

This leaked internal memo circulated inside DHS suggests that Donald Trump's use of the military for domestic law enforcement on immigration could soon get worse.

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NEWS --> An internal Homeland Security memo suggests Trump's use of military for domestic enforcement is about to get worse. It details top-level talks between Defense Department and DHS on what this should look like. Experts say it's alarming. We obtained the memo: newrepublic.com/article/1987 ...

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-- Greg Sargent (@gregsargent.bsky.social) Aug 2, 2025 at 7:06 AM

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Somehow, we find ourselves living in an era of rightwing nationalistic despotism again like our forebears did in the 1930s (e.g. US, Russia, Israel, China, Turkiye, North Korea, Belarus, Azerbaijan, El Salvador, India). So far only the people of Brazil were able to fight off the fascist Jair Bolsonaro who is now being tried by their Supreme Court for his blasphemies.

90 years ago Sinclair Lewis wrote It Can't Happen Here about a demagogue who becomes a fascist POTUS. The novel was soon produced into a play and decades later ABC aired a made-for-TV film roughly based on Sinclair Lewis' dystopian novel. You will recognize some of the actors, as well as the writer, of "Shadow on the Land: www.youtube.com

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-03 12:31 PM

60 years ago a conman named Trump was portrayed in a 1958 show called Trackdown. It was produced by CBS. In it a conman named Trump said only he could save a town.

By building wall around it.

www.bing.com

#2 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-08-03 12:57 PM

#2: How prescient Marine, thanks, I will view it. And as a result of Dummkopf Trumpf, this novel is being re-released after 60 years: www.wral.com

And in 1964, a novel was written about America suddenly having a black president by succession: www.barrybradford.com

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-03 01:22 PM

Drip, drip, drip, drip ...

Democracy in the US is slowing being dissolved.


#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-03 08:03 PM

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