Three states moved to deploy hundreds of members of their National Guard to the nation's capital ...
Late last night I mapped crime rates for cities in OH, SC and WV to show how often they exceeded the rate in DC -- where those states' governors are sending National Guard troops to "combat crime." www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl ...
-- Philip Bump (@pbump.com) Aug 17, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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... West Virginia said it was deploying 300 to 400 Guard troops, while South Carolina pledged 200 and Ohio says it will send 150 in the coming days. ...
Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia
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... The Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia (MPDC), more commonly known locally as the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), and, colloquially, DC Police, is the primary law enforcement agency for the District of Columbia, in the United States.
With approximately 3,200 officers and 600 civilian staff, it is the sixth-largest municipal police department in the United States. ...
Step by step, the Trumpf junta is normalizing the appearance of the military on American streets.
And here is a recruitment poster for ICE: peoplesworld.org
Notice the symbolic use of the white woman and what looks like fleeing indigenous people.
"Defend the Homeland!"
In 1922 after the Greek Army lost Asia Minor and western Anatolia to the re-constituted Turkish army under Mustapha Kemal Ataturk, the catastrophe was so horrific in terms of lost soldiers, materiel, territory, and international prestige, nine Greek generals were immediately court-martialed upon their return to Greece. Six of nine were executed the same day following a hasty and angry military tribunal. Link: en.wikipedia.org
In 1933, after President Paul von Hindenburg enabled Adolf Hitler to become Chancellor in 1933 (and then Fuhrer), the Weimar Republic collapsed and soon came the subsequent atrocities of the Nazis. Von Hindenburg's legacy will always be tied to this ignominy. In February 2020, his honorary citizenship of Berlin was revoked. Link: www.historyhit.com
Now in 2025 we have the fascist Dummkopf Trumpf junta which is setting America back to pre-FDR days. Republicans and RFK Jr are plotting to undermine the ACA (Obamacare). The GOP and Trumpf created a free-for-all for the oligarchs, the US military is deploying in American cities, and the junta is building an army of loyal government thugs (ICE). ICE is becoming a more powerful agency than the FBI in terms of numbers and their ability to detain people without an arrest warrant.
One wonders what these two are thinking right now as this disaster and calamity befall the American people: i.guim.co.uk
What could we have done better in 2024 to prevent this cataclysm?
The Army National Guardsmen at national monuments won't be armed; the others could be armed and empowered to detain people, according to the US Army. This would be a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. Link: www.usatoday.com
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