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In rapid succession:
- former British royal arrested
- former Korean president sentenced
- former Norwegian PM charged
- former French and Brazilian presidents imprisoned

And then there’s Trump and the Republican-appointed justices on the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Well, for those of you concerned that you've just been labeled a domestic terrorist, take heart in the fact that you're joined by at least a third of the country. The most dangerous thing about declaring war on a large swath of your own citizens is, what if they take you up on it?
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So what exactly does it mean when the President signs a "domestic terrorism," or rather a national security directive declaring anyone left of Bull Connor is a terrorist? Well, I'm glad you asked, because for the most part US corporate media either didn't bother to report it, or treated it like another in Trump's long line of unhinged executive orders that are terrifying, but do not by themselves spring the full power of the US government into action. As this important article published by independent national security state critic Ken Klippenstein makes abundantly clear - this order has teeth, and represents "a declaration of war on anyone who does not support the Trump administration and its agenda."

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Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators”

"With the mainstream media distracted by the made-for-TV drama of James Comey’s indictment, Trump has signed a little-noticed national security directive identifying “anti-Christian” and “anti-American” views as indicators of radical left violence. Called National Security Presidential Memorandum 7, it’s being referred to as “NSPM-7” by administration insiders.

“This is the first time in American history that there is an all-of-government effort to dismantle left wing terrorism,” Trump’s homeland security advisor Stephen Miller said, referring to the issuance."

Okay you'll have to forgive me for heavy quotations, because what Ken articulated here, still hasn't sunk in enough to factor into the analysis of most corporate media minions. NSPM-7 is not only the backbone of Trump's authoritarian agenda right now, but if indeed America does become the nazi dictatorship of Trump (and the right)'s dreams, this barely reported national security directive may be the critical reason why. Since we already covered who NSPM-7 instructs to target (everyone who isn't a MAGA nazi and opposes Trump's fascist agenda, even nonviolently) I want to focus on the forces the Swine Emperor is bringing to bear on not just protestors, and activists, but scholars, media critics, elected officials, and literally anyone who isn't nice enough to nazis.

"NSPM-7 is fundamentally a law enforcement directive, and it dispenses with the complications of using the active duty military or the National Guard in pursuit of political violence. It directs the Department of Justice to focus the FBI’s approximately 200 Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTFs) to the new mission. The FBI network of task forces comprises over 4,000 members—including FBI personnel and task force officers (or TFOs) from more than 500 state and local agencies and 50 federal agencies, including special agents, police officers, intelligence analysts and surveillance technicians. First established in New York City in 1980 to systematize FBI and NYPD cooperation, today there are task forces around the country, including at least one in each of the FBI’s 55 field offices.

For the Trump White House, the beauty of using an already existing network is that it bypasses Congressional oversight and scrutiny and even obscures federal activity to governors and legislatures at the state level. States, cities, and local police have already signed Memoranda of Agreements with the feds to fight terrorism and officers are already assigned as task force officers."

You read that correctly; by signing NSPM-7, the Swine Emperor just repurposed the entire federal counterterrorism apparatus consisting of thousands of murderpigs spread across the country to go after wine moms who call him a nazi, journalists who report on the nazi shit he does, and politicians who criticize his nazi regime in the public discourse. It's a microwave COINTEPRO operation, made to order.

"Now, with Donald Trump’s directive retooling the counter-terror apparatus to go after Americans at home, this means monitoring political activity, or speech, as an investigative method to discover “radicalism.”

The focus on speech is evident throughout NSPM-7. The directive says that political violence is the result of “organized campaigns” that often begin (with the left) dehumanizing targets in “anonymous chat foras, in-person meetings, social media, and even educational institutions.”

Of course, NSPM-7 is written in enough right wing newspeak about "fomenting violence" to throw casual observers off the trail, but I think the part where NSPM-7 tells us who decides what is terrorism gives the game away.

“The Attorney General shall issue specific guidance that ensures domestic terrorism priorities include politically motivated terrorist acts such as organized doxing campaigns, swatting, rioting, looting, trespass, assault, destruction of property, threats of violence, and civil disorder,” NSPM-7 says.

So Pam Bondi gets to decide who is a terrorist now and yes folks, that says "civil disorder." Or, you know, a protest. Cool country we got here, huh?

#Trump #Fascism #NSPM7 #StephenMiller #PamBondi #PoliceState #COINTELPRO #Dictatorship #FBI


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This reminds me of the time before gmail when HotMail went down over the Christmas weekend. It was back up in a few hours.

Turns out Microsoft forgot to renew a domain name. Some rando diagnosed it and paid to renew it for them before they even knew what was happening.

They "graciously" offered to compensate him the $35 he spent.

Possibly one of my early disillusionments about capitalism. The man deserved a goddamn reward.

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The #FDroid website has a new banner on top to remind visitors that #Google did not change course and #Android will be locked-down in under 200 days.

If you care about the freedom to control your devices and care about the privacy of you data, please contact your representative and make your voice heard.

keepandroidopen.org/ (thanks @marcprux) has the resources to guide you.

We know users will rarely visit the site so the Client(s) will get a banner soon too.

Thank you for your support!

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The European Parliament has voted for #Trans women to be recognised as women 🥳

Meanwhile in terf UK ....

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I like how Mamdani just…does things.

Democratic lawmakers and executives need to stop wringing their hands and trying to get bipartisan consensus and whatnot and actually DO THINGS that benefit people. Do a thousand little things that add up to a lifetime of benefits for a lot of people. Do the opposite of Death by a Thousand Cuts: Life and prosperity by a thousand good choices.

HAVE AGENCY. There are SO MANY low hanging fruit that lawmakers and executives can address even as they wrestle with the truly hard problems. Address what you can. Build the muscle.

“Mayor Mamdani Announces City Will Restart Construction of Four Halted Bus and Bike Lane Projects in the Bronx and Brooklyn”

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fuck the Bezos Post. Mamdani has 4 years to enact his policies, 8 if we re-elect him.

#NYC will not only have rent assistance, we will have a universal basic income.

#nyc

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The constant naysaying by the Newspaper Axis is being shown to be bullsh*t already.

The social, economic, & environmental gains of free municipal transit alone are already astonishing.

What if we found out that nearly everything that billionaires have promoted was turning out to be a lie?!? Gasp!

jacobin.com/2019/08/uber-koch-…

theguardian.com/us-news/2019/a…

"Trickle Down Economics" & tax cuts for the rich
Climate denial
Immigration "reform"
Brexit
Vouchers
Deregulation

All self-serving bs.

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No, “shariah law” is not taking over and anti-shariah bills are grounded in stupidity, not the Constitution. Watch as I dismantle the ignorant bigotry and Islamophobic hate from Georgia State Senator Greg Dolezol in just about 2 minutes.

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Very High: IA, IL, ME, MN, OH, SD, WV, WY

High: AL, IN, MI, NE, OK

Moderate: CT, DE, KS, KY, MA, MO, MS, MT, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, SC, VT, WI

Low: AK, AR, CO, GA, ID, LA, MD, NC, NM, NV, TN, TX, UT

Very Low: AZ, CA, DC, FL, GU, HI, OR, VA, WA

No Data: ND, VI

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Math trivia: the "B." in Benoit B. Mandelbrot stands for Benoit B. Mandelbrot