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HEGSETH: The challenge is our department under the previous administration squandered--- DeLAURO: Please! I want your plan! What is your plan for the future? We have zip! Nada!

Trump visits North Carolina Today (Tuesday June 10th) to speak at a public forum at Fort Bragg / Fort Liberty today - after cutting 83,000 VA Jobs and deploying military to quell dissent in Los Angeles. #Fayetteville #nc-pol #NC #FortBragg

Absolutely right.

YES. I’ve been saying this for weeks now. The reason that there is civil unrest in multiple cities throughout the country is because the Trump administration ordered ICE to engage in near-indiscriminate arrests, rounding up otherwise law-abiding people with no criminal records.

In the spirit of this great oped, journalists (inc. Goldberg) must recognize that one of Trump’s patterns is: 1. Do something wildly illegal 2. Identify the name of a law 3. Proceed to ignore every limit in that law The pattern is tricking papers into writing “Trump is invoking a rarely used law.”

“This could poll well with midterm swing voters in Ohio” I remark sagely as I watch a fourth grader get bundled into an unmarked van at recess by armed and masked agents of the state.

ICE has only existed since 2003. A Bush-era creation, it is a militarized federal secret police that has been imbued with the Supreme Court with the unconstitutional power to ignore the fourth amendment. Abolishing it and salting the earth where it grew is the moderate stance.

For those who live elsewhere, this is the heart of downtown #LosAngeles. My friends are here. My union is here (sup @wgawest.bsky.social). My teenager is here. People are passing out pastries & singing & praying. All we want is for our neighbors not to be kidnapped off the streets.

Our Founding Fathers would have had a word for calling up a battalion of Marines for regular domestic law enforcement: tyranny.

ICE agents intentionally started the violence in LA.

Yes! The Trump administration is literally taking HSI agents off of investigating real crimes and having them go raid random Home Depots.

Wow this is wild.

Impeachment articles on this alone should be submitted overnight. California should refuse cooperating with the federal government on anything. The legislature should pass a broad anti-commandeering law. And every governor worth their salt should fly to California and pledge mutual assistance.

Surely someone else must have already made the joke about how Trump has upgraded from a mere basket of deplorables to now having a whole Cabinet full of them?

In the middle of trying to negotiate a very large infrastructure construction contract, and let me tell you this is a very difficult environment to make business deals. Will the costs of materials double tomorrow? Will our regulators cease to function? Will the entire industry become illegal?

“This isn't law and order. This isn't making our country safer or fixing our border. And it isn't leadership.”

First they unlawfully detain our neighbors. Then they send ICE to deport & rip apart families. Now they're using the National Guard to crack down on peaceful protesters. This is authoritarianism.