‘It’ll be bedlam’: how Trump is creating conditions for a post-election eruption

“Regardless of whether Donald Trump wins or loses, there’s going to be violence,” said Michael Fanone, a retired police officer who was seriously injured by pro-Trump rioters at the US Capitol on 6 January 2021. “If Donald Trump loses, he’s not going to concede and he’s going to inspire people to commit acts of violence, …

Recordings From a Police Plane Show Officers Looking for Reasons to Arrest the Leftist Protesters Below

The recordings, Ahern’s attorney Juan Chavez says, show police arrested protesters without suspecting a crime. “The city had an open and verbalized policy of arresting leftist protesters without probable cause,” Chavez wrote in a Feb. 26 legal filing. “The city was so unabashed about this policy that they announced it over the radio before realizing …

Alabama is using the notion that embryos are people to surveil and harass women

Could a woman who is pregnant, or could be pregnant, have a right to do things that might endanger her embryo in a situation where an embryo is her legal equal, with a claim on state protection? Could she risk this embryo’s health and life by, say, eating sushi, or having some soft cheese? Forget …

Senior Republican who called Trump ‘inexcusable’ endorses him for president

The second-highest ranking Republican in the US Senate, John Thune of South Dakota, endorsed for president Donald Trump – the man he previously called “inexcusable” for seeking to overturn the 2020 election and inciting the deadly January 6 attack on Congress. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/26/john-thune-donald-trump-endorsement -The Guardian; 2/26/2024

‘Donald Trump is a juggernaut of justice’: The most bizarre things said so far at CPAC 2024

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/wildest-things-said-cpac-2024-b2500908.html -The Independent; 2/23/2024

MAGA Republican Pledges “End of Democracy” to Rabid Cheers at CPAC

Posobiec, who helped popularize the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory, appeared at CPAC’s opening day on Wednesday. He spoke during a panel moderated by former White House adviser and white supremacist Steve Bannon. “Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely,” Posobiec said as the event began. “We didn’t get all the …

FBI Charges Sherwood Man in Jan. 6 Insurrection, Alleging He Stormed Capitol, Committed Vandalism

The indictment also includes text messages between Medina and an unidentified friend. In one of them dated Dec. 1, 2020, Medina wrote: “With what’s going on with governor’s [sic] telling us who we can and can’t have in our houses we should be storming the capitol building and our governor’s houses armed and ready to …

Trump warns of enemies ‘within our country’ to Christian media gathering

Donald Trump told a warmly receptive gathering of religious broadcasters on Thursday that “it’s the people from within our country that are more dangerous than the people outside”, in his latest effort to mobilize Christian fundamentalists who have swung dramatically behind him in recent years. [...] The event spotlighted the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, a …

How Putin Co-Opted the Republican Party

Donald Trump, the former President and current Republican frontrunner for renomination, has stubbornly refused to condemn Russia or President Vladimir Putin for their role in Navalny’s death in a remote arctic prison. In turn, he blamed Navalny for returning to Russia after an earlier attempt on his life—he would have been better served “staying away …

As the election looms, we must be alert to Trump’s threats of vigilante justice

Political violence is an inherent part of fascism. Hitler’s SA – the letters stood for Sturmabteilung or “Storm Section”, also known as the Stormtroopers or Brownshirts – were vigilantes who did the Nazis’ dirty work before the Nazis took total power. During the German presidential elections in March and April 1932, Brownshirts assembled Alarmbereitschaften, or “emergency squads”, to intimidate …