Apparently this is “prosemitic” behavior and is thus deemed acceptable by the Trump regime:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DI4pr5mI9h5
And here’s an unfortunate woman who was mobbed by a bunch of prosemitic thugs in an apparent case of mistaken identity:
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1001773155428119
But since the thugs are all anti-antisemitic, i.e. prosemitic, that must be cool.
Immigration authorities did not have an arrest warrant when agents detained Mahmoud Khalil, lawyers for the Department of Homeland Security said in a court filing this week.
The big picture: Khalil, a leader of Columbia’s pro-Palestinian protests, is a legal U.S. resident who has been in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) since last month. His arrest sparked outcry across the U.S.
Zoom in: Government lawyers argue in the filing that DHS was not required to obtain a judicial arrest warrant before taking Khalil, a U.S. green card holder from Syria, into custody on March 8.
- The “officers had exigent circumstances to conduct the warrantless arrest, it is the pattern and practice of DHS to fully process a respondent once in custody,” wrote the lawyers in the document that was originally filed in immigration court Wednesday and submitted to federal court Thursday
- They argued agents had reasons to believe Khalil “would escape before they could obtain a warrant” when they approached him inside the foyer of his apartment building.
- Khalil was eventually served an arrest warrant after being taken into custody and transported to an ICE office in New York.
The other side: The revelation contradicts what agents told Khalil at the time of his arrest and what agents wrote in the arrest report, Khalil’s lawyer said.
- “The government’s admission is astounding, and it is completely outrageous that they tried to assert to the immigration judge – and the world – in their initial filing of the arrest report that there was an arrest warrant when there was none,” said Khalil’s attorney, Marc Van Der Hout, in an emailed statement.
- Van Der Hout called it “egregious conduct by DHS that should require under the law termination of these proceedings.”
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/24/mahmoud-khalil-detained-ice-arrest-warrant
Ranjani Srinivasan didn’t think the knock would come so soon.
A Fulbright scholar. A doctoral candidate. She spent her days studying how cities displace the poor — and nights convincing herself it wouldn’t happen to her.
Then came March 5, 2025.
An email. Cold. Clinical. The U.S. Consulate in Chennai revoked her visa from halfway across the planet, citing alleged “support for Hamas.” No evidence. No hearing. No appeal. Her real offense?
She shared a protest flyer on Instagram.
ICE showed up soon after. Agents visited her New York apartment multiple times — initially without a warrant. On a later visit, they returned with a judicial one. No charges. No formal deportation order. Just pressure.
So she did what people with no choices do.
She left.
On March 11, Ranjani boarded a one-way flight to Montreal. DHS later claimed she “self-deported” using the CBP One app — but her attorney disputes that, saying she simply complied with the law after her visa was revoked.
Her friends smuggled her laptop across the border days later. Her cat, Cricket, she left behind — safe with a friend, but missed in every moment.
Now she’s in Canada. Stateless. Stunned.
Her belongings? Confiscated or inaccessible.
Her research? Interrupted.
Her future? Dangling by the thread of a refugee claim.
She’s no radical. No operative. She liked and reposted human rights content. That’s it. And for that, the country that once welcomed her turned cold and suspicious — as if brilliance were a threat and dissent a crime.
This wasn’t deportation.
It was coerced exile.
https://www.facebook.com/FearAndLoathingCloserToTheEdge/posts/665318476137458
Colombian President Gustavo Petro is seemingly no longer welcome in the United States.
Petro, a former member of the 19th of April Movement guerrilla group and Colombia’s first leftist president, claimed the Trump administration revoked his visa to attend meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
He is instead be replaced by the Minister of Finance Germán Avila, who is in Washington, D.C. this week.
The major international snub comes after Donald Trump threatened ‘decisive retaliatory measures’ against government officials over Colombia’s refusal to let two US Military flights full of migrants land in January.
‘I can’t go anymore because I think they’ve revoked my visa,’ Petro said during a Council of Ministers meeting on Monday.
‘I didn’t need a visa, but hey, I’ve seen Donald Duck several times. So, I’m off to see other things.’
King Donald is like a child in a school yard who can’t bear to lose a marble.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. delivered a 40-minute off-the-cuff speech where he nonchalantly dropped the word ‘retarded’.
His unexpected remarks during his visit to the Food and Drug Administration on Friday, which were meant to be a welcome from the new FDA commissioner, Marty Makary, got several staffers to walk out of the room, two anonymous employees told Politico.
Perhaps his brainworms are flaring up again?
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he would use the power of the Justice Department to go after two officials who were highly critical of him during his first term in office, including one whose anonymously written New York Times op-ed claiming he was part of the “resistance” to Trump’s presidency captivated the nation for years.
The announcement by Trump that he was targeting former Department of Homeland Security official Miles Taylor, who penned the op-ed, and former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Chris Krebs, whose rejection of Trump’s claims of widespread voter fraud during the 2020 election led to his ousting, comes as the president continues to seek retribution on his perceived enemies in ways big and small.
Executive orders signed by Trump on Wednesday strip Taylor and Krebs of any existing security clearance they may still hold since leaving office and orders the Justice Department to probe both former officials.
The president did not specify any alleged wrongdoing by the men that necessitated investigations by the department. But, speaking in the White House, Trump made clear he thinks he knows what the results should be.
“I think what he did, and he wrote a book, ‘Anonymous,’ said all sorts of lies, bad things– and I think it’s, I think it’s like a traitor, like, it’s like spying,” Trump said of Taylor. “I think it’s a very important case, and I think he’s guilty of treason, if you want to know the truth, but we’ll find out.”
King Donald is an illiterate bumpkin who apparently doesn’t even understand how treason is defined in the U.S. Constitution.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/09/politics/trump-critics-executive-orders-taylor-krebs/index.html
A meeting with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at the Food and Drug Administration was intended to be an introduction between Kennedy and the agency staffers he oversees, but his remarks were so shocking that several people walked out, according to a report by Politico on Friday.
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According to Politico, Kennedy delivered “largely off-the-cuff remarks” in a 40-minute meeting with FDA staffers Friday. Two employees who attended the meeting spoke anonymously to the reporters, who were provided with a transcript and audio of Kennedy’s comments.
“President Trump always talks about the Deep State, and the media, you know, disparages him and says that he’s paranoid,” Kennedy said. “But the Deep State is real. And it’s not, you know, just George Soros and Bill Gates and a bunch of nefarious individuals sitting together in a room and plotting the, you know, the destruction of humanity.”
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Kennedy also accused FDA staffers of being swayed by “agency capture” and acting as a “sock puppet” for the industries subject to their regulatory oversight. He referenced human mind control experiments like the CIA’s Project MKUltra and the Milgram experiment, which tested participants’ willingness to inflict what they were told were painful, possibly fatal, electric shocks to others if an authority figure ordered them to do so — as part of a discussion that Politico described as “an apparent effort to encourage FDA employees to stay true to their mission of making Americans healthier.”
These comments from the boss “alarmed and disheartened” FDA staffers and several of them walked out of the rooms where Kennedy’s speech was being aired, according to the sources who spoke to Politico.
Donald Trump is not a man of restraint. He is not a man of nuance. He is a man who looks at 200-year-old laws like a child finding a gun in grandma’s attic and thinks, “Cool, let’s see what this does.”
That’s why we need to stop asking whether he’ll invoke the Insurrection Act—and start asking what he’ll do after he sends troops into American cities.
Because make no mistake: he’s going to do it. He’s laying the groundwork in plain sight. He’s marching us down a path paved in executive orders, fear-mongering language about “invasions,” and the political theater of military pageantry. And while cable news panels gently debate the “optics,” he’s flipping through the Constitution like a Waffle House menu at 3 a.m.—greasy fingers, bloodshot eyes, and no idea what he’s ordering.
THE ACT ISN’T A NUCLEAR OPTION—IT’S A LADDER
Section 6B of Trump’s day-one executive order didn’t just float the Insurrection Act—it invited it to dinner. He told the Secretaries of Defense and Homeland Security to draft him a report—due April 20—that includes recommendations for achieving “complete operational control” of the southern border, “including whether to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807.”
This isn’t a casual mention. It’s the escape hatch for a failed agenda.
The economy is tanking. The stock market is puking blood after Trump’s idiotic tariffs on everyone from China to the barely-inhabited Heard and McDonald Islands. His immigration dragnet is deporting U.S. citizens, green card holders, and Puerto Ricans—which, for the uninitiated, are also U.S. citizens.
He’s cornered. And like every narcissistic coward in history, he’s looking for a dramatic exit that makes him feel powerful. Enter the military.
CALL IT WHAT IT IS: A SIEGE
The Insurrection Act was last invoked in 1992 during the Rodney King riots. Before that? Civil rights backlash. Racist governors. Mass unrest. It’s supposed to be used sparingly—not as a fallback plan when your approval ratings are drowning in sewage and your “border war” turns out to be a racist fever dream held together with chicken wire and Tucker Carlson’s tears.
But this is Trump. He doesn’t care about precedent. He doesn’t care about legality. He cares about force. He cares about spectacle. And he knows that Fox News will have a military-style ticker and a countdown clock running by the morning if he does it.
He doesn’t want order. He wants obedience.
BLUE STATES ARE THE TARGET. NOT JUST THE BORDER.
This won’t stop at the Rio Grande. It’ll bleed into cities like Chicago, New York, Los Angeles—anywhere he can point and scream, “They’re not cooperating!” Sanctuary cities are already marked for defunding and harassment. Sending in troops will be sold as “necessary,” “temporary,” “surgical.”
But it’ll feel like a military occupation. It will be one.
Because Trump doesn’t draw lines between immigrant and citizen. Between protester and threat. Between rule of law and rule by law. If he sees dissent, he sees disloyalty. If he sees a brown face, he sees a target. If he sees pushback, he sees a reason to escalate.
This isn’t policy. It’s psychological warfare, and every executive order is a new front line.
IT’S NOT JUST STUPID. IT’S DELIBERATE.
Pundits keep calling his actions “stupid.” That’s half right.
They’re stupid in method—like using dynamite to fix a leaky faucet. But they’re brilliant in design. Trump understands the authoritarian playbook: demonize outsiders, declare an emergency, expand executive power, and when the courts balk, send in the soldiers and dare someone to stop you.
He’s not trying to win hearts and minds. He’s trying to shatter the rules so thoroughly that even your average centrist shrugs and says, “Well, maybe we do need some kind of crackdown.”
This is fascism with a spray tan. And it’s working.
DON’T ASK “WILL HE?” ASK “WHEN?”
We’ve already seen the soft rollout:
The Alien Enemies Act used to deport Venezuelan men with zero due process.
Mass detentions that included American citizens and legal residents.
Border rhetoric that calls families “invaders” and toddlers “national security threats.”
Legal gymnastics so deranged they’d make Joseph Goebbels blink twice.
What do you think comes next?
The Insurrection Act won’t be the climax. It’ll be the midpoint—the moment where we all realize that this isn’t about immigration anymore. It’s about control. Fear. Power. And punishing every last person who stood in his way.
ONE LAST QUESTION: WHAT HAPPENS AFTER?
Let’s say he does it. Sends the troops. Claims it’s “temporary.” Shoots a protester. Blames the mayor. Calls it a deep state plot. Suspends something. Anything. What’s left to stop him?
The courts? Not if five justices keep playing dumb.
Congress? Not with Speaker Johnson wielding his plastic sword like a birthday party clown guarding a bouncy castle.
The media? Not unless they can break their addiction to euphemisms like “polarizing” and “controversial.”
Us? Maybe. But only if we stop pretending this is a political debate and start treating it like what it is:
An escalating authoritarian power grab by a man who has already promised to be a dictator on day one.
The only question is whether we’re still watching the parade when the tanks roll in.
https://www.facebook.com/FearAndLoathingCloserToTheEdge/posts/652474177421888
The White House’s push for for expanded presidential power threatens US economic stability
Donald Trump is systematically purging every US government institution, a pattern familiar to anybody who has studied the caudillo regimes of Latin America, or the playbook of today’s Putin-Orbán-Erdoğan prototypes.
It is a racing certainty that he will soon do the same to the Federal Reserve, forcing the central bank to cut interest rates into the teeth of rising inflation, with epic consequences for the world’s dollarised financial system and for €39 trillion (£33 trillion) of offshore dollar debt contracts and swaps.
Late last week he fired the head of the National Security Agency and its top officials at the behest of Laura Loomer, a fringe conspiracy theorist, who whispered into Trump’s ear that they were disloyal to the Maga movement.
He has already fired the heads of the FBI’s intelligence division, its counterterrorism division and criminal investigations division, as well as the heads of the Washington and New York offices.
He has fired the top brass of the US military, starting with a preemptive strike on the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. An earlier chairman – General Mark Milley – refused to ratify Trump’s attempted coup d’etat on Jan 6 2021.
“We don’t take an oath to a king, or to a tyrant or dictator, and we don’t take an oath to a wannabe dictator. We take an oath to the constitution,” said Milley in his parting shot.
But Trump also fired the three judge advocates general, who are legally independent by Congressional statute and have the authority to decide which military orders should be disobeyed – such as Trump’s order to “just shoot” American protesters, on American soil, during the Black Lives Matter saga.
That obstacle will not recur. Pete Hegseth, the defence secretary, said the three judges had been sacked to stop them posing any “roadblocks to orders given by the commander-in-chief”.
You can go through the list, agency by agency, extending to the universities and private law firms, and even to the muzzled editorials of some of America’s once great newspapers: the purge is Bolshevik in ambition.
Does anybody in their right mind think that Trump will spare the Fed’s Jerome Powell as the two men gear up for an almighty clash over US monetary policy? “CUT INTEREST RATES, JEROME, AND STOP PLAYING POLITICS!” bellowed Trump in capital letters on Truth Social on Friday.
The ICE Princess definitely is a princess!
She previously refused to divulge exactly how much her extensive travel was costing taxpayers. But after assuming her new post, nominated by Trump himself, the number has emerged, and it is shocking.
The Associated Press recently analyzed Noem’s travel records, and determined that she had accrued more than $150,000 in expenses tied to her political and personal activity. The records include several trips to Palm Beach, Florida, where Trump stayed at his Mar-a-Lago resort before taking office.
During Noem’s six years as governor – from 2018 until 2024 – AP found that South Dakota covered more than $640,000 in travel-related costs incurred by the governor’s office.
Some of the trips included $7,555 in airfare for a six-day trip to Paris, where she spoke at a right-wing gathering. It also included a bear hunt in Canada with her niece, and a book tour that involved a stop in New York.
For some of the trips, it was unclear whether it was for professional or personal reasons. One in particular that drew backlash was a $2,200 charge associated with a trip to Houston for dental work, that she showcased on Instagram.
The expenses were officially released last month, following a lawsuit by The Dakota Scout. Since then, several Republican politicians have accused Noem of using state funds to help bolster her own political career.
The Trump administration has been dedicated to tackling waste, fraud, and abuse in government, according to the AP.
Start by firing Bimbo #2 Kristi Noem!
Noem was recently slammed for being “tone deaf” on a trip to a prison in El Salvador, sporting a $50,000 Rolex watch. She also filmed a video inside the prison, with prisoners in crowded conditions in the background.
Kristi Noem slammed for staggering travel expenses footed by taxpayers