A newly released Department of Defense (DOD) memo calls for all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and U.S. territories to form “quick reaction forces” within the National Guard that will be trained in “riot control” procedures — the latest indication that President Donald Trump is set to escalate his militarization of cities across the country. The October 8 memo was signed by Major General Ronald…
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President Donald Trump alarmed many critics this week when he once again mused about deploying the military on the streets of US cities. As reported by The New York Times, Trump told a group of American troops stationed in Japan on Tuesday that he could send the military into US cities under the pretense of fighting crime. “We have cities that are troubled, we can’t have cities that are…
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In a Fox News interview this past weekend, President Donald Trump claimed that invoking the Insurrection Act would allow him to have “unquestioned power,” and even suggested that it could be used to suspend court cases — despite nothing in the statute indicating as such. Trump has sent National Guard troops to a number of U.S. cities, ostensibly to assist other federal agents carrying out…
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Two sets of recent polling data demonstrate that Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump’s actions in office so far — particularly his mobilization of the National Guard in U.S. cities. A Reuters/Ipsos poll published on Wednesday found that Americans largely disapprove of troops being deployed to U.S. cities when there isn’t an external threat. Nearly 6 in 10 Americans, 58 percent…
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Senate Democrats are blasting President Donald Trump’s increasingly authoritarian behavior and congressional Republicans for shutting down the US government to preserve devastating healthcare cuts, but over half of them voted with the GOP late Thursday to give nearly $1 trillion to the Pentagon, which has never passed an audit. The final vote on the Senate’s $925 billion version of the…
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