#Tag
"It was a deliberate division of the country into 'us' and 'them,' a classic authoritarian move, that he followed up by calling the Democrats 'crazy' and claiming that 'Democrats are destroying our country.'”
#Trump #StateoftheUnion #authoritarianism #fascism #violence #threats #scapegoating #immigrants #Democrats #retaliation
/3
"It is now simply a standard, often unmentioned part of our politics that those who the president dislikes, within his own party or outside it, will be the target of stochastic terror. ...
The rule seems to be that Trump can direct his violent minions at absolutely anyone, and there will be no consequences and barely any comment."
~ Noah Berlatsky
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #violence #threats #scapegoating #StochasticTerrorism #SupremeCourt #retaliation
/3
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-supreme-court-justices-families-tariffs
"It is now simply a standard, often unmentioned part of our politics that those who the president dislikes, within his own party or outside it, will be the target of stochastic terror. ...
The rule seems to be that Trump can direct his violent minions at absolutely anyone, and there will be no consequences and barely any comment."
~ Noah Berlatsky
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #violence #threats #scapegoating #StochasticTerrorism #SupremeCourt #retaliation
/3
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-supreme-court-justices-families-tariffs
"The grim takeaway is that even the Supreme Court justices, with all their power and prestige, are no longer living in a democracy."
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #violence #threats #scapegoating #StochasticTerrorism #SupremeCourt #retaliation
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"It was a deliberate division of the country into 'us' and 'them,' a classic authoritarian move, that he followed up by calling the Democrats 'crazy' and claiming that 'Democrats are destroying our country.'”
#Trump #StateoftheUnion #authoritarianism #fascism #violence #threats #scapegoating #immigrants #Democrats #retaliation
/3
"It is now simply a standard, often unmentioned part of our politics that those who the president dislikes, within his own party or outside it, will be the target of stochastic terror. ...
The rule seems to be that Trump can direct his violent minions at absolutely anyone, and there will be no consequences and barely any comment."
~ Noah Berlatsky
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #violence #threats #scapegoating #StochasticTerrorism #SupremeCourt #retaliation
/3
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-supreme-court-justices-families-tariffs
(continued from /1)
"setting them up to force them to back off their insistence on reforms to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol by demanding that they stand to show their support for the statement: 'The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens.'”
#Trump #StateoftheUnion #authoritarianism #fascism #violence #threats #scapegoating #immigrants #Democrats #retaliation
/2
"It was a deliberate division of the country into 'us' and 'them,' a classic authoritarian move, that he followed up by calling the Democrats 'crazy' and claiming that 'Democrats are destroying our country.'”
#Trump #StateoftheUnion #authoritarianism #fascism #violence #threats #scapegoating #immigrants #Democrats #retaliation
/3
"Trump’s tax cuts primarily benefited the wealthy and corporations, and pinning their effects on immigrants illustrates how Trump’s strongest calls were to his base. Not only did he portray immigrants as violent criminals, in a moment scripted for television, he then turned on Democrats in the chamber," (continued in /2)
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #StateoftheUnion #authoritarianism #fascism #violence #threats #scapegoating #immigrants #Democrats #retaliation
/1
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-25-2026
(continued from /1)
"setting them up to force them to back off their insistence on reforms to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol by demanding that they stand to show their support for the statement: 'The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens.'”
#Trump #StateoftheUnion #authoritarianism #fascism #violence #threats #scapegoating #immigrants #Democrats #retaliation
/2
"Trump’s tax cuts primarily benefited the wealthy and corporations, and pinning their effects on immigrants illustrates how Trump’s strongest calls were to his base. Not only did he portray immigrants as violent criminals, in a moment scripted for television, he then turned on Democrats in the chamber," (continued in /2)
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #StateoftheUnion #authoritarianism #fascism #violence #threats #scapegoating #immigrants #Democrats #retaliation
/1
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-25-2026
The woman told the agents she still had the photo on her phone, & they noted that it was a widely distributed photo of #Epstein & #Trump, acc/to the doc. She gave tagents permission to take a photo of the image but asked them to crop out Trump. When asked why, her lawyer said the woman “was concerned about implicating additional individuals, & specifically any that were well known, due to fear of #retaliation,” acc/to #FBI memo. [recall 2019 Trump attacks #EJeanCarroll — https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/24/us/politics/jean-carroll-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share]
Rep #RobertGarcia said the #DOJ had not provided a proper explanation for why the materials were missing. #Democrats plan to open a separate investigation into why the documents are not available.
In the sole summary of the #FBI interview that was released, the woman told investigators that she did not know Epstein’s full identity until 2019, when a friend sent her a photograph of #Epstein. She said she then recognized the person who she said had raped her.
The woman told the agents she still had the photo on her phone, & they noted that it was a widely distributed photo of #Epstein & #Trump, acc/to the doc. She gave tagents permission to take a photo of the image but asked them to crop out Trump. When asked why, her lawyer said the woman “was concerned about implicating additional individuals, & specifically any that were well known, due to fear of #retaliation,” acc/to #FBI memo. [recall 2019 Trump attacks #EJeanCarroll — https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/24/us/politics/jean-carroll-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share]
