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Aurea @mariaurea.bsky.social · 5h

TRUMP & MARTIAL LAW. “This is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law,” Judge Karin Immergut, a conservative Trump appointee, wrote last week when she blocked Trump’s attempt to send troops to Portland. (Atl.)

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Aurea @mariaurea.bsky.social · 5h

TRUMP HAS DECLARED WAR ON CHICAGO, CALLED PORTLAND, OREGON, A “WAR ZONE”; & REFERRED TO HIS POLITICAL OPPONENTS AS “THE ENEMY FROM WITHIN.” TRUMP CLEARLY WANTS TO USE MILITARY POWER TO EXERT MORE CONTROL OVER AMERICAN PEOPLE. (Atl.)

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Aurea @mariaurea.bsky.social · 5h

TRUMP & HIS CIRCLE OF WOULD-BE AUTOCRATS have made rapid progress toward seizing institutions & detaching them from the Constitution & rule of law. The intelligence community has been muzzled, the nation’s top lawyers & cops are being purged & replaced with loyalist hacks.(Atl.)

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Aurea @mariaurea.bsky.social · 5h

TO CAPTURE A DEMOCRATIC NATION, AUTHORITARIANS MUST CONTROL THREE SOURCES OF POWER: THE INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES, THE JUSTICE SYSTEM, & THE MILITARY. (Atl.)

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Aurea @mariaurea.bsky.social · 5h

ONLY THE MILITARY REMAINS OUTSIDE TRUMP'S GRIP, despite the firing of several top officers & Trump’s threat to fire more. THE U.S. ARMED FORCES ARE STILL LED BY GENERALS & ADMIRALS WHOSE OATH IS TO THE CONSTITUTION, not the commander in chief. BUT FOR HOW LONG? (Atl.)

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Aurea @mariaurea.bsky.social · 5h

Trump has been blessed by the Supreme Court with monarchical immunity. Even if one officer declines an illegal order, Trump can just keep firing people until he gets to another officer who is enough of a coward, or opportunist, or true MAGA believer, to carry out the order.(Atl.)

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Aurea @mariaurea.bsky.social · 5h

THE GREATEST CRISIS OF AMERICAN CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS IN MODERN HISTORY IS UNDER WAY. Soon, top U.S.-military commanders may have to decide whether they will refuse such orders from the commander in chief. (Atl.)

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Aurea @mariaurea.bsky.social · 5h

This new & dangerous moment has arrived. The silence of the Army & Navy secretaries, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, & some top generals & admirals when Trump addressed at Fort Bragg and Naval Station Norfolk was appalling. (Atl.)

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Aurea @mariaurea.bsky.social · 5h

Trump & Hegseth subjected top generals and admirals to political rants during a meeting at Quantico last week. (Atl.)

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Aurea @mariaurea.bsky.social · 5h

Trump’s rhetoric in his speeches to the military has been awful. He has ridiculed former commanders in chief, castigated sitting elected officials, & told the members of America’s armed forces that other Americans are their enemies. (Atl.)

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Aurea @mariaurea.bsky.social · 5h

In deploying troops to American cities, Trump has set up a confrontation in which military commanders may soon have to choose between obeying the president and obeying the law. (Atl.)

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Aurea @mariaurea.bsky.social · 5h

Trump & his valet at the Defense Department, Secretary of Physical Training Pete Hegseth, are now making a dedicated run at turning the men & women of the armed forces into Trump’s personal and partisan army. (Atl.)

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Aurea @mariaurea.bsky.social · 5h

Now there's no one left to curb some of Trump's worst impulses and stop him. He's surrounded by a Cabinet of sycophants & ideologues rather than advisors, especially those at the Pentagon. (Atl.)

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Aurea @mariaurea.bsky.social · 5h

Trump’s attempt to militarize America’s cities is still being tested in court. He cares about power, which is why he is determined to flex military muscle on the streets of American cities. (Atl.)

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Aurea @mariaurea.bsky.social · 5h

Stephen Miller made the fascistic accusation that a “large & growing movement of leftwing terrorism in this country” is being “shielded by far-left Democrat judges, prosecutors & attorneys general.” (Atl.)

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Aurea @mariaurea.bsky.social · 5h

As Trump's popularity falls, he is tempted to issue orders to the military that will be aimed at suppressing dissent, or disrupting elections, or detaining political figures. He has already floated the idea of invoking the Insurrection Act, which could enable such actions. (Atl.)

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Aurea @mariaurea.bsky.social · 5h

Congress, so far, has been useless in restraining Trump. And the rest of us, the people, whether we’re elected officials or ordinary citizens, should do everything we can to protect the freedom & the Constitution. SOURCE: The Atlantic by Tom Nichols

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Aurea @mariaurea.bsky.social · 5h

Congress, so far, has been useless in restraining Trump. And the rest of us, the people, whether we’re elected officials or ordinary citizens, should do everything we can to protect the freedom & the Constitution. SOURCE: The Atlantic by Tom Nichols

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Aurea @mariaurea.bsky.social · 5h

As Trump's popularity falls, he is tempted to issue orders to the military that will be aimed at suppressing dissent, or disrupting elections, or detaining political figures. He has already floated the idea of invoking the Insurrection Act, which could enable such actions. (Atl.)

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Aurea @mariaurea.bsky.social · 5h

Stephen Miller made the fascistic accusation that a “large & growing movement of leftwing terrorism in this country” is being “shielded by far-left Democrat judges, prosecutors & attorneys general.” (Atl.)

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Aurea @mariaurea.bsky.social · 5h

Trump’s attempt to militarize America’s cities is still being tested in court. He cares about power, which is why he is determined to flex military muscle on the streets of American cities. (Atl.)

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Aurea @mariaurea.bsky.social · 5h

Now there's no one left to curb some of Trump's worst impulses and stop him. He's surrounded by a Cabinet of sycophants & ideologues rather than advisors, especially those at the Pentagon. (Atl.)

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Aurea @mariaurea.bsky.social · 5h

Trump & his valet at the Defense Department, Secretary of Physical Training Pete Hegseth, are now making a dedicated run at turning the men & women of the armed forces into Trump’s personal and partisan army. (Atl.)

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Aurea @mariaurea.bsky.social · 5h

In deploying troops to American cities, Trump has set up a confrontation in which military commanders may soon have to choose between obeying the president and obeying the law. (Atl.)

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Aurea @mariaurea.bsky.social · 5h

Trump’s rhetoric in his speeches to the military has been awful. He has ridiculed former commanders in chief, castigated sitting elected officials, & told the members of America’s armed forces that other Americans are their enemies. (Atl.)

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