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pivot.quebec/2025/05/15/il-fau

Pivot · Il faut qu’on parle de Québecor – PivotPKP demande du financement public alors même que ses chroniqueur·euses alimentent la haine et l’intimidation.

#Trump’s border #intimidation has come for US citizens too

Leftwing, pro-Palestine streamer’s interrogation by airport officials on return to #US shows chilling escalation of war on #FreeSpeech

He was detained, questioned for hours by border control as he re-entered US (he is #US #citizen

Countries behave like this towards political commentators & dissenting voices who are their own citizens are either nakedly #authoritarian, on the way

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · Trump’s border intimidation is coming for US citizens too – ask streamer Hasan PikerBy Owen Jones

“DHS confirms to Axios that they are considering arresting Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman, LaMonica McIver and Rob Menendez.

Watson Coleman's office says they reviewed the body cam footage and that it proves "nobody 'assaulted' any agents."

Every day, Trump finds new targets, so he can stay in the spotlight,& sic “his AG & the DOJ on them with trumped-up charges.

#Fascism #DOJ #DHS #ICE #Nazis #Retribution #Trump #Resist #Laws #Intimidation #USPol

axios.com/2025/05/10/trump-ice

Rep. Rob Menendez, wearing a blue suit and holding his hand to his face while sitting at a brown wooden committee dais.
Axios · Trump admin eyes arrests for House Dems over ICE incidentBy Andrew Solender

It's hard to be confident @flawed but yes, decades of indoctrination will have that effect. Israeli society today is comparable to that of 1930s Germany. Much of todays world is as much in thrall of Zionism as the world of that time was of Nazism.

The world turned on Hitler, only after the full-scale invasion of a neighbouring country. Israel probably won't do that, unless it's allowed to annex the rest of Palestine.

I hope we'll turn before that happens. The war crimes prosecutions should be epic.

Got a bit off-track there. Sorry. The point is, we'll need to separate the Zionists from genuine Jews. I honestly have no idea what proportion of Jewish societies believe the Zionist ethno-supremacy ideology.

@palestine @lebanon @iran @israel @anarchy @anarchism

#Zionism
#censorship
#intimidation
#CrimesAgainstHumanity

Interview: Democratic Governor Tony Evers on the administration's threat to arrest Wisconsin officials over defying its mass deportation agenda.

What we’re seeing is "an absolute degradation of the rule of law," says fmr DoJ officer Lisa Graves.

There's a broader attack on "governors who dare to speak up,"

democracynow.org/2025/5/5/tom_

#ruleoflaw #trump #usconstitution #uspol #wisconsin #intimidation .

Democracy Now! · “Chilling”: Wisconsin Gov. Evers Pushes Back After Trump’s Border Czar Threatens to Arrest HimBy Democracy Now!

Interview: Democratic Governor Tony Evers on the administration's threat to arrest Wisconsin officials over defying its mass deportation agenda.

What we’re seeing is "an absolute degradation of the rule of law," says fmr DoJ officer Lisa Graves.

There's a broader attack on "governors who dare to speak up,"

democracynow.org/2025/5/5/tom_

#ruleoflaw #trump #usconstitution #uspol #wisconsin #intimidation .

Democracy Now! · “Chilling”: Wisconsin Gov. Evers Pushes Back After Trump’s Border Czar Threatens to Arrest HimBy Democracy Now!

When Downmarket Mussolini made pardoning January 6th coup participants one of his first official acts in his second term, I talked a little bit about the necessity for a fascist regime to be able to call on extrajudicial violence and intimidation, from an irregular cohort of fascist vigilantes in the larger populace. Although Trumpism doesn't necessarily have a singular organized group of vigilante supporters, the evidence of their connection to fascist street gangs and right wing extremists, as well as the regime's willingness to encourage extrajudicial violence from their supporters in response to political opposition, are both extensively documented in even mainstream media sources.

As such, I don't think it's particularly surprising that Trump's numerous conflicts with the judicial branch, and authoritarian propaganda designed to intimidate federal judges ruling against his regime, have inspired threats and harassment targeting at least eleven judges and their families.

archive.ph/uvGEH

These judges ruled against Trump. Then their families came under attack.

"In March, the judiciary launched a task force to propose steps for maintaining the security and independence of courts and judges, according to a memo from the judiciary’s administrative arm to federal judges and other court staff.

Such efforts, however, have done little to quell the broadsides from Trump and his allies. Trump’s attorney general, Pam Bondi, has referred to the judges who ruled against the administration’s interests as “out of control” and said they “need to be removed.”

One federal judge told Reuters that the Trump administration’s inflammatory rhetoric encourages the hostility aimed at judges and feared it ultimately would inspire true believers to violence."

“The Justice Department doesn’t understand the fire they’re dealing with,” the judge said. “The public discussion of ‘out-of-control judges’ turns out the crazy.”

Contrary to the opinion of the judge anonymously quoted above, I am about as certain as I possibly can be that Trump's fascist Department of Justice knows full well their rhetoric is likely to inspire violence towards the jurists they're demonizing, from their rabid fascist base. In fact, I'd say they're clearly counting on it, and they want every judge in America to know that the same thing could happen to them if they rule against Trump's fascist agenda.

As an abolitionist, I'm not going to blow a bunch of smoke up your backside about the sanctity of American law, or the independence of judges who are politically appointed and happily enforced the laws of an already alarmingly authoritarian white nationalist police state in a professional capacity long before Trump came back to power. The reality however is that state-enforced fascism is a political situation with no bottom, and as such it's almost always possible for things to get worse. If American judges fear for the lives of their families if they rule against the regime, then logic dictates that less of them are going to rule against Trump's fascist agenda. You can argue that it doesn't matter because the regime is openly ignoring court orders right now, but the fact is the government is still arguing its nonsensical legal theories in court and trying to intimidate courts precisely *because* rubber stamps from judges will make it easier to transform America into a Christian Nationalist dictatorship under Donald Trump.

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One of the #DOJ attys assigned to the case was Samantha Trepel, an experienced #CivilRights prosecutor who secured a federal conviction against #DerekChauvin, the police officer who killed #GeorgeFloyd….

The prosecutors were told…that #EmilBove was seeking a #list so it could be shared w/ #immigration agents…. Prosecutors came to fear that their #criminal investigation was a pretext to facilitate an #intimidation & #deportation campaign by the #Trump admin against #student #protesters….

#DOJ #intimidation #PriorRestraint

"The U.S. Department of Justice has sent letters to medical journals for supposedly being 'partisan,' heavily suggesting that they’re spreading misinformation and are influenced by 'funders' rather than medical science. Gizmodo has confirmed that the journal CHEST, a peer-reviewed publication on pulmonary care published by the American College of Chest Physicians, received a letter this week. And MedPage Today reports that at least two other journals have received similar intimidating letters."

gizmodo.com/trumps-doj-sends-i

Gizmodo · Trump's DOJ Sends Intimidating Letters to Medical Journals for Supposedly Being 'Partisan'Trump's goons will eventually come for everyone.

Joseph Allen: "The White House sent Harvard letter making outrageous (and illegal) demands.

--> The White House now says it was sent by accident (oops!).

--> The White House blames Harvard (?) for reacting to the letter they sent.

--> Harvard said: 'The letter was signed by three federal officials, placed on official letterhead, was sent from the email inbox of a senior federal official'."
#AcademicFreedom versus #intimidation. #politics

It looks like the Taliban Wing of the Republican Party supports #terrorism and makes #threats:
"Rep. Dan Meuser suggested that Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro was asking for it when an attacker burned down part of his house after his Passover celebration and that he needs to 'tone it down' with actions against Pres. Donald Trump":
huffpost.com/entry/josh-shapir #politics #intimidation

HuffPost · GOP Rep Says Arson On Shapiro's House Should Make Him 'Tone It Down' On TrumpBy Lydia O'Connor