Maybe he should rename the whole country
Trumpistan? USSA?

#Politics
#Political
#politicalviolence #USA #USpol #Trump
#pol

The Ides of March is the date when dictators got stabbed to death.

-Just sayin' like.

#Politics #Political #politicalviolence #USA #USpol #Trump #pol #UkraineWar

Is Political Violence Ever Acceptable?

#PoliticalViolence #StateDeterminations #NatashaLennard #HarmfulAcquiescence #MassResistanceMovements

thenation.com/article/politics…

Is Political Violence Ever Acceptable? | The Nation

Natasha Lennard argues that it’s harmful to acquiesce to the state’s determinations of violence, while David Cortright writes that violent acts prevent mass resistance movements.

^{The Nation}

"The more that people like #ElonMusk are putting on the wall the idea that it's appropriate to attack these judges for nothing more than ruling against the federal government, the more that we're normalizing what really are in the main very serious threats to #JudicialIndependence," Stephen Vladeck, a law professor at Georgetown University, said.

#law #StochasticTerrorism #StateSponsoredTerrorism #DomesticTerrorism #PoliticalViolence #incitement #MAGA #extremism #Trump

Efforts to undermine the #judiciary come at the same time the #Trump admin has moved to fire lawyers inside the #DOJ & the #Pentagon, penalize private law firms who represented clients Trump does not like, & to back away from participation in the activities of the #ABA.

#law #StochasticTerrorism #StateSponsoredTerrorism #DomesticTerrorism #PoliticalViolence #incitement #MAGA #extremism

Congressional #Republicans close to the president even have proposed #impeachment proceedings against a few of those judges, who serve for life.

#ElonMusk, who oversees #DOGE making cuts to federal agencies, himself has repeatedly posted on social media about impeaching #judges who delay or block parts of #Trump's agenda.

#law #StochasticTerrorism #StateSponsoredTerrorism #DomesticTerrorism #PoliticalViolence #incitement #MAGA #extremism

Federal #judges who have ruled against the #Trump admin this year are confronting a wave of threats, compromising their safety & the #independence of the #judiciary.

The sister of #SCOTUS Justice #AmyConeyBarrett received a bomb threat earlier this month, & lower court judges who paused some of Trump's efforts to dismantle #FederalAgencies & programs have been targeted.

#law #StochasticTerrorism #StateSponsoredTerrorism #DomesticTerrorism #PoliticalViolence #MAGA
npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-53163…

There are people living in the United States who are going to reach a breaking point when they feel they have nothing more to lose. When that happens, bad things usually follow.

Trump and Musk are targets for no other reason than the positions they hold.

With their continued actions and words, the bullseye around them is expanding.

Trump believes he is invincible. Musk knows the truth which is why he's carrying his kid around as a human shield everywhere he goes.

#PoliticalViolence #USPOL

>6 weeks into the 2nd #Trump admin, there is a chill spreading over political debate [#speech] in Washington & beyond.

People on both sides of the aisle who would normally be part of the public dialogue about the big issues of the day say they are intimidated by the prospect of online attacks from #Trump & #ElonMusk, concerned about harm to their companies & frightened for the #safety of their #families.

#sturmabteilung #PoliticalViolence #StochasticTerrorism #StateSponsoredTerrorism #law

I was asked
"Do you realise that you are losing friends because of your politics?"

NO!
I' m losing friends because of their values!

Thats a huge difference.

#Politics #politicalviolence #nazi #fascism #trump #Musk #Tesla #USPolitics #USA #USPol #australia #Auspol #ALP #Vote #Activism

…Federal courts are hearing >100 lawsuits challenging the admin’s initiatives, many of them focused on efforts driven by #Musk & his team at #DOGE to purge hundreds of thousands of #FederalWorkers & dramatically scale back govt #aid & #regulatory programs.

#Trump & his WH press sec also have criticized judges they describe as activists who have issued orders that slowed or blocked some of those efforts.

#law #judiciary #PoliticalViolence #DomesticTerrorism #StateSponsoredTerrorism

Reuters interviews w/11 federal judges in multiple districts revealed mounting alarm over their physical #security &, in some cases, a rise in #violent #threats in recent weeks. Most spoke on condition of anonymity & said they did not want to further inflame the situation or make comments that could be interpreted as conflicting w/their duties of impartiality.…

#law #JudicialIndependence #judiciary #PoliticalViolence #DomesticTerrorism #Trump #Musk #StateSponsoredTerrorism

#Musk, the world's richest person, has lambasted judges in more than 30 posts since the end of Jan on his social media site, calling them “corrupt,” “radical,” “evil” & deriding the "TYRANNY of the JUDICIARY" after judges blocked parts of the federal downsizing that he’s led. Musk has also reposted nearly two dozen tweets by others attacking judges.

#law #JudicialIndependence #judiciary #PoliticalViolence #DomesticTerrorism #Trump #StateSponsoredTerrorism

In recent weeks, #Musk, congressional #Republicans & other top allies of Trump have called for the impeachment of some federal judges or attacked their integrity in response to court rulings that have slowed the #Trump admin's moves to dismantle entire government agencies & fire tens of thousands of workers.

#law #JudicialIndependence #judiciary #PoliticalViolence #DomesticTerrorism #StateSponsoredTerrorism

Exclusive: Judges face rise in #threats as #Musk blasts them over rulings

#USMarshals have warned federal judges of unusually high threat levels as tech #billionaire #ElonMusk & other #Trump admin allies ramp up efforts to discredit judges who stand in the way of White House efforts to slash federal jobs & programs, said several judges with knowledge of the warnings.

#law #JudicialIndependence #judiciary #PoliticalViolence #DomesticTerrorism #StateSponsoredTerrorism
reuters.com/world/us/judges-fa…

Trump's Titushky

#ElectionSecurity #PoliticalViolence #Extremism #PoliticalIntimidation #AmericanPolitics

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Trump’s Titushky

Freelance thuggery is now part of American politics.

^{Tom Nichols (The Atlantic)}

Trump's Titushky

#Extremism #PoliticalViolence #AmericanPolitics #ProtestViolence #Titushky

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Trump’s Titushky

Freelance thuggery is now part of American politics.

^{Tom Nichols (The Atlantic)}

🚨🚨 #DOJ tries to broaden its view of #Trump’s #Jan6 #pardons.

A Trump-appointed judge grilled a #Justice Dept prosecutor on DOJ’s change in position.

#criminal #law #insurrection #extremism #radicalization #DomesticTerrorism #StateSponsoredTerrorism #felon47 #PoliticalViolence #sturmabteilung #USpol
politico.com/news/2025/02/26/t…

▶ Elected Republicans are AFRAID TRUMP WILL HARM THEM & THEIR FAMILIES!!!

#CongressionalAnxiety #TrumpFear #PoliticalViolence #VanityFairExclusive #RepublicanConcerns

youtube.com/watch?v=ycGU6TfAsz…

Here are screenshots of the letters. Remember, #EdMartin, Trump’s interim US Atty in DC, is a guy who advocated for the #Jan6 insurgents, who was himself AT THE CAPITOL during the #insurrection & #Trump incited more #PoliticalViolence than any US politician in recent history. What a joke.

#law #FreeSpeech #dissent #democracy #authoritarianism #autocracy

Kelley was among the >1,500 defendants who received a #pardon from #Trump on Jan 20 for their actions during the #Jan6 #insurrection.….

Kelley’s attorney has argued that Trump’s mass pardon of Jan. 6 *rioters* should apply to Kelley’s #conviction in the #murder plot because it “directly relates to the events at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.”

#law #insurrection #PoliticalViolence #TrumpCoup #Felon47 #sturmabteilung

Prosecutors wrote that Kelley "devised a plan to murder federal, state, & local law enforcement in East Tennessee."

The #DOJ said evidence at trial showed Kelley developed a “kill list” of #FBI special agents & others who investigated his conduct. “Every hit has to hurt,” Kelley said to a co-conspirator…. “Every hit has to hurt.”

#Trump #pardon #law #insurrection #PoliticalViolence #TrumpCoup #Felon47 #sturmabteilung

Kansas Republicans condemn violent threats -- unless they make them

#RandomQueries #LegislatorPayIncrease #Journalists #KSGOP #PoliticalViolence

alternet.org/kansas-violence/

Kansas Republicans condemn violent threats — unless they make them

So, wait a minute. Is threatening political violence acceptable now? You see, I recall the ancient days of October 2024, when Kansas Republicans frothed in rage at the story of a University of Kansas lecturer who made an unfortunate comment to his s…

^{Clay Wirestone, Kansas Reflector (Alternet.org)}

#KevinRoberts declined to be interviewed. #HeritageFoundation spox Noah Weinrich said Roberts’s remark on the podcast was meant to warn of left-wing #violence [despite overwhelming evidence that the majority of #PoliticalViolence is committed by the #FarRight]. “Any attempt to mischaracterize Dr. Roberts’ comments as supportive of violence is grotesque & completely contrary to the observation he was making,” he said.

#Project2025 #PaulDans #JDVance

#KevinRoberts, who took over Washington’s preeminent *conservative think tank* in 2021, declared a “second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless, if the left allows it to be,” during an appearance on a pro-Trump podcast in July, before a gunman attempted to assassinate #Trump at a rally in PA. That same month, Roberts started marketing his book, whose cover proposed “Burning Down Washington” & featured an image of a match.

#PoliticalViolence #FarRight #Project2025 #HeritageFoundation

Outrage as Republicans allude to shooting former Kansas Democratic rep

#RepublicanHazing #Election2022 #DemocratOutrage #DisciplinaryAction #PoliticalViolence

alternet.org/shooting-kansas-r…

Outrage as Republicans allude to shooting former Kansas Democratic rep

TOPEKA — A pair of House Republicans entertained a hypothetical act of violence toward a former representative Thursday as they acted out a traditional hazing ritual for new legislators. Wichita Republican Rep.

^{Anna Kaminski, Kansas Reflector (Alternet.org)}

South Korea's chaos politics

#ConspiracyTheories #GlobalConsequences #KoreaPolitics #ChaosPolitics #PoliticalViolence

newstatesman.com/international…

South Korea’s chaos politics

In the early hours of 15 January, thousands of police officers surrounded South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol’s hilltop residence in Seoul. Yoon had been holed up inside the compound for weeks since

^{Katie Stallard (New Statesman)}

Guantanamo Bay's forgotten history of detaining Haitian migrants

#HaitianMigrants #PoliticalViolence #Detention #GuantanamoBay #RefugeeCrisis

liberationnews.org/guantanamo-…

Guantánamo Bay’s forgotten history of detaining Haitian migrants

Haitian migrants, displaced by the 1991 U.S.-backed coup of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, line up at Guantánamo to be processed. Credit: The U.S. National Archives (public domain) Trump's plan to house 30,0

^{Nato Koury (Liberation News)}

A bloody youthquake in Mozambique is another sign of the crumbling of the old order in Africa | Estevao Chavisso

#PoliticalViolence #YouthQuakeAfrica #JournalismUnderFire #OldOrderCrumbling #AfricaChange

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

A bloody youthquake in Mozambique is another sign of the crumbling of the old order in Africa

The violent repression of protests reflects a wider trend as Africa’s younger voters lose faith in independence-era parties, says Estêvão Chavisso of Lusa, Portugal’s national news agency

^{Estêvão Chavisso (The Guardian)}

A quotation from Lincoln

Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time. It will then have been proved that, among free men, there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet; and that they who take such appeal are sure to lose their case, and pay the cost.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Letter (1863-08-26) to James C. Conkling

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/3030…

#quote #quotes #quotation #ballot #bullet #civilwar #democracy #elections #freedom #insurrection #peace #politicalviolence #revolution #socialcontract #violence #voting

Letter (1863-08-26) to James C. Conkling - Lincoln, Abraham | WIST Quotations

Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time. It will then have been proved that, among free men, there can be no successful appeal from the…

^{WIST Quotations}