The military can’t do what the police can’t do

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@Nonya_Bidniss 🔗 https://infosec.exchange/users/Nonya_Bidniss/statuses/113822406976464940 –

«After the D.C. National Guard was ordered to clear demonstrators from Lafayette Square across from the White House in 2020 using tear gas, rubber bullets and flash-bang grenades, a group of lawyers founded “The Orders Project” aimed at connecting up lawyers and troops looking for legal advice. One of the founders, Eugene Fidell of Yale Law School, said that the group disbanded after the first Trump administration but is now being resurrected. “With the return of President Trump, we’re ready to help people in need,” Fidell said.

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Most legal experts agree that troops must obey all nominally legal orders. But military lawyers say it’s important for troops to remember that even if called into action they must obey peoples’ constitutional rights — including the right to assemble and to be protected from unlawful arrest and seizure or unreasonable force. “You have to follow the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth amendments. They don’t get waived,” said Dehn. … “Due process still applies,” Nunn agreed. “Military personnel deployed under the [Insurrection Act] can’t do what law enforcement can’t do. They can’t shoot peaceful protesters.”

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Says one lawyer who has studied many cases of military-civilian conflict and spoke on condition of anonymity because he fears retribution from the new Trump administration: “I think things are going to be bad, really bad. This is going to be worse than last time. Trump is angry. He desperately wants to turn on his TV and see guys in uniform on the streets.”»

#military #InsurrectionAct #PosseComitatus #DOD #Trump #extremism #fascism

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/01/12/trump-military-immigration-domestic-deployment-00195609

Imagine what the parents of a dead 23-year-old can do with lawyers and funding.

Early childhood infections do NOT make you stronger – get [your kids] vaccinated

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@nat 🔗 https://partyon.xyz/users/nat/statuses/113823245707324194 – via Unambiguous Science: “A new longitudinal cohort study found that children who were sick more often in early childhood were more likely to continue being sick in later childhood with more moderate to severe infections and require more antibiotic therapies. “…there are no advantages to being sick in early childhood, and these infections simply do not strengthen the immune system. This myth needs to stop.” https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2828688 #covid #longcovid #maskup #covid19 #birdflu #vaccines

Trump border czar privately tempers Republican lawmaker expectations on administration’s initial deportation operation | CNN Politics

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https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/11/politics/trump-border-czar-tom-homan-deportations/index.html

«President-elect Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan has privately told Republican lawmakers to temper their expectations for the incoming administration’s initial deportation operation, citing limited resources, according to multiple sources involved in the conversations.»

We need to start keeping track. First, Trump says reducing inflation is going to be harder than he expected. Then he said ending the war in Ukraine is going to be harder than he expected. Now he says (through a mouthpiece) deporting all our undocumented immigrants is going to be harder than he thought.

‘There are a lot of bitter people here, I’m one of them’: rust belt voters on why they backed Trump again despite his broken promises | Donald Trump | The Guardian

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/11/there-are-a-lot-of-bitter-people-here-im-one-of-them-rust-belt-voters-on-why-they-backed-trump-again-despite-his-broken-promises

Whenever I see one of these headlines, I think of this:

«But that diagnosis completely misses the life-threatening illness America is really struggling with: a billionaire-captured system that doesn’t work for most people, and justifiable disaffection and anger at this system. Americans are fed up, and people are perpetually in the mood to throw the bums out, whoever the bums in charge are.»

https://www.weekendreading.net/p/how-trump-won

Elon Musk says DOGE probably won’t find $2 trillion in federal budget cuts

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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-says-doge-probably-wont-find-2-trillion-federal-budget-cuts-rcna186924

«Tech billionaire Elon Musk said Wednesday that his budget-cutting effort on behalf of President-elect Donald Trump would most likely not find $2 trillion in savings, backtracking on a goal he set earlier as co-head of a new advisory body, the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.

Musk told political strategist Mark Penn in an interview broadcast on X that the $2 trillion figure was a “best-case outcome” and that he thought there was only a “good shot” at cutting half that.»

*Gasp!* Goal cut in half! (At least.) Who could possibly have expected *this*???!!1!1

(Any particular idiot who’s paying attention would know there ain’t no trillion dollars to cut from the budget, especially after basically decades of Republicans trying to cut to the bone already. https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-budget-101/spending/ )