Don’t despair as authoritarianism marches around us. A shift may come soon, as the realization spreads that blue states contribute the lion’s share of resources funding Trump’s mad theater of destruction.
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Sabrina Haake is a 25+ year federal trial attorney specializing in 1st and 14th A defense. Her columns are published in Alternet, Chicago Tribune, MSN, Out South Florida, Raw Story, Salon, Smart News and Windy City Times. Her Substack, The Haake Take, is free.
During an absurdly obsequious, 3.5 hour televised “cabinet meeting,” Donald Trump said he can “do whatever he wants as president,” and suggested that Americans might support him becoming a dictator.
Last week, Donald Trump directed hundreds of masked agents and soldiers, now armed, to “do whatever the hell they want,” presumably to whomever the hell they want, on the streets of the U.S. capital. Someone should do Trump a solid and explain, slowly, that when ICE starts murdering civilians on his request, he will be criminally liable for the bloodshed, and the immunity ruling won’t save him.
In 1989, Donald Trump purchased full page ads in four New York newspapers, including the New York Times, calling for the return of the death penalty after a white jogger was brutally attacked in Central Park.
The latest version of Trump’s mood-contingent tariffs took effect Thursday, prompting Trump to post-boast two minutes before midnight that “BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN TARIFFS” are now pouring into the U.S. He skipped the part where American companies pay those tariffs, which soon will trickle down to consumers in the form of higher prices.
We now know that Trump is taking care of Ghislaine Maxwell because the convicted child sex trafficker was just moved from maximum security to a “luxury” minimum-security facility.
Deputy AG, Todd Blanche, without a court reporter or oath, has now “interviewed” Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell, serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking minors for Jeffrey Epstein, hopes for clemency to avoid spending the rest of her life in prison.
Yesterday I played tennis with a couple of players I’d never met before, at Chicago’s Waveland Park, next to a leafy municipal golf course built in 1901.
As the death toll rises in Texas, Trump has done everything but tap dance naked to deflect the media from discussing climate change (hoax), or how his staff cuts to the National Weather Service (600 cuts in May) likely affected flood warnings.
Concentration camps are often compared to prisons, but that comparison is inaccurate. In the United States, inmates arrive in penitentiaries only after they have been convicted of serious crimes, under criminal processes constrained by the U.S. Constitution at all times.
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