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In #California it seems…#grandjury is finding…
#ice agents lying on arrest forms…

“1 of the 3 officials, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said…
Concerns are growing among prosecutors about the accuracy of statements by fed #immigration agents that serve as the basis for criminal charges.”

"There are a lot of hotheaded [Customs & Border Protection] officers who are kind of arresting 1st & asking ? later. We’re finding there’s not probable cause to support it"…
apple.news/A_nzl0e2PR6uAeB9ju3

apple.newsTrump's top federal prosecutor in L.A. struggles to secure indictments in protest cases — Los Angeles TimesU.S. Atty. Bill Essayli has aggressively pushed for indictments in the high-profile prosecutions of people arrested during demonstrations against federal immigration actions in Southern California, leading to an incident that sources said involved an outburst overheard by grand jurors.
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As I've noted in multiple articles, a significant portion of the Trump regime's fascist police state maneuvers basically amount to the Swine Emperor's attempts to recruit and control an army: particularly inside what the regime sees as "enemy controlled territory" in blue states and especially Democrat-run sanctuary cities. While Trump has been partially successful on that front by deploying National Guard units, and passing a budget bill that will vastly increase the size of the Gestapo, the Trumpenreich's attempts to recruit and subvert localized American police forces to the President's will, remain the centerpiece of these efforts. As we recently discussed, these police forces serve a vital role as a "force multiplier" for militarized Gestapo operations inside cities and neighborhoods deemed hostile to the Trump agenda, and a regime clearly rocketing towards a perpetual state of (fake) emergency-fueled martial law probably can't get where it wants to go, without that local police buy-in.

In that vein then, I'd like to take a look at this July 10th article by Dell Cameron, about some threat bulletins issued by Kristi Noem's DHS, to local law enforcement agencies around the country, in response to mainstream liberal organization of the popular "No Kings" protests; which as it turns out, where predictably entirely peaceful. I'll be honest with you however, I don't think Noem gives a fuck because the contents of the bulletins themselves make it clear that the Gestapo wants to use local law enforcement to persecute protestors, journalists, and even folks simply opposed to a fascist ethnic cleansing project in process.

wired.com/story/dhs-tells-poli (archived: archive.ph/Yclqv)

DHS Tells Police That Common Protest Activities Are ‘Violent Tactics’

"At the same time, the guidance urges officers to consider a range of nonviolent behavior and common protest gear—like masks, flashlights, and cameras—as potential precursors to violence, telling officers to prepare “from the point of view of an adversary.”

Protesters on bicycles, skateboards, or even “on foot” are framed as potential “scouts” conducting reconnaissance or searching for “items to be used as weapons.” Livestreaming is listed alongside “doxxing” as a “tactic” for “threatening” police. Online posters are cast as ideological recruiters—or as participants in “surveillance sharing.”

One list of “violent tactics” shared by the Los Angeles–based Joint Regional Intelligence Center—part of a post-9/11 fusion network—includes both protesters’ attempts to avoid identification and efforts to identify police. The memo also alleges that face recognition, normally a tool of law enforcement, was used against officers.

Vera Eidelman, a senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, says the government has no business treating constitutionally protected activities—like observing or documenting police—as threats."

If you've been reading my analysis for the last little while, you should recognize some familiar patterns in the regime's propaganda here. Painting resistance to the mass deportation program as inherently criminal, the DHS threat warning conjures up a picture of a coordinated, media driven conspiracy to turn Americans against the agency; rather than resistance being an obvious consequence of the Gestpo's blatantly fascist, and often entirely illegal activities on the streets of America. The real purpose of the threat memo becomes clear however when you realize what the Gestapo is advising police to look out for and protect them from, which very obviously includes protestors, observers filming Gestapo activities, and literally people posting online about this fascist bullshit.

“The DHS report repeatedly conflates basic protest, organizing, and journalism with terroristic violence, thereby justifying ever more authoritarian measures by law enforcement,” says Ryan Shapiro, executive director of Property of the People. “It should be sobering, if unsurprising, that the Trump regime’s response to mass criticism of its police state tactics is to escalate those tactics.”

Now, a sensible person who'd been in a comma for the past quarter century might be tempted to think trying to recruit local law enforcement to brutalize anti-ethnic cleansing protestors would be illegal, or at least beyond the scope of Homeland Security's powers. Sadly, as the article notes, you would be wrong - thanks primarily to the absurd amount of authority the entire counterterrorism apparatus of the American state was granted after 9/11. Which is why it should probably concern you when DHS, the centerpiece of that apparatus starts telling cops that protestors, journalists, and social media users are basically terrorists and a threat to the survival of the state. Particularly when we know Trump is trying to transform those same police into a fascist army under his control.

WIRED · DHS Tells Police That Common Protest Activities Are ‘Violent Tactics’By Dell Cameron
#Fascism#Trump#DHS

"Adam Mockler with MeidasTouch Network breaks down the horrific, leaked footage from secret #ICE detention sites in #NewYork and #Florida. While the #Trump administration lies and denies their existence, immigrants are being held in torturous conditions, sleeping next to toilets, and being subjected to mosquito-infested cages in a facility nicknamed "Alligator Auschwitz," all part of Stephen Miller's cruel anti-immigrant agenda."
youtube.com/watch?v=j6HgohPR3L0
#StephenMiller #illegal #detention

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Given that the Trump regime does indeed appear to be transforming the invasion and occupation of Los Angeles by the Gestapo and assorted federal goons into a blueprint for future, similar operations, I'm going to change the focus of this thread going forward. Rather than just talking about militarized Gestapo tactics in and around Los Angeles, we're going to use this space to keep track of those tactics, as well as the propaganda being used to justify them, in Democrat-controlled cities across America.

While I still intend to keep talking about immigration law, the Gestapo, and the mass deportation program in our thread on ethnic cleansing, the active weaponization of a soon-to-be unfathomably large federal immigration Gestapo to occupy and usurp authority from "enemy" cities, is a new and terrifying development in Trump's attempt to transform America into an executive branch dictatorship with theocratic characteristics. As such, I think it makes sense to separate out these types of highly-militarized activities from the (equally horrifying) mass deportation program itself. I'm not sure what we're going to do with stories about Gestapo kidnapping raids - which is where these two threads intertwine; I guess we'll cross that bridge when it comes up.

To kick off this repurposing, I'd like to briefly examine a story from last month that I meant to share but didn't find time for. One of the key factors, and untold stories, behind the Trump regime's ability to invade, occupy, and police Democrat-run sanctuary cities, is the open cooperation ICE and the rest of the Gestapo receive from local law enforcement. Furthermore, and quite contrary to popular reporting, the simple truth is that this assistance is being provided by local police forces even in the very same Democrat-run, sanctuary cities being targeted for federal occupation or Gestapo kidnapping raids. Finally, and most importantly, this isn't about betrayal by the frequently Trump-aligned pigs either. The reality is, this situation is a result of policy decisions being made by the same Democrat mayors and officials that Trump is targeting for refusal to cooperate with his mass deportation program.

truthout.org/articles/local-po

Local Police Departments Are Enabling ICE’s Deportation Machine

"While many mayors of major U.S. cities claim to oppose ICE actions — and have even implemented formal “sanctuary city” policies — local police often act as a “force multiplier” for ICE, even when they aren’t directly involved in detaining migrants themselves. That is, even in sanctuary cities that claim to support their immigrant residents and restrict collaboration between ICE and local police, the police are essential to ICE’s success.

The roots of this seeming contradiction can be found in the decision of these mayors to rely on local police to criminalize anything they deem disorderly, with devastating consequences for our poorest communities and the right to protest."

This is a well written article that I would strongly encourage you to read in full, even though I'm sharing it weeks late. I think it's important here to distinguish between the typical types of information sharing with the Gestapo American murderpigs do all the time, and what this article is discussing. The plain truth is that in their insistence to restore order, and prove to a fascist regime that doesn't care either way that they can "uphold the law" Democrat politicians are allowing local police forces to be used as a militarized suppression arm targeting resistance to the Trump regime's Gestapo kidnapping operations. Under the auspices of "protecting federal authorities," local police departments are gleefully violating the civil rights of their own citizens and violently suppressing protests against again, racialized mass kidnappings by armed nazis in masks.

"When resistance becomes more active, as we have seen in the last week in New York City and Los Angeles, local police are tasked with the suppression of that resistance, both when directly protesting ICE’s presence and later when disrupting the larger deportation machine. For example, police clashed with protesters attempting to prevent ICE vans from driving away from a courthouse in Seattle. During last weekend’s protests, it was Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers using projectile weapons and tear gas to disperse protesters, and it was NYPD officers who arrested 80 people outside the Federal Building in New York on June 11."

As the article goes on to note, these attacks, conducted by local law enforcement on behalf of a Trumpenreich Gestapo that is actively occupying the city they work for, include targeting peaceful protestors, citizens documenting police and immigration enforcement activity, and even professional journalists. Thus the police are, strictly speaking, acting as Trump's 5th column in occupied territory.

A human being confronts a uniformed and armed agent of the United States
Truthout · Local Police Departments Are Enabling ICE’s Deportation MachineEven in cities where police decline to work with ICE, local law enforcement still bolster Trump’s deportation agenda.

Trump's rogue #ICE have seized & detained Zia, a legal Afghan immigrant who'd risked his life as an interpreter for US troops in #Afghanistan & was brought here under the Afghan Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) program, after he'd had a mtg about getting a green card.

Pure evil.

nbcnews.com/world/asia/masked-

NBC News · Masked ICE agents detain former Afghan interpreter who helped U.S. militaryBy Reuters

Our treasonous Alberta government is making backroom deals to secure Trump's funding (to the tune of $500 million) and support, including the use of their violent paramilitary nationalist forces, to push for Alberta's separation from Canada.

'“I met the senior U.S. administrative officials just a couple steps away from the president himself,” recalled Dennis Modry, the former CEO of the Alberta Prosperity Project, a group devoted to pushing Alberta toward self-determination through a provincial referendum.

“We talked about a $500 million transition loan that we would only draw down on as necessary as we work with the U.S. to transition from a province to a country,” said Modry. He also claimed that they discussed a plan to prop up Alberta’s currency where “the U.S. agrees to take every Alberta citizen’s Canadian dollar and then exchange it for one U.S. dollar.”

When a member of the audience asked how an independent Alberta would control immigration, Peter Downing, speaking on behalf of the America Fund, said, “Well, they [America] got this wonderful agency called ICE,” referring to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency that has triggered massive protests across the U.S. due to its aggressive raids on immigrant communities.

America, Downing explained, has “got a lot of bad dudes, tough dudes with guns,” and ICE is “willing to deal with it and send them all back.”

But David Parker, a former federal and provincial Conservative staffer who is the founder of Take Back Alberta, a conservative political advocacy group, highlighted mass immigration as a key motivator for seeking provincial independence.

“If Canada continues to bring in the number of people that they are at the rate that they are, it will be a failed state,” he said, “It’s being used to dilute the population. They’re degrading our quality of life, our medical system, our health care, our education system. It’s all falling apart because of mass immigration.”'

Now I want you to take particular note of that last statement. Take Back Alberta's founder said anti-immigration is "a key motivator in seeking provincial independence." “It’s being used to dilute the population. They’re degrading our quality of life, our medical system, our health care, our education system.”

Diluting the population and degrading our way of life? That's textbook Supremacy talk.

While Peter Downing for the America fund said, "[America's] got a lot of bad dudes, tough dudes with guns,” and ICE is “willing to deal with it and send them all back.”

So they want Alberta to become a violent anti-immigration police state overrun by Proud Boys doling out vigilante punishment to non-Whites.

This is much worse than I even imagined.

I've heard it said that Quebec's separatist movement is ethnonationalist while questioning what's holding Alberta's separatist movement together. Well, sorry to say but evidence shows the same glue.

'The identity of Alberta in opposition to the rest of Canada came up a lot at the event.

Albertans can be narrowly defined as ‘hard-workers’, according to The Western Standard publisher and president Derek Fildebrandt, adding that Albertans are less deferential towards institutions compared to Ontarians.

The province has always had “a more American ethos,” he said. “It was not peace, order, and good government; it was life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.”

"Dozens of states," explains Davies, from the America Fund, “have either passed legislation or are passing legislation for the Convention of States.” He was referring to the movement with ties to the Texas evangelical pastor and oil billionaire Tim Dunn, which aims to implement Project 2025-like policy through permanent constitutional change and is receiving endorsements from politicians such as Sarah Palin, Fox News host Sean Hannity, and numerous members of the Trump administration and cabinet.

Modry said that if the separatists at the event were successful in passing an independence referendum, they could potentially count on Trump or the U.S. Secretary of State to back the outcome.

He claimed that this is a request he made to U.S. officials during their meeting in Washington: “At the time of the successful referendum, you acknowledge Alberta sovereignty, to the Alberta government and to the rest of the world.”'

desmog.com/2025/07/22/trump-of

DeSmog · Trump Officials Discussed $500M Alberta Independence Loan, Separatist ClaimsPrivate details from a Washington D.C., meeting about Alberta becoming the 51st state was revealed at a separatism event attended by DeSmog.

It was supposed to be an urban war in downtown Los Angeles. In the end, it was just another one of Trump's farces and blunders :-D

"Thousands of troops, National Guard and active duty Marines are being withdrawn from Los Angeles, the ill-fated mission quietly ending, the objective so confused that even the Defense Department’s official news service is publishing stories about soldiers questioning the point.

I’ve also been talking to those soldiers, and they affirm that so much of the Trump-Hegseth show of force was little more than an unnecessary and politically-motivated publicity stunt. So much so that I’m told that the Pentagon has ordered the California Guard to preserve all records related to the deployment, just in case the military is sued.

“Turns out there could be reasonably foreseeable litigation regarding the mobilization in the future,” one Guard source tells me, adding wryly: “Shocked.” (Asked about any such order, spokespersons for the California National Guard did not respond to my request for comment.)

“I'd say a lot of the action, quote unquote, has died down quite a bit; so a lot of … [what we’re doing] is just us showing our presence,” says Nicolas Gallegos of the Guard’s 1st Battalion, 143rd Field Artillery Regiment."

kenklippenstein.com/p/video-tr

Ken Klippenstein · VIDEO: Troops Question Los Angeles DeploymentBy Ken Klippenstein

"Kilmar Abrego Garcia⚡has been ordered released from criminal custody & returned to MD -but his legal victories could be short-lived if #ICE quickly re-arrests him for deportation proceedings in Baltimore."
-K Cheney

Now,🚨he's likely to face a new round of deportation proceedings. #DHS SPOX: despite the ct orders, Abrego “will never walk America’s streets again.”

Trump & his #DOJ can't be trusted.
#Rights #Deportations #Immigrants #Corruption #Protest #Detention #USPol
politico.com/news/2025/07/23/k

#FYI #US #USA #trump #musk #vance #DOGE #ICE #fascism #stopfascism #nazis #fcknazis #hostiletakeover #boycott #protest #resist #democracy #takeaction #ParkrosePermaculture

Regardless the purpose, DO NOT TRAVEL TO THE US, as long as the fascist regime is in power! ICE is abducting tourists putting them into detention camps regardless of correct and valid papers. It is flat out dangerous, obviously especially for Europeans. Stay away!

youtube.com/watch?v=2ehm4D4D8vE

2,000 NG troops🚨expected to be called up to assist at ICE #detention facs.

Unclear when: troops will be mobilized -US official: still under del -could come as soon as this week. The troops will be placed on Title 32 status, which puts them under the command of their governors & not subject to the Posse Comitatus Act.

The Trump admin has🚨ramped up IMM arrests➡️dramatic increase of ppl in #ICE custody.💔Now: ~57K ppl.

Some NG troops may quit.
#PoliceState #Protest #USPol cnn.com/2025/07/22/politics/20

CNN · 2,000 National Guard troops expected to be called up to assist at ICE detention facilities, sources sayBy Haley Britzky

"Judge Xinis in K Abrego Garcia's case orders that once he's released from custody in his pending fed criminal case in TN -🚨the Trump Admin "SHALL NOT" take him into custody & that includes #ICE."
-K Phang

"This is massive. Judge Xinis relies on her earlier order requiring ICE to "restore the status quo ante" for Abrego Garcia prior to his wrongful arrest & removal as justification to bar ICE from immed re-detaining him should be released on bail.

DOJ is certain to appeal."
-A R-Melnick
#USPol