Continuing with the idea that Trump’s second term in office is essentially a hostile invasion, he is — through his secretary of war, Pete Hegseth — trying to convert the U.S. military into an occupying army.
Thus he has arbitrarily established a new military zone along the southern border where troops may be used against Mexico under some sort of Trumped-up excuse like raiding drug cartels, etc.
Hegseth has also attempted to clear out all the senior military officials deemed too pro-democracy and therefore not pro-Trump enough.
He has also eliminated the traditional pro-democracy training protocols under the pretense of eradicating “woke” ideas and references from all training manuals and guides.
This has nothing to do with the essence of woke thinking and everything to do with establishing an authoritarian ethos in the military.
Trump has ordered the military to carry out his mass deportations of “illegal” immigrants, including U.S. citizens caught up in ICE raids. Although the courts have protested his policies in this area, his occupying government has blatantly violated court orders, precipitating a slow-moving constitutional crisis.
There is very little anyone can do to halt Trump’s takeover of the military since by law he is Commander-in-Chief.
Unfortunately, he is also a traitor.
HEADLINES:
Judge temporarily blocks Trump admin from revoking Harvard enrollment of foreign students (Reuters)
In Attacks on Harvard, Chinese See Yet Another Reason to Write Off the U.S. (NYT)
America is in danger of experiencing an academic brain drain (Economist)
Trump, Rubio take aim at National Security Council's "Deep State" (Axios)
House GOP budget adds $150 billion for Trump’s immigration enforcement (WP)
How Trump misrepresented images to support claims of "White genocide" in South Africa, including Congo video (CBS)
Kyiv comes under large-scale Russian drone and missile attack (NBC)
Ukraine and Russia begin the largest prisoner-of-war exchange since the invasion (NPR)
US-Iran latest nuclear talks end with limited progress, as Tehran sources express skepticism (CNN)
U.S., Iran Aim for Framework to Guide Talks Toward Nuclear Deal (WSJ)
At least 60 people killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza as Israel lets minimal aid in (AP)
How to Disappear (Atlantic)
President Donald Trump's long-running dream of firing any perceived enemy in the federal bureaucracy got even closer to reality Thursday, thanks to a little-noticed provision in his massive tax bill. One union official calls it "criminal extortion," HuffPost's Dave Jamieson reports. [HuffPost]
Pregnant news anchor stays on air during labor. ‘If I disappear, that’s what’s going on,’ she says (AP)
Anthropic’s new AI model threatened to reveal engineer’s affair to avoid being shut down (Fortune)
Elon Musk Announces Plans To Step Back From Fatherhood (The Onion)
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