America's Hitler

Trump’s takeover of the Washington, D.C., police is about two things — racism and solidifying authoritarian power.

It has nothing to do with crime or homelessness, which to be clear, are actual problems, both in the nation’s capital and every other city.

But the spectacle of federal troops rumbling through the streets will do nothing to address the root causes of crime or homelessness.

Ultimately, Trump’s policies will only intensify those very real social problems by magnifying the disparities in wealth and by reducing social supports including health care services, thereby further impoverishing our society.

A friend recently put it in blunt terms: “This is embarrassing.” As the richest, most powerful nation on earth, we are rapidly deflating into a failed state headed by a tinhorn dictator, America’s Hitler.

Surrounded by sycophants and fools like the foul-mouthed Pam Bondi, ostensibly the attorney general, Trump’s gangsters appear in clumps before the cameras, as if by repeating their lies in unison will make them into truths.

Meanwhile, the actual truth is that Trump’s rule is based on lies. He is a liar and a thief, personally abusing his office to suck billions out of an economy that his tariff policies are rapidly destroying for the rest of us.

And then there is the most shameful of all his actions — the wholesale removal of human beings he doesn’t like from these shores, deporting them to places that are little more than living hells. Deportation is a death sentence, pure and simple. He’s rounding up immigrants and sending them to concentration camps.

America’s Hitler.

This is a racist regime. This is an authoritarian regime. This is a corrupt regime. And I will continue to denounce it as such, if necessary, until my very last breath.

HEADLINES:

• Trump wants to extend federal control over Washington police (Reuters)

• Trump says he’ll seek ‘long-term’ control of DC police and signals he’ll target other cities next (Guardian)

• Yes, Stephen Miller Is Surrounded By Criminals (Atlantic)

• US national debt reaches a record $37 trillion, the Treasury Department reports (AP)

• Trump Agrees on Ukraine Red Lines With Europe Before Putin Summit (WSJ)

• Glacier lake outburst at Alaska's Mendenhall Glacier causes record-breaking flooding (ABC)

• The president's team is working overtime to pressure immigrants into giving up by abandoning their legal rights and leaving the United States on their own. [HuffPost]

• Israel is in talks to possibly resettle Palestinians from Gaza in South Sudan (AP)

• Trump Has a New Definition of Human Rights (Atlantic)

• Texas Democrats weigh their end game (NBC)

• Trump Administration Violated Order on U.C.L.A. Grant Terminations, Judge Says (NYT)

• Why can’t India produce a Nvidia or a DeepSeek? (FT)

• The road to artificial general intelligence (TR)

• AI is making reading books feel obsolete – and students have a lot to lose (The Conversation)

• The US embeds trackers in AI chip shipments to catch diversions to China (Reuters)

• Man Relaxing His Overwhelming Anxiety For Just A Moment Finally Gives Pack Of Coyotes The Opening They Need (The Onion)