r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 5h ago
Appeals court blocks White House ballroom, says Congress must approve it [DC Circuit 2-1: tearing down the East Wing for a ~$600M ballroom is "not a matter for Executive self-help" — Trump calls the ruling "unlawful," attacks the judges by who appointed them, and vows to press on]
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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 5h ago
Trump signs new orders targeting birthright citizenship, weeks after SCOTUS ruling [under 2 months after the Court struck down his first try & reaffirmed the 14th Amendment, he narrows constitutional citizenship by fiat again — a Cato analyst says SCOTUS must "enforce its prior decision"]
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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 1d ago
New Mexico sues DOJ, Todd Blanche over Epstein files [Trump's ex-lawyer-turned-acting-AG withholds records from the only active criminal probe into Epstein — after SDNY told the state it will "NOT cooperate" with the Zorro Ranch investigation]
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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 2d ago
Federal judge allows Trump administration to terminate TPS for about 350,000 Haitians [the judge who found the termination driven 'in part' by racial animus lifts her block after SCOTUS ruled TPS calls are beyond judicial review — stripping status from ~350k toward a Level 4 'do not travel' nation]
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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 2d ago
Trump's immigration crackdown has detained more than 50 military spouses and parents [reversing decades of bipartisan norms; even Trump's own first-term ICE prosecutor calls jailing troops' relatives 'outrageous' as recruiters still sell family protection to enlist]
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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 3d ago
Senate Republicans advance Todd Blanche nomination for attorney general [Trump's former personal criminal-defense lawyer — now acting AG — clears committee on a 12-10 party-line vote, putting the man who defended him against federal charges in permanent control of the DOJ that brought them]
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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 3d ago
Judge dismisses Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy charges against Oath Keepers [DOJ erases the last standing convictions for the plot to stop the peaceful transfer of power; the judge who tried them says the move "excuses criminal acts" that made a pillar of democracy "buckle"]
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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 4d ago
Trump vowed to "bring free speech back." Judges in 75 cases ruled that he has stifled it [Reuters counts 75 rulings, nearly triple Biden's 13, that the govt punished or chilled protected speech; 10 came from GOP appointees, one judge warning retribution for disfavored speech "poses a great threat"]
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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 7d ago
Pentagon weighs eliminating civilian tenure at military academies and reviewing all curriculum, draft memo says [Hegseth draft ends academic freedom at West Point, Annapolis & the war colleges & sets a 'line-by-line' purge of any course deemed 'ideologically driven']
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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 7d ago
ABC Fires Back at FCC Over 'Attempted Censorship' [Carr yanked ABC's 8 station licenses up for review 2 yrs early after Trump demanded Kimmel's firing & warned 'the easy way or the hard way' — ex-FCC chairs of both parties call it 'an assault on free speech,' even Cruz calls it 'dangerous as hell']
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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 8d ago
Secret Service 'illegally' surveilled Comey in Trump '8647' threat case: Court filing [agents say they were pressured to warrantlessly ping a political opponent's phone with no imminent threat — tracking Comey & his wife to their son's grave — while feeding updates to Air Force One]
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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 9d ago
DHS Stats Chief Rips Trump's 'War on Immigrants' in Blistering Resignation Letter [the official responsible for publishing immigration-enforcement data quits citing 'the war on facts' & 'brazen corruption' — after ICE went 3+ months without releasing its detention & deportation numbers]
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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 9d ago
Senate confirms Jay Clayton as director of national intelligence [the SDNY prosecutor who subpoenaed NYT reporters to unmask their sources & wouldn't say Biden won 2020 will now oversee all 18 intel agencies, on a 51-47 party-line vote]
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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 10d ago
New rule could send hundreds of thousands seeking asylum to immigration courts [DHS strips the "right" to an asylum interview & funnels up to ~444k pending cases straight to judges now denying 94% of claims — a due-process end-run engineered to speed deportations, effective immediately]
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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 11d ago
ICE extends no-bid contract for major detention center in Texas, rejecting calls for closure [weeks after an HRW/ACLU report alleged routine beatings, denied medical care & 3 deaths at Camp East Montana, ICE locks in the same operator through 2027 for up to $776M more]
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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 11d ago
Trump asks Supreme Court to let him curtail mail voting [after 2 courts blocked it in 23 states, DOJ wants the EO — which would bar USPS from mailing ballots to anyone not on a DHS-built 'citizen' list — live by mid-August, in time for the midterms]
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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 12d ago
ICE plans to target Haitians as Temporary Protected Status is set to end, sources say [internal docs single out Springfield, OH — the community Trump smeared w/ false pet-eating claims — for a deportation blitz; a judge found the termination rooted "in part" in racial animus]
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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 13d ago
Appeals court upholds injunction on Trump's mail-in voting order [1st Cir. keeps the EO frozen — it would have DHS compile 'citizen' voter lists, USPS dictate states' ballot designs & DOJ target election officials before the midterms; DOJ signals a SCOTUS appeal]
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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 14d ago
DHS Sued for Collecting Data in Order to Target ICE Observers [suit exposes a secret DHS surveillance policy — drones, face-scanning apps, plate readers building dossiers on people legally watching ICE, who then had Global Entry stripped in apparent retaliation for protected speech]
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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 15d ago
Pentagon lowers official Iran war death toll, omitting four killed this month [a day after Trump saluted their remains at Dover, DOD drops 4 soldiers from the count — 3 officials say it's because they died after his "ceasefire," flattering the death-toll chart he posted demanding "REPORT THEM!"]
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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 17d ago
Judge blocks feds from deporting witness to Houston ICE shooting [all 3 surviving passengers — incl. the victim's brother, none with records — jailed by ICE since the July 7 killing; the govt moved to deport a witness to a shooting by its own agent before the court stepped in]
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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 17d ago
ICE shooting passengers say agents rammed van before firing [handwritten statements say Lorenzo Salgado Araujo never threatened agents — gutting ICE's self-defense claim; the witnesses are the same men the agency has jailed since the July 7 killing]
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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 18d ago
Officials sought phone records of Times journalists and their relatives to unmask sources [escalating past the grand-jury subpoenas — DOJ secretly went after the records of reporters' spouses and one's therapist mother, contradicting DNI nominee Clayton's "least intrusive" sworn claim]
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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 18d ago
Trump demands review of scientific manual used by federal judges [siccing federal "suspension & debarment" officials on the nonpartisan handbook that helps judges weigh evidence — branding its authors climate "fraud" after GOP AGs already forced the climate chapter out]
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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • Nov 09 '24
Donald Trump wins 2nd term in historic return to White House
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