"Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump"
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/24...

Donald Trump is going to give $10 billion to himself via the board-of-peace slush fund.

DHS is going to spend $40 billion dollars turning warehouses into concentration camps.

The DoD budget has increased so much this year, they don't know where they'll spend it all.

Don't pretend this is about money; USAID has proven to be an actually useful investment for decades. A summary:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse...

Judge in Minnesota Says ICE Has Violated Nearly 100 Court Orders
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/0... :
The chief federal judge in Minnesota excoriated Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Wednesday, saying it had violated nearly 100 court orders stemming from its aggressive crackdown in the state and had disobeyed more judicial directives in January alone than "some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence."
[...]
Judge Schiltz attached to his ruling a list of 96 court orders from 74 different immigration cases that ICE has failed to follow since Jan. 1 [2026]. He noted that his tally was 'almost certainly substantially understated' because it had been "hurriedly compiled by extraordinarily busy judges."

They thought they were in court for a routine immigration hearing, but walked into a deportation trap
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/n... :
[...]
The man was doing what the law required, and brought along his wife, a legal resident, and their 7-month-old infant.
[...]
Then the lawyer quickly moved to have the man's asylum claim dismissed and a judge agreed, making the man eligible for 'expedited removal.' As he left the courtroom, the man was swarmed by plainclothes immigration agents who had been surveilling him. A struggle ensued and the wife's shouts could be heard from the hallway as the lawyer moved on to the next case.

26 Federal Plaza: Inside New York's immigration hell
https://english.elpais.com/usa...
The Manhattan courthouse, where over 1,000 people and recently entire families have been arrested while attending routine appointments, is the epicenter of Trump's immigration offensive

Most of the people being arrested are here legally.

And they are still people. Your celebration of what is happening to them is assholeish, to the point of sociopathy.

I am planning to ignore anything else you post here. You are not worth any more of my time.

ICE and CPB have always sucked, and have always been terrible.

But your shtick about how this makes the current regime the same is just fucking stupid. This is a massive escalation of awfulness on every front.

Some examples:
- Sending people to be tortured in El Salvador.
- Openly defying almost 100 court orders.
- Arresting people who are here legally at their hearings.
- Shooting US citizens in the back, and then instantly halting any investigation into the incident.
- Raiding churches and schools.
- Claiming that warrants are not ever required.
- And completely cutting all funding for medical care in the camps - not just mediocre care, but intentionally non-existent care.

There's more. That's just the starting list.

When did Obama order a raid on a journalist in order to track down a leak?

Obama's record wasn't great, but this looks like an obvious escalation.

In just the first year of [Trump's] second term, the U.S. conducted 573 air and drone strikes abroad - more than the 494 carried out during Joe Biden's entire four-year presidency.

https://www.statista.com/chart...

Alex Pretti was more of a man than you.

He was actually standing up to a tyrannical government. And he was actually protecting women (remember when you said that's why you were voting for Trump?)

Go watch the videos. Your so-called sworn-to-duty officers were chasing down people who were only observing them, and then attacking them, because Stephen Miller told them to.

Just watch - you'll see one guy having a temper-tantrum and shoving a women who was just standing there, then spraying her in the face with mace, then spraying Alex when he tries to shield her.

After the group pins him to the ground, another guy comes along and smashes a gas canister into his face, multiple times.

Keep watching. Somebody yells something, and then multiple supposedly-trained agents open fire into his back. Ten times.

AND THEN ONE OF THEM APPLAUDS.

You have to be completely delusional to defend this. A government that shoots someone like this, and then lies about it and PRAISES THE OFFICERS is the tyrannical government you're supposedly worried about.

The sub-heading from the link above:
"Children today get more shots than they did in 1986 - but more-efficient vaccines are easier on their immune systems"

Later in the article:
"... that a baby could theoretically respond to 10,000 vaccines simultaneously before using even one percent of circulating B-cells. The real-world schedule barely registers on the immune system's capacity."

Your posts in this thread have been essentially "bigger numbers are scary." That's not science.

Stephen Miller just set up a guy to be murdered in the street by a masked paramilitary force, and now the entire administration is blatantly lying about what we can plainly see in a video.

I think you can remove the quotes from "authoritarianism".

Yes, the Democrats are far from perfect and this amendment isn't great, but JFC learn how to understand imperfect choices instead of continuing like it's sports and you just want to root for your team.

BTW, your 'almost 90' note, besides sounding like a made-up number, isn't really relevant:

"One hundred years ago, children received exactly one vaccine: smallpox. That single shot contained approximately 200 different antigens. Today's entire pediatric schedule exposes a child to about 165 - a fraction of the more than 3,200 in a single 1980s pertussis shot."

https://www.statnews.com/2025/...

"Trump refuses to rule out using military force to take Greenland and Panama Canal "
https://www.theguardian.com/us...

"and utilising the US military in furtherance of the goal is 'always an option,' the White House has said."
https://www.rte.ie/news/world/...

The masks have made it easier for people to impersonate police:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The Trump administration has taken police impunity to a whole new level, and the masks are part of it. In addition to the lies they are spouting about the Renee Good shooting, there are examples like this guy, illegally shooting pellets in the faces of at least four people:
https://www.bellingcat.com/new...

A federal judge ordered them to have individual identification:
https://www.wbez.org/immigrati...

From https://earthbound.report/2024...

Here's Elon Musk in 2006:
"The overarching purpose of Tesla Motors (and the reason I am funding the company) is to help expedite the move from a mine-and-burn hydrocarbon economy towards a solar electric economy, which I believe to be the primary, but not exclusive, sustainable solution."

And in 2024:
"I don't think it's right to sort of vilify the oil and gas industry ... I think we should just generally lean in the direction of sustainability."

In 2015:
"The goal is to exit the fossil fuel era as quickly as possible."

In 2024:
"If, I don't know, 50 to 100 years from now, we're mostly sustainable. I think that'll probably be okay. So it's not like the house is on fire immediately."

Here's Musk in 2015:
"If we wait, and if we delay the change, the best case is simply delaying that inevitable transition to sustainable energy. The worst case however, is more displacement and destruction than all the wars in history combined."

And in 2024:
"The risk is not as high as a lot of people say it is with respect to global warming. But I think if you just keep increasing the parts per million in the atmosphere long enough, eventually it actually simply gets uncomfortable to breathe. People don't realize this. If you go past a thousand parts per million of CO2, you start getting headaches and nausea."

Yes, that's Elon Musk telling Donald Trump that the biggest issue with carbon emissions is that people get headaches if you get to a thousand ppm of CO2.