I read the news today and felt something primal: fear. Not just worry or frustration, but that deep, gut-level sense that something has gone terribly wrong and no one is coming to fix it.

It’s not just the steady drumbeat of rights being stripped away—though that’s bad enough. It’s the creeping sense that the ground rules of American life are being rewritten before our eyes. The Supreme Court rolls back rights our grandparents fought for. The president and his allies fuel division and anger. Laws target immigrants, the LGBTQIA+ community, women, and anyone who doesn’t fit a narrow, frightened definition of “American.”

But this goes deeper than policy. It’s about the deliberate targeting of those seen as “undesirable.” The machinery of government is being harnessed to police, punish, and erase—just as it was in other dark chapters of world history.

It feels like 1939 all over again—the year Nazi Germany invaded Poland and truly became the Third Reich’s war machine—when authoritarianism stopped being a threat and became the official state of affairs.

Let’s call it what it is: This is Nazi America. The comparisons aren’t just rhetorical flourishes—they’re warnings from history.

The shameful truth is that the Supreme Court of the land has become complicit. It’s scripted, predictable—its decisions less about justice than about consolidating power for the few and punishing the vulnerable. Each ruling seems designed to move us further from the promise of equality and closer to the machinery of oppression.

Project 2025—the Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for a far-right takeover of the federal government—isn’t a secret plan. It’s public, organized, and funded by a coalition of groups determined to rewrite the rules of American democracy.

Project 2025 calls for purging the civil service, filling every federal post with loyalists, and stripping away decades of civil rights protections. It’s a roadmap for weaponizing the Department of Justice against political enemies and silencing dissent. It promises the rollback of protections for immigrants, the LGBTQIA+ community, women, and anyone outside the “acceptable” mold. It aims to criminalize protest, stifle the press, and consolidate power at the very top—an authoritarian wish list hiding in plain sight.

This is not theoretical. Book bans. Censorship. The criminalization of teachers, doctors, parents. Vigilante laws and bounty hunters. Immigration raids that split families and terrorize communities. Project 2025 is already underway—piece by piece, law by law, ruling by ruling.

We are being shown—clearly and openly—how a democracy is dismantled. It happens not in a single moment, but in a thousand coordinated steps: through legislation, court rulings, executive orders, and the normalization of cruelty. The blueprint is right in front of us. History isn’t repeating; it’s being reenacted with American accents and 21st-century technology.

Because this is how it starts. Not with gas chambers, but with laws. Not with jackboots, but with bureaucrats. The machinery gets built, piece by piece, until one day the unimaginable becomes the law of the land.

There’s no comfort in denial. There’s no safety in silence. The warnings are everywhere. The danger is real.

The line between past and present is thinner than most people think. What once seemed impossible is already happening. The rights and freedoms we took for granted are being taken away, step by step.

This is not a drill.

This is how a nation unravels: one law at a time, one freedom at a time, one group at a time.

If we ignore what’s happening now, we can’t pretend later that we didn’t know. We saw it coming. The responsibility is ours.

History will judge what we did with the truth we had.

I promised myself that I wouldn’t speak on these issues, that I’d hold my tongue and focus on other work. But the headlines demand that I do.

I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t afraid. History shows us what happens to those who speak out against rising authoritarianism. Sometimes, the people who dare to warn others become the targets—censored, silenced, or worse.

That fear is real. And if you’re feeling it too, you’re not alone. It’s a sign of how far things have gone, how thin the line is between safety and repression, between democracy and something darker.

But silence won’t protect us. If enough of us speak, it becomes much harder to silence everyone. The time to decide what side of history we’re on is now.

Additional fencing going up around the White House and the Treasury building.

🚨 Something’s not adding up.

The White House and Treasury just got hit with overnight barricades; the kind they only roll out when they’re bracing for backlash. No protests, no parades, no reason given. Just steel, silence, and speculation.

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— Brian Allen (@allenanalysis) June 28, 2025

Meanwhile, there’s this:

Are they afraid of us? Afraid of We The People?   Good, they should be.  I’m going.

I’ll be unarmed.  This time.

Andrea Velez, a US citizen, was arrested in the time it took her mother to drive less than a block. She was on her way to work. She’s Latina. It appears that was enough.

Tuesday morning, Andrea Velez’s mom and sister dropped her off near her workplace. She’s a production coordinator at Top Pick Global. Andrea graduated with a degree in fashion from Cal Poly Pomona.

Near Andrea’s work, an ICE raid was taking place. In fact, someone had called the LAPD to say a “kidnapping” was taking place. The LAPD showed up, saw it was an immigration raid — LAPD is not permitted to assist ICE in immigration raids — and immediately switched to crowd control, making sure people weren’t in the street and so on.

As Andrea walked toward her place of employment, she says she looked up and saw an ICE agent barreling toward her. In the flash of thoughts that went through her mind, she thought maybe she was being targeted for the color of her skin, that maybe he thought she was not a US citizen. She instinctively held up her bag and the agent bowled into her.

Her mother — they hadn’t even made it a block away yet — looked in the rear view mirror and saw the plainclothes ICE agents standing over her daughter and putting her in cuffs. “They’re kidnapping your sister,” she said.

Andrea tried to get the LAPD to help, and so did her mother and sister. According to her mother and other witnesses, no one ever asked Andrea for ID or asked about her status. The police didn’t help, even when Andrea’s mother was screaming she was a US citizen. In fact, according to some witnesses, they moved to stand around Andrea to make it more difficult to film what was happening.

For the first 24 hours, her family couldn’t find Andrea. They didn’t know where she had been taken or what was happening. They hired lawyers who managed to find her, but no one would tell them what she was being charged with, only that she would likely face federal charges. DHS publicly said she would be charged with “assaulting an officer.”

When they got to court yesterday, ICE lawyers downgraded that to “obstructing” an officer. An ICE officer claimed that Andrea purposely stepped in his way and raised both of her arms to stop him from going after someone he was trying to arrest. Witnesses tell the story the way Andrea does: an ICE agent approached her, knocked her down, then arrested her without asking any questions about her status or identity.

Andrea, her lawyer, her mother and sister all have the same theory: during an ICE raid an ICE agent saw a Latina and scooped her up because of the color of her skin, and had to invent another reason once it was discovered she was a US citizen, born and raised in Los Angeles.

Andrea was released on a 5k bond yesterday.

Immigration officers have recently taken to arresting Latino and Hispanic US citizens on raids and claiming obstruction or assault, only to release them a few days later, sometimes without charges.

On June 12th, for instance, Brian Gavidia walked outside his work and saw immigration officers. He told them he was a US citizen and showed them his Real ID. They pushed him up against a fence and started asking him questions like “What hospital were you born in.” DHS later said he had “assaulted an officer” — video evidence does not back this up — but they didn’t charge him. Or return his ID. (A common pattern: DHS will say something like this on social media, but not in court. It appears to be a PR stunt, not any attempt at communicating something true or legally actionable.) When CNN reached out to DHS on this one they added that Brian “attempted to flee” as well, which is remarkable given that he’s a US citizen who literally just stepped outside his place of work.

Adrian Martinez, 20, had a run-in with Border Patrol on his break at WalMart. It sounds like — this is unclear — he tried to obstruct a BP vehicle that held one of his friends from work. Border Patrol agents grabbed him and claim that he punched one of them. Of course, a nearby bystander was recording and there is no evidence of a punch. And Border Patrol went on to say that Adrian was a “hostile group” of men, which is weird because he’s one guy… unless they are counting Oscar Preciado, the delivery driver who stood nearby and videoed the whole thing.

Neither Oscar’s video nor surveillance cameras that caught the entire event show a punch. Border Patrol says that the complete videos “are missing critical moments and don’t tell the whole story.” But after holding Adrian for THREE DAYS they also dropped the assault charge. Because, as Adrian’s lawyer said, “He didn’t assault anyone.” They’re now charging him with “conspiracy to impede or injure an officer” which his lawyer calls “trumped up” charges.

ICE has claimed that upwards of 70% of those they arrest are “serious criminals” but their own statistics tell a different story.

In the most recent ICE stats publicly released:

* 75% of people in ICE private prisons have nothing more than an immigration related issue or a traffic violation

* 47% of those being held by ICE have no criminal conviction at all… no criminal immigration violation, traffic violation, or criminal charge of any kind.

* Would you like to guess the percentage of “serious criminals” who are being held by ICE? We’ve been told over and over that we’re after the “worst of the worst” so I suspect it must be an impressive number. And that number is: NINE PERCENT.

It certainly appears that the enormous daily quota for arrests is encouraging quantity arrests rather than quality arrests. Arresting a US citizen, even if you have to release them a few days later, counts toward the arrest. Arresting a tourist at the border rather than refusing them entry counts toward the quota. Arresting people at their green card interviews, tricking immigrants without lawyers into giving up their asylum claims and immediately arresting them once they agree, these all count toward the quota.

Some key takeaways:

* Don’t call the police expecting help during an immigration raid. Even in states like California, where they are not legally allow to assist federal immigration forces, they also are unlikely to step in and help US citizens or others being abused. Best case scenario: they do some crowd control.

* ICE and other immigration forces are not afraid to arrest US citizens (and others) on trumped up charges, hold people, and release them later. There’s literally no consequences for them as individuals or corporately.

* It is ICE policy to lie. This is not an exaggeration. They call it a “ruse.” ICE agents aren’t just allowed to lie, they are encouraged to do so and trained to do so. ICE agents are trained to trick and confuse people.

I don’t know who Charlie Kirk is except that he’s a uneducated fool.

@charliekirk11  tweeted the following after Justice Jackson’s dissent:
Kentanji Brown Jackson is a diversity hire. She is only there because she’s a
black woman

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson received both her undergraduate and law degrees from Harvard University. She graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government and earned her Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Harvard Law School, graduating cum laude.

While at Harvard Law School, she served as a supervising editor of
the Harvard Law Review.

Charlie Kirk dropped out of community college.

He is a prime example of the mediocre men who are angry at accomplished women. They are further angered if that woman is black.

Which university is next?

TRUMP HAS FORCED THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA TO RESIGN. THOMAS JEFFERSON JUST ROLLED OVER IN HIS GRAVE TO SEE THE REPUBLIC HE ESTABLISHED TURNED INTO A FASCIST DICTATORSHIP.

The University of Virginia’s president, James E. Ryan, has told the board overseeing the school that he will resign in the face of demands by the Trump administration that he step aside to help resolve a Justice Department inquiry into the school’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, according to three people briefed on the matter.

For the leader of one of the nation’s most prominent public universities to take such an extraordinary step demonstrates President Trump’s success in harnessing the investigative powers of the federal government to accomplish his administration’s policy goals.

The New York Times reported on Thursday evening that the Justice Department had demanded Mr. Ryan’s resignation as a condition to settle a civil rights investigation into the school’s diversity practices.

In a letter sent on Thursday to the head of the board overseeing the university, Mr. Ryan said that he had planned to step down at the end of the next academic year but “given the circumstances and today’s conversations” he had decided, “with deep sadness,” to tender his resignation now, according to one of the people familiar with the matter who was briefed on the contents of the letter.

The King of Tariffs strikes out — again.

President Donald Trump ceased trade talks with Canada and will soon announce a new tariff rate the country will have to pay, he said in a Truth Social post on Friday.

The decision to end negotiations, which have been ongoing for several months, came after Canada announced a digital service tax, Trump said, calling it “a direct and blatant attack on our Country.”

“Based on this egregious Tax, we are hereby terminating ALL discussions on Trade with Canada, effective immediately. We will let Canada know the Tariff that they will be paying to do business with the United States of America within the next seven day period,” he said.

Digital services taxes are a way for countries to tax online services, in contrast to taxes on physical products. Countries with these taxes can collect revenue from large companies that operate online — even if the business is unprofitable. American firms, especially Big Tech companies such as Meta, Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft, are disproportionately affected by DSTs, according to a report published last year by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/27/business/trump-breaks-off-canada-trade-talks

Trump claims that he issued the order to bomb Iran because they were a few days away from producing a nuclear weapon.  He lies . . . as usual.

Trump bombed Iran because he was pissed off at the way the world reacted to his recent failures.  It wasn’t strategy, but ego.

Trump pulled the trigger following two globally embarrassing events.

FIRST: His $45 million  military parade had just become an international joke (a joke outside Fox, of course).

SECOND:  Equally awful for a strongman, Trump was roundly embarrassed at the G7 meeting in Canada while Netanyahu was enjoying extraordinary success in Iran.

In a grossly under-reported story, Trump said he left the G7 early to “deal with” the Israel-Iran situation, which meant posting childish and impulsive braggadocio on truth social. He beat his breast hard enough to signal Iran to move its 900 lb stash of enriched uranium before we bombed, putting Israel—and us—in further danger, the contours of which are not yet known.

Global press rejected Trump’s explanation for leaving the G7 early, reporting instead that he left early because the adults in the room refused to show him artificial deference. During the G7 opening press conference, Trump went on a tirade about the press and his other usual enemies so bizarre that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney interrupted him and ended the press conference. The Italian Prime Minister was seen rolling her eyes, and the world laughed at Trump’s petty insults against France’s Prime Minister Macron, of whom Trump appears to be jealous.

After all that, Trump tried to flex mob-boss strength to the press, announcing that the British Prime Minister had earned a trade framework protecting British trade because “I like them, that’s why. That’s their ultimate protection.” Those sound like words from a man who knows he’s just been insulted by people he doesn’t like.

Humiliated on the global stage by both events, which were NOT REPORTED TO  viewers at Fox, Trump desperately needed to recast himself as a strongman for the rest of the world. Some have speculated with credible evidence that Trump resented watching Netanyahu get all the glory, especially after it became clear that Israel’s aggression against Iran had been spectacularly successful. On June 13, while Israel’s bombs were falling, Trump told New York Times reporter Helene Cooper that he still held his “America First” isolationist, perspective.

The next day, however, after a full day of watching Fox lavish Netanyahu with praise, Trump changed his mind, even though no new intelligence had come in, and Israel was already winning its fight. One official told the NYT that Trump’s shift in attitude started early in the morning when he woke up and watched Fox News. When he saw how Netanyahu was being praised (so powerful, so strategic!), he wanted in on the action. The unnamed official stated that, “Israel was hitting all of these Iranian sites, it was taking out military commanders, nuclear scientists, and that was being presented on Fox as this huge victory. And (Trump) decided that he wanted a piece of it.”

In further support of this theory, Trump also started taking immediate credit for Israel’s success. He claimed on June 17 in a truth social post, days before bombing, that, “We” have taken control of Iran’s airspace,” and that a meeting with his national security advisers had cemented the decision to enter the war.

And there you have it folks – the most powerful nation on Earth is being “governed” by a person who is mentally a slow-learning 12-yer-old mixed with the self-control of a two-year-old.