"Autocratic Power Grab": Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act, Deploy Troops to Minnesota

Following Minneapolis protests in response to the ICE killing of Renee Good, President Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act Thursday, a move that would allow him to send military forces to the city. Trump’s comments came after a second person was shot by ICE following a traffic stop. “Trump probably sees this as a civil war,” says Baher Azmy, legal director for the Center for Constitutional Rights. “This, as we all know, is being leveraged as part of an autocratic power grab.”

ICE Arresting U.S. Citizens, Using Banned Chokeholds: Explosive ProPublica Report

A new investigation by ProPublica finds over 40 cases of immigration agents using potentially fatal chokeholds and other moves that can cut off breathing. “These arrests are playing out around the country, and often in full view of cameras and witnesses,” says ProPublica reporter Nicole Foy. She also reports that at least 170 U.S. citizens have been arrested by immigration agents.

⚔️ War Is Peace

Donald Trump finally gets his filthy mitts on a Nobel Prize, an appeals court reverses the decision that freed Mahmoud Khalil, and ICE kills again?

DNC Cavalry

Prominent UK Conservative defects to anti-immigration Reform

Robert Jenrick’s defection represents a significant sign of fracturing in one of the world’s most consistently successful political parties.

Founders of Deadly GHF ‘Shaping’ New US-Backed Administration for Gaza: Report

Netanyahu’s top military advisor is among those central to the new executive committee, which is due to operate under Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’.

Debatable: Venezuela elections

As opposition leader María Corina Machado meets the US president, Washington is divided on when Venezuela should hold elections.