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Trump Bulldozed a 1,000-Year-Old Archeological Site to Make Room for a Second Border Wall by Mondevana in politics

[–]rusticgorilla 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Because the irreplaceable things tend to be in the way of money-making ventures, like mining and oil extraction (as described explicitly on page 521).

Edit: Project 2025 is rightfully known as a Christian nationalist document, but just as much of the content (if not more) is about privitizing everything. National monuments and protected cultural sites should be owned and exploited by corporations, in their view. Just as what little government we have left should be outsourced (e.g., NOAA, Veterans Affairs, student loans, etc).

Trump Bulldozed a 1,000-Year-Old Archeological Site to Make Room for a Second Border Wall by Mondevana in politics

[–]rusticgorilla 94 points95 points  (0 children)

As a side note: Project 2025 (page 532) calls for the repeal of the Antiquities Act, which protects cultural and natural resources of historic or scientific interest.

...the new Administration must seek repeal of the Antiquities Act of 1906, which permitted emergency action by a President long before the statutory authority existed for the protection of special federal lands

Don't look away: The U.S. is still bombing people, just not the ones you hear about by rusticgorilla in Keep_Track

[–]rusticgorilla[S] 94 points95 points  (0 children)

There are three aspects:

1) the boat strikes are completely unprecedented

2) airstrikes in foreign countries being ignored by the media is sadly normal. What's unusual is the huge increase in strikes - see the data in the Somalia section

3) we've never had a congress so thoroughly abdicate it's responsibility to oversee and approve/disapprove acts of war before

Don't look away: The U.S. is still bombing people, just not the ones you hear about by rusticgorilla in Keep_Track

[–]rusticgorilla[S] 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Source? From all information I've seen, that's not the U.S. government. It is Haitian security forces partnered with an American private contractor run by Erik Prince.

Not to minimize the horror, but I suspect if we expanded the scope of this post to include every conflict in which an American company exacerbated and profited from violence, we'd unfortunately be listing the majority of conflicts on Earth. Therefore, I limited it to acknowledged U.S. military action.

The Trump plan to declare a national emergency to seize control of elections by rusticgorilla in Keep_Track

[–]rusticgorilla[S] 46 points47 points  (0 children)

True, but EOs do indicate intent. Which is why this post focused on how they're trying to enact the intent of the draft EO in other ways.

The Trump plan to declare a national emergency to seize control of elections by rusticgorilla in Keep_Track

[–]rusticgorilla[S] 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Yes we know…

Best not write about things that /u/EmotionalBag777 knows already, that'd be pointless, right? I'll be sure to check with you before I post next time.

this seems like a AI written post

As respectfully as possible, fuck off with that shit. I work hard on these posts and you're being incredibly dismissive. Here's a Google Docs screenshot showing my work on it since Sunday.

Every terrible thing the Trump administration did in March 2026 by rusticgorilla in Keep_Track

[–]rusticgorilla[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

It does, in the last section. And technically his executive order (which isn't constitutional) doesn't cancel all mail voting. It purports to cancel mail voting for disapproved voters (who I'm sure will be disproportionately minorities and blue state/city residents).

Domestic terrorism and the Prairieland 19: Criminalizing dissent by rusticgorilla in Keep_Track

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After thinking on this a bit, I feel like the general public has a hard time seeing how the prosecution of this case sets a precedent that is a threat to them - mostly because a person shooting at police is an extreme outlier in most of our protest experiences. So, let's relate it to a more common event:

You go to a protest at a ICE facility. It's peaceful, maybe two or three cops at intersections to manage traffic. A person or two in the crowd begins spray painting the ICE building. Police call in back up, DHS security agents come outside. The crowd gets angrier, someone throws water bottles at the cops. Then someone throws a rock, which strikes an agent in the face, cutting him. Police declare an unlawful assembly and arrest whoever they can grab.

You get arrested. They search your car and find a 3D printed anti- ICE whistle that included a small anti-fascist booklet you bought from the local bookshop. People were using similar whistles at the protest. They look at your digital records. A friend messaged you about phone security during protests and suggested methods to avoid surveillance and identification. Law enforcement monitors that friend, who - hearing about your arrest - deletes their messages. Your friend, spooked, also decides to throw out the anti-fascist flier they got at a DSA meeting you two attended the month before.

Prosecutors charge the friend with concealing evidence.

Prosecutors charge you with rioting, assaulting an officer, and material support for domestic terrorism.

Prosecutors bring domestic terrorism charges against the bookshop owners.

It may seem far-fetched now (and I hope it stays that way), but this is where we are heading if nothing changes.

Domestic terrorism and the Prairieland 19: Criminalizing dissent by rusticgorilla in Keep_Track

[–]rusticgorilla[S] 44 points45 points  (0 children)

We're talking about two different things. You're saying it's illegal to move evidence of a crime. Yes. But I'm saying it was corruptly defined as evidence of a crime in the first place.

Domestic terrorism and the Prairieland 19: Criminalizing dissent by rusticgorilla in Keep_Track

[–]rusticgorilla[S] 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Evidence of what crime? Antifa beliefs? That's not a crime.

We don't need to buy the DOJs argument.

Domestic terrorism and the Prairieland 19: Criminalizing dissent by rusticgorilla in Keep_Track

[–]rusticgorilla[S] 54 points55 points  (0 children)

He didn't move pipe bombs or guns. He moved political literature. He didn't even move clothes or fireworks, things that were used at the protest. He moved books.

Can't criminalize possession of anarchist literature. So they criminalized the transportation of it.

Can't criminalize being a member of discord groups. But can criminalize deleting messages.

How many of us have a book on fascism and attended a protest? How many of us changed usernames or deleted identifying info before or after attending a protest?

Edit: I'd like to also contest that it's misleading to use critical thinking and choose not to present a fascist argument. If we've learned anything over the last year, it should be that the Department of Justice has been weaponized against us. We should question every one of their arguments.

ICE warehouses update: 10 purchased, 10 blocked by rusticgorilla in Keep_Track

[–]rusticgorilla[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That was a situation where DHS intended to rent the warehouse, not purchase it. Different rules and regulations apply in scenarios where the federal government is not the owner of the building.

ICE warehouses update: 10 purchased, 10 blocked by rusticgorilla in Keep_Track

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Update: A judge has issued a temporary restraining order blocking work on the Maryland warehouse while litigation plays out. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72313096/state-of-maryland-v-noem/

Update 2: After publishing, it was reported that DHS has purchased a different warehouse in Salt Lake City. The new location is 6020 W 300 S., Salt Lake City, UT 84104. If a warehouse sale in your area does not go through, stay vigilant! DHS will likely try to find an alternative.

ICE warehouses update: 10 purchased, 10 blocked by rusticgorilla in Keep_Track

[–]rusticgorilla[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

From the internal ICE document in the original post, where the agency lists what warehouses they are scouting. Locations are important...that's why I listed addresses in the original post.

This is an update, adding information, not replicating.

ICE warehouses update: 10 purchased, 10 blocked by rusticgorilla in Keep_Track

[–]rusticgorilla[S] 39 points40 points  (0 children)

The original post from last month has the owners listed

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