Pam Bondi demanding Minnesota’s voter rolls while federal agents murder protesters in the streets is textbook authoritarian playbook. I’ve been tracking this exact pattern from Argentina’s Dirty War, and the parallels are chilling.
The sequence is deliberate:
Deploy paramilitary forces (ICE with promised federal immunity).
Commit extrajudicial killings (Renee Good, Alex Pretti).
Blame victims as “domestic terrorists.”
Use the “chaos” to justify escalation.
Demand state compliance or face more violence.
Bondi’s demand for voter rolls isn’t about election integrity. It’s about identifying who to target. Argentina’s dictatorship did the same…used state records to build lists of “subversives” for detention and disappearance.
The Minneapolis resistance we are all documenting: the legal observers, the Signal networks, the trained protesters; is exactly what prevented Argentina’s body count from being even higher. The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo did this. They made the invisible visible. They documented every disappearance. They created international pressure.
But here’s what Argentina’s neighbors didn’t do: apply meaningful external pressure while it was still stoppable.
Europe is making the same mistake right now. Mark Carney stood at Davos and spoke truth about building alternatives to American power. Got a standing ovation. Then what? Where’s Macron’s follow-through? Where’s Scholz? Where’s the FIFA World Cup boycott? Where are the sanctions on regime officials operating death squads?
The regime is telling you what comes next. Stephen Miller: “You have federal immunity.” NSPM-7: protesters are domestic terrorists. Secret ICE memos: no judicial warrants needed. Bondi: give us your voter rolls or we escalate.
They’re not hiding it. They’re announcing it. Building the legal fiction. Establishing precedent. Creating permission for what comes after the midterms if they lose them.
This is Argentina 1976, not Argentina 1983. The difference between those years is what happens now. Whether Americans resist (and Minneapolis is showing how). Whether allies apply pressure (and Europe is failing this test).
The body count is rising. The infrastructure is operational. The normalization is happening.
Two months into the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, public funding is once again at the center of disputes between Democratic and Republican lawmakers.
Senate Republican leaders plan to reject Democratic demands to split funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and pass the rest of a massive funding package needed "to avoid a partial government shutdown this week," according to a Republican Party advisor.
Senate Democrats, led by Chuck Schumer, have insisted that DHS funding be withheld until Congress can agree on new safeguards for immigration enforcement, after agents killed two U.S. citizens in Minnesota this year.
"Senate voting would begin Tuesday afternoon, due to the winter storm that has affected much of the country. If there is no agreement,
"funding for much of the government would end on January 31," impacting the operations of numerous agencies, including
the Department of Defense and
"the Department of Health and Human Services."
Read this: However, ICE and Border Patrol operations would not be affected by a shutdown, after receiving massive funding last year.
After Border Patrol agents killed Alex Pretti on Saturday, President Donald Trump blamed Democrats for the events in Minnesota in a message posted Sunday night on the social media platform Truth Social.
This Monday, in a sign of a possible de-escalation of tensions,
Trump said he will send his border czar, Tom Homan, to Minnesota, a decision that, according to the president, Governor Tim Walz "happily" accepted.
I agree but don't quite understand why they are supporting it.
It seems to me that reducing our population by no longer allowing any immigration except billionaires, deporting as many as we can (and white Americans are not even reproducing at a number large enough for zero population growth) and limiting the purchasing power of those citizens who are left (as well as providing inadequate health care) would mean that we will be a third world nation with no ability to buy the "stuff" that the big corporations need us to buy to stay big (and in business). Can they make enough money from their wealthy friends to stay in business? Likewise I wonder about health insurance companies. As more Americans who can afford health care die off, who are they going to rely on to keep them in business without universal health care? I think network mainstream media is already seeing a decline in viewership/readership partly because intelligent persons no longer trust them and no longer have any reason to watch/read. I think most successful businesses when they see something they are doing is resulting in fewer customers change what they are doing to remain profitable. But MSM doesn't seem to take that approach.
Two months into the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, public funding is once again at the center of disputes between Democratic and Republican lawmakers.
Senate Republican leaders plan to reject Democratic demands to split funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and pass the rest of a massive funding package needed "to avoid a partial government shutdown this week," according to a Republican Party advisor.
Senate Democrats, led by Chuck Schumer, have insisted that DHS funding be withheld until Congress can agree on new safeguards for immigration enforcement, after agents killed two U.S. citizens in Minnesota this year.
"Senate voting would begin Tuesday afternoon, due to the winter storm that has affected much of the country. If there is no agreement,
"funding for much of the government would end on January 31," impacting the operations of numerous agencies, including
the Department of Defense and
"the Department of Health and Human Services."
Read this: However, ICE and Border Patrol operations would not be affected by a shutdown, after receiving massive funding last year.
After Border Patrol agents killed Alex Pretti on Saturday, President Donald Trump blamed Democrats for the events in Minnesota in a message posted Sunday night on the social media platform Truth Social.
This Monday, in a sign of a possible de-escalation of tensions,
Trump said he will send his border czar, Tom Homan, to Minnesota, a decision that, according to the president, Governor Tim Walz "happily" accepted.
Two months into the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, public funding is once again at the center of disputes between Democratic and Republican lawmakers.
Senate Republican leaders plan to reject Democratic demands to split funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and pass the rest of a massive funding package needed "to avoid a partial government shutdown this week," according to a Republican Party advisor.
Senate Democrats, led by Chuck Schumer, have insisted that DHS funding be withheld until Congress can agree on new safeguards for immigration enforcement, after agents killed two U.S. citizens in Minnesota this year.
"Senate voting would begin Tuesday afternoon, due to the winter storm that has affected much of the country. If there is no agreement,
"funding for much of the government would end on January 31," impacting the operations of numerous agencies, including
the Department of Defense and
"the Department of Health and Human Services."
Read this: However, ICE and Border Patrol operations would not be affected by a shutdown, after receiving massive funding last year.
After Border Patrol agents killed Alex Pretti on Saturday, President Donald Trump blamed Democrats for the events in Minnesota in a message posted Sunday night on the social media platform Truth Social.
This Monday, in a sign of a possible de-escalation of tensions,
Trump said he will send his border czar, Tom Homan, to Minnesota, a decision that, according to the president, Governor Tim Walz "happily" accepted.
New regulations here may affect the “money”..my sincere hope is that some of the teams simply say “no thanks”, and that fans think about having their social media scanned to allow entry to the United States and echo the sentiment …particularly if they, fan or player, are not white. It could be dangerous for them to set foot in the US.
Yes, a writer John Dinges wrote of the rise of fascism in Latin America. He predicted this in the USA, find one of his books. He is from Iowa and wise to the world.
Until Chuckles and Jeffries are replaced, the Democratic party are letting the advantage of the people rising against the fascists slip away. The Democratic party needs leaders that are for the people and NOT for AIPAC and corporate funding.Press conferences EVERY DAY!!!
It is appauling that 7 Democrats voted to SUPPORT FUNDING for the SS/Gestapo/ICE!!!
Let me get this straight. So if Pam Bondi is going to escalate her war on Minneapolis, doesn’t the mobilization of the national guard ordered by Governor Tim Waltz should at least get ICE to stand down on their violent extrajudicial killings. Prevent them from violating our constitutional rights.
If BAR COMPLAINTS have been submitted they are not public.
There are other judicial appointments that also justify BAR COMPLAINTS - like the BOOB who prosecuted the limpy subway sandwich as a FELONY. A jury quickly disagreed and MISDEMEANOR CHARGES were filed - JURY SAID NO TO THAT AS WELL.
Another BIMBO charged a homeless man for shining a CAT TOY at Air Force 1.
Jury didn't buy the either.
Some of Trump's HERITAGE FOUNDATION appointments are being removed by more local judicial experts with little fanfare.
You have BEAUTY QUEEN REAL ESTATE ATTORNEY LINDSEY HALLIGAN
Trump’s Week of Stinging Defeats Has an Important Lesson for the Supreme Court
It's true. Action is needed before it's too late, because the US is almost fully cooked! Red Alert! Battle stations! World leaders need to make sure the orange ghoul and Herr Miller understand that a luxury bunker will not keep them in power! They are terrorizing and killing the people of the once great USA. Tyranny is nearly completed. Next is martial law due to chaos ICE caused, and no wartime elections against domestic terror -the voter rolls. Time is UP! There is no more, wait and see! It's here!
I totally agree with you! Europe needs to push back harder. Diplomacy is never gonna work with this regime. All they see are signs and what they get out of it not what anyone else will. Unless Europe sanctions the US I don’t see anything changing.
Germany is now talking about boycotting the world cup I have a feeling once the first country boycotts more will follow. Imagine the shit fit Drumpf will have haha
Thank you for your enlightening all of us. What you wrote is exactly what all Americans must be aware of and fully understand. We have got to remove the most corrupt administration in America.
ICE agents today blocked local Minnesota officials with a judicial warrant from accessing a crime scene.
This is only the latest in a series of provocations by ICE, and their superiors in the Trump administration, apparently designed to elicit reactions that could justify initiating emergency measures. Among these provocations was AG Bondi’s offer to leave Minnesota if it gives up its voter rolls. Straight up blackmail. And the parade of administration officials who gave wildly dishonest interpretations of the shooting even after being forced by the videos to abandon their initial lies. Their gaslighting is provocative.
A close examination of the Good shooting shows ICE agent Ross reaching for his gun before Good had finished backing up. Well before he can claim to have registered a danger. Even his parading around Good’s vehicle videoing with his phone was a provocation. And Pretti was shot well after his gun was taken. The agent who shot him provoked the entire episode by roughly shoving a woman who posed no danger. Have these ICE officers been urged to provoke peaceful demonstrators in the hope they can justify shoot to kill moments? Have they discussed this amongst themselves?
It’s a serious question as to whether these ICE agents are being urged to be provocative, whether by superiors or through peer pressure. Or, whether they are exercising steroid-fueled rage without adequate training.
Whatever the case, there appears to be a directive from on high to be as provocative as possible that has motivated every part of this administration, top to bottom.
I spent 24 hours in Santiago, Chile in Aug 1974. It was horrible what was happening there. I agree with you yet know very little about what happened in Argentina.
Wow! I have been to Chile but only recently and always wonder about how it was during these times.
Chile under Pinochet and Argentina under the junta were parallel nightmares with chilling similarities.
Both started the same way: military coups against elected governments (Chile 1973, Argentina 1976). Both used the same infrastructure: secret detention centers, forced disappearances, torture, bodies dumped from planes into the ocean. Both had US backing (Kissinger gave explicit approval).
The differences matter though:
Chile’s repression was more centralized under Pinochet. You knew who was in charge. Argentina’s junta rotated leadership, making accountability even harder.
Argentina’s scale was larger: 30,000 disappeared over 7 years. Entire generations traumatized. The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo walking every Thursday with photos of their disappeared children became the iconic resistance.
Both regimes used the same justification: “restoring order,” “fighting subversion,” “protecting national security.” The same language we’re hearing now about Minneapolis.
What you witnessed in Santiago in August 1974, that horror you felt, that’s what people in Minneapolis are feeling now watching federal agents operate with impunity. Same playbook. Same infrastructure. Same “it can’t happen here” denial until it does.
The lesson from both Chile and Argentina: it starts with “protecting order” and ends with 30,000 disappeared. The time to stop it is at the beginning, not after the body count becomes undeniable.
Did you check out the Museum of Memories? I never saw violence, only militia everywhere with tanks and automatic weapons on every street corner. If you were not in your house/hotel by 9/10pm, they simply gunned you down and yes, heard the guns but we were in our hotel rooms. Never did I ever think the USA would be moving in this direction. Here we are. It must be stopped. Jack Lemon was in the movie “Missing” about this time. He was a comedic actor but later in his career, he was in movies like this one. I found it on You Tube but not on any other streaming service. Recommend.
We lived in Buenos Aires from 1970-1973. The military was on street corners in 1973! I had one guy with his machine gun pointed at me stare me down for a whole block. I was 13. The company my dad worked for got us out of there shortly thereafter.
My first instinct is to tuck tail and run. I literally want to sell everything, pull all my money out of the stock market and move to Portugal, but this is way too important to just have that privilege. I’ve never been so enraged and feel helpless at the same time. I’m no longer speaking to anyone who fucking voted for this.
I'd feel the same (I live in the UK). No excuse. It was always as clear as day what an evil knave this man was. It defies belief that half the country voted for him. An enduring mystery.. Are they pleased with themselves? Some still are, I fear - though fewer now, surely.
I will never give up! There are 340 million people in this country. Rise up! There are more of us than them. People have already been murdered. Let's take our country back.
A year ago in February, 2 people decided they needed to do "something" instead of continuing to be appalled at what they were seeing on TV. So, they headed to the local corner and held up flags. Slowly people started to join them. A few here and there continued their weekly flag waving campaign. We are now almost a year in and that group has grown to over 50 regulars. This week, after another MURDER in Minnesota, over 100 pro-democracy warriors showed up and spoke out. "Something" looks different for everyone but these two people started something that speaks to others and they came in and continue to come out every week. This is WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE in a red state, in a red county.
I am dumbfounded that 40% of us and republicans in congress still support him and are silent. We are two countries within one country. I don’t want to see a separation like India and Pakistani but if this keeps on it may come to that.
You're correct. But the real travesty here is we appear to have a portion of our military in complete compliance with Trump. Trump depends on military to be his go to organization to provide the ultimate degree of his edicts where he is acting Constitutionally or not.
We have to push forward and hold the line until they are all out. Pam Bondi that request the only way she's going to take ice out isif they give the information about ...voters are you kidding me. Saw something interesting or someone said I wonder where all the proud boys are? you don't hear anything about them no you don't because they've all been hired by Ice!!!
Thank you everyone and almost 6 million followers! I am increasing my activity to contact representatives!! Sending $$ to ACLU, food banks and Minnesota support organizations! Stay strong Ben, we are here with you!!
The following excerpt is from a Washington Post Op-ed from 2020 regarding the Pandemic, but the lessons apply perfectly to opposing the current fascist takeover.
“Sacrifice is not easy and natural, but it can happen. And yet, the language of sacrifice faded in the aftermath of a more popular, more total and more demanding conflict for Americans. Following World War II, the “good war,” politicians, business leaders, unions and many Americans embraced the idea that mass consumption would drive economic prosperity. Even in the midst of the burgeoning Cold War, such a notion supplanted more collectivist notions of community and sacrifice, in part because those were increasingly stigmatized as “socialist” or “communist.” This offered an individualist reaffirmation of the nation’s democratic values and became central to American identity. Mass consumption and participation in the economy, not sacrifice, increasingly came to signal one’s patriotism.
The last military draft in the United States ended in 1973, and since then, service and sacrifice have been voluntary and borne unevenly. The fractures of national unity that came at the end of the Vietnam War and the distrust of government in the wake of Watergate helped to propel these changes. In their wake, collective sacrifice has been extolled by politicians but never urged, much less required. Instead, market logics and consumer-citizenship has been the default setting for how to practice engaged models of citizenship.
Shopping, traveling and showing confidence in the economy have come to define American citizenship and even responses to collective existential threats such as terrorism and emergencies, including deadly viral outbreaks.
The challenges the nation now faces are dire and require sacrifice, not consumption. The problem is that Americans have been actively discouraged by their leaders from making sacrifices in support of larger efforts — including wars, fossil fuel consumption, global warming, the Great Recession and the current pandemic. Confronting the looming public health, economic and climate challenges today requires a wholesale change in how citizens and the state conceive and construct a rhetoric as well as a practice of collective sacrifice.”
Christopher McKnight Nichols is professor of history and Woody Hayes Chair in national security studies at The Ohio State University. He is author of "Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of a Global Age" and editor and author of "Rethinking American Grand Strategy" and "Ideology in U.S. Foreign Relations: New Histories” (Columbia UP, 2022).
Defeating the fascists in WWII did not happen without sacrifice from the citizens of the Allied countries. We will have to sacrifice to stop and reverse the fascist takeover of our country. We can sacrifice a little now or a much greater amount later. What kind of world will our children and grandchildren live in if we allow this to continue?
How much do you want to stop His Royal Heinous and the fascist takeover of the country?
Enough that you’re willing to make a small sacrifice? Like altering your spending habits for a month or two or three? That could be all it would take to get the attention of the oligarchs (formerly known as The Robber Barons in the first Gilded Age, also The Fat Cats, The Greedy Bastards).
A brief demonstration of We, the People’s, power of the purse could persuade them to quit supporting HRH and the politicians who enable him.
We quit spending, except on essentials, businesses lose money, stock market goes down, Greedy Bastards pay attention to our demands.
Greedy Bastards own most of the politicians of both major parties. GBs start losing money, then they tell the politicians to change course and do what We, the People want.
Spending Strike, Spending Freeze, Spending Suspension, Spending Pause, Economic Disengagement, Economic Warfare, Stop Spending!, even Boycott. Choose your favorite but Do It, and Spread the Word!
If a single dollar doubles every day for 30 days, it reaches a total of over $536 million ($536,870,912) at the end of the 30th day.
So, would it follow, that a single voice that doubled everyday would become 536 million voices after 30 days? That seems doable.
From Mark Mansour:
Sacrifice has always been the price of renewal. Democracy, if it is to survive, cannot be the cheap luxury item of a populace too comfortable to fight for it. The Trump regime can be resisted through civic courage, legal challenge, and organization. But it can also be starved—one deliberate, withheld dollar at a time.
Thank you, Ben! Both my senators have already received messages from me this morning with my demand for answers and intention. I will never let up and I will not take the bait. We’re smarter we are stronger. We are better than they are. They will lose.
Thank you for all you and your brothers and your entire crew there do! You are all true heroes and Patriots and we'd be lost without you! Thank you for continuing to cheerlead and encourage us to stay strong!
Pam Bondi demanding Minnesota’s voter rolls while federal agents murder protesters in the streets is textbook authoritarian playbook. I’ve been tracking this exact pattern from Argentina’s Dirty War, and the parallels are chilling.
The sequence is deliberate:
Deploy paramilitary forces (ICE with promised federal immunity).
Commit extrajudicial killings (Renee Good, Alex Pretti).
Blame victims as “domestic terrorists.”
Use the “chaos” to justify escalation.
Demand state compliance or face more violence.
Bondi’s demand for voter rolls isn’t about election integrity. It’s about identifying who to target. Argentina’s dictatorship did the same…used state records to build lists of “subversives” for detention and disappearance.
The Minneapolis resistance we are all documenting: the legal observers, the Signal networks, the trained protesters; is exactly what prevented Argentina’s body count from being even higher. The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo did this. They made the invisible visible. They documented every disappearance. They created international pressure.
But here’s what Argentina’s neighbors didn’t do: apply meaningful external pressure while it was still stoppable.
Europe is making the same mistake right now. Mark Carney stood at Davos and spoke truth about building alternatives to American power. Got a standing ovation. Then what? Where’s Macron’s follow-through? Where’s Scholz? Where’s the FIFA World Cup boycott? Where are the sanctions on regime officials operating death squads?
The regime is telling you what comes next. Stephen Miller: “You have federal immunity.” NSPM-7: protesters are domestic terrorists. Secret ICE memos: no judicial warrants needed. Bondi: give us your voter rolls or we escalate.
They’re not hiding it. They’re announcing it. Building the legal fiction. Establishing precedent. Creating permission for what comes after the midterms if they lose them.
This is Argentina 1976, not Argentina 1983. The difference between those years is what happens now. Whether Americans resist (and Minneapolis is showing how). Whether allies apply pressure (and Europe is failing this test).
The body count is rising. The infrastructure is operational. The normalization is happening.
Believe them when they tell you what comes next.
— Johan
Former Foreign Service Officer
And this is not getting enough media attention!
Yes! Exactly.
I won’t stop. I’ll keep writing about this and reading the people here, on Substack, speaking truth to power.
Thank you all
Lockdown"
Funding in Dispute →
Two months into the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, public funding is once again at the center of disputes between Democratic and Republican lawmakers.
Senate Republican leaders plan to reject Democratic demands to split funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and pass the rest of a massive funding package needed "to avoid a partial government shutdown this week," according to a Republican Party advisor.
Senate Democrats, led by Chuck Schumer, have insisted that DHS funding be withheld until Congress can agree on new safeguards for immigration enforcement, after agents killed two U.S. citizens in Minnesota this year.
"Senate voting would begin Tuesday afternoon, due to the winter storm that has affected much of the country. If there is no agreement,
"funding for much of the government would end on January 31," impacting the operations of numerous agencies, including
the Department of Defense and
"the Department of Health and Human Services."
Read this: However, ICE and Border Patrol operations would not be affected by a shutdown, after receiving massive funding last year.
After Border Patrol agents killed Alex Pretti on Saturday, President Donald Trump blamed Democrats for the events in Minnesota in a message posted Sunday night on the social media platform Truth Social.
This Monday, in a sign of a possible de-escalation of tensions,
Trump said he will send his border czar, Tom Homan, to Minnesota, a decision that, according to the president, Governor Tim Walz "happily" accepted.
Funding, in dispute →
Our MSM is all corporate owned. They will remain silent because they support this.
That is why independent media, like MTN are so important. There are many Substacks where you can subscribe for free.
I agree but don't quite understand why they are supporting it.
It seems to me that reducing our population by no longer allowing any immigration except billionaires, deporting as many as we can (and white Americans are not even reproducing at a number large enough for zero population growth) and limiting the purchasing power of those citizens who are left (as well as providing inadequate health care) would mean that we will be a third world nation with no ability to buy the "stuff" that the big corporations need us to buy to stay big (and in business). Can they make enough money from their wealthy friends to stay in business? Likewise I wonder about health insurance companies. As more Americans who can afford health care die off, who are they going to rely on to keep them in business without universal health care? I think network mainstream media is already seeing a decline in viewership/readership partly because intelligent persons no longer trust them and no longer have any reason to watch/read. I think most successful businesses when they see something they are doing is resulting in fewer customers change what they are doing to remain profitable. But MSM doesn't seem to take that approach.
My guess; they want just enough to make what's left of us their indentured servants working for peanuts. Just like Russia.
Lockdown"
Funding in Dispute →
Two months into the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, public funding is once again at the center of disputes between Democratic and Republican lawmakers.
Senate Republican leaders plan to reject Democratic demands to split funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and pass the rest of a massive funding package needed "to avoid a partial government shutdown this week," according to a Republican Party advisor.
Senate Democrats, led by Chuck Schumer, have insisted that DHS funding be withheld until Congress can agree on new safeguards for immigration enforcement, after agents killed two U.S. citizens in Minnesota this year.
"Senate voting would begin Tuesday afternoon, due to the winter storm that has affected much of the country. If there is no agreement,
"funding for much of the government would end on January 31," impacting the operations of numerous agencies, including
the Department of Defense and
"the Department of Health and Human Services."
Read this: However, ICE and Border Patrol operations would not be affected by a shutdown, after receiving massive funding last year.
After Border Patrol agents killed Alex Pretti on Saturday, President Donald Trump blamed Democrats for the events in Minnesota in a message posted Sunday night on the social media platform Truth Social.
This Monday, in a sign of a possible de-escalation of tensions,
Trump said he will send his border czar, Tom Homan, to Minnesota, a decision that, according to the president, Governor Tim Walz "happily" accepted.
Funding, in dispute →
Lockdown"
Funding in Dispute →
Two months into the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, public funding is once again at the center of disputes between Democratic and Republican lawmakers.
Senate Republican leaders plan to reject Democratic demands to split funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and pass the rest of a massive funding package needed "to avoid a partial government shutdown this week," according to a Republican Party advisor.
Senate Democrats, led by Chuck Schumer, have insisted that DHS funding be withheld until Congress can agree on new safeguards for immigration enforcement, after agents killed two U.S. citizens in Minnesota this year.
"Senate voting would begin Tuesday afternoon, due to the winter storm that has affected much of the country. If there is no agreement,
"funding for much of the government would end on January 31," impacting the operations of numerous agencies, including
the Department of Defense and
"the Department of Health and Human Services."
Read this: However, ICE and Border Patrol operations would not be affected by a shutdown, after receiving massive funding last year.
After Border Patrol agents killed Alex Pretti on Saturday, President Donald Trump blamed Democrats for the events in Minnesota in a message posted Sunday night on the social media platform Truth Social.
This Monday, in a sign of a possible de-escalation of tensions,
Trump said he will send his border czar, Tom Homan, to Minnesota, a decision that, according to the president, Governor Tim Walz "happily" accepted.
Funding, in dispute →
FIFA boycott? Not a chance. When did they ever criticise wrongdoing? All they care about is money.
Misunderstanding…we, us, the people boycott FIFA. Get other countries to boycott the World Cup and not come for the games.
Oh I see, my mistake! Thanks for elucidating. But fear that won't happen either. FIFA is a disgrace, should have been botcotted long ago.
Completely agree with you on fifa
FIFA is a huge money maker and billionaires always choose money over Human rights because let's face it...this is how they got their money.
Yes, it’s who they are.
New regulations here may affect the “money”..my sincere hope is that some of the teams simply say “no thanks”, and that fans think about having their social media scanned to allow entry to the United States and echo the sentiment …particularly if they, fan or player, are not white. It could be dangerous for them to set foot in the US.
FIFA may not criticize, but fans will boycott, afraid for their own safety in a muderous regime.
I hope so, but I doubt it. Sports seem to be a way to mollify the public. :(
Well said - this is all about November 2026 election rigging - Wake Up America!
Yes, a writer John Dinges wrote of the rise of fascism in Latin America. He predicted this in the USA, find one of his books. He is from Iowa and wise to the world.
Until Chuckles and Jeffries are replaced, the Democratic party are letting the advantage of the people rising against the fascists slip away. The Democratic party needs leaders that are for the people and NOT for AIPAC and corporate funding.Press conferences EVERY DAY!!!
It is appauling that 7 Democrats voted to SUPPORT FUNDING for the SS/Gestapo/ICE!!!
Let me get this straight. So if Pam Bondi is going to escalate her war on Minneapolis, doesn’t the mobilization of the national guard ordered by Governor Tim Waltz should at least get ICE to stand down on their violent extrajudicial killings. Prevent them from violating our constitutional rights.
Impeachment and conviction are the only answer. This must be done.
Good point
That’s how civil war starts, unfortunately, for all of us.
Can Bindi be disbarred for extortion?
That and other things, yes.
She can be disbarred for Treason.
If BAR COMPLAINTS have been submitted they are not public.
There are other judicial appointments that also justify BAR COMPLAINTS - like the BOOB who prosecuted the limpy subway sandwich as a FELONY. A jury quickly disagreed and MISDEMEANOR CHARGES were filed - JURY SAID NO TO THAT AS WELL.
Another BIMBO charged a homeless man for shining a CAT TOY at Air Force 1.
Jury didn't buy the either.
Some of Trump's HERITAGE FOUNDATION appointments are being removed by more local judicial experts with little fanfare.
You have BEAUTY QUEEN REAL ESTATE ATTORNEY LINDSEY HALLIGAN
Trump’s Week of Stinging Defeats Has an Important Lesson for the Supreme Court
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/01/trump-loser-greenland-halligan-supreme-court-john-roberts-fail.html
Johan,
It's true. Action is needed before it's too late, because the US is almost fully cooked! Red Alert! Battle stations! World leaders need to make sure the orange ghoul and Herr Miller understand that a luxury bunker will not keep them in power! They are terrorizing and killing the people of the once great USA. Tyranny is nearly completed. Next is martial law due to chaos ICE caused, and no wartime elections against domestic terror -the voter rolls. Time is UP! There is no more, wait and see! It's here!
I totally agree with you! Europe needs to push back harder. Diplomacy is never gonna work with this regime. All they see are signs and what they get out of it not what anyone else will. Unless Europe sanctions the US I don’t see anything changing.
Great writing and this is a parallel not to be taken lightly.
Germany is now talking about boycotting the world cup I have a feeling once the first country boycotts more will follow. Imagine the shit fit Drumpf will have haha
Wow! Please post an article
Source: NPR https://share.google/Kxanujjn6VyIacA1E
Thank you for your enlightening all of us. What you wrote is exactly what all Americans must be aware of and fully understand. We have got to remove the most corrupt administration in America.
Thank you
I recommend reading this tribute to Alex Pretti: https://open.substack.com/pub/krisfeliciano/p/an-american-murder-a-poem?r=6k8tno&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
Thanks for posting this. Found this poetry blog to be brutally, honest, emotionally revealing.
Of course, I shared and restocked. Recommend all to read.
Excellent post. I'd add these three things:
Ernst Fraenkel's The Dual State
Lawrence Britt's "Early Warning Signs of Fascism"
Jonathan Rauch, The Atlantic, "Yes, It's Fascism" (out this week...sorry, this article is for newbies, as it falls into the category of DUH.
ICE agents today blocked local Minnesota officials with a judicial warrant from accessing a crime scene.
This is only the latest in a series of provocations by ICE, and their superiors in the Trump administration, apparently designed to elicit reactions that could justify initiating emergency measures. Among these provocations was AG Bondi’s offer to leave Minnesota if it gives up its voter rolls. Straight up blackmail. And the parade of administration officials who gave wildly dishonest interpretations of the shooting even after being forced by the videos to abandon their initial lies. Their gaslighting is provocative.
A close examination of the Good shooting shows ICE agent Ross reaching for his gun before Good had finished backing up. Well before he can claim to have registered a danger. Even his parading around Good’s vehicle videoing with his phone was a provocation. And Pretti was shot well after his gun was taken. The agent who shot him provoked the entire episode by roughly shoving a woman who posed no danger. Have these ICE officers been urged to provoke peaceful demonstrators in the hope they can justify shoot to kill moments? Have they discussed this amongst themselves?
It’s a serious question as to whether these ICE agents are being urged to be provocative, whether by superiors or through peer pressure. Or, whether they are exercising steroid-fueled rage without adequate training.
Whatever the case, there appears to be a directive from on high to be as provocative as possible that has motivated every part of this administration, top to bottom.
Excellent points
I spent 24 hours in Santiago, Chile in Aug 1974. It was horrible what was happening there. I agree with you yet know very little about what happened in Argentina.
Wow! I have been to Chile but only recently and always wonder about how it was during these times.
Chile under Pinochet and Argentina under the junta were parallel nightmares with chilling similarities.
Both started the same way: military coups against elected governments (Chile 1973, Argentina 1976). Both used the same infrastructure: secret detention centers, forced disappearances, torture, bodies dumped from planes into the ocean. Both had US backing (Kissinger gave explicit approval).
The differences matter though:
Chile’s repression was more centralized under Pinochet. You knew who was in charge. Argentina’s junta rotated leadership, making accountability even harder.
Argentina’s scale was larger: 30,000 disappeared over 7 years. Entire generations traumatized. The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo walking every Thursday with photos of their disappeared children became the iconic resistance.
Both regimes used the same justification: “restoring order,” “fighting subversion,” “protecting national security.” The same language we’re hearing now about Minneapolis.
What you witnessed in Santiago in August 1974, that horror you felt, that’s what people in Minneapolis are feeling now watching federal agents operate with impunity. Same playbook. Same infrastructure. Same “it can’t happen here” denial until it does.
The lesson from both Chile and Argentina: it starts with “protecting order” and ends with 30,000 disappeared. The time to stop it is at the beginning, not after the body count becomes undeniable.
— Johan
Did you check out the Museum of Memories? I never saw violence, only militia everywhere with tanks and automatic weapons on every street corner. If you were not in your house/hotel by 9/10pm, they simply gunned you down and yes, heard the guns but we were in our hotel rooms. Never did I ever think the USA would be moving in this direction. Here we are. It must be stopped. Jack Lemon was in the movie “Missing” about this time. He was a comedic actor but later in his career, he was in movies like this one. I found it on You Tube but not on any other streaming service. Recommend.
Have you seen the film “La historia oficial”? Worth viewing.
No, I’m taking a look.
Thank you.
We lived in Buenos Aires from 1970-1973. The military was on street corners in 1973! I had one guy with his machine gun pointed at me stare me down for a whole block. I was 13. The company my dad worked for got us out of there shortly thereafter.
Thank u, Ben and MTN! I wish I could help this network more financially. America needs people like you. Good luck!
Impreached. Tried. Convicted. Imprisoned. Disbarred.
My first instinct is to tuck tail and run. I literally want to sell everything, pull all my money out of the stock market and move to Portugal, but this is way too important to just have that privilege. I’ve never been so enraged and feel helpless at the same time. I’m no longer speaking to anyone who fucking voted for this.
I'd feel the same (I live in the UK). No excuse. It was always as clear as day what an evil knave this man was. It defies belief that half the country voted for him. An enduring mystery.. Are they pleased with themselves? Some still are, I fear - though fewer now, surely.
In rural Texas some have 2028 Trump banners and signs in their yards. :(
Same
Yes and so many Americans have already gone to Portugal, it’s incredible
Pam Bondi should lose her law license.
Bondi has been a career creep and protects Trump even when she has evidence to the contrary.
She will. Just bit soon enough!
Thanks for all you do, Ben! Thanks for caring about all of us. Be well, be safe.
I will never give up! There are 340 million people in this country. Rise up! There are more of us than them. People have already been murdered. Let's take our country back.
A year ago in February, 2 people decided they needed to do "something" instead of continuing to be appalled at what they were seeing on TV. So, they headed to the local corner and held up flags. Slowly people started to join them. A few here and there continued their weekly flag waving campaign. We are now almost a year in and that group has grown to over 50 regulars. This week, after another MURDER in Minnesota, over 100 pro-democracy warriors showed up and spoke out. "Something" looks different for everyone but these two people started something that speaks to others and they came in and continue to come out every week. This is WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE in a red state, in a red county.
I am mentally drained but I won't give up! Thank you for your words of encouragement, Ben! ❤️
I am dumbfounded that 40% of us and republicans in congress still support him and are silent. We are two countries within one country. I don’t want to see a separation like India and Pakistani but if this keeps on it may come to that.
You're correct. But the real travesty here is we appear to have a portion of our military in complete compliance with Trump. Trump depends on military to be his go to organization to provide the ultimate degree of his edicts where he is acting Constitutionally or not.
All in the name of white supremacy no doubt.
I think it may.
We have to push forward and hold the line until they are all out. Pam Bondi that request the only way she's going to take ice out isif they give the information about ...voters are you kidding me. Saw something interesting or someone said I wonder where all the proud boys are? you don't hear anything about them no you don't because they've all been hired by Ice!!!
Thank you everyone and almost 6 million followers! I am increasing my activity to contact representatives!! Sending $$ to ACLU, food banks and Minnesota support organizations! Stay strong Ben, we are here with you!!
A note of thanks, Ben, and everyone with MTN…you are doing so much to help us navigate these devastating times…I’m with you!
We will keep pushing back against this fascist regime, and we appreciate your coverage of current events. EPSTEIN PEDOPHILES‼️
Sacrifice is not easy
The following excerpt is from a Washington Post Op-ed from 2020 regarding the Pandemic, but the lessons apply perfectly to opposing the current fascist takeover.
“Sacrifice is not easy and natural, but it can happen. And yet, the language of sacrifice faded in the aftermath of a more popular, more total and more demanding conflict for Americans. Following World War II, the “good war,” politicians, business leaders, unions and many Americans embraced the idea that mass consumption would drive economic prosperity. Even in the midst of the burgeoning Cold War, such a notion supplanted more collectivist notions of community and sacrifice, in part because those were increasingly stigmatized as “socialist” or “communist.” This offered an individualist reaffirmation of the nation’s democratic values and became central to American identity. Mass consumption and participation in the economy, not sacrifice, increasingly came to signal one’s patriotism.
The last military draft in the United States ended in 1973, and since then, service and sacrifice have been voluntary and borne unevenly. The fractures of national unity that came at the end of the Vietnam War and the distrust of government in the wake of Watergate helped to propel these changes. In their wake, collective sacrifice has been extolled by politicians but never urged, much less required. Instead, market logics and consumer-citizenship has been the default setting for how to practice engaged models of citizenship.
Shopping, traveling and showing confidence in the economy have come to define American citizenship and even responses to collective existential threats such as terrorism and emergencies, including deadly viral outbreaks.
The challenges the nation now faces are dire and require sacrifice, not consumption. The problem is that Americans have been actively discouraged by their leaders from making sacrifices in support of larger efforts — including wars, fossil fuel consumption, global warming, the Great Recession and the current pandemic. Confronting the looming public health, economic and climate challenges today requires a wholesale change in how citizens and the state conceive and construct a rhetoric as well as a practice of collective sacrifice.”
Christopher McKnight Nichols is professor of history and Woody Hayes Chair in national security studies at The Ohio State University. He is author of "Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of a Global Age" and editor and author of "Rethinking American Grand Strategy" and "Ideology in U.S. Foreign Relations: New Histories” (Columbia UP, 2022).
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/12/07/americans-used-sacrifice-public-good-what-happened/
Sacrifice is Necessary
Defeating the fascists in WWII did not happen without sacrifice from the citizens of the Allied countries. We will have to sacrifice to stop and reverse the fascist takeover of our country. We can sacrifice a little now or a much greater amount later. What kind of world will our children and grandchildren live in if we allow this to continue?
How much do you want to stop His Royal Heinous and the fascist takeover of the country?
Enough that you’re willing to make a small sacrifice? Like altering your spending habits for a month or two or three? That could be all it would take to get the attention of the oligarchs (formerly known as The Robber Barons in the first Gilded Age, also The Fat Cats, The Greedy Bastards).
A brief demonstration of We, the People’s, power of the purse could persuade them to quit supporting HRH and the politicians who enable him.
We quit spending, except on essentials, businesses lose money, stock market goes down, Greedy Bastards pay attention to our demands.
Greedy Bastards own most of the politicians of both major parties. GBs start losing money, then they tell the politicians to change course and do what We, the People want.
Spending Strike, Spending Freeze, Spending Suspension, Spending Pause, Economic Disengagement, Economic Warfare, Stop Spending!, even Boycott. Choose your favorite but Do It, and Spread the Word!
If a single dollar doubles every day for 30 days, it reaches a total of over $536 million ($536,870,912) at the end of the 30th day.
So, would it follow, that a single voice that doubled everyday would become 536 million voices after 30 days? That seems doable.
From Mark Mansour:
Sacrifice has always been the price of renewal. Democracy, if it is to survive, cannot be the cheap luxury item of a populace too comfortable to fight for it. The Trump regime can be resisted through civic courage, legal challenge, and organization. But it can also be starved—one deliberate, withheld dollar at a time.
https://open.substack.com/pub/mmansour/p/its-time-to-recognize-that-this-ordeal?r=5f62tm&utm_medium=ios
Thank you, Ben! Both my senators have already received messages from me this morning with my demand for answers and intention. I will never let up and I will not take the bait. We’re smarter we are stronger. We are better than they are. They will lose.
Me too, today yet another letter off to my three worthless NC reps. Their silence is complicity and is unacceptable.
I’m calling all day!
Don't forget to contact Jeffries and Schumer too.
Yep!
Thank you for all you and your brothers and your entire crew there do! You are all true heroes and Patriots and we'd be lost without you! Thank you for continuing to cheerlead and encourage us to stay strong!