We're some 17 and a half months from when the midterms would normally be held.
Trump has repeatedly misused #EmergencyPowers legislation in situations which do not fit with the letter, nor the intent, of the law.
Him misusing the #InsurrectionAct seems quite likely.
I'm thinking it'll depend on if he feels he personally will get a significant nett benefit. And if Putin doesn't nix it.
My guess is that he's got everything in place to misuse the Act. And have no midterms.
#IlyaSomin's article makes no mention of the #InsurrectionAct, and the imposition of #MartialLaw.
I understand that it's difficult to maintain an academic tone in an article while including the possibility of Trump extending his emergency powers further by invoking that Act.
While it is regretable that Trump hasn't abided by norms, it is now clear that he does not.
I feel academic discourse needs to be expanded to include and address this reality.
@SnowshadowII We've already been taking to the streets. The GOP have no conscience, so they don't care. And a lot of Democrats are afraid to push back. And, well, Trump is just itching for an excuse to declare #MartialLaw.
Yuck.
I create a corrupt-Trump action classification called #MonkeyWrenchTheSystem and then ideas of how to do it bigly start gathering;
#MartialLaw
#ConstitutionalConvention
#ExpandSCOTUS
Others?
Thing is - the #Project2025 folk will have been gathering all these together for years I think. If so they've got a book full of them. And with action pathways attached.
Cynthia Rothrock in “Martial Law”
#KungFuSat #MartialLaw #CynthiaRothrock #90smovies
Posters for “Martial Law” from The USA, Italy, and Ukraine.
#KungFuSat #MartialLaw #90smovies
#Trump will declare #MartialLaw and suspend midterm elections.
He's already established the apparatus for using our military to enforce.
The MAGA House will not stop him, and Hegseth will comply.
SCOTUS is toothless.
Q: What are we prepared to do when it happens?
#TraitorTrump
Trump's recent executive order to "unleash" police in America is actually a paint-by-numbers recipe for an authoritarian police state operating under a perpetual condition of martial law; and given the Swine Emperor's history, that should alarm Americans more than their media is letting on.
Nina-Bytes: A Road to Martial Law
https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/05/02/nina-bytes-a-road-to-martial-law/
"Even if we didn’t know Trump is an unhinged fascist with a penchant for punitive violence, the combination of material state support for police criminality, arming up and training to occupy American communities, and the unification of military, police, and national security assets, including personnel apparently, into a single ad-hoc domestic security force would all be ominous signs of an impending dictatorship under martial law. If I’m being honest I don’t think the author of this piece is being alarmist enough given the scope of this executive order."
After Charlottesville in 2017, I wrote an essay correctly predicting much of Trump's final six months in office and the coup attempt he'd launch after losing the 2020 election. Although I didn't discuss whether or not I thought that coup attempt would succeed at that time because I was more interested in stopping it in advance, I did theorize that as long as the US military stayed out of the equation, Downmarket Mussolini could make a passable attempt to retain power and govern as a dictator through some combination of police forces, ICE, the Insurrection Act, some percentage of state National Guard units, and martial law. Naturally then, I was very concerned when Trump spent the final portion of his first term courting that exact coalition and telling anyone who would listen that he wouldn't accept any election he lost. In the long run however Trump's coup failed because he didn't lock down the security forces he needed to actually complete and enforce the coup; like a lot of things Der Leader does, he tried to bullshit his way over the finish line with a half-baked autogolpe and the whole thing flopped.
Given all that, I must confess that Trump's latest executive order further empowering and militarizing American police forces while integrating their training and operational structures with the military and the Department of Homeland Security, is triggering alarm bells loud enough to shake every fiber of my being right now.
Trump’s Newest Executive Order “Unleashes” the Cops—and Flirts With Martial Law
"Now, Donald Trump has issued an executive order that will make it even harder to hold cops accountable—and flirts blatantly with martial law. Named the dystopian “Strengthening and Unleashing America’s Law Enforcement to Pursue Criminals and Protect Innocent Citizens,” this new order purports to “unleash high-impact local police forces; protect and defend law enforcement officers wrongly accused and abused by State or local officials; and surge resources to officers in need.”
The aggressive language in the order could be cribbed from any military police state in the annals of history, and that’s clearly the kind of polity that Trump would like to create and lead. The order instructs the secretary of defense to put down the bottle long enough to “determine how military and national security assets, training, non-lethal capabilities, and personnel can most effectively be utilized to prevent crime.” It also instructs the Department of Homeland Security to “advance the objectives of this order.”
Careful readers will note that this sounds an awful lot like the prelude to martial law, a framework where national military assets are deployed in American cities to enforce the president’s priorities. That would, of course, be a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, which prevents the president from using the American military as a domestic police force. But I think it’s well established that Trump has never watched The West Wing and doesn’t respect the rule of law in this country anyway."
If I'm being honest I don't think Elie Mystal, is being alarmist *enough* given the scope of this executive order. If you were purposely trying to create a fascist police state under a perpetual enforcement of martial law, this is the exact kind of policy you'd enact. Democratic countries, even faux-democratic liberal capitalist "democracies," separate law enforcement, counterterrorism, and military forces for a reason; dictators around the world rely on a full state oppression apparatus precisely because you can't control a fascist police state without controlling the entire security apparatus of that state, and integrating them the way Trump is trying to do here facilitates that unification and full state oppression structure. Although Mystal doesn't mention it, I challenge any reasonable person to figure out a good reason to provide military training and Homeland Security support to American police forces unless you're planning on treating them like an occupying army.
All of which is still ignoring the obvious authoritarian objectives Mystal does discuss. This executive order does make it borderline impossible to hold police, an already protected class in our society, criminally accountable for their actions; in fact it ensures they won't even be charged by instructing the Department of Justice to go after officials who try to prosecute police. This order *will* also further militarize US police forces that already look like the Army occupying Iraq due to prior initiatives to provide murderpigs with military gear through the DoD. Finally, I think Mystal is correct to connect Trump's promise of pro-bono legal aid to cops who break the law, with the regime's efforts to secure nearly a billion dollars worth of promised pro-bono work from bigtime DC Law firms who sold their soul to Trump out of cowardice and greed.
"Trump's "Unleash the Cops" EO is being rightly read as a prelude to #martiallaw. But don't miss the other thing it's doing: making the cops functionally
unaccountable when they commit crimes -effectivelyallows police to get away with murder. & that’s just the beginning.
Holding police officers accountable when they commit crimes or violate the const rights of those they’re allegedly here to “serve & protect” is one of the most difficult things to do in #law.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-executive-order-police-martial-law/
"The United States has announced its first criminal prosecutions against migrants and asylum seekers accused of crossing into a newly created military zone along the country’s border with Mexico.
Groups like the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico have voiced opposition to the new tactic, saying that human rights are at risk when the military is deployed to address civilian offences.
“The expansion of military detention powers in the ‘New Mexico National Defence Area’ – also known as the ‘border buffer zone’ – represents a dangerous erosion of the constitutional principle that the military should not be policing civilians,” said Rebecca Sheff, a senior staff lawyer for the group."
I've been wondering when #trump will declare #martiallaw so I was reading the wiki this morning when several things clicked:
Pam Bondi's memo claiming no right to relief.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25915967-doj-march-14-memo-alien-enemies-act/#document/p1
Trump's invocation of the enemy aliens act calling it an invasion.
The wording of the Constitution around the conditions for suspension of habeas corpus.
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S9-C2-1/ALDE_00001087/
The US is already under martial law. I just didn't realize it.
@stevebenen I believe this has nothing to do with Signal chats, and everything to do with Hegseth's refusal to endorse invoking the Insurrection Act.
Note the timing: the new allegations come less than 48 hours after that refusal leaked, and less than 24 hours after Trump did not in fact invoke the Insurrection Act on April 20. This is payback from Trump and a probable deliberate leak, pure and simple.
#politics #alt #trump #kristonoem #hegseth #martiallaw
Heather Cox Richardson Hegeseth, Noem and Martial Law 4/20/25
Today in Labor History April 20, 1914: National Guards opened fire on a mining camp during a strike in Ludlow, Colorado, killing five miners, two women, and twelve children. By the end of the strike, they had killed more than 75 people. The strike involved 10,000 members of the united Mine Workers of America (UMW), 1,200 of whom had been living in the Ludlow tent colony. Many of the “Guards” were actually goons and vigilantes hired by the Ludlow Mine Field owner, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. During the assault, they opened fire on strikers and their families with machine guns and set fire to the camp.
Mining was (and still is) a dangerous job. At the time, Colorado miners were dying on the job at a rate of more than 7 deaths per 1,000 employees. The working conditions were not only unsafe, but terribly unfair, too. Workers were paid by the ton for coal that they extracted, but weren’t paid for so-called “dead work” like shoring up unstable roofs and tunnels. This system encouraged miners to risk their lives by ignoring safety precautions and preparations so that they would have more time to extract and deliver coal. Miners also lived in “company towns” where the boss not only owned their housing and the stores that supplied their food and clothing, but charged inflated prices for these services. Furthermore, the workers were paid in “scrip,” a currency that was valid only in the company towns. So even if workers had a way to get to another store, they had no money to purchase anything. Therefore, much of what the miners earned went back into the pockets of their bosses.
In the wake of the Ludlow Massacre, bands of armed miners attacked mine guards and anti-union establishments. In nearby Trinidad, they openly distributed arms from the UMWA headquarters. Over the next ten days, miners attacked mines, killing or driving off guards and scabs, and setting building on fire. They also fought sporadic skirmishes with the Colorado National Guard. In June of 1914, a number of anarchists decided to seek revenge on Rockefeller. Alexander Berkman (a former lover, and friend, of Emma Goldman) helped plan the assassination at the New York Ferrer Center. This was also the home to the anarchist Modern School, which Berkman helped create. However, the bomb exploded prematurely, killing three anarchists. These events led to infiltration of the school and center by undercover cops.
You can read my complete article on Ludlow and the Colorado Labor Wars here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/20/the-ludlow-massacre/
And my complete article on the Modern School Movement here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2022/04/30/the-modern-school-movement/
Sunday, April 20
The Kyiv Independent [unofficial] Russia’s war against Ukraine People wait as their baskets of Easter cakes are being blessed at the city's churches on the eve of Easter in Lviv, Ukraine on April 19, 2025. This year, Christians of Western and Eastern Rites will celebrate Easter at the same time on April 20. (Michael Sorrow / Anadolu via Getty Images) Putin announces Easter ceasefire, Zelensky calls for 30-day truce. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a temporary ceasefire on […]
That's set the scene.
Trump might;
1. Obey the order,
2. Deport and ignore the order,
3. Violate and invoke the Insurrection Act, declare some form of martial law,
4. Expand SCOTUS then get a redo, or,
5. Other?
My money would be on 1.
But I've lost a lot of money.
