Headline: "Russia and India begin joint military drills today."
India was an American ally. Our military alliance was called #TheQuad. After Trump, #PutinsPuppet, began his current term as president, he alienated India, causing India to cooperate more with Russia and China.
#NationalSecurity #military #politics
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"This country has a longstanding and foundational tradition of resistance to government overreach, especially in the form of military intrusion into civil affairs… This historical tradition boils down to a simple proposition: this is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law."
– U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut
The call never came. Instead, #Hegseth was trying to beat a simultaneous pushup record during a Navy & Air Force football game. A day later, #JBPritzker announced that #Trump had ordered 400 members of the #Texas #NationalGuard to deploy into #Illinois, #Oregon & elsewhere. He also said that 300 Illinois National Guard troops were being #federalized against his “vigorous objections.”
As Gov #JBPritzker awaited word from the #Trump admin about the deployment of the #NationalGuard in #Illinois, he cleared his calendar on Saturday for an anticipated call from #Defense Secy #PeteHegseth.
#DerelictionOfDuty #ToxicMasculinity #law #military #PosseComitatusAct #MilitaryState #MartialLaw #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #Gestapo
https://chicago.suntimes.com/illinois-governor/2025/10/07/national-guard-deployment-illinois-pritzker-trump-white-house
"Join Common Defense, labor unions, and veteran advocates to rally against devastating cuts to VA services and union contracts. Together, we're standing up for veterans, workers, and military families." Saturday Oct 11th, 11AM
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Miles Taylor: #tRump's #tyranny needs just ONE more thing to succeed. Even his best henchmen can't provide him with the most powerful tool needed for a #military takeover.
"Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed." — Étienne de la Boétie
#autocracy #history #protest #civildisobedience
https://www.treason.io/p/read-trumps-tyranny-needs-just-one
#Trump has said he would be willing to invoke the #InsurrectionAct to get around #CourtOrders. It allows the president to dispatch active duty #military in states that are unable to put down an insurrection or are defying federal #law.
“If I had to enact it — I’d do that,” Trump said Monday. “If people were being killed, & courts were holding us up, or governors or mayors were holding us up.”
Trump’s bid to deploy the #military on #US soil over local opposition has triggered a conflict with #BlueState governors. In #Oregon, a judge over the weekend blocked the Guard’s deployment to #Portland.
The #Trump admin has portrayed the cities as war-ravaged & lawless amid its crackdown on illegal #immigration. Officials in #Illinois & Oregon, however, say military intervention isn’t needed & that federal involvement is inflaming the situation.
AP saw #military personnel in uniforms with the #Texas #NationalGuard patch at the #US #Army Reserve Center in Elwood, 55 miles southwest of #Chicago. On Monday, TX Republican Gov #GregAbbott posted a picture on social media showing Guard members from his state boarding a plane, but he didn’t specify where they were going.