As we know White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller has an insatiable thirst to lock up and/or deport Hispanic people from this country. He’s been working on his depraved plan for years and he’s never been so lucky until this year. He’s got the felon in the WH’s ear on this; and he’s likely not sleeping because he’s spending so much time yelling for more people to be torn from their families and communities.
Miller now has a HUGE militarization force thanks to the cooperation of Cabinet Secretaries, Noem, and Hegseth. He’s not wasting anytime using those resources.
We’ve all seen the videos and photos of what’s happened in California, Chicago, and Portland, so I won’t share those here, especially because there’s been good diaries on this site about those protests.
Speak of the devil…
x
Pritzker: "If the Constitution means anything -- and I guess we all are questioning that right now -- the Insurrection Act cannot be invoked ... they just want troops on the ground because they want to militarize especially blue cities in blue states."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-10-12T15:39:52.613Z
The Insurrection Act is an incredibly dangerous escalation of the militarization of our cities. Some people think that the idea is to keep expanding their presence to intimidate and suppress the vote in 2026.
********
.Next up is Mr. Milquetoast, aka, Speaker Mike Johnson.
I don’t normally like to share Bill Kristol, but this is an important point from the linked article. Speaker Johnson is just one of the republican enablers in Congress, but a critical one. Obviously as Speaker he wields a lot of power and because he has mastered the faux folksy demeanor that works so well when you’re lying. It’s that faux folksy demeanor that makes him fit that role described in the tweet below.
He’s also engineered the shutdown of the legislative branch. Sure, the Senate is still operable, but they don’t have a key role until the House is in session and can vote on the Continuing Resolution. The prez does not have a legislative agenda, so only the bar minimum will be done. Everything the administration wants to do they attempt via Executive Orders, avoiding the legislative branch when possible.
Johnson is especially good at the faux sincerity schtick, and therefore a key piece of the authoritarian playbook.
So, his actions and inactions are not only protecting pedophiles by his decision to not swear in newly elected Democrat, Adelita Grijalva, who has publicly stated she will provide the key vote to release the Epstein files; but also to not bring the House of Representatives into session.
Then there’s this...
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Friday that he won’t call House lawmakers back to Washington until the government shutdown ends.
“We will come back, and get back to legislative session, as soon as the Senate Democrats turn the lights back on,” Johnson told reporters in the Capitol, as the lapse in funding stretched into a 10th day. “That’s the fact. That’s where we are.”
thehill.com/....
He’s singlehandedly neutering the Legislative branch, and therefore giving the Executive branch, (the rapist in the WH, along with Stephen Miller), the power they crave.
********
Then there’s the six people on the Supreme Court who seem to be determined to do whatever it takes to protect the convicted felon in the White House.
There are several cases that SCOTUS has ruled on that show their subservience to the convicted felon in the White House. Today, I’m focused on this voting rights case only because voter suppression is a long standing problem that adds a possible legal way to cheat in elections.
Of course, we won’t know until next summer how the Court will rule on this case, but if their past and current actions are any indicator, it could be devastating for voting rights. After the voting rights’ wipeout that was their Shelby v Holder ruling, anything more that is done to voting rights will continue to chip away at Democratic voters. As we’ve seen repeatedly in the last few cycles, every vote counts!
Legal voter suppression, and passive voter suppression has been manipulating our elections for years! We know that when we read about states stripping likely Democratic voters from the rolls, and reducing voting sites. But we often forget when we do post mortems of election losses. We have to fight the suppression and keep it front of mind post-elections.
*******
The idea of a unitary executive has been a dream of republicans for decades. We are getting dangerously close to that scenario.
