The #Trump admin has been considering #sanctions against Moraes for weeks, according to 4 people familiar w/the situation…. Two said they had seen a copy of a proposed sanctions order against Moraes within the last month, but said it had initially met with pushback from the #Treasury Department, an account corroborated by a senior #State Department official.

Now, his son Eduardo Bolsonaro, a federal congressman in #Brazil, is pushing #Trump to go further. In a video filmed outside the White House & posted to social media Wednesday, Eduardo #Bolsonaro said he had just concluded a round of meetings with U.S. officials.

In January, then-acting Deputy #AttorneyGeneral #EmilBove ordered the firings of about 2 dozen prosecutors who had been hired for temporary assignments to support the #Jan6 cases, but were moved into permanent roles after #Trump’s presidential win in November. Bove said he would not “tolerate subversive personnel actions by the previous administration.”

During his time as interim #USattorney in #DC, #EdMartin in February demoted several prosecutors involved in the #Jan6 cases, including the attorney who served as chief of the Capitol Siege Section. Others demoted include 2 #lawyers who helped secure #SeditiousConspiracy convictions against #OathKeepers founder #StewartRhodes & former #ProudBoys national chairman #EnriqueTarrio.

A letter that was received by one of the prosecutors was signed by AG #PamBondi. The letter did not provide a reason for their removal, effective immediately, citing only “Article II of the United States Constitution & the laws of the United States,” acc/to a copy seen by the AP.

"Trump's Kim Jong-un–style celebration of this year’s #FlagDay ...

The Trumpian June 14, 2025 #parade and celebration will be the successor to that angry #insurrection of #Jan6, 2021...

If you want to see true #patriotism this #June14, turn away from Trump’s propagandistic spectacle and look instead to those responding across the country with a loud, proud chant of #NoKings! "
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/no-kings-trump-un-american-birthday-bash-parade-june-14-army

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#SCOTUS nominations of tRump,in particular the contested one of #RBG's seat which concluded the highjacking of the Court.

6.The failed #Insurrection of #Jan6, 2021.

More milestones can be found, but I think these were the key ones before his 2nd time in office.

D) I'm not a criminal lawyer, but a legal approach regarding a criminal deed is worthwhile taking.

In the United States, insurrection against the authority of the federal government is a...

@johnb48 @LukefromDC @spiegelmama

@spiegelmama

#CalGuardTakeover
#TrumpCoup #LAprotests
#USpol #StatesRights #Legal

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...should reject this outrageous overreach.

This is beyond incompetence — this is him intentionally causing chaos, terrorizing communities, and endangering the principles of our great democracy.
It is an unmistakable step toward authoritarianism.
We will not let this stand.”

Governor #GavinNewsom"

How the alleged "#Insurrection" started:

"... #ICE officers took actions that...

In the thread above, I've made the argument that the entire Trump regime's invasion of LA, from the original Gestapo raids on Friday, all the way through to this very moment, is a carefully orchestrated authoritarian political project stapled to an engineered bit of fascist theater. To my eye, this conclusion seems pretty obvious, particularly given how quickly after protests broke out the entire Trump regime, including noted nazis Stephen Miller and Tom Homan, produced clearly-coordinated sound bites about a "violent insurrection" in LA that literally was not happening. Proving it beyond a shadow of a doubt however, is an evolving process that's going to take time and evidence; so I'm going to intersperse that evidence throughout this thread as we go along.

First up, did you know the regime brought noted anti-migrant, pro-Trump fascist propagandist Dr. Phil to LA for an exclusive "before and after" raid interview with border Czar Tom Homan?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/09/dr-phil-ice-los-angeles-raids

Talkshow host Dr Phil joined Ice agents for Los Angeles immigration raids

"Phil, whose full name is Phil McGraw, was with Ice before and after its agents conducted a series of raids on multiple locations across LA on Friday. Immigration advocates said at least 45 people were arrested, and the action was condemned by California’s governor and LA’s mayor.

It was the second time McGraw, a former practising psychologist who hosted a TV talkshow for two decades, has been embedded with Ice this year. In January, he joined the US border czar, Tom Homan, in a choreographed immigration raid in Chicago, in a stunt that was criticized at the time."

First of all The Guardian, I think describing Phil McGraw as a "talk show host" and "television personality" in this year of our discontent 2025, is a bold move; Dr. Phil is now a fascist propagandist trading on his personal relationships inside the Trump administration to push an aging conservative audience further into the Klepto Kaiser's cult of personality. He isn't on my TV anymore; he's on a fake TV network for fascists and bigot Boomers and he's actively working with the Trump regime to produce anti-migrant, pro-ICE propaganda because his career prospects at this point are virtually nonexistent otherwise.

Which is of course why I'm sharing this article at all. We already know that the regime brought in Dr. Phil to create highly-choreographed propaganda to support fascist ICE raids after he was embedded with Gestapo agents led by Tom Homan himself back in January; it's not like this is a hobby for McGraw or anything, it's his job now. What then does it say that Homan once against tapped McGraw to provide the theatrical component to fascist ICE raids, using new tactics officials knew would result in outrage and resistance, while clearly preparing to justify the deployment of US military forces to LA against then entirely peaceful protests?

It says the regime was putting on a show; and if there's one thing we know about Trump and putting on a show, it's that Downmarket Mussolini likes to go big, or go home.

@Gustodon

Essentially, the #Republicans proved #UnitedStates #Democracy CAN be overwhelmed by propaganda disguised as #news media and further, the approximate US dollar value required to do so in this #Boomer motivated experiment in US #history.

Using #Capitalism to destroy Democracy is an obviously simple strategy, making #insurrection a common and even acceptable practice.
#TrumpInsurrection

It's clear that while there is public unrest in #LosAngeles, the city is not in the throes of an active #insurrection against the federal government - a claim #Trump & his allies have repeatedly made since #protests began on Friday. "An insurrection against the laws & sovereignty of the United States," White House Deputy Chief of Staff #StephenMiller wrote on X in response to videos of #protesters blocking a highway.

Another US ofcl told NPR the mobilization was not an invocation of the #InsurrectionAct. #Trump, though he has referred to #protesters as "insurrectionists," has not said the clashes amount to an #insurrection.

"I wouldn't call it quite an insurrection, but it could have led to an insurrection," Trump told reporters earlier in the day. He also said the situation in #California was "heading in the right direction" when asked if he would deploy #Marines.

“What they’re doing is wrong, the intimidation,” Henning said of #Trump & #immigration officials.

He dismissed Trump’s characterization of the several days of local #protests as an #insurrection:

“This is not #Jan6. We’re not rioting.”

The 1807 #InsurrectionAct #law also permits the president to deploy #troops to suppress “any #insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy” in a #state that “opposes or #obstructs the execution of the laws of the #UnitedStates or impedes the course of justice under those laws.”

[also not the case in #LosAngeles]