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Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – January 18, 2026
by Tony Wikrent
Dingbat imperialism and its malcontents
Dingbat Imperialism, the Lowest Stage of Capitalism
John Ganz, Jan 13, 2026 [Unpopular Front]
Germany planning ‘Arctic Sentry’ Nato mission to protect Greenland
[Telegraph, via Naked Capitalism 01-13-2025]
Tech billionaires behind Greenland bid want to build ‘freedom cities’
[Responsible Statecraft, via Naked Capitalism 01-13-2025]
The Oligarchs Pushing for Conquest in Greenland
Casey Michel, January 13, 2026 [The New Republic]
Trump’s fixation on filching the island territory from Denmark may seem like the demented ravings of a mad king. But to a cohort of plutocrat weirdos, it makes perfect sense.
Trump not violating any law
‘He who saves his Country does not violate any Law’
Joe DePaolo, May 4th, 2025 [mediaite.com]
Stephen Prager, January 15, 2026 [CommonDreams]
How Trump gave the green light for the killing of protestors.
[Borderland Talk with Jenn Budd, via Naked Capitalism 01-12-2025]
…I will argue to my dying day that he did not see her or her wife as an actual physical threat in that moment, but someone who should be taught a lesson. This analysis is based in my experience as a former agent, and teaching lessons to people who do not respect our authority is rampant in ICE, Border Patrol and CBP. Watch HBO’s Critical Incident to see all three agencies teach Anastasio Hernandez-Rojas this lesson….
But in October, things changed.
ICE shot at protestor Marimar Martinez hitting her five times on October 4, 2025. Now, Renee Good is dead. What changed? Why has ICE started shooting at people trying to warn the community of their presence when they did not before?
What changed is that ICE and other agencies performing civil immigration enforcement were given a directive from the President of the United States to label them as “domestic terrorists.” On September 25, 2025, before the Martinez shooting, Trump issued an executive order titled, “Countering Domestic Terrorism and Political Violence.” This EO changed the definition of who is considered by federal agents to be a “domestic terrorist” to include:
- anti-Americanism
- anti-capitalism
- anti-Christianity
- support for the overthrow of the United States Government
- extremism on migration
- extremism on race
- extremism on gender
- hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family
- hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on religion, and
- hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on morality.
To be fair, people like Marimar and Renee who maintain what the right-wing and this administration considers “extremism on migration” have been considered “domestic terrorists” for quite some time now. But they were not given the green light to kill them until the administration officially designated them as ‘domestic terrorists” in the executive order….
Chris Hedges, Jan 11, 2026
The Trump administration is consolidating the familiar machinery of terror of all authoritarian states. We must resist now. If we wait, it will be too late.
I have seen the masked goons who terrorize our streets before. I saw them during the “Dirty War” in Argentina, where 30,000 men, women and children were “disappeared” by the military junta. Victims were held in secret prisons, savagely tortured and murdered. To this day, many families do not know the fate of their loved ones.
I saw them in El Salvador, when death squads were killing 800 people a month. I saw them in Guatemala under the dictatorship of José Efraín Ríos Montt. I saw them in Augusto Pinochet’s Chile and in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. I saw them in Iran under the rule of the ayatollahs where I was arrested and jailed twice and once deported in handcuffs. I saw them in Hafez al-Assad’s Syria. I saw them in Bosnia, where Muslims were herded into concentration camps, executed and buried in mass graves.
I know these goons. I have been a prisoner in their jails and spent hours in their interrogation rooms. I have been beaten by them. I have been deported, and in several cases banned, from their countries. I know what is coming….
[X-Twitter, via Naked Capitalism 01-13-2025]
https://x.com/sandibachom/status/2010874067419873362
Exclusive: Secret ICE Programs Revealed
Ken Klippenstein [via Naked Capitalism 01-15-2025]
Important.
‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid
[404 Media, via Naked Capitalism 01-17-2025]
“Stupod B*tch”: GoFundMe for Minnesota ICE Agent Is Chilling
[New Republic, via Naked Capitalism 01-13-2025]
US Border Agents Intentionally Stepped in Front of Moving Vehicles to Justify Shooting at Them
[Nation, via Naked Capitalism 01-13-2025]
Michale Macher, Phenomenal World, via Naked Capitalism 01-12-2025]
How a 40-second encounter led an ICE agent to shoot and kill a Twin Cities resident
[Minnesota Star Tribune, via Naked Capitalism 01-12-2025]
[NC: Comprehensive report and not a good one for ICE.]
[X-Twitter, via Naked Capitalism 01-12-2025]
GarrisonLovely@GarrisonLovely
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cofounder Joe Lonsdale just endorsed apartheid South Africa and Rhodesia and said the US should move toward their model of open white supremacy.
My final message before I’m on an FBI watchlist: Palantir, Epstein, & The New York Times
Juan Sebastian Pinto [a former Palantir employee, via Naked Capitalism 01-12-2025]
Strategic Political Economy
China curbs high-frequency trading to de-risk markets
[Asia Times, via Naked Capitalism 01-17-2025]
[TW: Worth noting to show, yes, it is possible to actually regulate financial markets.]
Global power shift
[X-Twitter, via Naked Capitalism 01-17-2025]
Seyed M. Marandi: Violent Riots & a Massive War Coming
Glenn Diesen [YouTube, via Naked Capitalism 01-13-2025]
‘Kill Switch’—Iran Shuts Down Starlink Internet For First Time
Zak Doffman, Jan 12, 2026 [Forbes]
We have not seen this before. Iran’s digital blackout has now deployed military jammers, reportedly supplied by Russia, to shut down access to Starlink Internet. This is a game-changer for the Plan-B connectivity frequently used by protesters and anti-regime activists when ordinary access to the internet is stopped..
“Despite reports that tens of thousands of Starlink units are operating inside Iran,” says Iran Wire, “the blackout has also reached satellite connections.” It is reported that about 30 per cent of Starlink’s uplink and downlink traffic was (initially) disrupted,” quickly rising “to more than 80 per cent” within hours.
The CIA/Mossad Operation to Spark a Color Revolution in Iran has Failed
Larry Johnson [via Naked Capitalism 01-12-2025]
The “Trump Doctrine” Is Shaped By Elbridge Colby’s “Strategy Of Denial”
Andrew Korybko [via Naked Capitalism 01-12-2025]
Trump Declares National Emergency to Protect Stolen Venezuela Funds
[Antiwar, via Naked Capitalism 01-12-2025]
[Black Mountain Analysis, via Naked Capitalism 01-12-2025]
Felonomics
1 Year Into Trump 2.0, the Social Security Administration Is in Disarray
Martin Burns and Mary Liz Burns, Jan 16, 2026 [Common Dreams]
They’re not capitalists — they’re predatory criminals
Regulators say DoorDash and Uber Eats chiseled NYC delivery workers out of $550M in tips
[Gothamistvia Naked Capitalism 01-15-2025]
Information age dystopia / surveillance state
LAWYER: Cops Have a NEW “Social Score” to Label You a Threat
[Hampton Law, YouTube, via Naked Capitalism 01-13-2025]
[NC: Usefully tells you which settings to disable/enable on your iPhone or Android to reduce data extraction. Even though I had told my tech woman to do that, she had missed some. Surprised it does not recommend turning off WiFi save when you specifically want to use it (yours truly is perfectly happy to pay for connectivity for the sake of my privacy, which I infer is a outlier practice). My ride share app asks I turn on WiFi to facilitate geolocation, which despite GPS, is pretty poor otherwise. I prefer to type in my pickup.]
Scott Ritter [via Naked Capitalism 01-15-2025]
[Ritter’s accounts zeroed out without explanation.]
Climate and environmental crises
Ocean Temperatures Just Hit a Dire New Record
[Scientific American, via Naked Capitalism 01-13-2025]
World’s richest 1% have already used fair share of emissions for 2026, says Oxfam
[The Guardian, via Naked Capitalism 01-12-2025]
Democrats’ political malpractice
Do the Democrats Have the Guts to Outflank Trump on Defense Industry Looting?
Les Leopold, Jan 13, 2026 [Wall Street’s War on Workers]
Monopoly Round-Up: Why Did Trump Just Attack the Fed and Corporate America?
Matt Stoller, Jan 12, 2026 [BIG]
Resistance
What to Do If ICE Shows Up: Know Your Rights
Kim Wehle, Jan 11, 2026 [Zeteo]
Here are five guidelines for how to respond if US federal immigration agents stop, approach you, or knock at your door.
1. If ICE stops or intimidates you, do not precipitously flee
2. If detained (even temporarily), you can stay silent
3. ICE can make certain arrests without a warrant, but it cannot search your home without either a judicial warrant or your consent
4. If detained, you can ask the ICE agent to identify themselves
5. You can hire a lawyer after an arrest, but whether you can immediately call one depends on state law….
Here’s How You Can Challenge Wage Garnishment for Defaulted Student Loans
[Truthout, via Naked Capitalism 01-12-2025]
Civic republicanism
Aurelien [via Naked Capitalism 01-15-2025]
Last week, I suggested that these days governments and the private sector were increasingly following a policy of nihilistic destruction, which was the logical, if uncomfortable, outcome of the kind of apocalyptic individualism now rampant everywhere after the unchallenged triumph of Liberal ideas.
I think that case is sufficiently well established, and this week I want to look in more detail at specific areas where this is happening, or has even happened, and consider what some of the practical consequences may be. They are all logically deducible from the ultra-individualist, almost autistic, mindset that Liberalism at its worst entails, and it may be worth saying just a word about that first….
Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – January 11, 2026
by Tony Wikrent
“A curtain of darkness is settling over our nation.”
[TW: For a reason I shall explain, there were a number of posts this past week that struck me but I have not included all of them here. What struck me was the impression that the writers are beginning to wrestle with some truly fundamental questions of human nature, and how human nature can be molded — or more accurately, channeled and contained — by how society is organized, according to which principles, and whether the leaders of society embody, to some degree or another, those principles. So, I was greatly encouraged a couple days ago when a reader from this site reached out to me using Facebook messages to initiate a discussion of civic republicanism.]
In Defense of Pretexts — Paying tribute to virtue is better than the alternative…
Brian Beutler, Jan 09, 2026 [Off Message]
…my impression is most people, even many of Trump’s own loyalists, haven’t experienced all this as just another week in Trumpville. They feel more disturbed—or, in MAGA, more titillated—as though a new threshold of wickedness has been crossed.
That’s been my feeling since Sunday morning, for reasons I at first struggled to articulate.…
I would of course prefer to live in a world where policymakers and elected officials were scrupulously honest and above board. If that were our condition, we wouldn’t have pretexts, because we wouldn’t start any wars. We might finish them, but we wouldn’t go looking.
Building a world like that should be our north star. But in the world of today—of mixed and rotten motives, where wars of choice happen whether I want them to or not—I’ll take false justifications for bad acts.
If you care about America’s highest aspirations—freedom, equality, self-governance rule of law—the pretexts matter. We can be clear eyed about the people who lay false claim to these ideals, yet still take some solace in their lies, because the lies confirm that the ideals still have power.
Why pretend that a war of plunder is meant to spread democracy or fight communism or defend the homeland, unless you know that the public values certain higher principles, and may revolt if you traduce them? If your true motives are toxic, you have to conceal them, because the people—we the people—are better than you.
This is the tribute vice pays to virtue in the rawest sense, and it is revealing. These are cynical people, many of whom have no place in their hearts for principle or consistency. But if that is their nature, why would they pay tribute to anything? Vice is vice.
They do it because virtue still controls. It’s still the default. Because they haven’t won the masses over to uncut evil.
By dispensing with the pretexts, Trump suggests he thinks he’s overcome that obstacle, worn the public down, made us as malevolent as he is. He still pays some tribute to virtue. He won’t cop to having launched a war. But the theft and subjugation are right there on the surface, without any tributes to virtue.
I think this is what has people so unsettled. Why he has to be stopped preemptively and forced to reverse, or else be run out of office. If he prevails—not just in acting lawlessly, but in doing so nakedly, and without pushback—then it’s over. We become changed.
That’s why I miss the pretexts. It’s also why I take some solace in the fact that his Venezuela “policy” polls poorly. That his menacing of Greenland polls even worse….
Ryan Enos, Jan 09, 2026
Right now, the Republican Party is enabling the authoritarian leader who is ignoring the law and terrorizing his own citizens. Because of this party’s leader, we no longer live in a full democracy. But, despite this or, perhaps, because of it, the future of democracy in the United States will depend on choices made within the Republican Party.
This must be the path because a liberal democracy requires more than one functioning party, and, at least in the foreseeable future, the Republican Party will be one of them. Our plan for sustaining that liberal society can’t be shutting the GOP out of power, but rather must include shaping the Republican Party, the party that will represent the approximately half of society that inevitably holds right-wing beliefs, into a party that upholds liberalism (small l) and democracy.
The alternative is to hope that Democrats win all elections moving forward. But if this is our plan for sustaining democracy, we are cooked…..
Trump not violating any law
‘He who saves his Country does not violate any Law’
Joe DePaolo, May 4th, 2025 [mediaite.com]
Rep. Omar Warns Trump Aims to Provoke Enough Agitation in Minnesota So He Can Declare ‘Martial Law’
Jon Queally, Jan 10, 2026 [CommonDreams]
Jim Stewartson, Jan 07, 2026 [MindWar]
Following ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good, Trump officials threaten mass repression
[Countercurrents, via Naked Capitalism 01-10-2025]
… The conscious and deliberate character of Good’s killing is underscored by the open and unapologetic defense of the murder by Trump administration officials. By hailing the killing, Trump and the coterie of fascists in the administration are making clear that it was an expression of official government policy.
Everything coming out of the mouths of administration officials is a lie, and everyone knows it is a lie. On Thursday, Vice President JD Vance held a press conference in which he slandered Good and praised her killer. He called the federal agent’s actions “legitimate” and denounced the media for “talking about this guy as if he’s a murderer,” adding menacingly, “Be a little bit more careful.”
The Trump administration is seizing on the murder of Good as a pretext for a sweeping escalation in the criminalization of political opposition. Vance announced the creation of a new assistant attorney general position that will answer directly to the president. Asked about his message to “far-leftist agitators,” Vance declared: “Now they have an assistant attorney general who is going to prosecute and investigate their fraud and their violence more aggressively than it has ever been investigated.”
Vance accused “a group of left-wing radicals” of using “domestic terror techniques” to oppose the government’s immigration policies.
He never referred to Good by name, instead smearing her as “that woman,” a “deranged leftist” who was “brainwashed.” He insisted the killer was “protected by absolute immunity,” denounced the local investigation into the murder, and declared, “The unprecedented thing is the idea that a local official can actually prosecute a federal official with absolute immunity.” ….
In an extraordinary statement, Trump declared that he operates outside of any legal constraint. Asked whether there were any limits on his ability to strike, invade or coerce other nations, Trump responded: “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.” He dismissed international law outright—“I don’t need international law”—and made clear that he would be the sole arbiter of any legal constraints: “It depends what your definition of international law is.” ….
While leading Democrats have issued insincere statements in response to the killing of Good, their main concern is to contain the explosive growth of opposition within the United States…. At a press conference Thursday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries were asked if they would use their budgetary powers to rein in ICE. They refused to answer….
Letters from an American, January 10, 2026
Heather Cox Richardson, Jan 11, 2026
…Hours after Good’s death, Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem appeared in Manhattan behind a podium emblazoned with the words: “ONE OF OURS, ALL OF YOURS.”….
We’re All “Domestic Terrorists” Now
Ross Rosenfeld, January 8, 2026 [The New Republic]
In ICE’s Own Words, It’s “Wartime” in America
Michael Tomasky, January 9, 2026 [The New Republic]
ICE just launched a “wartime recruitment” campaign and seeks agents who want to “defend” their “culture.” There will be more Renee Goods….
Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality
[New York Times, via Naked Capitalism 01-09-2025]
Jim Stewartson, Jan 09, 2026 [MindWar]
A word often used to describe Trump is authoritarian. But this is insufficient. Authority is the recognized right to control outcomes within a set of constraints accepted as binding—familial, religious, cultural, moral or legal.
The U.S. federal government is deliberately destroying the idea of any authority being legitimate except the ability to project coercive violence. We are living in the “might makes right” world of neo-Nazi ideology, a kratocracy.
- William Montague defined kratocracy as: a government by those strong enough to seize control through violence or deceit.
In ‘Unhinged’ Rant, Miller Says US Has Right to Take Over Any Country For Its Resources
Julia Conley, January 06, 2025 [CommonDreams]
Trump admin sends tough private message to oil companies on Venezuela
[Politico, via Naked Capitalism 01-04-2026]
Administration officials have told oil executives in recent weeks that if they want compensation for their rigs, pipelines and other seized property, then they must be prepared to go back into Venezuela now and invest heavily in reviving its shattered petroleum industry, two people familiar with the administration’s outreach told POLITICO on Saturday….
Monopoly Round-Up: A Gunboat Oligarchy Goes After Venezuelan Oil
Matt Stoller, Jan 04, 2026 [BIG]
[TW: a history lesson that is grandly encouraging. Wright Patman would be a wonderful subject for Ron Chernow’s next book (but so also would be Lincoln economic advisor Henry Carey; Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner, who delivered one of the most important American explanations of civic republicanism; and Pennsylvania Congressman Thadeous Stevens, whose warnings of the dreadful consequences of failing to seize the wealth of the slave-holders proved to be entirely accurate). Also important is Stoller noting that Trump is really just a continuation of Bush. Implication: getting rid of Trump will not solve the underlying problems of an entrenched oligarchy controlling both major political parties, and the militant conservative and libertarian movements that are nurtured and richly funded by that entrenched oligarchy.]
Trump kicked off 2026 with a military attack on Venezuela and a naked seizure of oil resources. Wall Street is overjoyed. Plus, Mamdani takes office and billionaires rage at a wealth tax….
…U.S. domination of the oil reserves of South America is not new. And neither is the fusion of corporate and state interest.
Ninety five years ago, in 1931, Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon, who owned Gulf Oil (now Chevron), forced the President of Colombia to give his company the Barco oil concession, which borders Venezuela. How? Well Wall Street banks and the U.S. government threatened to withhold vitally needed bank loans if Colombia did not cede the franchise….
At the time, Democrats were incompetent and split, as it was an era of deep reverence for the wealthy and bitter culture warring over race and alcohol. For instance, the head of the DNC in the late 1920s, a Dupont executive named John J. Raskob, published a pamphlet titled “Everybody Ought to Be Rich” encouraging Americans to borrow money to invest in the stock market.
Just as there is increasing support for cynical and nihilistic figures today, many in the 1920s felt warmly towards Mellon, Mussolini, and authoritarianism in general….
But then came the 1929 crash, and a period of “debunking” of myths, as Louis Brandeis put it. The old order was discredited. And a political realignment occurred. The Democrats turned to liberalism, and former party elites like Raskob became bitter foes of FDR in the 1930s. But more importantly, Patman’s impeachment campaign succeeded. Mellon was fired, because then-President Herbert Hoover was under political pressure over the widespread revulsion towards economic elites. You get a sense of this dynamic by going through Patman’s Congressional correspondence. “We have just got Al Capone,” wrote one Texan. “Now let’s get some of the others.”
…Ultimately, what the attack on Venezuela shows is that Donald Trump decided to use his 2024 mandate for change to revert back to a traditional gunboat diplomacy framework, both domestically and abroad. Like Mellon, Harding, Hoover, and George W. Bush, Trump is operating on behalf of financial capital. Indeed, Trump more reflects Bush than anyone else; his administration is staffed with former Bush Republicans, and the GOP Congress is full of Bush adherents.
by Tony Wikrent
Trump DHS Post Calling for ‘100 Million Deportations’ Suggests Intent to Kick Out Nonwhite Citizens
Stephen Prager, January 02, 2026 [CommonDreams]
The Trump administration provoked horror this week with the suggestion that the United States could be turned into a paradise if over a quarter of the people in the country were deported.
On Wednesday, the official social media account for the Department of Homeland Security posted a piece of artwork depicting a pink late-1960s Cadillac Eldorado parked on a bright, idyllic beach. Over the clear blue sky are the words “America after 100 million deportations.”
Jim Stewartson, January 01, 2026 [MindWar]
To put this number in perspective:
- The total number of undocumented immigrants in America is about 14 million.
- The total number of foreign-born people in America—including naturalized citizens—is about 53 million.
- The total number of Black and Hispanic people in America is about 110 million.
- 100 million is almost a third of the total U.S. population.
- Millions would necessarily die in any such process.
- The economy would collapse.
The “third world” framing in the post makes the intention explicit. It’s not about crime or even immigrants; it’s about race. The only conclusion you can reach is that DHS’s goal is to forcibly transform America into a whites-only ethnostate like apartheid South Africa—by deporting every Black and brown person… somewhere….
DHS Says REAL ID, Which DHS Certifies, Is Too Unreliable To Confirm U.S. Citizenship
[Reason, via Naked Capitalism 01-03-2025]
Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here
Radley Balko, December 24, 2025 [The New Republic]
With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse….
…Over the last year, I’ve spoken to and met with immigration attorneys and advocates all over the country. Many who openly spoke with me prior to the 2024 election are no longer willing to be quoted, fearing retaliation against their organizations or their funders, or even against them personally.
In more recent months, I’ve also interviewed former ICE and Customs and Border Protection officials, and former Immigration Court judges who served across multiple administrations of both parties. Career legal and law enforcement officials tend to be circumspect in their critiques of fellow law enforcement officers. They tend to avoid casual references to police states, or comparing U.S. police agencies to those in authoritarian countries. That’s no longer the case. These career police executives and prosecutors now use language I’ve rarely heard from current or former government officials in my career….
by Tony Wikrent
Howie Klein (February 20, 1948–December 24, 2025)
Thomas Neuburger, December 25, 2025 [downwithtyranny.com]
[TW: Howie had a keen instinct for news and articles that could move the needle in favor of justice, freedom, and solidarity. And he was also hardened by a deep repugnance for the hypocrisy and transgressions of conservatives, libertarians and the morbidly rich. It is exactly the lack of that repugnance that makes centrists and most Democratic Party leaders so soft, squishy, pliable, and ultimately useless. I will greatly miss Klein and his online efforts. ]
Trump not violating any law
‘He who saves his Country does not violate any Law’
Joe DePaolo, May 4th, 2025 [mediaite.com]
On Trump’s “battleship”
[TW: First of all, let me note the obvious. Floating the idea for a new battleship is only evidence that Trump and his minions have no knowledge of naval history and no understanding of modern warfare. But I’ve been extremely disappointed by the media coverage so far. No one has yet slogged through the books, articles, writings and internet postings of the US Naval Institute and the Naval War College to report back what the current naval consensus and discourse is concerning major surface combatants.
[Secondly, there should not be so much attention on Trump’s use of the word “battleship.” The US Navy has for decades been subjected to a debate over whether the largest number of its surface warships are most properly called frigates or destroyers, with some people adding to the confusion by wanting to use the word “cruiser.” Trump can use the word “battleship” if he wants to, but the fact that he did not include some discussion of how his “Trump class of battleships” will mark a departure from or bear similarity to the historically understood use of the word is just further evidence that the man is an imbecile interested only in propagandizing his glory and grandeur, and not actually engaging in a discussion of naval strategy, doctrine, tactics, and required capabilities.
[The last point is much more important and profound. Has Congress authorized and approved funding for a new class of surface warships? No, it has not. This means that if Trump and his regime actually proceeds to so much as sign a contract in furtherance of building a “Trump class” warship, he will once again be acting in complete defiance of the US Constitution and the rule of law. Article I,
Section 8 on the powers and duties of Congress is clear, and the historical development of the budgeting and spending process of the national government is unambiguous: any decision on any program of military spending must originate in Congress as a Defense Authorization Act, and then Congress must vote to approve actual funding with a Defense Appropriations Act.
[Trump’s announcement of a new class of surface combatant and a so-called “Golden Fleet” (which smacks loudly of the ostentation of ancient oligarchies like Venice) is just one more instance of Trump’s complete disregard for the Constitution. Which he swore to uphold and defend.
[And which he craftily neglected to place his hand on a bible when he did so.]
The real purpose of ICE raids.
[Borderland Talk with Jenn Budd, Dec 20, 2025, via Naked Capitalism 12-22-2025]