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Written by Tim Brown on 2024-11-17 at 21:06

🗞️🧵 Limiting my news intake was a good decision, but doesn’t make reading it any easier.

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Written by Tim Brown on 2024-11-17 at 21:08

Our next president appears to be hiring for loyalty so he won’t be prevented from using the military against citizens, particularly protesters.

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Written by Tim Brown on 2024-11-17 at 21:09

“He is hiring – above all else – for loyalty. He has told advisers that his biggest regret from his first term was personnel, and that he was betrayed by “traitors” [who] resisted his efforts to mobilize the U.S. government to overturn the 202 election result. This time, there will be no one in the room who sees it as their job to restrain Mr. Trump.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/16/us/politics/trump-transition-picks.html

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Written by Tim Brown on 2024-11-17 at 21:09

“Much attention has been paid to the president-elect’s planned crusades for his next term against immigrants and transgender people. But less discussed has been another group on the list: protesters.”

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/trump-pro-palestine-protest-hr9495-israel-gaza-student-activists-dissent/

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Written by Tim Brown on 2024-11-17 at 21:10

“‘We are writing the actual executive orders.’ … Vought laid out how his think tank is crafting the legal rationale for invoking the Insurrection Act, a law that gives the president broad power to use the military for domestic law enforcement.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/video-donald-trump-russ-vought-center-renewing-america-maga

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