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5️⃣ LA Mayor Considers Curfew as 100 Arrested
Mayor Karen Bass is considering curfews after 100 arrests Monday night—but here's the reality check our LA subscribers keep sending us: this "chaos" is confined to roughly 0.2% of the city's total area. While Trump deploys 4,700 federal troops for what amounts to a few blocks of unrest, Bass admits she has "no idea" what the Marines are actually supposed to do beyond guarding federal buildings. The disconnect between the manufactured crisis and on-ground reality couldn't be starker. Our thousands of LA subscribers report walking down Wilshire Boulevard getting ice cream while Trump claims the city burns.
4️⃣ Speaker Johnson: Newsom Should Be "Tarred and Feathered"
House Speaker Mike Johnson—the same guy who shares a "how much porn did you watch today" app with his adopted child—called for Governor Newsom to be "tarred and feathered." This colonial-era mob violence rhetoric from the third-highest constitutional officer reveals how quickly democratic norms crumble when authoritarians feel threatened. Meanwhile, Newsom's responding like a future president should: calling Trump a "stone cold liar" and challenging him directly—"Come and get me then." This is his audition, and he's nailing it.
3️⃣ Canada's Military Surge Triggers Trump Panic
Mark Carney just pulled an Avro Arrow moment on America. Canada's largest military mobilization since WWII—hitting NATO's 2% GDP target a decade early with $18-20 billion in new spending—has the Trump regime "panicking" according to White House insiders. Why? Because Canada's message is clear: "We choose partners, not masters." The military-industrial complex is losing 75 cents of every Canadian military dollar they've pocketed for generations. When America's closest ally goes full sovereignty mode, it sends a message to every other nation doing military business with the U.S.
2️⃣ Starlink Security Nightmare Meets Moscow Apology Tour
Trump's keeping Starlink at the White House despite cybersecurity experts calling it a "security nightmare"—an unmonitored satellite connection that bypasses all protocols. Meanwhile, Elon's dad Errol was licking Putin's boots in Moscow, calling his son's Trump challenge "a mistake" while sitting comfortably next to Foreign Minister Lavrov. The same weekend. The connection between emerald mine money, Soviet-era KGB relationships, and today's Russian influence operations isn't coincidence—it's a decades-long operation finally bearing fruit.
1️⃣ Trump Eyes Insurrection Act as LA Burns
Here's the endgame: Trump's manufactured LA "crisis" is his pretext for the Insurrection Act. He's gone from "no insurrection" to "paid insurrectionists" in 48 hours while deploying the most lethal fighting force on the planet against American civilians. The pardoned January 6th rioters aren't coincidentally back on the streets—they're his private army. Enrique Tarrio's tweet says it all: "Deputize the Proud Boys." This is Putin's playbook: create the crisis, deploy overwhelming force, normalize authoritarianism while your base cheers for "order."
Day 141: American Authoritarianism Enters Kinetic Phase
Day 141 of the Trump administration revealed something chilling: we're no longer watching isolated authoritarian tactics unfold one by one. We're witnessing their coordinated convergence into a comprehensive assault on democratic institutions.
The Pattern Is Clear
America is experiencing a Kinetic moment where the forces that are driving us into authoritarianism turn from planning in to action
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