Looks like when SECWAR realizes that civilian legal action won’t silence critics, he can just draft and court-martial some of them.
Be careful what you wish for, more publicity on this probably won’t end well for the administration
It’s not really a new development that Trump intervened on behalf of those specific criminal sex traffickers (among other similar cases). It’s just a new way in which they intervened.
Trump’s special envoy, Richard Grenell, met the Romanian foreign minister at the Munich Security Conference. Both diplomats served as ambassadors to Germany during Trump’s first term.
A source told the paper a request was made to return the Tates’ passports to allow them to travel during the ongoing proceedings. The Romanian foreign minister, Emil Hurezeanu, confirmed the US had raised the Tate brothers’ case.
In November, Tristan Tate touted the brother’s influence on the US election, posting on X: “Millions of young men in Europe and the USA have a healthy rightwing approach to politics that they would not have if Andrew Tate had never appeared on their phone screens. His role in this cannot be overlooked.”
These cabinet meetings where his underlings repeatedly sing Trump’s praises sound like a Politburo meeting (although there is no record of the fearless leader at those meetings dozing off).
It’s damn near comedy. Reminds me more of the Dear Leader thing in North Korea. “Yesterday I played golf with Dear Leader and he hit 18 holes-in-one in a row”
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DOJ having trouble doing the political retribution thing.
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Yay thought police for legal immigration!
The State Department is instructing its staff to reject visa applications from people who worked on fact-checking, content moderation or other activities the Trump administration considers “censorship” of Americans’ speech.
The directive, sent in an internal memo on Tuesday, is focused on applicants for H-1B visas for highly skilled workers, which are frequently used by tech companies, among other sectors. The memo was first reported by Reuters; NPR also obtained a copy.
“If you uncover evidence an applicant was responsible for, or complicit in, censorship or attempted censorship of protected expression in the United States, you should pursue a finding that the applicant is ineligible” for a visa, the memo says. It refers to a policy announced by Secretary of State Marco Rubio in May restricting visas from being issued to “foreign officials and persons who are complicit in censoring Americans.”
The Trump administration has been highly critical of tech companies’ efforts to police what people are allowed to post on their platforms and of the broader field of trust and safety, the tech industry’s term for teams that focus on preventing abuse, fraud, illegal content, and other harmful behavior online.
On Wednesday, the State Department announced it would require H-1B visa applicants and their dependents to set their social media profiles to “public” so they can be reviewed by U.S. officials.
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/04/nx-s1-5633444/trump-content-moderation-visas-censorship
Pretty worrisome when fact-checking is viewed as censorship of speech.
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Attorney General Pam Bondi is ordering the FBI to “compile a list of groups or entities engaging in acts that may constitute domestic terrorism,” according to a Justice Department memo published here exclusively.
How bad can that be?
The target is those expressing “opposition to law and immigration enforcement; extreme views in favor of mass migration and open borders; adherence to radical gender ideology,” as well as “anti-Americanism,” “anti-capitalism,” and “anti-Christianity.”
Oh.
Question though: I understand that trans people are domestic terrorists. But if law enforcement shoots a clergy member who is praying during a protest, is he a domestic terrorist because he is protesting law enforcement? Or is the law enforcement officer a terrorist for being anti-Christianity? I was going to ask about whether or not it’s anti-Christianity for ICE to wait outside of mass to arrest people, but I suspect anti-Catholicism doesn’t count as anti-Christianity.
Back to the McCarthy era but a wider net this time?
With better surveillance tools.
Already answered.
https://thehill.com/homenews/5547044-pastor-shot-pepper-ball-ice/
“Over and over again, law enforcement ordered these agitators to move off of federal property so the vehicle could move. Law enforcement verbally warned these agitators that they would use force if they did not move and stop impeding operations. They did not comply,” she added.
“I invited them to repentance,” Black told Religion News Service in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”
“He was praying to them and they just ended up shooting him. It was like casual to them,” bystander Amanda Tovar told CNN. “They [demonstrators] weren’t scaling a fence. They weren’t throwing any items. They weren’t even saying anything in the least that would be threatening. And that’s when they [ICE officers] just started opening fire at them,” she added.
From the DHS Twitter:
[R]ioters began throwing rocks, bottles and launching fireworks at the law enforcement officers on the roof. At the time of this incident, this facility held criminal illegal aliens including gang members, drug traffickers, and other violent criminals. Obstructing law enforcement puts officers, detainees and the public at risk. If you are obstructing law enforcement you can expect to be met with force.
No discipline or change has been made since.
It’s crazy how violent the demonstrators were, yet DHS hasn’t provided footage of that violence and allowed instead demonstrators to post a ton of footage of peaceful demonstrations. I mean, I realize that the judge overseeing a bunch of these cases has said that body cam footage contradicts sworn testimony over and over again, but this time the government is tellling the truth, right?
If you aren’t a US citizen you might not be able to visit if you ever criticized Dear Leader on social media
Similiar to the prior post.
Why even bother traveling to the US. This seems quite totalitarian.
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Far more people now are going to actively avoid visiting the US until the orange cheeto and his minions are gone.
Its one thing to make border control nastier (people expect this and can plan a bit for it) but this kind of intrusion is a different matter alltogether.
Because it really doesn’t matter what you disclose at this point, given what is/is not acceptable is up to the whims of a fairly dysfunctional bunch of people (they can change their rules at any time). People won’t risk thousands of $$$ on a US trip based on such a possibility as travel insurance would not cover it.
Better to wait this all out unless absolutely necessary.
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Do you get refused entry for not listing that Friendster account or Myspace account that you opened in the mid-2000s with a current email address, but haven’t looked at since sometime in the early 2010s, but never closed?