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Masking to hide identity from the populace isn’t new.

Two robed and hooded Klu Klux Klan members walking down a Montgomery AL sidewalk the night before a cross-burning, after a permit to parade in the street was denied. In the foreground, a woman of color watches.

“Masks need to come off,” Sen. Chuck Schumer said Friday. “No secret police.”

Ain’t that America?

Guns drawn, chemicals pointed at photographer, for following ICE agents. For *following*, not assaulting or obstructing.

Land of the free!
#USpol #fascism #SecretPolice

Photograph of person holding up both hands as they step out of auto, with ICE agents surrounding them. Female ICE agent is pointing a canister of chemical agent directly at the person taking the photo. Headline on photo: “Immigration agents draw guns, arrest activists following them in Minneapolis.”

The core of Mack’s ideology is drawn from the work of W. Cleon Skousen, a leading light of the radical right in the 1960s and ‘70s, famous for his red-baiting books and speeches. Skousen in turn drew most of his ideas from the deeply antisemitic and racist Posse Comitatus movement, though he eschewed obviously bigoted rhetoric himself, as does Mack. But the central Posse Comitatus idea was that sheriffs can usurp both federal agencies and the courts and unilaterally override any laws they choose.

#keithSwank #usPol #secretpolice #Fascism #MAGA #pierceCountySheriff

The underlying claim is that county sheriffs have superior status by virtue of being elected—even though in fact the U.S. Constitution makes no mention of local sheriffs or their powers at any point. This status, they believe, enables sheriffs and their deputies to ignore all federal or state laws they choose, and to only force local laws of their choosing. They are also free to ignore court rulings if they choose.

#keithSwank #usPol #secretpolice #Fascism #MAGA #pierceCountySheriff

https://davidneiwert.substack.com/p/like-ice-far-right-sheriffs-defy

“Just for the record, my deputies don’t wear masks,” Swank told the legislators. “But once you pass this law that they can’t, I will not only allow them, but I will encourage them to do so, just to see what you do.“
I don’t recognize your authority to impose these controls over me.”

#keithSwank #usPol #secretpolice #Fascism #MAGA #pierceCountySheriff

Trump’s DELETED EPST**N FILES get LEAKED OUT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpy3EY8CA4o #DOJ #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #Trump #CalendarGirls #CoverUp #Portland #Warzone #ICE #Gestapo #SecretPolice #fascists ##abolishICE #ICEout

Bad Bunny's call out of Trump at the Grammys: "ICE OUT!" ✊

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kuii-n4lN0o #protest #solidarity #Minneapolis #Minnesota #ICE #abolishICE #Gestapo #SecretPolice #Trump #fascism #resist #fightfascism

Now on Verdant Square Radio:

https://mastodon.social/@VerdantSquareRadio/115996227573590963

#Secretpolice #Lawenforcement #Ice #News #Commentary #Left #Trump #Civiliberties #Journalism #MeidasTouch #TrumpGestapo #Resist #Vsn #Radio #Diversespectrumoftheleft #SupportIndependentMedia #Firstamendment #Pressfreedom #Trumpterror #Statesanctionedterror #Dhs #Trumplies #Icelies

#VerdantSquareRadio #vsn #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia

NOW PLAYING == Meidas Touch Network targeted by #ICE for doing its job

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqi-9kCvFuk

#news #commentary #left #trump #civiliberties #journalism #MeidasTouch #TrumpGestapo #TrumpTerror #statesanctionedterror #resist #vsn #radio #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia #firstamendment #pressfreedom #DHS #secretpolice #lawenforcement #trumplies #icelies

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/115991716008786969

There's a whole thread here that's important. This didn't start, _even for white people_, with Good and Pretti. This goes into how it's been going long and how it's come together.

#uspol #uspolitics #politics #minnesota #fascism #FuckICE #FuckDHS #FuckCBP #ice #deportation #SecretPolice

Reminders of a past time when a secret police force was permitted to snatch people off the street, and send them to a camp hidden from the public in another country.

#ice #holocaust #cpb #trump #maga #historyrepeats #historyrepeating #racism #secretpolice #nazis

Paver stones that say, in Dutch:

Here lived Julie van Voolen-Kan
Born 1885
Murdered 4/8/1943
Sobibor

Here lived Israel van Voolen
Born 1875
Vermoord 5/1/1942
Auschwitz

The Arrest of Don Lemon and Black Journalists: Why the First Amendment is Dying in Plain Sight

"From Minnesota to the DOJ, the erosion of civil liberties is no longer a warning—it is our current reality."

https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-arrest-of-the-don-lemon-and-black #DOJ #PamBondi #racism #journalism #Minneapolis #DonLemon #GeorgiaFort #JamaelLydellLundy #TrahernJeenCrews #ReneeNicoleGood #AlexPretti #ICE #SecretPolice #Gestapo #Trump #fascism #resist #fightfascism

Timothy Snyder: "These arrests are not isolated incidents. They are signals. And history teaches us that when journalists, especially African American journalists, are treated as criminals for observing power, democracy itself is being tested."

https://snyder.substack.com/p/my-conversation-with-ava-duvernay #DOJ #PamBondi #racism #journalism #Minneapolis #DonLemon #GeorgiaFort #JamaelLydellLundy #TrahernJeenCrews #ReneeNicoleGood #AlexPretti #ICE #SecretPolice #Gestapo #Trump #fascism #resist #fightfascism

»“For those of you already in ICE and CBP, take your retirement while you still can,” Riley said. “Get out before the funding cuts, before the lawsuits, the criminal trials. Do not volunteer for these assignments.

“Think about your future,” they continued. “Think about your family’s future. Forever is a long time. The people will not forget.”«

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/30/antifa-unmasking-ice

#USpol #ICE #SecretPolice

"Right now, all the focus is on competing videos of conflicts involving Alex Pretti and his murderers.

But the bulk of kidnapping that proves this is a paramilitary occupation remains disappeared."

~ Marcy Wheeler

#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #MaskedThugs #SecretPolice
/6

https://emptywheel.net/2026/01/29/the-disappearances-in-minnesota/

"But here we have a logic by which those with the power need special protections, some special rights to evade accountability for actions that seem to flow so freely from their untrammeled power itself. It’s a logic simultaneously seductive and perverse."

#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #MaskedThugs #SecretPolice
/5

"The people with all the power need to be insulated from the effects of wielding that kind of power. It’s a whole framework of anti-accountability that has infiltrated our civic discourse. ...

With great power comes great responsibility. This is usually considered a truism."

#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #MaskedThugs #SecretPolice
/4

"Masks have become the central symbol of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement wilding sprees across America in 2025. They are emblems of a secret police. Their gaiters and balaclavas convey menace. ...

ICE masking and the need for billionaire anonymity certainly aren’t the same argument. But I don’t think I’m far out on a limb in thinking that they share a common DNA."

~ Josh Marshall

#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #MaskedThugs #SecretPolice
/3

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ice-masks-billionaires-and-the-politics-of-anti-accountability

"So what? Every police officer in every city I cited above is required to wear his or her badge that displays their name and identifying number at all times."

#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #MaskedThugs #SecretPolice
/2

#SecretPolice

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