Trump is increasing becoming more fascist with every passing week

With every passing week, Trump goose-steps towards fascism…

Paranoid security state 

America’s top national security agencies have been using polygraph tests, seeking employees’ communications and threatening criminal investigations, all in the name of ferreting out leakers or ensuring loyalty, Axios’ Dave Lawler writes.

• • Why it matters: The revelations expose the deep mistrust between top national security officials and their own staffs — starting at the top, with a commander-in-chief who considers himself a victim of “Deep State” abuses.

👓 The FBI has subjected senior agents to lie-detector tests to find the sources for fairly innocuous news stories, and even to ask whether agents have ever disparaged Director Kash Patel, the N.Y. Times’ Adam Goldman reports.

• • A March memo from Joe Kasper, then chief of staff to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, stated that polygraphs would be used as part of a leak hunt. That probe devolved into a power struggle that saw Kasper himself ousted.

Agencies all across the federal government have used the devices, which aren’t considered highly reliable, for even fairly minor leaks, Reuters reports. In one case, FEMA staffers who attended a March meeting involving Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem were subjected to polygraph tests after some contents of the meeting became public.

• • The Department of Homeland Security said in March that it’s using lie detector tests to try to find tip-offs ahead of ICE raids.
  • A new unit under Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is seeking email and chat records from employees across America’s spy agencies, the WashPost reports.

White House spokesperson Anna Kelly told Axios: “We certainly do not trust leakers who provide sensitive information to the media, or who commit felonies by leaking top secret intelligence.”

…this as Trump’s Supreme Court that he stacked keeps giving him inappropriate wins…

Trump wins big on “shadow docket”

The Supreme Court has handed President Trump a slew of major victories through an abbreviated process that doesn’t require full-fledged briefings and arguments — and will likely continue to do so, Axios court watcher Sam Baker reports.

• • The court’s “emergency docket” (a.k.a. the shadow docket) has been the focus of its activity in Trump’s second term, allowing him to proceed with plans to fire government workers, proceed with mass deportations and ban transgender people from serving in the military.
  • The court’s actions on those issues are all temporary. But even temporary orders are a significant win for Trump, allowing him to implement some of the most controversial parts of his agenda.

🔎 How it works: The emergency docket is designed for questions that need a faster answer than the court’s typical proceedings provide. It’s often used, for example, by inmates requesting a stay of execution (which the justices almost always deny).

• • A growing number of political issues are also finding their way onto the emergency docket. Some critics argue that the court is using the process to decide bigger questions than that process was designed to resolve.

Where it stands: Lower courts have handed down scores of orders that temporarily block Trump from implementing parts of his agenda. That type of order gets appealed through the emergency docket — and the justices have overruled lower courts on several hot-button issues:

1. 1. Just last week, the court allowed Trump to proceed with plans for mass firings across the federal government.
   2. It allowed the administration to deport a group of undocumented immigrants to South Sudan, a war-torn country to which the migrants had no connection.
   3. The Supreme Court overruled lower-court orders that limited DOGE’s access to Social Security records and made some of its work subject to the Freedom of Information Act.
   4. It also allowed the Pentagon to prohibit trans people from serving in the military.

…while Trump’s favourite vehicle for corruption gets legitimised…

It’s Crypto Week

A few years ago, crypto was mostly a pariah in the financial services industry. Now, at the urging of the “first crypto president,” Congress is on the verge of remaking American finance to embrace it, Axios’ Brady Dale and Kate Santaliz report.

• • House Republicans declared the next five days Crypto Week.
  • Bitcoin hit a new all-time high Friday.

The agenda for next week consists of three bills:

1. 1. 🏦 Stablecoin legislation, which sources tell us will get a vote next week. Stablecoins are how dollars go on blockchains, and they enable super-fast, super-cheap global payments. They’ve picked up so much popularity that some companies use them for global payroll. The bill would establish rules for who could issue stablecoins and how — and it’s expected to lead to a surge of new products and participation from traditional banks.
   2. 📈 Market structure legislation, which would create a framework for regulating broader crypto issuance and trading.
   3. 🏛️ The third bill slated for this week is to prevent the Fed from ever creating a digital version of official U.S. currency. Conservatives oppose the concept because they think it would mean more government intrusion.

…this as Trump ‘undoes’ America…

Trump’s America on rewind

President Trump is turning back the clock on decades of change and revisiting long-settled issues, big and small — from globalization to vaccine research to the secretary of defense’s title, the N.Y. Times’ Peter Baker writes in a Sunday front-pager:

“It should come as no surprise that Trump would try to undo much of what President Biden did over the past four years. What is so striking in Trump’s second term is how much he is trying to undo changes that happened years and even decades before that. At times, it seems as if he is trying to repeal much of the 20th century.”

Trump wants to go back to “when coal was king and there were no windmills … when toilets flushed more powerfully … when there weren’t so many immigrants … when ‘Cats’ was the big hit on Broadway, not ‘Hamilton,'” Peter writes.

• • Trump also wants to reopen Alcatraz — and go back to calling the head of the Pentagon the “secretary of war,” a title that was dropped in 1947, because he says “secretary of defense” is “politically correct.”

…as the poor get destroyed…

SNAP cuts spook food banks

The “big, beautiful” megabill slashes federal food assistance — and hunger relief groups say the consequences could be devastating, Axios’ Avery Lotz reports.

• • With millions of food-insecure Americans projected to lose benefits, frontline organizations are bracing for a surge they say they simply can’t absorb.

🚨 Feeding America estimates that provisions affecting the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) could eliminate the equivalent of some 6 to 9 billion meals annually.

• • Feeding America’s network would have to “more than double” the amount of food distributed to fill the hole, Vince Hall, chief government relations officer, tells Axios.

The organization is trying to prepare for the surge by reaching out to donors, community leaders, farmers and lawmakers.

all the while Trump militarises ICE into a masked secret police who are using gestapo tactics snatching people off the street.

I told you Trump was an orange fascist.

aside from the rampant racism, transphobia, sexism, anti-intellectualism and hatred for anyone poor, liberal media despise Trump because deep down in places they never like to admit at their plush dinner parties, Trump truly represents what America is.

 

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