As a new federal pre-crime system begins identifying Americans for what they might do — before any law is broken — the Trump regime is making a list and expanding its network of concentration camps…
Oh, please, I've figured I've been on a list for years so this information does not surprise me in the least. I've written to government officials all my life from presidents to cabinet officials, senators, house members, the Supreme Court, I've even written to CEOs. So, I know I'm on any number of lists.
I protest, I'm a member of Indivisible, I follow Substacks of other "enemies within" & post on them as well. Case in point this missive. So, I expect to be rounded up. And, yes, if people think those prison/concentration camps are "just for immigrants" then those folks don't know history or have not been paying attention at all.
Hoping to stay free & see this regime fall. I'm ready to do what I can. See you on the streets!
Made the possible "eco-terrorist" list many years ago. Then came the "occupy wall-street" list, the "black lives matter" list, the actual "me too" list, and now the "anti-fascists" list. We are starting "the I hate psychos and sickos list" for anyone who would care to participate.
Stay LOUD. Stay PROUD. Make THEM paranoid. See you in the streets.
The beauty part of Trump's madness? He is, yes, "The Bad Seed"* . . . but he is mentally, congenitally miswired, hence DUMB as a Bag of Hammers.
So most of us will escape in one piece.
VOTE . . . And #Send Not-Too-Tall Barron and Draft-Eligible Eric to the Straits.
*A seemingly perfect little girl named Rhoda hides a capacity for remorseless violence, leaving a trail of “accidents” behind her. Her mother slowly realizes the truth and is forced into an unbearable confrontation with the possibility of inherited evil. [1956 movie]
It isn't Trump, he is simply the tool, there are people that have their hand up his backside and he is simply their sockpuppet, for the very reason you mentioned, that he is dumb as bag of hammers, and easily manipulated by flattery.
Epstein was a threat to many wealthy and important men, not just Trump. Threats like that have to be disposed of.
It is not the tool that controls him, but the person who sits behind the throne and whispers in his ear.. the grise eminence, probably more than one. Stephen Miller for sure.. but he is only one and with a narrow minded focus.
Keep writing and reporting as long as you can. You’ve been right and it is necessary that people be aware of what is happening and what must be stopped.
"The claim that the NSA's massive data collection on U.S. citizens made it "practically useless" is a prominent criticism supported by several whistleblowers and security experts, though the agency maintains its programs are vital for national security. Critics argue that the sheer volume of "incidental" data—information gathered from ordinary citizens rather than specific targets—created a state of "information overload" that hindered the agency's ability to find meaningful intelligence." AI review.
Not so sure. If it were up to some of the prosecutors I know, everyone whould have to wear an ankle monitor.
Check out Russia. The former Soviet Union. Internal exile. My personal favorites are the "national homelands," many in former Soviet countries like the "stans." They didn't have the technology that we have.
Consider A-fib, HBP. pulse rate. A smart watch could arguably control a person's health.....
NSA collects everything but processes only Meta data(phone numbers and length of call) no content which would require a warrant. If we did this before 911 they would have uncovered the plot before any plane was highjacked. It provides information on who is in the network.
This is an existential threat not only to democracy, but more importantly, **humanity itself**. Thanks to Thom for showing what having a spine means: addressing the uncomfortable **before** it becomes the irreparable.
First appeared on "Freak Out!" (1966), the debut album by The Mothers of Invention. The track is a surreal, satirical vocal piece built around Zappa’s critique of American suburban complacency — the belief that social or political catastrophe is something that happens “somewhere else.”
ChatGPT via CoPilot
Lyrics follow:
It can't happen here
It can't happen here
I'm telling you, my dear
That it can't happen here
Because I been checkin' it out, baby
I checked it out a couple a times, hmmm
And I'm telling you
It can't happen here
Oh darling, it's important that you believe me
(Bop bop bop bop)
That it can't happen here
Who could imagine that they would freak out somewhere in Kansas?
Kansas Kansas tototototodo
Kansas Kansas tototototodo
Kansas Kansas
Who could imagine that they would freak out in Minnesota...
I’m looking out the window at what appears to be a beautiful Spring day.
All the while knowing that our country is being severely compromised.
The idea that the ‘ Thought Police’ are in formation and ready to pounce is disturbing and dangerous.
The people that voted for Trump ( Putins tool) , had to know by his constant threats of violence against people he disagreed with , that something was terribly wrong there.
We all need to get busy doing everything possible to dismantle or nullify the “ plan”.
Thank you. Teach me to fish instead of giving me a fish. How do I get a link to post?
I was 10 years old when I saw that scene with Kirk Douglas and Tony Kirtus at the outdoor theater with my family of eight in one car. We took a large shopping bag full of popcorn from home.
It’s not accurate to say they will go after people who aren’t sufficiently Christian. The people they will go after are the ones who don’t subscribe to Christian Nationalism, a version of Christianity that bears little resemblance to the teachings of Christ. A religion that places more emphasis on punishing people for being gay or trans and ignores the many Bible verses that talk about caring for the least of us and welcoming the stranger is not Christianity. I fear they will go after those of us who actually attempt to follow the teachings of Christ. In fact, the deaths of Alex Pretti and Rene Good are evidence that is already happening.
Turn on TV news and take a virtual tour of the concentrated feedlot referred to as the trump administration. The primary feeders at the trough are, Vance, Johnson, Thune, Patel, Hegseth, Blanche, plus the rest of the cabinet and 6 members of the Supreme Court. Add in Caroline Levitt she's my fave. Some how I'm not shaking in my knee high rubber boots that this cast of characters has the brains to stop midterms and make Trump Der Fuhrer. They (expletive) up everything they do with a unmatched mixture arrogance, stupidity, and incompetence - its hard to fear them. But I'm just a man in the feedlot shoveling shit.
"America was founded on the idea that your thoughts and opinions are your own and the government has no business regulating them or punishing you for them."
The most obvious question for me is: What changed to take us from there to where we are now? The answer may not be as complicated as one might think. Agency has been lost to a large extent for far too many people. Too many of us do not see it as our role to know what is being done by government in our name and ostensibly on our behalf. Our self-image as actors and decision-makers has been shrunk in size by the mentality that the institutions and agencies which control our lives are separate from us and beyond our reach or control. Authority exists to control what happens and who get what or who gets to do what. The compliant and obedient kids receive the attention and the rewards. This was not an accident. It was strategically organized that way by people who never bought into those ideas on which the country was founded. They seized control by using laws to enable them to powerfully influence how people were trained, monitored, and disciplined. They called it education. But it was indoctrination masking as education, and it wasn't always so subtle. I wrote all about this in my latest Substack post over last weekend entitled: How Anti-democratic, Anti-egalitarian, & Un-American Reactionary Forces Undermined Our Original Principles & Values & Hijacked the American Dream and subtitled,: The Plan to Limit Popular Political Involvement and Critical Thinking. As Pogo said, "I have seen the enemy, and he is us."
There are clear parallels there. I got over halfway through a biography of Adams when the book disappeared, and I do not have much insight into how he changed from a seemingly rational actor to an irrational actor. However, the people at that time were less inclined to ignore or dismiss his tyranny, in my estimation. Today, many people just see such actions as an aspect of the political gamesmanship or as a part of the ugliness of politics, rather than a fundamental deviation from our beliefs, values, and traditions of autonomous citizenship and political freedom of expression.
THIS is why we must demand aggressive, committed leadership. Decades of nibbling around the edges, protesting procedural improprieties, diminishing and undermining the Bernies, AOCs, Warrens, and so many others, the hallmark of establishment politicians, has facilitated our arrival at this point. Those who supported Andrew Cuomo over Zorhan Mamdani with gratuitous, dishonest slander, cannot helm a course correction. Those who support a Janet Mills over a Graham Platner cannot begin to fathom the depth of the need for change. The old guard cannot be trusted to influence who’s permitted to join their club. Elections across the country this year clearly express a broad desire for real change. Failure to deliver will only further imbed cynicism and disengagement. Schumer, Gillibrand, Jeffries, Pelosi, Clyburn…stand down and make way for a democracy-saving rebirth.
You better watch out. You better not cry. You better not pout. I'm telling you why. Trump's Gestapo's coming to town. They're making a list. Checking it twice. Gonna find out who's naughty and nice. Fascist Rule is coming to town. He sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're awake. He knows if you've been liberal or good. So be good for goodness sake.
Well now, this was only a matter of time post 9-11. From the NDAA to a virtual nullification of search and seizure practices by law enforcement (cell phones haven't helped as they bypass wiretapping requirements). On a selfish note, I don't much worry about it in any special way given people like me have always been subject to the "Minority Report."
There must be thousands of people within the “Trump Regime” working to keep track of all of the fascist dictator type programs established since Trump returned to power, heck probably started in his first term.
It seems the America's are not a safe place to migrate to, not with the Shield of the Americas, aka Technate of America aka Oceania.
I hope that New Zealand and Australia loosen up their residency requirements.
Thanks for bringing the concentration camps to the forefront, it is remiss that there is not a full blown discussion of them and the role of ICE and CBP as the Schutzstaffel
Considering their record of making their enemies more powerful, I hope they try the impossible task of putting all their opposition behind bars or razor wire. It's not surprising that Trump wants to build an impregnable bunker complex under his ridiculous ballroom, therein to escape the fate he and his flying monkey brigade so richly have earned.
Thank you Thom for your services and writing articles on our history and what’s going on currently in our Country. We don’t need to be scared and we will do everything in our power to make sure goons are out of our White House . Keep up with showing up in the no kings rallies and connect with your local constituents and local law force. Death comes to all of us and then if we have to die in their hands for good cause so be it! We will all be martyrs for speaking against human cruelty which no God wants it against the humanity. Just be patient, these goons and criminals will be brought to justice once we take our house , senate and White House back . America has never seen anything like this and our founders never probably Amazon it when they wrote the constitution and set up the three branches of government . I think good outcome will be happening from all this Chaos and no doubt in my mind we will win this war against rich Oligarchs, big corporations who have destroyed our livelihood. Just hang in there a little longer ! Thank you all!
Oh, please, I've figured I've been on a list for years so this information does not surprise me in the least. I've written to government officials all my life from presidents to cabinet officials, senators, house members, the Supreme Court, I've even written to CEOs. So, I know I'm on any number of lists.
I protest, I'm a member of Indivisible, I follow Substacks of other "enemies within" & post on them as well. Case in point this missive. So, I expect to be rounded up. And, yes, if people think those prison/concentration camps are "just for immigrants" then those folks don't know history or have not been paying attention at all.
Hoping to stay free & see this regime fall. I'm ready to do what I can. See you on the streets!
I was on the list before he became president, courtesy of the Federalist Society....
ME TOO!
Made the possible "eco-terrorist" list many years ago. Then came the "occupy wall-street" list, the "black lives matter" list, the actual "me too" list, and now the "anti-fascists" list. We are starting "the I hate psychos and sickos list" for anyone who would care to participate.
Stay LOUD. Stay PROUD. Make THEM paranoid. See you in the streets.
Before he was elected, he was advised to dump "merit selection" in favor of the spoils system..... I published articles....
Many of his big supporters in the legal community have had an attitude adjustment....
The beauty part of Trump's madness? He is, yes, "The Bad Seed"* . . . but he is mentally, congenitally miswired, hence DUMB as a Bag of Hammers.
So most of us will escape in one piece.
VOTE . . . And #Send Not-Too-Tall Barron and Draft-Eligible Eric to the Straits.
*A seemingly perfect little girl named Rhoda hides a capacity for remorseless violence, leaving a trail of “accidents” behind her. Her mother slowly realizes the truth and is forced into an unbearable confrontation with the possibility of inherited evil. [1956 movie]
It isn't Trump, he is simply the tool, there are people that have their hand up his backside and he is simply their sockpuppet, for the very reason you mentioned, that he is dumb as bag of hammers, and easily manipulated by flattery.
All you need to ctrl him are one of either his Swiss bank account no. or a pussy/13 yo girl he can violate.
But it's, at bottom, him in the end. As Epstein found out the hard way Aug 2019.
Epstein was a threat to many wealthy and important men, not just Trump. Threats like that have to be disposed of.
It is not the tool that controls him, but the person who sits behind the throne and whispers in his ear.. the grise eminence, probably more than one. Stephen Miller for sure.. but he is only one and with a narrow minded focus.
Miller is just a butcher feeding red meat to the rabid base.
He's a useful monster, easily chucked out when it benefits the FauxKing Joke.
Miller has his own agenda, immigration is a tool. He was behind the Muslim ban in Trump 45
He's just a self-made monster. But a useful one.
I've got nada else. Last word is yours.
Keep writing and reporting as long as you can. You’ve been right and it is necessary that people be aware of what is happening and what must be stopped.
"The claim that the NSA's massive data collection on U.S. citizens made it "practically useless" is a prominent criticism supported by several whistleblowers and security experts, though the agency maintains its programs are vital for national security. Critics argue that the sheer volume of "incidental" data—information gathered from ordinary citizens rather than specific targets—created a state of "information overload" that hindered the agency's ability to find meaningful intelligence." AI review.
Safety in numbers! They can't lock everybody up.
Not so sure. If it were up to some of the prosecutors I know, everyone whould have to wear an ankle monitor.
Check out Russia. The former Soviet Union. Internal exile. My personal favorites are the "national homelands," many in former Soviet countries like the "stans." They didn't have the technology that we have.
Consider A-fib, HBP. pulse rate. A smart watch could arguably control a person's health.....
NSA collects everything but processes only Meta data(phone numbers and length of call) no content which would require a warrant. If we did this before 911 they would have uncovered the plot before any plane was highjacked. It provides information on who is in the network.
Our servers retained data on virually every keystroke.....
This is an existential threat not only to democracy, but more importantly, **humanity itself**. Thanks to Thom for showing what having a spine means: addressing the uncomfortable **before** it becomes the irreparable.
What will you do if we let you go home,
And the plastic's all melted and so is the chrome?
Who are the brain police?
What will you do when the label comes off,
And the plastic's all melted and the chrome is too soft?
Who are the brain police?
What will you do if the people you knew
Were the plastic that melted and the chromium, too?
Who are the brain police?
Frank Zappa -1961.
RIP
I'll see your Frank and raise you ...
First appeared on "Freak Out!" (1966), the debut album by The Mothers of Invention. The track is a surreal, satirical vocal piece built around Zappa’s critique of American suburban complacency — the belief that social or political catastrophe is something that happens “somewhere else.”
ChatGPT via CoPilot
Lyrics follow:
It can't happen here
It can't happen here
I'm telling you, my dear
That it can't happen here
Because I been checkin' it out, baby
I checked it out a couple a times, hmmm
And I'm telling you
It can't happen here
Oh darling, it's important that you believe me
(Bop bop bop bop)
That it can't happen here
Who could imagine that they would freak out somewhere in Kansas?
Kansas Kansas tototototodo
Kansas Kansas tototototodo
Kansas Kansas
Who could imagine that they would freak out in Minnesota...
Mimimimimimimi Minnesota, Minnesota, Minnesota
Who could imagine...
Who could imagine
That they would freak out in Washington, D.C.
It can't happen here
Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
It can't happen here
It can't happen here
Everybody's safe and it can't happen here
No freaks for us
It can't happen here
Everybody's clean and it can't happen here
No, no, it won't happen here
I'm telling you it can't
It won't happen here
(Bop bop didi bop didi bop bop bop)
Plastic folks, you know
It won't happen here
You're safe, mama
You're safe, baby
You just cook a TV dinner
And you make it
(Bop bop bop)
No no no no
Oh, we're gonna get a TV dinner and cook it up
Go get a TV dinner and cook it up
Cook it up
Oh, and it won't happen here
(No no no no no no no no no no no
Man you guys are really safe
Everything's cool
Who could imagine
Who could imagine
That they would freak out in the suburbs
I remember (tu-tu)
I remember (tu-tu)
I remember (tu-tu)
They had a swimming pool
I remember (tu-tu)
I remember (tu-tu)
They had a swimming pool
I remember (tu-tu)
I remember (tu-tu)
They had a swimming pool
And they thought it couldn't happen here
(Duh duh duh duh duh)
They knew it couldn't happen here
They were so sure it couldn't happen here
But...
Suzie...
Yes yes yes--I've always felt that
Yes I agree man, it really makes it... yeah...
It's a real THING, man
And it really makes it
(Makes it)
Suzie, you just got to town,
And we've been, we've been very interested
In your development
Since you first took the shots
Forget it!
Hmmmm
(It can't happen here)
I’m looking out the window at what appears to be a beautiful Spring day.
All the while knowing that our country is being severely compromised.
The idea that the ‘ Thought Police’ are in formation and ready to pounce is disturbing and dangerous.
The people that voted for Trump ( Putins tool) , had to know by his constant threats of violence against people he disagreed with , that something was terribly wrong there.
We all need to get busy doing everything possible to dismantle or nullify the “ plan”.
Thank you Tom for this reminder.
I'm Spartacus! Safety in numbers.
"I'm Spartacus" Scene - A Moment of Defiance (1960 HD)
Copy and paste into the browser. I'm still barely computer literate. Lol.
https://youtu.be/FKCmyiljKo0?si=Is5PyqNWxDPo32Ac
Thank you. Teach me to fish instead of giving me a fish. How do I get a link to post?
I was 10 years old when I saw that scene with Kirk Douglas and Tony Kirtus at the outdoor theater with my family of eight in one car. We took a large shopping bag full of popcorn from home.
That scene obviously made an impression on me.
It’s not accurate to say they will go after people who aren’t sufficiently Christian. The people they will go after are the ones who don’t subscribe to Christian Nationalism, a version of Christianity that bears little resemblance to the teachings of Christ. A religion that places more emphasis on punishing people for being gay or trans and ignores the many Bible verses that talk about caring for the least of us and welcoming the stranger is not Christianity. I fear they will go after those of us who actually attempt to follow the teachings of Christ. In fact, the deaths of Alex Pretti and Rene Good are evidence that is already happening.
Don't play that song for me...brings back memories.....
Turn on TV news and take a virtual tour of the concentrated feedlot referred to as the trump administration. The primary feeders at the trough are, Vance, Johnson, Thune, Patel, Hegseth, Blanche, plus the rest of the cabinet and 6 members of the Supreme Court. Add in Caroline Levitt she's my fave. Some how I'm not shaking in my knee high rubber boots that this cast of characters has the brains to stop midterms and make Trump Der Fuhrer. They (expletive) up everything they do with a unmatched mixture arrogance, stupidity, and incompetence - its hard to fear them. But I'm just a man in the feedlot shoveling shit.
"America was founded on the idea that your thoughts and opinions are your own and the government has no business regulating them or punishing you for them."
The most obvious question for me is: What changed to take us from there to where we are now? The answer may not be as complicated as one might think. Agency has been lost to a large extent for far too many people. Too many of us do not see it as our role to know what is being done by government in our name and ostensibly on our behalf. Our self-image as actors and decision-makers has been shrunk in size by the mentality that the institutions and agencies which control our lives are separate from us and beyond our reach or control. Authority exists to control what happens and who get what or who gets to do what. The compliant and obedient kids receive the attention and the rewards. This was not an accident. It was strategically organized that way by people who never bought into those ideas on which the country was founded. They seized control by using laws to enable them to powerfully influence how people were trained, monitored, and disciplined. They called it education. But it was indoctrination masking as education, and it wasn't always so subtle. I wrote all about this in my latest Substack post over last weekend entitled: How Anti-democratic, Anti-egalitarian, & Un-American Reactionary Forces Undermined Our Original Principles & Values & Hijacked the American Dream and subtitled,: The Plan to Limit Popular Political Involvement and Critical Thinking. As Pogo said, "I have seen the enemy, and he is us."
Arguably John Adams was as paranoid as Trump. As president, jailed his political enemies.
There are clear parallels there. I got over halfway through a biography of Adams when the book disappeared, and I do not have much insight into how he changed from a seemingly rational actor to an irrational actor. However, the people at that time were less inclined to ignore or dismiss his tyranny, in my estimation. Today, many people just see such actions as an aspect of the political gamesmanship or as a part of the ugliness of politics, rather than a fundamental deviation from our beliefs, values, and traditions of autonomous citizenship and political freedom of expression.
THIS is why we must demand aggressive, committed leadership. Decades of nibbling around the edges, protesting procedural improprieties, diminishing and undermining the Bernies, AOCs, Warrens, and so many others, the hallmark of establishment politicians, has facilitated our arrival at this point. Those who supported Andrew Cuomo over Zorhan Mamdani with gratuitous, dishonest slander, cannot helm a course correction. Those who support a Janet Mills over a Graham Platner cannot begin to fathom the depth of the need for change. The old guard cannot be trusted to influence who’s permitted to join their club. Elections across the country this year clearly express a broad desire for real change. Failure to deliver will only further imbed cynicism and disengagement. Schumer, Gillibrand, Jeffries, Pelosi, Clyburn…stand down and make way for a democracy-saving rebirth.
We need "real" progressives.
All the BS above is propaganda brought to us by interests who do not want a unified front against Trump.
Don't rule out anyone or any thing that might get rid of him.
Absolutely!
You better watch out. You better not cry. You better not pout. I'm telling you why. Trump's Gestapo's coming to town. They're making a list. Checking it twice. Gonna find out who's naughty and nice. Fascist Rule is coming to town. He sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're awake. He knows if you've been liberal or good. So be good for goodness sake.
More like "I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor....."
Well now, this was only a matter of time post 9-11. From the NDAA to a virtual nullification of search and seizure practices by law enforcement (cell phones haven't helped as they bypass wiretapping requirements). On a selfish note, I don't much worry about it in any special way given people like me have always been subject to the "Minority Report."
See what I did there?
There must be thousands of people within the “Trump Regime” working to keep track of all of the fascist dictator type programs established since Trump returned to power, heck probably started in his first term.
Get use to it, the new National Anthem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUguJTrR5xI
It seems the America's are not a safe place to migrate to, not with the Shield of the Americas, aka Technate of America aka Oceania.
I hope that New Zealand and Australia loosen up their residency requirements.
Thanks for bringing the concentration camps to the forefront, it is remiss that there is not a full blown discussion of them and the role of ICE and CBP as the Schutzstaffel
Considering their record of making their enemies more powerful, I hope they try the impossible task of putting all their opposition behind bars or razor wire. It's not surprising that Trump wants to build an impregnable bunker complex under his ridiculous ballroom, therein to escape the fate he and his flying monkey brigade so richly have earned.
Thank you Thom for your services and writing articles on our history and what’s going on currently in our Country. We don’t need to be scared and we will do everything in our power to make sure goons are out of our White House . Keep up with showing up in the no kings rallies and connect with your local constituents and local law force. Death comes to all of us and then if we have to die in their hands for good cause so be it! We will all be martyrs for speaking against human cruelty which no God wants it against the humanity. Just be patient, these goons and criminals will be brought to justice once we take our house , senate and White House back . America has never seen anything like this and our founders never probably Amazon it when they wrote the constitution and set up the three branches of government . I think good outcome will be happening from all this Chaos and no doubt in my mind we will win this war against rich Oligarchs, big corporations who have destroyed our livelihood. Just hang in there a little longer ! Thank you all!