Don’t miss this: After all the talk about the US military defying Trump’s demand to deploy regular troops, strikes me DHS has now provided virtually the same: federal agents in military camo carrying military weapons arresting protesters. And Trump plans to extend to other cities https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1285560156323901441
2/ This follows a pattern with the administration and one that sets a disturbing precedent.

See wall funding. When Congress wouldn’t appropriate funds, he took money from the Pentagon budget.

Some lawmakers bristled, institutions objected, but it went on.
3/ And now having set the precedent of using militarized federal agents in Portland, Chicago and others cities appear to be next.
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