you'd have to ask sandwich guy.
seems he was a DOJ paralegal or something
judge urged the sides to make a deal, the DOJ did
https://www.reuters.com/legal/govern...on-2025-08-15/- The U.S. Justice Department agreed on Friday to scale back President Donald Trump's unprecedented attempted takeover of the District of Columbia's police force, in a deal negotiated with city officials at the urging of a federal judge.
Under the accord presented by the two sides to U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes, Trump administration lawyers conceded that D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser's appointed police chief, Pamela Smith, would remain in command of the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department.
MOAR GUNS COMFORTING TO MUH FEELS
Republicans respond to bad vibes with literal militance
It's what Jesus would do
Public enemy #1 is at large.
WASHINGTON — A man accused of throwing a Subway sandwich at a federal officer in D.C. was back in federal court on Thursday, facing a felony assault charge.
A judge released 37-year-old Sean Dunn — a former Department of Justice employee — on his own recognizance. Despite charging him with an enhanced version of an assault charge that requires bodily injury and carries up to eight years in federal prison, prosecutors said Thursday they had no basis on which to argue he should be detained.
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/l...8YBKuk4c5k84pw
Our country basically is a war zone. We have so much gun violence in this country thanks to GOP's uncompromising love of guns.
we have a lot of gun violence relative to other countries, but relative to our own history, crime is pretty low right now
three red states send national guard to DC
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...roops-dc-trumpThree states have moved to deploy hundreds of members of their national guard to the nation’s capital as part of the Trump administration’s effort to overhaul policing in Washington through a federal crackdown.
West Virginia said it was deploying 300 to 400 guard troops, while South Carolina pledged 200 and Ohio said it would send 150 in the coming days
^^^ for literally no reason, nothing happened in DC that warrants the extra assistance from three different states
at some point, the figurative antagonism will spill over into the literal
red states deploying forces pretextually in blue cities to persuade them to support Trump is novel and it is revolutionary
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025...overnment.htmlTwo months earlier, a similar dynamic played out in Los Angeles. Following nationwide immigration raids that led to more than 2,000 arrests, protesters blocked Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention vans and gathered outside federal buildings. The president responded by activating the National Guard. Helicopters circled overhead. Tear gas drifted across a Home Depot parking lot. The city’s leadership had not asked for help, nor was there evidence of a breakdown in public order.
These were not acts of emergency governance. They were deliberate assertions of federal power over political opponents, designed for maximum visual and emotional impact. They were meant to be seen far beyond the city limits—and they revealed a governing pattern that blends the language of small government with a readiness to deploy maximum state force when it serves political ends.
The intended audience for these deployments was not the people of DC or Los Angeles. It was voters in suburban Pennsylvania, rural Wisconsin, and the exurbs of Georgia—people who will never walk those streets but have been told for years that cities led by Democrats are dangerous, chaotic, and out of control. For them, the images of soldiers in intersections, helicopters circling landmarks, and armored vehicles rumbling past storefronts confirmed a story they had already been given.
This is the “straw man city”: Chicago as shorthand for lawlessness, DC as the embodiment of disorder, Los Angeles as the symbol of unchecked protest. The facts on the ground—that Chicago’s violent crime has dropped this year, that the LA protests were contained—are irrelevant to the purpose of the spectacle.
pretextual policing has a real cost
https://www.advocate.com/news/dc-bus...rump-crackdownbilled as a crackdown on violent crime, has quickly turned into an economic and cultural crisis for the capital’s LGBTQ+ nightlife. In the most LGBTQ+ city in America, bar owners say sales have collapsed, patrons are staying home, and workers are carrying passports and legal do ents just to walk the streets.
Rutstein said that on Wednesday evening, federal and local agencies staged checkpoints on 14th Street that led to 45 arrests, 29 of them immigration-related. He said that Homeland Security agents in vests were seen pulling a Latino man into an unmarked vehicle.Rutstein said the visible presence of law enforcement for blocks sparked protests and “customer flight.” Thursday sales at Crush, which is at 14th and U Northwest, dropped 75 percent, and Friday, typically one of their busiest nights, was down by more than half. “Washingtonians leaving the city to avoid the chaos on top of a reduction of tourism is crippling small businesses,” he said.
Dave Perruzza, who owns Pitchers and A League of Her Own in Adams Morgan, said Friday night felt “like a desert.” “Thursdays are all local, but Fridays and Saturdays we get people from out of town, and we just had none of them. It was awful,” he said. He estimated a loss of $7,000 in a single night. “That’s not sustainable.
MAHA
First the terrorist tried to enter campus in a car filled with guns. When he wasn’t allowed past the gates, he started firing from a CVS drugstore across the street. From a semi-automatic weapon, 500 shots is a lot. He was at it for a long time.
What is the purpose of this?
https://x.com/jamiedupree/status/1957170258680205512
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