Krasner is commenting on the possibility, but Trump hasn’t named Philadelphia himself.
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So my best/only guess as to why Philadelphia hasn't yet been targeted for a military occupation, despite having a Black mayor and progressive DA, is that Trump won Pennsylvania and therefore sees it as Red State.
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He’s so good at this.
Jeffries on Trump planning a military crackdown in Chicago: "We should continue to support local law enforcement and not simply allow Donald Trump to play games with the lives of the American people as part of his effort to manufacture a crisis and create a distraction because he's deeply unpopular"
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A US immigration agent said this.
If the Trump administration cared about addressing crime, it would tell ICE agents to stop kidnapping and torturing people. But it's encouraging and rewarding them for doing so because it is a criminal enterprise. www.masslive.com/news/2025/08...
ICE released this Mass. mom with no phone, 30 miles from home in the rain after detainment for a sealed marijuana conviction
Federal authorities refused to tell the Canton woman's husband or lawyer on what grounds she was being detained until shortly before her release.
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Another one who purported to care about starvation sieges and indiscriminate bombings in Syria, now running cover for the exact same thing in Gaza.
These people are so lost
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What’s there to say? They’re as evil as they’re telling you they are.
A rainbow crosswalk in Orlando that was part of the city’s Pulse Memorial was painted over by the state last night at the order of Ron DeSantis.
The memorial honored the 49 people fatally shot by a gunman at the Pulse LGBTQ nightclub in 2016 — the largest mass shooting in the country at the time.
Pulse Memorial's rainbow crosswalk removed overnight in Orlando
A rainbow crosswalk in Orlando, Florida, that was part of the city’s Pulse Memorial was removed by the state overnight.
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We used to just call these people "dumb fucks."
“MAHA moms” see a kind of messianic power in Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. If he “is able to do what he wants to do as the head of the H.H.S., we won’t even need health care,” the founder of the nonprofit Moms Across America said.
Will the MAHA Moms Turn on Trump?
A leaked draft of a White House report on how to “Make Our Children Healthy Again” suggests that the Administration will do little to address food safety or nutrition.
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I‘m afraid the US no longer is a democracy. In politics as in love, we often only realise what is gone when it’s gone.
"The actions add up to an unprecedented attempt by a sitting president to interfere in a critical election before it’s even held, moves that have raised alarms among those concerned about the future of U.S. democracy..."
Trump moves to use the levers of presidential power to help his party in the 2026 midterms
President Donald Trump has made clear in recent weeks that he’s willing to use the vast powers of his office to prevent his party from losing control of Congress in next year’s midterm elections.
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this is pretty fucked up, man. the marxist group crown heights bites back held a vigil accusing "zionist white supremacists" of deliberately killing gavin cato, a child who was struck by a hasidic driver who ran a red light in 1991, leading to the infamous crown heights riots.
Tensions flare in Crown Heights as extremist group targets 'zionist white supremacists' over 1991 incident - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Crown Heights Bites Back held a vigil to commemorate the killing of a Black child that sparked antisemitic riots.
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House Dems: "[W]e will continue to scrutinize the connection between Skydance’s offers made to the President prior to closing the deal, Paramount’s settlement of a sham lawsuit that enriches the President, and regulatory approval of the merger." democrats-energycommerce.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
https://democrats-energycommerce.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-energycommerce.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2025.08.20.pallone-raskin-to-ellison-paramount-skydance-re-merger.pdf
