It looks like Trump now has his Stormtroopers (Stoßtruppen)

I guess the experts weren't making things up or being doomsday like when they predicted this very thing to happen. Another instance of his base literally being out of touch with the reality of not having migrant workers.

Our food costs have already increased the last 3 months and it is going to get worse in the fall.

Crops are being left to rot on the fields because there are no workers to pick it.

www.rawstory.com/ice-farm-workers/

They are just starting to wake up to the troubles they have gotten themselves into as they are not getting FEMA dollars after all the recent weather related activity around the country (major flooding and fires), are losing health care and jobs after seeing their student loan payments skyrocket because he stopped the Biden program designed to help keep repayments low.

They are having to spend more time getting kids to and from school because busses are being cut and more money for their kids to participate in extracurriculars.
In a district nearby me that overwhelmingly voted Republican at every election, parents are having to pay up to $7 a day for bus service to school already. Voters there refused the last 2 bond measures to raise money for the District, so they set themselves up for what is about to happen now that Trump is refusing to disburse millions of dollars to school districts all over the country.

Their own family members are being deported and every day I see posts online of Trump voters shocked and mad that they supported him and he snatched their family. The most common refrain I hear is that they didn't think Trump's policies would affect them.

We can't get out of this without them though, as they vote and are heavily armed, so all the rest of us can do is remain steady in giving them the truth as they wake up.

The National Guard is getting ready to deploy in Washington DC. He has said the homeless need to move out.

I can't figure out the reasoning for this. Some suggest it is to stop the riots they are anticipating soon. But I see nothing in planning for protests.

Not sure how this helps his regime. I am sure a reason will come out soon enough.

From the little of the rubbish he was spouting that I could bear to listen to today, he seems to think the homeless are all criminals and foreign to boot.

One of his latest executive orders allows forced institutionalization of the homeless.

This is about something else though I think. Why would he need a military force in Washington DC? The only thing I can think of is that he is anticipating an attack.

Guess this proves he can actually send the National Guard into DC after he said he can't on Jan 6th.

He has taken control of their local Police Force too. This can't be for good reasons.

imaround

The National Guard is getting ready to deploy in Washington DC. He has said the homeless need to move out.

I can't figure out the reasoning for this. Some suggest it is to stop the riots they are anticipating soon. But I see nothing in planning for protests.

Not sure how this helps his regime. I am sure a reason will come out soon enough.

Read Letter from America (Heather Cox Richardson) this morning. Trump is saying it’s to rescue the capital from crime! Look to me far more like a coup d’etat! The USA is becoming more sinister daily.

Sooner or later Starmer and crew (no longer Labour at all imo) will have to stop sitting on the fence and recognise what is happening in the USA. No longer the land of the free!

I saw a quick headline yesterday but didn’t follow it up.

A judge has refused to open the Epstein files.

Is that correct?

He wants them on site ready for the trouble when the Epstein file are opened and his name is publicly announced - the last straw that ought to ignite and trigger his removal. He will be holed up in the White House with plenty of burgers and Koolaid and a bodyguard of MAGA loyalists, claiming to be the heroic victim of a plot by Obama and Biden to frame him.

The judge refusing to open them is another delaying tactic.

If the Epstein files say that all he did on the island was watch Disney films and solve jigsaws with the young people, why is so terrified at the thought of it all going public?

He wants the National Guard there, I mean.

The only thing on that refusal I can find which may refer to the refusal you mention is - edition.cnn.com/2025/08/11/politics/epstein-files-judge-ruling-grand-jury-materials

" Indeed, the judge suggests there is basically one good reason to potentially release the documents: to show the public just what a smokescreen this was. (Trump's administration pushing so hard for release of the files)

“The one colorable argument under that doctrine for unsealing in this case, in fact, is that doing so would expose as disingenuous the Government’s public explanations for moving to unseal,” he wrote.

It’s a stunning rebuke of the administration that comes at an inauspicious time.

More on U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer' s refusal, dated later yesterday - U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer

I'm not sure whether his motives are for or against Trump. He was an Obama appointment, not a Trump one.

Thanks for that - must look at that later.

My head spins with all the information.

Just listening about Palantir and Peter Tier (sp) 🤔

Elegran

He wants them on site ready for the trouble when the Epstein file are opened and his name is publicly announced - the last straw that ought to ignite and trigger his removal. He will be holed up in the White House with plenty of burgers and Koolaid and a bodyguard of MAGA loyalists, claiming to be the heroic victim of a plot by Obama and Biden to frame him.

The judge refusing to open them is another delaying tactic.

If the Epstein files say that all he did on the island was watch Disney films and solve jigsaws with the young people, why is so terrified at the thought of it all going public?

I think you’re spot on, and whatever he does, I don’t think Trump is going to succeed in suppressing the further information coming out about his Epstein involvement - the more he tries to, the more bloody it will be ultimately.

Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. on Facebook is putting transcripts of various documents onto a subscribed page, but some things are also on a public page. Below is a copy/paste of one of those public pages today. It only quotes a part of the document, but the subscribed members ($5 a month) can see the whole of each of the documents she (he? esq. ?) posts.

9h · . READ THE VICTIM LETTERS WHICH THE JUDGE CONSIDERED WHEN DECIDING WHETHER TO RELEASE THE GHISLAINE MAXWELL GRAND JURY TESTIMONY IN THE EPSTEIN INVESTIGATION .

Here, as promised for Notes to the Front members, is the PDF of the actual victim letters which Judge Engelmayer took into account when making his decision as to whether to release the testimony from the Ghislaine Maxwell grand jury. (I actually had to go through it and do additional redactions of names in addition to the ones already done by the Court.) As I mentioned in my last post about this, in large part Judge Engelmayer declined to release the testimony because - and this is important - there is nothing in that testimony which hadn’t already been revealed during the trial.

In fact, in his opinion and order Judge Engelmayer calls out the administration for exactly that, and for falsely raising the expectations and hopes of the victims that there might be something new in there when the administration knew darned well that there wasn’t (otherwise they would never have called for the release of the grand jury testimony - again, one of the prime directives of litigation is “never ask a question for which you don’t already know the answer”).

Said the Judge, “The victims’ interest in reviewing the grand jury materials appears to be premised on the understandable but mistaken belief that these materials would reveal new information. The Government had, after all, publicly portrayed these as critical pieces of an important moment in our nation's history. Had the Government's motion made clear that these records are redundant of the evidence at Maxwell’s public trial, the victims responses to the motion to unseal might well have been different."

I love seeing smack-downs like this from the Courts, as its evidence that more and more judges are getting more and more fed up with the administration’s shenanigans.

This entire thing was a big act to both attempt to assuage Trump’s base, and to distract from the demands for the Epstein files being made both by Congressional representatives and FOIA lawsuits (both of which I’ve covered before).

That said, while the grand jury testimony was not going to reveal anything new, the letters from the victims and their representatives that were sent to the Court for the Court to consider when deciding whether to release the grand jury testimony do reveal quite a bit.

Personally I found one of the letters written by one of the victims to be especially poignant. In it she laments:
“Will justice ever be served? I question what that would look like to the DOJ, the FBI, because so far we have got nothing, not even an apology, not even the answers we so long for. We all want closure and for this "distraction" to stop! This is some type ofpsychological games, by keeping the public ignorant. The very fact that something is secret means there is something to hide.”
^If you are a paid Notes from the Front member, the PDF of all the letters is here: annepmitchell.substack.com/.../here-are-the...^

As I mentioned in an earlier post, the reason that I don't share things like this in public, and instead make them available only to paid members, are a few-fold. For one, it keeps the trolls away. Trolls don't pay, not even just $5 a month. They move on. For another, it helps to keep the information only to people who genuinely want it for their own information and knowledge, and not to share around to places that lead to my getting vilified over it. Yes, again it's only $5 a month, but it's enough to keep them from grabbing the information, twisting it into a knot, and turning it against good people.

Again, if you’re already a paid Notes from the Front member, the letters are at the link above (and also directly in your inbox if you were already a member at the time that I sent it out). And if you’re not already a paid member, now’s a great time to join. :~) Which you can do here:
https://annepmitchell.substack.com/.../here-are-the...

www.facebook.com/AnnePMitchell

I have just read another post by her (yes she is a woman, not an esquire) on whether he can take over Washington DC law enforcement.

"Can he do it? Yes, but only for 30 days unless Congress authorizes it for a longer period of time.
Can he do it to other cities like he has threatened to? No.
Why is he doing it? Because he's a bully who needs to show off his power, and distract people from Epstein. He's like the abusive father who beats his kid on the front porch so that all the neighbours see how big and strong and powerful he is. It's what those kind of men do when they are feeling impotent. And he's impotent with Putin. He's impotent with jobs and the economy. He's impotent with Epstein.
Here's the longer version:
First, Washington D.C. is not a state, it's a Federal district (the D.C. stands for "District of Columbia").
Until 1973 Washington D.C. had NO autonomy at all, it was completely under Federal control. In 1973 an act called the Home Rule Act was passed because even Nixon realized that it was ridiculous that this city had zero autonomy. Among other things the Home Rule Act allowed the residents of Washington D.C. to have a mayor and a city council for the first time ever. In 1973! That's in my and a lot of your lifetime!
Now get this: Washington D.C.'s sole representative in Congress does not get to vote on things, it's like auditing Congress. And Congress has the ultimate authority over Washington D.C. Yeah, it's really messed up.
But it's the ONLY location in the continental U.S. that is a Federal district, and not a state. So it is the ONLY place that Trump can pull this stunt. Yes, he's threatening to do it to other cities, BECAUSE HE WANTS YOU STRESSED AND SCARED AND CONFUSED, AND HE'S BANKING ON YOU NOT KNOWING THAT HE CAN'T DO IT!

I was listening today about Ukraine and the way Trump has treated the supply of equipment, Zelenskii etc.

Someone suggested that he is behaving like he is for a few reasons amongst which is his admiration of Putin, but primarily it is as revenge for Zelenskii not playing ball over Biden’s son.

I think that is spot on.

I need to research the Epstein files denial, haven't read to much about it.

Crime in DC is at a 30 year low.

My conspiracy theory senses led me to watch this interview with Andrew Lansley, who has just published an apparently well researched book about Prince Andrew, another Epstein associate. If you scroll to just before half way through the interview he did with Times Radio today, and listen to the Epstein actions in filming and passing intelligence about guests on, your toes will no doubt curl as mine did.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IcxnfCASuQ

Just read this

“This is all right out of the authoritarian playbook: manufacture a crisis, use it to consolidate power, and normalise the removal of rights. It’s not hyperbole to compare this to the tactics of a certain 1930’s dictator”

Maxwell went from a Maximum Security Prison to Work Release. Just in the last 2 weeks. After Trump's personal lawyer met with her for hours.

Hmm...

www.rawstory.com/amp/ghislaine-maxwell-2673878542-2673878542

Another legal migrants being held, along with her 6 year old son. I pray they haven't been separated.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/13/new-zealand-woman-six-year-old-son-ice-detention-us-ntwnfb

WASHINGTON — A recent report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) confirms what immigrant advocates have long warned: ICE has deported American citizens.

Between 2015 and 2020, ICE deported at least 70 people who were U.S. citizens, according to the GAO. That’s not just a bureaucratic mistake — it’s a constitutional violation.

U.S. citizens cannot be deported under civil immigration law. Yet GAO found that ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) lack the records to even know how many people they may have deported in error.

migrantinsider.com/p/ice-has-deported-at-least-70-us-citizens

I do hope you are looking after yourself imaround, some of what you are reporting on must be hard for you to hsve to think about. Thank you so much for your posts.

Honestly, I have had to take a step back and try to live as "normal" of a life as I can and tell myself that the World has survived dictators before. I can see where we are headed, but cant change anything. I worry about my children's futures as they are not white males. At least 22 states that my oldest shouldn't live in because she has no rights, including the right to life if she has a miscarriage.

My youngest has only about 5 states he can live in because he is LGBTQ.

This is not the world I promised my children.

Oh, and gay marriage is about to be overturned. We are actually going backwards.

He is slowly rolling out the military in Democratic Cities around the country. He mentioned he would like to take over NYC and Chicago next.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-military-crackdown-get-worse-1235406382/