"Trump’s pardons immediately upended the biggest single prosecution in U.S. history and signaled a broader reversal that threatens to create a more permissive climate in which extremists could regroup, weaken the FBI’s independence and revive old debates about who counts as a terrorist, according to current and former federal law enforcement officials and national security experts.

In the whirlwind of the last three weeks, the Trump administration has purged federal law enforcement agencies of prosecutors and investigators who’d been pursuing homegrown far-right groups that the FBI lists as among the most dangerous threats to national security. The Biden administration’s 2021 domestic terrorism strategy — the nation’s first — was removed from the White House website. And some government-funded extremism-prevention programs were ordered to stop work.

“There’s no indication that he engaged in any kind of assessment or has even stopped to think, ‘What did I just unleash on America?’” Mary McCord, a former federal prosecutor who oversaw domestic terrorism cases as a senior Justice Department official, said of Trump’s actions.

Colin Clarke, an analyst at the nonpartisan security-focused Soufan Center, said “far right” and “domestic terrorism” are now “kind of dirty words with the current administration.”

Far-right movements that openly promote violence have suddenly been invigorated, he said. “Does this become a four-year period where these groups can really use the time to strengthen their organization, their command and control, stockpile weapons?” he said."

https://www.propublica.org/article/jan-6-pardons-trump-purges-domestic-terrorism-focus

#USA #Terrorism #Trump #DomesticTerrorism #FarRight #WhiteSupremacism

Full text of Trump's speech describing how & why the US will take over & own the Gaza Strip after ethnically cleansing the Gazan people:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/5/what-donald-trump-said-about-his-plans-to-take-over-gaza

#TrumpMegalomaniac #NetanyahuMegalomaniac #USImperialism #Racism #Fascism #WhiteSupremacism #GazaAnnexation #EthnicCleansing #USPol .

Trump Will Bulldoze Separation of Church & State
https://progressive.org/op-eds/trump-will-bulldoze-church-state-separation-gaylor-20250121

* Trump2 will exploit religion, pander to white evangelical base

#USpol #USlaw #GOP #Trump2 #fascism #HeritageFoundation #Project2025
#ChristianRight #Catholicism #OpusDei #theocracy #whiteSupremacism #DominionTheocracy
#antiLGBT #ParentalRightsMovement #transphobia
#Christofascism #transgenocide
#FamilyResearchCouncil #FRC #LibsOfTikTok #MomsForLiberty #AcPEDs
#WomensRights #misogyny
#ACLU #GLAAD #HRC #EgaleCanada #PFLAG

"I don't need to apologize" -- Bishop Mariann Budde
https://www.salon.com/2025/01/22/i-dont-need-to-apologize-bishop-angered-with-sermon-speaks-out
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/22/nx-s1-5270918/bishop-mariann-edgar-budde-trump-interview

#MariannBudde #courage #honor
#USpol #USlaw #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #extremism #Project2025
#xenophobia #racism #ChristianRight #Catholicism #whiteSupremacism #hatred
#antiLGBT #TitleIX #transphobia
#Christofascism #transgenocide #theocracy #DominionTheocracy
#sexism #paternalism #HegemonicMasculinity #ToxicMasculinity
#WomensRights #ReproductiveRights #abortion #SelfDetermination

"From the forced assimilation campaigns designed to erase #Indigenous cultures to the all-encompassing white supremacist terror of the #JimCrow South, it was all too easy to think of ways the #GenocideConvention could be deployed against the US."

How American Racism Sabotaged the World’s Fight Against #Genocide

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/us-genocide-convention-history-gaza/

#UNGenocideConvention #USpol #UShistory #slavery #SettlerColonialism #WhiteSupremacism #WhiteSupremacy #Palestine #Gaza #ColonialViolence @palestine