I mean they look absolutely -thrilled- to be there
— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) August 11, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Following up on Betty’s earlier post… the National Guard / FBI ‘jackboots’ seem no more pleased with their new Trumpist assignment than the DC natives:
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OBJ GREEN ZONE HAS JUST FALLEN TO A CROWD OF STAFFER AGED MALES SOMEONE GET ME QRF TO BLOCK MSR KALORAMA RIGHT FUCKING NOW
— James (@gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social) August 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Most people have no idea that there are already 32 federal law enforcement agencies with a presence in DC and more than a half dozen local law enforcement agencies. Violent crime keeps going down while Trump escalates his lies to keep Epstein off of the headlines.
— Sanho Tree (@sanho.bsky.social) August 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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The entire enterprise from LA to DC is just about keeping the feds too busy with pointless shows of fascistic force to catch actual high-level criminals. Many of whom are Trump's good friends and donors.
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Are the National Guard being deployed on both sides of the river or only in places that the national media covers?
— Dana Houle (@danahoule.bsky.social) August 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Count me as heartened that the guy who wants to do a little junta in DC is a military dumbass.
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The cybercriminal who simped Elon Musk hard enough to get access to your mom's social security checks got beat up by a child and so now we're doing 1770 Boston in the nation's capital.
(Seriously.)
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NG 1LT seeing his position overrun by a crowd of drunk Deloitte consultants asking what his LinkedIn is:
— James (@gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social) August 10, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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This is possibly the biggest networking event DC has ever had
— James (@gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social) August 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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I doubt it will happen but I hope every Republican appointee gets pulled over & harassed by the Trumpified DC police & national guard.
— Dana Houle (@danahoule.bsky.social) August 11, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Hidden benefit that he's going to create a massive cleave between federal LE and urban police departments who hate this shit.
— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) August 11, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Op let me know if this has ever worked lmao
— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) August 11, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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I think Trump's problem here is that if he's talking about extending the use of federal LE, he's going to run out of people very quickly.
If he's going to try and do NG, he's going to end up creating a morale crisis in the ranks.— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) August 11, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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That said, I have significant concern that we're about to some real serious human rights violations to homeless people.
— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) August 11, 2025 at 10:56 AM
True. Per Rolling Stone, “Trump Declares War on Unhoused D.C. Residents: ‘No MR. NICE GUY’”:
Donald Trump demanded that unhoused Washington, D.C., residents “have to move out [of the city] IMMEDIATELY.” The statement comes amid his continuing attacks on homeless people after signing an executive order pressing local governments across the country to unhoused people from the streets.
“We’re having a News Conference tomorrow in the White House,” Trump wrote Sunday on Truth Social. “I’m going to make our Capital safer and more beautiful than it ever was before. The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY. We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital.”…
Trump has hinted at his plans to attack individuals without permanent housing for years. In 2022, he called for using “large parcels of inexpensive land in the outer reaches of the cities” to create tent cities full of unhoused people — essentially internment camps. His 2024 campaign plan proposed cracking down on people who are unhoused, addicted to drugs, or mentally ill by putting them in institutions, forced substance use treatment, or incarceration…
A June 2024 decision by the conservative majority in the Supreme Court made criminalizing homelessness easier by allowing cities to ban sleeping outdoors…
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the denizens of washington dc are going to both use tried and true methods and invent new creative ways to fuck with the goon squad tomorrow and over the next couple weeks
thumbtacks are super cheap, btw, just neat things to know— not an art thief (@famousartthief.bsky.social) August 10, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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To be clear, it's white DC residents who should make "good trouble" first. Black residents will be ready to post your bail.
And, yes, this is an understanding I have with my friends.— Irie DC (@iriedc.bsky.social) August 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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unless its the mlk monument
— not an art thief (@famousartthief.bsky.social) August 11, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Risks to societal stability aside, military occupations of this city also happen to make for great matchmaking
— John Q. Public (@publius24.bsky.social) August 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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I mean I generally think that the time between the midterms in '26 and the seating of the new congress that is almost certainly going to be hostile is probably the most tenuous time we're gonna have.
— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) August 11, 2025 at 10:43 AM
New Anonymous Angel Match for $500!
Baud
Didn’t Texas’s governor end rape to justify no rape exception for abortion?
mappy!
Bounced that pesky Epstein file coverage…
Baud
@mappy!:
I have a feeling that’s not going anywhere anytime soon.
CaseyL
I don’t think there’s any N-dimensional chess going on here. They’re making military occupation of blue cities SOP.
I don’t really believe local LEOs are all that unhappy about it, either. They’e been militarizing for years. This is a chance to try out all those cool tactics and equipment.
sab
In my world, over age or under age, every young person who gets in trouble out in a city at three a.m. the adults will ask what were you doing?. More invasive question is ” hookers or blow?”
Working late won’t cut it when two fifteen year olds manage to mug you.Really?
Baud
That curfew zone looks tiny. Is that the area where Big Balls was supposedly mugged?
Baud
@sab:
“Hookers and blow.”
trollhattan
It’s like the first administration he spent the entire time staring at the enormous Lego box. This time he unwrapped the damn thing and now he can’t stop fucking with all the pieces.
Progress? Experts disagree.
trollhattan
Video on top, middle guy looks preggers. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
trollhattan
I’ve got fresh video.
youtu.be/QGgJPmOUmDU?si=f2k9mvxha82kn8fj
Archon
Recently rewatched Babylon 5 and I gotta say the Trump administration and “Earth becomes fascist” plot line in the show is eerily similar. it’s almost as if they watched the show for clues on how to proceed with authoritarian rule.
Baud
The first video exhibits the same energy as Trump’s military parade.
Ariobarzanes
@Baud: No, it isn’t. That happened on Swann and 14th (in the U Street area).
The curfew zone is unrelated to Trump’s tantrum. The DC government has been imposing extended curfews for juveniles for most of the summer on selected neighborhoods in which groups of kids have been hanging out.
Baud
@Ariobarzanes:
Hmm. Then the call to protest the curfew seems misdirected, if it’s not related to Trump’s actions today.
trollhattan
A Jackal public service announcement: Kids, don’t smoke.
rikyrah
Billie Nelson (@Mamabenergy2) posted at 0:52 PM on Sun, Aug 10, 2025:
Serial Killers target homeless and unhoused people because they are easy prey.
Trump wants to rid DC of homeless people.
He is going to disappear them to either private prisons, places like Alligator Alcatraz, or work camps.
He said the quiet part outloud.
He thinks being homeless is a crime.
He is going to deem them all criminals and profit of the most vulnerable!
This motherfucker is so beyond the pale of sociopathic evil.
PS. We the taxpayers will foot the bill for all of this.
t.co/SracC7WZ13
(https://x.com/Mamabenergy2/status/1954601778194112533?t=OUPH-5guXhf1nHPs3ToU1w&s=03)
Steve in the ATL
@trollhattan: causing a seven minute train delay in Switzerland has to be a felony
Ariobarzanes
@Baud: Yes, 100% misdirected.
SpaceUnit
This would be a great moment for DC residents to stage a Release The Files protest.
Booger
@Baud: Not even remotely close. I believe “Big Balls” was mugged in a melanin-free zone near Dupont Circle. The area in the map is largely…um…more heavily hued, IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN AND I THINK YOU DO.
ETA: I see Ariobarzanes has a more accurate location than I heard. Four blocks east of where I was thinking, not Dupont Circle adjacent. And the curfew area is unrelated to the military occupation.
trollhattan
@Steve in the ATL: Right? No wonder the conductor was pissed at the guy.
zhena gogolia
@Booger: I am happy to say I have no idea what you guys are talking about when you say “Big Balls.”
Could I please be released from this nightmare?
WaterGirl
@SpaceUnit:
Yes!
rikyrah
Max Flugrath![]()
(@MaxFlugrath) posted at 1:20 PM on Mon, Aug 11, 2025:
Should voting be a limited privilege?
In America, it’s supposed to be a right.
But that’s not what the Supreme Court seems to think.
Their next ruling could empower states to block millions of Americans from voting.![]()
t.co/lg3aFzJaNx
(https://x.com/MaxFlugrath/status/1954971174548496602?t=_z3c-q2VOKZlsyyDgn_bpw&s=03)
Booger
@zhena gogolia: The handle of one of Musk’s DOGE untermensch hackerkiddies who got roughed up by some fifteen-year olds in D.C.
rikyrah
Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) posted at 10:25 AM on Mon, Aug 11, 2025:
Breaking News: Trump Speaks for One Hour Without Explaining Where U.S. Citizens Arrested in D.C. for Being Homeless Will Be Taken When He Puts Them in Custody and Sends Them “Far Away”
(https://x.com/SethAbramson/status/1954927261397713218?t=dcVSwpMS3Uvzr-LNiFpeFQ&s=03)
stinger
That top video — 6 guys, ALL of whom are wearing different hats or none at all, different shirts, different gear, different pants, different footwear, no name tags, no badges, no unit identifiers — this is not an official law enforcement group. Army, Navy, Marines, highway patrol, sheriff deputies, city cops, campus police, bank guards, weekend warriors, Boy Scouts — EVERY official group has an on-duty uniform and identifiers.
These guys, they could be anybody. How are they allowed by LEOs to do anything in their jurisdiction? Why would any regular citizen obey them, at least until they pull weapons? Surely at some point they’ll run into a pack of open-carry citizens and blood will flow.
Marc
Edward “Big Balls” Coristine
Scout211
. . .
Marc
@Booger: Two, to be precise, one a girl. And, they smacked him a couple of times, probably a moment after he shouted “Do you know who I AM?” (I made up that part :)
comrade scotts agenda of rage
Background on the DC curfew that’s been around all summer:
wjla.com/news/local/dc-youth-curfew-credited-with-quieter-streets-and-no-violations-in-designated-zo…
Some divergent opinions about the root causes and solutions, ie., provide kids there with more outlets, activities, etc. From the link:
Wilson Heath
So since law enforcement is being tasked to people in violation of 18 USC 1385, should the guardsmen and troops be arresting their chain of command for giving illegal orders? (And do they need to then arrest themselves/each-other for obeying?)
bbleh
“These Ohio diner patrons interviewed at their regular 10:30 breakfast strongly agreed with President Trump’s forceful actions to stop the horrific crime wave that’s destroying our cities from within.”
As noted above, the human-rights violations will be manifold and go not only unpunished but probably celebrated. But I still think this is about 2/3 kayfabe for the rubes and 1/3 cranky demented grandpa sh!t, and in a couple weeks it will have sunk beneath the waves (except for some political commissars implanted in the DC government).
ExPatExDem
I frigging love the thought of DEA and FBI being reduced to DC traffic cops. 😆
Kirk
@Marc: So does anybody know why these two teenagers attacked him?
Was he trying to order the girl to have sex with him (as apparently is normal for Republican men with power)?
Baud
Harrison Wesley
I’m glad the Big Balls thing is cleared up . I couldn’t figure out what AC/DC had to do with the Trump admin.
hueyplong
@Harrison Wesley: They chose “Big Balls” because “Horst Wessel” was already taken.
JoyceH
But isn’t the DC National Guard composed of residents of DC? Reminds me of the Hardliners Coup that ended the Soviet Union. When the citizens of Moscow rose up, the hardliners called in the troops from the nearest base – and those local boys wouldn’t shoot their grannies.
Scout211
We were told it was a carjacking. There are even staged photos and videos that tell us the “real true story” of that unfortunate event. Sort of a dramatization that depicts the real, actual thing that actually really happened!
What? You mean we don’t buy it? Unpossible!
Booger
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: The late Mayor For Life Marion Barry was famous for his summer jobs for youth program. Was it pretend work? Maybe. Did it keep kids busy during the summer and make them some money, maybe give them some skills? Hell yeah.
Booger
@hueyplong: Wasn’t that the kid who had his debut in “The Magnificent Seven” and then disappeared?
sab
@zhena gogolia: Big Balls was the nym of one of Elon Musk’s twerps.
Also a guy whose Russian grandfather was executed by Russia and was either identified as ours, or more likely falsely identified as our agent by Aldrich Ames. Worked for Soviet embassy in USA.
His execution blew their family apart. Widow and kids made it back to US. Her grandchild is BigBalls.
How in fuck this horrible child with an extremely problematic back story got a six figure job in the US government handling sensitive data is a story that only Elon Musk can tell you, and I am sure that he won’t.
Jackie
@Scout211: He doesn’t want to see disabled veterans either. How many of those homeless are former veterans? I truly loathe him.😡
hueyplong
@Booger: Horst Buchholz demands an apology, as he then “starred” in a cold war “comedy” called One Two Three with a past-peak Jimmy Cagney.
Wilson Heath
@Harrison Wesley: If I weren’t cursed with terrible knowledge, I probably would have guessed something was going on involving epididymitis or orchitis that would have constituted a different sort of terrible knowledge.
different-church-lady
Who knew our Reichstag Fire was going to be this pathetic?
Booger
@hueyplong: If you can find him I’ll apologize.
zhena gogolia
@Booger: Please, that was Horst Buchholz!!!
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@different-church-lady:
Easy, our Nazis are pathetic.
zhena gogolia
@hueyplong: Hey, Jimmy Cagney was brilliant in that!
Anne Laurie
DC cops, National Guard, and/or FBI: I’m guessing they were reassigned from their *real* jobs on Sunday night. And at least a couple of them want to be able to clock out & cover their moonlighting shifts as security guards elsewhere…
David Collier-Brown
@JoyceH: A lot of the initial northern-white pushback to the South came from having their neighbours kidnapped under the Fugitive Slave Act (TL;DR discussion of the 1851 Christiana riot against the slavecatchers. See preserve.lehigh.edu/_flysystem/fedora/2023-11/preservebp-3902830.pdf, which illustrates the differing white positions on the riot over time)
Mr. Bemused Senior
@zhena gogolia: I remember enjoying that movie (a looong time ago)
hueyplong
@zhena gogolia: Just poking at you a bit. Cagney was a Coca-Cola exec, wasn’t he?
Anne Laurie
@Marc: Be fair… it was ‘a gang of a dozen or so youths’ who (it is averred) tried to carjack Mr. Coristine and his female passenger. Only those two of the ‘gang’ were old enough to be arrested.
What the self-identified ‘Big Balls’ and his friend were doing at 3am, in a part of DC where there are very few high-earning melanin-deficient individuals even during peak business hours, is an exercise that has been left to speculation. Of which there has been much, none flattering!
Baud
Excellent group photo of the assholes, via Reddit.
trollhattan
@Anne Laurie:
Youths or yoots? Makes all the difference.
zhena gogolia
@hueyplong: Yes. It’s pretty hilarious. Billy Wilder.
CarolPW
@Baud: If you look at the maps in that curfew post, in addition to the juvenile curfew there is also a city-wide curfew (juvenile not specified so assumed to be all ages) from 11 pm to 6 am.
mrmoshpotato
Governor Pritzker will tell the fat, orange, fascist rapist to shove the Sears Tower up his fat, orange, fascist, Kremlin-butthole-licking ass.
eclare
Amazing photo today!
trollhattan
@CarolPW:
Once a juvenile curfew grows up, can it vote and enter into a contract?
lowtechcyclist
@CarolPW:
Yeah, I saw that. I wish them good luck with that!
Also, the juvenile curfew zone either includes Nats Park or makes it extremely hard for kids to legally get to the park. Or get to the Metro from it, since the games will end well after this juvenile curfew takes effect each evening.
Sister Golden Bear
@zhena gogolia:
ACDC has the answer.
Baud
@lowtechcyclist: I checked the schedule and the Nationals are not at home this week
ETA: Google says only one curfew zone.
ETA2 Nevermind.
ETA 3
Still appears to be separate from Trump.
Dan B
@Sister Golden Bear: LOL!
lowtechcyclist
What, is the entire Trump Administration resigning en masse?
Librettist
Gang of Youths:
youtu.be/C4n2l-jNSrU?feature=shared
the angel of 8th ave.
Martin
@Scout211: Trump turning DC into Ashgabat.
mrmoshpotato
@Booger: Wait. Big Bitchass was beaten up by white kids then?!
eclare
Here at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church, waiting for Cohen’s town hall. Good mix of younger/older and White/Black. Memphis is a majority minority city.
Baud
@eclare:
Awesome.
mrmoshpotato
@Harrison Wesley: I’m quite certain this bitchass punk doesn’t have the biggest balls of them all.
Scout211
Well, the pic that has been posted by DC Police as a person of interest, shown in this Newsweek article, is not white.
But who ya gonna believe? I don’t even know anymore.
different-church-lady
@Anne Laurie:
You’re not saying Mr. Balls was trying to score? No, it would be irresponsible to speculate. Or is it the other way around?
NotMax
FYI. The dustbin of history will be getting a little more crowded.
Baud
@NotMax:
I wonder how many customers they still have.
Uncle Cosmo
Yeah, but I bet dullards to Doenitz “Whorst Weasel” was (& continues to be) available.
Hell, just call him Even Bigger Asshole…
Uncle Cosmo
@hueyplong: That was a brilliant movie, and you couldn’t carry Billy Wilder’s pocket lint. IOW shove your “quotes” right up your “arse”, you arrogant snob.
Ksmiami
@trollhattan: a bunch of fat fucks who don’t deserve to live in the USA. Seriously my so and I were like everyone coukd outrun these puffy wastes of protoplasm. Just distract them with some what a burgers first…
Geminid
@Uncle Cosmo: I will put you down as “Undecided” on this matter.
But hey, now that I’ve caught you, I want to know: do you think these Ravens have the elments of a Super Bowl team?
Uncle Cosmo
@zhena gogolia: Spasibo, hon.
FTR (& FWIW) Wilder pulled off the almost impossible task of filming, on location in Berlin, a screwball comedy whose plot (such as it was) required relatively routine traffic between East and West, at the very time when the sogennante DDR was putting up the Wall…
Anne Laurie
@different-church-lady: I personally suspect ‘showing off for his (slightly older) lady friend’. Turns out DOGE ‘Alpha Male Energy’ may impress coke-addled billionaires and/or aging bureaucrats, but not so much the battle-hardened youngsters of
Ankh-MorporkDC!(Forgive the Pratchett reference, if you haven’t read him, but there’s multiple incidents across his books where upper-class twits hilariously fail to impress the urban street urchins.)
David Collier-Brown
@lowtechcyclist: Just makes it easier to get a bus-full or two of arrestees.
Shalimar
@Scout211: I assume they can’t release mugshots of the 15-year-olds because they are minors, which raises the question of how they know this person of interest isn’t a minor too?
Marc
@Anne Laurie: I tend to doubt he would have had much contact with black/brown teenagers in his life. My guess is he’s the kind of person that would say something that results (at least) in a punch to the face.
Mr. Bemused Senior
“Forgive??” Nay, I applaud.
WaterGirl
@eclare: Can’t wait to hear about it.
bluefoot
@lowtechcyclist:
ruckus
@stinger:
They may actually be some form of law enforcement. But they don’t want the people – that’s us, to know who they are or what bureau they actually work for. They mask up to hide features, they have no identifying badges of any kind because that gives us no way to know exactly what bureau they actually work for. We know we are paying them but what else do we know? Nothing. Now it may have changed but everyone in the military had some form of ID when in uniform when I was in. But these guys could be from any or several federal groups/offices.
Citizen Alan
@rikyrah: Prove to me that he’s not the Antichrist.
Harrison Wesley
I see that Trump has found a new chief for BLS. An economist from the Heritage Foundation who believes BLS doesn’t know what it’s doing. Sounds promising!
ruckus
@lowtechcyclist:
What, is the entire Trump Administration resigning en masse?
Come on man we, even as a group of millions don’t have that much luck.
WaterGirl
@Citizen Alan: Good luck with that!
LAC
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: yeah, and that is why protests on this issue are not entirely…umm…”misdirected”. The current mayor is not popular, for a number of reasons. There are folks in community work that have real concerns about her priorities.
Paul in KY
@trollhattan: Should be dealt with harshly to discourage other idiots.
Paul in KY
@stinger: They look sloppy as hell. Probably COS-players…