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Trump seizes control of Washington DC police and deploys national guard (www.theguardian.com)
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‘Unsettling and unprecedented’: Washington DC mayor responds to Trump’s federal takeover of city police

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[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Amerika über alles!
Sieg heil!

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Countering this is what the militia were supposed to be for, why the US was never supposed to have a standing Army, and why the National Guard is not an appropriate substitute for the militia.