Donald Trump has already enmeshed the United States military in domestic law enforcement operations involving immigration to an unprecedented degree. He has authorized a major military buildup at the border. He has maximized the use of military planes for deportations, complete with the White House pumping out imagery of migrants getting frog-marched onto souped-up military aircraft. He sent the National Guard into Los Angeles amid large-scale protests there—and then sent in the Marines.

  • Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.works
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    “The memo is alarming, because it speaks to the intent to use the military within the United States at a level not seen since Japanese internment,”

    The memo was authored by Philip Hegseth—the younger brother of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth—who is a senior adviser to Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem and DHS liaison

    For fucks sake, there’s two of them?

    “It sounds like DHS and Secretary Hegseth are trying to compel the military to agree to operate much more directly inside U.S. territory,” Kori Schake, Director of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, told me.

    Palantir is already making a shitload of money via ICE, and this past week the army gave Palantir a $10 billion contract. I would be more surprised to learn that is completely unrelated at this point.