Some 1,500 active duty Army paratroopers have been put on alert for a potential deployment to Minnesota, according to two defense officials.

They’re ones who are trained and equipped for arctic warfare. This is kind of thing you do when planning to massacre civilians.

Edit: The Washington Post is now saying the same thing:

Pentagon readies 1,500 soldiers to possibly deploy to Minnesota, officials say

Soldiers with the Army’s 11th Airborne Division in Alaska have been placed at the ready following Trump’s Insurrection Act threat, according to defense officials.

  • IronBird@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    corporate media follows whatever they think gets the most veiwers for their ads, and which doesn’t expose them to legal liability. they have no more loyalty to the government than anyone else in the US, that is to say they’re loyal as long as it doesn’t threaten their bottom line.

    people do care about the epstein files, whether it’ll be enough to root out such entrenched corruption …eh…