The Republican Trump administration has gone full authoritarian. Portland is a test, but only a test.

Donald Trump signaled his election strategy a few days ago when he talked about ending legislation passed back in the 1960s to support fair housing that he said had sent "people" out into "the suburbs."

Essentially, what he was saying was, "White people in the suburbs, I'm doing what I can to keep your neighborhood white. You have to be very afraid of those Black and Hispanic people that Democrats say should be able to live anywhere in the country."

Portland is overwhelmingly a majority white city, so he figured he could test out his Secret Police/Storm Trooper strategy here without anybody much noticing, as the action would not be so racialized.

Read more here.

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Hour One: SOS For the USPS... Does It Belong to Us? Or, Wall Street?
- Mark Dimondstein President - American Postal Workers Union (APWU) AFL-CIO, and a member of the AFL-CIO Executive Council

Article: "The Post Office Belongs to the Public. Let's not Give it to Wall Street" by Mark Dimondstein, Richard Koritz.

Article: "'Attempted murder of your post office': Outrage as Trump crony now heading USPS moves to slow mail delivery" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "Trump Constitutionally Could Remain President Even if He Loses 2020 Popular and Electoral Votes, and He Knows It. Thom Hartmann Explains." by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "12th Amendment"

Movie: "Doctor Zhivago".

Site: Postcards to Swing States.

Article: "Why suburbs are suddenly the focus of Trump's campaign pitch" by Steve Benen.

Article: "Trump to Send Federal Agents to Chicago, Maybe Other Cities" by AP.

Article: "Trump pitches White suburban voters in blatantly political White House event" by Kevin Liptak.

Article: "Southern strategy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump Unleashes His Secret Police in Portland" by Jeet Heer.

Article: "Portland man beaten by federal agents says he just wanted to talk" by Joshua Rhett Miller.

Article: "Federal agents target pregnant woman with flash bang during Moms Against Police Brutality protest" by Sarah K. Burris.

Article: "Out of Portland tear gas, an apparition emerges, capturing the imagination of protesters" by Richard Read.

Article: "As Trump's secret police prepare to move on more cities, DHS engages in spying on domestic targets" by Mark Sumner.

Article: "Aktion T4" by Wikipedia.

Book: Winter of the World: Book Two of the Century Trilogy by Ken Follett.

Article: "Trump White House Weighing Plans For Private Spies To Counter "deep State" Enemies" by Matthew Cole, Jeremy Scahill.

Article: "L. Ron Hubbard" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mnuchin Says Postal Service May Not Need $10 Billion Virus Loan" by Saleha Mohsin.

Article: "Starve the beast" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Gov. Newsom responds to Trump's threat to send federal officers to Oakland" by Amy Graff.

Book: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder.

Quote: "Watch out for the paramilitaries. When the men with guns who have always claimed to be against the system start wearing uniforms and marching around with torches and pictures of a Leader, the end is nigh. When the pro-Leader paramilitary and the official police and military intermingle, the game is over." - Timothy Snyder.

Article: "National Rifle Association" (NRA) by Wikipedia.

Article: "John Birch Society" by Wikipedia.

Book: "None Dare Call It Treason" by John A. Stormer.

Book: "They Thought They Were Free" by Milton Mayer. "First they came for the ... What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise..."

Law: "Patriot Act", 2001.

Article: "Homeland" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ballots for Washington's Aug. 4 primary election are on the way" by Emily Oliver.

Article: "US Federal forces sent to cities to police and protect monuments" by AP.

Article: "15 kids hospitalised with rare coronavirus-related condition" by AFP.

Article: "Florida teachers union sues DeSantis and state education commissioner over schools' 'reckless, unsafe reopening'" by Colleen Wright.

Article: "Reichstag fire", 27 February 1933 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump's ISIL Reelection Scheme: Send Federal Agents to Provoke Protesters in Dem Cities, Scare Suburbs" by Juan Cole.

Article: "Law firm offering free wills for Wisconsin teachers as schools debate reopening plans" by James Kust.

Article: "'States duking it out for supply': Lack of federal plan leads to coronavirus testing delays" by Jayne O'Donnell and Ken Alltucker.

Article: "Some Oregonians waiting 2 weeks to learn coronavirus test results, hindering efforts to slow the virus" by Aimee Green.

Article: "House conservatives pile on Cheney at GOP conference meeting" by Melanie Zanona.

Article: "A black woman faces prison for a voting mistake. Prosecutors just doubled the charges" by Sam Levine.

Article: "United States incarceration rate" by Wikipedia.

Book: "They Thought They Were Free" by Milton Mayer. "First they came for the ... What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise..."

Article: "They Thought They Were Free" (book review) by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Why Adolf Hitler Was TIME's Man of the Year for 1938" by Jeffrey Kluger.

Article: "Treaty of Versailles" by Wikipedia (28 June 1919, at the end of World War I).

Article: "Stephen Miller (political advisor)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Steve Bannon" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "Steve Bannon's been much better not being involved. He says the greatest president ever. I mean, he's saying things that I said, 'Let's keep Steve out there, he's doing a good job.'" - Donald J. Trump.

Article: "Italy revokes Steve Bannon's right to use a monastery for his political "gladiator" school" by Gabriela Resto-Montero.

Article: "Steve Bannon wins battle to set up right-wing political academy in Italy" by Reuters.

Article: "Send In the Troops" by Tom Cotton.

Article: "Niccolò Machiavelli" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Marxist president's military exercises in these U.S. cities; yours one?" by Arlen Williams (scroll down for links).

Article: ""Urban Warfare Training" and the Militarization of America" by Bill Van Auken.

Article: "Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation" by Wikipedia.

Tweet: "Tonight we will file a lawsuit in federal court against U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Marshals Service, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and the Federal Protection Service alleging they seized and detained Oregonians without probable cause. Statement here: ..." by Ellen Rosenblum, Oregon Attorney General.

Article: "Portland Protester Shot in Head With Impact Weapon by Federal Officer: Video" by Tom Cleary.

Article: "The Lincoln Project" by Wikipedia.

Site: Republican Voters Against Trump.

Hour Three: Trump Is Handing Public land to Coal Leasing....
- Jenny Harbine, Staff Attorney - Earth Justice

Article: "Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration's Order to Open Public Lands to Coal Leasing" by Liz Trotter.

Article: "Montana tribe rips Trump administration over federal coal leasing" by Valerie Volcovici.

"Big Poultry" Says Americans Can Eat Chickens With Cancer... Is It Safe?!
- Tony Corbo, Senior Lobbyist - Food & Water Watch Food Campaign

Article: "Avian Leukosis Now Fit for Human Consumption" by Seth Gladstone.

Article: "Avian sarcoma leukosis virus" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Human papillomavirus infection" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Poultry Products Inspection Act of 1957" by Wikipedia.

Article: "FBI raids homes of antiwar activists" by Tom Eley.

Article: "2008 Republican National Convention" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump or the Troops? Why 2 Top Military Leaders May Be Forced to Choose" by John Walcott.

Article: "Mark Milley" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Forgotten Purpose: Civics Education in Public Schools" by Amanda Litvinov.

Article: "United States Armed Forces oath of enlistment" by Wikipedia.

Video: Willie Horton 1988 Attack Ad.

Tweet: "In order to get elected, @BarackObama will start a war with Iran." by Donald J. Trump.

Tweet: "Now that Obama's poll numbers are in tailspin - watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran. He is desperate." by Donald J. Trump.

Tweet: "I predict that President Obama will at some point attack Iran in order to save face!" by Donald J. Trump.

Tweet: "Remember that I predicted a long time ago that President Obama will attack Iran because of his inability to negotiate properly-not skilled!" by Donald J. Trump.

Book: "The Fourth Turning" by William Strauss, Neil Howe.

Article: "Guess Who Invited The Federal Agents Into Portland? The Police Union" by Susie Madrak.

Article: "Who Actually Wants Trump to Send in the Feds? Police Unions." by Kelly Weill, Winston Ross.

Video: Steve Schmidt: Trump must be defeated or U.S. 'will be in an irreversible decline'.

Article: "Steve Schmidt" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Lincoln Project" by Wikipedia.

Article: "George T. Conway III" by Wikipedia.

Book: With God on Our Side: One Man's War Against an Evangelical Coup in America's Military by Michael L. Weinstein and Davin Seay.

Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET

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Trump's Secret Police Stage Coup In Portland! (w/ Ken Klippenstein)

How Bush's Enhanced Interrogation Led To Trump's Secret Police