Source: New York Post
by James Bovard

“The Trump administration may soon reduce highway robbery by 95% in Washington, DC. The Big Apple needs the same silver bullet because the city’s drivers could speedily be victimized by the biggest bureaucratic looting spree of the century. Trump’s Transportation Department proposes to ‘prohibit the operation of automated traffic camera enforcement in the District of Columbia,’ which would ban red-light, speed and stop-sign cameras. Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) is attaching a similar provision to congressional transportation legislation. The dispute over red-light and speed cameras goes to the heart of the question of how much harm politicians are entitled to inflict while they shake money out of citizens’ pockets.” (01/26/26)

https://nypost.com/2026/01/26/opinion/team-trump-moves-to-ban-traffic-cameras-in-dc-as-nycs-set-to-quadruple-the-dangerous-devices/

Source: The Atlantic
by Jonathan Rauch

“Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.” (01/25/26)

https://archive.is/CYU4z

Source: Orange County Register
by Abigail R Hall & Patrick S Ward

“Minneapolis is reeling as masked, heavily armed ICE agents flood immigrant neighborhoods, pulling people from cars, entering homes, and clashing with protesters and observers. Businesses have shuttered, school districts have shifted online, and candlelight memorials mark civilians killed during federal operations. Now President Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act and deploy federal troops, framing the unrest as an ‘insurrection’ led by ‘professional agitators.’ The message is clear: escalating force is being cast as governance. But we have been here before.” (01/25/26)

https://archive.is/6CLdg

Source: The Reframe
by AR Moxon

“Death squads will sure enough murder civilians; it’s what they were formed to do and trained to do, and death squads are what we very clearly have now, as ICE has summarily executed another U.S. civilian on the streets of Minneapolis. Powerful Republican Nazis like top presidential advisor Stephen Miller are already lying about this good man …. Alex Pretti was a nurse and a helper, a friend and a son, and many other things beside; he was a human being, and an irreplaceable and unique work of art, and now he is a corpse, because corpses are the only thing Nazis can create, and Republicans aren’t different from Nazis in that respect any more than they differ from Nazis in most other respects.” (01/25/26)

https://www.the-reframe.com/the-shovel-next-time