Phones Seized, Truth Buried: The Fascist Authoritarian Trump Regime's Latest War on Reality
American troops in the Middle East are being ordered to surrender their cellphones. Not because of some battlefield necessity, but because a raw video of an Iranian strike that killed two U.S. soldiers at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan dared to escape the regime's carefully curated propaganda machine. The footage circulated, the deaths became undeniable, and Donald Trump's authoritarian apparatus responded the only way it knows how: confiscate the evidence and silence the witnesses.
CENTCOM's commander admitted in a July 28 letter that troop videos were helping Iran assess its own damage. Translation: the regime cannot tolerate any independent record that contradicts the official story of strength and control. In Jordan the seizures are already underway. Families at home are left anxious and cut off, while the administration that thrives on lies continues its project of manufacturing consent through enforced ignorance.
This is not security. This is the classic authoritarian move: when reality embarrasses the strongman, punish the people who recorded it. Trump's regime has never been interested in informing the American people; it is committed to lying to them — about competence, about costs, about the consequences of its own posturing. Two dead service members become an inconvenience best managed by taking away the phones that might show the truth. The public is to receive only the approved narrative. Everything else is a threat to be neutralized.
When a government responds to inconvenient footage of its own failures by disarming its soldiers of their personal devices, it has abandoned any pretense of democratic accountability. It has chosen the fascist path of narrative control over honesty. The phones are the latest casualty. The real target remains the American people's right to know.
112 children are imprisoned at Dilley. The youngest child imprisoned at Dilley is 2 months old. None have committed any crime.
Private investors make money for each new child taken into Dilley. We need to #ShutDownDilley and end family detention.
Let us remember:
@SenRickScott’s hospital company HCA, defrauded Medicare and was fined $2 billion.
He invoked 5th amendment 75 TIMES, avoided prison and was given a $300 MILLION retirement package which he used to buy Governorship and Senate Seat.
Fuck Rick Scott.
When abortion rights were on the ballot in 2022, my wife Jenna and I knocked on doors to help educate voters about the amendment. While Republicans have continuously tried to undermine what voters have already said, I have stood firm to protect abortion rights in our state. This August, vote NO to keep our courts and our constitution impartial.
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Trump has killed or slashed over 200 clean energy projects in the last 18 months, costing the US economy $90 billion and sacrificing 470,000 new jobs. Where’s the sense in any of that?
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Devon Archer was convicted by a federal jury of helping defraud the Oglala Sioux Tribe’s business arm out of $60 million in worthless bonds. He owed $43.4 million in restitution and $15.7 million in forfeiture. The Supreme Court refused to hear his appeal.
Trump pardoned him. And the White House explained why out loud: the case against Archer changed, they said, after he became a witness against the Biden family.
Healthcare worker here. I worked the COVID pandemic front lines. I can testify with 100% proven reliability that the only patients who died were primarily the UNVACCINATED.
Dr. Fauci is a deadly pathogen professional whose efforts and efficacy saved countless lives. The man’s a hero.
@RogerMarshallMD Roger give it up. Your butt hurt embarrassing " Moronic " moment will forever be the dumbest spectacle by a Kansas Senator. Couldn't find Fauci's taxes using your entire staff? Resign, your wasting tax dollars.
@RogerMarshallMD Amazing that republicans are hell bent on relitigating COVID as measles
spreads across this country in numbers we haven’t seen in 35 years and they do nothing about it.
@RogerMarshallMD Fauci has testified before Congress over 20 times.
This is yet another waste of taxpayer money.
When exactly are y'all going to get to the Epstein files?
I didn't know anyone who had any of those issues "Doc." When a medical doctor is spreading vaccine nonsense in an desperate attempt to win reelection its just sad really. Kansans are tired of your show @RogerMarshallMD
"As a long time Chief of Staff for a U.S. Senator, I saw first hand what it takes to solve Kansas problems in Congress. That's why I urge your support for Noah Taylor."
Thanks to Leroy Towns for his support of my campaign.
Wrong Elon - most of the world hates your fucking guts. You’re not a visionary. You’re an online grievance machine with a God complex and the emotional maturity of a spoiled 14-year-old.
Fuck this guy.
A federal judge just ruled @POTUS broke the Constitution when he yanked $7.6 billion in clean energy grants from 16 states for one reason: every single one voted for Kamala Harris.
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta didn't have to guess at the motive. The administration admitted it. He wrote that officials made the cuts "primarily — if not exclusively — based on whether the awardee resided in a state whose citizens voted for @POTUS in 2024." They offered no explanation for how punishing people for their state's vote served any government interest.
The cuts killed 223 projects across 16 Harris-voting states. Nearly identical projects in Trump states were left untouched.
The paper trail was sloppy, too. The termination notices weren't even sent on official Energy Department letterhead. They came on letters with "Department of Energy" simply typed across the top.
The damage wasn't abstract. California lost up to $1.2 billion for a hydrogen hub the state says supports over 200,000 jobs, with $10 billion in private money already committed. Battery plants, grid upgrades and carbon capture projects were also wiped out.
Budget director Russell Vought announced it on social media by bragging that "the Left's climate agenda is being canceled."
Mehta ruled the cuts violated equal protection and ordered the grants restored.