Today in Labor History April 3, 1891: Deputized members of the National Guard fired on immigrant strikers in the Morewood massacre, in Pennsylvania. They killed at least ten workers and injured dozens more. The workers were organized with the new United Mine Workers, and were fighting Henry Clay Frick, the same industrialist responsible for the massacre at Homestead the following year, and the man who anarchist Alexander Berkman attempted to assassinate, also in 1892.
A fmr #AirForce fighter pilot, Maj Anthony Bourke, added: “When you disclose operational security, people can get killed.” He said that “these things are not taken lightly. I have never met anybody in the #military who does not know this.”
#Hegseth, a fmr #FoxNews weekend host, served as a #NationalGuard infantryman.
Cmdr Parker Kuldau, a fmr #Navy F/A18 pilot, called Hegseth’s disclosures, & subsequent response to them, “infuriating.”
‘Cops Aren’t Workers’: The Truth About the #NY #Prison Guards’ #Walkout
#breakthroughnews #policebrutality #unions #acab #guards #worker #haltact #budgetcuts #nationalguard #uspol
https://youtu.be/Voi5KxdwshQ
#DefendTheGuard legislation would prohibit a state’s #NationalGuard units from being deployed into active combat without a formal #DeclarationOfWar by Congress, as provided by the U.S. Constitution. #uspol
https://pca.st/laejj10b
I'm just gonna park this here..you know, for future reference
A #VanityFair article by #BessLevin dated September 17, 2020
Testifying before lawmakers, D.C. #NationalGuard Major #AdamDDeMarco said that in the hours before protesters were forcibly cleared from #LafayetteSquare, federal officials started to stockpile #ammunition and “seek devices that could emit deafening sounds and make anyone within range feel like their skin is on fire"
https://www.europesays.com/1866974/ Why Trump chose Dan Caine to be top US military officer — and when he became a favorite of prez #AirForce #AlQaeda #CIA #ConservativePoliticalActionConference #cpac #DonaldTrump #Iraq #JoeBiden #NationalGuard #nominations #trump #TruthSocial #USNews
"The #KentStateMassacre, which occurred on May 4, 1970, involved the Ohio #NationalGuard shooting unarmed #CollegeStudents during a #protest against the Vietnam War at Kent State University, resulting in four deaths and nine injuries. This tragic event sparked widespread outrage and led to the largest student strike in U.S. history."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
#USHistory #Histodon
"Tin soldiers and Nixon's comin'
We're finally on our own
This summer I hear the drummin'
Four dead in Ohio
Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are gunning us down
Should have been done long ago
What if you knew her and
Found her dead on the ground?
How can you run when you know?"
- #NeilYoung, Ohio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdVMGKOFIwY
#KentState #Resistance #History #NationalGuard #KentStateShootings #May4th #May41970
Speaking of #KristiNoem. I came across this very interesting article from #OpenSecrets! I'll betcha Kristi is #Trump's pick for 2028 (assuming he doesn't try and stay in power until...) Anyhow, apparently #JDVance has lost favor already (hasn't sucked up enough?).
#Trump administration profile: Kristi Noem
By Emma Rose Brown
February 5, 2025
"Shortly after winning the election in November, President Donald Trump nominated Kristi Noem to be secretary of homeland security in his second administration. Following a Jan. 17 hearing, her nomination cleared the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and she was confirmed by the Senate on Jan. 25. The longtime Trump loyalist immediately began carrying out his hardline immigration agenda.
"Who is she? After serving in the South Dakota Legislature for four years, Noem represented the state in the House of Representatives from 2011 to 2019, before becoming governor in 2019. As a member of Congress, Noem backed Trump’s Executive Order 13769, which banned travel to the United States by citizens of seven #Muslim-majority countries and temporarily halted the U.S. refugee program. While governor, she deployed dozens of #SouthDakota #NationalGuard members to the southern border in coordination with Texas officials. A lifelong rancher and farmer, Noem was under consideration to be Trump’s running mate until she wrote about killing a family dog in her 2024 memoir, 'No Going Back.'
"Noem has raised nearly $35 million (see federal and state data), in total, for her eight elections. Her two gubernatorial races brought in more than $24 million, and about half of those donations came from out of state. In her most recent gubernatorial election, she received $2.9 million from the Republican Governors Association, more than double its contribution to her first campaign.
"After being elected to Congress, she soon separated herself as a top fundraiser in the freshman class. She raised $169,000 in the first quarter of 2011, the third-most of any first-term member of Congress. During her time in Congress, PACs donated over $3 million, with over half a million in contributions from health professionals and $370,000 from the insurance industry.
"In 2017, she ranked in the top third of members of Congress in terms of wealth, with an estimated net worth of $2.35 million. Her husband, Bryon Noem, owns an insurance agency, which was then valued between $1 million and $5 million.
"Noem’s efforts to send National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border in 2019 were supported by a $1 million donation from #WillisJohnson, the #billionaire Republican donor and founder of junkyard company #Copart."
Why does it matter?
As DHS secretary, Noem will be tasked with overseeing federal immigration policy as well as domestic terrorism. Johnson’s support for National Guard activity, though legal, concerned experts who worried that the private funding of military actions could further politicize the military and set a dangerous precedent."
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2025/02/trump-administration-profile-kristi-noem
#USPol #Idiocracy
Today in Labor History February 8, 1919: A General Strike occurred in Butte, Montana against a wage cut. Inspired by the Seattle General Strike, members of the IWW and the Metal and Mine Workers Union, Local 800, organized Soldiers’, Sailors’ and Workers Councils to lead the strike. Streetcar workers joined in, shutting down transportation for 5 days. Soldiers, returning from World War I, joined the pickets. Montana’s governor called in the National Guard. They bayoneted 9 workers. The workers ultimately called off the strike out of fear that there would be fatalities.
With #Sierra snow pack at less than half of normal levels, #California Department of Water Resources announced that municipal #water agencies will receive just 20% of requested #H2O supplies, but that total is upped from 15% back on Dec. 23 rd.
Ironically Pouting #Prez #DJT's uninformed but forcefully ordered release by #NationalGuard to open #dams and release millions of gallons of water to supposedly fight the #LAfires
has further damaged state's stored agricultural supplies, and simultaneously harms survival chances of threatened aquatic life.
The majority of flow sent by Trump likely just goes to waste trapped in the middle of the state with no way to ever reach parched #SouthernCalifornia neighborhood #firehydrants.
— read more links here.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/03/climate/trump-california-water-dams-reservoirs
[17:07] Donald Trump pauses US tariffs on Mexico for a month; vows to hold talks with Canadian PM Trudeau later today
US President Donald Trump will pause new tariffs on Mexico for one month after Mexico agreed to reinforce its northern border with 10,000 National Guard members to stem the flow of illegal drugs, particularly fentanyl, he said on Monday on social media.
https://www.independent.ie/world-news/donald-trump-pauses-us-tariffs-on-mexico-for-a-month-vows-to-hold-talks-with-canadian-pm-trudeau-later-today/a1586997738.html
#US #DonaldTrump #Mexico #onemonth #10,000 #NationalGuard #Monday
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...even though they were faced with it. In #Selma they were attacked with dogs, clubs and fire boxes. At #KentState they were shot by #nationalguard troops even though unarmed.
We are not there yet. I pray that we will not get there. We can turn the tide like they did with teaching, speaking, protesting, showing the way, persisting.
Sadly #freedom and #justice are not free but it can be done.
Hear from the trans National Guard pilot falsely accused of flying helicopter in fatal collision
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKL_HsSpoCA #Trump #Trumpadmin #FAA #NationalGuard #JoEllis #Washington #planecrash
"I've deployed active duty US #military & #NationalGuard troops to the #border to assist in repelling the *invasion*. It was really an invasion. We will not allow our territory to be violated after 4 long years."
"Before even taking office, my team negotiated a ceasefire agreement in the #MiddleEast, which wouldn't have happened without us."
"Our efforts to secure a peace settlement between #Russia & #Ukraine are now, hopefully, underway…."
– #Trump
Look inside the cockpit:
#NationalGuard plane combats #Californiafire
A National Guard #plane dropped #fireretardant on the #PalisadesFire.
I humbly submit this suggestion to the gov't officials responding to the #CaliforniaWildFires. How about using some of the #NationalGuard to start building temporary housing for those displaced by the fires? The #Olympics will be here in a few years & I've read about plans to build Olympic villages to house athletes? How about start on something like that now? & convert some of the stadiums that are in L.A. & will house gymnastics, track & field, et al. into temporary housing.
I humbly submit this suggestion to the gov't officials responding to the #CaliforniaWildFires. How about using some of the #NationalGuard to start building temporary housing for those displaced by the fires? The #Olympics will be here in a few years & I've read about plans to build Olympic villages to house athletes? How about start on something like that now? & convert some of the stadiums that are in L.A. & will house gymnastics, track & field, et al. into temporary housing.
Today is 6 Jan and I recall sitting in front of the #universityofvirginia #law school listening to #wtop radio. For posterity please be reminded it was #governors #virginia #ralphnortham and #Maryland #larryHogan who called out the #nationalguard s under their command first after #dod dithered. I am displacing this memory today with older better memories of #jimmycarter.
@TucsonSentinel I've been beating this drum for months. #AgentOrange will deputize all #NationalGuard, #statetroopers, #sheriffs and local #police to carry out his #redneck #racist policies with impunity. Blue states will be overwhelmed by people who leave everything behind to escape redneck states. Those who refuse to leave will be rounded up and imprisoned a'la 1942 #concentrationcamps.
