TOM takes over DC? Kinda....

 

Aug 9, 2025 (201/1461)

If you live in DC, prepare to enter a totalitarian state if TOM has his way. And lest you think this is all puff, he’s got his sights set on NYC as well. Yup. Nation’s metropolis, under military rule. “Around 2 a.m., noisy revelers emerging from clubs and bars packed the sidewalks of U Street in Washington, many of them seeking a late-night slice or falafel. A robust but not unusual contingent of city police cruisers lingered around the edges of the crowds. At other late-night hot spots, nearly identical scenes unfolded.

What wasn’t apparent in Friday’s earliest hours: any sort of security lockdown by a multiagency flood of uniformed federal law enforcement officers. That’s what President Donald Trump had promised Thursday, starting at midnight, in the administration’s latest move to impose its will on the nation’s capital.

In short, that law enforcement surge to take control of the District of Columbia’s streets did not appear to unfold on schedule. A two-hour city tour, starting around 1 a.m. Friday, revealed no overt or visible law enforcement presence other than members of the Metropolitan Police Department, the city’s police force.”

 “According to his Thursday declaration, the security lockdown will run for seven days, “with the option to extend as needed.” “Imposing a full federal takeover of Washington would require a congressional repeal of the Home Rule Act of 1973. It’s a step that Trump said lawyers are examining.”

On the Left Coast, Newsom is trying to go toe to toe with Abbott. “Newsom once again called for a special election in his state to redistrict and gain more seats in the U.S. House for the Democratic Party. He wants the election in the first week of November.

“It will coincide with many other municipal elections,” Newsom said. “We will raise an unprecedented amount of attention, and we will garner an unprecedented amount of support because people understand what’s at stake.”

California uses an independent commission to redistrict, and it has been extremely successful, with no lawsuits challenging them filed after the last maps were drawn. Newsom said they are proud of that commission and not doing away with it, but he feels the state needs to rise to this moment.” Glitzy Gavin may come out with a win on this one.