Washington, DC police put under federal control, National Guard deployed

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/11/trump-washington-crime-fed-national-guard-homeless.html

by pwim • 12 months ago

103 17 12 months ago

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gnabgib• 12 months ago

Previously (106 points, 4 hours ago, 77 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44864192

Bender• 12 months ago

That one is flagged. Do you have the ability to merge threads?

tomhow2• 11 months ago

Comments moved thither, thanks!

ChrisArchitect• 12 months ago

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44864192

hollywood_court• 12 months ago

Why is this post being flagged?

jacquesm• 12 months ago

Because HN can't be seen to discuss the military take-over of the seat of government of one of the most powerful countries on earth. It would be unseemly. The coup will not only not be televised, it won't even be discussed.

Redoubts• 12 months ago

It’s more likely that users are flagging these posts because of the Reddit-tier commentary

db48x2• 12 months ago

Because it’s off topic. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

What to Submit
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

Sabinus• 12 months ago

The Hulk Hogan and Pope dying stories aren't flagged. Hell, the Hulk Hogan was unflagged.

The leader of the most powerful democracy on earth doing authoritarian actions and eroding norms is worth discussion.

Washington, DC police put under federal control, National Guard deployed

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