Stop now, what's that sound?

As Donald Trump moves to invoke the Insurrection Act and impose martial law on American cities — while threatening New York and Boston with other sanctions — there are faint glimmers of a resistance building. Finally.

Trump, emboldened by his role in prompting a ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza War, has stepped up his King Donald I routine — declaring he would send troops into New York City if voters dared to elect “communist” Zohran Mamdani mayor

“We have a Communist, 33 years old, doesn’t know a thing, probably never worked a day in his life, and he sort of caught on. I’m not going to send a lot of money to New York,” Trump said. “We’re not going to ruin one of our great cities, because we’ll make that great. We will clean up the crime in about 30 days.”

Still think we’re going to have a free and fair election next November?

Not to be outdone, the nation’s self-proclaimed No. 1 sports fan said he could “take away” the World Cup from Boston if he thinks the city is “unsafe. Despite professing his “love” for Boston, he also declared Mayor Michelle Wu is “no good.”

The matches were awarded to Boston by FIFA, a notoriously corrupt organization not officially under Trump’s thumb. Not to mention the pitch will be located in suburban Foxboro, more than 30 miles south of Wu’s home base in a venue controlled by Trump pal Robert Kraft.

Wu, who has repeatedly stood up to “immigration czar” Tom Homan and other Republican bullies, didn’t even bother to dignify Trump’s insults:

“Boston is honored and excited to host World Cup matches, and we look forward to welcoming fans from around the world to our beautiful city, the cradle of liberty and city of champions.”

All this is taking place as Trump continues to lie about the situation in Chicago and Portland, Oregon, where the ICEstapo is trying to provoke violent reactions to justify what Vice President JD Vance said is a desire to invoke the Insurrection Act.

What Trumpian overreach has done is slowly awaken some slumbering giants — like the Pentagon press corps — and prompt two prominent Trump targets to speak up.

After a pathetic capitulation by the White House press corps that has allowed regime mouthpiece Karoline Leavitt to insert Trump sycophants into her “briefings” and into the press pool, the nearly unanimous refusal of Pentagon correspondents to accede to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s North Korean-style rules of access is a notable sign of life.

Only the One American News Network, home of Matt Gaetz, has agreed to rules that declare reporters cannot obtain or solicit any information the Defense Department does not explicitly authorize.

Even the Fox Propaganda Channel and Newsmax rejected those terms, agreeing to give up access to the Pentagon rather than their rights to report the news without government interference.

Hegseth, who infamously shared classified war plans on unsecured Signal channels with a journalist, his wife, brother and personal lawyer, apparently believes he can clamp down on leaks. Try the mirror Secretary Hairgel.

More interesting still has been the emergence of two of the more prominent targets of Trump’s revenge tour.

New York State Attorney General Letitia James, the focus of a flimsy two-count indictment for mortgage fraud brought by Trump’s personal lawyer turned acting US Attorney Lindsay Hooligan, er, Halligan, turned a verbal cannon on Trump at a New York City rally for the aforementioned Mamdani:

“You come for me, you’ve got to come for all of us, all of us, every single one of us,” she said, her voice rising. “We’re all in this together.”

James’ “crime” was winning a civil lawsuit against the Trump Organization, his three oldest children and former chief financial officer for cooking the books and manipulating asset values based on whether the audience was lenders or tax assessors.

James’ sentiment was echoed by the candidate expected to be New York’s next mayor:

“We are in a period of political darkness,” Mamdani said. “Donald Trump and his ICE agents are snatching our immigrant neighbors from our city right before our eyes. His authoritarian administration is waging a scorched-earth campaign of retribution against any who dared oppose him.”

But perhaps most surprising is the public emergence of former special counsel Jack Smith, who secured multiple indictments against Trump for his role in fomenting the real insurrection — the one on January 6, 2021 — and for mishandling classified documents:

“I think the attacks on public servants, particularly nonpartisan public servants — I think it has a cost for our country that is incalculable, and I think that we — it’s hard to communicate to folks how much that is going to cost us,” Smith said in an interview last week with former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissman.

For a prosecutor trained to speak his peace in legal documents and not on camera, the significance can’t be underestimated.

This is all leading up to the second “No Kings” mobilization, a follow-up to the June rallies that turned out millions across the nation. Despite scant media attention.

But the June events have clearly spooked Trump sycophants who are trying hard to use the media to lie and declare the upcoming weekend is a “hate America” rally spearheaded “by the most radical, small, and violent base in the country.”

Somethin’s happening here… Now if only the legacy media will pay attention.