#SCOTUS seems poised to uphold a major #GunRegulation imposed by the #Biden admin that requires #BackgroundChecks, #SerialNumbers & sales #records for the nearly untraceable #firearms known as #GhostGuns.
A majority of the justices seemed skeptical during oral argument on Tues of the position taken by gun owners, parts makers & #2A groups: that the govt exceeded its authority in 2022 when it imposed new rules for the weapons.
#law #GunControl #guns #GunViolence
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/08/supreme-court-ghost-guns-biden-rules/
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Via @marcelias:
Great news!🥳
"A federal judge rejected Republican state officials’ request to block President Joe #Biden’s executive order that expanded voting access."
We need one more Biden misstep calling Republicans Drag Queens. He's so close he doesn't even realize his power.
#MAGA #MAGAGarbage #USPol #Trump #KamalaHarris #Biden #Harris
Under #Biden. Trump will try to take credit. Don’t let him.
“US #unemployment claims fall to the lowest level since March
The number of Americans applying for unemployment checks dropped last week to the lowest level since March, suggesting that most workers enjoy unusual job security”
- ABC News https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/us-unemployment-claims-fall-211000-lowest-level-march-117266577
⚠️🇺🇸Biden and his strongmen were lying the entire time: Ukraine has received less than half of US assistance allocated during full-scale invasion, President Zelensky admits (more) https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-has-received-less-than-half-of-us-assistance-allocated-during-full-scale-war-zelensky-says/ #Ukraine #NukesForUkraine #SouthKorea #Japan #Press #Mastodon #Taiwan #Media #NukesOrNATO #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #Biden #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine
Via Rupar:
#Biden's farewell speech to the military: "Let me close with a final request. I say it not as your president or commander in chief. I say it as a man who spent 50 years of his life serving his country in a different way. Remember your oath."👈🏼
I think a lot of people have forgotten how the press went after #Biden early in his presidency for not ‘bridging the partisan divide’ and ‘healing the nation.’ Now they’re like, ‘look at that guy fuck everything up how exciting!’
JFC
#PutinsPuppet is spreading #RussianPropaganda & attacking #Zelensky, #Obama & #Biden in disgusting #racist code & advocating for #Russia’s demands.
“I have nothing to do with Russia, but have much to do with wanting to save, on average, five thousand Russian & Ukrainian soldiers a week, who are dying for no reason whatsoever.
No reason?! Just their #sovereignty, #independence & #democracy
#Trump #geopolitics #Ukraine #disinformation #alliance #NATO #authoritarianism #StandWithUkraine
Judge Blocks #Trump Administration From Terminating $14 Billion in 'Green Bank' Grants
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from terminating $14 billion in grants awarded to three #climate groups by the #Biden administration
#law #ClimateCrisis #DOGE #TrumpPurge #EPA #Citibank #ClimateUnitedFund #ClimateSolutions
https://apnews.com/article/epa-green-bank-zeldin-climate-trump-380000b014480350b35b7b53bd14e277
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Under #Biden US national labs found themselves hamstrung by micromanagement, demands from the administration that resources be diverted away from #science while regulators repeatedly shut down programs much to the chagrin of our International partners.
It's been a breath of fresh air that the new administration has allowed us to actually get back to work. I don't even care if they know what they are doing, at least they are no longer interfering. Science is getting back on track now.
Regardless of everything else that #Trump might be getting into, and maybe it's just because he's just that incompetent, at least the US is getting back on track with its scientific endeavors. Our experiments are getting back up to speed after years of crippling bureaucracy, and we can start making progress again.
There's a lot to complain about with Trump, but I am very glad to see that the expectations for science are living up to what I'd hoped.
Oh yeah, this admin totally cares about #antisemitism 🙄
#Trump has fired members of the US #HolocaustMemorialMuseum's board appointed by President Joe #Biden, including fmr 2nd gentleman #DougEmhoff.
#RonKlain, once Biden's chief of staff, told CBSNews he & all others appointed to the #Holocaust Memorial Council in early 2025 by Biden have been fired. Biden appointed 12 people to the 68-member board in Jan before leaving office.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #RevengePolitics
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-fires-biden-appointed-holocaust-museum-board-members/
It still seems hard to believe, but in the last #Congress, the #House #Republican majority formally launched an #impeachment inquiry against Joe #Biden. The endeavor never made any sense, but the underlying allegation was that the Democratic president was somehow the beneficiary of a weird #bribery scheme.
#law #Constitution #EmolumentsClause #ForeignAsset #Compromised #NationalSecurity #InfoSec #Trump #crypto #grift
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-controversial-meme-coin-contest-proves-predictably-profitable-p-rcna203293
Mike Masnick compares how the Free Press covered the (misleading-to-false) story of the #Biden admin’s "censorship" of #SocialMedia [actually trying to combat harmful #disinformation like #election & #COVID #lies & #ConspiracyTheories or #HateSpeech like #WhiteSupremacy], to how they handled the very real #censorship attack on #Wikipedia by #Trump’s DC #USAttorney #EdMartin.
Spoiler: there are differences.
#law #tech #moderation #dictatorship #FourthEstate #journalism
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/28/government-actually-threatens-wikipedias-editorial-freedom-self-proclaimed-free-speech-warriors-suddenly-have-other-plans/
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Since taking office, #Trump has moved aggressively to revoke the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of #immigrants who were allowed into the country under President #Biden.
Now, the admin is taking drastic steps to pressure some of those immigrants & others who had legal status to “self-deport” by effectively canceling the #SocialSecurity numbers they had lawfully obtained….
#law #immigration #labor
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/us/politics/migrants-deport-social-security-doge.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=2E999096-F869-486C-80A2-740E7C065EBC
‘That’s Not Who We Are’: #Biden Criticizes #Trump in BBC Interview
The fmr president stepped up his public re-emergence by attacking Trump’s handling of #ForeignPolicy & defending his own decision to seek re-election.
6 months after his party lost the presidential election, former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. is stepping back into the public spotlight with a scathing condemnation of his successor & his handling of international affairs.
#USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/us/trump-biden-interview.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=90A32E8E-9267-489E-A5FD-56DFD5B66684
If Will Bunch wrote it, you should read it.©
"You'll be shocked to learn that mainstream media, amid its frenzied coverage of that #Biden book and #cancer diagnosis, is missing the story that matters most to Americans
A vengeful #Trump has shot down Biden's cancer 'moonshot,' with funding down 31%."
#USSteel & #NipponSteel announced on Fri that they had entered into an agreement w/the #USgovernment to seal the terms of a “partnership” between the companies, >1yr after the Japanese #steel maker 1st tried to buy its US competitor.
President Joe #Biden, under pressure from the #UnitedSteelworkers #union, blocked the deal on the basis that it was a threat to #NationalSecurity. #Trump, who also initially opposed the deal, reversed himself & decided…to revive it.
#StudentLoans interest charges to kick back in for roughly 8 million borrowers
Interest charges will return on Aug. 1 after a yearlong pause on payments.
Roughly 8 million student loan borrowers will see their interest charges restart next month, #Trump Dept of #Education announced Wednesday.
Borrowers on the #Biden-era Saving on a Valuable Education Plan — about 7.7 million people — will have interest charges return on Aug. 1 after a yearlong pause on payments.
#law
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/student-loan-interest-charges-kick-back-roughly-8/story?id=123611422
#DeathWorld / How Israel and the US create a "death world" breaking not only Gaza but the foundations of humanitarian law
[...] "today, the death world we know is Gaza."
Gaza has become a place where the conditions are so systematically destructive and dehumanizing that its inhabitants exist in a state between life and death - where normal human existence has been made impossible through deliberate policy.
Israel's systematic destruction of Gaza over 88 weeks that has killed nearly 56,000 Palestinians, including over 15,000 children, while displacing 1.9 million people are crimes.
Hansen shows how US officials privately acknowledged Israeli war crimes while publicly defending them. State Department resignees describe how the Biden administration ignored clear evidence of deliberate aid blocking and civilian targeting, with one official stating that Biden administration officials "completely forfeit any right to critique the Trump administration for lack of morals" after laying the groundwork for lawlessness.
Both governments have deliberately shattered the post-WWII international legal order, creating what the author calls a "death world" in Gaza through systematic violations of humanitarian law.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/israel-palestine-gaza-war-crimes-genocide.html or https://archive.ph/PGLFn#selection-1217.2-1225.11
@palestine
@israel
#Gaza #WarCrimes #Genocide #Palestine #ICJ #ICC #Biden #Netanyahu #HumanRights #GazaGenocide #EdithWyschogrod