https://youtu.be/WQtIwl0_Tsw
⛔️🇺🇸Iran struck ship in Strait of Hormuz proving it has a hold on who operates in the straight, not Trump (CNN VIDEO) #Ukraine #Press #USA #US #Trump #America #Maga #Republicans #Media #UAE #Oman #Jordan #Qatar #UK #London #Israel #TelAviv #Bahrain #SaudiArabia #News #Kuwait #Headlines #Iran #Tehran #Lebanon #Gaza #Palestine #russiaUkraineWar
#12yrInvasionOfUkraine #RussiansAreBabyKillers
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"Trump🚨bought stock in the UFC’s parent co while promoting fights set to take place at the WH on his birthday."
Trump🚨purchased btw $15,001-$50K of stock of TKO Group Holdings, the parent co of UFC, on Mar 25, acc to a HuffPost review of his May 12 financial disclosure filing."
24/7 #corruption: there's apparently nothing that Trump won't profiteer off.
#Emoluments appear quaint now, but #ethics can be restored.
#Republicans in Cong: complicit.
#Impeach #Trump
#USPol
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-ufc-stock-white-house-fight_n_6a19b50be4b0dade602f5c5c
Don’t take the bait. As soon as #Republicans pass the $72 billion bill to fund #ICE & #CBP operations, #Trump will restart the #MAGASlushFund. He cannot be trusted. Learn already!
“Trump administration signals to GOP leaders it will drop a $1.8 billion ‘anti-weaponization’ fund, but the president has yet to weigh in publicly”
#law #judiciary #criminal #fraud #DOJ #JudicialProcess #theft #TaxpayersMoney #kleptocracy #MafiaState #Jan6 #militia #SlushFund
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/01/politics/trump-weaponization-fund-pause?cid=ios_app
Whiny little worm #Trump berates #Senate #Republicans during his visit to the Capitol over their vote to block the #IranWar.
This is a #democracy moron. You may not act unilaterally nor without reason.
#idiocracy #kakistocracy #unfit #TrumpsWar #US #Iran #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #economy #inflation #affordability #CostOfLiving #oil #energy #EnergyCrisis
https://apnews.com/article/trump-capitol-republican-senators-968c1454ede461d2db413790670c07df
#ToddBlanche’s announcement that he plans to kill the anti-weaponization #SlushFund but keep in place a deal that shields #Trump from past #tax #liability [#fraud] is likely to break the #Senate impasse over passage of an #immigration bill.
But the tax agreement—which could save Trump >$100 million, per a NYT analysis—could be highly damaging for #Republicans forced to defend that they supported a deal that enriches a billionaire with #TaxpayersMoney.
#law #DOJ
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/us/politics/trump-settlement-irs.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Good news for #anticorruption & #GovernmentWaste
#Senate #Republicans have formally removed #funding for #Trump’s #ballroom security as part of their sprawling #immigration funding package [cuz seriously wtf?], acc/to revised #legislative text released Wednesday.
The decision to drop the ballroom funding, which had sparked significant debate among lawmakers, is not a complete surprise, though it is likely to frustrate #Trump [call the waaaahhhmbulance].
#law #vanity
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/03/politics/trump-ballroom-funding-senate-republicans
#Senate is considering a motion to block #Trump from establishing the $1.8 billion #SlushFund he planned to use to compensate allies he believes have been politically persecuted. Minority leader Sen Chuck Schumer introduced the motion as the Senate considered #Republicans’ $70 billion #immigration enforcement bill. #ToddBlanche, the acting AG, previously said the fund was dead, but Trump expressed his support for it as recently as Wednesday, saying, “I love it.”
#law
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06/04/us/trump-news?smid=nytcore-ios-share
#Trump Keeps #Immunity From #IRS, a Victory in a Long Feud
Even as they rebelled against a $1.8B #SlushFund for Trump’s allies, #Republicans looked the other way as his admin granted him lucrative #tax protections.
#Senate Republican anger about Trump’s $1.8B fund for people who claim to be victims of federal overreach was loud & apparent.
…Not so for sweeping protections from IRS audits that #ToddBlanche also ordered up for Trump, his family & his businesses.
#law
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/us/politics/trump-immunity-tax-audit.html?unlocked_article_code=1.n1A.gcSQ.hiZiiEEk4rpF&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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The #DeepState didn’t take down #Nixon.
So why did #JDVance say it did?
Nixon’s #Crimes, the #Courts, #Congress & the #FreePress drove #Watergate.
Such a scandal of #crime & #corruption could easily happen again — [especially in a nation where #Trump controls the #press, the rule of #law only applies to his enemies & the courts have been subjugated by a #corrupt #SCOTUS].
#Trumpaganda #propaganda #Republicans #RevisionistHistory #UShistory #law #criminal
https://wapo.st/4eOdXMT
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A Shocking Betrayal of #Black Americans
by Mara Gay
The dismantling of Black political #power in the South is a great betrayal, & its effects will ripple through our #democracy.
#RepresentationMatters #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow #law #ElectionLaw #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #VotingRights #VotingRightsAct #VRA #redistricting #elections #USpol #Trump #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/opinion/voting-rights-act-black-voters-south.html?unlocked_article_code=1.oVA.qSCM.vEpY9cDXlL3Z&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@realTuckFrumper/116841497363782089
"We in this country have seen a remarkable change. And in Washington right now — and forgive me, I’m gonna use the 'f' word — we have a fascist, a fascist government that allows innocent people to be put in detention camps and incarcerated."
"We have been lied to over and over and over again about these camps. Our president said these detention camps were being put up to put in immigrants who had criminal records. We now have about 65–70,000 people incarcerated in these camps."
"29% have criminal records. 71% of the people in these camps, even with our country's and our government's statements about why they set up the camps, don’t belong there! 71% of the people in camps don’t belong there, according to the government, and yet they are put there."
#Fascism #DetentionCamps #Trump #Republicans #USA #HumanRights #RuleOfLaw #CrimesAgainstHumanity
this is not the first time genocidal #GOP #MAGA #republicans do this: deny the existence of Palestinians
So when are Republicans going to begin Weekend at Bernie-ing Mitch McConnell?
"“trickle-down” economics — a concept pushed by Republican to justify slashing taxes on the wealthy — have only benefited the rich and worsened economic inequality while failing to decrease unemployment or grow the economy."
"A paper from the London School of Economics and Kings College’s London, looked at the effect of 50 years of tax cuts for the wealthy in 18 developed countries: the concept has always been flawed."
These idiots haven’t even granted #Trump #WarPowers! But sure, give him 95 BILLION DOLLARS to keep waging an #illegal #war 🤦🏼♀️
#House #Republicans adopt $95 billion package for the #IranWar & Trump's “priorities”
#law #idiocracy #Iran #TaxpayersMoney #USpol #PublicDisservice
https://apnews.com/article/gop-95-billion-iran-war-trump-johnson-f9dea5ef800bfeb0e343256e841af38f
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Sen. #MitchMcConnell has spent 3 weeks in the hospital, & his office still will not say what sent the 84-year-old Kentucky Republican there, his latest condition or when he might return.
McConnell, who has served in the #Senate since 1985 & led Senate #Republicans from 2007 until 2025, has not cast a vote since June 11. His absence comes as Republicans are navigating a narrow Senate majority.…
#Congress #USpol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/07/06/heres-what-we-know-about-sen-mitch-mcconnells-health/
Is this what you voted for #MAGA?
#Hegseth estimates #IranWar has cost US Taxpayers $37.5 Billion so far
#Defense Secy Pete Hegseth faced questions & #protests Tuesday over the #US #war with #Iran, which he *estimated* has cost $37.5 billion so far [meaning double that, at a minimum], as #Republicans prepare a $95 billion #GOP budget package to #fund the #military, along with other #Trump priorities.
#TrumpsWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #service
https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-hegseth-military-deaths-95-billion-7d158708c3e5385683930f8b839d0344
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/116925212300259838
Slow hand wave to everyone who told us we were being hyperbolic and “he can’t because the Constitution says…” as if the Constitution were anything more than ink on paper without anyone to enforce it.
Their actions for this entire Trump 2.0 have been completely unconcerned with the unpopularity of their agenda because they don't intend to allow elections to remove them from office.
I remind my American friends, removing this fascist regime only gets harder from here. Do not look away. Organize. Act.
The power is with the people.
#Trump #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Elections #Democracy #Republicans #USA
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RE: https://ecoevo.social/@benlockwood/116964893643461218
the more #MAGA #GOP #Republicans fear their scapegoats, the better the hypemen they become
RE: https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/116905794391367308
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *snort* HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *wheeze* HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA
WHAT AN UNEXPECTED SURPRISE!
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so who is next? this always happens in threes.
we have Skeletor to thank for their latest affirmation:
https://mas.to/@skeletor/116903183286274726
Previously: Both #Austin and #Dallas passed laws mandating rest breaks for construction workers, as protection from dangerous heat. Then the lege overruled them, and banned future laws like it.
Cities plan climate action but it's blocked by the state. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-cities-climate-plans-preemption/
Donald Trump renewed efforts to dismantle the U.S. childhood vaccination schedule, attacking the measles shot and making unproven scientific claims ahead of the midterm elections. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/11/world/science-health/trump-autism-childhood-vaccines/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #sciencehealth #us #donaldtrump #republicans #robertfkennedyjr #vaccines #autism #covid19
I mean it’s not great, but there are worse things…
#Senate candidate #Maine #Democrat #TroyJackson ran anonymous account to troll #Republicans online
In 2012, Jackson had plenty to say about Maine politics. An outspoken Democratic state lawmaker, Jackson openly feuded with then-Republican Gov Paul LePage.
But in private, Jackson also took shots at LePage anonymously.
#USpol
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/30/politics/kfile-troy-jackson-anonymous-alias-commenter-canadians-for-lepage