RE: https://mas.to/@gleick/115572080150165349
This was all pretty sickening to watch.. Kinda like everything #Trump related these days
trump
WTF do they think is going to happen to #schools?
#Trump admin to announce dismantling of much of #Education Dept
The Education Dept plans to announce Tuesday that it will move multiple parts of the agency to other federal depts, an unprecedented & unilateral effort to dismantle an agency created by #Congress to ensure all Americans have #EqualAccess to educational #opportunity & better coordinate federal programs.
#law #SeparationOfPowers #FederalFunding #PublicSchools
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/11/18/trump-administration-announce-dismantling-much-education-dept/
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
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Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
https://www.propublica.org/article/andrew-tate-investigation-dhs-paul-ingrassia?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #AndrewTate #WhiteHouse #DHS #Law #USPolitics #Trump #Epstein
From the moment #JamesComey was charged with lying to & obstructing Congress, his lawyers have asserted that the prosecution was little more than an act of vindictive #retribution fueled by #Trump’s longstanding animus against him.
Wed morning, the lawyers are set to make that argument in court & to persuade a federal judge that the case should be dismissed because the #DOJ effectively allowed itself to be taken captive by Trump’s desire to seek political #revenge.
#law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/us/politics/comey-vindictive-prosecution-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
So yeah, instead of zombies...
...you kill a LOT of dictators🤷
Got one of my old Unreal projects from the shelf to have a little fun
Do people who are pissed off by the Cheneys’ endorsement not see how much better off we’d be if many more horrendous wingnuts were similarly outraged by Trump’s hamfisted coup attempt?
Most of them were for like 5 minutes after Jan 6. Imagine if that sentiment had stuck?
John Stoehr turns a cold eye on media malfeasance in letting Trump off the hook again and again and sanewashing his nonsense babble, since
"If he’s unfit to communicate, he’s unfit to serve."
And the media have an obligation to tell us this, not to function as "Trump’s assisted living program" and impose coherence, order, and meaning on meaningless spates of words.
John Stoehr
https://www.editorialboard.com/the-press-corps-is-trumps-assisted-living-program/
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Keep 'em coming
Via Kyle Cheney:
JUST IN: A federal judge has ordered the reinstatement of an education grant supporting long-running desegregation efforts in southern schools.
The #Trump administration canceled funds for the program under its anti-DEI policy.
https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2025cv1079-28
#Hypocrisy, #Spinelessness, & the Triumph of Donald Trump
He said #Republican politicians would be easy to break. He was right.
By Mark Leibovich
“In the summer of 2015, back when he was still talking to traitorous reporters like me, I spent extended stretches w/ #Trump. He was in the early phase of his 1st campaign for president, though he had quickly made himself the inescapable figure of that race—as he would in pretty much every Republican contest since.
#GiftArticle
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/10/trump-gop-support-jd-vance-2024/679564/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxYJnBthoeKnPRywE75FVwBk&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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#Trump threatening to #jail political opposition repeatedly this weekend.
Setting up another #PermissionStructure for an American #authoritarian regime.
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FFS
#Trump: We are going to have a role in choosing #Iran's next leader
Trump told Reuters that the #US is going to have a role in choosing Iran's next leader, much like #Venezuela.
Trump also said it's very early in the process of picking a new leader.
#MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #sovereignty #NewWorldOrder #law #Congress #WarPowers #InternationalLaw
https://www.reuters.com/world/iran-live-war-widens-iran-says-us-will-bitterly-regret-sinking-ship-2026-03-05/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
Reporters for #CNN & #MSNOW were finally allowed to re-enter the White House grounds around noon Thursday.
Earlier, the #Trump admin had repeatedly barred journalists from those outlets & #Politico from entering the grounds even after a federal judge ordered the immediate restoration of their access.
#law #SeparationOfPowers #judiciary
#Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreePress #journalism #media
#MafiaState #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/09/24/business/trump-cnn-politico-msnow-white-house?unlocked_article_code=1.DlE.jAHh.PjpPEPKo06kV&smid=nytcore-ios-share
#Trump said: "If you are not a believer, what is the reason to be good"
Atheist here ✋ You don't have to believe or rather be scared to be good
Something... something.. decency..
That was a very very cold opening between the two of them. #KamalaHarris took it upon herself to walk into his space and say her name aloud. Trump was ice cold.
They shook hands, seemingly at Harris’s initiation. Harris walked over to Trump w/her arm extended to initiate a handshake. “Kamala Harris,” she said as she took Trump’s hand — perhaps a subtle way to remind him, who has deliberately mispronounced her name on numerous occasions, how to pronounce her name.
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It's your Kamala v. Trump Debate Thread!
LET'S GET IT ON!!
🇺🇸 Keep smiling and grab a drink: We'll get through this together, kid 🇺🇸
🧵
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Trump was up by 1.1 points in 538’s average the day after the Biden debate. Harris is up by 2.8 this morning.
We won’t see a dozen stories every day about Republicans freaking out or a zillion polls showing voters questioning Trump’s fitness for office.
This will be about the size of it.
#debate #HarrisWalz2024 #trump #Election2024
#KamalaHarris’ victory on Tues was so clear that even #FoxNews had to accept #reality.
“Make no mistake about it: #Trump had a bad night,” Brit Hume, #FauxNews chief political analyst, said shortly after the #debate. “He lost the debate repeatedly when she baited him, something I’m sure his advisors had begged him not to do. And we heard so many of the old grievances that we’ve long thought that Trump had learned were not winners politically.”
#HarrisWalz2024
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/09/fox-news-brit-hume-trump-debate/
Who is Putin's pet?
Not Zelenskyj
Ukrainas president.
Slava Ukraini!
Someone tell anyone who want peace!
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Sadly, the punditry is largely informed by polling but there are reasons to think it won't be that close:
*Dems' post-Dobbs overperformance in specials
*Harris's cash advantage
*The RNC outsourcing its ground game to grifters
*First-time/irregular voters not making it thru LV screens
*High turnout favors Dems
*Abortion is directly on the ballot in 2/7 swing states
*Six more weeks of Trump meltdowns
*Trump's Net faves at -9.6 vs Harris's -0.8 (538)
(cont'd)
#Election2024 #HarrisWalz #trump
Pundits and journos want policy details from Harris because they’re looking for flaws in an otherwise flawless campaign rollout so they can have more drama.
So they say the lack of detail is a big problem and then find swing state voters who heard that and echo it back to them for new stories.
This is how a lot of sausage gets made.
#HarrisWalz2024 #Election2024 #trump #media
"The morning after Trump repeated racist claims about Haitians in Springfield, OH, some Haitian families are keeping their children home from school for their safety...
“We’re all victims this morning,” said [one] woman, who moved to Springfield 6 years ago. “They’re attacking us in every way.”
"Tthe woman also said her cars have been vandalized twice in the middle of the night. She woke up one morning to broken windows..."
https://haitiantimes.com/2024/09/11/haitian-immigrants-in-ohio-under-racist-attacks/ #StochasticTerror #trump #maga #immigration
#Trump about Kimmel:
"Get that bum off the air"
We about Trump:
"Get that dumb off the chair"
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It’s 10am on the day after restrictions on insiders selling Trump’s meme stock expired. It’s traded 43% of its average daily volume in an hour.
Regardless of whether he sells, he gave out stock to vendors and more stock to pay off debt and those people are getting their cash out while they can.
Nice call, Captain Obvious. 😁
"Ex-FBI official warns Trump could be a Russian asset: ‘His approach with Putin raises significant questions’" - The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-russia-putin-election-b2611577.html