<p>“We’ve been preparing for years for this context.”</p><p>From volunteers who serve refugees, to the government, here's how <a href="/tags/mexico/" rel="tag">#Mexico</a> is preparing for the returning president's mass deportation agenda:<br><a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/is-mexico-prepared-for-mass-deportations/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.texasobserver.org/is-mexico-prepared-for-mass-deportations/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.texasobserver.org/is-mexic</span><span class="invisible">o-prepared-for-mass-deportations/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/border/" rel="tag">#border</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#immigration</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/humanrights/" rel="tag">#HumanRights</a></p>
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<p>Yep. </p><p>He ignored Altadena entirely. </p><p>Not one mention. </p><p>He didn't send anyone either. </p><p>We all know why. </p><p><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#trump</a> <a href="/tags/losangleles/" rel="tag">#losangleles</a> <a href="/tags/altadena/" rel="tag">#altadena</a> <a href="/tags/blackmastodon/" rel="tag">#blackmastodon</a> <a href="/tags/brownmastodon/" rel="tag">#BrownMastodon</a> <a href="/tags/latinomastodon/" rel="tag">#latinomastodon</a> <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-25/trump-tour-pacific-palisades-altadena-criticism" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-25/trump-tour-pacific-palisades-altadena-criticism"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.latimes.com/california/sto</span><span class="invisible">ry/2025-01-25/trump-tour-pacific-palisades-altadena-criticism</span></a></p>
<p>“When fascism wins it does so by co-opting the business elite. Fascism allies with the business elite against the cultural and intellectual elite.</p><p>You appeal to the billionaire class by saying, ‘We’re gonna cut your taxes. We’re gonna make sure regulations don’t apply to you. We’re gonna take care of the labor movement so you don’t need to worry about that.’ That’s why big business got behind the Nazis.”</p><p>~ Jason Stanley </p><p><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/fascism/" rel="tag">#fascism</a> <a href="/tags/economicelites/" rel="tag">#EconomicElites</a> <a href="/tags/nazis/" rel="tag">#Nazis</a><br>/1</p><p><a href="https://www.bettedangerous.com/p/icymi-shameful-opportunists-why-big-a2f" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.bettedangerous.com/p/icymi-shameful-opportunists-why-big-a2f"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.bettedangerous.com/p/icymi</span><span class="invisible">-shameful-opportunists-why-big-a2f</span></a></p>
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<p>There are bad anniversaries.</p><p>Trauma, deaths, physical illness…</p><p>This anniversary is a muther f⁕⚠︎ing all-of-the-above amalgam.</p><p><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> Has Pocketed $1,408,500,000 in >1 year in power</p><p>A year ago, Trump took an <a href="/tags/oath/" rel="tag">#oath</a> to serve the people of the <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#US</a>.</p><p>Instead, he focused on enriching himself.</p><p>[I am all out of gift articles, they’ve all gone to you]</p><p><a href="/tags/selfservice/" rel="tag">#SelfService</a> <a href="/tags/publicdisservice/" rel="tag">#PublicDisservice</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#US</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/constitution/" rel="tag">#Constitution</a> <a href="/tags/emoluments/" rel="tag">#emoluments</a> <a href="/tags/plutocracy/" rel="tag">#plutocracy</a> <a href="/tags/kleptocracy/" rel="tag">#kleptocracy</a> <a href="/tags/mafiastate/" rel="tag">#MafiaState</a> <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/20/opinion/editorials/trump-wealth-crypto-graft.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/20/opinion/editorials/trump-wealth-crypto-graft.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nytimes.com/interactive/20</span><span class="invisible">26/01/20/opinion/editorials/trump-wealth-crypto-graft.html</span></a></p>
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<p>Amazing that one arsehole bloke has managed to make every single normal person’s life measurably worse, all around the world.</p><p>The Great Men theory of history is wrong, but the Massive Cunts theory of history is holding up pretty well. <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a></p>
<p>I think a lot of people have forgotten how the press went after <a href="/tags/biden/" rel="tag">#Biden</a> 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!’</p><p><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#trump</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="/tags/fascism/" rel="tag">#fascism</a></p>
<p>Cartoonist Rob Rogers was fired from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 2018 for the cartoon below. While he seems to have done all right for himself, it's just one episode of many showing the rank cowardice of the media that contributed to this disaster.</p><p><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/epstein/" rel="tag">#Epstein</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#Media</a></p>
<p>The rest of the Epstein files are still there. They are not going away. The abused have told about their abuse & abusers. The world wants to know who these sick people that prayed on children are. The proof is out there. The law was passed to release the files. Yet we have not seen them. The government cover-up goes on. The Rich think they are immune. Let’s prove them wrong Show their faces, say their names. <a href="/tags/criminal/" rel="tag">#criminal</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/pedophile/" rel="tag">#Pedophile</a> <a href="/tags/abuse/" rel="tag">#abuse</a> <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#USA</a> <a href="/tags/doj/" rel="tag">#DOJ</a></p>
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<p>Friedenspreis ist tot </p><p><a href="/tags/nobelpeaceprize/" rel="tag">#NobelPeacePrize</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/cartoon/" rel="tag">#cartoon</a> <a href="/tags/karikatur/" rel="tag">#karikatur</a></p>
<p>Nur seine eigene Moral könne Trump stoppen, findet Trump.</p><p>WELCHE MORAL?!?!?</p><p>Also kann nichts Trump stoppen.<br>Schon gar nicht Mächtige, die vor ihm kuschen.</p><p>Europa, sei stark!<br>Wir brauchen ein starkes Europa, das demokratische Werte hochhält.</p><p><a href="/tags/europaseistark/" rel="tag">#EuropaSeiStark</a> <a href="/tags/neuewege/" rel="tag">#neueWege</a> <a href="/tags/gemeinsam/" rel="tag">#gemeinsam</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/epstein/" rel="tag">#Epstein</a></p>
<p>I remember the murder of Martin Luther King Jr., of course. I was a senior in high school when it happened. A senior in a small (some 25,000) but very wealthy oil town in south Arkansas, in a deep-South part of the state near the Louisiana border…. My father was a Louisianan whose parents moved to south Arkansas during the oil boom to find good-paying jobs.</p><p><a href="/tags/mlk/" rel="tag">#MLK</a> <a href="/tags/martinlutherking/" rel="tag">#MartinLutherKing</a> <a href="/tags/whitesupremacy/" rel="tag">#WhiteSupremacy</a> <a href="/tags/whitechristiannationalism/" rel="tag">#WhiteChristianNationalism</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="/tags/minneapolis/" rel="tag">#Minneapolis</a> <br>/1</p>
<p>Keep 'em coming</p><p>Via Kyle Cheney:</p><p>JUST IN: A federal judge in NY rejects <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> administration effort to dismiss lawsuit alleging DOGE directed a massive breach of OPM data affecting millions of people. </p><p><a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793.72.0.pdf" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793.72.0.pdf"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">storage.courtlistener.com/reca</span><span class="invisible">p/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793.72.0.pdf</span></a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/breaking/" rel="tag">#BREAKING</a>— <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a>'s freeze on grant funding temporarily halted by judge—Bloomberg</p>
<p>In today’s post on <span class="h-card"><a href="https://me.dm/@medium" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>medium</span></a></span>, I describe how the <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>internetarchive</span></a></span> and <span class="h-card"><a href="https://wikis.world/@wikipedia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>wikipedia</span></a></span> are preserving a record of the changes made by the <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> administration.</p><p>Click the link, not the image preview, to bypass the paywall:</p><p><a href="https://funcrunch.medium.com/the-u-s-government-is-erasing-our-history-e3be0776ee67?sk=aeb9aae7198d67b7b0990f023bf9553a" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="funcrunch.medium.com/the-u-s-government-is-erasing-our-history-e3be0776ee67?sk=aeb9aae7198d67b7b0990f023bf9553a"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">funcrunch.medium.com/the-u-s-g</span><span class="invisible">overnment-is-erasing-our-history-e3be0776ee67?sk=aeb9aae7198d67b7b0990f023bf9553a</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/wikipedia/" rel="tag">#Wikipedia</a> <a href="/tags/internetarchive/" rel="tag">#InternetArchive</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USPol</a></p>
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<p><a href="/tags/elonmusk/" rel="tag">#ElonMusk</a>’s business <a href="/tags/conflicts/" rel="tag">#conflicts</a> draw scrutiny amid WH role [apparently no one noticed till now 🙄]</p><p>Musk had sharp words for a the $500B partnership touted by the <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> admin to hasten development of <a href="/tags/artificialintelligence/" rel="tag">#ArtificialIntelligence</a> <a href="/tags/infrastructure/" rel="tag">#infrastructure</a>. “They don’t actually have the money,” he said of <a href="/tags/openai/" rel="tag">#OpenAI</a> & <a href="/tags/softbank/" rel="tag">#SoftBank</a>….<br>
Left unsaid by the <a href="/tags/technocrat/" rel="tag">#technocrat</a>, he has skin in the game: <a href="/tags/xai/" rel="tag">#xAI</a>, is directly challenging OpenAI for the lead in the race to transform society w/the <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a>.</p><p>🧵<br><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/24/elon-musk-conflicts-doge-trump-openai/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/24/elon-musk-conflicts-doge-trump-openai/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.washingtonpost.com/busines</span><span class="invisible">s/2025/01/24/elon-musk-conflicts-doge-trump-openai/</span></a></p>
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<p>Hey <a href="/tags/europe/" rel="tag">#Europe</a>, can we please stop the pleasing of dictator <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a>?</p><p>One should stand up against bullies, not laugh with them</p><p>He cannot be trusted, not now not in the future</p><p>Make the <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#US</a> bow to Europe and not the other way around</p>
<p>MENA News Highlights - May 18, ‘26 - Zuhur News <a href="/tags/319/" rel="tag">#319</a> on: <a href="/tags/iran/" rel="tag">#Iran</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/egypt/" rel="tag">#Egypt</a> <a href="/tags/eritrea/" rel="tag">#Eritrea</a> <a href="/tags/sudan/" rel="tag">#Sudan</a> <a href="/tags/rsf/" rel="tag">#RSF</a> <a href="/tags/syria/" rel="tag">#Syria</a> <a href="/tags/israel/" rel="tag">#Israel</a> <a href="/tags/uae/" rel="tag">#UAE</a> <a href="/tags/pakistanishi/" rel="tag">#PakistaniShi</a>’a <a href="/tags/tunisia/" rel="tag">#Tunisia</a> <a href="/tags/fatah/" rel="tag">#Fatah</a> <a href="/tags/jerusalem/" rel="tag">#Jerusalem</a> <a href="/tags/palestine/" rel="tag">#Palestine</a> <a href="/tags/gaza/" rel="tag">#Gaza</a> <br>Subscriptions are appreciated. </p><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/158538605?utm_campaign=postshare_creator" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.patreon.com/posts/158538605?utm_campaign=postshare_creator"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.patreon.com/posts/15853860</span><span class="invisible">5?utm_campaign=postshare_creator</span></a></p>
<p>REVEALED by Correspondent <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@stevanzetti" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>stevanzetti</span></a></span>: We identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation. <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecutor-dallas-white-supremacist-x-account/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecutor-dallas-white-supremacist-x-account/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.texasobserver.org/ice-pros</span><span class="invisible">ecutor-dallas-white-supremacist-x-account/</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/socialmedia/" rel="tag">#SocialMedia</a> <a href="/tags/extremism/" rel="tag">#extremism</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#immigration</a> <a href="/tags/border/" rel="tag">#border</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/whitesupremacy/" rel="tag">#WhiteSupremacy</a> <a href="/tags/fascism/" rel="tag">#Fascism</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> Hands the World to <a href="/tags/china/" rel="tag">#China</a></p><p><a href="/tags/xi/" rel="tag">#Xi</a> Jinping could only have dreamed of such rapid destruction of American <a href="/tags/power/" rel="tag">#power</a>.</p><p>By Michael Schuman</p><p>American global leadership is ending. Not because of “American decline,” or the emergence of a multipolar world, or the actions of US adversaries. It’s ending because President Donald Trump wants to end it.</p><p><a href="/tags/geopolitics/" rel="tag">#geopolitics</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/idiocracy/" rel="tag">#idiocracy</a> <br><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/02/foreign-policy-mistake-china/681732/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/02/foreign-policy-mistake-china/681732/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theatlantic.com/internatio</span><span class="invisible">nal/archive/2025/02/foreign-policy-mistake-china/681732/</span></a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> is the first <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#US</a> President ever who's ages surpasses his IQ</p>
<p>"<a href="/tags/doge/" rel="tag">#DOGE</a> did NOT reduce spending – at all. But it did reduce federal employment; 271,000 people lost their jobs in the federal government" </p><p><a href="/tags/startmakingsense/" rel="tag">#StartMakingSense</a> talks w/ <a href="/tags/sashaabramsky/" rel="tag">#SashaAbramsky</a>, author of <a href="/tags/americancarnage/" rel="tag">#AmericanCarnage</a>: How <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a>, <a href="/tags/musk/" rel="tag">#Musk</a> and DOGE butchered the US Government </p><p><a href="https://www.thenation.com/podcast/archive/sms-012026/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thenation.com/podcast/archive/sms-012026/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thenation.com/podcast/arch</span><span class="invisible">ive/sms-012026/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USpolitics</a> <a href="/tags/dogebags/" rel="tag">#DOGEbags</a> <a href="/tags/siliconvalleyright/" rel="tag">#SiliconValleyRight</a> <a href="/tags/austerity/" rel="tag">#austerity</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/bigtech/" rel="tag">#BigTech</a> <a href="/tags/techbros/" rel="tag">#TechBros</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>
<p>Ben Jennings (Guardian) on the Tangerine Tyrants' (so-called) Board of Peace.</p><p><a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/venezuelans/" rel="tag">#Venezuelans</a> granted <a href="/tags/tps/" rel="tag">#TPS</a> sue <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> admin for revoking protected status<br>
<a href="/tags/dhs/" rel="tag">#DHS</a> Secretary [& serial dog killer] <a href="/tags/kristinoem/" rel="tag">#KristiNoem</a> terminated protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans. A new lawsuit alleges that the revocation was illegal & motivated by <a href="/tags/racism/" rel="tag">#racism</a>.</p><p><a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#immigration</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/whitesupremacy/" rel="tag">#WhiteSupremacy</a> <a href="/tags/whitenationalism/" rel="tag">#WhiteNationalism</a> <br><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/02/20/venezuela-tps-trump-lawsuit-deportation/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/02/20/venezuela-tps-trump-lawsuit-deportation/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.washingtonpost.com/immigra</span><span class="invisible">tion/2025/02/20/venezuela-tps-trump-lawsuit-deportation/</span></a></p>
<p>🤦🏻♀️"<a href="/tags/scotus/" rel="tag">#SCOTUS</a> on Friday allowed <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> to temporarily freeze millions of dollars in grants to states for addressing teacher shortages, the administration’s first win at the high court since reclaiming power in January. </p><p>5-4, with Chief Justice John Roberts and the three liberals dissenting."<br><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/04/politics/supreme-court-trump-teacher-grants?cid=ios_app" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.cnn.com/2025/04/04/politics/supreme-court-trump-teacher-grants?cid=ios_app"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.cnn.com/2025/04/04/politic</span><span class="invisible">s/supreme-court-trump-teacher-grants?cid=ios_app</span></a></p>
<p>"On Holocaust Remembrance Day, migrants hide in the attic from Trump raids. ...</p><p>The fear is the point, and so, apparently, is the cruelty. ...</p><p>The irony of all of this — good people cowering in their attics, praying to avoid getting cuffed and shipped thousands of miles away by camouflage-wearing soldiers — happening on Holocaust Remembrance Day is almost unbearable."</p><p>~ Will Bunch</p><p><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/immigrants/" rel="tag">#immigrants</a> <a href="/tags/migrants/" rel="tag">#migrants</a> <a href="/tags/deportation/" rel="tag">#deportation</a> <a href="/tags/holocaust/" rel="tag">#Holocaust</a> <a href="/tags/cruelty/" rel="tag">#cruelty</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a><br>/1</p><p><a href="https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/attytood/immigration-raids-trump-deepseek-tech-eagles-superbowl-20250128.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.inquirer.com/columnists/attytood/immigration-raids-trump-deepseek-tech-eagles-superbowl-20250128.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.inquirer.com/columnists/at</span><span class="invisible">tytood/immigration-raids-trump-deepseek-tech-eagles-superbowl-20250128.html</span></a></p>
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