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The shuttered DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties “was one of the very few tools we had to check ICE, to hold ICE accountable,” immigration lawyer Sophia Genovese said. “Now you see them speeding to complete authoritarianism.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/homeland-security-crcl-civil-rights-immigration-border-patrol-trump-kristi-noem?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #ICE #CivilRights #Immigration #Law #Trump #DHS #Deportation #Border
"Each new offensive makes it harder not to suspect that the ultimate goal of Netanyahu’s far-right coalition is to ensure Gaza is uninhabitable and drive Palestinians from their land. For two months, Israel has blocked delivery of all aid into the strip."
~ Financial Times
#Netanyahu #Trump #Israel #Gaza #starvation #healthcare
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https://www.ft.com/content/f5fd6f8d-06a7-4d1f-b842-752e3aca9272
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“ #Trump set to grant another extension to avoid #TikTok disruption
The social media platform is technically prohibited under U.S. law unless it can find an American buyer.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-extension-tiktok-rcna213625
Every time I hear the tangerine dictator speak I’m reminded of what grandma always said: ‘The empty can makes the most noise’.
It didn’t really make sense to me until Trump ran for office in 2015.
"Donald Trump’s approval rating hit a new low this month, but there’s one group that still staunchly stands by him.
According to a recent Pew poll, 69 percent of white evangelical Christians approve of his job performance. That number has dropped slightly from last year, but the investment Trump made in winning over religious conservatives continues to pay dividends."
~ Stephen Robinson
#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #MAGA #WhiteChristianNationalism
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A 12-year-old boy was left behind on a street after an #immigration raid in Waltham, Massachusetts.
#ICE agents were seen on camera leaving the boy by himself on a sidewalk after arresting the person he was with.
#law #Trump #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/waltham-mass-ice-arrest-boy-left-alone/
In my latest post for @medium, I share how I’m coping as a #Black trans person in the US, in light of Donald #Trump ’s recent display of blatant #racism.
Here’s a link to bypass the paywall:
https://funcrunch.medium.com/responding-to-racism-df538790007f?sk=3f7dd91ee85696dff94aea24b4010314
#Trump would brag about this:
"US surpassed 1,000 #measles cases for the 1st time in 5 years..
1,001 cases have been confirmed in 30 states incl AK, AR, CA, CO, Fla, Ga, HI, Ill, In, Ks, Ky, La, Md, Mi, Minn, MO, MT, NJ, NM, NY, ND, OH, OK, Pa, RI, TN, TX, Vt, Via and Wash"
https://thereport.be/article/?app=breaking&u=https%3A%2F%2Fabcnews.go.com%2FHealth%2Fus-surpasses-1000-measles-cases-1st-time-5%2Fstory%3Fid%3D121635906
In #Mideast, #Trump plans to focus on #business deals, not #geopolitics
Trump leaves Monday for a 4-day trip to #SaudiArabia, #Qatar & the #UAE, a mission that is expected to focus heavily on business deals & new investments from the #oil-rich region.
The swing through deep-pocketed #MiddleEast monarchies, Trump’s first major international travel of his 2nd term, is a marker of Trump’s priorities & another sign of his intention to de-emphasize the traditional #US #allies.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/11/trump-mideast-trip/
JOBS REPORT:
We now have a full year of jobs data for Trump's second term and can compare it to the final year of jobs data under Biden, after the benchmark revision.
Bottom Line: Dramatic slowdown in job creation under Trump
The Department of Education Forced Idaho to Stop Denying Disabled Students an Education. Then Trump Gutted Its Staff.
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For years, the Education Department was the only agency that could ensure states would improve conditions for disabled children. Now, Trump’s cuts threaten to hamper its oversight.
https://www.propublica.org/article/department-of-education-idaho-students-disabilities-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Education #Idaho #Parents #Children #School #Disability #Trump
The #Trump poster-person for the first Afrikaner #refugees from supposed anti-white racism in #SouthAfrica.
She is not a #refugee by any definition, yet she is being flown here at #taxpayer expense & handed a path to #citizenship while actual refugees are turned away.
Also Trump claims he’s granting "refugee" status to "white farmers”, but this woman lives in Cape Town, isn’t a farmer, & it doesn't seem like she's #Afrikaner since her bio says she was born in Zimbabwe.
🚨"Update: DOGE removes 31 more incorrect claims -- and $122M in savings -- from its "Wall of Receipts" after we identified they were wrong.
The listings were wrong b/c the contracts DOGE claimed credit for killing were not dead anymore: agencies had revived them."
-D Fahrenthold
#DOGE #Fraud #Fraudsters #Firings #Corruption #Trump #Musk #Austerity #USPol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/us/politics/doge-musk-contracts-trump.html
Judge #Xinis is NOT happy. #Trump #DOJ privilege log that was due today was not filed. She gave them 30 minutes to file with the note: "Failure to file the privilege log or otherwise respond will be construed as an intentional refusal to comply with this Court's orders."
#KilmarAbregoGarcia's lawyers filed their log under seal.
#immigration #law #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #DueProcess
"Despite whatever is rattling around [Stephen] Miller's febrile cabeza, habeas corpus is not a revocable privilege. It is a right guaranteed to everyone incarcerated. In calling it a 'privilege' that 'could be suspended' to suit the whims of his boss, Miller proves himself to be a traitor not only to the American idea, but also to the freaking Magna Carta (!),"
~ Charles Pierce
#Trump #StephenMiller #HabeasCorpus #immigrants
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https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a64745130/stephen-miller-trump-habeas-corpus/
#Trump just defunded a program to provide high-speed #internet to rural areas, which are predominantly red. Why? It was called the Digital Equity Act.
https://newrepublic.com/article/195097/angry-trump-kills-woke-program-and-accidentally-screws-maga-voters
Hitler’s Terrible #Tariffs
#Hitler used tariffs seeking to “liberate” Germans from a *globalized* world order, the #Nazi government sent the national #economy careening backwards.
#Trump #TrumpTariffs
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/nazi-germany-tariffs-trade/682521/
#Trump angrily brushed off ethical concerns about accepting a $400 million luxury jet from #Qatar to be used as a new #AirForceOne, saying only someone “stupid” would turn down such an offer.
“I think it’s a great gesture from Qatar. I appreciate it very much. I would never be one to turn down that kind of an offer. I mean, I could be a stupid person say, ‘No, we don’t want a free, very expensive airplane.’ But it was—I thought it was a great gesture,” Trump said.
#law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/us/politics/trump-qatar-plane-jet.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=F6768AF9-4106-43C0-8EE7-ECBF9E2D44E5
Multiple #Trump ofcls have links to #antisemitic #extremists
Trump campaigned on a pledge [🤔] to fight #antisemitism.
"Antisemitic bigotry has no place in a civilized society," Trump said in 2024.
However, …antisemitism…found a place within his administration.
NPR has identified 3 Trump ofcls w/close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a man described by federal prosecutors as a "Nazi sympathizer," & a prominent #HolocaustDenier.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/14/nx-s1-5387299/trump-white-house-antisemitism
Stephen Miller vs. #ICE: The fight within the #Trump admin over who to deport.
Miller doesn’t just want ICE to grab illegal immigrants who have done crimes.
The quota of apprehending 3000 people per day should include the law abiding too.
#Canada’s new fentanyl ‘czar’ says the border bill will help in fight against drug and his US counterparts are pleased.
The #Trump admin had used the ‘Emergency’ of Fentanyl from Canada as the reason to impose tariffs.
Canada is actually thought to be source of less than 1% of US #Fentanyl.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11239631/fentanyl-czar-canada-border-bill/
FYI this is some kerazy f⁕⚠︎ed up shit
#TulsiGabbard #fires leaders of #intelligence group that wrote #Venezuela assessment
[because, facts]
The director of national intelligence [#DNI] fired top officials weeks after their group authored an assessment contradicting #Trump’s #legal rationale for #deporting alleged Venezuelan gang members.
#law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #FactCheck #TrumpLies
https://wapo.st/4kjboU8
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of Trump Media stock the same day Trump unveiled new tariffs that caused the stock market to plummet, according to records obtained by ProPublica.
#News #Trump #StockMarket #Stocks #Tariffs #Economy #USPolitics