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Trump Official Destroying USAID Secretly Met With Christian Nationalists Abroad in Defiance of U.S. Policy
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Now one of the most powerful people in the U.S. government, Peter Marocco’s turbulent tenure during the first Trump administration sheds light on his current efforts to dismantle the American foreign aid system from the inside out.
Democrats in the United States Congress must show they are serious about fighting back and need to take a lesson from the legislators in New Zealand who refuse to let #Parliament ignore their voices. To paraphrase MTV "It's time to stop being polite and start being real" #RESIST
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@democratsabroad @uspolitics @aiop #ElbowsUp #GOPtraitors #GOP #Trump #GQP #NoTrumpNoKKkNoFascistUSA #democrats #USpolitics #senate #house #queer #ice #NewZealand #congress
Just the earliest of the US strikes on #Iran cost the #UnitedStates $5.6 billion in munitions, #Pentagon estimates
The figure, accounting only for the first 2 days of the #Trump #war is likely to intensify concerns in #Congress that #US forces are churning through a scarce supply of advanced weaponry.
#ForeverWars #US #Trump #warmonger #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/03/09/iran-war-cost/
Keep 'em coming
Via Kyle Griffin:
#Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has filed a preemptive lawsuit against #Trump — seeking to block the administration from acting against Minnesota in the way it's taking on Maine under a federal push to ban transgender athletes from girls and women's sports.
NEW: Stories about pardons are often told as stories about presidential power — who had access, who persuaded a president to intervene. But what drew reporter Jeremy Kohler to this story was the people on the other side of that act of grace.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-joseph-schwartz-pardon-lawsuit?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Trump contradicted his #Energy Secy Chris Wright, who warned it may be next year before #gas #prices come down to pre-Iran war levels.
“No, I think he’s wrong on that. Totally wrong,” Trump said to The Hill.
Wright said in an interview on CNN Sunday that the #US might not see gas prices fall below $3/gallon until 2027, even with the potential opening of the #StraitOfHormuz.
Trump claimed the prices will fall “as soon as this ends,” referring to the #war with #Iran.
It hurts me to say this, as an #American, but people need to avoid the #USA for 2 years, at least, 2027, when the #Democrats can get a majority in #Congress and stonewall #Trump
If that doesn't happen (which would be a serious tragedy), then 4 years. And if we get a #MAGA/ Trump president in 2029, write off this country for a generation at least
"A #German Thru-Hiker Has Been Detained, Deported, and Banned From the #US Without a Hearing: Here’s What You Need To Know"
"Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, is leading U.S. diplomatic efforts with Iran while engaged in a lucrative, ongoing, multi-billion-dollar business relationship with the Saudi government. This brazenly corrupt arrangement is being completely ignored by most major media outlets."
~ Judd Legum
#JaredKushner #Trump #corruption #SaudiArabia #Iran #AffiinityPartners #media #ConflictofInterest
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The real victims of #EricAdams #NYC #corrupt #bargain might go to #Gitmo.
We aren’t talking enough about the real victims in the shocking quid pro quo that’s likely to end the #criminal case against New York’s corrupt Mayor Eric Adams. His promise to allow President #Trump #immigration #cops free rein in America’s largest city is #terrorizing essential New Yorkers that their mayor should be protecting. https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/eric-adams-justice-ice-raids-20250216.html?int_promo=newsletter#democracy #ruleofaw #AttorneyGeneral #maga #corruption #legalresearch
Disgusting #Trump's Disgusting NBC Interview, Rambling Prayer Breakfast & Guillermo Visits Super Bowl Players
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.
Ending his #IRS lawsuit could allow #Trump to pursue a #settlement instead [he’d likely lose the lawsuit, he might get $$ from a settlement].
Trump moved on Monday to dismiss his extraordinary $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS that claimed the tax agency had improperly released some of his financial records [records he had promised to release himself].
#law #scammer #fraud #TaxpayersMoney #kleptocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/us/trump-irs-lawsuit.html?smid=url-share&smid=nytcore-ios-share&rsrc=cl-share
"Journalists – even lazy journalists – can’t miss this authoritarian rot.
It’s not cluelessness anymore. It’s cowardice and complicity. And it’s inexcusable. …
It’s obvious that Republicans are trying to end democracy and establish a dictatorship. News media that don’t tell you that are failing you."
~ Mark Jacob
#Trump #Republicans #authoritarianism #fascism #media
https://www.stopthepresses.news/p/its-not-media-cluelessness-its-cowardice
"You can support a lawyer’s right to represent unpopular clients and causes against powerful forces — essentially the oath we all took when becoming members of the bar. Or you can sit back, check your bank balance and watch your freedoms, along with the legal system and the tripartite system of government we should not take for granted, swirl down the drain."
#trump #fascism https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/opinion/perkins-coie-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.704.9VUx.pgkjYo4B6N9s&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare#
This Is the Land of Wolves Now
Masked agents snatching people off the street. Govt ofcls using caged prisoners for propaganda videos. We are the villains.
“They have clearly been posed by the jailers, forced to hold position so that they can be useful props for the American woman so that she can manufacture #propaganda for her regime.
“We have seen this kind of thing before. Just not from America.”
#Trump #law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #DueProcess #HumanRights
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-the-land-of-wolves-now?triedRedirect=true
#Trump shows his hand on Taiwan
“As more than one #China analyst put it this weekend, Taiwan is no longer at the negotiating table. It’s on the menu.
Reducing #Taiwan to a transaction also strips away the larger case for why any of this matters. America defends democracies. We defend allies.”
https://www.cosmopolitics.news/p/trump-shows-his-hand-on-taiwan
Transcript: #Trump Rages Wildly at David Sanger, a NYT Journo—and Exposes his Big Iran Blunder
“Trump doesn’t understand why the world won’t admit that he’s won a world-historical victory over #Iran.
In one of his angriest rants ever, he berated a reporter at great length for questioning his success, even accusing the reporter of treason.”
I made this as an educational video to explain to people who are uninformed, and willing to hear what #tariffs do:
For anyone here who doesn't know-
They don't make your country money. They are designed to stop a country from trading with you, and go somewhere else, either as a consequence, or because they are overwhelming your own local market that you wish to maintain.
They COST the imposing country money.
The White House (WH) Office of Management and Budget (OMB) quietly took down a website required by law.
The website let the public view “approvals of federal funding provided in appropriations laws.” In 2022, Congress mandated this information be posted on the WH’s website.
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(see screenshots for the remainder of the article in the following post)
~ White House scraps public spending database ~
https://www.ajc.com/news/white-house-scraps-public-spending-database/ARLAYFBOB5FNLD6P2OHIHXT6LI/
ICE officers arrested 54-year-old Julio Noriega and moved him into a van before he could explain himself, he said. He spent several hours in an ICE processing center before officers checked his wallet and realized he is a U.S. citizen.
#News #Chicago #ICE #Immigration #Immigrants #Migrants #Trump
“The White House's Barstool problem
Dave Portnoy, a #Trump supporter and the founder of Barstool Sports, went viral for his blistering critique of the administration’s group chat debacle.”
#SignalGate
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/white-house-barstool-problem-dave-portnoy-rcna198409