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Will President Rapist Felon Donald Trump start World War III because he was denied the toys he wanted today?
Maybe.
Likely.
After all, pitching a red-faced toddler tantrum *is* his standard, highly predictable response when he doesn't get his way.
And I will say this now:
Any leader in government and any member of the US military who obeys a single order to take a single step to initiate Muskrump's war or to carry it forth -- that person is a traitor to humanity and to the Earth.
Judging by the great diversity of our armed forces, the unbelievably evil way that Trump is destroying veterans' healthcare and otherwise crewing our troops, and judging by the fact that the US Army Chorus just sang "Do You Hear the People Sing" in front of Trump at the Governor's Ball, I don't think the US military is too eager to follow wildly illegal orders from this regime.
In *their* home, in their halls of power, in front of them, themselves, in front of their media, at the very centre of their heart of darkness... he stood strong, resolute, immovable. Respect isn't a big enough word. youtube.com/watch?v=jrVF_ijzbI…
My suspicion is that Donno was under orders to gain a treaty favorable to Russia. Donno fancies himself a master negotiator, donchaknow. And Russia has been unable to achieve its aims on the battlefield. When he was unable to secure a favorable result, he lost his composure.
@Onthebass The instant I heard that question, all I could say was "who the hell cares that he's not wearing a damn suit?! Especially after Musk wore a fucking baseball cap in the Oval Office?!"
@Onthebass Wait, what? They are criticizing him not wearing a suit? The orange man with the urine-coloured really bad combover, looking like a doddering old man, wearing an oversized clown red tie, ranting insane things as a world leader to another world leader, and someone is commenting on Zelensky's attire?
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The broadcaster placed a longtime journalist on leave amid growing concerns about its editorial *independence*.
VOA, the federally funded [for 83 yrs] broadcaster to the world, has long prided itself on serving as an accurate & fair source of news & on being #independent….
Since the election of #Trump, that #independence is increasingly being tested.
oh no! Steve Herman is active and well-respected here. VOA and other global news agencies under USAGM have spent many decades establishing trust worldwide that they're not just USG propaganda, but instead to be a model for how a free press should work. Now all of that is being destroyed, and for what? It's not like anyone will trust them anymore if they become just a trump mouthpiece.
i think i did this -- saved the image, edited my user info, chose it, and saved -- but then it looked like it was grayed out. (if necessary, i will redo it.)
As an American, I’m all in for making a statement that reflects our shared values. I’ve updated my header using the image, and I’d love for you to join me. Let’s show our unity and support for positive change—one header at a time. What do you say
Its time to uninvite Trump from coming to Canada for the G7 -- G6. Vance also should be forbidden from coming here ever. Why do you want 2 Manchurian candidates for Russia on Canadian soil?
Unfortunately we still need two things: Time - The longer we have to make better connections and alternate arrangements, the less damaging it will be for Canada. A Personal Rift - What happened today was between two of our friends. Trump needs to defy us directly. At the G7 he will be humiliated into being less than the most important person in the room. There he will expose himself further as Putin's lapdog. There he may give us exactly what we all need to expel him.
Honestly, I don't know how Zelenksy didn't punch the cheetoh that whole time. That man has remarkable restraint.
I have never been so embarrassed for our country. What a thug. "World War III," he says over and over, echoing Putin's sabre rattling throughout his invasion. Even sitting in the White House, Trump is echoing the Kremlin line.
What's even more despicable is that the spineless, gutless GOP will say nothing about this indefensible show of gutlessness and cowardice by their leader. Imagine that: Being afraid of cowards makes you one.
That fella need a self restraint medal for not smacking Trump all around the room.
Absolutely disgusting how Trump is using extortion to cause the "peace" process to to fail. Hopefully they will tell Trump which orifice to stick that "deal".
How Trump isn't already under arrest for treason is beyond me.
Thanks for speaking it out! I tried and managed until now to not call for physical aggression, but I wished he would've slapped him at least as a last friendly gesture.
@lazyb0y I am not an advocate of violence. But there is a certain truth to the fact that bullies persist because nobody puts them in their place.
I was not a wimpy kid by any means, but I still got picked on because I thought most of the cool kids were idiots. One guy who constantly tripped me in the halls I finally had to punch in the face. I got suspended for that, but he never tripped me again.
@lazyb0y "I got suspended for that, but he never tripped me again." I can attest that it works and it makes me furious when people say, you shouldn't fight back bullies
what is this high school drama childish fights you disrespected me like everyone is supposed to bow down to the king you notice a lot of other leaders are canceling. Nobody wants to be humiliated like Jordan King Abdullah all nervous with his eyes blinking Trump likes to put people in pressure the art of the deal
You can help Zelenksy punch the cheetoh by using your behavior and spending: stop buying from toxic big companies that use their profits for autocracy. Cancel you Amazon Prime membership, stop buying from Amazon, don’t buy a Tesla, stop using “free” Gmail/Google, Facebook and other services that harm society with their profits and sell you out by selling your data. The basic infosec stuff, but expanded to economic spending behavior.
I would have loved to see some camera in the faces of some of the Senators form the bi-partisan group that met with Zelenskyy before he met with cheetoh.
What a complete embarrassment. I cannot imagine a future where this interaction does not change some minds about the position of the US Gov't on the world stage.
For real. His restraint and ability to not rip that fucktard apart is impressive.
And since when does the VP accompany a President to a meeting like this? I don't recall this as a regular procedure. Weak ass bitches bullying a courageous world leader. Pathetic.
It was an ambush by the president and vice-president which should be widely condemned by leaders throughout the world. Those who stay silent are complicit in allowing whatever the hell is going on in the US right now to continue.
Don't even get me started on the WWIII chants. Past American presidents have gone out of their way to avoid uttering these words, because they invariably fill people with dread and feelings of dystopia. But you see, the current president would like nothing more.
I can't bring myself to watch the news this political cycle. Although it may be hard to stomach, I appreciate you condensing this drivel into digestible chunks.
I wonder how Zelensky (and his treatment by Trump and Vance) was perceived by the American people. Is this really what #MAGA was supposed to be? Yelling at and humiliating other people in public?
I‘m sure Zelensky felt regret already when he entered the car and considered how to remediate this mess. While the „tough guy“ in the White House and his pet are probably still proud of their words and believe they won anything.
Have you noticed the "balance" in that room? #zelensky alone facing all those people? It was clearly set up to put pressure on him to sign this 'deal'.
@Justbeep Yes I didn't miss any of that. Zelensky is as close as we will get to a modern day hero that there is. And he's got serious courage coming in there to dispute the most powerful man in the world on live TV. But that's what you do to bullies. Respect.
Did anyone else notice DT said “you don’t get to dictate….” ?
That stuck out to me because earlier he called Zelensky a dictator. Today he phrased it differently: “you don’t get to dictate”, but I felt the intention was the same.
well Lindsey Graham came right out and stuck up for Putins propagandists. I couldn’t be more ashamed of that Senator because he is the senator in the state where I live and he should resign. I called both his offices and told him as much.
I'm astound by this magical figure that is dependent on other big nations to survive, that also has the possibilities and gut to defend themself and in doing so are able to force other nations to start a world war? Btw possibly every nation could legally intervene militarily in Ukraine for Ukraines defence as it is within international law but none is allowed to attack Ukraine or any other sovereign country or help other aggressors to attack because it's a crime. Party of law my ass.
The GOP is doing even worse than saying nothing. I was forced to watch Rubio — who I had previously called one of the “least awful” nominees before he actually started — as he vehemently defended the disgusting behavior of his boss. Made me sick, especially since I have a close relative at State.
My husband came from a softball game. He had seen it earlier but when he saw it again, he said “I wouldn’t have been able to hold back. I would’ve just punched him in the face.” He’s a Vietnam vet, his father was a World War II vet so was my father and 9/10 of my uncles (one had polio) and his 3 uncles. This is all devastating. We’re all feeling the pain.
Congressional Republicans are becoming more open about receiving death threats if they stray off the party line.
I doubt legislators can be protected in the shit hole states, but maybe the blue states can protect their own with the help of local, non-maga law enforcement?
@blaise The sad thing is they don't realize that it comes with the job. Just like soldiers know that in peacetime they will basically drill and train, but when necessary they need to put their life on the line to do the job. Same is true for Congress.
Everyone knows that if Zelensky had agreed to the "deal" Trump would have just taken whatever minerals he could from Ukraine and still let Putin roll in and destroy the country.
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The Independent's WH correspondent Andrew Feinberg asked Sir Keir #Starmer whether he had discussed with #Trump his repeatedly expressed desire to annex #Canada (a British #Commonwealth realm) & make it the 51st state & what #KingCharles thought of Trump’s plans for Canada.
As I previously said, Starmer totally ducked the question.
Something to keep in mind when you hear that voters care about the economy and vote the way they do because of the economy and vote for fascists because of the economy…
…is that for about half the population, “the economy” just means “whether a Republican is president.”
the two complete myths the GOP has managed to get too much of the country to believe is that any service is better done by unregulated, private industry, rather than government, and that the GOP is good for the economy.
repeated evidence to the contrary on both has somehow escaped too many folks and here we are.
@paul_ipv6 The myth sticks, because the alternative is to admit others did it right, and that the USA is not greatest nation. Note that many US democrats have the same mental problem, just for other stuff…
Trumpistan lives in a quantum state where it is the greatest country in the world, and needs to be made great again at the same time.
These fat fuck loser farmers who voted for DT and are now facing losing everything earned the karmic ass kicking they are about to receive. It's easy folks: don't be a cruel shitbag. Vote for qualified people who care about human beings, human rights, and the Constitution.
That reporter from The Guardian — and the Harris pollster they talk to — dance around this, but just somehow can’t quite put it together:
They have the causal arrow backwards for a •large• chunk of voters. That chunk didn’t vote for Trump because they thought the economy was bad under Biden; they thought the economy was bad •because• they vote for Trump.
(Yes, there are •also• plenty of people whose “economic concerns” are actually economic concerns. But they are only one part of Trump’s coalition, maybe not even a majority of it. Analysis that misses that fact misses the whole story.)
Ooh actually i know where the planetary scientists are! They are trying to figure out if they're getting laid off by NASA this week or next; if they are going to be able to get to their big professional meeting in two weeks' time or if their travel has all been canceled and cut off; being mandated to change their pronouns in their email signatures and erase DEI from their records and job titles; and trying to figure out where to store the incredible datasets they've collected over seventy years of spaceflight. And that includes the ones whose houses burned down and the ones whose major lab and houses almost burned down, in the past month, and the 900 people laid off last year due to budget cuts! Also trying to explain to people that no, you can't just go to Mars! Woo!
@Janet Vertesi most of this was on my radar already, except this line here, what is this bit in reference to?: “… the ones whose houses burned down and whose major lab and houses almost burned down…”
The media has more empathy for white Trump voters burned by Trump than they will ever have for the transgender folks, Black people and immigrants these voters *knew* they were going to hurt.
these people can fuck off all the way to the fuck off frontier, explore strange new fuck offs, seek out new fuck offs and new civilizations fucking off, and boldly fuck off where no one has fucked off before.
@Illuminatus very nice of you to offer. I'm doing okay moneywise for the moment. Donate what you would have given me to an anti-fascist organization or a group that helps protect LGBTQ and/or BIPOC people.
If you want to help me out, at the risk of sounding meme-ish, check out my SoundCloud. 😁 I promise I'm getting back to making tunes again as soon as I get moved and settled in the new place.
Yeah, I do not want to hear from these poor, aggrieved, whining Trump voters. And I'm well past giving a shit enough to mock them. But it's the editors who commissioned these stories who should be the targets of our ire. It's just so lazy and reveals what their priorities are.
@Aphrodite @Mikal Also blonde and "more focused on motherhood than politics," i.e. neatly fitting the kind of compliant baby-maker stereotype the Heritage Foundation wants to promote.
@Mikal I'm apparently swimming against the current on this one, but I think we should engage with Trump supporters who have been betrayed by him, and not sneer at their suffering. It's fair to remind them that they voted to inflict suffering on others, and that this approach is inherently self-defeating. But then we need to follow up by modeling solidarity, so they have a better example to follow.
We need more anti-Trump people, and former supporters are a great place to find them.
You're a better person than I am. I don't want to hear about them or from them. I'm glad there are people wanting to hold their hand and try to bring them into the fold, but that's not me. I'm far too disgusted by what they've done to people and institutions I care about.
the headline is alarming. The story is, all in all, quite saddening. Not just for her, but for all the people like her who were grasping for hope and somehow convinced themselves that Trump could provide. Then again, it’s befuddling that she convinced herself that surely *her* job wouldn’t be cut.
@eb emotionally regulating my way through an article like this is difficult but attempting to be clear-eyed about it, I am angry at the reporter, because we need to see people use this painful opportunity to *learn*. Does she understand that she did something incredibly reckless and dangerous, and that's what's hurting her? That she should have learned something about her own media literacy and vulnerability to being scammed? Nope, just "that's bullshit" and cut to black.
@eb I want the reporters seeking out these sorts of voters to not just "tell" the truth, hoping against all evidence that the population will somehow passively absorb it when it is very clear that is not happening, and instead take the opportunity to be *teachers* both to their subjects and to the public about the nature of politics and media
@glyph No notes! Of course Daojoan is right that we’re missing the stories of the people *most* affected by this, and you’re right that the story is missing that critical “so I made a mistake and will grow.”
I just think this all is so tragic. I’ve been angry and worried the past weeks. Now I’m sad. Sad that our country has failed voters like her. Sad that our country has failed all those Trump will bully. Sad so many lack critical thinking skills.
@glyph @eb that's what I find most frustrating about these people, that almost without exception their take is not "leopards shouldn't eat people's faces" but "leopards are supposed to eat other people's faces, not mine".
I'm happy to say that, at least in my family/family-adjacent, people are learning. These are not die-hard Trumpers, but still, across moderate conservatives who voted that direction, there is definitely a feeling of "wow the Republican party is not justifiable".
@eb, I feel sorry that she has endometriosis. But other than that, she's (or at least the article portrays her as) just a dumb enabler. She voted for a chauvinistic narcissist convicted felon because she saw a TikTok video where he said something about maybe making IVF free. Now she's sad because not only is IVF still expensive less than two months into his presidency, but he also fired her. It almost feels like everything will be fine if only and when she can finally get pregnant.
I hoped laying in a trough urinal at the Superbowl would change my life, I just didn't expect to be pissed on by thousands of drunk and roudy men. What could I possibly have done to deserve that‽
A person with long fair hair, a red beanie and a parka in front of a snowy forest. There is a patch on the parka's sleeve saying "FOREST SERVICE - UAS - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE". The picture is accompanied by the text:
She hoped Trump's victory would change her life, but not like this
Ryleigh Cooper is normally more focused on motherhood than politics. Then came DOGE."
Well, another story about a selfish person who did not think further than she could spit. If the people did not learn from his previous term, i really have no sympathies for them. And when free IVF was your only concern and reason to vote for him, fuck you. Under Harris you might not have gotten it for free, but you'd still have a job to save up for it.
"I would have never thought that ..." Yeah, that's the problem. You all never thought. Now you know: voting has consequences.
Well "the media" (tm) (c) (r) are advertisement agencies pretending to do news. Remember what they are always, and you will stop being disappointed and see that they are simply doing their job. Programming eyeballs to buying stuff. Repeat the mantra: We are not the customers, we are the product. Any "news" provided is incidental.
Everyone needs to find honest journalists and pay them. We must make it possible to earn a living without resorting to ad industry prostitution.
It is well-known that the lockstep support for Republicans is social in nature. Authoritarian followers in particular fear standing out from their crowd, or what they *perceive* to be normal
I would guess that the intent is probably to allow other such voters with doubts to feel safer expressing regrets
These people voted in hopes of hurting others, and then pretend to be shocked when it hit them.
But these are crodile tears. From research into neuropsychology we know conservatives consistently choose options that hurt people. As long as they hurt the people they don’t like MORE than their own.
@bhasic @gimulnautti I loved this. He’s totally right. Of course the blue corporate party also wanted us to quietly fall by the wayside, but that’s not the point.
He’s totally right. It’s not about the money it’s about the cruelty and furthering the death cult’s genocidal goals.
@gimulnautti yep as much as I enjoy seeing the face eating leopards eat their faces, I don’t believe any of their remorse. I don’t believe they regret voting for Trump, half the time they can’t even say those words, they’re just trying to convince the people around them that they regret voting for the things that are going to be hurting them. They don’t want to be shunned by the people they will need to ask for help (the same people they voted to hurt).
This seems to be a Washington Post story under new new editorial rules from Bezos. They managed to maliciously comply. Secondly - writing about minorities getting fucked by Musk and Trump is like writing about water being wet and sky being blue. The story about a white girl getting her wish granted by the genie and still getting fucked up in the process may make more of a difference. Thirdly - it's refreshing to see some of the antifash also being free of the sin of empathy.
World's smallest violin for these people. After the fools they voted for *explicitly* said they would wreck so many lives. Leopards. Faces. You know the tune.
It's not really news unless it's new. We've had decades of this shit. Pointing it out doesn't achieve anything. I want to hear about how this can be curtailed/stopped/revenged. Saying "Aha! These people are bad" is useless. They know they're bad. We Know they're bad. They like being bad; we can't shame them. Sorry, I'm in a bad mood.
A young woman with long blonde hair, wearing an orange beanie and a dark green jacket with a US Forest Service patch, stands outdoors in a snowy landscape. She looks directly at the camera with a serious expression. The background is blurred but shows a snowy forest.
recordemos lo siguiente, que también se aplica a España y a cualquier otro país con partidos de extrema derecha populista.
Estos partidos tienen la costumbre de basar su campaña electoral y su comunicación política en el "que les jodan". Dicen un montón de "que les jodan", un "QlJ" por cada colectivo minorizado, así va pillando votos por aquí y por allá. Si, ese hijo español de chinos va a votar nazi porque dicen que las feministas se van a joder, esa mujer mayor va a votar nazi porque dicen que los extranjeros a su país, ese obrero va a votar nazi porque le dan asco los mariquitas y ese autónomo homosexual va a votar nazi porque su empleado quiere cobrar las horas extras. Todos ellos recuerdan solo la parte que les va bien, e ignoran la parte que les perjudica, porque piensan que "vamos, no se atreverán a tanto".
Y luego, todos descubren que los leopardos comecaras se han comido su cara
not having read the article, is it sympathy or schadenfreude?
I remember lots of articles about British ex-pats and pensioners living in Spain who voted for Brexit being all pissed off about how everything's more complicated for them now and many had to move back to the UK.
@gwync A spit take warning before this next part. With PC keyboards, after you've removed the key caps you can take the shell apart and remove the circuit board to make it possible to safely clean the shell with the rinse cycle in a dishwasher. Just take my word for it that you should NOT then try to dry the shell in an oven, even if one is conveniently nearby.
BOSTON—Stressing that the move would help keep digital currencies liquid through the coming year, crypto leaders called for an infusion of 20 million dopes Thursday to stabilize the market.
I have wondered for some time how the whole cryptocurrency concept went from being built to get around fiat currency to depending on government support. It's all just Venmo with more fraud now, isn't it?
@puppethead It seems as though they want to get set up comfortably in crypto then abandon the dollar. Of course they would stand to profit immensely and require all transactions be done so that they can monitor and reap the tax every penny. It would collapse the country into the dictator's lap.
Independent of big banks? I don't think it's going so well. Have you heard about the memecoin ruling? I read a nice description of it on sojooo earlier:
It's a lot worse. Far from the land of the free and home of the brave. Instead, you are being taken for a ride. **To take this level of devaluation sitting isn't even acceptable anymore unle...
BOSTON—Stressing that the move would help keep digital currencies liquid through the coming year, crypto leaders called for an infusion of 20 million dopes Thursday to stabilize the market.
I can't even count the number of times VCs said to me "build something people love". Don't we all wish Andreesen Horowitz would take their own advice? That'd be novel. Innovative, even.
Crimean Tatars prevented Moscow from staging a coup without open invasion 11 years ago and have faced savage repression ever since. Acceptance of Russia’s occupation of any part of Ukraine would be a betrayal and dangerous
I somehow "get" that Trump can "legally" do this for federal workplaces. However, private companies can still choose how they want to operate internally, right?
Just cancelled my Amazon Prime membership, and will do my best to avoid ever buying anything from the Jeff Bezos octopus, now strangling dissenting opinion at the Washington Post. Remember, consumers strike on Feb 28! Buy nothing. nytimes.com/2025/02/26/busines…
24 hr ECONOMIC BLACKOUT on FRIDAY FEB 28, from 12 AM to 11:59 PM
This is the first step to counter attacks on DEI.
Do not make any purchases. Do not shop online, or in-store No Amazon No Walmart No Best Buy No McDonalds and other fast-food stores No Gas No Major Retailers Do not use Credit or Debit Cards for non-essential spending.
I'm not sure if this is a settings problem, an node problem, or a Friendica problem, but I get very different search results from using the web-ui (Frio theme w/ BookFace style) and an app (Raccoon for Friendica) on the same account.
From the web-ui, unless I search for a specific account ('user@server.name'), I can only search for other Friendica users. Here's me searching for me ('@breakfastmtn'):
However, if I search using Raccoon, I can see my many other accounts across the Fediverse:
So from the web-ui, I can only discover Friendica accounts which is less than ideal. Is there a setting I'm not seeing to change this? Should I talk to my admin? Thanks in advance! 😀
Similar bonus problem: I never receive notifications for new follows in the web-ui. If not for the Raccoon app, I'd never know when I had a new follower. All desktop notification settings are enabled -- although it looks like the 'introduction' settings all apply to email.
@xy.. are you searching for "breakfastmtn" or "adam"? Friendica converts it to my name from my username. I was searching for the former. If I search for the latter, I get a bunch of Adams -- including myself -- though they're all on Friendica.
Today’s email in support of the #Fediverse and #OpenSocialWeb in Canada and trying to convince our governments not only to dump Twitter/X but also create their own independent platforms that Canadians can know and trust!
Phew... 😅 Senator @Paulatics, you have mail. 😇 (and thank you for your continued work on this!!)
The Court *should* be concerned about its independence and technological security, particularly given the current American experience of historical factual government information being deleted for ideological purposes.
It would be wise and, of all things, the Court should be wise.
@mwestley I probably won't delete my account, just because I need my purchase history for warranties and I have a massive, massive ebook collection that I wasn't able to download in time.
But I did cancel my Post sub and my Prime sub way back when they either wouldn't allow their opinion board to post a pro kamala thing, or when the cartoonist was pushed out for an editorial cartoon that had bezos bowing to a golden idol of 47....in any case, I've cancelled all the things, but they can pay the cloud storage fees for storing decades of history. It would cost me more to delete it than it would cost them.
Indeed. More op eds about "personal liberty" sounds great really, but somehow I'm suspicous exactly what certain particular people using those particular words really mean.
Maybe we could faciliate free markets by having open borders, limiting intelectual property to promote competition, and such? I don't even know where to begin for op eds suggestions on "liberty", but not somewhere Bezos would approve I'm sure.
After a long and passionate discussion with our benefactor we have decided to let go of our current columnists, and we wish them well on their next adventure, and will be hiring a new syco--esteemed writer to take over their duties.
We will also be running a minimum of three opinion pieces championing the cause for the Right to Hunt Humans for *valued contributors* to civil society. A worthy cause embodying the spirit of America. Hurray!
The other day I had two glasses of wine but yesterday I felt like it'd been two bottles. Just walking around in a haze all day. But I have it on good authority that today's a new day. The coffee's flowing and I'm ready to go.
The instance has felt really stable for the last few days. Moving the problem to another time of day has either made it easier to manage or... the problems are happening while I'm sleeping. Either way, that works for me! ;)
Is it bad if only 78 percent of Trump-loyal Republicans view democracy positively but 55 percent view an unchecked strongman positively? Asking for a fairly large nation. Gift link: wapo.st/4hLudP3
The Trump admin will require all unauthorized immigrants in the United States who are 14 & older to register w/the federal government or face #civil & #criminal penalties, including up to $1k in fines & up to 6 months in #prison.
#DHS Secy #KristiNoem [& dog serial killer], who announced the plan Tues, argued that the #Trump admin should know who is here illegally so that it can #deport them or give them the chance to leave voluntarily. She has warned immigrants in recent days that they “will be #hunted down & deported” if they fail to register & has cited a provision of the 1952 Immigration & Nationality Act as justification for the requirement.
The registration plan faces several significant obstacles. Immigrants may be *reluctant* to register after watching the #Trump admin order federal officers into US cities & towns to #detain people or send them to #Guantánamo…. And lawyers & legal scholars say the admin’s proposal is on shaky #legal ground & could quickly destabilize communities & an #economy w/millions of unfilled jobs.
“I do not think they can do this without going through the proper legal processes,” said Nancy Morawetz, a professor at NYU Law School. “You can’t just say, ‘Oh I’m going to go back & read the law that way.’ You have to explain why you’re changing it, why it’s legal.”
…Registration dates to the 1940s & is codified in the 1952 #Immigration & Nationality Act. The #law requires immigrants aged 14 or older to register & be fingerprinted within 30 days of arrival, if they had not done so already.
…The new program could lead to a “nationwide show-me-your-papers regime” that could ensnare US #citizens & legal immigrants, Greg Chen, senior director of government relations for the American #Immigration Lawyers Association, warned in an interview. Anyone who “appears foreign” could be harassed, he said.
…#Registration laws were originally intended as an inventory of noncitizens in the country, Morawetz said. But once govt officials obtained that info, they used it to aid the #detention of #Japanese Americans during WWII & #Muslims after the Sept 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
“Registration laws have a very, very bad history in terms of what they have meant when they have been fully enforced,” she said.
The #Trump #SocialSecurity Admin said on Tues that it had closed its Office of #CivilRights & #EqualOpportunity, describing the office as redundant & putting its employees on administrative leave.
The closure of the civil rights office, whose workers were responsible for addressing #discrimination complaints & working-condition accommodations for #disabled employees, came one day after the agency said it had eliminated another office.
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in reply to Court Cantrell will not comply • • •Will President Rapist Felon Donald Trump start World War III because he was denied the toys he wanted today?
Maybe.
Likely.
After all, pitching a red-faced toddler tantrum *is* his standard, highly predictable response when he doesn't get his way.
And I will say this now:
Any leader in government and any member of the US military who obeys a single order to take a single step to initiate Muskrump's war or to carry it forth -- that person is a traitor to humanity and to the Earth.
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What is even in it for them?
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