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#US & #Iran Agree “In Principle” to Reopen #StraitOfHormuz, US Official Says
The official said Iran had also agreed to dispose of highly enriched #uranium, but stressed that a deal had not yet been signed. US & Iranian officials have described the terms differently.
#TrumpsWar #IranWar #Trump #WarCrimes #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast #economy #inflation #affordability #CostOfLiving #oil #energy #EnergyCrisis
nytimes.com/live/2026/05/24/wo…
#SecretService shoots person near #WhiteHouse, #bystander also shot, law enforcement official says
Both individuals were said to be in critical condition, according to an official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the investigation.
#shooting #GunControl #GunLaws #law
apnews.com/article/white-house…
Could be another #MarketManipulation or even just that Trump is feeling like he’s not getting enough attention.
#Trump says a deal with #Iran & opening of #StraitOfHormuz are 'largely negotiated'
#TrumpsWar #IranWar #US #Israel #war #WarCrimes #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast #economy #inflation #affordability #CostOfLiving #oil #energy #EnergyCrisis
apnews.com/article/iran-united…
Ex-prosecutor & other “#Trump critics” [sane humans who believe in the #law] sue to block payouts from $1.8B 'anti-weaponization' #SlushFund
A coalition of “Trump’s critics”, including a fired prosecutor & a college professor acquitted of assaulting federal agents at a protest, sued Friday to block payouts from the $1.776 billion “settlement” fund for Trump allies claiming to be victims of a weaponized government.
#DOJ #theft #TaxpayersMoney #kleptocracy #MAGASlushFund
apnews.com/article/irs-trump-s…
Exclusive: #Trump officials tried to ban half of US #VotingMachines, citing #ConspiracyTheories
Trump’s “election-security czar” last year sought to ban voting machines used in more than half of #US #states by asking whether the #Commerce Department could declare their components national-security risks, according to 2 people with direct knowledge of the matter.
#law #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #BigLie #coup #Jan6 #SeditiousConspiracy
reuters.com/legal/litigation/t…
There’s a Way to Stop Trump’s #IRS #SlushFund
by #JamieRaskin
These days it takes a spectacular burst of #corruption to get the attention of our scandal-weary nation, but #Trump & his admin have managed, once again, to transfix Americans by establishing a $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund in the #DOJ that will undoubtedly be used to line the pockets of Trump’s partisans & foot soldiers — with your tax dollars.
#law #criminal #theft #TaxpayersMoney
nytimes.com/2026/05/22/opinion…
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#US bears brunt of Israel’s missile defense, #Pentagon assessments show
The US military has depleted much of its inventory of advanced missile-defense interceptors after expending far more high-end munitions defending #Israel amid hostilities with #Iran than Israeli forces used themselves, according to #Defense Department assessments described to WaPo.
#Trump #TrumpsWar #IranWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #GovernmentSpending #GovernmentWaste #NationalSecurity #economy
washingtonpost.com/national-se…
#HouseRepublicans, you tiny wimpy nothings
Republican leaders pulled a resolution to halt the #IranWar that had been scheduled for a vote Thursday evening, after it became clear they just didn’t have enough votes to defeat it.
#TheRealSuckersAndLosers #Congress #USpol #TrumpsWar #US #Iran #war #ForeverWars #Trump #law #WarPowers #NationalSecurity
nytimes.com/2026/05/21/us/iran…
#Senate #Republicans, unhappy with #Trump $1.8B settlement #SlushFund, delay a vote on paying for #immigration enforcement
Senate Republicans appeared increasingly unlikely to meet their self-imposed deadline for passing a ~$70 billion immigration enforcement bill as disputes over “security” funding for the Trump #ballroom & the $1.8 billion #MAGASlushFund derailed progress.
#law #criminal #DOJ #JudicialProcess #theft #TaxpayersMoney #kleptocracy #MafiaState #Jan6
apnews.com/article/congress-bi…
Just a little favor for his #billionaire #donor #TechBros
#Trump delays executive order on #AI #oversight hours before planned signing
The White House had already sent out invitations to the event, where Trump had been expected to sign an order increasing government scrutiny of new #ArtificialIntelligence models.
#law #tech #business #regulation #MentalHealth #plutocracy #aristocracy #technocracy
washingtonpost.com/technology/…
#Feds charge 15 people in #Minnesota with defrauding government social service programs
The cases involve theft of more than $90 million in taxpayer money, Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald said.
“This is not the end of our work in Minnesota. This is not the end of the beginning of our work in Minnesota. This is the beginning of our work in Minnesota,” he said [badly paraphrasing Churchill].
No.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no muther f⁕⚠︎ers!!!
#Trump officials say they can build 250-foot #arch without Congress’s okay
To build the “triumphal” arch near Arlington Cemetery, the admin wants to rely on a 100-year-old authorization for a different project on the site. Hell no.
I am so sick of the constant f⁕⚠︎ing bullshit #Congress & the #Judiciary keep letting these asshats get away with!!!
#law #PublicLand #vandalism #defacement
washingtonpost.com/politics/20…
The deal #Trump reached with his subordinates relies on a mechanism created by #Congress that legal experts warned was subject to manipulation.
…The whole enterprise is a jarring shock to conventional understanding of the #constitution, raising…profound questions of #PresidentialPower. If allowed to stand, Trump will have managed simultaneously to thwart Congress’s #PowerOfThePurse & the ability of the #courts to police the #SeparationOfPowers.
🚨South Carolina House Passes New Map Aimed at Forcing Out Clyburn🚨
The #SouthCarolina House passed a congressional map that aims to eliminate the seat now held by #JamesClyburn, a powerful #Black #Democrat.
The map will eliminate the state’s ONLY Democratic seat at the urging of #Trump.
Among the changes is a significant shift of the Sixth District currently represented by Democratic power broker James E. Clyburn.
#law #election #redistricting #RepresentationMatters
nytimes.com/2026/05/20/us/poli…
Former Cuban President #RaulCastro is #indicted in #US as #Trump pushes for #RegimeChange in #Cuba
#law #InternationalLaw #sovereignty
reuters.com/world/americas/us-…
Thank you!
#Jan6 Police Officers Sue to Block #Trump $1.8 Billion #SlushFund
2 officers who defended the Capitol on Jan 6, 2021, sued the Trump admin to try to stop the creation of a $1.8 bn fund they argue would benefit #insurgents who committed violence to support Trump. The lawsuit argues the admin exceeded its authority to create the fund without #Congress’s authorization.
#law #criminal #fraud #DOJ #theft #TaxpayersMoney #kleptocracy #MafiaState #MAGASlushFund
nytimes.com/2026/05/20/us/poli…
#StephenColbert’s top-rated late-night TV program goes off the air for the final time Thursday, effectively silencing a high-profile #Trump critic.
“The legacy of this show needs to be that we remember it as the show that was canceled because a presidential administration wanted it off the air,” says Heather Hendershot, a professor of #communication studies & #journalism at Northwestern University.
#law #democracy #FreeSpeech #FreePress #media #authoritarianism
apnews.com/article/colbert-fin…
#Midterms #primaries updates #GiftArticle link [you *should* be able to access the link till polls close; I probably won’t stay online updating the results]:
So far…
Rep #AndyBarr, a Republican backed by #Trump, easily won a contested #primary for #Senate in #Kentucky, where he will be strongly favored in November to replace the long-serving Senator #MitchMcConnell, who is retiring.
#law #Congress #elections #USpol
nytimes.com/live/2026/05/19/us…
#Trump orders #banks to take a closer look at clients' #citizenship
Trump on Tuesday signed an #ExecutiveOrder that requires banks to take a closer look at the citizenship of their customers, a new measure in his admin’s push to clamp down on people living in the country illegally.
The order directs #bank regulators & government depts to look for signs that people without legal status are opening accounts or obtaining #loans or #CreditCards.
Umm… say what now???
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The agreement the #DOJ made with #Trump to settle his lawsuit against the #IRS includes a provision BARRING the agency from pursuing #tax claims against Trump, his family or his businesses. The new provision was released a day after DOJ agreed to settle Trump’s lawsuit by creating a $1.8 billion compensation fund for people *he believes* were wronged by federal investigations or prosecutions.
Blanche will face questions from #Congress over a nearly $1.8B fund to compensate #Trump allies
Acting AG #ToddBlanche will appear on Capitol Hill for his first congressional testimony since taking over #DOJ. The agency faces intense scrutiny over plans to create a $1.776 billion fund to pay allies of Trump who believe they were political targets.
#criminal #law #JudicialProcess #theft #TaxpayersMoney #kleptocracy #MafiaState #Jan6 #militia #MAGASlushFund #SlushFund
apnews.com/live/trump-administ…
25 Democrat #states & DC sued the #Trump #Education Dept over new graduate #StudentLoan limits, arguing the restrictions will worsen the #HealthCareWorker shortage.
“#HigherEducation is expensive, & our #health care system is already under immense strain. This rule will shut talented people out of critical professions & leave communities with fewer #healthcare providers they desperately need,” NYAG Letitia James, who is leading the coalition, said in a statement.
Advocacy groups are key players because they bring most of the lawsuits filed under the provision of the #VotingRightsAct known as #Section2.
But in a #NorthDakota case brought by 2 #NativeAmerican tribes, the 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that only the #FederalGovernment can sue to enforce the #law.
The decision conflicted with decades of case law. #SCOTUS blocked it in July, allowing the tribes’ preferred maps to temporarily stay in place.
The appeals court’s finding has nevertheless been cited elsewhere, with #Mississippi making a similar argument in another appeal over its state legislative map. #SCOTUS also sent that case back for reconsideration on Monday.
Justice #KetanjiBrownJackson dissented from the decision, writing that both rulings should have been reversed.
The conservative majority, meanwhile, already diluted enforcement power with an April decision that struck down a majority #Black congressional district in #Louisiana & made future cases much harder to win.
In that case, #SCOTUS’ conservative majority ruled a map relied too heavily on race with a district aimed at giving Black voters a chance to elect a candidate of their choice. The decision effectively limited #VotingRights claims to maps that are intentionally designed to discriminate.
#law
The #Trump admin is proposing increasing the “#refugee” admissions ceiling for fiscal year 2026 to 17,500 but only for #White #SouthAfricans, according to an “emergency” determination sent to #Congress & obtained by CNN.
#law #immigration #WhiteSupremacy #racism #asylum #FactCheck #TrumpLies
cnn.com/2026/05/18/politics/tr…
Should have happened a year ago
Judge Bars #ICE From Making #Immigration Arrests at #Courts in #NewYork
The #Trump admin’s practice of detaining immigrants at federal #courthouses [#entrapment] has stirred outrage.
#law #SafeSpace #Constitution #CivilRights #DueProcess #UseOfForce #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #MafiaState #CBP #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy
nytimes.com/2026/05/18/nyregio…
A security guard was killed in a #shooting at the #Islamic Center in San Diego [#ICSD] today, according to law enforcement officials.
Separately, the #SanDiego Police Department said on social media that the “threat has been neutralized.”
The center is the largest #mosque in San Diego County, according to its website.
#Islamophobia #HateCrime #terrorism #GunControl #GunViolence #GunLaws #criminal #law
The 2 suspects in a Monday #shooting at the #Islamic Center of #SanDiego are dead.
That’s according to a police source who spoke on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to discuss further details.
Authorities earlier said they believed multiple people had been shot. They have not released more details.
#ICSD #Islamophobia #HateCrime #terrorism #GunControl #GunViolence #GunLaws #criminal #law
apnews.com/article/san-diego-i…
5 people, including 2 teenage suspects, are dead after a #shooting at the #Islamic Center of #SanDiego on Monday.
#ICSD #Islamophobia #HateCrime #terrorism #GunControl #GunViolence #GunLaws #criminal #law
apnews.com/live/san-diego-isla…
👏👏 #ICE Agent Charged in #Shooting of a #Venezuelan #Immigrant in #Minnesota
The agent is the second federal officer to face #felony charges in Minnesota stemming from Operation Metro Surge, the #Trump admin’s #immigration crackdown.
#law #UseOfForce #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy
nytimes.com/2026/05/18/us/ice-…
Police responding to reports of an active shooter at #Islamic Center of #SanDiego.
At least 1 dead.
#shooting #Islamophobia #HateCrime #terrorism #GunControl #GunViolence #GunLaws #criminal #law
cnn.com/2026/05/18/us/islamic-…
#Musk Loses
A federal #jury has sided with #OpenAI & its top executives in a feud with #ElonMusk, who accused them of betraying a shared vision for it to guide #ArtificialIntelligence’s development as a #nonprofit dedicated to #humanity’s benefit.
The nine-person jury unanimously found that Musk waited too long to file his lawsuit & missed the deadline for the statute of limitations.
ICYMI A prayer festival backed by #Trump took place in DC yesterday.
Speakers including top #government officials framed the #UnitedStates as a nation founded to be explicitly #Christian [nope]. #Trump delivered a video message reading a #Bible passage aloud.
Until Trump, it was virtually unheard of for #US ofcls to publicly tie the nation to a specific set of #religious beliefs.
#law #Constitution #EstablishmentClause #FreedomOfReligion #ChurchAndState
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
nytimes.com/2026/05/18/us/trum…
#SCOTUS sends closely watched #NativeAmerican #VotingRights decision back to lower court
SCOTUS acted in a #VotingRightsAct case brought by Native American tribes on Monday, saying a closely watched ruling needs to be reconsidered after the high court weakened the #CivilRights era #law.
The justices ordered lower courts to take another look at the decision that went against the tribes & undercut a key enforcement mechanism: lawsuits from voters & advocacy groups.
She was also charged with concealing birth, a misdemeanor, but was not convicted on that charge.
Rousseau’s case fits an emerging pattern where #women are swept up in #criminalization – even in states where #abortion is legal – by prosecutors reaching for antiquated statutes or laws that were never intended to punish #pregnant women & those experiencing #pregnancy loss or birth, including abuse of a corpse, child neglect or even homicide, acc/to several abortion #law experts….
“There’s been a really dedicated effort to #criminalize #pregnancy outcomes alongside #abortion,” said the legal director of nonprofit Pregnancy Justice, Karen Thompson.
There has been a notable uptick in these cases, in a separate but parallel lane to cases linked to stricter anti-abortion laws, since #SCOTUS overturned #RoeVWade in 2022 & stripped the federal constitutional right to abortion, the experts said.
#law #ReproductiveRights #privacy #MaleSupremacy #ChristianEvangelism #FarRight
Long, but worth reading:👀
"Our current globalised #tech industry can only exist because of the protectionism and policy uniformity imposed by the #UnitedStates on its hegemony. That billions of people across dozens of countries work and interact on unified platforms whose laws and regulations are, for all practical purposes, basically that of the #US... is an artifact of US dominance."
baldurbjarnason.com/2026/the-o…
ht: @pluralistic
#Technology #Enshittification #Law #World #News #Press #USA
The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Icelandwww.baldurbjarnason.com
