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#Canada is aiming to co-announce around 10 founding nations for a #global #defense bank at next week's #NATO summit in Turkey, the lead Canadian negotiator told Reuters on Thursday.
Canadian Prime Minister #MarkCarney is promoting the Defence, Security & Resilience Bank ( #DSRB ) as part of his call this year for an #alliance of "middle powers" to combat what he sees as the fracturing of the traditional #US led world order.
#NewWorldOrder #geopolitics #Trump
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Platner, Collins, and the Peculiar Definition of Political Scandal
If graft is seen as normal, the ability for reform and even progress feels remote.David Dayen (The American Prospect)
Yesterday in #WashingtonDC, on the steps of the Capitol where protest is currently not allowed (!), an active duty officer in the #AirForce deliberately broke the law to honor his oath of service. He called for the removal of Trump, and he wore his uniform to do it.
Rep. Al Green, my favorite member of Congress, and the Removal Coalition stood with him, as did a crowd of DC protesters.
#50501movement #Trump #fascism #military
#US #economy added just 57,000 #jobs in June — far below expectations — amid elevated #inflation, global turmoil
US employers pulled back on hiring last month & added only 57,000 jobs, less than half the previous month’s total & a sign companies still have a cautious economic outlook.
#labor #CostOfLiving #affordability #trumpcession #recession #trump
apnews.com/article/jobs-econom…
"Trump Bought Hundreds of Stocks the Day Before He Paused Tariffs and Sparked a Historic Rally"
@donnydonny for @sludge
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Trump Bought Hundreds of Stocks the Day Before He Paused Tariffs and Sparked a Historic Rally
The trades weren't made public until yesterday, more than a year later than required by law.Donald Shaw (Sludge)
USMCA wasn’t renewed by #Trump today.
#Canada and #Mexico are now in for 10 years of constant reviews.
What does that mean?
“Without a 16-year extension, the agreement moves into a period of annual reviews that will last for a decade.
Technically, this is an exit ramp.
If no extension agreement is reached by 2036, the USMCA will expire.
However, there will be plenty of opportunities to reach an agreement before that final deadline.”
theglobeandmail.com/business/a…
USMCA wasn’t renewed. What’s next for the North American trade deal?
Where negotiations go from here, the possibility of separate bilateral pacts, and what non-renewal could mean for the Canadian economyMark Rendell (The Globe and Mail)
#Trump actions signal a move toward #institutionalizing people with #disabilities
For decades, #disabled people have fought for their #rights to go to school & live alongside peers without disabilities — rights that some fear could be losing ground under Trump.
Last month, the Dept of #Education announced it would shift oversight of #SpecialEducation to #HHS, led by #RFKJr, whose comments on disabilities such as autism are 🦇💩.
#law #ableism #discrimination #eugenics
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You know #Trump wants these records destroyed
Ex #CIA Director #JohnBrennan seeks court order requiring records from investigations be preserved
#law #history #accountability
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NEW - A Troubling Milestone: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification
ProPublica conducted a new analysis that shows the court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in largely unsigned orders with little to no explanation.
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#News #SCOTUS #Law #SupremeCourt #Legal #Trump #Data #Research
“Bipartisan” only because she’s a #Christian.
#ICE arrest of #nun heading to church fuels #bipartisan backlash in South Texas
#Trump #deportation drive has riled border areas that supported him in 2024, & a GOP congresswoman joined Democrats calling for the sister’s release.
Sister Leticia “Letty” Ugboaja was walking to Sunday Mass in McAllen, TX, when federal #immigration officers stopped her, confiscated her rosary & put her in handcuffs.
Right-wing governments across Europe and North-America are showing their true faces if they label peaceful protesters as terrorists and fascist rioters as concerned citizens or derailed football hooligans. Those who side with fascists, are fascists!
#antifascism #antifa #ukpolitics #nlpolitics #frenchpolitics #germanpolitics #irishpolitics #politics #trump #DonaldTrump #republicans #conservatives #nigelfarage #reformuk #vvd #pvv #RassemblementNational #afd
![The logic of the UK government:
[Photo of a normal pro-Palestine demonstration, peaceful, while one person holding a sign that says "hands off Palestine Action"]
Terrorists
[Photo of far-right rioters in Belfast]
Concerned citizens](https://friendica.hellquist.eu/photo/preview/640/5671316 "The logic of the UK government:
[Photo of a normal pro-Palestine demonstration, peaceful, while one person holding a sign that says \"hands off Palestine Action\"]
Terrorists
[Photo of far-right rioters in Belfast]
Concerned citizens")
As the #Pentagon stays quiet, AP reconstructs a #US strike killing over 100 Iranian #children
A US missile killed Iranian schoolchildren four months ago. We still don’t know the full story
#TrumpsWar #IranWar #Iran #war #Trump #WarCrimes #RulesOfWar #InternationalLaw #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast
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Former Miss Switzerland reveals she was sexually assaulted by Trump in 1993.
EXCLUSIVE: Beatrice Keul says #Trump sexually assaulted her after a 1993 beauty pageant, then warned her not to speak out. thepunchup.substack.com/p/trum…
Keul says Trump first “jumped” on her, kissed her, & tried to lift her dress. “He was grabbing & touching my body everywhere he could,” she claims, adding, “It was violent, it was quick, it was intense. I was screaming for help, & nobody came. It was bad.”
@ktdoggett
Trump Allegedly ‘Threatened’ Beauty Queen After Groping Her
EXCLUSIVE: Beatrice Keul says Trump sexually assaulted her after a 1993 beauty pageant, then warned her not to speak out.Tom Latchem (PunchUp)
So much for the foreign & domestic #emoluments clauses…
#Trump reported >$1.4 billion in income from #crypto, digital #tokens & related partnerships in 2025, appearing to have SUBSTANTIALLY increased his income after reentering the White House last year.
The income was reported in 927 pages of financial disclosure forms, which the #WhiteHouse released Tuesday.
#law #AbuseOfPower #MafiaState #corruption #kleptocracy
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#GOP “Revolt” Paralyzes the #House, Stalling #Trump Agenda
A #Republican blockade derailed a #Pentagon policy bill & other #legislation as the #FarRight pressed for action on a #voting bill championed by Trump.
#law #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #BigLie #midterms #rigged #VotingRights #PublicDisservice #dysfunction
nytimes.com/2026/06/30/us/poli…
RE: mastodon.social/@realTuckFrump…
"We in this country have seen a remarkable change. And in Washington right now — and forgive me, I’m gonna use the 'f' word — we have a fascist, a fascist government that allows innocent people to be put in detention camps and incarcerated."
"We have been lied to over and over and over again about these camps. Our president said these detention camps were being put up to put in immigrants who had criminal records. We now have about 65–70,000 people incarcerated in these camps."
"29% have criminal records. 71% of the people in these camps, even with our country's and our government's statements about why they set up the camps, don’t belong there! 71% of the people in camps don’t belong there, according to the government, and yet they are put there."
#Fascism #DetentionCamps #Trump #Republicans #USA #HumanRights #RuleOfLaw #CrimesAgainstHumanity
#TuckFrump (@realTuckFrumper@mastodon.social)
'Forgive Me, I'm Gonna Use The F-Word': A Century-Old Veteran Just Delivered The Most Brutally Honest Take On Donald Trump, And He Did NOT Mince Words #HuffingtonPost https://twp.ai/4htIGV#TuckFrump (Mastodon)
The #DeepState didn’t take down #Nixon.
So why did #JDVance say it did?
Nixon’s #Crimes, the #Courts, #Congress & the #FreePress drove #Watergate.
Such a scandal of #crime & #corruption could easily happen again — [especially in a nation where #Trump controls the #press, the rule of #law only applies to his enemies & the courts have been subjugated by a #corrupt #SCOTUS].
#Trumpaganda #propaganda #Republicans #RevisionistHistory #UShistory #law #criminal
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NEW: Last year, the Trump DOJ dropped its oversight of troubled police departments in several cities, claiming the reform efforts were “factually unjustified.”
But officers continued to engage in the same abuses, per a new ACLU report.
propublica.org/article/aclu-tr…
#News #DOJ #Trump #Law #Police #Reform #Oversight #ACLU
ACLU: Violent Policing Continues in Cities Where Trump DOJ Abandoned Reform — ProPublica
Police forces with records of unconstitutional policing continued to engage in excessive force even as the Trump administration declared federal oversight unnecessary, according to a new yearlong review by the ACLU.Topher Sanders (ProPublica)
It’ll probably be as well done as the no-bid #ReflectingPool.
#Trump is using a $500M #NoBid contract to build his White House #ballroom
The secret agreement was routed through a #WhiteHouse office that typically handles repairs & furnishings & is exempt from competitive bidding requirements.
#law #TaxPayersMoney #GovernmentWaste #oversight #landmark #UShistory #UrbanPlanning #architecture
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The justices ruled in the case of former #FTC member #RebeccaSlaughter, whom #Trump fired WITHOUT cause despite a provision of #federal #law that requires a reason. The logic of the decision extends to other agencies, including the National Labor Relations Board, the Merit Systems Protection Board and the Consumer Product Safety Commission, where Trump also has fired board members.
#law #Independence #ExecutivePower #HumphreysExecutor #SeparationOfPowers #Congress #democracy
#House speaker Mike Johnson transmitted the #bipartisan #housing #affordability bill to the WH Monday,…kicking off a 10-day countdown for the bill to become #law, even if #Trump doesn’t sign it.
Trump remains undecided over whether he’ll sign it, saying after Johnson sent it to him that it was “so unimportant” compared with his efforts to secure a batshit overhaul of federal #elections.
“Big deal,” Trump said of the legislation. “It’s a yawn.”
#Trump is a mass murderer
More than 100 #Venezuelans who were #deported from the #US hours before the #earthquakes are missing
#law #immigration #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
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Yes! Another win for the #people of the #UnitedStates!
#SCOTUS rules #states can count late-arriving mailed #ballots, rejecting #Trump-led challenge
#law #Constitution #ElectionLaw #VotingRights #Access
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The ruling is the most consequential case for the Fed’s future, for now fending off the politicization of an institution that’s responsible for being a technocratic steward of the #US #economy. In the end, the decision — which came months after the court struck down Trump’s sweeping emergency #tariffs — suggests that the longstanding principle of #independence for the #Fed was a line that not even #Trump could cross.
#SCOTUS allows #LisaCook to remain at #Fed in another loss for #Trump
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected Trump’s attempt to immediately fire #FederalReserve Governor Lisa Cook.
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the opinion for a 5-4 majority.
#law #Independence #economy #democracy
cnn.com/2026/06/29/politics/li…
Good
#SCOTUS rebuffs #AlanDershowitz $300 million suit against #CNN
The Supreme Court refused Monday to revive the attorney’s #defamation lawsuit against CNN over its coverage of remarks he made while defending #Trump during his 2020 #impeachment.
Justices Neil #Gorsuch & #ClarenceThomas dissented from the majority decision, saying legal standards for public figures who claim defamation should be reconsidered.
#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreePress
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YES!!!!!!
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
#SCOTUS Monday declined to take up an appeal from #Trump over a $5 million verdict & finding that he sexually abused & defamed #EJeanCarroll, a decision that means Trump will now HAVE TO PAY the magazine columnist.
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
#RapistInChief #criminal #law #rape #SexualAssault #defamation
Yeah. Sure. Whatever.
#Iran & #US agree to halt attacks & renew “talks”
#TrumpsWar #IranWar #Trump #law #Congress #WarPowers #economy #MarketManipulation #InsiderTrading #NationalSecurity #geopolitics #MiddleEast #inflation #oil #EnergyCrisis
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This is why we mock the fair and the clownfuckery with monuments.
They are humiliated. Trump is crashing out over it. It's ticking off #MAGA. Even Fox News couldn't spin the lack of attendance, though Jesse Watters humiliated himself on the air trying.
They know they look like fools, and as the great Mel Brooks said, that's the one thing Nazis cannot stand.
#Trump #Freedom250 #GreatAmericanStateFair
I suppose I can serve you well with an extensive background on this news item but to be honest with you I'm not that interested, you're not that interested, and it's nothing but another nugget of endless dreary #Trump #MAGA bullshit
They had a fair or something for celebrations of 250 years of the #USA? No one showed up? I don't know, I don't care. Just incompetence and unpopularity
Just laugh at the endless circus of stupidity ("Freeedom?" 😆)
![Isaiah Martin: "Update: no one showed up so Trump closed the fair SMH"
Quoteposting Amanda Moore: "Fair is closed"
Picture of poster: "The great American state fair. Event postponed. Due to severe weather this event is postponed. Go to Freeedom250 [sic] social media for more updates. Please proceed to the nearest exit"](https://friendica.hellquist.eu/photo/preview/640/5667124 "Isaiah Martin: \"Update: no one showed up so Trump closed the fair SMH\"
Quoteposting Amanda Moore: \"Fair is closed\"
Picture of poster: \"The great American state fair. Event postponed. Due to severe weather this event is postponed. Go to Freeedom250 [sic] social media for more updates. Please proceed to the nearest exit\"")
“ #Iran's paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched drone and missile attacks Sunday targeting #Bahrain and #Kuwait in response to U.S. airstrikes that hit the Islamic Republic.
Iran threatened that a “complete halt” could come to negotiations to end the war if #Trump’s Washington continues its attacks.”
koreatimes.co.kr/world/2026062…
Iran attacks Bahrain, Kuwait following US strikes and threatens to halt talks to end war
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran's paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched drone and missile attacks Sunday targeting Bahr...AP (The Korea Times)
Crazy!
#Raw Story
#Conservative legl activist #MikeDavis floatd aggressive #immigration crackdown this wk if #SupremeCourt rules against #Trump admin on #BirthrightCitizenship, incl'g a call 2 prioritize the detention & deportation of #women of childbearing age.
Davis wrote that if the court "lawlessly pretends we fought a #CivilWar & passed subsequent laws 2 give birthright citizenship 2 illegal aliens, we must ramp up 3rd-country detainments & #Mass#Deportations."
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MAGA attorney floats 'no mercy' response if Supreme Court goes against Trump: 'Adios'
Conservative legal activist Mike Davis floated an aggressive immigration crackdown this week if the Supreme Court rules against the Trump administration on birthright citizenship, including a call to prioritize the detention and deportation of women …David McAfee (Raw Story)
Remember this from 2025?
Is there any news about the Epstein files?
Or has old Donny succeeded in distracting everyone?
The #Trump admin imposed #sanctions last year against Kimberly Prost, a Canadian judge at the #InternationalCriminalCourt. Now, she & 2 other judges are suing Trump & his admin, claiming the penalties exceeded his authority.
The case, filed in the Southern District of New York on Wednesday, is the latest effort to challenge what many experts have described as the Trump admin’s efforts to undermine #InternationalLaw.
#law #ICC #imperialism #authoritarianism #tyranny
nytimes.com/2026/06/24/world/e…
Former #Trump admin #NationalSecurity adviser #JohnBolton pleaded guilty on Friday to illegally retaining classified information, sealing a deal with federal prosecutors that could allow him to avoid a prison term.
Bolton, who became an outspoken critic of Trump after serving in the Republican’s first admin, is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 28 by US District Judge Theodore Chuang in Greenbelt, Maryland.
US Senator warns of #Trump admin plan to hastily remove over 500 unaccompanied #immigrant #children
A Democratic US senator warns the Trump admin is getting ready to round up 500 immigrant children in a hasty effort to remove them from the country, bypassing #legal protections. It would be their second attempt after a federal court intervened last year in an overnight plan to fly out hundreds of children on Labor Day weekend.
#law #immigration #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
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⛔️🇺🇸Iran struck ship in Strait of Hormuz proving it has a hold on who operates in the straight, not Trump (CNN VIDEO) #Ukraine #Press #USA #US #Trump #America #Maga #Republicans #Media #UAE #Oman #Jordan #Qatar #UK #London #Israel #TelAviv #Bahrain #SaudiArabia #News #Kuwait #Headlines #Iran #Tehran #Lebanon #Gaza #Palestine #russiaUkraineWar
#12yrInvasionOfUkraine #RussiansAreBabyKillers
#SCOTUS went on a full blown #murder spree today
That is what happened
That is the current state of the state
Smoke ‘em if you’ve got ‘em
#TheNewColossus
Short version—
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
#law #democracy #Trump #racism #WhiteSupremacy #immigration #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #WhiteChristianNationalism
