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#Hegseth claims about #IranWar contradict reality, officials say
The #defense secretary’s portrayal of #US success in the conflict risks misinforming the public & #Trump.
#disinformation #propaganda #intelligence #TrumpsWar #Iran #war #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast #economy
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Seriously.
#JDVance says he's 'here to help' #Orbán #election campaign during #Hungary visit
Vance’s 2-day visit to Budapest is a bid to turn the tide in Orbán’s election campaign where the long-serving leader, a close #Trump ally, is trailing in the polls.
#geopolitics #authoritarianism #strongman #illiberalism #corruption #kleptocracy #MafiaState
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As #Trump🚨renews his threats to bomb “the entire C” of Iran, he's using religious terms to justify the costly, unpopular #IranWar that's killed 1000s of ppl, claiming that “God wants to see ppl taken care of.”
⚡"Across countless faiths & philosophies—from the Bible's "Blessed are the peacemakers" to similar calls in the Quran, Torah, Buddhist sutras, & humanist ethics -🕊️is held up as the ideal.🚨War➡️tragic last resort -failure of wisdom -human fallenness."
-Dr Cole
#USPol
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"Why are there almost no Republican scientists? It’s not a mystery. GOP political orthodoxy includes positions that are at odds with the scientific consensus on multiple issues, ranging from the validity of the theory of evolution, to the reality of climate change, to the efficacy and safety of vaccines. In each case the scientific consensus is solidly grounded in evidence."
~ Paul Krugman
#Trump #Repubicans #science #research #facts #truth
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MAGA Is Winning Its War Against U.S. Science
When a political movement believes that ignorance is strengthPaul Krugman
And he calls the left deranged lunatics!
#Trump warns a 'whole civilization will die tonight' if a deal with #Iran isn't reached
Trump issued the stark threat Tuesday, about 12 hours ahead of his deadline for Iran to agree to a deal that includes reopening the #StraitOfHormuz or face punishing strikes.
Trump wrote on his social media site: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”
#MassMurder #genocide #IranWar #US #war #WarCrimes #law
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The move frees a trial judge to act on the #Trump admin’s pending request to dismiss Bannon’s conviction & indictment “in the interests of justice” [rewriting history].
The dismissal would be largely symbolic. #SteveBannon served a 4-month prison term after a #jury #convicted him of #contempt of #Congress in 2022. A federal appeals court in Washington upheld the conviction.
#SCOTUS #law #SeparationOfPowers #LegislativeBranch #oversight #ChecksAndBalances #SubpoenaPower
The #DOJ brought the case against Bannon during Democrat Joe Biden’s presidency, but it changed course after #Trump took office again last year.
#SteveBannon had initially argued that his testimony was protected by Trump’s claim of #ExecutivePrivilege. But the #House panel & the DOJ contended such a claim was dubious because Trump had fired Bannon…in 2017 & he was thus a private citizen when consulting with Trump in the run-up to the #Jan6 #insurrection.
The real reason #Trump wanted to be President.
#MAGA #TrumpEpsteinFiles #TrumpEpsteinCoverup #PedophileProtectors #GOP #NoKings #LetsGoTACO #Catholic
I hate the Atlantic (scroll by on principle) but this is a *story*
'fellow academics and foreign diplomats marvel at the doyen of Hungarian foreign policy who doesn’t speak Hungarian. But Pappin’s value is clear, and the government can hardly believe its luck—a flesh-and-blood member of the MAGA intelligentsia on its payroll. That’s part of the reason the stakes are so high in Hungary this election season, high enough that Vance will appear alongside Orbán during the final stretch of the campaign this week'
#usPol #Vance #trump #geopolitics #euPol #europe #wtaf
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The MAGA Intellectual Who Prophesied a Queen Melania
An ally of J. D. Vance who has dabbled in monarchism is now working for Viktor Orbán.Isaac Stanley-Becker (The Atlantic)
"We are witnessing a profound shift in the way power is exercised and performative violence is consumed. On one of the holiest days of the Christian calendar—Easter—the discourse was not one of resurrection and hope, but of 'war crimes' and 'hell.'”
~ Danielle Moodie
#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #Easter #WhiteChristianNationalism
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The Golden Calf of 2026
Market Manipulation, Militarized Borders, and the Death of the American SoulDanielle Moodie (The DAM Digest)
#Trump proposes to cut 9,400+ #TSA workers, $1.5+ billion from #budget
The White House is proposing to cut more than 9,400 workers & just over $1.5 billion from the 60,000-employee Transportation Security Administration that handles #airport security operations, according to budget documents.
The details were part of a budget document for the #DHS, which oversees TSA, that is part of the White House budget proposal for the next fiscal year.
The White House posted - then deleted - a video from Trump's Easter luncheon, where the US President made inflammatory and false statements against several figures. Except it was downloaded by a journalist who posted it online. In the hour-long clip, Trump mocked French President Emmanuel Macron's marriage and imitated him, called himself a 'king' and was compared to Jesus Christ. Vedika Bahl explains in Truth or Fake.
#Trump #Macron #WhiteHouse
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The #Trump admin Monday will terminate multiple #CivilRights #settlements aimed at ensuring #transgender #students’ rights to #equal opportunity to an #education, forcing school ofcls to choose whether to comply with the govt’s interpretation of federal anti-#discrimination laws or to abide by conflicting state statutes.
The terminations…are an escalation of the admin’s efforts to enforce Trump’s #ExecutiveOrder that the govt recognize only a person’s sex assigned at birth.
#Trump Administration to Pull Out of #CivilRights #Settlements Backing #Trans Students
The #Education Department said there was no precedent for the federal government terminating settlements stemming from civil rights investigations into #schools.
“We have a plan, because of the power of our military, where every #bridge in Iran will be decimated by 12 o’clock tomorrow night,” #Trump said during his Monday news conference.
#PowerPlants in #Iran, he continued would be “burning, exploding & never to be used again.”
Trump refused to say whether any #civilian targets would be off limits in the #US response.
#deranged #sociopath #TrumpsWar #IranWar #WarCrimes #RulesOfWar #law #WarPowers #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast #EnergyCrisis
#Trump says he’s “not at all” concerned about committing #WarCrimes as he continues to threaten destruction of Iran’s #bridges & #PowerPlants if they don’t meet a Tuesday-evening deadline to reopen the #StraitOfHormuz.
“I hope I don’t have to do it,” Trump added.
#deranged #sociopath #TrumpsWar #IranWar #US #Iran #war #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast #inflation #economy #oil #energy #EnergyCrisis
#UN Secretary-General #AntonioGuterres warned the #US that attacking #civilian #infrastructure is banned under #InternationalLaw, his spox said Monday.
“Even if specific civilian infrastructure were to qualify as a military objective,” spox Stephane Dujarric said, an attack would still be prohibited if it risks “excessive incidental civilian harm.”
A court would need to decide whether such attacks were #WarCrimes, he said.
#Trump #deranged #sociopath #IranWar #Iran #war #law #WarPowers
#Trump brushes off #WarCrime concerns as he repeats threat to #Iran #infrastructure
Trump described the consequences that Iran would face if it doesn’t reach a deal with the US by his 8PM Tuesday deadline.
#deranged #sociopath #TrumpsWar #IranWar #US #war #WarCrimes #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast #economy #EnergyCrisis
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Newly Obtained Video of #Minneapolis #Shooting Undermines #ICE Account
Prosecutors did not watch video of the nonfatal shooting until weeks after charging the wounded man, an official said.
Almost immediately after an #immigration agent shot & wounded a #Venezuelan #immigrant in Minneapolis this winter, the #Trump admin cast the injured man as an attempted murderer & the agent as the victim of a brutal beating.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #UseOfForce
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#Iran state-run IRNA news agency said #Tehran rejected the latest #ceasefire proposal & wants a permanent end to the #war. The agency said it has conveyed its response to the #US through #Pakistan, a key mediator. “We only accept an end of the war with guarantees that we won’t be attacked again,” Mojtaba Ferdousi Pour, head of the Iranian diplomatic mission in Cairo, told AP Monday.
#TrumpsWar #IranWar #ForeverWars #Trump #WarCrimes #law #Congress #WarPowers #MiddleEast
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Remember the cyberattacks on the U.S. government in the early 2020s? The Biden admin asked tech companies to help and got some “free” upgrades.
The Trump admin is doing similarly with AI. But our reporting shows there’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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#News #Cybersecurity #Government #Trump #Microsoft #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #Technology
The Federal Government Is Rushing Toward AI. Our Reporting Offers Three Cautionary Tales.
We’ve been reporting on cybersecurity for years. As President Donald Trump and his Cabinet say artificial intelligence will transform the nation, the messaging isn’t new. It follows a familiar pattern.shoshana.gordon@propublica.org (ProPublica)
#Trump, taking questions from reporters during the annual #Easter Egg Rollevent at the White House, reiterated his threats against #Iran, saying the #US was “obliterating the country” because its leadership would not capitulate.
But he also asserted that Americans were dealing with a third wave of leadership that “is not as radicalized.”
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #TrumpsWar #IranWar #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #law #Congress #WarPowers #MiddleEast #economy #EnergyCrisis
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WTAF!?
#SteveBannon wins #SCOTUS order likely to lead to dismissal of his #criminal #conviction for refusing to #Congress.
“Prodded” [instructed] by the #Trump admin, the justices threw out an appellate ruling upholding Bannon’s conviction for defying a #subpoena from the #House committee that investigated the #Jan6, 2021 #insurrection by Trump supporters.
#law #SeparationOfPowers #LegislativeBranch #oversight #ChecksAndBalances #SubpoenaPower
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"An absolute insane person. My god."
~ Sarah Longwell quoted by Greg Dworkin
P.S. Are we really going to play the purist CW labeling games — US Pol — when the fate of the WHOLE WORLD is at stake as a madman with his hand on the nuclear button threatens to rain down destruction on a nation he's targeting?
Do we really have the luxury of that kind of purism right now?
#Trump #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
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Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Trump's unqalification to lead is on full display
G Elliott Morris/Strength in Numbers: Why Democrats are suddenly winning back the left — and the "double-haters" Plus, the share of Americans calling themselves Republicans just hit a decade low. Your weekly political data roundup for April 5, 2026..Daily Kos
Just wanted to sign up to Trumps #TruthSocial to post my recent comparison of him Putin and Netanyahu and couldn't.
Guess his "...Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah..." truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTru…
Post broke it?
I don't believe the "site maintenance" for one second!
#News #Down #Web #Internet #SocialMedia #Trump #DonalTrump #Donald #USA #US #Politics #USpol #America #UnitedStates
Irish writer Colm Tóibín addresses what Trump has shown the world about Americans, and Americans about themselves:
"Tóibín believes Trump has indelibly tarnished the idea of the US as the so-called land of the free. 'America can never really lift its head again,' he says."
#Trump #America #morality #Christianity #democracy
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Colm Tóibín on a post-Trump world: ‘America has a stain on its soul’
The Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Brooklyn’ is not one for parties, preferring to spend his time either at home or in the library.Claire Allfree (The Independent)
#Trump escalated threats against #Iran power plants, bridges & other infrastructure in an expletive-laden post on Truth Social on #Easter morning.
“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran,” Trump posted. “There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell — JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.”
The profane threat, landed a few hours after #PopeLeo XIV issued a call for nations to choose #peace.
What do #Putin, #Trump & #Netanyahu have in common?
When faced with domestic/personal political problems, an easy method to sideline & slowly solve them, is to start or escalate #war.
It shifts the public conversation, changes the legal & political environment /interests, eases expanded military action at home, & creates opportunities to reward & align with certain factions (oligarchs, corporations, #military leaders).
#Israel #Iran #USA #GAZA #VENEZUELA #UKRAINE #LEBANON #SYRIA #Politics #US
RE: mstdn.social/@Nickiquote/11635…
I would argue that this toot is less disrespectful to Easter Sunday than the weird sweary Islamophobic rant that the President of the United States just posted. #USpol #Trump
24 But Thomas, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came.25 The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see ten creme eggs up his bum, I will not believe.
26 After eight days again his disciples had Thomas with them: then came Jesus, and stood in the midst.
27 Then saith He to Thomas, observe this X-Ray and be not faithless, but believe.
28 And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.
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- Convicted felon
- Sexual predator
- Racist
- Sexist
- Epstein's best friend
- War criminal
What was that other one again... 🤔
Ah yes, PRESIDENT of the United States 👎
Andrea Junker :verified: (@Strandjunker@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image I think it’s worth asking again — and seriously — what exactly do we have a 25th Amendment for if not for this?Andrea Junker :verified: (Mastodon 🐘)
Update. Here's the key passage from the new #Trump budget proposing a "Government-Wide Prohibition on Publishing and Subscription Fees."
See p. 17.
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"The Budget ends the diversion
of research dollars to high priced publishers across the Government. The Budget prohibits the use of
Federal funds for expensive subscriptions to academic journals and prohibitively high publishing costs unless required by Federal statute or approved in advance by a Federal agency. Research funded by
taxpayers should be publicly accessible; yet many publications charge the Government to both publish and to access the same research study. There are numerous low-cost outlets to make federally-funded research publicly available."
h/t Jim O'Donnell
#APCs #DoubleDipping #OpenAccess #Publishing #ScholComm #Subscriptions
"Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration."
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"For the second year in a row, US President Donald Trump has proposed significant cuts to the budgets of major US science agencies…[The plan] includes a ban on using federal funds for subscriptions and publishing fees for some academic journals…Some of the steepest cuts would be made to the National Science Foundation (#NSF) and the Environmental Protection Agency (#EPA): the budgets of both would fall more than 50% in 2027 compared to their current levels…The budget for the US National Institutes of Health [#NIH] would drop 13%…The budget would increase funding for…the military, which would receive US $1.5 trillion, a 44% increase."
#DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration
Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.Chen, Edward
#US rescues missing crew member in #Iran after fighter jet shot down
The successful return of the missing airman came after an intense search-&-rescue mission, all personnel involved in the rescue have returned safely, according to a US official.
#TrumpsWar #IranWar #war #Trump #warmonger #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast
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I'm watching a PBS documentary that describes in detail ~60 years in the late 1800s-early 1900s when those of Chinese origin were legally excluded from becoming American citizens...
omg the #racism & hatred were despicable.
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Note the court case in the image (see video in link below), which has particular relevance w/ #Trump 's attempt to revoke birthright citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants 👀
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#USA #immigration #MyThoughts
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Examine the origin, history and impact of the 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here ever to become U.S. citizens.americanexperience
