HR7325
To establish the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies in the United States, and for other purposes.
📢 Introduced in House
Also the grandstanding performative courtroom drama behavior of the #congress members is quite heavy handed. #JackSmith who has repeatedly been described as measured & calm is coming off a little stiff especially because he keeps being interrupted. He needs to come back at them like they are hostile witnesses.
#law #House #Judiciary #Trump #SeditiousConspiracy #Jan6 #insurrection #PoliticalViolence #coup #democracy #Constitution #PeacefulTransitionOfPower
#Republican #House #Judiciary Committee members are going to focus on things like #CassidyHutchinson & the #subpoenas for #Congress members’ phone logs, because if they let #JackSmith get into the actual #evidence he gathered against #Trump, it will be damning.
#law #SeditiousConspiracy #Jan6 #insurrection #PoliticalViolence #coup #democracy #Constitution #PeacefulTransitionOfPower
RE: https://telescoper.blog/2026/01/19/barry-wards-letter-about-grok-ai/
Translation for Americans: a member of the Irish parliament (the Dail) who happens to be a barrister (an attorney specialising in advocacy in front of a judge, including criminal prosecution/defense) has formally written to the head of the Irish cybercrime unit setting out applicable charges against X/Grok and sternly requesting formal prosecution of that company on child pornography/trafficking charges.
@cstross Reminder to the #republican party and any of its coalition: there aren’t special rules for distributing CSAM if your name is Elon #musk and you use a computer program to propagate the CSAM. You can argue the technicals in court like everyone else would have to.
Alex Akselrod
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As I read about people being harassed for using their cell phone cameras to document the cruelty of ICE raids or comments from assholes like Kristi Noem that doing so is somehow a criminal act, I’m reminded of something someone said when U.S. troops began liberating Nazi concentration camps in early 1945.
“Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” - Dwight D. Eisenhower
RE: https://mastodon.world/@BrianJopek/115865134938638844
yet another example of why there is not one #GOP #Republican #MAGA #techbro #NatC who would want to quote, even less be like, the closest to an #antifa republican POTUS, Dwight Eisenhower.
here’s the thing though: Eisenhower was as much a corporatist, petromafia bootlicker as every other republican. the only difference between him and Reagan & Bush? he actually saw the concentration camps and that fucked him up.
but Eisenhower agreed to support the 1953 #Iran coup BEFORE becoming POTUS.
As I read about people being harassed for using their cell phone cameras to document the cruelty of ICE raids or comments from assholes like Kristi Noem that doing so is somehow a criminal act, I’m reminded of something someone said when U.S. troops began liberating Nazi concentration camps in early 1945.
“Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” - Dwight D. Eisenhower
RE: https://mastodon.world/@BrianJopek/115865134938638844
yet another example of why there is not one #GOP #Republican #MAGA #techbro #NatC who would want to quote, even less be like, the closest to an #antifa republican POTUS, Dwight Eisenhower.
here’s the thing though: Eisenhower was as much a corporatist, petromafia bootlicker as every other republican. the only difference between him and Reagan & Bush? he actually saw the concentration camps and that fucked him up.
but Eisenhower agreed to support the 1953 #Iran coup BEFORE becoming POTUS.
As the #Trump admin asserts a #NewWorldOrder guided by #military #force & #economic #power — & Trump calls for a massive increase in military spending to confront these “dangerous times” — #US #allies are insisting that global stability depends on following #InternationalLaw.
#MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #Maduro #abduction #Venezuela #oil #LandGrab #sovereignty #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #theft #piracy
Top #Republican lawmakers are firmly backing the #Trump admin’s arrest of Venezuela’s president & assertions of control over the South American nation’s #oil industry, but some #GOP senators are drawing the line on more attacks without the approval of #Congress.
#MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #law #WarPowers #Maduro #abduction #Venezuela #oil #LandGrab #sovereignty #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw
Tim Chambers
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Some of the deposition focused on #Republican anger at revelations that the Smith team had obtained, & analyzed, phone records of #GOP lawmakers who were in contact with #Trump on #Jan6. Smith defended the maneuver as lawful & by-the-book, & suggested that outrage over the tactic should be directed at Trump & not his team of prosecutors. [IOW don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time]
#law #JackSmith #Congress #insurrection #criminal #conspiracy
Tim Chambers
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The communications between #Trump & #Republican supporters in #Congress were an important component of the case, Smith said. He cited an interview his office did with #MarkMeadows in which Trump’s former chief of staff referenced that Rep. #JimJordan, an Ohio Republican & current chairman of the #House #Judiciary Committee, had been in touch with the White House on the afternoon of the “riot”.
The communications between #Trump & #Republican supporters in #Congress were an important component of the case, Smith said. He cited an interview his office did with #MarkMeadows in which Trump’s former chief of staff referenced that Rep. #JimJordan, an Ohio Republican & current chairman of the #House #Judiciary Committee, had been in touch with the White House on the afternoon of the “riot”.
Some of the deposition focused on #Republican anger at revelations that the Smith team had obtained, & analyzed, phone records of #GOP lawmakers who were in contact with #Trump on #Jan6. Smith defended the maneuver as lawful & by-the-book, & suggested that outrage over the tactic should be directed at Trump & not his team of prosecutors. [IOW don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time]
#law #JackSmith #Congress #insurrection #criminal #conspiracy
U.S. President Donald Trump’s second administration refuses to be bound by anything so ordinary and mundane as the laws that Congress passes. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/12/24/world/trump-canceling-rule-of-law/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #us #justicedepartment #donaldtrump #supremecourt #johnroberts #republican #democrat #immigrationandcustomsenforcement #rodrigoduterte
@lauren Agreed. This is really important. If the fascists were as smart as they claimed, #trump would have been crowned “emperor” back in 2020.
The resistance to him and his #republican thugs has been far from perfect since then, but part of the reason the fascists may still go down in flames is that they’re just not very good at any of this.
#EricHolcomb is a former two-term #Republican governor of #Indiana who just taught a seminar at #Harvard. He reports good experiences with faculty and students, and none of the horror stories his conservative friends warned him to expect. He even found that Harvard is doing useful medical research.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/12/08/harvard-eric-holcomb-indiana-governor/
But he thinks this is a result of centrist backlash against extremism, pressure from the #Trump administration, or both.
"What I’ve experienced may be a natural return to Harvard’s more moderate bearings, following noisy displays of intolerance by campus agitators in recent years. Or it may be due to the Trump administration’s forceful executive orders and fiscal pressure. Either way (and it’s probably both), let’s take the win."
The entire #Republican party is to blame. Every person who votes for the #GOP is responsible for this "leader'.
hannah aubry
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Top court rules EU nations must mutually recognize same-sex marriages
The Court of Justice of the European Union said in a statement on Tuesday that any refusal to do this 'is contrary to EU law' and 'infringes not only the freedom to move and reside, but also the fundamental right to respect for private and family life.'
RE: https://mastodon.social/@eunews/115610004447502215
Good thing for us maybe USA need to copy us on this for a change
#usa #us #uspol #uspolitic #uspolitics #trump #republican #democrat #lesbian #gay #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqi #lgbtqia
Top court rules EU nations must mutually recognize same-sex marriages
The Court of Justice of the European Union said in a statement on Tuesday that any refusal to do this 'is contrary to EU law' and 'infringes not only the freedom to move and reside, but also the fundamental right to respect for private and family life.'
RE: https://mastodon.social/@eunews/115610004447502215
Good thing for us maybe USA need to copy us on this for a change
#usa #us #uspol #uspolitic #uspolitics #trump #republican #democrat #lesbian #gay #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqi #lgbtqia
@letydoesstuff Searching for the #Democrat and #Democrats hashtags pulls up zero clickable results, while obviously #Republican and #Republicans work just fine.
Manipulating the URL to take me to the relevant hashtag pages shows me a sensitive content warning that obviously should not apply.
Editing my account settings to allow all sensitive content and manipulating the URL to return to the relevant hashtag pages still show the same sensitive content warning.
If you still have Meta accounts, I highly suggest you uninstall the apps if you haven't already. It's safer to just log in and test these URLs from a browser you can wipe.
https://www.instagram.com/explore/search/keyword/?q=%23democrat
https://www.instagram.com/explore/search/keyword/?q=%23democrats
https://www.instagram.com/explore/search/keyword/?q=%23republican
https://www.instagram.com/explore/search/keyword/?q=%23republicans
@lety
> Searching for the #Democrat and #Democrats hashtags [on InstaGram] pulls up zero clickable results, while obviously #Republican and #Republicans work just fine
That's just technofascist billionaires respecting free speech (that they agree with) and suppressing platform abuse (including anything they disagree with). Nothing to see here citizen, move along ... : P
S3197
A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to establish a rebuttable presumption that a defendant who is not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident poses a danger to the community and a serious risk of flight, for purposes of determining whether to release or detain the defendant pending trial.
📢 Introduced in Senate
Alex Akselrod
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Interesting data point from the brilliant @AmandaMarcotte
"It’s not surprising that the three #Republican women who signed the discharge petition are divorced. That gives them a level of psychological independence that married Republican women almost never enjoy."
https://www.salon.com/2025/11/14/sorry-nancy-mace-donald-trump-hasnt-protected-women/
Interesting data point from the brilliant @AmandaMarcotte
"It’s not surprising that the three #Republican women who signed the discharge petition are divorced. That gives them a level of psychological independence that married Republican women almost never enjoy."
https://www.salon.com/2025/11/14/sorry-nancy-mace-donald-trump-hasnt-protected-women/