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
@oldrawgabbit
I've said it before and I'll keep saying it till in sinks in:
Showboating galactic criminal Zaphod Beeblebrox from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" was elected president NOT to run the galaxy but to distract attention away from those who do. #THHG
@oldrawgabbit
#DonTheCon... who made "Affordability" the centerpiece of his 2024 re-election campaign... now calls #affordability "a #Democrat con-job".
Well, it certainly WAS a #ConJob, as #inflation was going DOWN under #Biden after #DisasasterDon destroyed the #SupplyChain by ignoring #Covid.
But now inflation is back up, and the same guy who RAILED about inflation under #Biden, is now admitting it was all a con-job.
Yeah. We knew that. 😞
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-trump-says-the-word-affordability-is-a-con-job-by-the-democrats
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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
While Smith still holds her position, the senior #FannieMae officials who called her conduct into question were all forced out of their jobs late last month, along with internal #ethics #watchdogs who were investigating #BillPulte & his allies.
The dismissals rattled the #housing industry & drew condemnation from #Democrats. It also gave more evidence to support claims that Pulte has leveraged the nonpublic information available to him to further his own political aims.
“This is another example of #BillPulte weaponizing his role to do Donald Trump’s bidding, instead of working to lower costs amidst a #HousingCrisis,” said Sen. #ElizabethWarren, of Massachusetts, the ranking #Democrat on the #Senate #Banking Committee. “His behavior raises significant questions, & he needs to be brought in front of #Congress to answer them.”
#law #scammers #housing #affordability #CostOfLiving #WealthGap #Trump
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Well, there ya go, Rep #AdelitaGrijalva #Democrat of #Arizona has been sworn in.
She will be the 218th signature needed to force the #EpsteinFiles release vote, as long as no #Republicans defect.
#Trump #Epstein #criminal #law #rape #SexualAssault #SexTrafficking #felon47 #CoverUp
#House #Congress #Shutdown
https://apnews.com/article/adelita-grijalva-arizona-house-epstein-files-johnson-da75c9f0e362291f3d0edb1da99e019d
Well, there ya go, Rep #AdelitaGrijalva #Democrat of #Arizona has been sworn in.
She will be the 218th signature needed to force the #EpsteinFiles release vote, as long as no #Republicans defect.
#Trump #Epstein #criminal #law #rape #SexualAssault #SexTrafficking #felon47 #CoverUp
#House #Congress #Shutdown
https://apnews.com/article/adelita-grijalva-arizona-house-epstein-files-johnson-da75c9f0e362291f3d0edb1da99e019d
#Trump *connected with* #LaurenBoebert by phone Tues morning, acc/to 2 people familiar with the call, a day before Speaker #MikeJohnson was set to finally swear in a #Democrat, Rep #AdelitaGrijalva of AZ, who was expected to provide the 218th signature needed to force the #Epstein vote. [Also before today’s release of emails]
Trump has also been reaching out by phone to #NancyMace (R-SC), another of the #Republicans who have signed the petition…. The two have not yet connected.
The messages are certain to inflame the debate on Capitol Hill over the #Trump admin’s handling of the #EpsteinFiles, & top ofcls’ decision to backtrack on a promise to fully release them. That issue, which has split #Republicans & alienated some of Trump’s right-wing supporters, had faded to the background as the govt #shutdown dragged on.
But the #House is set to return Wednesday to clear legislation to end the shutdown, & attention is likely to shift back to the #Epstein matter.
“These latest emails & correspondence raise glaring questions about what else the White House is hiding & the nature of the relationship between #Epstein & the president,” Rep Robert Garcia of California, the top #Democrat on the #Oversight Cmte, said in a statement.
The 3 separate email exchanges released on Wednesday were all from after Epstein’s 2008 plea deal in Florida on state charges of soliciting prostitution, in which federal prosecutors agreed not to pursue charges.
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#Trump to propose opening #California Coast to #oil #drilling for the first time in roughly 4 decades, acc/to 3 people.
The move would set up a confrontation with Gov #GavinNewsom, a #Democrat who has fought #OffshoreDrilling & who has emerged as one of Trump’s chief political antagonists. Newsom is in Brazil for the #UN #climate summit, where he is drawing a contrast between himself & Trump, who denigrates efforts to fight #GlobalWarming.
#law #ClimateChange
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/climate/offshore-drilling-california-trump-newsom.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#Trump to propose opening #California Coast to #oil #drilling for the first time in roughly 4 decades, acc/to 3 people.
The move would set up a confrontation with Gov #GavinNewsom, a #Democrat who has fought #OffshoreDrilling & who has emerged as one of Trump’s chief political antagonists. Newsom is in Brazil for the #UN #climate summit, where he is drawing a contrast between himself & Trump, who denigrates efforts to fight #GlobalWarming.
#law #ClimateChange
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/climate/offshore-drilling-california-trump-newsom.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
…foreign diplomats said they were stunned by what they described as “nasty” & “very personal” threats made by #State Department officials, which were mostly aimed at leaders from poorer or small countries that are economically dependent on the #UnitedStates. Some of the delegations were summoned to the #US Embassy in London for these discussions, these people said.
…“It was like a bunch of gangsters coming into the neighborhood & smashing windows and threatening shop owners,” said Senator #SheldonWhitehouse, #Democrat of Rhode Island, who was briefed on the events by negotiators who were directly involved. Mr. Whitehouse called the Trump administration’s strategy a “shock-and-awe thuggery approach.”
I can only hope that Kaine has bedhead because he lost sleep fucking over millions of uninsured Americans. He caved because he wants the votes of federal workers in Virginia. He lost the last shred of respect I still held for him.
For twenty years now, the fundamental #DemocraticParty problem is #Biden and #Durbin and #Schumer et al living in a past that never existed and never ended, trying frantically to preserve that feeling of "comity with our #GOP colleagues across the aisle"
Except that the #Republicans have been pissing on the #Democrat's feet all the while the GOP has been smiling in the Democrats' faces
But the Democrats are too infatuated with their own illusions to smell the piss they're standing in
Footage obtained by local WGN-TV showed 2 men, one in a balaclava, dragging a woman out of the colorfully decorated front doors of Rayito de Sol #daycare center as she screamed. The men wore vests that said "Police" but no other agency markings were visible.
#Trump #law #immigration #Chicago #PoliceBrutality #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
#HumanRights #CivilRights #ICE #CBP #Gestapo
The woman, who was identified in a parents' text group shared with Reuters as Diana Santillana, a #teacher in the #infant classroom from Medellin, Colombia, could be heard saying in Spanish, "I have papers."
The agents grabbed the teacher in front of children, US Rep Mike Quigley, an #Illinois #Democrat, said in a statement. Shocked #parents …said the #school had recently told them that all the teachers were legally authorized to work….
True. Chuck's over. And one could say the same for the same reason of the #BrokenTimes.
As Mamdani Surges Ahead, Schumer Risks Finding Himself Left Behind https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/nyregion/schumer-mamdani-democrats-new-york.html?smid=tw-share
schumer represents the old guard who can't get past their 1979 way of thinking and he needs to go immediately.
We need people who will fight now and keep fighting.
This is why Ken Martin and the DNC pushed out David Hogg because he said any #Democrat who wasn't fighting should be primaried and replaced.
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More #election results
In #Maine, voters rejected a ballot measure that would have added #voting restrictions, & approved a measure that enables families to try to get a troubled relative’s #guns taken away.
In #Pennsylvania, voters granted new 10-year terms to 3 #Democratic justices on the state’s supreme court.
In #Detroit, #Michigan, #Democrat Mary Sheffield became the city’s first #female #mayor & the first new mayor in a dozen years.
"If anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald #Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him. And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power," #Mamdani told a raucous crowd of supporters. "So Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you: turn the volume up."
More #election results
In #Maine, voters rejected a ballot measure that would have added #voting restrictions, & approved a measure that enables families to try to get a troubled relative’s #guns taken away.
In #Pennsylvania, voters granted new 10-year terms to 3 #Democratic justices on the state’s supreme court.
In #Detroit, #Michigan, #Democrat Mary Sheffield became the city’s first #female #mayor & the first new mayor in a dozen years.
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