Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney calls for a snap election for April 28, days ahead of more potential Trump tariffs. @CNN has the latest:
A president after Mr Trumps heart? or not? These people are literally everywhere and becoming emboldened. The world needs to stand up against them . Trump praises them.
Democracy is the casualty.
Erdogan possibly felt he can get away with this under the current US regime.
#dictatorships #trump #turkey #humanrights #politics #erdogan
BBC News - Istanbul mayor arrested ahead of selection to run against Erdogan
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0egjvj8vdro
@GottaLaff Don’t agree w/ tons of what CS says, but Obama told us over & over, that unless we voted in a majority, the government had almost no way to help us stop trump, other than encouraging us to #Resist We fight back w/ civil lawsuits, in the streets & critically by waking up our neighbors so they’ll vote. Attacking CS instead of pushing the bits he gets right is doing the GOPs work. It’s frustrating & annoying AF but it’s the truth. We need to amplify what moves us forward. #USPol #trump
In my view, #JohnRoberts admonished #Trump (on appeals v. impeachment) for *two* reasons. First, Roberts is an institutionalist who wants to preserve respect for courts. Second, he regrets giving Trump so much latitude in the presidential immunity case (Trump v. US).
I've been watching for other court-watchers to agree on the second point, and just saw this excellent piece by @SabrinaHaake.
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/john-roberts-has-created-a-monster-and-he-knows-it/
"Here’s some free legal advice to Venezuelans caught up in Trump’s nightmare: Amend your complaint. File in state court. Get a state prosecutor to allege specific grounds supporting criminal liability against Trump, to give the Roberts court an opportunity to delimit its immunity ruling. Identify specific acts Trump has taken to harm you that cannot be construed as core executive functions. This will give Roberts the chance to list some conduct that is—and conversely that can never be—a core executive function, to diffuse Trump’s notion that he can get away with murder. Hint: trying to impeach a federal judge is not, and can never be, a core executive function. Lying to American citizens about a foreign invasion is not, and can never be, a core executive function."
BREAKING - President #Trump announces his new “All children left behind” initiative
White House seeks corporate sponsorships for Easter event
Can your phone get you deported in the U.S? Yes! After Trump's order to increase national security, more travellers are facing increased scrutiny, including searches of their phones and laptops. @USAToday has the latest.
Aux Etats-Unis, le ministère de la Défense a supprimé un temps la page de Béa Arthur du site du ministère de la Défense, au nom de sa politique "anti-woke". L'actrice des Golden Girls, grande icône LGBT+, a servi durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale comme conductrice de camion et dactylographe. La page a depuis, semble-t-il, été restaurée. Je les hais. https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/19/politics/pentagon-website-purge/index.html
@georgetakei yes, its more secure to travel to China than to #usa2025 #trump #nazistan
"The #MAGA scare: #Trump’s attacks on free speech won’t stop at college students
"The Trump administration is escalating its attacks on the First Amendment by targeting institutions that challenge his agenda, including universities, law firms, and federal judges. Trump's attacks on academia are especially egregious, as these institutions have historically served as important centers of dissent and protest."
MSNBC https://www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/watch/the-maga-scare-trump-s-attacks-on-free-speech-won-t-stop-at-college-students-235121221618
#FreeSpeech #USPolitics #TrumpRegime
"But, as Matt Viser said in the Washington Post today, on Friday White House communications director Steven Cheung said Trump personally signed the proclamation, and his signature appears on the document in the Federal Register of official government documents. The gap between the two versions of events raises questions about who is in charge of White House policy."
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #Venezuelans #AlienEnemiesAct #chaos
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"When asked when he signed the proclamation invoking the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, by which Trump claimed that Venezuela is invading the United States by sending alleged gang members over the border, Trump answered: 'I don’t know when it was signed, because I didn’t sign it.' Trump was on his way to his golf club in New Jersey, and seemed to be handing off responsibility for the declaration to someone else, perhaps Secretary of State Marco Rubio."
"Perhaps in response to the growing outcry over last weekend’s rendition of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under a legal justification a federal judge has found questionable, President Donald Trump last night told reporters that he didn’t sign the proclamation that set that legal process in motion."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
Witkoff gave details of his visit to the Russian Federation and meeting with Putin.
"The second visit I made was personal. President Putin commissioned a wonderful portrait of President Trump from a leading Russian artist, and he actually gave it to me, asking me to give it to President Trump. I brought the portrait home and gave it to him. It was reported in the press, but it was such a heartfelt moment."
Protests against DOGE pop up across East Tennessee following federal employee layoffs
Two #protests were held in #Knoxville against #DOGE and #Tesla. Another was held in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
https://www.wbir.com/article/news/local/sevierville-sevier/protests-against-doge-pop-up-across-east-tennessee-following-federal-employee-layoffs/51-08fbe756-9a76-4993-9530-716c684c6868
"People across East #Tennessee gathered to protest the #Trump Administration, #ElonMusk and the Dept of Govt Efficiency.
#Trump supporters thinking they were doing their part to Make America Great Again. https://www.sacurrent.com/news/vandals-knock-down-san-antonio-memorial-for-53-migrants-who-died-in-tractor-trailer-37060515 #Immigration #SanAntonio #Texas #HateCrime
There's a direct line to this selfish, hateful, destructive behavior in response to civil rights advances brought to us by Democrats, and what Trump is doing today. We can choose to pretend that line is not there, and that this history did not happen.
But I'm old enough to remember it. I lived through it. And as long as I'm alive, I'll keep telling you that it happened and needs to be faced.
#Musk #Trump #Republicans #authoritarianism #FederalGovernment
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They boycotted integrated public schools, defunded schools, attacked federal involvement in promoting public education, opened separate whites-only church-run academies, shut down public institutions like swimming pools rather than see Black and white citizens share them.
#Musk #Trump #Republicans #authoritarianism #FederalGovernment
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