In case you're confused about why #elonmusk calls USAID a "criminal organization": The agency played a role in ending his beloved #Apartheid.
#trump #fascism
#trump
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Concentration camp time.
Via NYT:
About 200 Marines and soldiers landed at Guantánamo Bay over the weekend to provide security and begin setting up at a new tent city for migrants, as officials comply with #Trump’s order to prepare the Navy base for as many as 30,000 deportees.
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Update. The possible crime I was talking about two days ago was minor compared to the avalanche that followed soon after.
But I'm grateful to Samuel Bagenstos for directly addressing the follow-up question.
"Why Write About the Illegality of What #Trump and #Musk are Doing?"
https://buttondown.com/sbagen/archive/why-write-about-the-illegality-of-what-trump-and/
actual tweet from the #Trump administration's latest #DEI hire (he's joining the State Department)
link: https://x.com/DarrenJBeattie/status/1842239185203151053
Standard: " 'Im Handumdrehen verschwunden:' US-Regierungswebsites gehen reihenweise vom Netz." https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000255649/im-handumdrehen-verschwunden-us-regierungswebsites-gehen-reihenweise-vom-netz
Welp.
Via WaPo:
#Trump on Monday appointed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent as the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a powerful watchdog agency whose operations Bessent immediately halted pending a review.
Secretary of State Marco #Rubio says he is acting USAID administrator as Elon #Musk and #Trump work to dismantle the longtime international aid agency https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/03/politics/usaid-washington-workers?Date=20250203&Profile=cnnbrk
“New York attorney general, Letitia James, warned hospitals that denying transgender care to comply with #Trump ’s order could violate state law.” #LGBTQ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/nyregion/ny-attorney-general-transgender-care.html
Good!
Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz says he’s putting a blanket hold on all of #Trump ’s State Department nominees until USAID is back up and running.
- WSJ https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/democratic-senator-says-he-will-block-trump-nominees-until-usaid-is-back-94f8699e
Our top story: Christian nationalists are de facto endorsing government interference with the church—the very government interference with the church that they've complained about in the past. https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-churches-christianity-constitution-trump/
Le Canada choisit la méthode forte face aux menaces de Trump: le Premier ministre de la province de l'Ontario Doug Ford bannit les entreprises américaines des contrats publics et déchire son contrat de 100 millions avec Starlink. "Une décision qui va leur faire perdre des dizaines de milliards de dollars de revenus, elles n'ont qu'à blâmer Trump". Chez nous, Bayrou a annoncé le déploiement futur de 200 terminaux Starlink à Mayotte...
The following commentary was written by a #USAID employee, who has requested anonymity for fear of retribution.
“We’ve been on the ground providing food, clean water, shelter, and hope after every major disaster, disease outbreak, and war since 1961.
▶️We’ve helped teach hundreds of millions of children to read.”
#usa #news #maga #trump #gop #uspol #hiv #elonmusk #canada #cdnpoli #eu #africa #mexico #usaid #h5n1 #emergingdisease
In BC, they're pulling booze produced in red states from liquor store shelves. I like the targeting.
#trump #maga #tariffs #inflation #canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-premier-david-eby-us-tariffs-1.7448307
Neue Nachricht von meiner Freundin aus den USA. Die Angst vor Abschiebung geht um.
„Der Mann einer Kollegin arbeitet an einer Schule in Chicago mit über 90% Immigranten aus Mexico. Heute sind nur 35 % erschienen. Und 12 Lehrer sind auch nicht gekommen.“
So sieht das aus, wenn Rechte die Macht ergreifen.
#Trump #Rassismus #USAonFire #rasicm #abschiebung #machtergreifung
#Trump is set to…invoke a wartime #law to #deport immigrants alleged to be gang members w/o court hearings, a broad authority that could supercharge his #MassDeportations &…sweep in people not charged w/crimes.
…Trump ordered #military & #immigration ofcls to be ready by Feb 3 to implement the 1798 #AlienEnemiesAct, last used to justify #InternmentCamps [#ConcentrationCamps] for people of Japanese, German & Italian descent during WWII.
#DueProcess #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-plans-invoke-obscure-18th-century-wartime-law-bid-mass-deportations-2025-02-03/