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Although Valdivia & White were the primary signatories to the sentencing memo in Taranto’s case, the document also bore the name of #USAttorney #JeaninePirro, who was nominated for the role by #Trump.
The suspensions follow efforts by Trump & allies to rewrite the narrative of the #Jan6. Trump, in one of his first EOs after his return to the White House in January, pardoned hundreds of people who had been convicted of participating in the #insurrection….
Assistant #US #attorneys Carlos Valdivia & Samuel White were told they were being suspended just hours after they filed a sentencing recommendation in a case against Taylor Taranto, a Washington state man accused of participating in the #Jan6 #insurrection who is now facing sentencing for unrelated #weapons charges, acc/to people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of #retribution.
#Trump #law #history #facts #coup #whitewashing #gaslighting #propaganda
The #Trump #DOJ has placed 2 federal prosecutors in Washington on leave a day after they filed a document in court that referred to the #Jan6, 2021, attack on the #US Capitol as a “riot” carried out by a “mob,” 2 people familiar with the matter said.
Imagine if they’d called it what it actually was, an #insurrection carried out by #insurgents.
#law #history #facts #SeditiousConspiracy #coup #whitewashing #gaslighting #propaganda
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/10/29/trump-jan-6-prosecutors-suspended/
"Israeli airstrikes on Gaza overnight killed at least 104 Palestinians, including children, in what appeared to be the gravest challenge yet to the increasingly fragile US-brokered ceasefire and the deadliest day since the truce began."
~ Lorenzo Tondo, William Christou, and Seham Tantesh
Calling Mr. Trump: Nobel Peace Prize committee calling Mr. Trump. Please answer, Mr. Trump.
"The federal agencies that survived Elon Musk’s wrecking ball are now captured by the echo chamber of his social media platform, with cabinet secretaries staring furiously into a digital funhouse mirror to divine the will of the most internet-addled members of the MAGA base. ...
The shit was supposed to be a weapon … but today it’s the stream that carries the GOP forward."
#Trump #Republicans #ConspiracyTheories #fascism #authoritarianism #disinformation #media #sanewashing
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"The nature of lies in MAGA-world has changed, too. We’re a long way from 'covfefe' and tumescent hurricanes Sharpied on a weather map. This is an era of lies as policy, where government priorities are based on right-wing conspiracy theories and fear-mongering."
~ Liz Dye
And the media's response?
#Trump #Republicans #ConspiracyTheories #fascism #authoritarianism #disinformation #media #sanewashing
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https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-tylenol-autism-lawsuit-texas
"In his latest interview about somehow dictating America's future from behind a microphone, Bannon was dead certain that Trump would be president come 2029, using typically verbose language to describe the addled god-king as a 'vehicle of divine providence' and an 'instrument of divine will.'"
Noting Steve Bannon's recent high-profile media interview in The Economist, Denny Carter underscores the choice of media outlets to high-profile white men like Bannon as they pontificate about Trump and political matters:
"For some reason, Bannon, a podcaster, lands interviews in which he lays out a grand plan for the future of the US and the world at large – plans he's devised from his bunker while scrolling online."
"While women are being forced out of the workforce, children are going hungry, and people are being rounded up by ICE in warrantless raids, white male pain continues to be a Page 1 story. Farmers and ranchers make up less than 2 percent of the total population in America, but they dominate our cultural and political mythology."
#NewYorkTimes #Trump #Republicans #heartland #Iowa #farmers #gender #race
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"He responded that he didn’t regret his vote, because his vote was about more than his farm or tariffs; it was about God, guns, and abortion. In sum, he’d take the hit because there were bigger issues at stake.
That conversation is part of my first book, God Land, published in 2019. But I think about it often, because it highlights so many of the problems with political reporting. It’s not about the policies; it’s about the priorities."
"This week, the New York Times ran an image of a farmer on the front page. ...
The story is about how Trump’s tariff policies are affecting the very farmers in Iowa who voted for him. ...
In 2017, I asked a farmer how he felt about voting for Trump, even though Republican policies were hurting his business."
~ Lyz Lenz
#NewYorkTimes #Trump #Republicans #heartland #Iowa #farmers #gender #race
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"It’s not food insecurity. It’s hunger. About 16 million of those receiving SNAP benefits are children. Another 8.5 million are elderly, and about 4 million are adults with disabilities."
~ Lucian K. Truscott
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #food #hunger #children #SNAP #USDA #cruelty #elderly #disabled #military
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https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/how-i-learned-that-having-enough
"''They’re predominantly younger families, junior enlisted troops, they’re families who are already struggling financially, and to lose these benefits is really going to put them at risk of severe hardship.' ...
The loss of SNAP benefits comes as military members face uncertainty over pay."
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #food #hunger #children #SNAP #USDA #cruelty #military
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"Thousands of military families won’t receive federal food assistance next month as the government shutdown impacts funding to fight food insecurity. ...
'The military families who rely on SNAP benefits are probably the most vulnerable in our community,' [Eileen] Huck said."
~ Nicholas Slayton
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #food #hunger #children #SNAP #USDA #cruelty #military
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https://taskandpurpose.com/military-life/snap-benefits-troops-food/
"A lack of SNAP benefits can even affect children’s test scores, with a 2018 study from Duke University finding that children on SNAP saw their lowest test scores at the end of the month, when SNAP benefits commonly run out."
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #food #hunger #children #SNAP #USDA #cruelty
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The administration’s intense digital strategy has helped grab Americans’ #attention & #influence discussion around current events, with some of its videos now capturing bigger audiences on social media than mainstream news reports. A White House video claiming #Chicago was “in chaos,” which used footage from other states, has been viewed more than 1.4 million times across Instagram, TikTok & X.
#Trump #propaganda #fascism #authoritarianism #law #immigration #MilitaryState #Gestapo
"Food insecurity can be especially detrimental to children. In a lawsuit filed this week by a group of state officials against the Trump administration, state officials wrote that food insecurity and hunger can cause 'poor concentration, decreased cognitive function, fatigue, depression, and behavioral problems' in children."
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #food #hunger #children #SNAP #USDA #cruelty
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"The USDA’s current position is that these funds 'are not legally available to cover regular benefits' and can only be used to provide nutrition assistance in response to a national disaster or other emergency.
This, however, directly contradicts guidance that the USDA issued on September 30 which explicitly states that contingency funds can be used for regular benefits."
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #food #hunger #children #SNAP #USDA #cruelty
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"The official website of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) claims that on November 1, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will run out of funding. ...
But 'the well' has not 'run dry' on SNAP. The program has a reserve of about $6 billion that could fully fund SNAP for several more weeks."
~ Judd Legum, Rebecca Crosby, and Noel Sims
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #food #hunger #children #SNAP #USDA #cruelty
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#DHS’s video operation now includes in-house photographers & videographers who routinely capture the action of #ICE raids & #protest responses for videos that admin officials have widely promoted online. In a video DHS posted to X this month, a man in a #BorderPatrol flak jacket, his camera held aloft, can be seen jogging to catch up with officers putting a detainee into an SUV.
#Trump #propaganda #fascism #authoritarianism #law #immigration #MilitaryState #Gestapo
""MAGA uses hunger as a political weapon. Starving children is a new low.
Donald Trump, like autocrats around the globe, is weaponizing food supply. He is prepared to let more than 40 Million Americans go hungry to pressure Democrats to capitulate on the shutdown and accede to his plan to snatch health insurance away from tens of millions of people."
~ Jennifer Rubin
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #food #hunger #children #SNAP #USDA #cruelty
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https://contrarian.substack.com/p/maga-uses-hunger-as-a-political-weapon
The Post sent the same details to the White House. Abigail Jackson, a spokeswoman there, did not comment on the errors but said “the Trump administration will continue to highlight the many successes of the president’s agenda through engaging content and banger memes on social media.” [?]
#Trump #propaganda #fascism #authoritarianism #law #MilitaryState #Gestapo
WaPo provided #DHS a detailed list of videos featuring misleading footage. DHS propagandist Tricia McLaughlin did not dispute the errors or explain what had happened but said the videos were a small percentage of the more than 400 that the agency has posted this year. “Violence & rioting against law enforcement is unacceptable regardless of where [or apparently when] it occurs,” she said.
#Trump #propaganda #fascism #authoritarianism #law #MilitaryState #Gestapo
Some videos that purported to show the fiery chaos of #Trump targeted #cities included footage from completely different states. One that claimed to show dramatic examples of past admins’ failures instead featured border crossings & smuggling boats recorded during Trump’s first term.
#propaganda #fascism #authoritarianism #law #MilitaryState #Gestapo
The official’s sound bite about #deportations in #DC played over a clip from May showing detainees on a Coast Guard boat off the coast of Nantucket, the Massachusetts island 400 miles away.
Officials in #Trump’s admin have used similarly misleading footage in at least 6 videos promoting its #immigration agenda shared in the last 3 months, a WaPo analysis found, muddying the #reality of events in viral clips that have been viewed millions of times.
#DHS posted a swaggering montage to social media in August declaring it had triumphed in its takeover of #WashingtonDC. It showed footage of federal agents fighting what a DHS official called a “battle for the soul of our nation” & working “day & night to arrest, detain & deport vicious criminals from our nation’s capital.”
There was one problem. Several of the clips had been recorded during unrelated operations months earlier, in Los Angeles & West Palm Beach, Florida.
Ya don’t say?
#Trump admin uses misleading videos to portray chaos, push #deportations
Official videos purporting to show the triumph of recent #immigration operations used footage that was months old or recorded thousands of miles away, a Washington Post analysis found.
#propaganda #fascism #authoritarianism #law #MilitaryState #Gestapo
"... George Lakoff is an authority on the #nature and #power of
#frames – the worldviews that we activate...
..the #words and #metaphors we choose. As he has documented over
many decades, we are unlikely to win a #debate if we try to do
so while still using our opponent’s #frames.
The title of his book, Don’t Think of an Elephant, makes this
very point because it immediately makes you think of a you know
what."
- Excerpt written by Kate Raeworth about #Degrowth as a word and
#GeorgeLakoff #cognitive #scientist
"Negative frames don’t win." #Quote
https://web.archive.org/web/20210310004836/http://oxfamblogs.org
/fp2p/why-degrowth-has-out-grown-its-own-name-guest-post-by-
kate-raworth/
#FreeSchool #Quotes #KateRaeworth #Degrowth
#Fascism #Fascist #Trump #Musk + #AltText
The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals will reconsider #Oregon's fight to block the #Trump admin's deployment of #NationalGuard troops into the state against its wishes.
An appeals court panel ruled 2-1 this month to allow the deployment. The court said Tuesday it would hear the case “en banc,” meaning all active judges on the #9thCircuit will rehear it.
#law #military #PosseComitatusAct
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/appeals-court-will-reconsider-whether-allow-trump-deploy-national-guar-rcna240398
Seabright is the 3rd judge in recent weeks to disqualify top prosecutors appointed by #PamBondi to temporarily fill vacant positions in key federal offices, including those overseeing federal prosecutions in #NewJersey, #Nevada & now the #LosAngeles area. And the rulings may inform a 4th effort — by former #FBI Director #JamesComey & #NYAG #LetitiaJames — to disqualify #LindseyHalligan, the #Trump backed prosecutor in #Virginia who recently secured their indictments.
Essayli did not address another possibility: Under federal #law, the judges of the Central District of #California could appoint some other attorney to fill the #USattorney post until #Trump can get a nominee confirmed to the post. Federal law empowers judges to fill vacancies in the US.attorney’s post after the expiration of an interim US attorney’s tenure.
“Simply stated: Essayli unlawfully assumed the role of Acting United States Attorney for the Central District of California,” Seabright concluded. “Essayli may not perform the functions & duties of the United States Attorney … He is disqualified from serving in that role.”
#BillEssayli posted on X that the ruling permits him to continue serving as the highest-ranking official in the office he oversaw, even if he can’t hold the title of #USattorney.
“Nothing is changing,” he wrote.
Judge rules #Trump’s #LA federal prosecutor was illegally appointed
The ruling marks the 3rd time in recent weeks that judges have disqualified Trump’s federal prosecutors in temporary positions.
#BillEssayli, Trump’s pick in April to temporarily lead the #USAttorney’s Office for the Central District of #California, should have departed the post by July 31 under a 120-day limit imposed by federal #law, US District Judge J. Michael Seabright concluded.
Andrea Soria, whose daughter plays at Luna y Cielo, overheard her 6-year-old whisper to her dolls: “We have to be good or ICE will get us,” referring to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“These kids are traumatized,” Aguirre-Ávalos said. “Even if ICE stops doing what they’re doing right now, people are going to be traumatized. The damage is already done.”
#law #Chicago #Trump #immigration #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #MilitaryState
The SUV eventually drove away, the cloud of smoke cleared, and parents arrived. “What’s happening?” a girl cried, over and over.
Kucich’s son, who is white, now worries about his nanny, a U.S. citizen from Guatemala. He asks where she is and when she’s coming. He jumps at the sound of sirens. His mother called their pediatrician for a therapist referral.
#law #Chicago #Trump #immigration #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #MilitaryState
Owner Vanessa Aguirre-Ávalos ran outside to see what was happening, as the children’s nannies hustled them to a back room. Aguirre-Ávalos is a citizen; the nannies, Hispanic grandmothers, are citizens or are legally allowed to work in the U.S.
Still, they were terrified. One begged Aguirre-Ávalos: If they take me, please make sure the children get home safe.
#law #Chicago #Trump #immigration #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #MilitaryState
Kucich’s son was a half-block away, having lunch in the window of Luna y Cielo Play Cafe, where #children learn Spanish as they play with pretend food & toy cars. His nanny takes him there most days. He made his best friends at the cafe, & his little brother took his first steps there.
#law #Chicago #Trump #immigration #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #MilitaryState
Suddenly, #TearGas canisters flew from the window of the SUV.
The cloud of gas rose, first white, then green, & the street exploded into pandemonium. Some people ran. Others shouted at agents to leave. Sirens screamed toward them. Parents blew through stop signs & drove on curbs to reach their #children.
#law #Chicago #Trump #immigration #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #MilitaryState
Parents, teachers & caregivers have been grappling ever since with how to explain to children what they’d seen: how much to tell them so they know enough to stay safe, but not too much to rob them of their childhood. A toddler shouldn’t know what a #TearGas canister is, Kucich said.
“I don’t know how to explain this to my kids.”
#law #Chicago #Trump #immigration #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #MilitaryState
She abandoned her grocery cart & went as fast as she could to her toddler & his 14-month-old brother, who, on that warm October Friday, were among the hundreds of #Chicago #children caught suddenly in the turmoil of the #Trump admin’s #immigration crackdown.
#law #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #MilitaryState
#Chicago's #children are getting caught in the chaos of #Trump’s #immigration crackdowns
The 2-year-old boy was so frightened, he stuttered.
“Mommy, mommy, mommy,” he repeated, clinging to her.
His mother, Molly Kucich, had been grocery shopping when her husband called, panicking. She heard “immigration raid.” Then: “tear gas.”
#law #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #MilitaryState
https://apnews.com/article/chicago-immigration-trump-crackdown-school-children-c9a19835cac13c0fbbebcc9f4bf4f0a2?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-28-Immigration+and+kids
The #Trump family raked in more than $800 million from sales of #crypto assets in the first half of 2025 alone, a Reuters examination found, on top of potentially billions more in unrealized “on paper” gains. Much of that cash has come from #foreign sources as Donald Trump's sons have touted their business on an international investor roadshow.
#law #emoluments
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/inside-trump-familys-global-crypto-cash-machine-2025-10-28/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
congratulations americans, you will soon be able to bet on the outcome of the 2026 elections at a business operated by an infernal conglomeration of the trump family and an organized crime adjacent crypto exchange (Crypto[.]com) whose assets were seized by the Bank of #Lithuania for #moneylaundering for #Putin a few years ago.
what could go wrong?
* Fortune: https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/10/28/trump-media-prediction-markets-crypto/
* Crypto Dot Con?: https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/are-cryptocom-and-binances-european
#election #predictionmarkets #uspol #trump #CryptoCom #crypto #cryptocurrency #eupol #russia #ukraineWar #ukraine #Kalshi #polymarket
The White House in July also fired #Biden appointees from the National Capital Planning Commission, another #UrbanPlanning agency that is required to review external construction projects at the White House. The 12-member board is now led by a majority of #Trump allies, including its chairman, Trump staff secretary Will Scharf.
#law #art #architecture #HistoricLandmark #oversight #accountability
Their termination comes as the White House gears up to implement several #Trump construction projects, including his planned $300 million White House #ballroom, & seeks to install allies on key review boards.
The White House did not immediately respond to questions about its termination of #CommissionOnFineArts members.
#law #art #architecture #HistoricLandmark #oversight #accountability
The White House on Tuesday fired ALL 6 members of the #CommissionOfFineArts, an #independent #FederalAgency that was expected to review some of #Trump’s construction projects, including his planned triumphal arch in Washington.
“On behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position as a member of the Commission on Fine Arts is terminated, effective immediately,” reads an email reviewed by WaPo that was sent to one of the commissioners by a White House staffer.
White House fires #ArtsCommission expected to review #Trump construction projects
The moves come as Trump pursues efforts to build a White House #ballroom & a triumphal arch in Washington.
#law #art #architecture #HistoricLandmark #oversight #accountability
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/28/trump-arts-commission-firings-ballroom-arch/
#Fascism and calling people #Fascist are the new trendy trend and stimulating people...
(Serious post / WORK IN PROGRESS)
And it's fine until everyone looses track of what it is and what they are doing using it too quickly in a rather crude and time-wasting way theat encourages more people to do the same... even to avoid doing the hard work of using #positives loving people just a,,, little... bit... more...?
That's it for short version.... below is extra.
Just calling people names again.
#NameCalling / #Haters as a #lifestyle.
And a kind of #moral #porn or confirmation #bias (if I have it right). People want to see more #fascism and point and prod at anything #fascistic - probably from no other better way and not learning how to do something better to prevent these things...It's too clever / high bar to do tht (I admit not easy at all).
Almost like going on a Trump hashtag to check out the latest bad stuff....
Is that you?
Example to show how I'm serious and how serious it is via examples:
BEFORE people got off TV because of all the crap
Internet downloads was see as better to choose some content.
AFTER / Now Internet is worse than TV (it's InternetTV) tracking you, internet-fed adverts, data mining, streaming quality = MASSIVE DATA waste, companies gaining profile on you etc)
➡️ WE DIDN'T SEE THE CHANGE OR SEE THIS LIST ENOUGH
(Not saying it's all bad but over time we maybe don't see it as clearly to becoming fascist ourselves from what we use, who is behind it or what we think is ok! ). We just kept ignoring or clicking ok without reading...
Back to main point:
Now people are calling other fascist or in group others really quickly as fascist when it can be just how they feel someone or something is ignoring things (especially if they don't like it).
I don't mean those fascists that self-identify (at least they are honest) but those that aren't really hierarchical governmental types but people #hammer them (and themselves) as it turns towards themselves...
A bit like calling people a terrorist and it's just for hitting their dog (bad example but terrorist is totally different)
#Left or #Leftism (I have to be careful also) seem TOO EAGER to label and they are often a bit #clueless themselves...
Another example - sayign "spam" for things that are not really:
Calling things #spam when they are not (people don't understand what spam is and calling someone messaging them sincerely with differing options "spam").
Sure some things how BOTH TRUTH's like it's a bit spammy but sincerely asking people to chat is not dishonest or trying to get their credit cards - but if you always assume or don't have ways to check people out - you end up with ALL PEOPLE DISTRUSTING PEOPLE without legitimate way to get themselves out of their own holes they end up digging or back against the wall when nobody is blocking them from getting out but themselves!
Stop looking at #Trump #Elon etc and start personally looking for more acknowledgment and co-creation from each other....
Start #Trust to grow more trust else you up with... [hey I'm not going to say it the first word of this post!]
see my hashtag on how to try a bit of trust...
#FreeSchool (non-commercial)
@GryphonSK
I realise this response is not exactly for the picture in your post (which I agree with) but basically this post shows how WE are capitalists also... so even if I needed to make a more extreme example, the principles are all the same...
Basically we became #Capitalism (from born into over the generations)
We are #Capitalists most of us (enough of us) now we are born into over the generations and can make a #change - and do have a say EVEN IF it's just between #ourselves.
So as much as we hate it want to #kill it - this actually means killing ourselves - so better to think of reducing it WHILE testing new ways of #humanity....
But this isn't as easy an idea as kill capitalism or even the weak forms without again finding ways to support and even talk to each other #DAILY and know it will get us anywhere we like that way! (Nope!.... for some people it's capitalism and not them forgetting to do the #human work). #TOPTIPS *wink*
P.S
It's true Capitalists and ownership (Even of people by employment) is very pervasive and exist - but still we a mini-capitalist that could all do the similar ways, but for sharing or at least positive spreading. No more spreading #Trump and #Elon news please - you're doing #free work for them and not free stuff for us / me / yourself !
"Reuters’ calculations were reviewed by half a dozen crypto and real estate experts and a certified accountant who has studied the U.S. Internal Revenue Service’s approach to crypto."
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger #groceries #children #fascism #EconomicElites #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom #crypto
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