#Trump Officials Accused of Mob Tactics to Kill a #Climate Measure

Nations were poised to approve the first fee on #pollution from #ships. That’s when the Trump admin began the #threats.

Among other threats from US officials, Secretary of #State #MarcoRubio personally called officials in several countries to threaten financial penalties & other punishments if they continued to support the ship pollution agreement.

#MafiaState #law #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/climate/trump-climate-international-bullying.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

This spring, Judge Matsumoto oversaw a revocation hearing for Braun during which a former live-in #nanny testified about an incident on Feb. 15 in which Braun entered her room & put her into a headlock. Then, she said, Braun moved her hand over his bare genitals & groped her breasts.

#law #ChildAbuse #SexualAssault #RapeCulture #ViolenceAgainstWomen #FelonsOfAFeather #Trump #pardons #criminal #felon47

After Braun was released, his bad behavior resumed, with a flurry of disturbing transgressions this year, prosecutors said.

Braun remained free after each. Only in April, after he was charged with assaulting the #child, was he brought before Judge Matsumoto on charges of violating his supervised release. She ordered him detained.

#law #ChildAbuse #SexualAssault #RapeCulture #ViolenceAgainstWomen #FelonsOfAFeather #Trump #pardons #criminal #felon47

…Braun’s troubles began more than 15 years ago…. Not until May 2019 was Braun was sentenced by Judge Matsumoto to 10 years in prison; he reported in 2020. #Trump commuted his sentence just before leaving the presidency after Braun’s family had hired the lawyer #AlanDershowitz, Trump’s ally & lawyer [also #JeffreyEpstein] at the time, to lobby on his behalf.

#law #ChildAbuse #SexualAssault #RapeCulture #ViolenceAgainstWomen #FelonsOfAFeather #Trump #pardons #criminal #felon47

The Braun case demonstrates how #Trump has eschewed a longstanding #DOJ process of formally reviewing clemency applications, instead handing out pardons & commutations in a freewheeling manner unlike any previous president. He has helped supporters, comparing their prosecutions to the *witch hunts* he says were waged against him [when a rich white male is held accountable].

#law #ChildAbuse #SexualAssault #RapeCulture #ViolenceAgainstWomen #FelonsOfAFeather #pardons #criminal #felon47

On Monday, Judge Matsumoto gave Braun 27 months, but he will have to serve only 20, because he was given credit for previous time in custody this year. The judge also said he must serve 3½ years of supervised release after his sentence, & undergo 6 months of residential treatment for drug abuse & mental illness.

#law #ChildAbuse #SexualAssault #RapeCulture #ViolenceAgainstWomen #FelonsOfAFeather #Trump #pardons #criminal #felon47

Holy shit! This muther f⁕⚠︎er was also accused of assaulting a 3-year-old #child!!, & was continuing to make usurious loans to struggling small businesses. Judge Kiyo A. Matsumoto of Federal District Court in Brooklyn found this year that he had violated the terms of his supervised release, & federal prosecutors asked that the judge sentence him to 5 years in #prison.

#law #ChildAbuse #SexualAssault #RapeCulture #ViolenceAgainstWomen #FelonsOfAFeather #Trump #pardons #criminal #felon47

The sentencing of the man, Jonathan Braun, who had a long history of #violence & in 2011 pleaded #guilty to #DrugTrafficking & #MoneyLaundering, demonstrates how #Trump’s handling of #pardons & #commutations has allowed some convicts to return to criminality.

#law #SexualAssault #RapeCulture #ViolenceAgainstWomen #FelonsOfAFeather #pardons #criminal #felon47

Braun, whose family used a connection to Trump’s son-in-law, #JaredKushner, to obtain the commutation in Jan 2021, is at least the 8th #convict to whom #Trump granted #clemency during his 1st term who has since been charged with a #crime. Several others pardoned more recently after being convicted of #crimes committed during the #Jan6, 2021, #insurrection have also run into trouble with the #law.

#SexualAssault #RapeCulture #ViolenceAgainstWomen #FelonsOfAFeather #pardons #criminal #felon47

POS just doesn’t cover this #rich #white #male #privilege

#Felon #Freed by #Trump Is Sentenced Again, This Time to 27 Months

A Brooklyn federal judge found that Jonathan Braun had violated the rules of his release by sexually assaulting a #nanny, swinging an IV pole at a #nurse, threatening a congregant at his #synagogue, & dodging #tolls in his Lamborghini & Ferrari.

#law #SexualAssault #RapeCulture #ViolenceAgainstWomen #FelonsOfAFeather #pardons #criminal #felon47
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/nyregion/jonathan-braun-resentencing.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

The case, a potential blockbuster that asks #SCOTUS to determine the meaning of “Election Day,” adds another high-profile fight over elections & #VotingRights to the court’s term. Already, the court’s docket includes a lawsuit over who can sue to challenge #Illinois’ mail-in ballot rules & a battle over the #Louisiana congressional district map that could gut a remaining pillar of the #VRA.

#law #ElectionLaw #Trump #BigLie #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt

#SCOTUS said Monday that it would hear a challenge to #Mississippi’s counting of #mail-in #ballots received after Election Day, a case that could upend mail-in ballot rules in dozens of #states, creating chaos leading up to the 2026 #elections.

#VotingRights #VRA #law #ElectionLaw #Trump #BigLie #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt

#SCOTUS to Hear Major Challenge to #Mail In #Ballot Laws

The justices agreed to hear a challenge to #Mississippi’s #law, a case that could upend similar measures in dozens of #states before the 2026 #election.

#ElectionLaw #VotingRights #VRA #Trump #BigLie #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/us/politics/supreme-court-mail-ballots-mississippi.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Allegations against #FederalReserve Governor #LisaCook, which she denies, prompted #Trump to try to remove her from the central bank. The #DOJ has brought charges of mortgage fraud against #NYAG #LetitiaJames. James also denies the accusations & has pleaded not guilty.

#BillPulte has also remained close with Trump, at one point handing him a draft letter to fire Fed Chair #JeromePowell, whom Pulte repeatedly attacks on social media for not lowering interest rates.

#law #ethics #FHFA

#Housing official #BillPulte fired #ethics workers who were looking into his ally

The actions have also sowed uncertainty & undermined confidence in Pulte across the #mortgage industry.

…Relatively unknown before joining the #Trump admin, Pulte has built tremendous influence since he was sworn in in March. He has also raised unproven claims of mortgage fraud against several of Trump’s perceived enemies.

#law #FHFA
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/10/bill-pulte-fannie-mae-firing-ethics/

"What these votes should tell us, more than anything, is that these Democrats are not willing to fight for us, or to even fight for things that moderates and independents and even freaking Marjorie Taylor Greene want.

They’re not willing to do anything at all, and therefore must be replaced by those who will."

~ Wonkette

#Democrats #shutdown #Trump #healthcare
/12

https://www.wonkette.com/p/caving-democrats-spit-in-americas

"The American people just spoke loudly at the ballot box. They understand what’s at stake and are willing to endure temporary hardship to stop an authoritarian regime. Capitulating now doesn’t ease suffering, but rather it prolongs it. It tells Trump and his enablers that intimidation works."

~ Ben Meiselas

#Democrats #shutdown #Trump #healthcare
/11

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/monday-afternoon-breaking-news-updates

"The way it’s going to work is they’re going to say, 'Okay, these narco traffickers are terrorists. Oh, the immigrants are terrorists. Anyone protesting ICE now is a terrorist. If you’re against us blowing up boats without any legal justification or evidence, or if you are against ICE brutalizing little kids, you are a terrorist. The Democratic Party are terrorists.' So they’re trying to illegalize the opposition."

#Trump #fascism #coup
/2

Al Letson asks Jason Stanley if the US is living through a coup under Trump. Stanley replies:

"Let’s look at what’s happening with the boats that they’re blowing up and now in the Pacific, first in the Caribbean, now in the Pacific, they’re just simply assassinating people for no reason whatsoever. It’s completely illegal. In fact, what it now means is that Trump could just kill anyone anywhere just by saying they’re a terrorist."

#Trump #fascism #coup
/1

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/jason-stanley-fascism-trump-history/

"Symone Sanders got it immediately: 'The hostage taking worked.' That’s the lesson Trump learned last night. That’s why Chris Murphy is right to fear Trump gets stronger, not weaker. When you teach authoritarians that threatening to hurt people produces Democratic capitulation, you haven’t minimized damage—you’ve guaranteed more hostage situations."

~ Mike Brock

#Democrats #shutdown #Trump #healthcare
/10

https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/chuck-schumer-doesnt-know-what-time

"Democrats appear headed into another round of internal debate over strategy, priorities, and the path forward. Whether this flare-up becomes a brief family argument or a lasting schism may depend on what happens in the next few days on the House floor."

~ Aaron Parnas

#Democrats #shutdown #Trump #healthcare
/9

https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/breaking-mike-johnson-will-swear

"Perhaps most infuriating is the betrayal of the millions and millions of Democrats who counted on a solid opposition to Trump and his congressional stooges."

~ Mark Mansour

#Democrats #shutdown #Trump #healthcare
/8

https://mmansour.substack.com/p/betrayal-and-stupidity

Marcy Wheeler thinks the Democrats caved too soon:

"With one more week, Trump would have owned far more of the responsibility for SNAP and flight cutbacks."

#Democrats #shutdown #Trump #healthcare
/7

https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/10/eight-senate-dems-caved-and-caved-too-early/

(continued from /2)

"they stop believing in the tenets of evangelical Christianity, which, over past several decades, has set itself apart theologically, culturally, and politically and has little room for internal dissent. White evangelicalism is more than a faith, it’s an identity and a tribe."

#Trump #Republicans #WhiteEvangelicals #exvangelicals
/3

"Most exvangelicals, as former white evangelicals have come to be known, are probably under 40, according to scant data available. …

According to PRRI, most people leave their religions simply because they stop believing in its teachings. For many exvangelicals, including this group, they don’t stop believing in the tenets of Christianity,"

#Trump #Republicans #WhiteEvangelicals #exvangelicals
/2

"Trump’s capture of the white evangelical movement is simply one particularly dramatic chapter in the longer saga of of its decline over the last 20 years, as millions of evangelicals have given voice and action to the discontent and dissonance that has lived in many hearts and minds for longer than that."

Holly Berkley Fletcher

#Trump #Republicans #WhiteEvangelicals #exvangelicals
/1

https://hollyberkleyfletcher.substack.com/p/crossing-the-football-field

#Trump admin renews #SCOTUS appeal to keep full #SNAP payments frozen

The request is the latest in a flurry of legal activity over how a program that helps buy groceries for 42 million Americans should proceed during the historic US govt #shutdown. Lower courts have ruled that the govt must keep FULL payments flowing, & SCOTUS asked the admin to respond after an appeals court ruled against it again late Sunday.

#law #Plutocracy #hunger #poverty #WealthGap #FoodStamps
https://apnews.com/article/snap-food-benefits-trump-government-shutdown-c633d646f08f395e7d157d1145eaf727?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-10-Breaking+News

…#RFKJr himself did not attend the event, but his wife, the actor #CherylHines, received loud applause at a dinner Saturday night & headlined a roster of *luminaries* of what supporters call the “medical freedom” movement: Florida’s top #health ofcl who recently said the state would move to end most #school #vaccine mandates, along with an array of *physicians* & activists who have been discredited by mainstream #medicine.

#law #science #health #ConspiracyTheories #eugenics #Trump

A top #RFKJr ally rallied anti-#vaccine activists over the wknd with an exhortation to stay strong in the face of attacks by the govt, media & mainstream #medical figures.

“God is an anti-vaxxer, & he needs you to speak up,” said Del Bigtree, a fmr top RFKJr political adviser & head of the #antivax group Informed Consent Action Network. He urged the #HHS secy’s supporters to press their fight at a weekend-long celebration of their newfound Washington influence.

#law #science #eugenics #Trump

People are fucking crazy

‘God is an anti-vaxxer’: Inside the conference celebrating #RFKJr.’s rise

Eliminating the #childhood #vaccine schedule is among the goals for [formerly] fringe activists who now claim Washington power.

#law #science #medicine #health #ConspiracyTheories #eugenics #Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/11/10/rfk-anti-vaccine-mandates-health-freedom/

"What’s most perplexing about the decision of these eight caucusing Democrats to fold now is the timing.

According to the grisly political scoring of the shutdown blame game, the Democrats’ position was strengthening, not weakening. ...

But I can’t help feeling like the biggest takeaway from all this is that Donald Trump learns another lesson in the virtues of brazening it out."

~ Andrew Egger

#Democrats #shutdown #Trump #healthcare
/6

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/dems-reward-the-hostage-taker-republicans-trump-shutdown-snap-furlough-backpay-aca-subsidie

& [for once] his ask was reasonable. It makes no sense for #Congress to require a supermajority vote to allow the govt to stay open.

The outcome would have been a win for #Democrats. The #Senate would get fairer & more reasonable rules. Dems would not find themselves in the position of being asked to supply votes for a spending deal #Trump feels free to violate. And the next time Dems get control of govt but fewer than 60 Senate votes, they would have an easier time passing their agenda.

#Democrats had succeeded in drawing news coverage to #healthcare, & had even baited #Republicans into floating more of their toxic & radical ideas for changing the system.

The likeliest way out of the impasse wasn’t that Republicans would make concessions on the #ACA, but rather that they would decide to end the #filibuster, changing #Senate rules to block minority parties from shutting down the govt. #Trump had demanded Republican senators do this….

#BadPolitics #Medicaid #HealthInsurance

Trump’s approval ratings have fallen sharply during the #shutdown. Indeed, #Trump himself attributed #Republicans’ surprisingly dismal performance in Tuesday’s #elections to the shutdown.

What’s more, #Democrats’ goal during the shutdown was to draw more public attention to #healthcare, one of their strongest issues, & one where Republicans are engineering a social catastrophe.

#BadPolitics #Congress #ACA #Medicaid #HealthInsurance

The likely reason is that #Trump has comported himself unlike any other president, flaunting his impunity in ways both important (refusing to fund programs authorized by #Congress) & visible (a unilateral demolition of the #EastWing). He hosted a decadent “Great Gatsby” Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago hours before millions of Americans lost #FoodStamps.

#BadPolitics #Congress #Democrats #ACA #Medicaid #healthcare #HealthInsurance

The reason shutdowns always fail is that the public eventually turns against the party responsible, applying more & more heat until its most vulnerable members feel compelled to give in. Presidents have little reason to give concessions to end shutdowns, because the bulk of the political pain is typically felt by their congressional adversaries.

That did not happen this time. Polls found that the public narrowly but consistently placed the blame on #Trump & his allies, not #Democrats.

#GiftArticle

#Senate #Democrats Just Made a Huge Mistake

The #shutdown was hurting #Trump.
Ending it helps him.

#BadPolitics #Congress #ACA #healthcare #HealthInsurance #Medicaid
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2025/11/democrats-shutdown-mistake/684878/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxY0ek1fYWjjq_xeucJTGWi8

"Election Day not only showed that Democrats had payed [sic] no price for the shutdown. It also confirmed the already abundant evidence that it has been deeply damaging for Donald Trump. But even with all this, I think the overall situation and outcome is basically fine."

#Democrats #shutdown #Trump #healthcare
/5

"I have what I suspect is a somewhat counterintuitive take on the deal Senate Democrats’ Team Cave made with the Republican Senate caucus tonight. This is an embarrassing deal, a deal to basically settle for nothing. It’s particularly galling since it comes only days after the Democrats crushed Republicans across the country."

~ Josh Marshall

#Democrats #shutdown #Trump #healthcare
/4

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-quick-take-on-team-caves-big-win

"A deal that doesn't reduce health care costs is a betrayal of millions of Americans counting on Democrats to fight for them.

Republicans want health care cuts.

Accepting nothing but a pinky promise from Republicans isn't a compromise — it's capitulation.

Millions of families would pay the price."

~ Greg Casar quoted by Aaron Parnas

#Democrats #shutdown #Trump #healthcare
/3

https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/important-evening-news-update-5d3

"How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted."

~ Dan Sinker

#Democrats #shutdown #Trump #healthcare
/2

https://bsky.app/profile/dansinker.com/post/3m5alehcxak2f

"Well, no one can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory like the Democrats."

~ Dan Pfeiffer

#Democrats #shutdown #Trump #healthcare
/1

https://www.messageboxnews.com/p/thoughts-on-democrats-shutdown-surrender

"In an announcement that caused shock within the corporation, Davie said his departure was 'entirely my decision' and it comes as the BBC prepares to apologise for the way it edited a Trump speech.

Deborah Turness, the head of BBC News, has also resigned."

#BBC #Trump #Gaza #trans
/2

"Tim Davie, the BBC’s director general, and the head of BBC News have resigned after a former adviser to the corporation accused it of 'serious and systemic' bias in its coverage of issues including Donald Trump, Gaza and trans rights."

~ Michael Savage

#BBC #Trump #Gaza #trans
/1

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/nov/09/tim-davie-expected-to-resign-bbc-director-general

"Amid the fight over SNAP during the longest government shutdown in history, President Donald J. Trump spent the weekend at Mar-a-Lago, where he hosted another extravagant dinner party complete with scallops, beef filet, and ice sculptures."

#Trump #SNAP #food #hunger #children #MaraLago #GildedAge #EconomicElites #cruelty #shutdown
/4

'Yikes,' economic editor at The Bulwark Catherine Rampell wrote. 'Astonishing how hard this administration is working to keep people hungry. It’s clear they are trying [to] maximize public suffering, in hopes of getting people to blame Dem[ocrat]s for that suffering. But it’s transparently the White House working overtime to keep the suffering going!'”

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #SNAP #food #hunger #children #MaraLago #GildedAge #EconomicElites #cruelty
/3

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-9-2025

"As Trump’s approval rating sinks to a dismal 37% this week, he posted that he wants to give everyone $2,000 in free money: 'People that are against Tariffs are FOOLS! We are taking in Trillions of Dollars and will soon begin paying down our ENORMOUS DEBT, $37 Trillion."

~ Ron Filipkowski

#Trump #tariffs #economy #affordability #groceries #prices #ApprovalRating
/1

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-politics-bulletin-246-11925

"A dividend of at least $2000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone.'

… I think this is the 5th or 6th time he’s posted about giving people checks out of tariff revenue. But the amount goes up each time."

#Trump #tariffs #economy #affordability #groceries #prices #ApprovalRating
/2

#Greed

#BBC News said on Monday the broadcaster had received a letter from U.S. President Donald #Trump threatening legal action over the edit of a documentary broadcast a week before the #US presidential election.

#GMAFB #law #Extortion #MafiaState #journalism
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/bbc-news-says-it-received-legal-threat-trump-over-speech-edit-2025-11-10/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

Typical for the Trump regime, they can't be trusted.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/world/europe/kash-patel-fbi-mi5.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0E8.qG1S.5Dh-qmi0hDG2&smid=url-share
#Trump #kashpatel #FBI #MI5 #intelligence