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The #Trump admin has carried out more than a dozen strikes since Sept on vessels near #Venezuela’s coast &, more recently, in the eastern #Pacific, killing >70 people,…as it escalates a #military buildup in the #Caribbean Sea.
The admin has alleged, WITHOUT EVIDENCE, that the boats it bombed were transporting drugs, but foreign leaders, members of Congress, legal experts & family members of those killed have called for proof.
#law #murder #ExtrajudicialKillings #DueProcess #WarPowers #Congress
The #Trump admin again strikes alleged drug-carrying vessels in #Pacific, killing 6
The US struck 2 alleged drug-carrying vessels in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Sunday, killing 6 people on board, #Defense Secy #PeteHegseth said Monday, as calls mount for investigations into the strikes.
#law #murder #ExtrajudicialKillings #DueProcess #WarPowers #Congress
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-strikes-alleged-drug-carrying-vessels-eastern-pacific-killing-six-2025-11-10/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
The democratic party in the US is in crisis. But i am afraid people like Schumer are in denial about this. It is extremely bad timing considering that for resisting an autocrat/fascist leader like Trump you need a strong democratic opposition which is totally absent at the moment. Meanwhile destruction of government, rule of law, democracy in the US continues. Trump's corrupt regime rules. People suffer.
#USA #Trump #Democrats #Shutdown #politics #politics #schumer
Update
#Trump admin CANNOT withhold full #funding for #food #aid, US appeals court rules
A federal appeals court late on Sunday allowed a judge's order to stand that directs Trump's admin to FULLY fund this month's #SNAP benefits for 42 million #LowIncome Americans during the ongoing US government shutdown.
#law #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #Aristocracy #Plutocracy #hunger #poverty #WealthGap #FoodStamps #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #HealthInequity #EconomicDiscrimination #USpol
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-cannot-withhold-4-billion-food-aid-us-appeals-court-rules-2025-11-10/
Several #states also investigated the #FakeElectors conspiracy, with some filing charges although #criminal charges in at least one state were dismissed.
Trump's pardons include 77 people but could include others not named, the document said. Presidential #pardons only apply to federal charges, & do not apply to state cases.
The list includes #ChristinaBobb, #JohnEastman, #BorisEpshteyn, among others. The pardon does not apply to #Trump, acc/to the document [why would it? He’s above the #law].
#PARDONS INCLUDE AT
LEAST 77 PEOPLE
The #DOJ had been investigating a conspiracy by #Trump & his supporters to submit alternative slates of state electors to reverse President Joe #Biden's victory in the #2020election.
Trump was indicted over the conspiracy to seek #FakeElectors backing his false claims that he won in 2020, but the case was dismissed after last year's election as prosecutors cited DOJ policy against prosecuting a sitting president.
Outrageous. Expected. Despicable.
#Trump has pardoned dozens of allies accused of trying to overturn his 2020 election loss, including #RudyGiuliani, #MarkMeadows, #JeffreyClark & #SidneyPowell, a top #DOJ official said Monday.
Trump, in a proclamation dated on Friday, said the move would end "a grave national injustice" & "continue the process of national reconciliation”
#law #SeditiousConspiracy #insurrection #coup #propaganda #gaslighting #whitewashing #history
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-pardons-allies-accused-seeking-overturn-his-2020-election-loss-2025-11-10/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
Democrats blinked, are looking extremely weak. They have lost all credibilty. What more must an autocrat do to really unite the democrats?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/10/us-government-shutdown-update-senate-funding-bill
#usa #politics #democrats #trump #shutdown
@gabriel Ah ok, maybe I did miss something... The slaughter is and has always been there in my eyes (as the #economic #warfare / #financial #war as it's own slaughter / blood drain / siphoning) but people don't always see as clear or feel it even though their tired / abused etc.
I see that as worse but yes it's ALL bad (not demoting or comparing it though financial encapsulates it all). It's all continuing from World Wars and before... easy to see what they were doing and willing to do only 100years back and watching history! So it's about what we can grow today...
#TLDR.... You're one of the good one's -
So it's not even about bleaker or worse as you say in reply - it's almost just about finding the best of us and pedal to the metal with those with whatever they care about
Let's chat more in a #Jitsi sometime also even around these points or what we can do something about....
THE REST IS OPTIONAL
We did not get much further in the mind so this is why direct-education is the better #directaction as I see it - not just saving weak (unless I see how and then believe me I'll do it).
The more #positive and what propels us in the now is in a lot of ways it's own power even without trying hard so I'm against things or demoting other ways - just I'll get round to all like a hopping rabbit that seemingly doesn't care unless you see it's weaving things and ready to use it later).
The slaughter of weak or fragile is MUCH is something I can't see exactly what to do about right now so more it's about weaving other things and keeping it in mind even though not really seeing a way now or no people to show me either (I always think about things like this of course).
To find a way is through education / talking together and drilling those mines of thought and existing passions I think.
EASY!
Because if education doesn't catch up then that's really where we lose #quality people (that's what we really #need).
Saving people would help in some in cases quickly and immediately #reverts back to the very same bad after saving... It's harsh but if you've seen enough movies it's like saving the baby more than saving the other adult member who have better skills / own resources already.
Imagine the impossible #brucewillis #melgibson movies :)
We should not go for babies directly or just get to them after we get to ourselves towards getting a bit better / tooled up individuals, and forming as a #team somewhat first (not even waiting for #mass or #criticalmass already even though that is made from small #teams / #friendships then #federating properly).
Just 2 a time - I'll honestly take me and you Gabe occasionally and give you best I have got.
Don't mind!
But alone... or with baby / too much guilt - not really.
Pairing 2 + 2 + 2 would work... we can #increment #trust...
But who is thinking like this ? ❓
⬆️ Honest #Question ⬆️
#TLDR.... after that answer !
You're one of the good one's -
so it's not even about bleaker or worse as you say in reply - it's almost just about finding the best of us and pedal to the metal with those with whatever they care about (assisting morally / technically) even without 'all-in' trust together... but starting to do that is massive... it's #cohesion ... very under-estimated even though we have all these range of people and passions - all mostly alone!
READ MORE IF YOU WANT
TOTALLY OPTIONAL - ABOVE IS ENOUGH!
So the rest here on #Fediverse are so-so (so far) and #lukewarm / never serious to change... because they don't even reply or reply in short or many things my attempts for years (all my life say) - fine. And those that can I've rolled with... made some great stuff - great !
Just something we can #measure and #moveon from - I could beg them again / show them / prove it but I have to take their answer and whole demeanor and position on it... and find others or help create those willing to reinvent life somewhat as a relationship / friendship instead of hating things.
Venting, fine,
Time spent on #Trump and #Musk hashtags, fine
(again you can measure all this and watch profiles as they say "I don't have time" or even portray a kind of friendliness but can't do it / fall into holes themselves after 3rd reply as if internet isn't distant and we have to fill in the gaps or dead air )
#WillPower - Just the #Will is needed to push past all that doubt (again measurably) and live and breath what we need to look for as growth.
Can they reply? Y/N ❓
Can they do 2nd reply? ❓
No... ? Maybe move on after a reminder... or accept short replies as the real answer and real politics (which is "I don't want to say no but I'm not going to even bother getting into it or just one line back about each thing - I'll just skip it all instead"...
Many good people literally do that - "don't have time" is a big cover up - unfortunately too easy not to see online talking about presidents not even in their own country! Not doing much to create or repair #friendship.
So for time for betterment and tiem for others or whatever it is, we can do that and not be just watching things as entertainment or triggers - #participation
People who accept they have their #compartmentalised #tech / #academia / ... job and that's the main. The are too satisfied. The dissatisfaction should be yelling within them to say "fine I'll try with anyone else but I'm not letting #system or #putin or #trump get away with this separation).
I've asked even people setting up tech for charity and the like and asked them (in person) about participating - doing circles / betterment... and IT'S NO! (like I rephrased the question and it was like Tech-only even though REALLY NICE guys but shows the face doesn't have to be bad).
They too need to do a hell of a lot more than install tech and fuck off leaving people!
I wrote a lot more Gabe but I hope we can catch up on your / my #jitsi instance sometime and grow more... I'd appreciate your comments either way - but I'm guessing there is a limit somewhere to my long text...
:)
So, kids, it turned out that Donald Trump was a great guy, after all, and the only reason we ever thought otherwise was because of this video that the BBC edited badly this one time.
"Donald Trump’s lawyers literally argued in court yesterday that feeding starving families undermines his ability to use hunger as political leverage for the shutdown.
SICK!"
~ Governor Newsom Press Office
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger #children #prices #groceries #party #MaraLago #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom #EconomicElites #champagne #BeefFilet #truffles #TrumpChocolateCake
/16
"They are not acting with charity, and in this sense the demonstration of agape. They are treating persons who are marginalized by circumstances with more than disrespect but malignant disregard."
#Trump #Republicans #WhiteChristianNationalism #food #hunger #children #women #SNAP #healthcare
/4
"By actively choosing to starve or bankrupt Americans by refusing to extend healthcare subsidies and fully fund SNAP, thereby endangering human lives, Trump and his administration are doing the furthest thing from establishing a Christian nation."
~ Rayne
#Trump #Republicans #WhiteChristianNationalism #food #hunger #children #women #SNAP #healthcare
/3
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/09/yet-more-of-a-lapsed-catholics-bible-study/
"The Department of Agriculture has now sent states an order: immediately undo any actions taken to provide full food stamp benefits to low-income families. Not next week. Not soon. Immediately."
~ Aaron Parnas
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger #children #prices #groceries #party #MaraLago #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom #EconomicElites #champagne #BeefFilet #truffles #TrumpChocolateCake
/15
https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/major-mid-day-breaking-news
"The Trump administration told states on Saturday to 'immediately undo' any actions to provide full food stamp benefits to low-income families, threatening financial penalties if they do not comply."
~ New York Times
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger #children #prices #groceries #party #MaraLago #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom #EconomicElites #champagne #BeefFilet #truffles #TrumpChocolateCake
/14
Trump’s dollar delusion: how trade war risks ending the US’s ‘exorbitant privilege’ - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/09/trump-trade-war-dollar-value as #brexit destroyed UK power, so #trump will destroy the US
"When ordinary Christians find anti-muslim and anti-immigrant rhetoric acceptable, and when the state begins to use Christian imagery to recruit for agencies that enforce policies that have terrorized people, separated families, detained asylum seekers, and contributed to deaths in custody, it should set off alarm bells in every church.
This is not a minor matter of 'optics.' It is a theological and moral crisis."
#Trump #Republicans #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteChristians
/2
"Jesus did not say, 'Defend your hearth and home'; he said, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' He did not tell his followers to arm themselves for battle but to 'put away the sword.' He did not recruit enforcers of empire but called tax collectors, zealots, and fishermen into a movement of mercy. And he certainly didn't say to demonize the stranger, but to welcome them as if we were welcoming him."
~ Benjamin Cremer
#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism
/1
https://benjamin-cremer.kit.com/posts/when-hate-masquerades-as-christianity
(continued from /12)
"the thousands slaughtered in mass shootings because of the GOP’s ghoulish fidelity to a twisted interpretation of the Second Amendment, the Venezuelan fishermen blown out of their boats, and the many people sure to die as a consequence of the Epstein Shutdown, Trump and the MAGA Republicans already have a body count approaching seven figures."
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #Epstein #Venezuela #guns #MassShootings #party #MaraLago #EconomicElites
/13
(continued from /11)
"add the 600,000 who died this year as a direct result of Elon Musk DOGE-ing USAID, and tack on the deaths from ICE Gestapo raids, the pregnancy-related deaths that are a direct consequence of Trump’s embrace of Dobbs,"
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger #children #prices #groceries #party #MaraLago #ballroom #EconomicElites #champagne #BeefFilet #truffles #TrumpChocolateCake #USAID #DOGE #ElonMusk #abortion #healthcare #ICE
/12
"A little party never killed anyone, sure, but a big party, the Republican Party, has indubitably killed hundreds of thousands of people—and it’s just getting warmed up. If we count the 300,000 who died of covid as a direct result of Trump’s botching of the pandemic response,"
~ Greg Olear
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger #children #prices #groceries #party #MaraLago #ballroom #EconomicElites #champagne #BeefFilet #truffles #TrumpChocolateCake
/11
"The voters finally got to push the pundits, press, and podcasters aside and render their judgment on the first nine months of Trump 2.0."
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger #children #prices #groceries #party #MaraLago #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom #EconomicElites #champagne #BeefFilet #truffles #TrumpChocolateCake
/10
"Despite an unpopular agenda, low approval ratings, and large majorities dissatisfied with the direction of the country, Trump seemed immune to the laws of political gravity.
That all changed on Tuesday."
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger #children #prices #groceries #party #MaraLago #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom #EconomicElites #champagne #BeefFilet #truffles #TrumpChocolateCake
/9
"Tuesday’s devastating losses for the Republicans represent a hinge-point in the narrative of Trump’s presidency. Up to this point, Trump has been seen as ascendant; as a strongman seizing power at home and flexing his muscles abroad."
~ Dan Pfeiffer
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger #children #prices #groceries #party #MaraLago #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom #EconomicElites #champagne #BeefFilet #truffles #TrumpChocolateCake
/8
https://www.messageboxnews.com/p/did-donald-trump-just-become-a-lame
"In particular, his absurd insistence that the economy is doing well only served to antagonize the electorate. The populace is deeply dissatisfied with the direction of the country."
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger #children #prices #groceries #party #MaraLago #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom #EconomicElites #champagne #BeefFilet #truffles #TrumpChocolateCake
/7
"The exit polls showed incontrovertibly that affordability was the primary issue on the minds of American voters. That Trump has no idea what staples cost and his insistence that the economy is doing 'fantastic' were also key factors."
~ Mark Mansour
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger #children #prices #groceries #party #MaraLago #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom #EconomicElites #champagne #BeefFilet #truffles #TrumpChocolateCake
/6
https://mmansour.substack.com/p/the-meaning-of-last-tuesdays-elections
"As the shutdown deepened and his administration pushed to freeze SNAP benefits and slash air traffic, Trump hosted another opulent Mar-a-Lago party featuring opera, truffle-laced dishes, celebrities, GOP allies and a red carpet…."
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger #children #prices #groceries #party #MaraLago #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom #EconomicElites #champagne #BeefFilet #truffles #TrumpChocolateCake #media
/5
"Ask yourself this: if any other president abandoned Washington during a shutdown to attend a lavish, red-carpet party in Florida, would the press shrug it off? Of course not. It would be a national uproar."
~ Aaron Parnas
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger #children #prices #groceries #party #MaraLago #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom #EconomicElites #champagne #BeefFilet #truffles #TrumpChocolateCake #media
/4
https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-trump-leaves-dc-as-government
"Estimates, including one from Bernt Nelson, an economist with the American Farm Bureau Federation who spoke to The New York Times, suggest turkey prices may surge 40%. A report by Purdue's College of Agriculture shows wholesale turkey prices at $1.71 per pound, up a staggering 75% from October 2024."
~ David Watsky
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger #children #prices #groceries #party #MaraLago #EconomicElites #turkey #Thanksgiving
/3
"Images of the president were shared by guests on social media Friday at the lavish event which featured a three-course menu of beef filet, truffle dauphinoise, pan-seared scallops and a trio of desserts including 'Trump chocolate cake.'”
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger #children #prices #groceries #party #MaraLago #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom #EconomicElites #champagne #BeefFilet #truffles #TrumpChocolateCake
/2
"President Donald Trump has attended his second extravagant party at Mar-a-Lago in a week as tens of thousands of federal employees go without pay, leaving some of them, and many more Americans, to turn to food banks amid the longest government shutdown in history."
~ Mike Bedigan
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger #children #prices #groceries #party #MaraLago #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom #EconomicElites
/1
Amid concerns over the Biden administration's regulation of the crypto industry, billionaire tech investor Marc Andreessen, a longtime Democrat, donated more than $5 million to groups supporting Trump ahead of the 2024 election.
Since then, he's gotten what he called for: a hollowed-out Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cfpb-marc-andreessen-silicon-valley?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Technology #Finance #Business #Trump #SiliconValley #USPolitics #Tech
Reminding us that money can't buy us love, Jared Yates Sexton writes,
"I doubt that I have to explain the significance here, but, out of an abundance of caution, let’s go. The world’s richest man had to instruct his in-house AI program to give him the simulation of a woman looking at him and promising that she will always love him."
#Trump #Republicans #SNAP #hunger #food #children #cruelty #ElonMusk
/11
https://jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/money-cant-buy-you-love-fascist-oligarchs
"Fox News just gave Melania Trump its 'Patriot of the Year' award while millions of Americans struggle to pay rent and afford groceries. Trump points to the stock market as proof of prosperity, ignoring that it only reflects the fortunes of billionaires. Working people face the opposite reality—a K-shaped economy where one line soars while the other plummets."
~ Ben Meiselas
#Trump #Republicans #SNAP #hunger #food #children #cruelty
/9
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/saturday-afternoon-news-updates-11825
“#Treasury has clearly been enacting unlegislated tax cuts,” said Kyle Pomerleau, a #tax economist at the American Enterprise Institute, a right-leaning think tank. “#Congress determines #TaxLaw. Treasury undermines this constitutional principle when it asserts more #authority over the structure of the tax code than Congress provides it.”
#law #SeparationOfPowers #Trump #aristocracy #plutocracy #WealthGap #USpol
#Trump & congressional #Republicans have attacked federal workers as instruments of the “deep state,” exercising power beyond anything authorized by the #law. Now the administration is doing the same thing, several #tax experts said, undermining laws that hit the #ultrawealthy & big #corporations.
With its various #tax relief provisions, the admin is now effectively adding hundreds of billions of dollars in new breaks for big businesses & investors. The #Treasury is empowered to write rules to help the #IRS carry out tax laws passed by #Congress. But the aggressive actions of the #Trump admin raise questions about whether it is exceeding its legal #authority.
But the succession of notices the #Treasury & #IRS have issued beginning in summer means the #tax could bring in a fraction of that.
The breaks come in addition to the ~$4 trillion package of tax cuts that #Trump signed into #law in July. The #legislation, passed entirely by #Republicans, heavily benefits #corporations & the #ultrawealthy. It is projected to add trillions of dollars to the federal #deficit & came with steep cuts to #healthcare for the #elderly & #FoodStamps for the poorest.
The primary target: The admin is rapidly gutting a 2022 #law intended to ensure the country’s most profitable #corporations pay at least some federal income #tax. The provision, the corporate alternative minimum tax, was passed by #Democrats & signed into law by President #Biden. It sought to stop corporations from being able to report big profits to shareholders yet low tax liabilities to the federal government. It was projected to raise $222 billion over a decade.
With little public scrutiny, the #Trump admin is handing out hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts to some of the country’s most profitable companies & wealthiest investors.
The #Treasury Dept & #IRS, through a series of new notices & proposed #regulations, are giving breaks to giant #PrivateEquity firms, #crypto companies, #foreign #RealEstate investors, #insurance providers & a variety of multinational #corporations.
How the #Trump Administration Is Giving Even More #TaxBreaks to the #Wealthy
The #Treasury Department & #IRS are issuing rules that provide hundreds of billions of dollars in tax relief to big #corporations & the #ultrarich.
#law #SeparationOfPowers #aristocracy #plutocracy #WealthGap #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/business/trump-administration-tax-breaks-wealthy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#IRS Direct File, the electronic system for filing #tax returns for #free, will not be offered next year, the #Trump admin has confirmed.
An email sent Monday from IRS official Cynthia Noe to state comptrollers that participate in the #DirectFile program said that “IRS Direct File will not be available in Filing Season 2026. No launch date has been set for the future.”
The program developed during #Biden’s presidency was credited by users with making tax filing easy, fast & economical.
Other career prosecutors in the office had also reached that conclusion, some of whom have since been fired. #Comey & James are both also pursuing motions seeking the dismissal of their cases on grounds that #LindseyHalligan’s appointment was #illegal. A judge has scheduled a hearing next week to weigh arguments on that front.
#law #LegalEthics #RevengePolitics #retribution #FHFA #fraud #Trump #LetitiaJames
The filing hit many of the same notes as a similar motion filed last month by fmr FBI dir #JamesComey, who is charged w/ lying to Congress & has asked the judge overseeing his case to dismiss it.
Both Comey’s indictment & the one against #LetitiaJames were secured by the same prosecutor— #LindseyHalligan, Eastern District of Virginia interim #USattorney whom #Trump installed in the post after her predecessor, Erik Siebert, refused to move forward with the cases, citing a lack of evidence.
“Since his second inauguration, the President & his handpicked Department of Justice officials exhausted every avenue to secure the payback the President demanded,” defense attorneys Abbe Lowell & Andrew Bosse wrote. “The charges against AG James constitute unconstitutional vindictive & selective prosecution.”
#law #LegalEthics #RevengePolitics #retribution #FHFA #fraud #Trump #LetitiaJames
In a court filing Friday, #LetitiaJames’ attorneys maintained that the mortgage fraud case she’s facing in Virginia is nothing more than an effort at retaliation for the staggering civil #fraud judgment she won against #Trump & his real estate organization last year.
#NYAG #LetitiaJames urges court to toss her case, calling it #Trump’s #revenge
New York Attorney General Letitia James has joined the list of #DOJ targets seeking to dismiss criminal charges by arguing vindictive prosecution — because, let’s face it, it is.
#law #LegalEthics #RevengePolitics #retribution #FHFA
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/11/07/letitia-james-vindictive-prosecution-motion/