They are pursuing a policy of white supremacy at every step.
The USAID cuts were a key part of this. They weren’t just being cruel for the sake of being cruel.
Q: There are many people who fit the criteria of fleeing persecution. Afghans for example. But they're being denied refugee status. So why such an exception for the Afrikaners?
TRUMP ADMIN OFFICIAL: One of the criteria is making sure they can be assimilated easily into our country
This is madness.
US, according to Reuters, is exploring ways to restore Russian gas flow to Europe.
What could possibly go wrong! www.reuters.com/business/ene...
Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego defended his fundraiser with crypto investor and Trump ally Marc Andreessen during a town hall in Pennsylvania, arguing that Democrats have gotten too “pure” and need a bigger tent.
Weekend reading: I wrote about the MAGA government siding with the German Neo-Nazi party. They share the same enemy: liberal democracy.
What a moment in U.S. history.
This week’s piece:
Yarvin’s critique of the Trump administration and DOGE is that it’s not being *extreme enough*
He wrote this in a 7000 word blog post riddled with genocide imagery
www.thenerdreich.com/curtis-yarvi...
Stephen Miller serves a deranged authoritarian who thinks he is all powerful and can do whatever he wants. He is wrong. Our job as lawyers is to stand up to him and defeat him in court.
I, for one, will never bow down or seek a deal with Trump. I will stand tall and fight.
Via "One First," me on why Stephen Miller's riff on suspending habeas corpus is not just factually and legally wrong (in multiple respects), but reflects a dangerous escalation in the Trump administration's rhetorical attacks on the courts:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/148-suspen...
„Wir werden die Demokratie gegen ihre Verächter und Feinde verteidigen. Verantwortung kennt keinen Schluss-Strich.“
Ruhe in Frieden, Margot Friedländer.
#fcsp#niewieder
Maddow: A coalition of groups including Indivisible, Social Security Works and 50501 are all organizing a nationwide day of protest for June 14th. They're calling it No Kings day.
Join us: nokings.org
At 8pm every 4 May, the Dutch remember and honour the war dead with a 2-minute silence.
Then on 5 May they celebrate Liberation Day, the day they were liberated, by Scottish Canadian troops, among others.
My mother’s Scottish Sergeant, by Anna Schurer
#Dodenherdenking#Remembrance@bylines.scot
Trump's lack of support for the Constitution is the headline.
He's hedging on the 3rd term talk because it's massively unpopular.
But the only thing standing in his way is the Constitution ... and he refuses to say that he supports it.
Labour must stop pandering to Reform; highlight Farage's role in the Brexit shit-show; & shout that he stands for the same policies as Trump.
But they cling to a 'make Brexit work' fallacy & try to cosy up to Trump.
UK does not love Trump. Labour, look at the political shift in Canada & Australia!
Hey British media,
It’s no surprise that if you give Farage the run of the place, he’ll start winning.
Time to do your actual jobs and start interrogating him on his Brexit shitshow, his funding, his Trumpiness, his idiotic manifesto, his real plans for the NHS… instead of drumrolling him into No.10
Trump’s stupid Pope picture should be seen through the lens of “Project Russia” and “Third Rome” ideology; what they are broadcasting is a (desired) merger between US-Russia-Russian Orthodox Church-Catholic Church. Really.
washingtonspectator.org/project-russ...
Holy shit, you guys.
I just read Curtis Yarvin'a actual writing instead of a summary.
The man is 51 years old, treated as an intellectual by the Sand Hill elite, and he writes like the most annoying freshman honors student who ever discovered Nietzsche from a comic book guide to philosophy.
Claremont Institute alum Matt Peterson (director of Firebrand Action, a project of the Thiel-backed Rockbridge Network) argues that Claremont alum Michael Anton shld take over as NSA. (Thiel recommended Anton to the 1st Trump administration. He, Anton, & Peterson are also connected via NatCon) 1/
Hearing now that every National Science Foundation grant is having to go through a new “DOGE review”. So existing grants and long term science and technology research having to undergo review by one of Elon’s interns. Huge percentage not passing their muster.
This hits hard—and says everything about where we are right now.
A Yale professor says he’s relocating to Canada to continue his democracy work. When asked why not stay in the U.S. and fight, he says he has two Black sons and he’s the son of a Holocaust survivor—and this is an “anti-Black moment”.
hey, you guys? am I the only one who cares that government officials are lying about who is really in charge of the organization that has dismantled multiple federal agencies?
Australia’s conservative opposition leader had described Trump as a “big thinker” and appointed a shadow minister for “government efficiency”. He lost his seat in parliament today.
Australia & Canada each have their own politics & political economy, but it’s fair to consider the 2 elections together. How the rest of the world responds to US administration madness is very, very important. What alliances will be created & strengthened?
bsky.app/profile/vond...
Let us seize this moment of stability to deepen our cooperation.
Together, we can expand trade, investment and work to promote our shared democratic values and a free, open Indo-Pacific.
my first byline in Rolling Stone (!) edited by the amazing @andrewperez.bsky.social. How exactly does Musk's privately held empire run? on the backs of retired teachers, firefighters, cops and bus drivers www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Now that Trump has openly admitted he could bring back Abrego Garcia whenever he wants, his lawyer tells me he will use discovery to determine which officials are advising Trump to defy the Supreme Court.
New piece from me with lots of fresh reporting on this case:
newrepublic.com/article/1948...
Not only is he going out of his way to strengthen the European far right, that claim about the Berlin Wall is beyond absurd.
This is a broad strategic alignment away from the liberal democracies toward the global right.
A family seeking asylum from a dictatorship was separated by Trump, the father was sent to a concentration camp in El Salvador, the mother was sent back to Venezuela and their 2 year old baby disappeared into the US "foster care" system.
“The US is treading the path followed by democracies that descended into authoritarianism and dictatorship, four former U.S. ambassadors to countries that underwent autocratic takeovers have warned.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
A new report found that Elon Musk faced at least $2.37 billion in potential legal liability from 11 federal agencies on inauguration day.
Many are now on DOGE's chopping block or have dropped their investigations into Musk's corporations.
"Conflict of interest" is an understatement.
Despite all the good he did, Joe Biden was “too old” for folks. So now we’re stuck with “sleepy Don” — a corrupt bigot for a president. Nice work, America!
Trump vowed to use the DOJ to reward allies and seek retribution against perceived enemies.
As interim U.S. attorney for D.C., Martin has dismissed all outstanding Jan. 6-related cases while firing more than a dozen prosecutors in his office.
Note how much of what Trump is trying to destroy, from Radio Free Europe to transatlantic trade, is precisely what the Russians most want him to destroy
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/u...
With the Trump administration having terminated multiple contracts providing lawyers to unaccompanied migrant children, we're back to the bad old days of toddlers representing themselves against deportation.
In this new starter pack, you will find 150 accounts of Europeans and Americans fighting against far-right political parties, tyrants and oligarchs, both in their own countries and abroad.
Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale RTd this thread, which says Trump shld act fast & “Fire people who can't be fired. Force them to litigate. Mass deport people who can't be deported. Force them to litigate. Cancel 100s of billions in funding that are not lawful to cancel & force them to litigate.” 1/
Raskin: The president derives his powers only either from the Constitution explicitly or from an act of Congress and Congress certainly has never given the president the power to relocate prisoners to foreign countries and there's nothing in the constitution that remotely vests that power…
Looks like this Trump tweet was pleading aimed at Ukraine to get the Ukrainians to accept a deal that he has worked out with Putin. The deal is a Putin dream. Ukraine must legally hand over Crimea, gets no occupied territory back and is barred from NATO.
