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IMPEACH AND REMOVE
Trump Accidentally Called Former National Security Adviser He Fired
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-accidentally-called-former-national-security-adviser-he-fired_n_67f7dbbde4b059106586d037
HuffPost · Trump Accidentally Called Former National Security Adviser He Fired: Report
USA: Contact both your senators and tell them to vote NO on this!
"SAVE Act: House Passes GOP Voting Bill That Could Disenfranchise Millions"
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/house-passes-save-act-voter-suppression-law/
"Republicans have pursued the SAVE Act under the guise of preventing noncitizens from voting, which they portray as an existential threat to the American electoral system. In fact, illegal voting by noncitizens — and fraud in general — is extremely rare."
Democracy DocketSAVE Act: House Passes GOP Voting Bill That Could Disenfranchise MillionsRead more here.
'The AFL-CIO & 3 top former OSHA officials fear the possibility of Elon Muskaccessing unredacted whistleblower files that OSHA maintains. There's currently dozens of open OSHA cases across Tesla, SpaceX, & The Boring Company.
Companies tied to Elon Musk have dozens of workplace health & safety cases open at OSHA. Union leaders & former OSHA officials are concerned.
#Musk #Corruption #DOGE #OSHA #Public Safety #WorkerSafety #WorkersRights #Union #Tesla #SpaceX #USPol https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-osha-whistleblower-files/
To Americans, pharmaceutical healthcare is nothing but dollars. Eliminating human need is an attack on US billionaires and their exploitive profits.
The "insulin industry" is particularly disgusting when you realize that when Frederick Banting discovered insulin in 1923, he refused to put his name on the patent because he felt it was unethical for a doctor to profit from a discovery that would save lives, so Banting’s co-inventors, James Collip and Charles Best, sold the insulin patent to the University of Toronto for a mere $1 since they wanted everyone who needed their medication to be able to afford it.
Americans profiteers then went on to patent every method of manufacturing this "free invention" for their own profit.
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"Huge win for the large corporations and Republican political megadonors who make their money POISONING AMERICAN FAMILIES.
How does polluting our air and water Make America Great Again?"
-M D'Arrigo
Climate experts expressed shock and dismay at the move. “It would be a bit like unplugging the equipment that monitors the vital signs of a patient that is critically ill,” one said.
#ClimateCrisis #Trump #Republicans #PublicSafety #USPol
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-epa-greenhouse-gas-reporting-climate-crisis
ProPublicaTrump’s EPA Plans to Stop Collecting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data From Most PollutersClimate experts expressed shock and dismay at the move. “It would be a bit like unplugging the equipment that monitors the vital signs of a patient that is critically ill,” one said.
Good for REI!
REI issues public apology for backing Doug Burgum as interior secretary
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/rei-apology-doug-burgum-interior-secretary-rcna200700
MSNBC · REI issues apology for backing Doug Burgum as interior secretary
A little good news...
Trump must face Central Park 5 defamation suit, judge rules
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5243055-defamation-lawsuit-trump-central-park/
“History repeats itself first as tragedy, then as farce, and finally as Pee Wee German shouting about the economic genius of the Dear Leader on Fox News.”
- Karl Marx
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Honestly, if the people who were planning these tariffs were in any way "intentional" I don't think they would have included unpopulated (except for penguins) islands in the list. That seems like the opposite of intentional.
As for them being the smartest people Brooke Rollins has ever worked with, where has she worked before??? The people who created these tariffs are the polar opposite of smart. Nothing about them was smart.
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Convinced that's a reverse 'Dorian Gray' painting that remains benign while this human shit stain gets more grotesque.
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If you're a US citizen, please sign this letter to your senators opposing Trump's "Fix our Forests" act. https://www.cascwild.org/oppose-the-so-called-fix-our-forests-act/
Here are the forests he wants to cut down: https://www.reddit.com/r/Cascadia/comments/1jvop3v/heres_all_the_forests_trump_plans_to_cut_down/
The three-drug protocol first used by states was intended to make sure the person on the gurney died. Extremely high doses of three drugs—each lethal in its own right—would ensure that if one drug failed, one of the other two would surely work. But this three-drug plan wasn’t reviewed by anyone before #Oklahoma adopted it, followed the next day by #Texas. https://www.texasobserver.org/sordid-story-behind-lethal-injection/
#DeathPenalty #politics #history #books #prison #CriminalJustice #law #medicine #USpol #bookstodon
The Texas Observer · The Sordid, Unscientific Story Behind Lethal InjectionA new book by a national expert explores the failures of the United States’ favored execution method.
Today in “shocking but not surprising”: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/04/09/trump-market-manipulation/
tl;dr -- it sounds like Trump violated insider-trading laws on a mass scale. (Certainly the spirit of the laws; I suspect folks will endlessly litigate the letter of them.)
Awful but politically clever, letting his fans feel like they're in on his scheming.
The Trump admin attacks allies, removes troops from EU training missions, hands UA’s bargaining chips to RU +refusing to guar EU sec even as “backstop."
US: no longer a dependable ally of the other Cs in the A it played a cen role in bldg. Now: hostile to those allies, actively working to weaken the trans-Atl p'ship +supportive of the Kremlin +loose alliance of ethnonationalist, anti-dem nations it leads.
Snr officials talk of lifting sanctions agst RU w/o -conc.
#USPol https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/nato-trump-future-without-us-support-rcna196986
MSNBC · It’s time for NATO to plan for a future without U.S. support
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#TheCryptocalypseChronicles: How To Insider Trade And Influence People (With Tariffs)
Ever since the big reveal of the nonsensical Trump Tariff Equation Americans have been coming to grips with a reality in which their financial future appears to be more or less entirely dependent on a series of wild proclamations emanating at random intervals from the mind of an economically illiterate and extremely orange madman who is drunk on his own power.
This decidedly less than ideal situation has created a reality where Donald Trump can award vast wealth to his friends and followers just by sending a few late night tweets tipping them off about what he's about to say.
It just so happens that data about stock market activity bears out this theory: someone is insider trading on Trump's tweets.
Retoots appreciated.
https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/how-to-insider-trade-and-influence
The Cryptocalypse Chronicles · How To Insider Trade And Influence People (With Tariffs)
Holy shit y'all...this is bad. Really, really bad.
Their “financial lives,” the Social Security Administration’s acting commissioner, Leland Dudek, wrote in an email to staff, would be “terminated.”
The effort hinges on a surprising new tactic: repurposing Social Security’s “death master file,” which for years has been used to track dead people who should no longer receive benefits, to include the names of living people who the government believes should be treated as if they are dead. As a result of being added to the death database, they would be blacklisted from a coveted form of identity that allows them to make and spend money.
On Tuesday, #AramMoghaddassi, a software engineer working for #DOGE, sent Mr. Dudek the first batch of names to be added: a list of more than 6,300 immigrants, including a 13-year-old and seven other minors.
The New York Times · Pressuring Migrants to ‘Self-Deport,’ White House Moves to Cancel Social Security Numbers
