Trump hailed: get-together w the RU dictator as “productive,” praised #Putin’s observations as “profound, & “many pts” -agreed on +2: “made some headway.”
Devs since then suggest➡️🚨all in Putin’s dir.
On the US side, it’s been all carrots & no sticks.🚨Trump's successfully pressured Cong not to follow thru w sanctions +admin ann that the US would end a prgm of MIL supp. Putin extended lovefest w his fellow dictators...
#TrumpLies #Ukraine #NationalSecurity #Protest #USPol https://www.thebulwark.com/p/hey-donald-the-red-carpet-didnt-work-putin-ukraine-poland-qatar-fara-hhs-rfk-ai-chat-gpt?r=1emko&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
"The DOORS WOULDN'T OPEN."
🚨When Tesla car doors lose power, you need to use the manual door release to get out. But riders and drivers can get stuck inside.
"It's absolutely crazy they still haven't fixed this. They should cancel this feature altogether: let people inside open the damn doors.
I'd rather own an old car that's opened by hand & locked by mechanical physical keys."
-A Stacy
#Tesla #DeathTrap #Musk #GOPDeathCult #Regulations #PublicSafety #Protest #USPol
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-tesla-dangerous-doors/
With all due respect,🚨there's Nothing The #Fed can do to overcome the HC #Insurance Tax every indiv & co paying for ins faces.
Fam of 5: making 125k per yr pays an effective fed income tax of 3.3%.
Their insur:🚨$9600/yr WITH taxpayer subsidies. PLUS $19,200 ANNUAL out of pocket Max.
No subsidies & their prems go up to 25k/yr. Plus 19.2k OOP max.
It can be 10x their fed inc tax.💔It's horrific for so many fams.
This is why homes: unaffordable - #Tariffs hurt more...
-M Cuban
#Economy #USPol
The #jobs numbers don't fit Trump's narrative, so he's having his goons find a way to rig the data:
"The DOL's Ofc of IG said Wed it's reviewing the “challenges” that the BLS is facing in its data-collection efforts.
The IG: initiating that probe in light of BLS announced a reduction in its data collection for 2 key inflation metrics."
#TrumpLies #BLS #Economy #Unemployment #Trumpcession #Tariffs #Protest #USPol
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/10/trump-bls-jobs-data-labor.html
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The mood at the appt that AM was dif. An officer shadowed them *soon handcuffed, stripped of their belongings. Orozco Forero said🚨she showed an #ICE officer a letter from O David’s💔doctors approving a biopsy; the officer tore it apart, she said. “This no longer works."
She only had minutes to tell her fam in Seattle what was happening. There may be a way to stop the deportation order, he told them.
She💔thought only of her sons.
Fam sep➡️#sadism.
#Deportations #USPol https://19thnews.org/2025/09/family-detention-dilley-texas/
5 of #SCOTUS' 6 RW justices took adv of their right to remain silent, but SCJ Kav: Such stops are usually “brief."🚨 I'd no idea *deprived of my rights under the 4A as long as my getting roughed up takes only a few moments.
He noted: illegal IMM “esp pron in the LA area, among other locales in the US.” Yes, America has an illegal-IMM problem in var “locales,” & therefore… what? #ICE officials🚨can use race-based criteria in an area w a lot of Spanish-speaking ctzs?
#USPol
"SK officials:🚨negotiating with the US to win “voluntary” departures of the wkrs, rather than #deportations *could result in making them ineligible to return to the US for up to 10 yrs.
"This self-inflicted economic headache for the US comes the same day as it was🚨revealed that at least one of the Korean men arrested & detained by #ICE was working 100% legally -as ICE itself confirmed... -forced to leave anyway."
-A R-Melnick
Trump's destroyed trade, goodwill...
“They put Trump’s name on the trucks.
This is the clearest signal🚨that #ICE is intended to be a personal, partisan police force that exists at the disposal of Trump.
This isn't a choice someone makes if they intend to leave office in 3 yrs.
If ICE looks fascist, presents like fascists, & behaves like fascists, then it probably is fascist.
ICE has some new cars -cartoonishly fascist.🚨Behold the #DHS’s hype video ann..."
-B Kristol
#Fascism #PoliceState #Protest #USPol https://www.thebulwark.com/p/fascist-secret-police-cars
MAGA Rs are fuming: "During Aug recess, Johnson & Thune plan to call the House & Senate into session every 4 or 5 days, with practically no one there, for the sole purpose of preventing Trump from making recess apps."
"Trump is the only President in history that has had recess appointments blocked by his own party."
-C3
Thune said: Johnson has to figure out a way forward on the #Epstein controversy that’s derailed House bus until the fall.
#USPol
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/thomas-massie-mike-johnson-john-thune/2025/07/25/id/1220172/ https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/07/23/congress/thune-interview-on-epstein-johnson-00471670
"We need to extend our soul to the hungry."
It’s a man-made crisis, & there're man-made solutions that could save lives today. The hunger catastrophe in Gaza is entirely caused by the men of war on both sides of the Erez crossing.
We don’t have the time to argue about who's holding up the food trucks.🚨Food cannot flow quickly enough to #Gaza. The WFP:💔1/3 of Gaza’s pop hadn't eaten for mult days in a row. Small children are dying of #starvation: rising rapidly.
"DOGE🚨"is using a new artificial intelligence tool to slash federal regulations, with the goal of eliminating half of DC’s regulatory mandates by the first anniversary of Trump’s inauguration."
Roughly 100K of those rules would be deemed worthy of trimming, The tool has already been used to complete “decisions on 1,083 regulatory sections” at the #HUD in under 2 weeks, & to write “100% of deregulations” at the #CFPB.
#DOGE #AI #Deregulation #TrumpRegime #Protest #USPol
Trump: now admitted Americans aren't rushing in to fill jobs of deported migrants -makes it essential to stop removing them. That wrecks a core pillar of MAGA ideology. There's no putting that genie back in the bottle.
#ICE is growing quickly, &🚨agents: even more vulnerable to #corruption, criminality... than almost any other fed LE agency: lowest hiring stands/shortest training periods/lowest EDU reqs...
They've supercharged new arrest quotas, so...
#Immigrants #USPol https://newrepublic.com/article/197676/transcript-trump-blurts-awkward-truth-ice-maga-seethes
“Trump said that there’ll be a temporary pass issued for migrants working at farms/hospitality IND to allow employers to have more control after mixed msgs re exceptions in deportation efforts.”
So if undoc #immigrants work in the fields/farms, feeding Americans, or in the hospitality IND, doing Trump & the oligarchs’ dirty work *won’t be🚨disappeared, cut off from their families, likely perm, detained & then💔deported to a pos DEATH SENTENCE.
#Deportations #ICE #USPol
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5375717-trump-temporary-pass-migrant-farm-hotel-workers/
"Likely in light of the situation in LA, #ICE l'ship just put out a pretty outrageous msg to politicians: “I’m demanding they stop.” He specifically calls out Mayor Wu & Hakeem Jeffries.
Beyond the free speech issues & the hypocrisy, I'm not unsympathetic to ALL of his concerns. Threatening the family of an ICE officer is wrong!
But🚨if ICE doesn’t want the public to be outraged by their behavior, there's an easy answer; stop doing outrageous things!"
-A R-Melnick
#Fascism #Deportations #USPol
Funding decreases touch virtually every area of #science, the #TrumpRegime says it wants to cut. That means less support for early-stage #research *underpins future tech advancements +American competitiveness.⬇️💰for undergrad/grad students, postdoc res...
"Biggest cut: 80% STEM EDU -if you don't educate the next gen of scientists -won't have many scientists...🚨China's budget calls for an⬆️in govt spending on science & tech by 8.3% this year +ED by 6.1%."
-A Bertrand
#USPol
"The US has been talking with Hamas thru an American intermediary in Doha this week in hopes of brokering an IL-Gaza ceasefire AGT -as US officials say Trump's growing increasingly frustrated with IL’s handling of the conflict.
The talks have been led on the US side by B Bahbah, the American-PA who led the group “Arab Americans for Trump” during: '24 pres campaign."
"Trump admin: working on plan to move 1M Palestinians to LY."
#Gaza #Trump #USPol https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/politics/israel-gaza-negotiations-trump-administration https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-administration-working-plan-move-1-million-palestinians-libya-rcna207224
Ominous: “Scores of foreign #mercenaries have landed in IL for the launch of a controversial US-backed aid plan for #Gaza that could force the UN out of managing one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
A person familiar with GHF’s operations: a single nation had committed to at least $100M -has yet to come forward."
-L Rozen
#Netanyahu, #Trump..: barbaric.
Palestinians in Gaza are on the verge of starvation-only 5 aid trucks have entered as of Tues night.
#USPol
"If your insurance co ditches you in the middle of open-heart surgery, you’ll go bankrupt. Local governments face a similar future when Trump🚨kills federal disaster relief.
And the Trumpiest places will suffer the most."
-Gongloff
Depriving local govts of federal relief money amid worsening climate disasters will🚨threaten their economies, putting some of Trump's staunchest supporters at risk.
#FEMA #PublicSafety #Trumpcession #ClimateChange #TrumpRegime #Evil #USPol
They don't want to make govt smaller or even more efficient. They want to use it to punish their opponents."
- D Bier
The Trump admin said on Thurs states🚨could lose TRANSP funding over a failure to coop on fed #immigration enforcement efforts or for maintaining DEI programs.
TRANSP Sec Sean Duffy: recipients of TRANSP Dept FIN asst must ensure personnel practices are "merit-based."
The Trump regime is undemocratic. Lawsuits will ensue.
#Fascism #Deportations #USPol
The #TrumpMusk regime is decimating the #VA.
These #DOGE operatives appear to have no work experience that’s remotely close to the VA in terms of its scale or complexity. VA: administers all the govt benefits afforded to vets/their families for ~10M ppl: EDU, loans, disab pymts, & HC. Lavingia is Gumroad's CEO, a platform that helps creatives sell their work & takes a cut of each sale. More recently, Lavingia launched Flexile, a tool to manage & pay contractors.
#USPol https://www.wired.com/story/doge-department-of-veterans-affairs-ai/
Welcome news: “The Social Security Administration said it would postpone controversial changes to phone service and partially relax new rules on identity verification.”
#SocialSecurity #DOGE #Musk #Privatization #USPol
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/26/social-security-cuts-doge-phone-id
We Americans no longer have undeniable legal status. Our #rights /orgs/jobs/health/schools/laws/C -now provisional, subject to the whims of the “King".
Our very citizenship: provisional now. C may say: born here➡️citizens -may CXL the C by EO.
Only seeking to keep out the children of undoc IMGs, or of “invaders” or “terrorists.” Any of us may be declared🚨terrorists or invaders -may be stripped of CTZ/jailed/deported.
We can be fighting ppl like the King.
#USPol #Fascism https://www.vcstar.com/story/opinion/2025/03/20/mathews-with-the-king-in-charger-we-are-all-undocumented-now/82569479007/
#Tradwife🚨
Neeleman -UT Mormon wanted to be a ballerina. She went to Julliard. He, also Mormon/son of the fndr of JetBlu immediately wanted to marry her but she wouldn’t date him for “6 months” -mentioned she was flying back to NY *called his dad/booked the seat next to her, pretending: a coincidence.
Airline IDU: “giant🚩”
She agreed to date him for a year+ before getting married. He said “no" -married 2 mos. later.
Wedding IDU: “another big f***ing🚩” 3 mons. later🤰.
https://skepchick.org/2024/11/trad-wife-farmers-actually-lead-horrible-lives/