The #UnitedNations said it was “deeply alarmed” by the #US strikes in #Venezuela & the reported detention of President Nicolás #Maduro. It expressed concern the escalation was a violation of #InternationalLaw.
“These developments constitute a
dangerous precedent,” Stéphane Dujarric, spox for the #UN sec-gen, said. Dujarric said the UN worried about the implications for #LatinAmerica & the #Caribbean & called on “all actors in Venezuela” to respect #HumanRights & the rule of #law.
#China called on the #US to comply with #InternationalLaw & the principles of the #UN Charter, urging it to stop violating the #sovereignty & #security of other nations.
#law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #Trump #abduction #Venezuela #oil #LandGrab #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw
#China strongly condemned the #US strike in #Venezuela & the action against its president, the Foreign Ministry said, adding the Beijing govt was “deeply shocked” & firmly opposed to the operation.
“Such hegemonic acts of the US seriously violate #InternationalLaw & Venezuela’s #sovereignty & threaten #peace & #security in #LatinAmerica & the #Caribbean region,” it said.
#law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #Trump #abduction #oil #LandGrab #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #theft #piracy
#Britain PM #KeirStarmer said the #UK was not involved in the #US operation in #Venezuela and that he would seek more information from #Trump. Without condemning the US action, #Starmer said he always believes that #InternationalLaw should be upheld. “But I think at this stage, fast moving situation, let’s establish the facts & take it from there,” he said.
#law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #abduction #oil #LandGrab #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #theft #piracy
#Russia Foreign Ministry said it is “extremely alarmed” & called for “immediate clarification,” acc/to a statement posted Saturday on the ministry’s Telegram channel. The ministry said such actions, if confirmed, would constitute “an unacceptable infringement on the #sovereignty of an #independent #state.”
#law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #Trump #abduction #Venezuela #oil #LandGrab #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw
#Spain PM #PedroSánchez called for “de-escalation & responsibility. #InternationalLaw & the principles of the #UnitedNations Charter must be respected,” Sánchez wrote on X.
#law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #Trump #abduction #Venezuela #oil #LandGrab #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #theft #piracy
#EU foreign policy chief #KajaKallas wrote on X that she had spoken with #US Secy of State #MarcoRubio & the EU ambassador in Caracas. “The EU has repeatedly stated that Mr #Maduro lacks legitimacy & has defended a peaceful transition. Under all circumstances, the principles of #InternationalLaw & the #UN Charter must be respected. We call for restraint.”
Meaningless ⤴︎
#law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #Trump #abduction #Venezuela #oil #LandGrab #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings
Venezuelan ruling party leader Nahum Fernández told The Associated Press that Nicolás #Maduro & his wife were at their home within the Ft. Tiuna military installation when they were captured.
“That’s where they bombed,” he said. “And, there, they carried out what we could call a kidnapping of the president & the first lady of the country.”
#law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #Trump #abduction #Venezuela #oil #LandGrab #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw
#Trump told FauxNews that #Maduro & his wife were aboard the US warship Iwo Jima & headed to NY, where they will face prosecution.
🚨Trump said in an interview Saturday morning that the #US will be making decisions on what is next for #Venezuela.🚨
“We can’t take a chance in letting somebody else run and just take over what he left, or left off.”
#law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #abduction #oil #LandGrab #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw
“They should say, ‘Great job.’ They shouldn’t say, ‘Oh Gee, maybe it’s not constitutional.’ You know, the same old stuff that we’ve been hearing for years & years & years,” #Trump said who very likely has never read the #US #Constitution.
#law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #abduction #Venezuela #oil #LandGrab #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw
#Trump brushed off criticism from US Democratic lawmakers that he did not seek permission from #Congress ahead of time & that the strike was #illegal. He called his Democratic critics “weak, stupid people” & blamed his political opponents for inflation in the US.
He said the operation in #Venezuela was “really genius.”
“All they do is complain,” he said of the #Democrats.
#law #WarPowers #criminal #abduction #oil #LandGrab #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw
US AG #PamBondi said #Maduro & his wife would face charges after an indictment in New York. Bondi vowed in a social media post that the couple would “soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts.”
#Trump announced the developments on Truth Social shortly after 4:30AM ET & said he would host a news conference at 11AM ET.
#law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #abduction #Venezuela #oil #LandGrab #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw
WTF?
The #Trump admin “captured” #Venezuela President Nicolás #Maduro & his wife & flew him out of the country in an insane nighttime operation that was accompanied by a flurry of strikes following months of escalating pressure on the #oil-rich #SouthAmerica nation.
The US is now deciding next steps for Venezuela, Trump said Saturday on Fox News, adding, “We’ll be involved in it very much.”
The legal authority for the attack was not clear. [there is none]
I listened to the whole press conference given by Trump on his invasion of Venezuela and unprovoked abduction of a sitting president to fetch the nation's oil. Not a single question by journalists was posed to challenge the legality of the action. If power isn't challenged, there isn't freedom of the press. Trump isn't more democratic than Maduro, he's less so.
MORE USPS FUCKERY
The USPS just changed the meaning of a postmark. Under the old rules, when you dropped the mail off at the post office was the postmark date.
Now, the postmark is the date your mail was first processed by an automated center.
If you drop your mail off Monday but it doesn't get processed until Wednesday, Wednesday is the new postmark date.
Yes, this can affect taxes, healthcare, and-- not coincidentally, I'm sure-- ELECTIONS.
nstp.org/article/usps-announce…
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has adopted a final rule (FR Doc.nstp.org
The #Trump administration has been accusing the #EU of #censorship via its #DigitalServicesAct, but is any of what they are saying true?
Let's investigate 🧵🔽
#EUpol #USpol
Zelensky plans to meet #Trump on Sunday for talks on ending Russian war
The Ukrainian leader says he will see the US president in #Florida to discuss a US plan aimed at ending Russia's war.
bbc.com/news/articles/cp8zg25p…
The Ukrainian leader says he will see the US president in Florida to discuss a US plan aimed at ending Russia's war.Sean Seddon (BBC News)
A Texas district in which Black students were allegedly taunted with monkey noises.
An Arizona school where students admitted saying “slavery is good.”
These are some of the incidents Trump’s Education Department has ignored.
propublica.org/article/trump-e…
#News #Education #Trump #Racism #CivilRights #School #Family #BlackMastodon
Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discrimination ... don’t matter,” one attorney said.cengiz.yar@propublica.org (ProPublica)
I can’t even…
#RFKJr Blames Pills — Not #Guns — for #SchoolShootings
There is NO credible evidence that #antidepressants cause violence, but Kennedy now vows a “massive” effort to prove the failed theory.
#policy #law #Trump #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #ChildEndangerment #PublicHealth #GunControl #GunLaws #Health #MentalHealth #science #medicine #USpol #SchoolShooting #MassShooting #GunViolence #EnoughIsEnough
motherjones.com/politics/2025/…
There is no credible evidence that antidepressants cause violence, but the health secretary now vows a “massive” effort to prove the failed theory.Mother Jones
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
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The administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found that Trump once did the very thing he claimed could be a crime.
propublica.org/article/trump-m…
#News #Trump #USPolitics #Law #Florida #Home #Mortgages
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing he called “deceitful and potentially criminal.”shoshana.gordon@propublica.org (ProPublica)
Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence That UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism
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“The end goal was never to conduct a thorough, unbiased investigation,” said one DOJ lawyer. “The end goal was to file a damn complaint — or have something to threaten the university.”
propublica.org/article/ucla-an…
#News #UCLA #College #DOJ #Trump #USPolitics #Law #Palestine #Protest
An investigation by ProPublica and The Chronicle of Higher Education reveals how the U.S. government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of California.shoshana.gordon@propublica.org (ProPublica)
Last week Trump called Tim Walz the ‘R slur’.
He then doubled down on it, and now his base have begun harassing the entire Walz family.
Memes are circulating on socials encouraging people to drive past their house and yell it at them.
I’ve been personally called that word more than 1,000 times in the last seven days.
We can’t allow this to happen. The disability community has fought far too hard for far too long to remove that word from the public vernacular.
This is ableism at it’s most ugly, and ableism feeds eugenics and eugenics feeds fascism.
Help us fight back. We are not expendable.
disabledginger.com/p/the-r-slu…
#uspol #trump #walz #fascism #discrimination #ableism #eugenics #chronicillness #disabilityjustice
Last week Trump called Walz the 'R slur', and now his base is using it regularly. We must all speak out against this. It's a term that pushes a eugenicist agenda and feeds directly into fascism.Broadwaybabyto (The Disabled Ginger)
There is so much censorship in the EU that 7 of the 8 countries with the most freedom of the press are EU member states.
#EUpol #Musk #Trump #Europe #pressfreedom
USA kritisieren Europa und kündigen Einmischung an
In ihrer neuen Sicherheitsstrategie greifen die USA Europa scharf an und kündigen eine Einmischung zugunsten rechter Parteien an. Die US-Regierung wolle nun "Widerstand" in Europa kultivieren.
➡️ tagesschau.de/ausland/amerika/…
#USA #Europa #Trump #Sicherheitsstrategie
In ihrer neuen Sicherheitsstrategie greifen die USA Europa scharf an und kündigen eine Einmischung in die Politik der EU zugunsten rechter Parteien an. Die US-Regierung wolle nun "Widerstand" in Europa kultivieren.tagesschau.de
Trump’s anti-green agenda could lead to 1.3 million more temperature-related deaths.
Most of the people expected to suffer live in poor countries in Africa and South Asia that are least prepared to cope with the increasing heat from climate change.
propublica.org/article/trump-c…
#News #Climate #ClimateChange #Trump #Data #Science #Politics
Most of the people expected to suffer these temperature-related deaths live in poor countries in Africa and South Asia that are least prepared to cope with the increasing heat from climate change.lena.groeger@propublica.org (ProPublica)
Trump’s Immigration Forces Deploy “Less Lethal” Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters
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Civil rights and weapons experts cite the consequences of federal agents’ use of crowd control weapons: religious leaders shot with pepper balls and noxious chemicals. A nurse nearly blinded by tear gas. Protestors trapped, struggling to breathe.
propublica.org/article/ice-bor…
#News #Trump #ICE #Immigration #CivilRights #Violence #Protest #Chicago #LosAngeles #Oakland #Portland
MAGA BASED IN RUSSIA!
MANY, MANY MAGA X Accounts Supporting Trump Based In Eastern EUROPE!
A new update to X that shows the country or region where a user is based has revealed some popular accounts—many of which post wildly partisan support Trump—aren’t even United States-based, though they claim to be American!
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews #Trump #socialmedia #Fediverse #trending #Trump
forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2…
#Trump said: "If you are not a believer, what is the reason to be good"
Atheist here ✋ You don't have to believe or rather be scared to be good
Something... something.. decency..
It's not a bet.
The US-style AI scam as FAANG is doing it, is a securities style fraud, to make their companies look like “growth stocks”, thus getting a pass on P/E criteria that apply to “mature stocks”. Luckily for them #Trump has dismantled regulations in the US.
And over-valuated stock is basically a licence to print money.
ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/vie…
The companies can issue overvalued stock in themselves to pay for acquisitions, as compensation etc.
As I've established again and again, we are in an AI bubble, and no, I cannot tell you when the bubble will pop, because we're in the stupidest financial era since the great financial crisis — though, I hope, not quite as severe in its even…Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)
The entire #WhiteHouse #EastWing is demolished as #Trump moves forward with his #ballroom, AP photos show.
The East Wing, where #FirstLadies created #history, planned state dinners & promoted causes, is now history itself. The 2-story structure of drawing rooms & offices, including workspace for first ladies & their staffs, has been turned into rubble, demolished as part of Trump’s plan to build what he said is now a $300M ballroom nearly 2X the size of the White House.
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#GOP Senators Ready to Dump #Trump Nominee With Self-Proclaimed ‘#Nazi Streak’
“I can’t imagine supporting that,” Sen. James Lankford told reporters.
🚨🚨🚨
…One of Trump’s nominees…said in a leaked group chat that MLK Day should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell,” & that he has “a Nazi streak.”
#PaulIngrassia, an #attorney nominated by Trump to lead the Office of #SpecialCounsel, made these & other #racist comments in leaked group chat messages.
#HitlerYouth
notus.org/senate/paul-ingrassi…
"I can't imagine supporting that,” Sen. James Lankford told reporters.Em Luetkemeyer (NOTUS)
Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way and overwhelmed challenges to their arrests.
propublica.org/article/trump-d…
#News #USPolitics #Government #DHS #Immigration #ICE #Trump
Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challenges to their arrests and tactics.ProPublica
"Trump was totally unhinged last night after he found out how big the No Kings Protests were. He was posting weird AI videos of himself wearing crowns. Then he posted an AI video of himself flying a fighter jet and defecating on peaceful protestors at the No Kings protest in Manhattan. Yeah, that was not a typo. He posted a video of himself dropping feces on the faces of peaceful protestors."
~ Ben Meiselas
#NoKings #democracy #Trump #authoritarianism
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"The president posted an AI video showing himself as a pilot, wearing a crown, literally dumping shit on protesters from the air: A clear statement of what he feels about Americans exercising their rights to free assembly and free speech."
~ Anne Applebaum
#NoKings #democracy #Trump #authoritarianism
/9
anneapplebaum.substack.com/p/w…
What happens when "democracy" isn't part of our identity anymore?Anne Applebaum (Open Letters, from Anne Applebaum)
"To the degree that major protests could undermine the administration’s ability to exert political authority, it makes a whole lot of sense for Republicans and the White House to spend their energy attacking the No Kings movement.
And this, I think, should serve as an important reminder to opponents of the administration that for all its boasts and bluster, it knows as well as anyone that the president is unpopular and that his administration is vulnerable."
