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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.
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#News #Trump #USPolitics #Law #Florida #Home #Mortgages
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
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.”
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#News #UCLA #College #DOJ #Trump #USPolitics #Law #Palestine #Protest
The Shakedown: Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence That UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism
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.
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#uspol #trump #walz #fascism #discrimination #ableism #eugenics #chronicillness #disabilityjustice
The R Slur Must Never be Normalized
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.
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#USA #Europa #Trump #Sicherheitsstrategie
USA kritisieren Europa und kündigen Einmischung an
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.
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#News #Climate #ClimateChange #Trump #Data #Science #Politics
Trump’s Anti-Green Agenda Could Lead to 1.3 Million More Climate Deaths. The Poorest Countries Will Be Impacted Most.
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.
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#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
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#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.
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The companies can issue overvalued stock in themselves to pay for acquisitions, as compensation etc.
Big Tech Needs $2 Trillion In AI Revenue By 2030 or They Wasted Their Capex
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.
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…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
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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.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.
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#News #USPolitics #Government #DHS #Immigration #ICE #Trump
How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
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
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Will the Beacon Go Dark?
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."
"Nationwide protests comprised of millions of people are a direct rebuke to the president’s narrative. They send a signal to the most disconnected parts of the American public that the president is far from as popular as he says he is, and they send a clear warning to those institutions under pressure from the administration: Bend the knee and lose our business and support."
~ Jamelle Bouie
"Today was the largest political protest in American history.
Don’t let Donald Trump pretend he’s popular, beloved, or even respected.
He isn’t. And he never has been."
~ Steve Hofstetter
#NoKings #democracy #Trump #authoritarianism
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Steve Hofstetter (@stevehofstetter) on Threads
Today was the largest political protest in American history. Don’t let Donald Trump pretend he’s popular, beloved, or even respected. He isn’t. And he never has been.Threads
Here's what Olear said at Kingston:
"If there’s one thing we can say about Donald, it’s that he’s unfit.
This is why we’ve come here today—to give him our message, which consists of just one single word—the word Donald Trump hates most of all to hear:
NO.
ICE in our cities? NO!
Soldiers in our streets? NO!
Political retribution? NO!
Plenary authority? NO!
No thrones. No crowns. NO KINGS!"
Noting that he spoke at the No Kings demonstration in Kingston, New York, Greg Olear says,
"The press estimates there were seven million Americans participating in the rallies. This figure seems low to me.... WaPo had it as the lead story yesterday. The craven New York Times led with the Venezuela stuff, which, in hindsight, seems like it was cooked up just so the New York Times would lead with it and not No Kings.)"
#NoKings #democracy #Trump #authoritarianism
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Sunday Pages: My "No Kings Day" Speech
Delivered at Academy Green Park, Kingston, New York, October 18, 2025Greg Olear (PREVAIL by Greg Olear)
"Americans across all 50 states marched in protests against the Trump administration on Saturday, aligning behind a message that the country is sliding into authoritarianism and there should be no kings in the US.
Millions of people turned out for the No Kings protests, the second iteration of a coalition that marched in June in one of the largest days of protest in US history."
~ Rachel Leingang and Edward Helmore
#NoKings #democracy #Trump #authoritarianism
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Millions across all 50 US states march in No Kings protests against Trump
Crowds of Americans, many in costumes, aligned behind message that US is sliding into authoritarianismRachel Leingang (The Guardian)
"Such a high turnout means businesses and institutions that thought they must cater to the administration to appeal to a majority of Americans will be forced to recalculate.
And the protests showed that Americans care fervently about democracy."
"The No Kings demonstrations ran the gamut from hundreds of thousands of protesters in large, blue cities, to smaller crowds in small towns in Republican-dominated states. Together, they demonstrate that the administration’s claims to popularity are a lie."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#NoKings #democracy #Trump #authoritarianism
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October 18, 2025
Today, millions of Americans and their allies turned out across the United States and around the globe to demonstrate their commitment to American democracy and their opposition to a president and an administration apparently bent on replacing that d…Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
The government does not track how often immigration agents hold Americans. So ProPublica did.
We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.
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#News #ICE #Immigration #Trump #USPolitics #Law #American
Immigration Agents Have Held More Than 170 Americans Against Their Will, ProPublica Finds
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.ProPublica
"Apple removed an app for preserving TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE, 404 Media has learned. The app, called Eyes Up, differs from other banned apps such as ICEBlock which were designed to report sightings of ICE officials in real-time to warn local communities. Eyes Up, meanwhile, was more of an aggregation service pooling together information to preserve evidence in case the material is needed in the future in court.
The news shows that Apple and Google’s crackdown on ICE-spotting apps, which started after pressure from the Department of Justice against Apple, is broader in scope than apps that report sightings of ICE officials. It has also impacted at least one app that was more about creating a historical record of ICE’s activity during its mass deportation effort."
#USA #Trump #iCE #Immigration #Deportation #Apple #SocialMedia
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Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses
Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.Joseph Cox (404 Media)
"Welcome to the new normal, where a late-night comedian making fun of the president is 'the sickest conduct possible,' but calling for trans people to be institutionalized was just Charlie Kirk practicing politics the right way."
#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism #media
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"The timing isn't coincidental. This is happening while people are still being fired for not mourning Charlie Kirk appropriately. Karen Attiah lost her Washington Post column. Airline pilots got grounded. Hospital workers were terminated. Now a comedian with one of the longest-running shows on television gets yanked off the air for making a joke about Trump…."
~ Parker Molloy
#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism #media
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Read the Jimmy Kimmel Monologue That Led to an FCC Crackdown
The comedian condemned Kirk's murder and called it "monstrous." That wasn't enough. He had to mourn correctly or lose his show.Parker Molloy (The Present Age)
"Time and again, the corporate media would rather surrender than fight for their First Amendment rights.
But ownership is also driving the shift. …
There are exceptions, but much of the corporate press is now too loyal to, or too afraid of, Trump to act as a true check on power."
#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism #media
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"That could never happen here, right? Not with our long tradition of a vibrant, free media?
Well, the MAGA Right is on the verge of controlling the vast majority of the American media ecosystem.
A dynamic highlighted by the fact that Disney announced it was bowing to pressure from the Trump Administration and pulling Jimmy Kimmel off the air indefinitely because of comments he made about Charlie Kirk."
#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism #media
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"One of the necessary conditions for an authoritarian takeover is control of the media. It’s a critical step to quash dissent—turning a free press designed to hold power accountable into a propaganda organ that amplifies the state’s message."
#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism #media
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With Kimmel and TikTok, Trump Takes Control of the Media
The Kimmel suspension is a scary sign for the future of free speechDan Pfeiffer (The Message Box)
"And while they cloak their project in American flags and talk of law and order, the blueprint is the same one authoritarian regimes across the twentieth century wrote in blood: silence the critics, glorify the leader, criminalize dissent."
#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
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