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Gleichschaltung. A German word worth understanding given the current state of political actions by the newly minted Trump administration.
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Gleichschaltung: Coordinating the Nazi State
Gleichschaltung is the German term applied to the Nazification of all aspects of German society following the Nazi rise to power in 1933.
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January 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Gleichschaltung. A German word worth understanding given the current state of political actions by the newly minted Trump administration.
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Remember when Trump kept lying how Mexico was letting their criminals out of jail so they could swarm into the US and create havoc? Well guess who actually did it but not in Mexico.
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They assaulted cops and tried to overturn an election. What to know about Trump’s mass pardons for January 6 rioters | CNN Politics
With the stroke of a pen on Monday, President Donald Trump completely upended the Justice Department’s four-year effort to arrest, prosecute and punish the people who attacked the US Capitol on Januar...
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January 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Remember when Trump kept lying how Mexico was letting their criminals out of jail so they could swarm into the US and create havoc? Well guess who actually did it but not in Mexico.
www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/p...
Judges have a duty to not silently rubber stamp Trump pardons. And some have responsibly taken great pains to say loud and clear that these pardons should not be erased by the stroke of a Sharpie pen.
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Trump's Pardons: How Judges Effectuate the Expressive Function of the Law
By Judge Nancy Gertner (Retired) and Joel Cohen
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January 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Judges have a duty to not silently rubber stamp Trump pardons. And some have responsibly taken great pains to say loud and clear that these pardons should not be erased by the stroke of a Sharpie pen.
contrarian.substack.com/p/trumps-par...
contrarian.substack.com/p/trumps-par...
"Trump’s actions have been fast and unpleasant, which tracks with everything Stormy Daniels has told us." - Andy Borowitz
January 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
"Trump’s actions have been fast and unpleasant, which tracks with everything Stormy Daniels has told us." - Andy Borowitz
Remember when Trump said you will never have to vote again? He's doing his damndest to make that happen.
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Heather Cox Richardson
January 22, 2025 (Wednesday)
Marc Caputo of Axios reported today that Trump’s decision to pardon or commute the sentences of all the January 6 rioters convicted of crimes for that day’s events,...
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January 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Remember when Trump said you will never have to vote again? He's doing his damndest to make that happen.
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Executive Order 11246, to address the harmful effects of racism which President Johnson signed in 1965 is now gone.
Apparently didn't fit in with Trump's racist all white America goals so Trump rescinded it.
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Apparently didn't fit in with Trump's racist all white America goals so Trump rescinded it.
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'Civil rights canon in American law': Trump rescinds historic LBJ nondiscrimination order
With a stroke of a pen, President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order on Tuesday that overturned government policies going back six decades that banned discrimination and required affirmati...
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January 22, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Executive Order 11246, to address the harmful effects of racism which President Johnson signed in 1965 is now gone.
Apparently didn't fit in with Trump's racist all white America goals so Trump rescinded it.
www.alternet.org/news-politic...
Apparently didn't fit in with Trump's racist all white America goals so Trump rescinded it.
www.alternet.org/news-politic...
What Biden finally fixed, Trump is taking away. Trump Actions to Undermine Drug Prices Will Cost Medicare Recipients Money open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Trump Actions to Undermine Drug Prices Will Cost Medicare Recipients Money
By Jeff Nesbit, Former Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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January 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
What Biden finally fixed, Trump is taking away. Trump Actions to Undermine Drug Prices Will Cost Medicare Recipients Money open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Apparently making America great again slogan is code for doing away with diversity...a nation of white men only is the goal.
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US govt workers in diversity jobs to be put on leave as programs ordered shut
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that US federal employees working in diversity offices must be put on paid leave by Wednesday
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January 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Apparently making America great again slogan is code for doing away with diversity...a nation of white men only is the goal.
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Given Trump's dislike of flags flying at half staff, when he dies - and he will die at some point - out of an abundance of respect, and in keeping with his wishes, do not lower the flag to half staff. No doubt his minions in the GOP would heartily agree.
January 14, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Given Trump's dislike of flags flying at half staff, when he dies - and he will die at some point - out of an abundance of respect, and in keeping with his wishes, do not lower the flag to half staff. No doubt his minions in the GOP would heartily agree.