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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
The state is bad unless it helps us with the business
NEW: In the lead-up to Trump’s second term, a PA businessman hired Tom Homan as a consultant and said he could put together a group of companies wanting to get in line to win contracts for a massive immigration enforcement plan, sources said.
Trading on Tom Homan: Inside the Push to Cash in on the Trump Administration’s Deportation Campaign
A Pennsylvania businessman who had Tom Homan on his payroll led companies to believe his connections to the future border czar could help advance their bids for government work, industry executives said.
www.propublica.org
October 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The state is bad unless it helps us with the business
Oh, one reason absolutist monarch do not work well.
I used to have to argue with people that the worst impact of misinformation was not really felt through public consumption but through elite consumption but I think it's as clear as it can get now.
September 29, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Oh, one reason absolutist monarch do not work well.
Yes, but a lot of the people think that the foreign companies are paying the tariffs. Higher prices are just a coincidence.
@nealkatyal.bsky.social: “You’ve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 … and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.”
August 30, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Yes, but a lot of the people think that the foreign companies are paying the tariffs. Higher prices are just a coincidence.
How to spot a political Court
The Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” has cast very different shadows depending on which party holds the White House.
When lower courts blocked Trump admin policies, SCOTUS intervened on an emergency basis to lift those orders in 77% of cases.
For the Biden administration, that number was 0%.
When lower courts blocked Trump admin policies, SCOTUS intervened on an emergency basis to lift those orders in 77% of cases.
For the Biden administration, that number was 0%.
July 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
How to spot a political Court
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The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
June 7, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
Question is if Trump's policies wouldn't hurt them, would they be OK with them?
Farmers in a West Virginia town are angry over Trump's funding cuts. The Republican president won 70% of votes in the state in his bid to regain the White House. They believed Trump's repeated campaign vows that he supported American farmers. Hunger came up, time and again reut.rs/3QQ6aCO
March 29, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Question is if Trump's policies wouldn't hurt them, would they be OK with them?
When it hurts them personally, the perspective changes.
“The Bureau employs some 2,000 people in the city of 29,000.”
The Red Rural Recession.
www.thedailybeast.com/maga-junkie-...
The Red Rural Recession.
www.thedailybeast.com/maga-junkie-...
‘MAGA Junkie’ Fired in DOGE Cuts Now Regrets Voting for Trump: ‘I Expected Better’
“I was a MAGA junkie, a MAGA junkie who thought her government job would be safe with Donald Trump in office,” says West Virginia woman fired from the Bureau of Fiscal Service.
www.thedailybeast.com
March 29, 2025 at 6:32 AM
When it hurts them personally, the perspective changes.
DOJ is arguing in good faith or just to win some time so they can just ignore 100 judges?
Boasberg: So the president's foreign-affairs power exists once the plane crosses but not before that?
US: That's when his power is at its strongest
Boasberg: The president has extra powers over a plane once it's crossed into international territory?
US: That's when his power is at its strongest
Boasberg: The president has extra powers over a plane once it's crossed into international territory?
March 18, 2025 at 12:37 AM
DOJ is arguing in good faith or just to win some time so they can just ignore 100 judges?
True. They fight law and order by fighting the Constitution itself.
Leavitt: "We want to restore the Department of Justice to an institution that focuses on fighting law and order."
March 18, 2025 at 12:27 AM
True. They fight law and order by fighting the Constitution itself.
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Language used by individuals associated with the federal government who deported people without trial or due process to a concentration camp in El Salvador, defying a court order, has a specific resonance that, historically, has been used to change regime type.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-evil-a...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-evil-a...
The evil at your door
The deportation action as regime change
snyder.substack.com
March 17, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Language used by individuals associated with the federal government who deported people without trial or due process to a concentration camp in El Salvador, defying a court order, has a specific resonance that, historically, has been used to change regime type.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-evil-a...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-evil-a...
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I think we’re already there.
March 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I think we’re already there.
This fixes what problem in the US?
And the americans think the officials who did this will not be ready to hurt any of them?
And the americans think the officials who did this will not be ready to hurt any of them?
U.S. citizen child recovering from brain cancer deported to Mexico with undocumented parents www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...
U.S. citizen child recovering from brain cancer deported to Mexico with undocumented parents
The Texas family was on their way to an emergency medical checkup, they said, when they were detained at an immigration checkpoint.
www.nbcnews.com
March 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
This fixes what problem in the US?
And the americans think the officials who did this will not be ready to hurt any of them?
And the americans think the officials who did this will not be ready to hurt any of them?
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Canadian Prime Minister–designate Mark Carney:
"The Americans want our resources, our water, our land, our country. If they succeeded, they would destroy our way of life. In America, healthcare is big business. In Canada, it is a right."
"The Americans want our resources, our water, our land, our country. If they succeeded, they would destroy our way of life. In America, healthcare is big business. In Canada, it is a right."
March 9, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Canadian Prime Minister–designate Mark Carney:
"The Americans want our resources, our water, our land, our country. If they succeeded, they would destroy our way of life. In America, healthcare is big business. In Canada, it is a right."
"The Americans want our resources, our water, our land, our country. If they succeeded, they would destroy our way of life. In America, healthcare is big business. In Canada, it is a right."
Yes, the guy you supported and did not impeach said he wants to be a dictator. What did you expect?
“Frightened for the safety of their families.”
America, 2025.
America, 2025.
March 9, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Yes, the guy you supported and did not impeach said he wants to be a dictator. What did you expect?
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I had to bring this here because it’s so good
March 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I had to bring this here because it’s so good
And they thought this only happens to people who are too woke.
Did they miss the jokes about tea, windows and Russians who disagree with Putin?
Did they miss the jokes about tea, windows and Russians who disagree with Putin?
MAGA world turns against Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett www.aol.com/maga-world-t...
MAGA world turns against Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett
WASHINGTON — MAGA activists have turned against one of President Donald Trump's own appointees to the Supreme Court: Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
www.aol.com
March 7, 2025 at 12:08 PM
And they thought this only happens to people who are too woke.
Did they miss the jokes about tea, windows and Russians who disagree with Putin?
Did they miss the jokes about tea, windows and Russians who disagree with Putin?
What robots? Investment is big in AI but not in manufacturing robots. Also research can help but that is also destroyed.
So, no.
So, no.
Fascinating interview with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on @cnbc.com this morning: He said that US manufacturers can use robots to offset the low wages paid in other countries, enabling the return of more production to the US, and Americans can get jobs building and maintaining the robots.
March 6, 2025 at 5:27 PM
What robots? Investment is big in AI but not in manufacturing robots. Also research can help but that is also destroyed.
So, no.
So, no.
The french have a way with words 🔥
French Senator Claude Malhuret:
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
March 6, 2025 at 5:59 AM
The french have a way with words 🔥
When did Trump looked like he cared about any of these things?
Someone needs to remind President Trump that President Zelenskyy is the democratically elected leader of a sovereign country, a hero who is bravely standing against the illegal invasion of Ukraine by a murderous ACTUAL dictator called Vladimir Putin
youtu.be/HpmDquOkSCY?...
youtu.be/HpmDquOkSCY?...
FACTS & TRUTH MATTER
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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March 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
When did Trump looked like he cared about any of these things?
I don't think anybody is surprised...
There is scant evidence that US business leaders care about rule of law. Each apparently assumes that [he] will be a beneficiary of rent seeking and corruption. And they really don't seem to give a damn about society at large. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/o...
Opinion | Donald Trump Is Backed by the Business Elite
Behind closed doors, many top executives voice support for the new administration.
www.nytimes.com
March 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I don't think anybody is surprised...
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Un échange à la chambre des représentants US ce mercredi résume à lui seul la post-vérité et la manière dont le clan Trump entend désormais donner priorité à l'opinion sur les faits. La vidéo étant trop longue je l'ai découpée en 7 parties : 7 minutes pour comprendre la profondeur du problème. [1/8]
March 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Un échange à la chambre des représentants US ce mercredi résume à lui seul la post-vérité et la manière dont le clan Trump entend désormais donner priorité à l'opinion sur les faits. La vidéo étant trop longue je l'ai découpée en 7 parties : 7 minutes pour comprendre la profondeur du problème. [1/8]
Shocking until you realize that there are a lot of people like this in Russia. At the beginning there were few, then their number grew as Putin became more extreme.
"I voted for a president that made sure we were respected throughout the world and I believe I'm getting that"
I don't think she knows what respect means.
I don't think she knows what respect means.
March 1, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Shocking until you realize that there are a lot of people like this in Russia. At the beginning there were few, then their number grew as Putin became more extreme.
Yes, and Trump does what his voters want? No. He does what billionaires want. Possibly what Putin wants.
"69% of Republican voters say Russia is the aggressor and 83% disapprove of Putin"
www.wsj.com/opinion/most...
www.wsj.com/opinion/most...
Opinion | Most Trump Supporters Also Back Ukraine
Our poll found that 69% of Republican voters say Russia is the aggressor and 83% disapprove of Putin.
www.wsj.com
March 1, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Yes, and Trump does what his voters want? No. He does what billionaires want. Possibly what Putin wants.