#InformationsfreiheitsGesetz #IFG #FediLaw #Legal #DEpol #USpol

Da hat die absolut Recht, denn nur so konnten engagierte Rechtsanwälte in den #USA diese vergangene Woche die #SignalGate-Affäre der #US-Regierung gerichtlich an den Pranger stellen.
Dass es nur auf bundes- & nicht auf landesebene gilt, ist eigentlich skandalös. "Accountablity" ist eigentlich einer DER zentralen #Demokratie-Garanten. Dazu ist #Transparenz der politisch Handelnden und der öffentlichen Verwaltung unabdingbar.

These are only three and a half minutes. Uncut. Representing the essence of #CoryBooker 's speech around the 20hrs mark. It's a speech to all Americans. But is as well a speech, foremost to the #DemocraticParty, about which, until today, I wasn't sure it still exists. Senator Booker just opened a huge window of opportunity. They only have to use it.

#USPol #USPolitics #IDontWantToGoHome #USSenate #USA #Democrats #Politics #NewJersey

#Senator #CoryBooker, #NewJersey, spricht seit fast DREIZEHN (13!) Stunden im #USSenate. Alleine das zu erleben, ist ein Privileg! Es ist definitiv noch zu früh, die #USA aufzugeben! Phänomenal! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2utlMxAwtE

#USPol

Interview: "Blueprint for Resisting Trump Education Cuts"

Chicago Teachers Union reached a tentative agreement with Chicago Public Schools that reaffirms sanctuary school protections, protects the ability to teach Black history, gives veteran teachers a raise, & more.

“The collective bargaining agreement is a very powerful tool... to ensure that people are protected."

~Stacy Davis Gates

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/1/stacy_davis_gates

#teacherunions #education #collectivebargaining #uspol #dei #trump #autocracy .

Debate: "Should the federal government make reducing the national debt a fiscal priority?"

Stephanie Kelton (No case) vs Stephen Moore (Yes case) at Arizona State, April 16

Attend in person or join thousands of others watching the livestream at 8 pm (ET).

https://stephaniekelton.substack.com/p/my-upcoming-debate-with-stephen-moore

#USEconomy #mmt #uspol #filmfindingthemoney .

Report: "Sen. Cory Booker Holds All-Night Filibuster Against Trump Agenda"

"New Jersey Democratic Senator Cory Booker is continuing a marathon speech from the Senate floor warning the U.S. faces a crisis over President Trump’s disregard for the rule of law and his efforts to dismantle entire government programs and agencies."

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/1/headlines/sen_cory_booker_holds_all_night_filibuster_against_trump_agenda

#corybooker #trump #filibuster #uspol #resistance #autocracy .

Interview: "We Are Killing the Essence of What the University Is”

A former head of Doctors Without Borders speaks out after NYU canceled her Gaza presentation.

Some of her slides mentioned Trump's cuts to foreign aid & the deaths of humanitarian workers in Gaza, slides which NYU said could be viewed as “anti-governmental” & “antisemitic”.

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/1/joanne_liu_msf_nyu

#trump #autocracy #censorship #uspol #GazaGenocideNotWar #bds #islamophobia #fascism #weaponisingantisemitism

Interview: "Workers vs. Musk"

"Trump has pushed to end collective bargaining rights for nearly half the federal workforce in a new executive order that calls them “hostile” to his agenda."

"Unions say the order is the biggest attack on the labor movement in U.S. history...designed to silence workers"

~Everett Kelley, American Federation of Government Employees,

Check out mass rallies on April 5

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/1/everett_kelley_trump_unions

#trump #musk #uspol #laborrights #usunions #april5rally #autocracy .

Interview: "Taking Down Everything Black”: Marc Bamuthi Joseph on Trump’s Takeover

Trump’s changes at the Kennedy Center destroyed a “sanctuary for freedom of thought & freedom of creative expression.”

"The rhetoric from Trump & others “severely restricts & almost criminalizes demographic realities outside of white, straight, male Christianity.”

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/31/kennedy_center

#kennedycenter #trump #genderism #racism #uspol #dei #fascism #censorship .

'Hate speech is everywhere on X.' California Assembly Democrats leave platform en masse
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-03-27/hate-speech-is-everywhere-on-x-california-assembly-democrats-leave-elon-musks-platform-en-masse

#LeaveX #USPol #X #democrats #EscapeX #eXit #hatespeech

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/31/middleeast/aid-workers-found-gaza-mass-grave-intl-hnk/index.html

still insane that this is happened and it gets barely any coverage in any liberal space

an evil army no different than russias + the fact that a community i used to consider myself a part supported this so blindly has disillusioned me about fellow liberals who refuse to state that obvious truth

i used to say that americas support for israel served as a hedge against liberal democracy in the world, but i didnt think it would help dismantle it here

#gaza #israel #uspol

Inhaltswarnung: Fascists eating each other Zum Öffnen/Schließen klicken

Albanese tells Trump that Australia is ‘not negotiating’ on biosecurity, medicines and news https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/01/australia-us-trump-tariffs-albanese-biosecurity-medicine
Office of US trade representative releases report on ‘foreign trade barriers’ including Australia’s biosecurity regime for imported beef, pork and poultry #trade #auslaw #auspol #uslaw #uspol #AUSFTA #access2meds #agriculture #media

#CaitlynJenner issues surprising statement after #Trump signs executive order affecting #TransAthletes

The former Olympian has left some of her X followers feeling 'confused'

One follower wrote: "Legitimate question - as a trans woman, are you cool with them just slowly erasing trans people, their rights, and everything they’ve worked towards?"

Rhianna Benson, February 16, 2025

"According to Reuters, enforcing his ban 'may be difficult' for Trump 'to enforce', being that his current options 'range from looking at birth certificates, which can be altered, to inspecting the bodies of children, an alternative that most would find unpalatable at best'.

"Transgender athlete Chris Mosier, who also spoke to the publication, has since responded: 'Anti-trans school sports bans are difficult to enforce because they rely on #SexTesting and #BodyPolicing for implementation and enforcement.

"'An increased scrutiny on athletes' bodies creates serious harm to all women and girls who are perceived as 'more masculine' due to being #queer, #intersex, or otherwise out of alignment with narrow, white-centric norms of femininity.'" [Or those of us with higher androgen levels naturally! 🤚🏼 ]

Read more:
https://www.tyla.com/news/politics/caitlyn-jenner-transgender-athletes-donald-trump-policy-support-157158-20250206
#TransRightsAreHumanRights #USPol #GenderPolice

Over the months I've been repeatedly disappointed by James Gleick's opinions on democracy, human rights and genocide

Real shame as his Chaos book was one of about 4 books from the library that inspired a very young me into a life-long fascination with mathematics and computers

:(

#gaza #democracy #uspol #genocide #humanrights #maths #science

Elon Musk on Fox News this had a rare moment of clarity where he says his involvement in the Trump Administration is hurting his companies bottom line.

He ends the clip by whining about Tim Walz taking joy in the $TSLA stock drop, a sign things are going just fine for the car company I'm sure /s 😅

#TimWalz #ElonMusk #Tesla #TeslaTakedown #DOGE #USPol #Swatsicar #nazicars

Anyone who knows or has even observed the US Health Disaster system might have expected this - but is an administration determined to wring the last cent out of those least able to afford it (it keeps them compliant) going to support this or will it be killed PDQ?

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/28/feds_multiplan_antitrust_defense/

#UsPol #HealthCare #Collusion

Silent Sunday?

What is more silent than the silence over the USA's plunge into Fascism and its opening of militarised concentration camps in 3rd countries on a mass scale, to hold, degrade and abuse otherwise innocent immigrants with no due legal process

There are bourgois mutterings in the media, that's true, but the silence is in the lack of any heartfelt connection to the reality and scale of the crimes against humanity that are unfolding. The silence is from their hearts

#uspol

"In a recent report by research firm Tourism Economics, inbound travel to the US is now projected to decline by 5.5% this year, instead of growing by nearly 9% as had previously been forecast."

#USpol
https://theconversation.com/tourists-are-cancelling-trips-to-the-us-heres-how-this-could-affect-its-economy-252858

Never forget (nor forgive) that the legal framework that #Trump is using to criminalize protests and deport people was written and voted, among others, by Joseph "Genocide" Biden. Not only the Domestic Terrorism laws he passed as president, it goes all the way back to the Oklahoma City Bombings and the Patriot Act.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/andrewkaczynski/surveillance-joe

#USpol

This commentary takes a somewhat contrary view from many, but it is a useful reminder that while the US has been great (honestly) in many ways, the darker side has resulted in crap and chaos.

Tisdall's swan song as the Observer gets dismantled?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/29/britain-has-been-paying-a-high-price-for-uncle-sams-craziness-its-time-to-turn-to-europe

#USPol #UkPol #Tisdall #Observer #Guardian #Enshitification

Starvation as a weapon of war occurs when food supplies are obstructed by warring parties.

Starvation as a weapon is not only a war crime, but it may also qualify as a method of extermination.

Article 7 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court defines extermination as “the intentional infliction of conditions of life, inter alia the deprivation of access to food and medicine, calculated to bring about the destruction of part of a population.”

https://www.thegenocidereport.org/global-issues/starvation-as-a-weapon/

#Israel #Gaza #Starvation #FoodAsWeapon #WarCrimes #Politics #Genocide #GenevaConvtion #ICC #Palestine #Inhumanity #USpol #Europe

The absurd lengths people will go to in order to blame Bill Clinton for everything is truly ridiculous

#BillClinton #Clinton #uspol #USPolitics #sociopath #media #socialmedia #Lewinsky #MonicaLewinsky

Why is DEI used by MAGA as an excuse to purge the accomplishments and resilience of POC from history books and museums?

Why are histories of white supremacy so objectionable to MAGA?

Because these aspects of history are more than objectionable; they are unfathomable. Literally unthinkable.

If MAGA were to accept what scholars know about America's past, it would cost them the whole basis of their self-image. It would require them to relinquish their superiority.

#history #histodons #uspol

Inhaltswarnung: USPol and Trump Zum Öffnen/Schließen klicken

Blatant Trump Racism!

Trump Regime moves to ban Jackie Robinson biography from Naval Academy library
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #sports #Racism

https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/trump-administration-reportedly-moves-to-ban-jackie-robinson-biography-from-naval-academy-library-235013259.html

New pet peeve just dropped:

People referring to "Musk's antics"

This isn't a Warner Bros cartoon filled with wacky hijinks and shenanigans. He's not painting a tunnel on the side of a cliff or slapping a bulldog in a bowler hat before kissing him.

It's an openly-fascistic man actively working in broad daylight to dismantle our tripartite government by usurping the role of the Legislative branch.

#USPol #ElonMusk #TeslaTakedown

Very disappointment. Space Karen hasn't demanded enough empathy. Try harder, world.

#uspol #teslatakedown

Trump is now directly firing career federal prosecutors who are investigating people who have donated money to his campaign. This is the most corrupt, dangerous, and venal act he has ever done. He only wants prosecutors who are directly loyal to him.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-03-29/los-angeles-federal-prosecutor-fired

Non-paywall link: https://archive.ph/qI4vk

Saturday Mar 29 Trump fired Adam Schleifer, a long-time financial fraud prosecutor in the Los Angeles U.S. attorney’s office.

#uspol

1/11

This boils my blood. I don't know the US labour history, but I do know how hard public sector workers in Canada and Alberta had to fight to gain collective bargaining rights, which they were not allowed because they were "civil servants".

All public worker strikes were wildcat strikes and illegal until 1967 when Federal workers gained the right to collective bargaining through the Public Service Staff Relations Act which took 2 years to pass through Parliament after the wildcat Postal Workers Strike of 1965.

Federal government employees responded by joining unions in record numbers.

Public sector workers in Alberta did not gain these rights until 2016, when the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that ALL Canadian workers have the fundamental right to strike, essential to even the playing field between workers and employers.

That hasn't even been 10 years ago, that our Provincial healthcare workers, education workers, social workers, wildlife workers, custodial workers, and many more have had access to such basic fundamental rights to legal collective job action! You may not have realized that all these strikes you are seeing now are history in the making!

We are living out a struggle for the right of the working-class to SURVIVE.

It breaks my heart to see our fallen comrades losing this fight with such desperation to the south, and makes me fearful of the coming storm we will have to face in Canada as our populist shadow government pushes to put us down in Canada.

#union #unionstrong #cdnpoli #abpoli #uspol #strike

More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.

Republicans are decimating America for a hundred years.

75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00938-y

#SaveScience #PresidentBystander #Signalgate #WhiskeyLeaks #EndTrump #EndMusk #AgentKrasnov #RepublicansOwnThis #DOGE #GOPKakistocracy #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

Demand resignations and a special prosecutor!

Address the Signal App security breach!

The gravity of this incident requires the gravest response.

Sign the petition to demand that your legislators TAKE ACTION!

https://resist.bot/petitions/PFTWIY

#PeteHegseth #SecurityBreach #Signal #USPol #ResistBot

Ron DeSantis wants to steal your childrens' youth!

Alarm as Florida Republicans move to fill deported workers’ jobs with children: ‘It’s insane, right?’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/29/florida-republicans-immigrant-jobs-child-labor

#RonDeSantis #Florida #ChildLabor #Immigrants #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

Rep Andy Barr (R-MA): “What we will not do is provide a forum for individuals more interested in grandstanding than engaging in a respectful and constructive conversation.”

Lifelong Republican and Barr Constituent: “Congressman Barr, you are complicit in the betrayal of our democracy.”

#AndyBarr #Massachussetts #GOPTraitor #GOPFailure #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

#Trump takes aim at foreign-born college students, with 300 visas revoked

Some students have been picked up off the street by immigration agents and held in detention centers, sometimes a thousand miles away from their homes, with little warning

By Daniella Silva, Chloe Atkins, Julia Ainsley and Abigail Williams, March 27, 2025

"Secretary of State #MarcoRubio said Thursday the State Department has revoked 300 or more #StudentVisas, as the White House increasingly targets foreign-born students whose main transgression seems to be #activism.

"Rubio warned that the administration was looking out for 'these lunatics.' Around the country, #scholars have been picked up, in some cases by masked immigration agents, and held in #DetentionCenters, sometimes a thousand miles from their homes with little warning and often with few details about why they were being detained.

"'It might be more than 300 at this point. We do it every day. Every time I find one of these lunatics, I take away their visas,' Rubio said at a news conference in Guyana, where he was meeting with leaders.

"Many of those rounded up by Trump officials attended or were part of the pro-Palestinian movement that swept college campuses last year, and while the administration hasn’t said publicly why these students are being singled out over others, at least one sought by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement appeared on lists made by far-right pro-Israel groups as targets for deportation.

"And Trump allies, many in government again, telegraphed for months before he took office that they’d seek to deport students who openly advocated for Hamas or other U.S.-designated terrorist groups or after they participated in an unauthorized campus #protest and were suspended, expelled or jailed.

"The detentions are a signal of a broader effort by President Donald Trump to clamp down on the actions of legal permanent residents, student visa holders and others who live and work legally in the United States, one that threatens to undermine a fundamental American right to #FreeSpeech and to assemble, experts and advocates said."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-administration-takes-aim-immigrant-students-rcna198346?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
#USPol #ThoughtPolice #Authoritarianism #Orwellian #CharacteristicsOfFascism #Clampdown #SilencingDissent #CriminalizingDissent #CriminalizingActivism #RightToAssemble #FirstAmendment #USPol

Trouble in #Trumpland? No wonder they want to restrict #VotingRights !

#Stefanik’s withdrawal suggests #Republicans are sweating their thin margins

By Andrew Howard, Ally Mutnick and Ben Jacobs
03/28/2025 04:45 AM EDT

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/28/stefaniks-withdrawal-suggests-republicans-are-sweating-their-thin-margins-00255984
#Elections #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Resist #TrumpRegrets #USPol

Anybody else see the "Maralago Accords " as extortion on a global scale??

*in a NY mafioso accent:
"Oh, ya wanna do bidness with the US?? You're gonna need to pay for protection"

#uspol #trump #treasury #china #trade #international

Musk's encouragement translates as:

Anyone, who's not interested in bribing demented corruptible psychopath Trump can go to Threads, Reddit, BlueSky, Instagram, Facebook.

Thanks for showing folks the way out of your sewer, Eloon!

#FreeFromX #NeverTesla #MuskSuX #ObstructionOfUSGovernment #USPol #USPolitics

CNN: Over 200 ‘Tesla Takedown’ protests take place throughout US on ‘Global Day of Action’ against Elon Musk’s role with DOGE

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/29/business/tesla-takedown-elon-musk-doge/index.html

#TeslaTakedown #Tesla #Politics #USpol