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In news from the quivering bowels of Vichy America, a major liberal law firm has agreed to work for fascists and stop hiring so many women, brown people, or members of the LGBTQ community to placate an aggrieved, would-be dictator and keep raking in those sweet government contracts:

https://truthout.org/articles/trump-rescinds-executive-order-after-firm-vows-pro-bono-for-right-wing-causes/

Trump-Targeted Law Firm Caves, Vows $40M in Legal Support to Right-Wing Causes

"President Donald Trump withdrew an executive order targeting a major Democratic-leaning law firm after the firm agreed to provide $40 million in pro bono legal services in support of his administration’s far right initiatives.

“This is unbelievably shameful from Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP,” Molly Coleman, executive director at People’s Parity Project, said on LinkedIn. “I’m embarrassed to have any association with this firm that failed to find the courage the moment requires.”

Recently, the White House has escalated attacks on law firms whose attorneys have been involved in legal efforts opposing Trump. Just last week, Trump signed an executive order attempting to revoke security clearances from Paul, Weiss attorneys, restrict the firm’s access to federal buildings, and terminate any of its government contracts. The order reportedly prompted at least one client to sever ties with the firm.

However, following a meeting between Trump and Brad Karp, the chair of Paul, Weiss, the administration abruptly rescinded the order. “We look forward to an engaged and constructive relationship with the President and his Administration,” Karp said in a statement."

So, let's make sure we all understand what's going on here. Trump is brazenly and almost certainly illegally, shaking down a powerful law firm that has literally worked on cases opposing him in the past, and is known from their commitment to diverse hiring practices, and instead of fighting back, or even just taking the loss of government money on the chin, they've decided to *check notes* concede that a former partner who worked on cases against Trump was engaged in "wrongdoing," work pro-bono for the fascist regime, and capitulate to the fascist "war on DEI" - an idea whose ever-expanding meaning appears to be "restore mandated white supremacy in America."

Are you kidding me? Does the larger liberal establishment in the United States have anything resembling a spine to share between them? More importantly, if Americans trapped inside the increasingly ominous, fascist nightmare that is Trump 2.0 can't count on a high profile law firm in the *business* of protecting civil rights and taking on the government, to even stand up for the firm's *own* rights, how can they have faith that anyone in position to defend their rights in a legal capacity, is going to step up to the plate for them? The answer of course, is that they can't.

Folks, you'll get no argument from me if you say that the greater evil in this story is a fascist president who would be king, using the authority of his office to gain revenge on law firms that helped charge him for real crimes, he absolutely committed. As the extorted settlement proves, this too is part of Trump's plot to take complete control of America as a dictator. This isn't legal, and as a federal judge's restraining order in a similar case involving the Trump-targeted firm Perkins Coie demonstrates, complete surrender was not the only option Paul Weiss and its chair Brad Karp had here. By that same measure you can't win if you don't fight, and when losing means capitulating to fascism, a law firm full of civil rights lawyers has a goddamn *responsibility* to resist.

“It is a sad day for the legal industry. Paul, Weiss, didn’t just bend a knee, it set a new standard for shameful capitulation. This is a stain on the firm, every one of its partners, and the entire legal profession,” Marc Elias, founder of Democracy Docket, said on Bluesky."

Friends, I've been talking about and writing about the rise of fascism for over a decade now. And I'm not bragging, because I wish I had been wrong about the signs I was reading around me, but I have largely been right when I insisted we were all heading for a moment like this. Furthermore, I have repeatedly warned that a liberal establishment (no, not you; your leaders, your media, your "liberal" capitalist employers) which would always have the option of simply collaborating with the fascist order, wasn't going to save us from fascist predation. There is no cavalry; the opposition party, the courts, and the lawyers aren't going to stop this. At the rate things are going, I have no idea how long I'll still be able to tell you that we are the cavalry, and the only way this nightmare ends is if we use our bodies en masse to shut down the fascist order and the profits that motivate the guys paying for all this; but it's the truth. If you can do it to Tesla, you can do it to any of them.

#Fascism #Trump #ExecutiveOrder #PaulWeiss #Capitulation #Collaborators #VichyAmerica #antifascism


Desperation move by #DOJ:

'The Trump administration asked the #USSC on Thursday to allow it to move forward with an #executiveorder to restrict #birthrightcitizenship, after a series of lower court rulings blocked the policy nationwide.

The #JusticeDepartment, in three applications about rulings in Washington, NJ and Maryland (wants) to limit those rulings only to the people or states who filed them.'

#Trump administration takes birthright citizenship to #SupremeCourt
https://rollcall.com/2025/03/13/trump-administration-takes-birthright-citizenship-to-supreme-court/


Huh?
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Via #CTV News

Trump signs order imposing sanctions on International Criminal Court over investigations of Israel

UPDATE
ICC responds:

The ICC condemns the issuance by the US of an Executive Order seeking to impose sanctions on its officials and harm its independent and impartial judicial work.

#Trump #ExecutiveOrder #sanctions #ICC #InternationalCriminalCourt #Israel


The #Trump admin has suggested that members of the #DOGE team have the authority to review sensitive govt files but has refused to provide details about whether #security clearances have been issued. The speed w/which any clearances would have been supplied suggests they may have skipped customary precautions, including #FBI background checks, US ofcls said.
Trump issued an #ExecutiveOrder last month that bypasses the normal procedure for White House staff security checks, DOGE went unmentioned.


A shitass 'president' CANNOT #ExecutiveOrder changes to the Constitution.Trump KNOWS THAT. He's just marketing to the #racists reactionaries in his electoral base.

Judge rails against #Trump in blocking #birthrightcitizenship executive order for second time

"A second federal judge blocked President Trump’s executive order that would restrict birthright citizenship, harshly condemning the administration for attempting to do so at a Thursday hearing."

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5130744-trump-judge-birthright-order-blocked


Die #CDC hat #Forschende angewiesen, eingereichte #Studien zurückzuziehen oder zu überarbeiten, um bestimmte Begriffe zu entfernen. Betroffen sind auch bereits angenommene, aber noch nicht veröffentlichte #Manuskripte. Die Maßnahme folgt einem #ExecutiveOrder der #Trump-Administration, die wissenschaftliche #Publikationen streng reguliert. Dies könnte die Veröffentlichung wichtiger #Gesundheitsforschung erheblich verzögern.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/faustfiles/114043

#Wissenschaft #Zensur #PublicHealth #Science


As I said when first mentioned... except COVERT and Black Budget funding ofc. This cutoff DOES NOT INCLUDE military Aid.

The #EO is called: “reevaluating and realigning US foreign aid.”

Under this order, a 90-day pause was instantly enforced on all US foreign development assistance across the globe – excepting, of course, the largest recipients of US aid in #Israel and #Egypt..."

"Did a #Trump #ExecutiveOrder Just Cripple the Global US #RegimeChange Network?"

https://scheerpost.com/2025/02/01/did-a-trump-executive-order-just-cripple-the-global-us-regime-change-network/


“Operation Wrath of Zion" Aims to Dox and Deport Pro-Palestinian Protestors in New York City (Jack Poulson | Drop Site News, 2025-01-30)

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-palestine-dox-new-york-facial-recognition-ai
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“This week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to cancel the visas of college students who protest in support of Palestine, opening the path to their deportation. A small company called Stellar Defense & Cyber Intelligence is ready to help by deploying AI technology to identify anonymous, masked pro-Palestinian protestors, ...”

“#Betar is a self-described ‘right-wing Zionist’ youth movement that has made prominent use of the facial recognition tool. Together, they hope to feed the names of pro-Palestinian protestors to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (#ICE) ...”

#USPol #ExecutiveOrder #FacialRecognition
@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel


This most likely DOES NOT apply to military aid:
"#Ukraine funding HALTED under Secretary of State Rubio’s new 90-day foreign aid freeze. Marco Rubio halts all foreign aid to stop money flow to Ukraine

The US State Department has issued a new directive freezing all government spending on foreign aid projects, citing an official memo, several media reported.

Earlier, Donald #Trump signed an #executiveorder suspending all US foreign aid programs."
https://t.me/TheIslanderNews/31803


"The #EO officially bans the creation and issuance of a central bank digital currency (#CBDC) in the United States, defining a CBDC as “a form of digital money or monetary value, denominated in the national unit of account, that is a direct liability of the central bank.”";

...at least until a 'working group' figures out some details, anyway...

"#Trump has just said he is now signing an #executiveorder on #crypto" #btc #bitcoin #digitalcurrency

Details https://unusualwhales.com/news/trump-has-just-said-he-is-now-signing-an-executive-order-on-crypto-2


Here's 'remarkable'

"#Trump signs #executiveorder to declassify #JFK, #RFK, and #MLK #Assassination files'

"The order aims to address long-standing questions and theories surrounding the killings, which occurred over 50 years ago. Official investigations concluded that lone gunmen were responsible for all three assassinations, but persistent conspiracy theories have challenged these findings."

https://unusualwhales.com/news/trump-signs-executive-orders-to-declassify-jfk-rfk-and-mlk-files #conspiracy #conspiracytheories


Trump #executiveorder declaring only ‘two #sexes’ gets the #biology wrong, #scientists say .

Order describes sex as an ‘immutable biological classification set at conception as either #male or #female’, but all #human #embryos start out as #female.

https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/23/trump-executive-order-only-two-sexes-not-supported-by-science/


NOW its getting good! 😎

"#Trump signs #executiveorder to declassify #JFK, #RFK, and #MLK #Assassination files'

"The order aims to address long-standing questions and theories surrounding the killings, which occurred over 50 years ago. Official investigations concluded that lone gunmen were responsible for all three assassinations, but persistent conspiracy theories have challenged these findings."

https://unusualwhales.com/news/trump-signs-executive-orders-to-declassify-jfk-rfk-and-mlk-files #conspiracy #conspiracytheories


A number of executive orders are going to cause direct harm to the disabled community … but please don’t miss this order which will harm non profits & advocacy orgs.

Apparently non profits can now be punished for attempting to correct misinformation - because the corrections infringe on Freedom of Speech.

These organizations need to be able to counter disinformation in order to ensure patient safety.

We are experiencing record rates of disability and punishingly long wait times for healthcare.

Not all conditions are well understood even by the medical community, so patients turn to social media and advocacy organizations for help

There’s already many harmful lies and misinformation swirling around about chronic illness, and if we put orders in place that punish those who seek to correct the information, it’s the patients who will suffer

They will be left with nowhere to turn, especially in the event that the doctor they see also repeats harmful misinformation.

They could end up enduring setbacks or permanently altering their baseline as a direct result of bad information disguised as “help”

We appear to be careening into an information blackout, where all someone will be able to access will be misinformation & disinformation.

Consider who that benefits & who it harms, and then help us fight back. Get on the phone and tell legislators you vehemently disagree

https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/files/media/documents/2025/chart-executive-orders.pdf

#uspoli #disabilityrights #disabilityadvocacy #ableism #chronicillness #executiveorder
A table which reads  Claims combatting "misinformation," "disinformation," and "malinformation" are infringements on First Amendment freedom of speech. (Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship) Nonprofits working on specific issues and from various subsectors seen as and providing information contrary to the Administration may be targeted. • Requires foreign assistance to be disbursed in a manner aligned with Other the foreign policy of the President and places a 90-day pause on foreign development assistance. (Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid) • Rescinds previous Order promoting the arts, humanities, and museum and library services. (Initial Rescissions of Executive Harmful Executive Orders and Actions) Arts and culture nonprofits, museums, and libraries will no longer be "integrated into strategies, policies, and programs that advance the economic development, well-being, and resilience of all communities", among other things, by the Trump Administration. Nonprofits that provide forei assistance may be targeted.


#Trump Is Said to Consider #ExecutiveOrder to Circumvent #TikTok #Ban. The move is under discussion as the Chinese-owned app faces a Sunday deadline to find a new buyer or shut down in the United States. #chinese #socialmedia https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/us/politics/trump-tiktok-executive-order.html