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Māurice Ross

@mauricemichael.bsky.social

Lawyer and pianist. Dedicated to civil rights and Democracy. We must understand why Trump won and educate ourselves and America. Music is life.

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Mark Wayne Mullins is as dumb as a rock. He wouldn’t be qualified to run a local police department much less DHS. He is a MAGA extremist who will probably make things worse.

05.03.2026 21:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump, Bondi face lawsuit over approval of ByteDance TikTok US asset sale President Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi ​were sued Thursday over the ‌U.S. government's approval of a deal by TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance to ​establish a majority American-owned ​jo...

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05.03.2026 21:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Twenty-four US states announce lawsuit to stop Trump’s latest global tariffs New York Attorney General Letitia James and the top prosecutors of 23 other states are planning to once again sue to block President Donald Trump’s global tariff regime, just days after a landmark Sup...

Trump’s newest tariffs are obviously illegal ground.news/article/twen...

05.03.2026 21:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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US crude oil tops $80 per barrel after Iran says it attacked US tanker in Persian Gulf More tankers came under attack in Gulf waters on Thursday as the U.S.–Iran war escalated, and Iranian drones entered Azerbaijan, threatening to spread the crisis to more oil producers in the region.

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05.03.2026 21:41 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Trump, now we are waiting on..

Pam Pedophiles Go Free Bondi
Kash My Girlfriend is Also Going Patel
RFK Toilet Seat Cocaine Sniffing Jr.
Pete Unqualified Drunkard Hegseth
Marco What The Hell Am I Doing Rubio
Tulsi Lack of Intelligence Experience Gabbard

And while you are at it, FIRE your damn self!

05.03.2026 21:36 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Iran is 'confident' it could counter a U.S. ground invasion, foreign minister says Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Thursday that his country is ready for a ground invasion by American troops as the war launched by the United States and Israel has quickly spread across t...

The Trump Administration apparently miscalculated reflecting gross recklessness and incompetence ground.news/article/iran...

05.03.2026 21:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Judge rules companies are entitled to refunds for Trump tariffs overturned by the Supreme Court In a defeat for the Trump administration, a federal judge in New York ruled Wednesday that companies that paid tariffs struck down last month by Supreme Court are due refunds.

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05.03.2026 01:10 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1
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Kansas Is Revoking Many Trans People's Driver's Licenses Due to New Law The legislation was written so that trans people's licenses are revoked immediately without a grace period to swap to new licenses.

Shameful and illegal bigotry ground.news/article/two-...

04.03.2026 22:16 — 👍 7    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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RFK Jr. wants Dunkin’ and Starbucks to prove iced coffees are safe for teens Robert F. Kennedy threatens to crack down on Dunkin' and Starbucks for their sugary drinks at a Make America Healthy Again event.

RFK insanity ground.news/article/rfk-...

04.03.2026 22:14 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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ICE training was slashed, records show, corroborating whistleblower claims Immigration and Customs Enforcement dramatically cut its basic training program amid a hiring spree meant to speed up the Trump administration’s deportation efforts, records obtained by The Washington...

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03.03.2026 22:23 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Denver Bans Federal Law Enforcement Officers From Covering Their Faces, DHS Says It Won't Comply Denver city leaders unanimously passed a ban on all officers, including ICE agents, from wearing face coverings while detaining or arresting people. That law also requires officers to wear visible ide...

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03.03.2026 22:22 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0
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Judge nixes latest policy requiring 7 days’ notice for Congress members to visit ICE facilities A federal judge agreed on Monday to temporarily suspend the latest version of a Trump administration policy that requires members of Congress to provide a week’s notice before they can visit immigrati...

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03.03.2026 22:18 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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U.S. Judge Preliminarily Approves US$35 Million Settlement Between Epstein Estate, Accusers A U.S. judge granted preliminary approval on Tuesday to an agreement for Jeffrey Epstein’s estate to pay as much as US$35 million to resolve a class action lawsuit that accused two of the disgraced fi...

Economic settlement is not sufficient—where are the criminal prosecutions? ground.news/article/mult...

03.03.2026 22:08 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Gas Prices Across the U.S. Jump 11 Cents per Gallon, AAA Says Crude oil prices are surging due to the Iran war, pushing up prices at the pump across the U.S., according to AAA.

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03.03.2026 21:45 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump on lack of Middle East evacuation plan: ‘It happened all very quickly’ President Trump on Tuesday said there was no evacuation plan for Americans in the Middle East because the joint strikes launched on Iran by the U.S. and Israel “happened very quickly.”

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03.03.2026 21:27 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Justice Department Seeks to Reverse Course and Defend Law Firm Sanctions The Justice Department on Tuesday signaled plans to press forward with the defense of President Trump’s executive orders sanctioning law firms, a remarkable turnaround coming one day after it asked a ...

Trump and Bondi will never admit mistakes? ground.news/article/just...

03.03.2026 21:27 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Russia bans a prominent LGBTQ+ rights group as extremist in a new blow A court in Russia on Tuesday designated a prominent LGBTQ+ rights group as an extremist organization, the latest blow to the country’s beleaguered community that has faced an intensified crackdown …

Will Trump administrative challenge this outrageous discrimination by Russia?Of course not ground.news/article/russ...

03.03.2026 21:25 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Kash Patel gutted FBI counterintelligence team tasked with tracking Iranian threats days before US strikes, sources say By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Just days before the United States launched a major military operation in Iran, FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen agents and staff members from a counterintellige...

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03.03.2026 20:49 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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GOP Sen. Thom Tillis unleashes on Noem: ‘Time after time, I’ve been disappointed’ Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) tore into Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in a 10-minute tirade criticizing her from everything to her handling of the deaths of two Minnesotans to killing her own do...

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03.03.2026 20:49 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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US judge says Trump effort to end New York City congestion pricing unlawful A U.S. judge on Tuesday said the U.S. Transportation Department effort to ​force an end to Manhattan's congestion pricing program was illegal, a blow ‌to President Donald Trump's attempts to eliminate...

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03.03.2026 20:48 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Trump administration has no plan ?

02.03.2026 22:43 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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San Francisco Ballet Cancels Upcoming Performances at Kennedy Center The San Francisco Ballet has canceled its scheduled performances at the Trump-Kennedy Center this spring. The troupe is the latest arts organization to withdraw from the historic venue following recen...

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02.03.2026 22:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Just one in four Americans supports US strikes on Iran, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds Only one in four Americans approves of the U.S. strikes that killed Iran’s leader, while about half — including one in four Republicans — believe President Donald Trump is too willing to use military ...

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02.03.2026 22:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Kristi Noem set to face lawmakers amid immigration funding clash Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is set to testify this week at two separate congressional oversight hearings.

Was Iran war an attempt to distract from Epstein and ICE misconduct? ground.news/article/kris...

02.03.2026 22:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Starmer breaks with Trump on Iran, says UK doesn’t support ‘regime change from the skies’ British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday said the United Kingdom does not support joining air operations against Iran, despite joining defensive operations in the region.

Break with closest ally is another Trump disaaster ground.news/article/star...

02.03.2026 22:34 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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'No indication' Iran nuclear installations hit: IAEA The head of the UN's nuclear watchdog said on Monday his agency has "no indication" that any nuclear installations have been damaged or hit in Iran following US and Israeli strikes on the country.

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02.03.2026 22:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Texas attorney general: ‘Illegal’ for mental health providers to ‘transition’ kids in state Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) on Monday issued a legal opinion that it is illegal for mental health care providers to “transition” children under state law.

Ignorant Bigotry in Texas ground.news/article/texa...

02.03.2026 22:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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US Supreme Court rebuffs challenge to ban on gun ownership by nonviolent felons The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a case challenging a federal law that prohibits nonviolent felons from owning firearms. The decision leaves a lower court ruling intact, which had rejected the ...

Major loss for second amendment extremists ground.news/article/supr...

02.03.2026 22:24 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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US Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up the ​issue of whether art generated by artificial intelligence can be copyrighted under U.S. law, turning ‌away a case involving a computer scienti...

Copyright does not protect AI generated content ground.news/article/us-s...

02.03.2026 22:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Administration to Drop Court Fight Against Law Firms Targeted in Executive Orders: Report The Justice Department as soon as Monday is expected to drop its appeals of four trial-court rulings that struck down President Trump’s actions against law firms Jenner & Block, WilmerHale, Perkins Co...

Major loss for Trump ground.news/article/trum...

02.03.2026 22:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0