Defenders of Democracy

Supreme Court Strikes Down Part of Trump Tariff Regime Political and Global Reactions Follow

#USA #SCOTUS #Congress #POTUS #Tariffs #Tyranny #Democrats #Republicans #Economy #Law
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"Democratic officials framed the decision as constitutional enforcement..."

John Roberts’ Rebuke of Trump’s Tariffs Is Withering, Confident, and Genuinely Encouraging In truth, Trump’s tariffs were always on shaky legal ground.

#POTUS #SCOTUS #Tariffs #Constiitution #Law #Economy
#Congress
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"...Trump still has considerable power to impose or raise import taxes on his own through other provisions of federal law and outlined his initial plans Friday afternoon."

Yoon Suk Yeol: South Korea's ex-president jailed for life over martial law attempt Yoon Suk Yeol's December 2024 martial law bid fundamentally damaged South Korea's democracy, a judge told the court.

#USA #Korea #Tyranny #insurrection #Constitution #Law #Justice #Epstein #UN #Russia #EU #Britain #DHS
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"South Korea's ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol has been jailed for life for masterminding an insurrection by trying to impose military rule."

Flawed ‘Epstein Files’ disclosures undermine accountability for grave crimes against women and girls: UN experts GENEVA – The so-called ‘Epstein Files’ contain disturbing and credible evidence of systematic and large-scale sexual abuse, trafficking and exploitation of women and girls, UN experts* said today.Acco...

#UN #CrimesAgainstHumanity #USA #EU #Britain #DOJ #Constitution #Law #Congress #SCOTUS #Poland #France #Russia #Slavery #Racism #Torture #Femicide
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Crimes Against Humanity

The Guardian on this:

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Flawed ‘Epstein Files’ disclosures undermine accountability for grave crimes against women and girls: UN experts GENEVA – The so-called ‘Epstein Files’ contain disturbing and credible evidence of systematic and large-scale sexual abuse, trafficking and exploitation of women and girls, UN experts* said today.Acco...

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"Crimes Against Humanity"

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#EU #DigitalSovereignty #Tech #Software #Hardware #Silicone #Computers #AI #Microsoft #Facebook #Amazon #Google
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No doubt major changes are afoot due to greater trans-Atlantic tensions. Quite an extensive read listing many major sources of friction.

Trump’s New Voter I.D. Threat Is His Gravest Attack on Democracy Yet The president says he’ll do it “whether approved by Congress or not!” He can’t legally do that—but that hasn’t stopped him before.

#Tyranny #Constitution #Congress #Elections #democracy #Democrats #Autocracy
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Trump: “there will be Voter I.D. for the Midterm Elections, whether approved by Congress or not!”

#USA #DOJ #Constitution #Law #Tyranny #democracy
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"Some defendants who pleaded guilty agreed as part of their plea deals that dressing in black obscured their identities...."

A man shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis was charged with assaulting law enforcement. A startling admission ended the case | CNN Alfredo Alejandro Aljorna was on shift in Minneapolis on a Wednesday evening last month, making deliveries as a DoorDash driver, when he realized he was being followed by ICE agents, his attorney said...

#USA #Immigration #DHS #ICE #CBP #Tyranny #Constitution
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"The dismissed case fits into a larger pattern in which the federal government has been quick to release accounts after a shooting by its law enforcement agents, which were later proven to be false...."

80K views · 5.2K reactions | One year later, and my message to the Trump Administration remains the same. | JB Pritzker One year later, and my message to the Trump Administration remains the same.

#USA #Illinois #Pritzker #Hitler #Tyranny #Fascism #Nazism #Authoritarian #Democrats #democracy
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Judge blocks Pentagon from downgrading Sen. Mark Kelly's military rank, pay A judge banned the Trump administration from taking adverse action against Kelly after he and other Democratic lawmakers urged military members to "refuse illegal orders."

#Arizona #Constitution #Senate #Congress #democracy #Law #Liberty
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"This Court has all it needs to conclude that Defendants have trampled on Senator Kelly's First Amendment freedoms and threatened the constitutional liberties of millions of military retirees...."

'All over the files': Maddow names names of people in Trump's orbit in the Epstein files | The Rachel Maddow Show Donald Trump is, of course, mentioned thousands of times in the Epstein files, as one would expect given his close relationship with notorious pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, but Trump's...

#USA #MSNOW #democracy #Maddow #ICE #DHS #CBP #SaltBoxes #Tyranny #PrisonCamps
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Informative and long podcast

#USA #DHS #ICE #CBP #Tyranny #democracy #Democrats #Congress
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Death by cold: Russia is attempting to freeze millions of Ukrainian civilians Russia is methodically bombing Ukraine's power and heating infrastructure amid arctic weather conditions in a bid to freeze millions of Ukrainian civilians and make much of the country unlivable, writ...

#USA #Ukraine #Russia #War
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"...Ukrainians first began calling Russia’s winter bombing campaign a “kholodomor” (literally “death by cold”)....The term ... looks like an accurate and objective description of what is clearly a deliberate Russian strategy...."

Obama Foundation Appears To Subtly Troll MAGA With Bad Bunny Super Bowl Message The caption set social media alight.

#USA #Obama #democracy #NFL #Citizens #elections #vote #tyranny
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“From one natural-born US citizen to another, have a great Benito Bowl!”

#USA #Russia #Kazakhstan #blackmail #CIA #Tyranna #NSC #NATO #EU #Ukraine #Canada #Britain #Mexico
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"The Kremlin and Kazakhstan are both in possession of kompromat incriminating US President Donald Trump, according to ... former head of Kazakhstan’s security services...."

Federal judge rules DOJ can ‘no longer’ be trusted in voter roll crusade The judge pointed to a letter from Bondi to Minnesota that tied federal immigration enforcement to demands for voter data as the smoking gun.

#USA #DOJ #Judiciary #Oregon #voters #electorate #elections
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"A federal judge ... ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights."

#USA #Elections #Tyranny #Economy #democracy #Strike #Democrats #Republicans #Senators #Congress #Gallego
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"We need to make sure that we have an ultimate response to that, which I believe has to be a true national strike... if they try to overthrow our democracy...."

Ukrainians warned for years that Europe's human rights chief was a Kremlin conduit. The Epstein files just proved them right. - Euromaidan Press Epstein files reveal how Council of Europe chief Jagland offered to connect the convicted sex offender to Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov.

#NSA #CIA #DHS #Epstein #Russia #USA #EU #Ukraine #NATO #Canada #Greenland #NSC #Poland #Norway
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"...Epstein...was clandestinely involved with multiple intelligence agencies."

All Democrats Backed Sanders Push to Repeal $75B for ICE to Undo Medicaid Cuts The extra $75 billion granted to ICE could instead prevent 700,000 people from losing health care, Sanders said.

#ICE #Congress #Medicade #DHS #CBP
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The entire Democratic caucus, as well as two Republicans, voted “yes” for the amendment. The measure failed 49 to 51, but the vote is a show of growing opposition to Trump’s immigration campaign, even among members of his own party.

Why This Shutdown Is Different Now come negotiations over the administration’s immigration crackdown.

#DHS #Congress #Constitution #Indivisble #Law #ICE #CBP #NSC #Freedom #Future #Detention #Tyranny #democracy #Democrats
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Andrew O’Neill, the national advocacy director for Indivisible... warned...The public has done its part, and now Congress must do theirs.”

Trump’s Claims Of Threats To National Security Have Gone In A Weird Direction The administration has repeatedly used claims of national security as a get-out-of-court-free card. This might be the most absurd of them all.

#USA #DHS #WhiteHouse #Ballroom #NSC #DOD
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Possible further explanation: the bunker.

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Poland to probe possible links between Epstein and Russia, PM Tusk says Poland will launch an investigation into possible links between the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Russian intelligence, as well as any impact on Poland, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tues...

#Poland #Epstein #USA #Russia #Scandal #Tyranny #DHS #DOJ
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"Poland will launch an investigation into possible links between the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Russian intelligence, as well as any impact on Poland, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday."

Jeffrey Epstein Reportedly Ran Kremlin’s Largest Honeytrap and Blackmail Operation New reports suggest Jeffrey Epstein was involved in a significant sexual blackmail scheme linked to Russian intelligence operations.

#USA #Russia #Moscow #Epstein #Constitution #Congress #Scandal
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"Journalists calculated that newly released documents in the Epstein case contain 1,056 references to Russia and Vladimir Putin, and 9,629 references to Moscow."

‘Trust Has Been Breached’ The broken relationship between Minnesota and the federal government

#USA #Constitution #Law #ICE #DHS #CBP #Minnesota
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Gifted Link.

Trust has been breached: A sentence that sums up what many in the US and the world feel about this administration.

#Wealth #Economy #USA #Oligarchy #democracy #tyranny modest proposal

Defang ICE → Save the Midterms The fight over ICE isn’t just about civil rights. It’s about free and fair elections, too.

#USA #ICE #DHS #CBP #Immigration #Elections #democracy
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defunding ICE and Free and Fair Elections linked