President Donald Trump's administration on Friday will announce it is moving ahead with a new rule, previously known as Schedule F, that will make it easier to remove federal employees it believes are undercutting Trump's agenda, Axios reported, citing officials. #us #usa #news #minimarketonlineltd #minimarket #America #AmericaNews #AmericaFirst #SaveAmerica #trump #donaldtrump #GoodbyeAmerica
"Regulation that impedes the operation of US digital behemoths – anything short of blanket permission to do as they please – will apparently be treated as a hostile act and an affront to human liberty.
This is an imperial demand for market access cynically camouflaged in the language of universal rights. The equivalent trick is not available in other sectors of the economy. US farmers hate trade barriers that stop their products flooding European markets, but they don’t argue that their chlorine-washed chickens are being censored. (Not yet.)
That isn’t to say digital communications can be subject to toxicity tests just like agricultural exports. There is wide scope for reasonable disagreement on what counts as intolerable content, and how it should be controlled. The boundaries are not easily defined. But it is also beyond doubt that thresholds exist. There is no free-speech case for child sexual abuse images. The most liberal jurisdictions recognise that the state has a duty to proscribe some material even if there is a market for it.
The question of how online space should be policed is complex in principle and fiendishly difficult in practice, not least because the infrastructure we treat as a public arena is run by private commercial interests. Britain cannot let the terms of debate be dictated by a US administration that is locked in corrupting political intimacy with those interests.
It is impossible to separate the commercial and ideological strands of Trump’s relationship with Silicon Valley oligarchs. They used their power and wealth to boost his candidacy and they want payback from his incumbency. There is not much coherence to the doctrine. “Free” speech is the kind that amplifies the president’s personal prejudices. Correcting his lies with verifiable facts is censorship."
Next step: Outlawing Universities that foster Critical Thinking?
"The Internal Revenue Service is making plans to rescind the tax-exempt status of Harvard University, according to two sources familiar with the matter, which would be an extraordinary step of retaliation as the Trump administration seeks to turn up pressure on the university that has defied its demands to change its hiring and other practices.
A final decision on rescinding the university’s tax exemption is expected soon, the sources said.
The administration already has blocked more than $2 billion in funding from the nation’s oldest university, which is fighting the White House’s policy demands, citing the constitutional right of private universities to determine their own teaching practices.
President Donald Trump in recent days raised the idea of punishing the Ivy League university for not complying with what the administration has sought to portray as a campaign to fight antisemitism.
“Perhaps Harvard should lose its Tax Exempt Status and be Taxed as a Political Entity if it keeps pushing political, ideological, and terrorist inspired/supporting ‘Sickness?’ Remember, Tax Exempt Status is totally contingent on acting in the PUBLIC INTEREST!” Trump posted on Truth Social on Tuesday."
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/16/politics/irs-harvard-tax-exempt-status/index.html
Trump officials and right wing media are slandering the character of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Maryland father and union apprentice wrongfully deported to El Salvador's notorious mega-prison CECOT — based on the false narrative that all immigrants are criminals.
We cannot fall victim to the divide-and-conquer tactic being waged by the Trump administration.
Credit: @pslnational on Instagram
Krieg gegen die Ukraine: Trump will "sehr bald" eine Einigung sehen
Nach US-Außenminister Rubio erhöht auch Präsident Trump den Druck auf die Beteiligten im Ukraine-Krieg und mahnt ein baldiges Ende an. Eine konkrete Zeitvorstellung hat er dabei aber nicht.
#USA does not belong to a sick, motherfucking #childRapist and #sexualBatterer who deserves to be brought to justice for ALL his crimes against teenage #girls and #women
Immigrants plead for help inside Texas’s Bluebonnet ICE facility. They say they’re falsely accused of gang ties, forced to sign papers they can’t read, and told they’ll be deported imminently, signature or not. Leaked video captures the frontlines of Trump’s war on due process
Credit: @btnewsroom on Instagram
https://liberationnews.org/harris-and-trump-united-against-immigrants/
The school that trains dictators: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SGtegY0S3yo
Shameful. Absolutely shameful that the official White House account is behaving this way.
Of course, too many #Republicans think this is just fine. At least until they get arrested and are not given due process. They think it will never happen to them, but I am reminded of Martin Niemöller -- who supported #Hitler and the #Nazis until they came for him -- and his poem, "First they came"
![Screen shot of a social media post from the official account of The White House. It shows an image of the front page of the New York Times with its headline modified in red ink. The original headline reads, "Senator Meets with Wrongly Deported Maryland Man in El Salvador." The White House edited it to read, "Senator Meets With Deported MS-13 illegal alien in El Salvador who's never coming back."
The text above the image says, "Fixed it for you, @NYTimes. Oh, and by the way, @ChrisVanHollen --- he's NOT coming back."
[Trump is both inhumane and asinine.]](https://assets.newsie.social/media_attachments/files/114/360/486/682/657/610/original/7769e3fbbca3c989.webp "Screen shot of a social media post from the official account of The White House. It shows an image of the front page of the New York Times with its headline modified in red ink. The original headline reads, \"Senator Meets with Wrongly Deported Maryland Man in El Salvador.\" The White House edited it to read, \"Senator Meets With Deported MS-13 illegal alien in El Salvador who's never coming back.\"
The text above the image says, \"Fixed it for you, @NYTimes. Oh, and by the way, @ChrisVanHollen --- he's NOT coming back.\"
[Trump is both inhumane and asinine.]")
Texas is almost certainly getting school vouchers — Senate Bill 2 has passed in the state’s House and is likely to have a fairly smooth passage to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk. It’s the culmination of a 30-year battle that has until now been blocked by Democrats and rural Republicans.
@TexasObserver takes a look at how it happened. Zeph Capo, the president of the Texas American Federation of Teachers, said in a statement: “Greg Abbott relied on a last ditch phone call from Donald Trump to bully Republican lawmakers to fall in line.”
https://www.texasobserver.org/abbott-trump-house-vouchers-pass/
#Education #SchoolVouchers #SchoolChoice #GregAbbott #DonaldTrump #USA #Texas #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
5/15
#Wir haben alles zu Geheimhaltung,
#Politik in #Deutschland und in den #USA, #Politikversagen, #PolitikerInnen, #Korruption, #Skandalen, #Waffen geschrieben, was wir zu schreiben haben.
Mehr als wählen gehen und uns die Finger wundschreiben können wir nicht.
Wenn die Mehrheit es so haben möchte, müssen sie auch damit leben.
"Desperate for a new intellectual underpinning, neoliberals and libertarians sought refuge in the work of economist Friedrich Hayek, who famously argued in his 1944 polemic The Road to Serfdom that government intervention in markets is antithetical to individual freedom. But Murray, Rothbard, Hoppe, and others fatally twisted Hayek’s message, claims Slobodian, and took it so far as to argue that only Western countries are intellectually and culturally primed for capitalism.
The politics of this cohort, which he dubs the “new fusionists,” was rooted in “three hards,” argues Slobodian: “Hardwired human nature, hard borders, and hard money.” They forged sordid alliances with biologists, evolutionary psychologists, and ethnonationalists, spouting pseudoscience about the link between race and IQ, a topic famously repopularized in the 1994 best-seller The Bell Curve, coauthored by Murray and psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein. They railed against lax immigration policies on the premise that they led to cultural decay. But perhaps most strangely, they ballyhooed the value of gold as a backstop against a looming economic cataclysm caused by incompetency in Washington. (Talk about apropos.)
In an interview with Vanity Fair, which has been edited for length and clarity, Slobodian analyzes Donald Trump’s radical agenda through this new prism of neoliberalism. He also unpacks the distressing parallels between goldbugs and crypto bros, and details why the tech set has suddenly taken up with the MAGA right. Silicon Valley’s “willingness to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Donald Trump,” he says, is indicative “of the embrace of an ideology that pretty frankly ranks human capacity along the spectrum of intelligence and IQ.”"
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/donald-trump-silicon-valley-neoliberal-roots
"Donald Trump’s tariff policy has thrown markets into turmoil among his allies and enemies alike. This anarchy reflects the fact that his major aim was not really tariff policy, but simply to cut income taxes on the wealthy, by replacing them with tariffs as the main source of government revenue. Extracting economic concessions from other countries is part of his justification for this tax shift as offering a nationalistic benefit for the United States.
His cover story, and perhaps even his belief, is that tariffs by themselves can revive American industry. But he has no plans to deal with the problems that caused America’s deindustrialization in the first place. There is no recognition of what made the original U.S. industrial program and that of most other nations so successful.
That program was based on public infrastructure, rising private industrial investment and wages protected by tariffs, and strong government regulation. Trump’s slash and burn policy is the reverse – to downsize government, weaken public regulation and sell off public infrastructure to help pay for his income tax cuts on his Donor Class.
This is just the neoliberal program under another guise. Trump misrepresents it as supportive of industry, not its antithesis. His move is not an industrial plan at all, but a power play to extract economic concessions from other countries while slashing income taxes on the wealthy. The immediate result will be wide-spread layoffs, business closures and consumer price inflation."
https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/04/14/michael-hudson-robber-barons-trump-tariffs/
"Your location data isn't just a pin on a map—it's a powerful tool that reveals far more than most people realize. It can expose where you work, where you pray, who you spend time with, and, sometimes dangerously, where you seek healthcare. In today’s world, your most private movements are harvested, aggregated, and sold to anyone with a credit card. For those seeking reproductive or gender-affirming care, or visiting a protest or a immigration law clinic, this data is a ticking time bomb.
Last year, we sounded the alarm, urging lawmakers to protect individuals from the growing threats of location tracking tools—tools that are increasingly being used to target and criminalize people seeking essential reproductive healthcare.
The good news? Lawmakers in California, Massachusetts, Illinois and elsewhere are stepping up, leading the way to protect privacy and ensure that healthcare access and other exercise of our rights remain safe from invasive surveillance."
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/privacy-map-how-states-are-fighting-location-surveillance
Cowards: NATO downplays climate and gender language to appease Trump
https://www.politico.eu/article/nato-downplays-climate-and-gender-language-to-appease-trump/
"A government whistleblower told lawmakers that DOGE's access to National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) systems went far beyond what was needed to analyze agency operations and apparently led to a data breach. NLRB employee Daniel Berulis, a DevSecOps architect, also says he received a threat when he was preparing his whistleblower disclosure.
"Mr. Berulis is coming forward today because of his concern that recent activity by members of the Department of Government Efficiency ('DOGE') have resulted in a significant cybersecurity breach that likely has and continues to expose our government to foreign intelligence and our nation's adversaries," said a letter from the group Whistleblower Aid to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence leaders and the US Office of Special Counsel.
The letter, Berulis' sworn declaration, and an exhibit with screenshots of technical data are available here. "This declaration details DOGE activity within NLRB, the exfiltration of data from NLRB systems, and—concerningly—near real-time access by users in Russia," Whistleblower Aid Chief Legal Counsel Andrew Bakaj wrote. "Notably, within minutes of DOGE personnel creating user accounts in NLRB systems, on multiple occasions someone or something within Russia attempted to login using all of the valid credentials (e.g. Usernames/Passwords). This, combined with verifiable data being systematically exfiltrated to unknown servers within the continental United States—and perhaps abroad—merits investigation."
Bakaj said they notified law enforcement about an "absolutely disturbing" threat Berulis received on April 7."
DON'T SCROLL PAST!!!!!
Crucial warning on one of the most cruel scams currently happening.
https://theonion.com/fbi-warns-of-american-dream-scam-1822834360/
" America is number one! "Maybe in your heart, but nowhere on earth is that true any longer, except for people who believe science is bad for them and angles are real. We're the crazy people and the joke of the world.
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Ukrainian traitor Svyrydenko key in stealing and selling Ukrainian wealth to pay blackmail on gifted US aid, while signing away port and energy rights to pro-Kremlin duplicitous American crooks for empty promises (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-economy/3983390-ukraine-us-sign-memorandum-on-economic-partnership-agreement-svyrydenko.html #Ukraine #NukesForUkraine #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #NukesOrNATO #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionOfUkraine
#RussiaIsATerroristState
