#Minnesota, & other #BlueStates, should also enact new laws that make #federal #obstruction harder. The #AlexPretti case shows that #ICE officials were willing to ignore a #state-court #warrant. Perhaps anticipating that, Minnesota officials went to federal court on Saturday, potentially after the scene of Pretti’s #shooting had been compromised, & obtained a temporary restraining order about #evidence preservation. The legal basis for such orders, however, may be fragile.
If it isn't clear yet, here goes:
The purpose of #ICE is to antagonize the population to the point were that population will react. This will then give #Trump a pretense to invoke the #InsurrectionAct. Basically, he's prodding the People. This is happening in #Minnesota and it's only January. His intent is to have the #army present in as many if not all #BlueStates come the midterms.
I'm not saying he's going to succeed.
Right, America?
Judge: #Trump violated #FifthAmendment by ending #energy grants in only #blueStates
Trump's blatant #discrimination came on the same day as the government shut down last fall. In total, 315 grants were terminated in October, ending support for 223 projects worth approximately $7.5 billion…All the awardees, except for one, were based in states where Donald Trump lost the majority vote to Kamala Harris in 2024.
#Arizona, #NewMexico, and #Texas share #borders with #Mexico. Understandably, these states receive the highest number of supposéd "#IllegalImmigrants" coming from Central and South America. Yet, interestingly, we've seen no surge of #ICE agents there. Might this be because all three states just happen to allow "#OpenCarry", hmm?
#Trump isn't after illegal immigrants. Trump is out to create chaos in #BlueStates and Blue Cities. Period.
“A federal judge ruled Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration cannot block federal money for child care subsidies and other programs aimed at supporting needy children and their families from flowing to five Democratic-led states for now. “
A judge has ruled that President Donald Trump’s administration cannot block child care and other federal social service money from flowing to five states for now. The administration said Tuesday it would not release money for three programs aimed at helping needy children and their families in the Democratic-led states of California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said there was reason to believe there was fraud in those places, though it did not cite any evidence. Under the ruling on Friday, the new requirements are on hold until further court action.
Shock and awe
This is what I would describe what I felt when hearing the news that the #US invaded #Venezuela and took #Maduro as a #hostage. It is nothing short of something comparable to what happened when #Russia invaded #Ukraine with the same purpose - of triggering a regime change and turning it into a #puppetcountry - by force.
I remember even today that I took a day off from work, waiting for a desk to be delivered to my place. I woke up relaxed in that morning and I turned on the mobile data on my phone, waiting patiently to be bombarded by notifications. I got a message from a friend of mine, telling me that Russia was fighting in Ukraine. I replied to him that yeah, I know, in Donbass, right? (or something like that) - to which he replied something along the lines of "no, bro, they literally attacked Ukraine, they're in Ukraine" and sent me a link to some live reporting.
It was just as the #pandemic was getting over, most people got their shots, and we were hoping to go back to normal. We were hoping the world would go on with the ensuing post-war system that held largely well and ensured some prosper (albeit unequal) economies. The fact that a permanent member of the UN Security Council directly invaded a sovereign nation - even more so, for land grabbing reasons - changed that. I remember walking in the University Square here in Bucharest and trying to figure stuff out of what happened - my first thought was, "this world will simply not return to what it was. The old order and everything I learned about conflicts was no longer applicable".
#Trump's invasion (as I cannot really say America's invasion since the Congress didn't authorize this) of Venezuela, followed by the swift capture of its leader had an expectable outcome - not only the latter was smaller and not really surrounded by allied countries, but the #USArmy is a better trained, gunned and more effective army than that of the #Russians - but still equally shocking, given that outcome. Regardless of the motives of Trump's action (be it #drugs, #oil and whatnot), this paints a gloomier picture. What we're seeing in #Venezuela is the practical, real world application of Trumpo-Putinist doctrine, so far only expressed in words by the #POTUS when it came to #annexing #Greenland, #Canada or #Panama. It is the doctrine that was the standard in the #internationalsystem until #WW1 and the doctrine that was only starting to be abandoned after WW2, when a (apparently) more solid international organization - the UN, that is - was created to keep the order and make wars preventable. It is the doctrine that says that #mightisright and whoever has the weakest army risks being swallowed by the one that has the strongest. It is the very opposite of what our #postwar world was built on.
Maduro is not a leader to cry about. Even far from it. He's been ruling his country with an iron fist, suppressing dissent, repressing opposition and getting human rights to a low that probably even Putin would only dream about, let alone Trump himself. Yet what happened in Venezuela does not guarantee it a stable democracy, freedom, human rights. Because Trump cares nothing about these things - he showed it at home, he showed it in US #bluestates and #bluecities, he showed it by allying and bending down to dictators like Xi and Putin. What happened in Venezuela was a display of force. And it will inadvertently be a positive signal for #dictators around the world that they can do whatever they like on other countries' lands.
Right now, #EU is the strongest remaining guarantor of a #lawbasedorder. Canada, Australia, the UK, New Zealand and the democracies of the Far East are more like regional players.
Beyond these events, a couple of questions arise: What did we do to end up in this terrible situation? Could the US Democrats come back to power this year and successfully flip the situation? Or Europe? Or at least will Europe be able to keep the rule-based order to some extent at least? Or are we doomed already?
Minnesota’s most prominent #Somali American, Democratic US Rep #IlhanOmar, has urged people not to blame an entire community for the actions of a relative few.
#law #WhiteSupremacy #BlueStates #BlueCities #RevengePolitics #Trump #childcare #Minnesota #HHS
Walz, the 2024 Democratic VP nominee, has said fraud will not be tolerated & his admin “will continue to work with federal partners to ensure fraud is stopped & fraudsters are caught.”
Walz has said an audit due by late Jan should give a better picture of the extent of the fraud. He said his admin is taking aggressive action to prevent additional fraud. He has long defended how his admin responded.
#law #WhiteSupremacy #BlueStates #BlueCities #RevengePolitics #Trump #childcare #Minnesota #HHS
O’Neill, who is also serving as acting director of the #CDC, also said in the post Tuesday that payments across the #US through the #ACF, an agency within the #HHS, will now require “justification & a receipt or photo evidence” before money is sent. They have also launched a “fraud”-reporting hotline & email address, he said.
#law #WhiteSupremacy #BlueStates #BlueCities #RevengePolitics #Trump #childcare #Minnesota #HHS
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