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Jason844 🙃Feb 24

@paul Ah! Can you say "Police Surveillance State?" Well, "County," any way.

Gotta keep America safe from democracy...

And spend that money we are just raking in!

#UPPol

We Must Strike May 4, 2025

"And so there's always a concern that the federal government and its officials like Ed Martin will step outside and abuse their authority and try to use the legal process and abuse the court system into compelling scientific journals and medical professionals and anybody else they disagree with into #silence ."

Medical journals hit with threatening letters from Justice Department : Shots - Health News : NPR https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/05/02/nx-s1-5374993/medical-journals-hit-with-threatening-letters-from-justice-department

#uppol #freespeech #threats

zeno's paradox speedrunner Apr 13, 2025

-- Constitutional Spitroast --

The legal language glows on my laptop. Bloodless. Technical. “The Secretary of Defense may determine those military activities that are reasonably necessary and appropriate.”

Reasonable…

Appropriate…

Words still dressed in their Sunday best while weekend passes expired for constitutional separation of powers.

Weather alert flashes. Storm warnings. Barometric collapse. Democracy depression incoming from the southwest. Pressure dropping inside my skull in time with atmospheric systems.

Trump’s order hands federal land to the military. Creates “military installations” on US territory. Gives Pentagon jurisdiction over American soil with rules of engagement drafted by generals, not legislators. Legal document reads like necropsy report for republic that died without anyone noticing. Constitution didn’t flatline dramatically. Just got quietly rewritten in bureaucrat-ese while Americans argued about gas prices.

#politics #uppol #collapse #longform #writing #transwriter #transexperience #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #gonzo #news

Constitutional Spitroast

Field Notes From Under the Shadow of Babel

Recursive Blasphemy

Kim Perales Jan 27, 2025

The Trump admin: is abandoning our allies, #refugees, the vulnerable... demoralizing & deadly.

"...has directed officials to cease allowing #immigrants into the US through parole programs & to stop extending their status, a move that'll affect Ukrainians with US sponsors, Afghan evacuees...

Effectively: suspends the entry of immigrants through parole IMG programs -incl. a sponsor initiative for Cuban/Haitian/Nicaraguan/Venezuelan migrants..."
-C Montoya-Galvez

#UPPol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/us/politics/trump-immigration-pause.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Trump Officials Pause Programs to Let In Immigrants, Including Ukrainians

The pause on several initiatives that allowed immigrants to enter the country temporarily will block the entrance of people fleeing some of the most unstable and desperate places in the world.

The New York Times