Mastodawn

Internationally, the US is sanctioning individuals they disagree with. This includes judges in The Hague, and here the UN special rapporteur to Gaza, who can no longer access her own bank account, because the Trump regime is abusing their power ower international monetary systems to keep her in The Dark Ages.

No indictments. No trials. All these people are just shut out, because Trump feels like it.

https://youtube.com/shorts/E0JCNSTUN8c?si=Ouen1QRvhQsm3lwm

'It's brutal': life under U.S. sanctions

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JackPearse Feb 26

@randahl This is where Trump is killing Trust into real money. Eventually killing Money itself in the long run.

This is indeed where crypto could shine ( if it would working properly )

JimmyB (he/him)Feb 26

@randahl if ever there were better evidence that we need to end dollar supremacy, create new payment systems which are independent of Washington, and grow the spine needed to tell the US we aren’t playing their appalling games any more - I’ve not seen it

Dagnabbit, Pascaline! 💥Feb 26

It is terrible.
And the result is a world in which we move farther away from one another, each with our own systems because we don't trust or can rely on one another. It is constant fear.
A few months ago I was talking about it with someone, and it's like a fear that creeps in, a fear that the world we live in and like will be changed by people who feel we have no right to live the way we like, and who can put our life in a straitjacket.

JimmyB (he/him)Feb 26

@randahl @pascaline yes - this is our modern angst: we know that major decisions about how we live, the opinions we are allowed to hold, where can travel and how our jobs will be organised are being made by some of the worst people on the planet, who have bought our politicians.

It is entirely reasonable that we feel traumatised by it

Dagnabbit, Pascaline! 💥Feb 26

Yes 😟

Per Jakobsen (no anonymity)Feb 26

@JimmyB @randahl

Drop their Bonds, their Tech and their Dollar.

Trumps is a schoolyard Bully.

@randahl @JimmyB

Strongly agree! The US is proving that it has no moral authority that would justify this kind of control over the international banking system.

@randahl Let's hope Europe to settle for european payments soon, something has already been built with SEPA, while the initiatives for credit cards are still lagging.

VHG 🇪🇺🇺🇦Feb 26

@randahl the #us becomes a terror state under #trump. Wait … where is my bank account gone? 😳

decapitae Feb 26

@randahl The regime of petulent terrorists continues to terrorize 😓

Conny Nasch Feb 26

@randahl I did not know this was possible. The petro yuan will replace the petro dollar at a more rapid rate, this kind of behaviour is unprecedented!

@randahl The bottom line here is that the US cannot be trusted anymore, and other countries have to disentangle themselves from us for that reason -- which they really should have done a long time ago, but better late than never. In a country where so much can change so greatly with just one election, it's essential to avoid that kind of dependency. We didn't invent any of these tools, such as banking; we just came to dominate them, because other people let us. That must now end.

@CAWguy has moved Feb 26

@randahl Perfect timing to coincide with Doctorow’s latest article: https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/26/hanged-for-a-sheep/

Pluralistic: If you build it (and it works), Trump will come (and take it) (26 Feb 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

@randahl

What bothers me even more is that @EUCommission seems to be doing absolutely nothing to help its own citizens targeted by the sanctions. No pressure to the banks or companies to end the blockade. No anything.

Just a few offhanded remarks about the issue, which in practice means accepting the measures and aligning themselves with Trump against EU citizens.

yazomie (she/her)Feb 28

@juristi @randahl @EUCommission They're trying with the Digital Euro initiative or how it's called, but that effort might come to public fruition too late. EU are gambling that the US won't try sanction all of us before the EU is ready to be fairly sovereign digitally, because there are certain high interests to buy time and at once try profiting from the state of things...

@Zzyzx @EUCommission @randahl

Digital Euro is a significant step. Hopefully it will become reality and people really start to use it. There is also Wero/EuroPA collaboration, but with the current (at least on Vipps) 4% fee + requirement to still have debit/credit card to send money abroad it is hard to see it become very relevant.

The gamble for more sovereignty is pretty much the only option to take at the moment. I can understand the buying of time, but at the same time EU should do at least something else than give empty words in this kind of cases of blatant disregard of union laws. Trump, like Putin, respects power. Instead, Ursula VdL and other european leaders behave like US vassals and make EU weaker than it really is.

@randahl
This what i mean with the real power of the #clubofoligarchs
And may be this is the reason why so many leaders of so many countries are VERY "careful" in their actions.🤔
This *could* be easily upscaled. THAT is the real "elephant in the room", the dependence of whole countries of such digital infrastructures owned by the few.

Kenny Park Feb 26

@randahl Thanks for this. Took me ages to find the full video on Zeteo, so here's the link if anyone wants the whole conversation: https://zeteo.com/p/francesca-albanese-fake-video-gaza-board-of-peace-donald-trump-israel-genocide-united-nations?

Francesca Albanese Talks Israel, Epstein and the ‘Orgy of Power’

The UN Special Rapporteur joins Mehdi and our Zeteo town hall audience to call out global powers and promote BDS, as a Zionist disinformation campaign tries to cancel her and get her fired.

Zeteo

davecb 🇨🇦Feb 26

They're back!

We used to call those "Bills of Attainder" in Britain: they were abolished around 1870. See https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/33-34/23/section/1/enacted

A rough definition is " A legislative act that punishes a specific person or group without a trial, declaring them guilty and imposing punishment, often including forfeiture of property and loss of civil rights".

The US beat us in 1788, with Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution: "No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed" by Congress.

Of course they're therefor unconstitutional, but Mr Trump doesn't agree.

He is using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) act, passed by Congress, to let him to impose economic sanctions on individuals, particularly in foreign policy contexts. These can include freezing assets, travel bans, and restrictions on transactions.

Forfeiture Act 1870

Randahl Fink Feb 27

@davecb interesting. Thanks.