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University “leaders should collectively declare they will not suppress lawful free speech, diversity programs or campus research to appease any president.”
UNITE.
Stop. Obeying. In. Advance.
After 500 years of freezing …. “Lake Suwa has not fully frozen over — what locals call ‘an open sea’ — for 18 of the past 25 years.“
Voice of America reporters, Reporters Without Borders and a handful of unions have sued the U.S. Agency for Global Media and Kari Lake for dismantling Voice of America. VOA was formed during WWII.
A lawsuit filed by Voice of America reporters, some unions and a press freedom group charged the Trump administration with unlawfully shutting down the news outlet. They said the demise of the agency, which has beamed news into countries around the world for decades, would be a boon to authoritarian regimes that back censorship. The administration, working largely through representative Kari Lake, has described the outlet as filled with “rot” that needs to be stripped to the core. Republicans have long complained that the agency, ordered by Congress to report news objectively, is instead dominated by liberal propaganda.
“This is a whole new world of uncertainty that we’re dealing with here. The changes out of the US are not surprising, but they are seismic,” warned Australia’s Treasurer Jim Chalmers.
“The history of the world since at least the French Revolution is that rapid disruption makes governments cataclysmically worse. #Trump, the anti-institutionalist, is creating an electoral monarchy, a system in which all power is personalized and held in his hands.”
“For almost 90 years, #SocialSecurity has never missed a paycheck — but 60 days into this administration, Social Security is now on the brink,” Lee Saunders, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, said “all in service to Elon Musk’s lies.”
“Trump’s flagrant denial of due process is so radical that it isn’t only at odds with 200 years of U.S. law — it’s also contrary to another 600 years of English law before that.”
If a presidential action rejects “government under law, by law, through law, in conformity with law” it is “opposed to constitutionalism itself … it is anti-constitutional.”
Trump and #Musk have seized control of the US Institute of Peace, which is NOT part of the executive branch. It’s a Congressionally created independent agency.
“Saudi Arabia’s economic power rests on its vast oil reserves, and Mr. Trump has embraced a parallel approach — championing ‘drill, baby, drill’…”
Trump’s AI generated video of a casino-led Gaza Strip “is the embodiment of the shared Gulf state dream: autocratic technocapitalism in glitz and glass.”
