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Fascist dictator trump consolidates power

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Fascist Nazi dictator authoritarian Donald Dump Trump is consolidating power as he fortifies his fascist Nazi dictatorship.
Trump and his billionaires oust a judge who speaks up for what is good
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-judge-2671921497/
‘Trumped-up charges!’ Agency moves to oust judge who defied presidential order

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is moving to fire an administrative judge who publicly challenged a Trump administration directive that paused discrimination investigations involving transgender people, The New York Times reported Thursday.

Karen Ortiz, who has served as a judge with the EEOC for over six years, was placed on administrative paid leave Wednesday and told that the agency is seeking her removal for “conduct unbecoming of a federal employee,” and for violating its email policy, according to letters reviewed by the Times.


Ortiz has 15 days to respond to the accusations and says she plans to fight them, but has no regrets.

“These are quite literally trumped-up charges,” she told the Times. “I stand behind my actions, which support the rule of law and the trans community.”

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“Ms. Ortiz gained national attention in February when someone leaked her email to the commission’s acting chairwoman, Andrea Lucas, calling on her to resign,” according to the Times report. “Ms. Ortiz accused Ms. Lucas of following the ‘illegal and unethical orders of our president’ and violating the Constitution.”

She included about 1,000 of her colleagues in the email, where she said she would “not compromise my ethics and my duty to uphold the law.”

In response, Ortiz’s email access was revoked, and she was reprimanded for not seeking approval before sending a mass communication – an EEOC policy requirement, according to the report. But Ortiz continued to fire off additional emails, including on
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MAGA Meltdown - Civil War

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MAGA is having a meltdown down as they tear themselves apart.
Civil War experts prove that MAGA civil war on the horizon
https://www.rawstory.com/maga-civil-war-2671925908/
'Civil war is coming to the Trump movement': Expert says MAGA could soon tear itself apart

President Donald Trump's base of support may soon fracture into two competing far-right factions, according to one expert.

The Wall Street Journal's Joshua Chaffin and Zusha Elinson reported Friday that two camps within the MAGA world are emerging and will likely battle for supremacy during Trump's second term. They wrote that on one side are "tech bros racing to create a new future," with Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk as the quintessential example. On the other side are "conservative Catholics who yearn for an imagined past," like Vice President JD Vance, who seek to upend the liberal establishment and return America to a "bygone era."

According to Chaffin and Elinson, the "dark prince" of the tech wing of MAGA is Curtis Yarvin — a pro-feudalist writer who has called for democracy to be replaced with a monarch who would rule the United States like a CEO leads a tech company. And the conservative Catholic faction upholds ideologies like that championed by University of Notre Dame political philosopher Patrick Deneen.

Catholic theologian David Deane told the Journal that Deneen's 2023 book "Regime Change" offered a prediction that the second Trump administration would put a torch to traditionally liberal institutions like universities, the media and the nonprofit sector. Deane opined that the ultimate goals of both factions are very different despite Trump managing to corral them under one tent.

“At some stage a civil war is coming to the Trump movement,” Deane said. “And I think Musk and Vance will be on two very different sides of that civil war.”

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The Journal noted that during an appearance at Harvard University, Yarvin expanded on his view that democracy wa
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India & Pakistan reach cease-fire agreement; Trump, Vance try to take credit

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https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05/10/world/pakistan-india-kashmir
President Trump announced Saturday that India and Pakistan had agreed to a cease-fire, after four days of the most widespread fighting between the nuclear-armed neighbors in decades.

“After a long night of talks mediated by the United States, I am pleased to announce that India and Pakistan have agreed to a FULL AND IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE,” Mr. Trump posted on Truth Social, congratulating the two countries on using “Common Sense and Great Intelligence.”

Indian and Pakistani officials confirmed the cease-fire in social media posts, though neither immediately mentioned an American role.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement that he and Vice President JD Vance had engaged with senior officials from both countries, including their prime ministers, over 48 hours. In addition to the cease-fire, India and Pakistan also agreed to “start talks on a broad set of issues at a neutral site,” Mr. Rubio said.

However, India’s foreign ministry contradicted Mr. Rubio, saying the cease-fire was worked out directly between India and Pakistan, and that there had been no decision to hold talks on any other issue at any location.

Trump Admits He Doesn't Understand the US Constitution

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/us/politics/trump-meet-the-press-interview-due-process.html

President Trump repeatedly said he didn’t know when asked in a TV interview whether every person on American soil was entitled to due process, as guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment.


President Trump said in an interview that aired on Sunday that he did not know whether every person on American soil was entitled to due process, despite constitutional guarantees, and complained that adhering to that principle would result in an unmanageable slowdown of his mass deportation program.

The revealing exchange, on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” was prompted by the interviewer Kristen Welker asking Mr. Trump if he agreed with Secretary of State Marco Rubio that citizens and noncitizens in the United States were entitled to due process.

“I don’t know,” Mr. Trump replied. “I’m not, I’m not a lawyer. I don’t know.”

Ms. Welker reminded the president that the Fifth Amendment says as much.

“I don’t know,” Mr. Trump said again. “It seems — it might say that, but if you’re talking about that, then we’d have to have a million or two million or three million trials.” Left unmentioned was how anyone could be sure these people were undocumented immigrants, let alone criminals, without hearings.

Mr. Trump responded “I don’t know” one more time and referred to his “brilliant lawyers” when Ms. Welker asked whether, as president, he needed to “uphold the Constitution of the United States.”

The comments came amid the many legal challenges to the administration’s agenda, especially Mr. Trump’s aggressive deportation campaign, and as top administration officials have begun to question the president’s obligation to provide due process. Mr. Trump has attacked judges, called for their impeachment and ignored a Supreme Court ruling directing his administration to facilitate the return of a migrant, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly sent to a prison for terrorists in El Salvador.
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US Embassy demands Sweden obey anti-DEI executive orders from Trump

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https://www.dn.se/sverige/usas-ambassad-kraver-lydnad-av-stockholms-stad-bisarrt/
[Machine translated below, from top Swedish newspaper.]

The Stockholm City Planning Office must not promote equality, diversity and inclusion, the U.S. Embassy demands in a letter, with a contract they expect the city to sign.
"It is completely bizarre", says the city's urban planning leader Jan Valeskog (S).

The embassy begins the letter with the “Dear City Planning Office” and then declares that a new policy requires everyone that U.S. government agencies buy goods and services from must sign the contract.

The City Planning Office is expected to sign and return the contract within ten working days.

“We’re not going to do that, it’s the opposite of everything we stand for. They should withdraw these oddities," Jan Valeskog said.

It is the embassy that benefits from the City of Stockholm, not the other way around, he believes.
“If the U.S. terminates the acquaintance with the city building office, the embassy will have a hard time getting a building permit if, for example, they want to rebuild. It's their headache, not ours," Valeskog said.
Building permits are required, according to Boverket, for new construction, extension and certain changes to the exterior appearance of buildings.

DN has previously written about the United States demanding the same thing from Swedish companies that deliver goods and services. In that case, the embassy replied in an email to DN that “U.S. missions review contracts and announcements to ensure they comply with the White House’s latest executive orders”.
Shortly after Trump was sworn in as president in January, he signed a presidential order to scrap state-funded programs that aimed to promote inclusion, equality and diversity in workplaces.
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Retarded faggot files title IX complaint

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https://theithacan.org/61659/news/ithaca-college-professor-files-title-ix-lawsuit-claiming-anti-lgbtq-environment/
Why are faggots so retarded? he said he was harassed for being a faggot, but title IX says
>on the basis of sex
not
>on the basis of being a pedophile sodomite
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ICE Breaks Into New House, Forces Mother and Daughters to Strip, Steals Life Savings

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In Oklahoma City Thursday, about 20 federal immigration agents raided the wrong home, forcing a woman out of the house with her three daughters, not even leaving them enough time to get dressed, and then seized their phones, laptops, and life savings.

The woman had only moved into the house two weeks earlier, after relocating to Oklahoma from Maryland. The armed agents told the woman, identified by local TV station KFOR as “Marisa,” that they had a search warrant, but the named suspects on the warrant didn’t live in the house and weren’t connected to anyone in the family.

“We just moved here from Maryland,” Marisa said. “We’re citizens. That’s what I kept saying. We’re citizens.”

The agents, who identified themselves as U.S. marshals, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and FBI agents, didn’t seem to care, waking the family up, forcing them outside in their underwear, ransacking the house, and taking the family’s belongings as “evidence.”

“I told them before they left, I said you took my phone. We have no money. I just moved here,” said Marisa. “I have to feed my children. I’m going to need gas money. I need to be able to get around. Like, how do you just leave me like this? Like an abandoned dog.”

“They were very dismissive, very rough, very careless,” the woman added. “I kept pleading. I kept telling them we weren’t criminals. They were treating us like criminals. We were here by ourselves. We didn’t do anything.”

One agent told the family, “I know it was a little rough this morning.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ice-invades-wrong-home-makes-165441707.html
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Drudge Report Headline Rundown - Part 2

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> 4/3/2025
George Washington, what has happened to you?! He’s all beat up!

> Top Headlines
Tech stocks “lead rout”
> https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-tech-retail-stocks-lead-070735659.html
“Apple heads for worst drop in 5 years”
> https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/03/tech-stocks-sink-after-trump-tariff-rollout-apple-leads-drop.html
Trump taking us back to his precious 1800s
> https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/ar-AA1CaWBn
“A key question remains”
> https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/01/trump-tariffs-effect-on-consumer-prices-debated-by-economists.html
Trillions drop from 401(K)s in minutes (Red Text)
> https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/article-14565011/Wall-Street-stocks-drop-like-stone-wiping-trillions-value-401-K-s-minutes.html
“Trump’s New Protectionist Age”
> https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-liberation-day-tariffs-protectionism-82d0aa3a
Germany thinks EU can stop Donald Trump!
> https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/03/trump-will-buckle-under-pressure-if-europe-bands-together-over-tariffs-german-economy-minister.html
Russia not being Tariffed?!? (Red Text)
> https://www.mediaite.com/news/white-house-spins-as-russia-omitted-from-tariffs-list/

> Main Headlines
“Tariffying” Trade War BEGINS
> https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-tariffs-amount-to-worse-than-worst-case-scenario-as-investors-brace-for-stock-market-beatdown-4cf6d5ca
More Layoffs from the Layoff President
> https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/03/layoff-announcements-surge-to-the-most-since-the-pandemic-as-musks-doge-slices-federal-labor-force.html
DOW -1300 (Red Text)
> https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/02/stock-market-today-live-updates-trump-tariffs.html
We’re not “Winning”
> https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/us-emerges-as-biggest-loser-in-markets-from-trump-s-tariffs/ar-AA1CcD3Q
Republicans are trying to stop Trump’s Canada Tariffs before doom happens.
> https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj9end2ze9lo

Good luck, Rebel Republicans!
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Another fiery but peaceful protest at the University of Washington

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https://abcnews.go.com/US/protesters-university-washington-building/story?id=121505881

More than 25 people were arrested after a group occupied an academic building at the University of Washington, demanding the school sever ties with Boeing as the war in Gaza continues, according to the university and a spokesperson for the group.

A group called Students United for Palestinian Equality and Return claimed it was behind the takeover, with a spokesperson telling ABC News that all of the people who entered the building were arrested.

''They were all arrested and legal and political support is ongoing for them," the spokesperson, Oliver Marchant, said in a text, adding, "All arrested except one were inside the building -- some of those arrested were also injured during arrest and need medical attention."

About 30 people were arrested on charges that included trespassing, property destruction and disorderly conduct, Victor Balta, a university spokesperson and assistant vice president for communications, said in a statement. Some of those arrested were charged with conspiracy to commit all three of those charges, Balta said, adding that they would be referred to the King County Prosecutor's Office.

"Any students identified as being involved will also be referred to the Student Conduct Office," Balta said.

The school said in an earlier press statement that "a few dozen individuals" had entered the Interdisciplinary Engineering Building just prior to its 5 p.m. closing. Campus police were called to the scene, the university said in a statement to ABC News.

Campus police, which were working with several other agencies, began clearing the area outside the building at about 10:30 p.m., Balta said. Protesters had worked to block the doors and also lit two dumpsters on fire in the street, he said. By 11 p.m., police had entered and began clearing the building.
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Pet raccoon with meth pipe found in driver's seat during traffic stop

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Springfield Township police arrested 55-year-old Victoria Vidal during a May 5 traffic stop in Akron after finding her pet raccoon holding a meth pipe in the driver's seat.
Officers stopped the vehicle around 7:15 p.m. After learning the driver had an outstanding warrant and her license was revoked, leading to an inspection of the car.
The vehicle search revealed a large quantity of methamphetamine and crack cocaine, along with three previously used glass pipes typically associated with meth use, while Vidal’s pet raccoon, Chewy, was found safe and unharmed.
Vidal was charged with drug possession, three separate violations related to drug paraphernalia, and driving while her license was suspended, with additional crack cocaine charges expected pending the results from the BCI laboratory.
Authorities are confirming Vidal's legal ownership of the raccoon, while Springfield Township police noted that encountering a raccoon in possession of a meth pipe was an unprecedented situation as they continue their efforts to maintain community safety.
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And people wonder why nothing surprises me anymore

https://www.mlive.com/news/2025/05/ohio-police-video-shows-pet-raccoon-holding-meth-pipe-after-owners-arrest.html
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