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silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•Powell Goes Public About Trump’s Unprecedented Attack on the Fed
24·22 hours agoHe is literally a Trump appointee. I don’t expect him to be a liberal champion, but he does substantially represent big business. Fed independence is about whether any of the classic Republican constituencies will have any level of power outside of Trump’s whim.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•Democrats Seek Answers About Oil Industry’s Knowledge of Venezuela Operation
3·2 days agoThe people who paid the billion dollar bribe are the ones running the show.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•Trump Is Not Playing Five-Dimensional Chess in Venezuela | After a strong first move, he’s eating all the pieces.
4·3 days agoI expect Gary Kasparov, who wrote the article, to have tried
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•Live: Omar, other Congress members denied tour of ICE detention facility
14·3 days agoFar easier said than done when its full of heavily armed Men who support the management and have the support of most police
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•Vance Announces New Justice Dept. Fraud Post to Be ‘Run Out of the White House’
34·3 days agoYeah, this is how Putin rose to power — he used selective prosecution of rivals to clear his way to the top
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•Trump Administration Freezes Food Stamps in Minnesota
9·3 days agoWhen you start talking about specifics, or advocating that people do it, yes, that gets a short term ban. Don’t incriminate yourself in public.
Generic unlikely to be acted on, not so much.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•Trump Administration Freezes Food Stamps in Minnesota
34·3 days agoHungry people dont wait for lawsuits. They just cook whatever meat is at hand
There is basically no chance they’ll be able to amend the constitution, which is what that requires
It doesnt have to be fair; just not so unfair that Democrats can’t win a whole lot more seats. That’s very possible still.
Remember here: states run elections, not the federal government. So you get different gerrymandering and different voter suppression measures in each state
Not today, or next week, but its very much in the realm of what could happen when Democrats hold power again. Why? Because its become clear that ICE, Border Patrol, and much of the DHS see their goal as being to kill Democrats rather than serve the country.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•Senators urged Apple and Google to remove X and Grok from app stores over sexual deepfakes
7·4 days agoBecause the minority party doesnt have the power to do that
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•Minn. Officials Say They’re Being Blocked From Investigating Fatal ICE Shooting
3·4 days agoThey probably dont have access to the gun, brass, or maybe even bullets lodged in the victim or vehicle. Those, along with crime scene photographs, would usually be presented at trial.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•Misconduct Expert Says State Has the Right to Charge ICE Officer Who Killed Renee Good
36·4 days agoJonathan Ross took off right after the shooting. Actually putting him in prison means locating his lair and actually arresting him, which may be difficult if a ton of armed feds are there protecting him.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•Trump Administration Deploying More Border Patrol Agents to Minnesota | More than 100 agents will be redirected from other cities after the fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis by an ICE officer.
15·4 days agoElections are run by the states. State officials decide to hold them and run them. If a Republican-majority state doesn’t, then they don’t get representation in Congress.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’
4·5 days agoThe one dictated by the Holy Profit
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’
28·5 days agoIt’s almost like Stein is a Russian tool or something
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•Trump Administration Deploying More Border Patrol Agents to Minnesota | More than 100 agents will be redirected from other cities after the fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis by an ICE officer.
7·5 days agoThat’s a lot harder now that importing Chinese drones is illegal
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•Trump’s Claim to Venezuelan Oil Money Draws Scrutiny in Congress
2·5 days agoOh he can read all right. Only read one book is the problem
Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed.

It’s a gift link, so almost nobody will need that.