@servelan@newsie.socialConservative Warning To Judges: Get On Board With Trump's Agenda Or Get Impeached - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/11/conservative-warning-to-judges-get-on-board-with-trumps-agenda-or-get-impeached/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHouse GOP faces internal divisions, challenges on agenda and questions from Trump (Emily Brooks/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5675643-house-republicans-2026-agenda/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260107/p16#a260107p16
@matematico314@social.linux.pizzaA sensação é de estar revivendo os anos 30, com os EUA fazendo o papel da Alemanha Nazista com relação Š eugenia: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTMHkhxjK62
@scott@carfree.cityGrowSF is endorsing Alan Wong specifically *because* he wants to close Sunset Dunes park and revert it to a highway. GrowSF claimed to support the park before they decided it clashed with their billionaires-first agenda. This is why you can't trust "moderate urbanist" groups. #sfpol
@kingconsult@berlin.socialothers) that are most important to assess the added value.
3. What concrete measures and actions may be taken at EU level to support the development and growth of the
EU open-source sector and contribute to the EU’s technological #sovereignty and #cybersecurity agenda?
4. What technology areas should be prioritised and why?
5. In what sectors could an increased use of open source lead to increased competitiveness and #CyberResilience?
2/2
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotThis is a really good analysis of how #Labour became a right wing party.
I was aware of their courting of rich donors, but I'd missed the revolving door between Labour governments and the defence and private healthcare industries, and the point about Labour directing anger towards immigrants in order to divert it from the
@marcel@waldvogel.family@… zu Moltbook:
"Moltbook serviert irgendwas auf einer Skala zwischen «statistischem Rauschen» und «versteckte Agenda seiner Programmierer:innen». Echte Meinungsbildung braucht Reibung, Empathie und vor allem: Verantwortlichkeit. Ein Bot muss nicht mit den Konsequenzen seiner Meinung leben – das macht die Agenten so attraktiv als Sprachrohr jener, die si…
@cdarwin@c.imRepublicans are sweating Tuesday’s special election in Trump country
The surprisingly competitive race
in Tennessee’s ruby-red 7th Congressional District
is a high-profile test of voters’ attitudes about the president’s agenda.
https://www.washingtonpo…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzAn eventful start to the Broncos' offseason: How will the offense look when Bo Nix returns? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47821241/denver-broncos-offense-quarterback-bo-nix-fractured-ankle-new-offensive-coor…
@cheryanne@aus.socialThe Secular Agenda
This is a podcast by the Rationalist Society of Australia. It features interviews with people who are working for secular change...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-secular-agenda/
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot“Everybody is so fed up with #Labour’s only strategy being ‘vote Labour to keep the Tories out’, and now it’s ‘vote Labour to keep Reform out’,” Spencer tells me. “It’s like: how about you actually just do something to make people vote for you?” -- #Green party candidate Hannah Spencer in the Gorton and De…
@veit@mastodon.socialOrganise the @… meeting on 12 February with a talk by Rodrigo Girão Serrão (@…) on the paradox of itertools.tee:
@carloshr@lile.clHalestorm en Teatro Coliseo 2026
https://www.futuro.cl/2025/12/halestorm-en-chile-2026-fecha-lugar-y-venta-de-entradas-para-el-concierto/
Halestorm se suma a la agenda de conciertos 2026. La banda liderada por Lzzy Hal…
@kctipton@mas.toTrump’s post-truth agenda beaten back as Americans refuse to accept ICE lies | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/31/trump-facts-ice-lies-alex-pretti-killing
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyThe two core parties for a new Dutch government coalition - CDA and @… - have agreed on an agenda; they will now invite other parties to join in.
Some of their points on energy and climate in this thread!
1/n
@memeorandum@universeodon.comCapitol agenda: The Democrats not opposed to another DHS punt (Calen Razor/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/02/05/congress/dhs-funding-democrats-deal-stopgap-continuing-resolution-00766669
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p73#a260205p73
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
@markhburton@mstdn.socialEuropean Union (probably not alone) is at risk of insufficient primary materials to facilitate the renewable energy capture systems on which its modest climate mitigation plans rely.
Report by their Audit Court.
https://www.eldiario.es/economia/ue-rie…
@buercher@tooting.ch«Gantners Agenda lässt Fragen offen», sagt Binder. «Im Zollstreit will er die Schweiz retten, gleichzeitig bekämpft er knallhart unseren erfolgreichen bilateralen Weg mit der EU.» Dabei sei der EU-Binnenmarkt der wichtigste Absatzmarkt der Schweiz.
https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/zollverhandlungen-usa-alfred-gantner-begleitete-parmelin-854764618991
@cdarwin@c.imTrump’s post-truth agenda beaten back as Americans refuse to accept ICE lies
Effort to manipulate killing of Alex Pretti collapsed after footage torpedoed ‘domestic terrorist’ claim
– could this be a turning point?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-…
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.ioResource 1 for how to talk about current political events more effectively:
These cheat sheets on messaging and framing from Aso Communications are fantastic. Right now I highly recommend the one called “Here to Stay: How to Talk About MAGA’s Authoritarian Agenda on Immigration”.
#USpol #politics #communications #change #socialJustice #USA
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social
@lapizistik@social.tchncs.deSolange die Presse über Regierungshandeln unter der Prämisse berichtet, daß die Beteiligten alle das Ziel hätten, das Beste für alle Menschen zu erreichen und dabei nur unterschiedlicher Meinung ob des Weges seien, gelegentlich Fehler machten und der eine oder andere ggf auch mal korrupt sei, so lange greift jede Analyse zu kurz.
Das sind alles Personen mit eigenen Zielen und eigener Agenda, die nur zufällig gelegentlich zum Wohle aller passen. Und diese Ziele, diese Agenda zu benennen…
@macandi@social.heise.deFußball in 8K und 180 Grad: Apple tastet sich an europäische Top-Klubs heran
In der Hoffnung auf zahlungskräftige Fans setzt Apple für die Vision Pro auch auf Sportinhalte. Nun rückt europäischer Spitzenfußball auf die Agenda.
@UP8@mastodon.social😅 New research finds Americans deeply concerned about US democracy
#usa
@petaqui@masto.esCreo firmemente que los que critican la agenda 2030 no saben ni leer.
¿Como se puede criticar esto?
- Personas: Poner fin a la pobreza y garantizar el bienestar y los derechos bšsicos para todas las personas.
- Planeta: Proteger el medio ambiente y promover un uso sostenible de los recursos naturales.
- Prosperidad: Impulsar un crecimiento económico inclusivo y sostenible que mejore la calidad de vida.
- Paz: Fomentar sociedades pacíficas, justas e inclusivas.
@servelan@newsie.social'Give Republicans a taste': Legal experts propose next Democratic president's Day 1 agenda - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/next-democratic-president-agenda/
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialWas looking at the Chaos Communications Congress agenda & this session caught my eye:
A cool civilian terrestrial backup for GPS Satellite that is interference resistant.
✅ Who cares about the Baltic Jammer?
https://
@ingo@social.stuetzle.ccDass von reaktionären Kräften Schröders Agenda 2010 als Benchmark für den erneuten Angriff der SPD gewählt wird, zeigt, wie reaktionär sie damals war und dass man die Sozialdemokratie hier zu bekommen glaubt, weil sie sich nicht von diesem Teil ihrer Geschichte distanziert hat.
@heiseonline@social.heise.deDie Vorratsdatenspeicherung ist zurück auf der politischen Agenda! 📱💾 Bundesjustizministerin Stefanie Hubig (SPD) hat einen Gesetzentwurf vorgelegt, der vorsieht, dass Internetanbieter IP-Adressen künftig für drei Monate speichern sollen.
Zum Artikel: https://…
@cwilcke@bildung.social#Entropia #Karlsruhe
Hallo zusammen,
am 23.11. (So) um 18:00 hält TM einen Talk mit anschl. Workshop zum Thema "Build your own cloud-based Werbeblocker" (Abstract und Workshop-Details:
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Less arguing, more action: will Brazil’s unorthodox approach to Cop30 work?"
#Brazil #COP30 #ClimateSummit
@jonippolito@digipres.clubAnother Maine town just defeated a data center in its backyard. In this Women Talking 'Bout AI podcast, Joline Blais explains how her community rallied to the cause, and why AI is only a small part of the reason these are being built https://www.
@cdarwin@c.imA fun tactic of extremists is to argue that they don't hate out-groups, they just blah blah blah.
The pinnacle of this was the antebellum argument that enslaved people were happier and healthier enslaved,
and that enslavers were motivated bu their charitable natures.
It was BS then, and it's BS now.
https://<…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioLooks like my tree has an agenda
@memeorandum@universeodon.comCapitol agenda: Shutdown hinges on razor-thin rule vote (Mia McCarthy/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/02/03/congress/shutdown-rule-vote-save-act-deal-filibuster-00761574
http://www.memeorandum.com/260203/p20#a260203p20
@newsie@darktundra.xyzHOPE Hacking Conference Banned From University Venue Over Apparent ‘Anti-Police Agenda’ https://www.404media.co/hope-hacking-conference-banned-from-university-venue-over-apparent-anti-police-agenda/
@phpugmrn@phpc.socialDon't miss our Christmas meetup on December 11th, featuring talks about #HTMX and the latest updates on #PHP 8.5!
Sign up here: https://www.
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialGoede zet geweest van Jetten en Bontenbal om gewoon met de inhoud aan de slag te gaan (ipv wie wel/wie niet). Eerste week formatieteam D66 en CDA voorbij, gewerkt aan 'verrassende agenda' - https://nos.nl/l/2591401
@servelan@newsie.social‘Imperial’ agenda: What’s Trump’s Gaza development plan, unveiled in Davos? | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/23/imperial-agenda-whats-trumps-gaza-development-plan-unveiled-in-davos?traffic_source=rss
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialWas looking at the Chaos Communications Congress agenda & this session caught my eye:
A cool civilian terrestrial backup for GPS Satellite that is interference resistant.
✅ Who cares about the Baltic Jammer?
https://
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialQ&A with Variety's new publisher and co-president, Dea Lawrence, on her career, on AI and digital creators being "crucial" for the outlet, and more (Matt Donnelly/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/dea
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeOh no. St. John’s University has banned the HOPE Conference because one person claimed it is anti-police.
@shriramk@mastodon.socialThe perfect confluence of expertise and location: ex-cop and now Brown professor Brandon del Pozo in The Atlantic on the Brown shooting. Worth reading as an antidote to the hustlers, influencers, and agenda-pushers on social media.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/
@petaqui@masto.esLamentable que sigamos peleando por esto.
@… https://mastodon.social/@ElSaltoDiario/116000228568117530
@jamie@boothcomputing.socialIt's almost time.
#Vacation
#Christmas
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online#CemÖzdemir setzt im #Wahlkampf in Baden-Württemberg auf pragmatische Töne statt grüner Visionen.
#Klimapolitik spielt nur eine Nebenrolle. Die Plakate verzichten fast ganz auf Part…
@Dragofix@veganism.socialOffshore fossil fuel exploration jeopardizes Brazil’s climate leadership, study says https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/offshore-fossil-fuel-exploration-jeopardizes-brazils-climate-leadership-study-says/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow David Sacks and AI adviser Sriram Krishnan overcame the opposition to Trump's AI EO, reaching out to lawmakers and finally modifying the text of the order (Washington Post)
@StephenRees@mas.toFrom 350.org
🧵Long thread 9
This week, Carney’s Billionaire Budget passed by a narrow margin.
This budget is part of a dangerous pattern of disregard for people and the planet. A pattern that attracted international attention this week at the UN climate negotiations in Brazil, where Carney’s absence and agenda earned Canada the dubious dishonour of being named the “Fossil of the Day.”
Here’s a list of the most alarming developments in Canadian climate politics in the…
@cdarwin@c.im"By the end of 2026, Trump will have begun to distance himself from the aggressively pro-AI industry policies that characterized his AI strategy in 2025,"
wrote retired New York University professor and AI entrepreneur Gary Marcus.
"The giant AI infrastructure plays (like Project Stargate) that he championed after his inauguration will look like an unprofitable and underused mistake.
So will his utter failure to meaningfully regulate AI,
against the w…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comCapitol agenda: Mike Johnson's shutdown gamble (Calen Razor/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/02/02/congress/shutdown-vote-timeline-dhs-deal-ice-johnson-00759588
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p19#a260202p19
@jeang3nie@social.linux.pizzaWe are dealing with a constitutional crisis and a fascist regime. Our nation is well into the civil unrest stage and well on it's way to civil war of things take another wrong turn.
Considering the stakes, I think it's critically important to build broad coalitions having the common goal of fighting tyranny. We don't have to agree on everything, at this point I think it's enough to have a common enemy and to share the agenda of blocking Donald Trump from remaking our na…
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialMaybe Taylor Swift is always MAGA. She was just good hiding it.//
Trump “see some of himself in Swift, a staunch businesswoman who releases multiple editions of her albums to generate extra revenue and secure high chart positions ……It’s telling that Swift’s attention right now… on blocking Spanish star Rosalía from scoring a No 1 album with Lux, by releasing a new streaming-exclusive variant”
@roelgrif@mstdn.socialDon't threaten me with a good time.
En o ja, Dilan ... GL-PvdA was toch de partij die zover van de rest afstond? Of zit het echte gat soms tussen CDA en VVD?
@UP8@mastodon.social😲 Brazil’s governance style leads to controversial impacts
#brazil
@servelan@newsie.socialProject 2026? Group behind Trump’s return to the White House outlines next agenda | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-project-2026-heritage-foundation-b2892391.html
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialWas looking at the Chaos Communications Congress agenda & this session caught my eye:
A cool civilian terrestrial backup for GPS Satellite that is interference resistant.
✅ Who cares about the Baltic Jammer?
https://
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaIf I’ve stopped lying, then you should too. But you can’t seem to stop twisting the truth about anarchism, using the dictionary as a weapon to bend reality toward your own system and agenda. That manipulation says more about your control than my beliefs.
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialWirtschaftskrise, Migration und Kriege dominieren die Agenda – perfekte Bühne für rechte Parteien, um Klimaschutz als „Elitenprojekt“ zu verteufeln. Unterstützt von Öl- und Gaslobby breitet sich gefährliche Gleichgültigkeit aus, die echten Klimaschutz blockiert. Politik muss endlich Klartext reden und handeln.
@t_online #Klimakrise
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants, and how I built a dashboard to see through it.
https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocates?triedRedirect=true
saved…
@cdarwin@c.im Under the cover of a looming partial government shutdown and a nation reeling from immigration agent-involved killings,
⚠️the Department of Homeland Security is quietly supercharging its detention infrastructure.
A massive Navy contract vehicle, once valued at $10 billion, has ballooned to a staggering
💥$55 billion ceiling
to expedite Donald Trump’s
“mass deportation” agenda.
The mechanism for this expansion is the "Worldwide Expeditionary Multiple …
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialGood news, any progress in more federated social media is a good thing in my view.
https://openfuture.eu/blog/eurosky-dawns-building-infrastructure-for-sovereign-social-media/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comCapitol agenda: Health deal hinges on Trump (Calen Razor/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/12/01/congress/health-care-obamacare-deal-trump-fitzpatrick-00671204
http://www.memeorandum.com/251201/p45#a251201p45
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Offshore fossil fuel exploration jeopardizes Brazil’s climate leadership, study says"
#FossilFuels #Brazil #Climate
@scott@carfree.city"Declining property values and home prices are understood as a sign of impending doom, rather than a cause for celebration, and so the system aims to keep prices on an upward slope."
Housing can't be a good investment and affordable
https://jewishcurrents.org/zohran-mamd
@cdarwin@c.imLiz Shuler, president of the AFL-CIO, said Unions are gearing up to challenge the US president’s “Billionaire First” agenda in 2026
– and drive candidates in key elections to stand up for “struggling” Americans.
In an interview with the Guardian, she described how the federation has pushed to restore collective bargaining rights for federal workers,
-- and filed lawsuits against the Trump administration’s efforts to weaken unions and worker protections.
“People were …
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115894798045761296
It should be noted that Ted Nelson here has a bit of a naive viewpoint, as the reasons for how a machine is designed and why it exists are because people made it and people literally always have an agenda.
In other words, a machine exists because it does something that a person actively decided it should—it is the embodiment of non-neutrality.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: US officials raised concerns with Australia over its streaming content quotas that the government is trying to push through the Senate before year end (John Buckley/Capital Brief)
https://www.capitalbrief.co…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comCapitol agenda: GOP dreams face harsh legislative reality (Calen Razor/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/11/19/congress/trump-gop-reconciliation-megabill-policy-agenda-unity-00658619
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p38#a251119p38
@cdarwin@c.imMr. Mamdani, a democratic socialist who ran on an #affordability agenda,
pledged during the campaign to freeze rent on the city’s nearly one million rent-stabilized apartments.
“We know we are fighting for a #rent #freeze…
@marcel@waldvogel.family"But they stop short of examining the forces that may be actually driving the minerals agenda: tech billionaires like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, who see Greenland not just as a source of rare earths, but as a laboratory for their libertarian economic and social experiments. These tech-billionaires envision unregulated “freedom cities” in Greenland, free from democratic oversight, environmental laws, and labor protections."
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHouse Democrats assert themselves as Republicans struggle to set agenda (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/19/house-democrats-gop-agenda-00699385
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p14#a251219p14
@cdarwin@c.imTrump's reality distortion field
– which promised Mexico would pay for his border wall
– had met its match.
Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post warned:
“Mr President, the American people didn’t vote for these scenes,
and you can’t continue to order them to not believe their lying eyes.”
White House aides had already tried to deny the video evidence when 37-year-old Renee Good was shot three times in her vehicle by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (IC…
@phpugmrn@phpc.social#phpugmrn meetup on Dec 11th - save the date!
We have scheduled talks abot HTMX & PHP 8.5. Do not miss!
Sign up here: https://www.meetup.com/phpug-rhein-neckar/events/30547833…
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialThe Heritage Foundation is willing to justify anything & anyone Trump's administration supports - including murderers & child predators - to advance their agenda for a Christian military & dictatorship... in case you didn't get the memo.
Original post: https://bsky.app/pro…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comInside MAHA's 2026 food agenda (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/31/kyle-diamantas-maha-fda-food-policy-00698153
http://www.memeorandum.com/251231/p62#a251231p62
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThe Republican Party Is Fracturing Over Trump's Labor Agenda (Jade Lozada/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/economy/republican-party-trump-labor-agenda
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p18#a251217p18
@cdarwin@c.imTrump administration abruptly recalls over two dozen career ambassadors
The Trump administration has recalled more than two dozen
career diplomats from ambassador positions and other senior posts around the world
as it works to enforce adherence with Donald Trump’s “America First” agenda.
The directive has infuriated State Department personnel
who say it will leave key embassies without critical leadership
and may effectively end the careers of many ambass…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialBBC News hires Lindsay McIntosh, previously Head of News at The Sunday Times, as its Executive News Editor (BBC Press Office on LinkedIn)
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7407013484615409664
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialThe Heritage Foundation is willing to justify anything & anyone Trump's administration supports - including murderers & child predators...
...to advance their immoral agenda for a Christian military & dictatorship... in case you didn't get the memo.
Original post: https://
@memeorandum@universeodon.comCapitol agenda: Democrats and White House in last-ditch talks to avert extended shutdown (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/01/29/congress/shutdown-deadline-dhs-funding-vote-ice-00754278
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p58#a260129p58
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social"Nederland liet zich voor karretje Microsoft spannen"
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/11/13/nederland-liet-zich-voor-het-karretje…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comWATCH: Hidden camera catches red-state university admins admitting how they 'cleverly' disguised DEI agenda (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/watch-hidden-camera-catches-red-state-university-admins-admitting-how-they-cleverly-disguised-dei-agenda
http://www.memeorandum.com/251112/p75#a251112p75
@servelan@newsie.socialFederal judge deals 'major blow' to Trump's agenda in ruling with nationwide implications - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/judge-major-blow-trump/
@cdarwin@c.imA federal court in Maryland has ordered the release of
Kilmar Ábrego García from ICE custody on Thursday,
and he will be advised on his release conditions in his separate Tennessee criminal case.
The case of Ábrego, a Salvadorian national who was a construction worker in Maryland,
has become a proxy for the partisan struggle over Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration policy and mass deportation agenda.
Trump administration officials have waged a relentless public …
@memeorandum@universeodon.comCapitol agenda: No shutdown deal in sight (Calen Razor/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/01/27/congress/shutdown-dhs-ice-funding-minnesota-shooting-00748768
http://www.memeorandum.com/260127/p30#a260127p30
@cdarwin@c.imStephen Miller, who has overseen Trump’s hard-line agenda on drugs and immigration, and other top advisers never lost sight of their goal of crushing the cartels.
And in pursuing this goal they were aided in part by a personnel restructuring that removed potential obstacles.
Many of the lawyers and other career officials at the White House National Security Council, Pentagon and Justice Department
who had over the preceding months raised concerns about using lethal force a…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comCapitol agenda: Shutdown odds spike after Minnesota killing (Mia McCarthy/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/01/26/congress/what-were-watching-00745892
http://www.memeorandum.com/260126/p153#a260126p153
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThe internal dispute that could derail the GOP's 2026 agenda (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/24/gop-reconciliation-bill-health-care-00704698
http://www.memeorandum.com/251224/p6#a251224p6
@cdarwin@c.imA jury convicted Hannah Dugan,
a Wisconsin judge,
of obstructing federal agents’ arrest
of an undocumented immigrant
from Mexico,
giving Trump’s administration
a rare win in its prosecutions of public officials who have challenged his agenda.
The jury found Milwaukee County Judge Dugan guilty of a felony,
obstructing an official proceeding,
but acquitted her of a misdemeanor,
concealing a person from arrest.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comUS army lawyer fired as immigration judge after defying Trump deportation agenda (Associated Press)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/19/army-lawyer-fired-immigration-trump-deportation
http://www.memeorandum.com/251221/p1#a251221p1
@cdarwin@c.imTrump -- openly fearful that a Congress controlled by Democrats could investigate him, impeach him and stymie his agenda
-- is using every tool he can find to try to influence the 2026 midterm elections
-- and, if his party loses, sow doubt in their validity.
Many of these endeavors go far beyond typical political persuasion,
challenging long-established democratic norms.
They include unprecedented demands that Republican state lawmakers redraw congressional di…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comMike Johnson's House schedule fuels GOP frustration, stalled agenda (Kate Santaliz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/19/house-session-days-johnson
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p111#a251219p111
@cdarwin@c.imBillionaire tech advisers overcame a MAGA rebellion over AI in the Trump Whitehouse
A power struggle over the future of technology is playing out inside the administration,
as officials confront high-stakes decisions that touch everything
from national security and jobs
to online safety for children.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comAs polls show low approval for Trump on the economy, will taking his economic agenda to voters help? (Oren Oppenheim/ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/polls-show-low-approval-trump-economy-taking-economic/story?id=128428263
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p62#a251219p62
@cdarwin@c.imMoney is power, and the founders of this country feared that a president would turn into a monarch if he alone could dictate how the government uses the federal Treasury.
President Trump, however, has tried to take Congress’s constitutional power and make it his own.
He has repeatedly ignored laws passed by the House and the Senate to spend money, or not spend it,
based on his whims and agenda.
He has violated the law at least six times,
according to the Governm…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comCapitol agenda: House GOP at the Obamacare cliff (Mia McCarthy/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/12/15/congress/house-republicans-obamacare-deadline-health-care-vote-00690377
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p94#a251215p94
@cdarwin@c.imWhen Trump criticized a ruling from a so-called “Obama judge” in 2018,
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. responded that “we do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges.”
But the data suggests that in the 13 appellate courts, there is increasingly such a thing as a Trump judge.
The president’s appointees voted to allow his policies to take effect 133 times and voted against them only 12 times.
Ninety-two percent of their total votes were i…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHouse Republican absences make it harder to deliver Trump's agenda (Kadia Goba/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/01/15/house-republicans-missed-votes/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p113#a260115p113
