@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump Jr. joined
Unusual Machines’ advisory board in November 2024
-- U.S. government contracts soon followed
CEO Allan Evans told Forbes the advisory board was created when Donald Trump Jr. was named to it,
and that he believes it has four other members,
but he declined to name them or share if they are associated with the Trump Organization.
Likewise, the company’s website does notappear to mention any members other than Donald Trump Jr.
Earl…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@usul@piaille.frAvant sa rencontre avec Donald Trump, Xi Jinping a opté pour la manière forte
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/10/29/avant-sa-rencontre-avec-donald-trump-xi-jinping-a-opte-p…
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialGet comfortable cuz this is gonna take a while.
☑️ Daniel Dale Counts Down Donald Trump's 'Top 25 Lies of 2025'
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/cnns-daniel-dale-counts-down-donald-trumps-top-25-lies-of-2025/…
@stefan@gardenstate.social
@kctipton@mas.toDonald Trump’s ‘kakistocracy’ is not the first, but it’s revived an old word | André Spicer | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/18/donald-trump-kakistocracy-john-brennan-us-twitter
@memeorandum@universeodon.comDonald Trump Is the First AI Slop President (Jake Lahut/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/donald-trump-ai-slop-white-house/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p70#a251029p70
@servelan@newsie.socialTrump says he plans to cancel most of Biden’s executive orders | Donald Trump | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/28/trump-canceling-biden-executive-orders-autopen
@kubikpixel@chaos.social»SB 53 - Kalifornien hat ein neues KI-Gesetz:
Kalifornien hat ein neues KI-Gesetz. Dagegen können auch Donald Trump und die Lobbygruppen der KI-Anbieter nichts mehr tun.«
Aha OK, da bin ich mal gespannt was dies US- so wie Weltweit sich ergibt. Dies wird viele (so gut wie alle) KI-Firmen betreffen da sie in Kalifornien ihren Hauptsitz haben.
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@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump said on Sunday that he and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy were “getting a lot closer, maybe very close”
to an agreement to end the war in Ukraine, though both leaders acknowledged that some of the thorniest details remain unresolved.
Trump said it will be clear “in a few weeks” whether negotiations to end the war will succeed.
Zelenskyy said an agreement on security guarantees for Ukraine has been reached.
Trump was sli…
@grumpybozo@toad.socialShe got in with a “Sponsor Exemption “
I wonder if she cheats like Gramps. https://c.im/@BBC/115453565646985076
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social @heiseonline@social.heise.deSB 53: Kalifornien hat ein neues KI-Gesetz
Kalifornien hat ein neues KI-Gesetz. Dagegen können auch Donald Trump und die Lobbygruppen der KI-Anbieter nichts mehr tun.
https://www.heise.de/news/SB-53-…
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialTrump zu dritter Amtszeit: "Ich würde es gern machen" - Trump kokettiert offen mit einer dritten Amtszeit – obwohl die US-Verfassung das klar verbietet. Zwei Drittel im Kongress und drei Viertel der Bundesstaaten müssten zustimmen. Ein demokratischer Drahtseilakt, den selbst MAGA-Mützen kaum balancieren können.
#ZDFheute
@aral@mastodon.ar.alIs it so hard to not compliment a fascist? Apparently so.
FFS! https://norden.social/@SheDrivesMobility/115450690359236978
@memeorandum@universeodon.comDonald Trump in his own words - the year in racism and misogyny (Melissa Hellmann/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/29/donald-trump-racism-dei-misogyny-2025-review
http://www.memeorandum.com/251229/p26#a251229p26
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itthank goodness we had a peaceful transfer of power
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/11/07/president-biden-rose-garden-speech-trump-election/76108284007/
@kurtsh@mastodon.social @cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump On Race:
💥"And we just clean out that whole thing … I don’t know, something has to happen, but it’s literally a demolition site right now. Almost everything’s demolished, and people are dying there, so I’d rather get involved with some of the Arab nations and build housing in a different location where I think they could maybe live in peace for a change.
– 👉Suggesting Palestinian displacement onboard Air Force One, 25 January 2025
💥"Then it’s a group w…
@krone@frawas.deNach Treffen mit Xi - Trump: Zollstreit mit China wurde beigelegt #News #Nachrichten
@servelan@newsie.socialSo Donald Trump Is Declaring War On US Cities Based On Fake Fox News Footage And Nonsense His ‘People’ Tell Him | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/30/so-donald-trump-is-declaring-war-on-us-cities-based-on-fake-fox-news-footage-and-nonsense-his-people-tell-him/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA BBC article and a BBC radio presenter say they won't quote Rutger Bregman calling Trump openly corrupt during the Reith Lecture, a line the BBC had removed (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/nov
@elduvelle@neuromatch.socialLe niveau de vocabulaire au Monde baisse, non?
"Fumasse, le président républicain s’en est pris, mercredi 26 novembre, au New York Times et Š Katie Rogers [...]"
Source: Donald Trump insulte le « New York Times » et sa journal…
@dhuyvetter@mastodon.socialOne of the many ways the US government is killing its citizens: “Trump EPA moves to abandon rule that sets tough standards for deadly soot pollution” https://www.independent.co.uk/news/donald-trump-environmental-protection-a…
@ukraine_live_tagesschau@mastodon.socialTrump: Treffe Putin erst, wenn Deal sicher ist
US-Präsident Donald Trump will Kremlchef Wladimir Putin nach eigenen Angaben erst treffen, wenn er sich einer Einigung mit Blick auf den Krieg gegen die Ukraine sicher sein kann. Auf die Frage, was Russland tun müsse, damit Trump ein neues Treffen mit Putin ansetze, antwortete der US-Präsident an Bord der Regierungsmaschine Air Force One vor Journalisten…
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@steve@s.yelvington.comGeorge's corrupt Republican party finally gets its way and kills the election interference case against Donald Trump.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/26/politics/georgia-prosecutor-drops-trump-election-interference-case
@memeorandum@universeodon.comDonald Trump Jr.'s Expanding Business: After Joining 2nd New Board, U.S. Contracts Followed (Zach Everson/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2025/10/29/donald-trump-jr-ultimate-machines-defense-contracts-drones/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p85#a251029p85
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump launched another attack against Federal Reserve chair #Jerome #Powell on Monday, calling the central banker a “fool” and once again suggesting he would like to fire him.
“I mean, Biden reappointed him. It’s too bad. You would have thought he wouldn’t have done that,” Trump said, without any acknowledgmen…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnalysis: as crypto sheds $1T , the Trump family's fortune has fallen to ~$6.7B from $7.7B in early September; President Trump's TMTG stake fell by ~$800M (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
@annsev@troet.cafeEine zutreffende Beschreibung: Darth "Donald #Trump – der windige Immobilienmogul und Reality-TV-Star"
Das ist er noch, selbst als Präsident der USA, noch windiger, ein Schmock
Benjamin Reuter vom #tagesspiegel trifft den Nagel auf den Kopf.
@gfp@mastodon.trueten.deDie weiße Zukunft des Westens https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10221
@servelan@newsie.social'He didn't smell good': E. Jean Carroll pinpoints exact moment Trump lost defamation case - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-e-jean-carroll-2674238737/
@cdarwin@c.imThe White House pressed U.S. Navy officials to launch 2,000-pound live bombs instead of dummy explosives during an elaborate military demonstration for the service’s 250th anniversary celebration that Donald Trump attended,
Original planning for what the Navy dubbed the Titans of the Sea Presidential Review called for military personnel to use dummies and not live bombs
One person familiar with the planning said White House officials insisted to Navy planners that Trump “needed t…
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialTrump nennt es Patriotismus, in Wahrheit ist es ein Gefälligkeitsdeal: TikTok landet nicht bei „dem Volk“, sondern bei Milliardären aus seinem MAGA-Umfeld. Informationskontrolle als Belohnung für Loyalität – Medienmacht in den Händen weniger, Demokratie auf der Verliererseite.
TikTok goes MAGA: Trumps TikTok-Deal ist ein Geschenk an ihn selbst | #TikTok
@memeorandum@universeodon.comWithout Online Trolls, There Would Be No Donald Trump (Marcy Wheeler/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/without-online-trolls-there-would-be-no-donald-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p69#a251029p69
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialGet comfortable cuz this is gonna take a while.
☑️ Daniel Dale Counts Down Donald Trump's 'Top 25 Lies of 2025'
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/cnns-daniel-dale-counts-down-donald-trumps-top-25-lies-of-2025/…
@krone@frawas.de„Richtig schwer“ - Trump macht Demenztest – und prahlt mit hohem IQ #News #Nachrichten
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump has been using fictional figures to justify his controversial military strikes on alleged drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean near Venezuela.
“Every boat kills about 25,000 people,” Trump said in a speech last week.
“Every one of those boats is responsible for the death of 25,000 American people, and the destruction of families,”
he said in a speech Sunday.
“Probably saved at least 100,000 lives, American lives
– Canadian lives
– by taking …
@memeorandum@universeodon.comAhead of Xi meeting, White House aides worry what Trump will say about Taiwan (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/ahead-xi-meeting-white-house-aides-worry-trump-will-say-taiwan-rcna239949
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p146#a251028p146
@servelan@newsie.socialTrump Cancels Release of Crucial Economic Report to Hide His Failures | The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/post/203619/donald-trump-cancels-release-gdp-economic-report
@cdarwin@c.imTrump spent 2025 attacking the press,
further eroding the First Amendment
and empowering autocrats around the world
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/trump-year-attacking-media-1235490875/
@cdarwin@c.imDonal Trump On Women:
♦️"She brought her church into the World of politics in a very ungracious way. She was nasty in tone, and not compelling or smart … Apart from her inappropriate statements, the service was a very boring and uninspiring one. She is not very good at her job!"
– 👉Truth Social, 22 January 2025, on Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde’s inaugural sermon
♦️"Quiet. Quiet, piggy."
– 👉On Air Force One, 14 November 2025, when Bloomberg White House …
@servelan@newsie.socialMost Americans disapprove of Donald Trump's White House ballroom vision: Poll
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5577578-trump-ballroom-plan-disapproval-poll/
@krone@frawas.deFrieden für Ukraine? - So geht es nach Selenskyj-Trump-Treffen weiter #News #Nachrichten
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialTrump says Stephen Colbert is a "pathetic trainwreck" and "CBS should, 'put him to sleep,' NOW"; earlier CBS aired the Kennedy Center Honors, hosted by Trump (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/donal
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump is unpopular in Europe -- even among right-wing populist supporters, POLITICO Poll shows (Hanne Cokelaere/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/politico-poll-international-populism-donald-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251230/p26#a251230p26
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialSince #Trump’s re-election, warnings that his use of presidential power to advance personal interests is corroding American democracy have grown ever louder.
☑️ All the president’s millions: how the Trumps are turning the presidency into riches
@cdarwin@c.imTrump directs Pentagon to test nuclear weapons, just before meeting China’s Xi
Donald Trump on Thursday morning said he directed the Pentagon to begin testing nuclear weapons
“on an equal basis” with Russia and China,
-- abruptly inserting nuclear issues into the discussion just before meeting his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, for a high-stakes trade summit here.
The announcement signaled a reversal of decades of United States nuclear policy that could have far-re…
@servelan@newsie.socialLive updates: Senate votes to terminate Donald Trump tariffs
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5579438-live-updates-trump-xi-meeting-government-shutdown/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comSenate postpones confirmation hearing for Trump surgeon general pick after Casey Means goes into labor - US politics live (Lauren Gambino/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/oct/30/donald-trump-xi-jinping-meeting-live-updates
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p79#a251030p79
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @cdarwin@c.imNot going backwards is a win.
Given Donald Trump's fraught relationship with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, that's important.
The Mar-a-Lago meeting did not materially move things forward
but nor was there a bust-up like that Oval Office moment in February.
There were however some notable takeaways.
First, Zelenskyy's facial expressions...
@memeorandum@universeodon.comIndiana GOP state senator says he will vote no on redistricting push after Trump used slur (Alexandra Marquez/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/donald-trump-indiana-state-senator-bohacek-redistricting-vote-no-slur-rcna246451
http://www.memeorandum.com/251129/p43#a251129p43
@servelan@newsie.social'We Are Cooked': Trump’s Odd Confession to Troops Has People Wondering What Doctors Really Found in That MRI
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/10/28/donald-trump-rambles-on-and-on-during-his-speech/
@cdarwin@c.imThe Supreme Court upended the constitutional separation of powers on Friday afternoon
with a brief order allowing Donald Trump to unilaterally cancel
$4 billion in foreign aid appropriated by Congress.
In an apparent 6–3 decision, the conservative supermajority greenlit Trump’s so-called “pocket rescission"
@memeorandum@universeodon.comWhite House fires board that reviews presidential construction projects in Washington (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/white-house-fires-commission-fine-arts-board-trump-ballroom-projects-rcna240405
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p1#a251029p1
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump has said he will grand a pardon to
Juan Orlando Hernšndez,
the former president of Honduras
who is serving a 45-year prison sentence in the US
on drug trafficking and weapons charges.
Hernšndez was convicted in 2024 of accepting millions in bribes to protect cocaine shipments
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump DOJ Indicts Congressional Candidate for Protesting ICE (Malcolm Ferguson/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/post/202438/donald-trump-department-justice-indicts-congress-candidate-kat-abughazaleh-ice
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p138#a251029p138
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump has set free a private equity executive
who had served less than two weeks of a seven-year sentence
for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme
that defrauded thousands of victims.
David Gentile, 59, a onetime resident of Nassau County, N.Y.,
had reported to prison on Nov. 14, and was released on Wednesday, according to Bureau of Prisons records and a White House official who was not authorized to discuss the matter.
Mr…
@cdarwin@c.im @memeorandum@universeodon.com'Sometimes, you have to let them fight,' Trump says on Russia's war in Ukraine (Veronika Melkozerova/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-russia-war-in-ukraine-xi-jinping-china/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p73#a251030p73
@cdarwin@c.imNovember 3, 2026:
Donald Trump calls the press into the Oval Office and announces that the GOP has held the House
—but he warns that Democrats will try to steal the election,
and announces plans to send a legal team to Arizona to root out fraud.
He spends the rest of the night posting threats and allegations on Truth Social.
In the morning, Republican lawyers file to stop vote counting,
arguing that any votes counted after Election Day are illegal under f…
@cdarwin@c.imOverall, states, nonprofits, local governments and unions have filed hundreds of lawsuits against the Trump administration, according to an Associated Press tracker.
Not all of them have been successful:
149 resulted in executive actions partially or fully blocked,
while the court left the action in effect in 102 cases with more than 100 still pending
@cdarwin@c.imIn between his highly publicized designation of Antifa as a domestic terror organization
and his indictmentof former FBI Director James Comey,
Donald Trump signed
"The National Security Presidential Memorandum 7" (NSPM-7) titled
“Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence,”
that gives law enforcement new tools to target his critics.
It mandates a “national strategy to investigate and disrupt networks, entities, and organization…
@cdarwin@c.imFormer FBI Director James Comey was arguably one of the first consequential establishment figures to comply in advance with Donald Trump.
For his trouble, and his pivotal role in vaulting Trump to power,
he has now been targetedby Trump’s Justice Department for a politically motivated indictment.
The disgusting, undemocratic use of the justice system to further Trump’s petty feuds is ugly and terrifying.
It’s also, in James Comey’s case, a lesson that other elites w…
@cdarwin@c.imOver the past five years,
as Trump’s most notorious acolyte in Congress,
#MTG had adopted his unrepentant pugilism as her own.
⭐️“Our side has been trained by Donald Trump to never apologize and to never admit when you’re wrong,”
she told me in her Capitol Hill office one afternoon in early December.
“You just keep
@cdarwin@c.imThe U.S. may deny migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border access to asylum under a newly finalized regulation drafted during the COVID-19 pandemic in Donald Trump's first term.
https://bsky.app/profile/legal.reuters.com/post/3mb5ct5yzol2j
@cdarwin@c.im#Security #guarantees were discussed during Zelensky's two-hour meeting with Donald Trump at his residence in Mar-a-Lago in Florida, which ended without a breakthrough.
In the draft agreement, U.S. security guarantees for Ukraine are outlined 👉for a period of 15 years,
with a possibility for extension…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com"F***ing Insane": The Move That Ruined Jack Smith's Case Against Trump (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/post/202294/jack-smith-donald-trump-classified-documents-cannon
http://www.memeorandum.com/251027/p140#a251027p140
@cdarwin@c.imOne year into Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown,
construction firms in Louisiana are scrambling to find carpenters.
Hospitals in West Virginia have lost out on doctors and nurses who were planning to come from overseas.
A neighborhood soccer league in Memphis cannot field enough teams because immigrant children have stopped showing up.
America is closing its doors to the world,
sealing the border,
squeezing the legal avenues to entry
and sending n…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comDonald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy talks fail to deliver breakthrough on Ukraine peace deal (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f88fd9e5-df0e-45d6-af8e-29b5f53a41a4
http://www.memeorandum.com/251229/p30#a251229p30
@cdarwin@c.imThe Senate voted Wednesday to end the national emergency that Donald Trump declared to impose tariffs on imports from Canada.
Four Republicans joined with all Senate Democrats to approve the measure, which passed 50 to 46.
It was the second bipartisan vote against Trump’s tariffs in as many days — the Senate also voted Tuesday to block tariffs on Brazilian goods,
— though neither move will take effect, because they would still need to be approved by the House
— whi…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comDonald Trump's top 25 lies of 2025 (Daniel Dale/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/12/27/politics/analysis-donald-trumps-top-25-lies-of-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251227/p40#a251227p40
@cdarwin@c.imA cracked windshield, a waiting officer, a forgotten document:
The new family separations often start in the most mundane ways.
Seven years ago, during the first administration of President Donald Trump,
children were taken from their families the moment they crossed the border into the United States.
Under a policy of zero tolerance for illegal crossing, Customs and Border Protection officers detained adults while children were sent into the federal shelter system.…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump says U.S. must 're-examine' everyone who came from Afghanistan under Biden after National Guard shooting (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-re-examine-afghan-nationals-biden-administration-national-guard-rcna246172
http://www.memeorandum.com/251127/p3#a251127p3
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump abruptly, and very imprecisely announced in a social media post,
“Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis.”
The suggestion that the United States might break with a more than three decade-long moratorium on explosive tests sparked a global wave of uncertainty, anxiety, and speculation about the impacts of a potential return to explosive nuclear testing.
This com…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump Hammers His Own ICE Goons to Suck Up to Foreign Leader (Will Neal/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-hammers-his-own-ice-goons-to-suck-up-to-south-korean-leader-over-raid-on-georgia-hyundai-plant/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251027/p36#a251027p36
@cdarwin@c.imThe people who tried to overturn the 2020 election have more power than ever – and they plan to use it.
Bolstered by the president,
they have prominent roles in key parts of the federal government.
🔸Harmeet Dhillon, a lawyer who helped advance Donald Trump’s claims of a stolen election in 2020, now leads the civil rights division of the justice department.
An election denier, 🔸Heather Honey, now serves as the deputy assistant secretary for election integrity in the …
@cdarwin@c.imSince the federal government got involved in the Epstein scandal in 2019, the case has been shrouded in mysterious leniency, cover-up and stonewalling.
Now, with many of Epstein’s victims, the American people, and a virtually unanimous Congress calling for transparency,
the scandal has become a confrontation that should end Attorney General Pam Bondi’s career
— and Donald Trump’s presidency.
Why Bondi?
Because the nation’s highest
law-enforcement officia…
@cdarwin@c.imIndiana governor Mike Braun announced today that he is calling a special session to consider redrawing congressional districts in the state, the latest Republican state to work on its maps ahead of 2026.
Indiana is one of several Republican-led states that the Trump administration has pressured to undertake mid-decade redistricting to favor Republicans,
-- which began with a push in Texas to redraw lines to add Republican seats.
“I am calling a special legislative session to…
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump has bizarrely claimed he didn’t approve of the massive ICE raid of a Hyundai manufacturing plant in Georgia.
“I was very much opposed,”
the MAGA leader told reporters aboard Air Force One,
en route to Japan as part of his wider diplomatic tour of Asia.
Hyundai is a major South Korean car manufacturer.
On Oct. 29, Trump will meet with its President, Lee Jae Myung, who has previously blasted the raid.
She warned the action would have severe con…
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump’s hateful, falsehood-filled rant on Thursday
blaming immigrants for crime, “social dysfunction” and economic hardship
is refuted by a wide range of immigration statistics,
which show clearly that immigrants dramatically bolster the US economy
and commit crimes at far lower rates than people born in the US.
@cdarwin@c.imQUOTE
Unusual Machines' CEO, Allen Evans told Forbes,
when asked what experience Donald Trump Jr. had that appealed to the drone maker:
“He had a strong alignment with investors through 1789 [Capital,
JD Vance's a venture capital fund]
and otherwise who are very interested in MAGA or on-shoring or making America great, et cetera.
So the engagement is really the outreach to the groups that are interested in what we’re trying to do,”
@cdarwin@c.imTrump envoy Steve Witkoff, according to a transcript of the Oct. 14 call published by the Bloomberg news service,
advised Putin’s foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov that Putin should call Trump to congratulate him for the Gaza peace deal,
say Russia had supported it and that he respects the president as a man of peace.
“From that, it’s going to be a really good call,” Witkoff said according to the transcript.
When asked by Russian state media to comment on Bloomberg’s…
@cdarwin@c.imScantily clad young women dancing in tall revolving martini glasses greeted the guests
as they entered Mar-a-Lago.
Models dressed as flappers with huge white feathers pretended spontaneous gaiety.
On Halloween, nine months, 40 weeks, and three days into Donald Trump’s second administration,
he celebrated the apex of his image as an almighty ruler
by staging a dress-up Great Gatsby party for select club members, Cabinet officials, friends, and family,
in …
@cdarwin@c.imTrump’s lying has always been characterized by dogged repetition.
It became especially repetitive in 2025.
While he continued to regularly sprinkle in new lies, he relied on a core set of go-to fabrications he deployed virtually no matter the setting and no matter how many times they had been debunked.
Did you hear about how Trump secured $17 trillion or $18 trillion in investment?
You probably did if you watched even a few Trump speeches or interviews.
Same …
@cdarwin@c.imAbsolutely hideous to read. And Trump has Republicans convinced he’s pro-life.
According to this document, Trump was present and 70 years old when a girl’s newborn was disposed of. To be clear, she’s a victim of sex trafficking.
Witness Info
First Name: Donald
Last Name: Trump
Age: 70
https://
@cdarwin@c.imA Ukrainian delegation arrived in Florida on Sunday
to begin talks with top members of the Trump administration,
-- the first meeting with the Americans following the resignation of Andriy Yermak,
a powerful aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio,
US special envoy Steve Witkoff,
and US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner,
were all in attendance at Sunday’s meeting.
Rustem Umerov, the se…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump may have just created the "kryptonite" that brings down his second administration,
according to a new report
Trump's MAGA movement coalition has started to crack in recent weeks over the administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files,
which Trump promised to release in full during his 2024 presidential campaign.
The administration has sought to withhold files from the public,
and the Justice Department has said it
"nee…
@cdarwin@c.imPrince Andrew is to leave his home at Royal Lodge in Windsor after he was served with a formal notice to surrender the lease, Buckingham Palace has said.
King Charles has initiated a “formal process to remove the style, titles and honours of Prince Andrew”,
who will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.
Andrew did not object to the process, PA reported
Now, about Donald Mountbatten Trump...
@cdarwin@c.imThe administration’s newest emergency appeal to the high court was filed a month and a half after a federal appeals court in Washington held that the official, Shira Perlmutter, could not be unilaterally fired.
Nearly four weeks ago, the full District of Columbia circuit court of appeals refused to reconsider that ruling.
The case is the latest that relates to Donald Trump’s authority to install his own people at the head of federal agencies. The supreme court has largely allowed …
@cdarwin@c.imOutside of Speaker Mike Johnson,
there is no bigger poster boy for the rubber-stamp Republican House majority than Jim Jordan.
Jordan’s purpose for running the House Judiciary Committee is to abuse its power to investigate those who tried to hold Donald Trump accountable for alleged crimes.
While Republicans in the House filled their committees with leaders who would be loyal to Trump,
Democrats filled their positions with experienced investigators and legislators who…
@cdarwin@c.imThe case against Donald Trump and his co-defendants in Georgia ended on Wednesday
with a filing for dismissal by the state prosecutor who took over after the removal of Fani Willis, the Fulton county district attorney.
Pete Skandalakis, the prosecutor and the executive director of the prosecuting attorneys’ council of Georgia, confirmed to the Guardian that
“it’s over”after superior court judge Scott McAfee issued a one-page order on Wednesday dismissing the 2020 racketeeri…
@cdarwin@c.imKash Patel went on a rant about former President Joe Biden, but it turns out the suspected shooter was actually granted asylum under President Donald Trump
This comes just one day after Patel vowed to bring the suspected shooter to justice
after they were already in custody
in an embarrassing impassioned speech.
@cdarwin@c.imWith Trump struggling to stay awake at meetings, the prevailing image is of a driver asleep at the wheel.
Opinion polls suggest that Americans are turning against him.
Republicans are heading for the exit ahead of congressional contests next November that look bleak for the party.
“He came into office and, like a blitzkrieg,
was violating laws and the constitution,”
said Larry Jacobs,
director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the…
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump has been forthright about his intention to bring about a death-penalty renaissance,
and now his efforts are coming to fruition.
This year has been a particularly lethal one for America’s death-row prisoners.
Together, Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas have executed a total of 40 people in the past 10 months
by injection, nitrogen hypoxia, and firing squad,
surpass…
@cdarwin@c.imPolitical operative Stuart Stevens spoke about the erosion of support for Donald Trump from some of his most prominent backers.
Stevens traces the MAGA takeover of the Republican Party and shares how the Lincoln Project,
a Republican-led anti-Trump organization where he is a senior adviser,
is working to stop Trump’s anti-democratic agenda.
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump this week touted his administration’s dramatic cuts to the federal workforce,
as remaining workers steeled themselves for another potential government shutdown — and more possible cuts — in the new year.
“Big news for the USA!” Trump wrote in a post on his social media site, over a graph that showed plummeting federal employment.
The post cited jobs numbers from earlier this month showing federal employment at its lowest in more than a decade,
down 271,000…
