@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-18 16:43:42
Anyone who has ever worked as a lawyer for Donald Trump makes a bet.
There is the possibility that you, too, will run afoul of the law
—eight of the president’s lawyers have themselves been indicted.
Alternatively, your work might pay dividends.
Such was Todd Blanche’s calculus three years ago when his white-shoe firm gave him a choice:
represent Mr Trump, then a candidate and a criminal defendant,
or remain a partner.
Mr Blanche chose Mr Trump.…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-08-19 06:03:08
Rekordwärme in Europas Meeren geht auf Klimawandel zurück
Fast überall an Europas Küsten ist das Meerwasser extrem warm. Ohne den Klimawandel wären solche Temperaturen praktisch unmöglich, betonen Forscher.
http…
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-08-18 17:13:22
The Secretary of War Crimes thinks the American Public loves him? But only 23% have a positive opinion, that's lower than potus (YouGov).
Delulu's gonna delulu, monstrously.
"Officials familiar with Hegseth’s thinking believe that he is considering a run for president or some other political office after his time in the Trump administration is over."
Gift article:
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-17 16:10:43
Why Republicans struggle to prove
"the danger of socialism"
-- Marc Short
Since taking office, the second Trump administration has made no secret of its departures from conservative orthodoxy.
That’s hardly a surprise, since neither Trump nor Vice President JD Vance identifies as conservative,
and Vance appears to be crafting a new political ideology in which Huey Long is praised and Milton Friedman is denounced.
Under Trump 2, elected Republic…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-18 23:59:24
How Trump became the accidental green president
Donald Trump
— a man who has spent his career joking about windmills, ripping up climate agreements and waging war on anything containing the word “green”
— is presiding over an accelerating transition to net-zero carbon emissions in the United States.
In May, solar power overtook coal in electricity output for the first time.
Energy storage and solar made up 91 percent of new grid capacity in the first quarter …
@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-17 23:03:07
Trump has set up his White House to affirm his frequently arbitrary instincts above all other considerations.
He has insulated himself from opposing views and made internal dissent verboten.
At no point does Trump receive neutral information;
just about everything is tailored to his whims, impulses and mercurial disposition.
The result is that he is isolated from reality to the extent that he is practically living in a fairy tale.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-18 01:06:40
Republican leadership across the House and Senate did not amplify the president’s election interference speech on X,
nor did the official congressional GOP accounts.
A handful of lawmakers used the night to promote passage of Trump’s priority elections bill or the Homeland Security Department’s announcement to ramp up efforts to root out noncitizen voting, an extremely rare occurrence.
But those leaving or already outside the president’s influence had more to say.
Ou…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-18 21:43:27
Long after his death in 2010,
Howard Zinn's books and speeches
are frequently targeted by right-wing critics, MAGA book-bans, and fundamentalist politicians.
In 2020, Trump called out Zinn by name from the White House lawn,
smearing Zinn’s work as “propaganda… that tries to make students ashamed of their own history.”
So, who was Howard Zinn?
And why are his critics so determined to keep his work from the public?
In this live event, hosted at…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-19 00:49:37
For Donald Trump, it’s always personal.
And he leaves this week feeling betrayed.
First, the US supreme court rejected his effort to restrict mail-in ballots ahead of the midterm elections.
“These are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court,”
the president wrote on his Truth Socialplatform. “They are merely a shell of their original selves.”
Then the Federal Reserve defied Trump by raising its benchmark interest rate by a quarte…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-17 17:48:50
Mullin threatens states that refuse Trump's election demands
Mullin also repeated his threat of withholding Federal Emergency Management Agency grant funding to states that don’t work to “secure” elections.
“If they’re not willing to do it, it should raise serious questions.
It’s not that hard. This isn’t a partisan issue,”
the homeland security secretary said.
This also comes after the Trump justice department sent letters to election officials in every sta…
