@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-20 02:37:09
Trump Says US Giving $10B to
“Board of Peace”
— 12 Times US’s UN Contribution
Critics have said Trump is angling to replace the UN with the “Board of Piss,” which he is in charge
The Trump administration is requiring countries to commit $1 billion to the board to become permanent members.
Trump said on Thursday that 10 nations have contributed $7 billion to a supposed relief package for Gaza so far,
including Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emir…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-02-18 18:31:48
@erikdelareguera@mastodon.nu2026-03-19 07:03:35
Pedro Sšnchez - EU-ledaren som säger nej till Trumps krig https://www.dn.se/varlden/pedro-sanchez-eu-ledaren-som-sager-nej-till-trumps-krig/
@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-19 06:16:11
“Trump is trying to pay his way out of the war he started,” wrote New York-based political activist Melanie D’Arrigo
Critics were quick to note the irony in the plan reportedly being considered by Trump, who has frequently accused former President Barack Obama of giving Iran “$150 billion in cash,” an inaccurate claim referring to the “high-end estimate” of Iranian funds that were unfrozen after the lifting of sanctions,
much like what the Trump administration is reportedly consi…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-04-18 08:55:14
As many others have noted , I am afraid Trump's truth social posts are mainly to influence financial and oil markets and it works. Trump and his friends can make enormous amounts of money with insider trading. Before Trump i already had a cynical view of the working of financial "markets' but that is only reinforced.
#trump
@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-18 22:38:08
Every major party presidential nominee since Nixon had voluntarily released their tax returns
— Trump was the exception, not the rule,
and the “harm” he suffered was exposure to the same transparency his predecessors embraced without incident.
The original piece laid out why the whole thing was a scam:
Trump is the plaintiff,
the IRS and Treasury are the defendants,
and the DOJ defending those defendants is stocked with Trump’s former personal attorneys
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-18 06:23:25
Trump administration is erasing history and science at national parks, lawsuit argues
Conservation and historical groups sued Tuesday,
challenging Trump administration orders removing exhibits on slavery, civil rights, Indigenous history and climate science from national parks.
A federal judge ordered restoration of an exhibit about enslaved people at George Washington’s Philadelphia home,
comparing the censorship to Orwell’s dystopian “1984.”
The removals exte…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-18 23:39:27
The Trump administration so far has refused to allocate federal disaster aid in a timely manner.
Check out our interactive map for more details on the White House’s careless approach to major disaster declarations.
https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/trump-disas…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-18 17:06:53
NOWHERE TO HIDE
Trump's attacks on Pope Leo XIV are making J.D. Vance and others choose between their "religion" and their fealty to the president
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-feature…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-18 22:49:48
The American right wing has forgiven Donald Trump for his affairs, impeachments, mass deportations and the platforming of JD Vance.
But having stuck with him through all that unpleasantness,
it seems that we may have discovered the one thing that is capable of splitting some Maga conservatives from Trump:
starting a war in the Middle East.
On Tuesday Joe Kent, the US counter-terrorism chief
who previously ran for office as an ultra-Maga, white nationalist-endors…